Chaetura pelagica.
1907,
August 2.
Lake Umbagog.
  As I was walking along the road past the Sargent Cove I 
saw a Swift enter, almost at full speed, a hole in the roof of a 
small shed from which a stove funnel had evidently been removed.
At the same instant I heard the chattering of young inside. A
minute or so later the old bird emerged and flew off over the lake.
I then entered the shed and found, as I had expected, the nest at-
tached to the gable end of the shed about 2 feet below the peak of
the roof and 7 feet above the floor. A fully feathered bird which
I took at first to be young flew out of the stove hole a few min-
utes later. I then saw four or five young in the nest. They
were scarce half grown and only partly feathered. Neither parent
returned although I waited in the shed until it was nearly dark.
At Upton there is a Swift's nest built in a similar manner in my
boathouse with egg shells beneath it on the floor.