Botauras lentiginosus . 
Maine (Lake Umbagog). 
1876. 
Juno 8, 
On too floating; u. lanes in Pron t of the ton o rn, 
C n nr,rtod ole bi . worn from her : >st. It was u- 11. 
flat, a nr copposed ;nti •ely of dead twigs placed n ho 
The eggs w 'i’o 
nd tho renal: 
flow direst- 
oi' thickest bushes. 
dry ground anoi »e 
five in mtrabor, two th embryos "orning, 
dor fresh. The bird or-a.k-d as j rose 
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(June »] 
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3, 
Landing on tho 'Moating island 
likM,. 
0c i . 0-,gg 
g , ; : .yu 
She vffis so 
>ar h o Stone places 
n I tt : ! ' ** a ** 
dc » hoi ' - ■ t p hi ' 
Investigating further I v?as surprangd to'- 
, i V/ 1 i • 
puffed o 'm the nest : ’a.> ■■ e.. : , co!. ■ n ul, an ■...— 
Lhg df n" ■ apo : IsiM,#, ww ‘ ■ ■. : : 
broun ; -lui:ago with oho s; n.ll hard uae bill projecting 
from between h r shoulders not a -article of her neck 
b >j.n neos-M. Aft ;r looking at her for somatlire I 
again okod h r n r ith ... s ddle vrhon she struck at it 
f< r - Xy . at '%] . - ■ • • i Jting h n ©£ : hs 
crown. I actually tried for sev-ral m«ra tes to push 
her off the nest usiiu uch farce and bo’-.diiu the slen- 
i rc al'* ruin t a w poin of wankin'- it. ly 
s -tling ho bl ado behind her head I pushed it fa .-ward 
hold lag it on the ground so f inely that, she bogati to 
gasp for breath. At length . ,-addle slipped off 
vhon she at once took 'ing in ail snee ,d f 1 ew to the 
opposite shore. There -ere only two eggs in tho nest 
and I left h-a in .hopes that she would lag oro, but 
■ , g yjj .ator I foiind thorn col ’ ah >t and 
the xst ' /.i.ii- tly d es -rted. There tfus not a trace of 
fear ' x ■ossioi but Inst ’ c© < sitll -- 
torninn .ion. This mist h.d none dry grasa, nrrnr g w s 
a li ■' ; n - B9 • h ' : i ■ " A ' " 
the highest ;.,nd aryost ;-. rt of the island; but 1 -i.;like 
it, 11 : a r re' • by n ? - 
dr a busV.-s thn-t tlnu bird i - in- an,d 1 on ring it 
west v> g,„d. to -,;f.lk :. ' 1 n -n in a or chir.g poso- 
’ t . (pno.-,). 
One sin■■■1- g 
■ a. rd*s 
Or ? : a.;. . ; ,o • n 1 ' I ns ’ r, •• a 
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