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Dendroica castanea.
Lake Umbagog, Maine. coloy 8 Nest.
1897. Watrous and Gilbert spent most of the afternoon on the
June 12. southern extremity of Great Island where the former found a
nest of the Bay-breasted Warbler with 5 fresh eggs and one of
the Black and Yellow Warbler with one egg. He sent Gilbert
after the house boat to let me know of this and I sailed back
in the canoe, landed, and examined both nests in situ making
a perfectly certain identification of the female Bay-breast
just after Watrous started her off her eggs. She sat wonder-
fully close refusing to move when Watrous shook and moved the
branch gently or when he thrust out a stick and poked the
twigs within a few inches of her head. I have described the
position of the nest and the behavior of the bird too freely
in my systematic notes to require further mention here. Wat-
rous got the nest by tying the branch firmly to other branches
above and then crawling out on it.
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