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Dendroica caerulescens. cofer ⑥
Lake Umbagog, Maine. Nest.
1896. This morning Watrous took me to the nest of D.caerules-
June 3. cens which he found building May 24th. It had four eggs to-
day and the female was sitting. She was very tame allowing me
to set up my camera within four feet of the nest and when
started off returning within a few minutes and resuming her
task. The nest was on Spelman's Point on a hillside in a
hollow surrounded by fallen spruce tops, densely shaded by
big hemlocks and filled with a rank growth of yew. I got
several pictures of the nest and sitting bird.
June 4. Watrous took me to another nest of D.caerulescens this
morning - in a bed of stunted yew within two rods of the path
to Glaspy Cove and not far from the latter. I photographed
the nest but the bird was too shy and nervous to catch on my
plate.