Lake Umbagog journals, 1871-1916 (inclusive)
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Dendroica maculosa. Maine (Lake Umbagog). 1880. May 28. Nest. Two fresh eggs. " 31. Set V-3. Fresh--small fir; height seven feet; fo-male sitting. June 4. Set W-4. Incubated about four days. Nest at end of drooping spruce limb, prettily hidden among the layers of needles; height seven feet. A nest of this species was taken on the same branch and in exactly the same spot last year. " 10. Set Y-4. Far advanced--upright spray of "ground hemlock" (Yew); height five feet; female started eight feet away and disappeared in silence. S. end of Green Island. " " Set Z-4. Well advanced--upright spray of Yow; height five feet; female very shy: she flew from the nest before I was within ten yards of it. Isle. n. of Green Island. " 14. Upright spray of Yew; height five feet; eggs de-sorted and addled. 1881. May 12. A single male. 1874. Aug. 3. Shot a young bird just from the nest. 1876. June 17. Nest in the heart of the woods near the extremity of a horizontal sprucer branch at least twenty-five feet above the ground; female sitting on four fresh eggs. 1878 June 7. Three empty but apparently newly finished nests.