38 THE ORNITHOLOGISTS’ AND OOLOGISTS’ SEMI-ANNUAL. 
Another specimen, and a set of ten eggs were taken on Memorial 
Day, 1884, in Onondaga Co., in a swale a few rods from the Oswego 
River, about seven miles from where the first specimen was taken. 
A pair of the birds were followed for about two hours, by two com- 
panions and myself, in water nearly waist deep. After being thor- 
oughly wet through and very cold, one of the pair was secured—the 
female. On dissection, a fully matured egg was found in the ovi- 
duct. . 
Later in the day, the set of ten eggs were taken at the edge of 
the same swale. The nest was built in the top of a bunch of swale- 
grass, of dead and dry grasses found in and near the swale, and was 
very shallow ; about 5 1-2 inches in diameter, and rather rudely con- 
structed. Incubation of eggs varied much, being from fresh to badly 
addled. : 
The five eggs of the set, which I have in my collection, measure 
respectively : 1.32x.84; 1.26x.90; 1 29X.87 5 1.35x.84 ; 1.38x.90. In 
color they are a light creamy-brown, dotted by blotches of two shades 
of darker brown: the lighter shade of the blotches being hardly dis- 
tinguishable from the ground color. 
Mr. E. G. Taber, at Meridian, N. Y., reports in the Orazthologist 
and Oologist of Boston, Mass. the taking of a set of seventeen eggs 
of this species. I have never taken but the one set of ten, mentioned 
above, but no doubt the set number varies and no positive information 
can be given. 
