Seiurus noveboracensis. Maine (Lake Umbagog). 1879. June 16. They rarely sing now except in early morning. " 18. Took a young bird in first plumage apperently just from the nest. 1881. May 12. Numbers in full song Alva Coolidge heard them yesterday. 1880. May 16. A number singing, several soaring above the woods and singing as they descend. " 23. A female at work on her nest under the projecting bank of Cambridge River. The cavity in which she was arranging the outer rim of her nest had evidently been recently excavated; she gathered her materials from the water's edge and paid no attention to our near presence. " 24. Two nests; one with two, the other with three eggs. (May 31) Set H-3. Fresh. Root bank on shelf protected by the overhanging earth above; female absent; male singing near by. " 28. Set F-6. Fresh--root bank, eighteen inches above base; female sitting; she dropped to the ground and ran quietly off, nor did she return. This nest found May 24 when it had two eggs. Stony Brook Cove. " " Set G-4. Incubation about two days; nest in root-bank near the top; entrance so narrowed by the overarching earth that the bird had difficulty in squeezing out; she dropped to the ground when I approached and stole off along the ground like a mouse, afterwards returning and chirping faintly; position of nest five feet above the base of bank, and directly over a Winter Wren's nest, newly finished but empty. Point end of Stone Farm. " 31. Two sets, five each, all incubated five or six days. 42