G1 angul a c. ano r i c ana . 
Lake Unbagog, Maine. Nest and eggs. 
1398. On May 30th we saw a pair of Golden-eyes flying over 
June 1. Leonard's Pond, one (the drake, I think) making a very duch- 
like sound - shorter and flatter than the quack of a Black 
Duck but stillnot unlike it a aua-oua-mLa-cina or ca -ca-ca-CijL- 
Cji uttered very rapidly. This morning Y/atrous found what is 
doubtless their nest about 15 feet above the ground or rather 
water (2 ft. deep beneath the nest) near the top of a large 
red maple stub to which the hark is still clinging.and beside 
which 
a young, living maple apparently a sprout from the roots of 1 
the old tree, makes a convenient ladder to the nest. The 
larger stub is split off at the top and there is a ragged 
cleft or crevice 4 to 6 inches wide in its face. In this 
crevice on a level with its base is the nest containing 10 
eggs which are crowded in so tightly that it-proved difficult 
to extract one and all according tolwatrous stood directly on 
end. They were completely surrounded and covered with down a 
quantity of which shows at the opening. Y/atrous saw the fe¬ 
male .Golden-eye flying away from the stub as he approached it 
but he is not sure she came out of the hole. The drake af¬ 
terwards circled over the stub. 
