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nest was in its original condition and so completely was it concealed by 

 the foliage that the presence of the duck in her snug retreat would never 

 have been suspected had she not been accidently observed flying to the 

 tree. The difficulty I experienced in photographing the nest adds to the 

 value of the excellent negative I secured. 



April 29, 1905, I located the second nest; in this case, owing to the 

 bareness of the trees, concealment was impossible. The duck had laid 

 ten eggs in a last year's nest of the Red-shouldered Hawk in a basswood 

 tree fifty feet up, and the appearance of this large bird sitting on her 

 nest among the naked branches was truly most unique. 



In the different works on American ornithology to which I have had 

 access, none of the writers refer in any way to this phase of the bird's 

 life, but in a book on English natural history entitled 'Lakes and Streams' 

 by C. O. G. Napier, published in England in 1879, the writer speaks of 

 the Mallard (Anas boschas) as having been found nesting "in a crow's 

 nest at least thirty feet from the ground." 



In the two cases I have cited the ducks successfully brought off their 

 broods but by what means they conveyed them to the neighboring marsh 

 I could not ascertain. Both nests were in trees overlooking extensive 

 marshes and in different parts of the county being, possibly, twenty miles 

 apart. — Edwin Beaupre, Kingston, Ont. 



Lesser Snow Geese in Michigan and Ontario. — In view of the few of 

 these birds upon record, it seems advisable to announce the capture of 

 two Lesser Snow Geese (Chen hyperborea) in this vicinity. The first one 

 was taken Oct. 27, 1905, at the base of Point Pelee, by Mr. Sidney Stanlick 

 of Leamington, Ont. The bird is an immature female in the dusky 

 plumage and is probably a bird of the year. In plumage and measure- 

 ments it appears to be typical, but the line of the culmen shows a vari- 

 ation due to either individual variation or else malformation. The bird 

 had evidently been injured before Mr. Stanlick took it. It is now in the 

 collection of Mr. Taverner, numbered 424. 



The other bird was killed Nov. 5, 1905, by Mr. Frank Mather at Goose 

 Creek, St. Clair Flats, as it passed over his blind in company with another 

 bird which he called a "Black Brant" but which was perhaps another 

 Chen. The goose is still in his possession. 



We examined the bird in the taxidermy studio of Mr. L. J. Eppinger 

 before it was mounted but, unhappily, not before it was skinned; con- 

 sequently no length measurements could be taken nor the sex ascertained. 

 Beyond all doubt, however, it is an adult male. Every effort was made to 

 properly identify this bird, and a careful drawing was made of the bill 

 and submitted to Dr. Louis B. Bishop who pronounced it identical with 

 hyperborea specimens of his from the Dakotas. Mr. Taverner also com- 

 pared the drawing with specimens in the collection of Mr. J. H. Fleming 

 and found it to agree with specimens of hyperborea and quite different 



