Nest of Botaurus " " Pyramus Bo. burirostra Am 358 MAINE (L. Umbagog.) 1876. Saturday June 10 Cloudy in forenoon, Clear in P.M. H.S. Pardee came last night and Thorne now five of us scientists here. After breakfast Pardee hunted through the swamps & I found a nest of D. carolina with three eggs & one of D. maculosa nearly finished. The former I left. Neff went out on the lake & I visited the nest of Botaurus found last Monday but it had evidently been deserted as no more had been laid and the original two were cold. On my way back found a nest of Buriocales in a stub with one egg, probably a second laying of one of the birds that Bailey noted. Washington & Storm found two nests of Aquilaus phoeniceus with eggs each on the floating island. The Colaptes that I visited Monday was in her hole & will probably lay again. I found also a nearly decompleted nest of Pyramus in the top of a fallen stub. Spent the whole P.M. via blowing up my 1880 and packing skins. The woods are now in full leaf and the plum trees in the garden are budding their blossoms. No signs of H. purpurea or D. tigrina as we have not heard them anywhere for several days. The mockwood has shed its blossoms and the Quibium is gone by. The warblers are all building now