A LABRADOR SPRING 
geur of this coast. While the eider makes its 
nest on the ground often concealed under the 
grass and bushes, and lays from four to seven 
large olive green eggs, which it smothers in its 
own down, the whistler lays six or more pale 
green eggs in a hollow tree. Of the former we 
found many nests, of the latter only one, and 
this was in a large hollow stub about twelve 
feet from the ground on the edge of a high cliff 
overlooking the sea near Esquimaux Point. In 
this well chosen spot, which commanded exten- 
sive views of the surrounding country and 
ocean, a whistler had deposited fifteen eggs and 
covered them thickly with down. 
As the cliff was over a hundred feet high, the 
process of transfer of the future brood from the 
nest to the water would have been well worth 
waiting to see, if only one had had the time. 
Tree-nesting ducks have been observed to entice 
the young from the hole, inducing them to drop 
or flutter down into the grass or the water, 
and it has been said that they sometimes fly 
down carrying the young in the bill, or even 
on the back. Careful observations of these last 
named methods are, however, few or lacking, 
and our regret at not being able to stay 
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