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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.