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Clan&ula 
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Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
1897. literally piled one on another. They were uncovered but there ^ 
May 15. was an abundance of down about them. 
I saw the pair (or another pair) of Whistlers flying a- 
long near shore this afternoon and on this, as well as every 
other occasion that I can remember, the duck was leadirxg and 
the drake following closely in her wake. 
May 26. 
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Watrous and Gilbert went up the Lake this morning. They 
spent the day among the stubs near the Outlet and also rowed 
down the river and into Sweat's Meadow. They found, three 
Whistlers'nests, one with S eggs just west of Leanord's Pond, 
('but not in either of the stubs where we found nests last 
year), the other two in Sweat's Meadow. One of the latter was 
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in the hole in the tall ash- stub where we found an addled egg 
anu. some egg shells last year. A Whistler flew from it to-day 
when W. rapped on the stub. On climbing to the nest he found 
thao it contained two eggs of the Whistler and six of the 
Hooded Merganseri The third nest was only about seventy-five 
yards from the one ’which contained the Merganser's eggs. 
