40 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 
The nests are often found by the people on Sable Island, and they 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. 
fggs —four, nearly fresh, 21.6 x 15.2, 21.8 x 15.7, 21.0 X 15.2, 21.8 
x 15.5 mm. 
Vest — outside depth 89; outside diameter 127; inside depth 46; inside 
diameter 57 mm. 
Matervals—coarse weather-stained grasses and a little eel-grass; lined 
with the bleached and delicate blades of a sedge (Carew). 
Svte— 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. 
Leggs — four, slightly incubated, 21.3 x 15.2, 21.0 X 15.2, 20.6 x 15.2, 
25-0 X 15.9. 
Vest — 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. 
Szte —in the midst of a clump of Crowberry on a slope near a fresh- 
water pond. 
Nest C.—Sable Island, N. S., June 4, 1894. 
Leggs — four, slightly incubated, 21.6 x 15.8, 21.8 x 15.5, 22.3 x 15.8, 
20.6 x 15.5. 
Vest — 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. 
S?te —in a thicket of rose bushes on dry, hummocky ground. 
Nest D.— Sable Island, N. S., June 8, 1894. 
£ggs — five, slightly incubated, 23.1 X 15.2, 22.9 X 15.2, 22.6 X 15.2, 
Dan D5e5 5.2260 eX 5.2 
