Junco hyemalis. Maine (Lake Umbagog). 1880. May 22. Set D-3. Incubated about four days--nest on ground in hilly pasture. " " Set E-4. Incubated about four days--on ground in hilly pasture. Coll O. S. Mouse. Upton. copy 2 " 24. Three sets, four eggs each; one fresh, the other two incubated several days. The nests all in root banks placed almost exactly like those of Siurus naevius. The females were all sitting; two of them skulked away when I was eight or ten yards away from their nests and then came hopping about on the ground making a show of (May 24) feeding unconcernedly. The female of the third nest, the eggs of which were considerably further ad- vanced than the others, sat more closely, permitting me to approach within a yard. She looked very pretty in her snug retreat with her neat drab plumage and fleshy-pink bill; when she started she began tumbling about on the ground as if wounded. Upton. " 28. Set J-5. Incubated about four days. Side of earthy root-bank. & sitting G william. Cambridge River Imt & Alex Coolidge. June 15. Set I-4. Fresh--root-bank against face of small rock that was hung among roots. Height five feet; fe- nale sat closely. After blowing the ground-tint becomes pale green. dark slime w. J. Peaslee's Brook. " 19. Set M-3. Incubated about two days--side of mound in thicket under large yellow birch. Female sitting; she skulked quietly away but afterwards came up to have a look at me, chirping. John Brown's Pond [4 eggs]. copy 3 1882. Oct.8-22 Common during our stay. Their numbers perceptibly increased as the month wore on and by the 21st they were exceedingly abundant. In a drive to Andover taken that day we estimated that we saw at least five hundred. They were partial to the edges of the woods and roadsides but were to be found every where, even in the depths of the forest.