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Dendroica maculosa.
Lake Umbagog, New England.
Nest /4 (2375), June 6, I896, coll.Wm.Brewster. Female
seen to enter nest & positively identified. Eggs fresh. Glapsy
Cove. Found June 4, by W.set compl.female on. Not sitting June 6
(6 P.M.) but came about chirping, and once entered nest for a mo-
ment. Nest in balsam sapling, against main stem, about 5 ft.above
ground & 2 ft.below tip. Thicket young balsams in open near Lake
shore.
. . . . . coll.
Nest /4 - 2 (2382), June I0, I896, C.H.Watrous. Female
seen on nest by Watrous. Inc.far advanced. Two eggs broken.
Small island just north of Great Island. I did not see nest in
situ. Watrous broke 2 eggs in blowing. Nest on small island
(where I found a nest similarly placed many years ago) n.w.of
Great Island in yew about 4 ft.above the ground.
. . . . . . . .
Nest /4 (3063), June I8, I897, coll.C.H.Watrous. Eggs
fresh. "Sweat Cove, about 30 ft.fr.Lake in ground hemlock [Yew]
30 inches above the ground, nest found by Gilbert."
. . . . . . .
Nest /4 (523), June I2, I879), coll.O.I.Morse. Female
sitting. Eggs.inc. In fir sapling in pasture on Upton hill. Note
the use of horse hair in the lining in connection with the locali-
ty - a pasture. Wpln
. . . . .. . .
Nest /4 (523), June I5, I876, coll.Wm.Brewster. Female
sitting & well seen. Eggs inc. In top of spruce sapling, 7 ft.up.
Wpln.
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