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Chaetura pelagica.
Maine (Lake Umbagog).
1880.
(June 21) Saw one enter and emerge from a hole in a gigantic
elm on the bank of Cambridge River about a mile below
B. Meadows. The hole was about six inches in diameter
and entered nearly vertically.
1880.
June 23. Set C-4. Incubated about eight days--nest in a
barn, placed against the wall near the top. The owner
of the barn tells me that it has been occupied by a pair
of these birds for several seasons. Last year there
were two other nests on his farm, one in the chimney of
the house, the other in the well attached to the masonry
of its sides. Water was daily drawn from this well and
when the bucket was lowered the sitting bird would usually,
but not always, come out.