Anorthura hiemalis. Maine (Lake Umbagog). copy 6 1879. May 28. Ever since my arrival a male has sung regularly in the woods behind the house. To-day I found the female at work upon her nest under the trunk of a fallen tree covered with brush wood. She came and went at frequent intervals with her bill full of shreds of green moss. This she collected only a few yards from the spot to which she carried it, half-running, half-flying over the ground, invariably keeping concealed under the side of a fallen tree-top. When she emerged from beneath the roots where the nest was building she invariably paused a moment and quivered her wings tremulously, at the same time rocking her body to and fro. June 16. They rarely sing now except in early morning. 1880. May 16. In full song. " 18. The woods ringing with their exquisite music.. " 28. Set A-6. -- Three eggs incubated about five days, the remaining three addled; nest set into the face of earthy root-bank near its base, about fifteen inches above the ground; the female started off dropping to the ground and half-running half-flying, glided around the corner of the bank and disappeared. She neither returned nor made any noise while I was wrapping up the eggs. I suspected that there was a nest in this bank when I passed it May 24; at that time the bird also came out but she glided away so silently and mysteriously, that after hunting the bank carefully I declared that I must have seen a shadow. Indeed, to-day I found the entrance S. shore of lake. to the nest only after the most careful search. Two other nests found to-day, one just completed, the birds at work on the other. " 29. Three nests in root banks; two apparently new, but empty; the third evidently old within two feet of one of the new ones and in the same bank where there was also an old Water Thrush's nest. 25