my earliest record is May 9 — I have failed to find a nest 
containing eggs before May 30th. I have found several 
on that date which would therefore seem an average nesting 
time. I have also found nests with eggs at much later dates; 
on one July 4th I found two such nests. My latest date for 
nest and eggs is August 10th; this, it is fair to presume, was 
a second setting. All nests, with the exception of one, con¬ 
tained but two eggs; this exception held two eggs and a young 
bird. I have watched the birds collecting fern down for nest 
material and have seen the male and female together at work 
on the nest. Hummingbirds occupy quite a variety of trees 
and shrubs as nesting sites and these sites range in height 
from six to thirty feet from the ground. I have found nests 
in Pitch Pine, Red Maple, Ash, Hornbeam, Red Cedar, Birch, 
Willow, Apple and White Azalea. On the afternoon of June 
23, 1920, on Flagstaff Hill, Fay Estate, Lynn, I watched 
a male Ruby-throat for several minutes. He would alight in 
the dead top of a Hornbeam and rest for a full minute, then 
would fly in the direction of some Red-flowered Honeysuckle, 
which was then in full bloom; in almost exactly another 
minute, timed by the watch, he would be back at his station 
in the Hornbeam for another sixty second rest. This alter¬ 
nation he kept up as long as I remained in the neighborhood. 
The afternoon sun, shining over my shoulder upon the bird, 
made his gorget burn like a coal of fire. It is interesting to 
note that this particular dead topped tree has been a favorite 
perch for the Hummingbirds for several years. 
C. E. Moulton. 
Iceland Gulls at Swampscott in Mid-April 
Prompted by many pleasant and tender memories of an 
old friend and field companion, I here present the last field 
record of our former fellow member, George M. Bubier, now 
passed on. 
On Saturday, April 17, 1920, he saw one or more Iceland 
Gulls at King’s Beach, Swampscott, and as we had often 
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