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cupying perhaps 16 to 20 minutes. Then it shuffled down to its 

 brother and laid there gaping from time to time, where I left it after 

 having seen one of the most interesting phases of wild bird life. 



The various notes of the adults were noted as follows: Kerplunk 

 as they dropped into the cattails out of the air; kSk, kek, Mk- 

 kSkk&k when running back and forth in the grass; and a noise 

 similar to the grating note of the Corn Crake, which I heard so 

 often in Europe in former years. 



On June 22, 1909, a beautiful domed nest was found in a tussock 

 of grass, containing 7 eggs. The photograph plainly shows on the 

 northeast the inclined approach, a fact which is stated in the books 

 to be contrary to the Rail fashion and characteristic of the Coots 

 and Gallinules only. A photograph of a Rail standing in the Cat- 

 tails was also taken but owing to the vibration of the wings is blurred 

 and not fit for reproduction. 



8. Haliaeetus leucocephalus. Bald Eagle. — This bird, which 

 breeds at the Lewistown Reservoir, was also found breeding at the 

 Grand Reservoir in the summer of 1909. 



Of breeding ducks we have here the Wood Duck, and occasion- 

 ally the Blue-winged Teal, which also breeds at the Sandusky Bay. 

 In southern Ohio I was able to record the Mallard as a rare breeder, 

 while on July 2, 1907, I met in the Black Channel Marshes at Cedar 

 Point, Ohio, a female Lesser Scaup Duck (Marila affinis) leading 

 her brood of nine young not far from a similar family of Coots. 

 This seems to be the limit in Ohio breeding ducks and proves that, 

 although explored for years, there is still many a new thing to be 

 found out about the birds in the old "Buckeve State." 



