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MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUD. 



The nests are often found by the people on Sable Island, and the}' tell 

 me four is the usual number of eggs in a set, although sometimes five are 

 laid. The data and measurements of the nests and eggs I secured are as 

 follows : — 



Nest A. — Sable Island, N. S., June 4, 1894. 



Eggs — four, nearly fresh, 21.6 x i5-2, 21.8 x i5-7, 21.0 X 15.2,21.8 

 X 15.5 mm. 



JVcst — outside deptli 89; outside diameter 127 ; inside depth 46; inside 

 diameter 57 mm. 



Materials — coarse weather-stained grasses and a little eel-grass ; lined 

 with the bleached and delicate blades of a sedge (Carcx). 



Site — beneath a bit of board on a flat stretch of turf, on shore of salt- 

 water lagoon. The turf was sandy, and the grass very short. 



Nest B. — Sable Island, N. S., June 4, 1894. 



Eggs — four, slightly incubated, 21.3 x 15.2, 21.0 x 15.2, 20.6 x 15.2, 

 21.8 X 15.8. 



JVest — outside depth 57 ; outside diameter 121 ; inside depth 41 ; inside 

 diameter 57. 



Materials — coarse grass, weed stems, and a little green moss; lined 

 with the pale slender blades of a sedge. 



Site — in the midst of a clump of Crowberr}' on a slope near a fresh- 

 water pond. 



Nest C. — Sable Island, N. S., June 4, 1894. 



Eggs — four, slightly incubated, 21.6 x 15.8, 21.8 x 15.5, 22.3 x 15.8, 

 20.6 X 15.5- 



JVest — outside depth 76; outside diameter 121 ; inside depth 45 ; inside 

 diameter 57. 



Materials — coarse beach-grass, other dark, weather-stained grasses, 

 stalks of everlasting and other weeds, and bits of green moss ; lined with 

 fine, bleached sedge, a few horse-hairs, and bunches of a softer hair, prob- 

 ably from cattle. 



Site — in a thicket of rose bushes on dry, hummocky ground. 



Nest D. — Sable Island, N. S., June 8, 1894. 



Eggs — five, slightly incubated, 23.1 X 15.2, 22.9 x 15.2, 22.6 x 15.2, 

 23.1 X 15.5, 22.9 x 15.2. 



