Ceouhloeus pileatus . 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
1897. sure. It is sufficiently large to admit Watrous's arm which, 
May 28. thrust down to the elbow, did not reach the bottom. 
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When we first reached the stub we pounded it hard with¬ 
out starting anything. A minute or two later while we were 
still sitting in the boats at the base of the tree the £ Log- 
cock came flying directly towards it and alighted on a small 
fir stub about 6 ft. from it and perhaps 10 ft. above the wa¬ 
ter. After looking down at us with an expression of calm in¬ 
quiry for a moment he swung across to the nest and alighting 
just below the entrance hole with his legs wide-spread and his 
tail firmly braced against the trunk clung there motionless 
for an instant looking in. Next he made as if to enter thrust¬ 
ing in his head but instantly withdrawing it with a jerk and 
turning it on one side to look down at us suspiciously. He 
kept this up for fully a minute making a dozen or more false 
starts but each time going further and further in until final¬ 
ly he quite disappeared but a few seconds later he thrust out 
his head having evidently turned within the nest almost as 
soon as he reached it. After looking down at us a moment with 
evident uneasiness he came out and flew first to the small fir 
and soon afterwards to a tall stub 100 yards away where he 
cackled several times. Then he started for the distant green 
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woods crossing the intervening region of flooded stubs on a 
