MAINE, (L. Umbagog 1876. Monday June 19 nest of Dend. caeruleans(?) Song of Chry. Spinois maculosa Curviroz Am 367 Cloudy all day with heavy showers in P.M. Barley Stone & Harrington went up the lake on the boat as the captain gave a free excursion to all who chose to go. I started out alone after breakfast taking the stone path. Visited first a nest of D. maculosa which contained two eggs than day ago and found the 2 empty, although the number had not been increased. Found after a most laborious search three more nests, one of D. maculosa with 1egg. One of C. Swainsoni with 4 eggs. I hunted long and hard for the nest of D. caeruleus in a clearing when two males are constantly flying. Finally among the most impenetrable log heaps on the edge of the woods I found a last years nest most cunningly placed among gray Spanish moss and supported by the thongs of a fallen & now dead spruce tree, at the height of perhaps 8 ft. This nest was evidently a Dendroica and I am very sure that it was originally the handiwork of D. caeruleusens. One egg partly broken remained within. Chrysomitis, fenius is daily becoming more abundant. They are now exclusive in fairs and I heard the 2 sing repeatedly this morning. The song is strikingly like that of C. tristus but perfectly distinguishable and decidedly inferior. Heard Curviroza Am. flying this morning. The mosquitoes were almost unendurable in the woods, and rank weeds & raspberry bushes are increasing so that nest finding is becoming daily more difficult. Pmdin returned from Magsalloway this evening. He found birds less plenty than from him). Myloristice was rather comfor ther.