Hylocichla g.pallasii. 1896, May 13. Lake Umbagog. Lakeside. color (5) Nest. In a thin growth of young poplars and birches with a few young spruces and balsams intermixed, Watrous found a Hermit's Thrush's nest containing four fresh eggs. The nest was in the side of a mound covered with last year's brakes most of them brok- en down, some partially overarching the nest which, however, was so exposed that W. found it without flushing the bird which, in- deed, he did not see at all. May 14. Lake Umbagog. Lakeside. Photographing nest. I took . . . one (photograph) of the nest of the Hermit Thrush which W. found yesterday. The bird was sitting to-day. I put up my camera within three feet of the nest and she came back to her eggs three or four times, but she flew off the nest each time I returned before I could spring the shutter. After the first failure I built a booth of pine boughs about the camera. This did not deter her from resuming her place but it also did not secure me sufficiently from her keen eyes. 1897, June 11. Lake Umbagog. Great Island. The nest (found by Watrous yesterday with four young) was placed on the top of a little knoll, deeply sunk in the mossy ground and surrounded by a rather scanty growth of yew which was not over 12 inches in height. It is unusual to find a Hermit's nest in heavy old growth forest far removed from any opening or clearing. 67