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Dendroica Blackburniae -
Lake Umbagog, Maine. copy 3
1896. This morning on the hill at the western end of the Mason
June 2. logging works Watrous and I found and took a fine nest and
set of 4 fresh eggs of the Blackburnian. We found it by
watching the female. We had probably disturbed her by shak-
ing some of the trees near by but when we first saw her she
was feeding. In about ten minutes she went directly to the
nest and remained in it for twenty minutes or more while
Watrous had gone to the camp for his climbing irons. The nest
was on the lateral branch of a slender young spruce which was
growing up through a large rock maple. The nest was easily
seen from the ground beneath looking very like a Chippy's.
Watrous took the eggs and sawed off the branch with the nest.