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Glangula olannula amorloana . 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
Cv S l Cm e<y^ ^ ^ eL 
1897. ly cracked and half-empty with such of the contents moist but 
A 
June 2. of the consistency of damp meal. This egg is unlike the other.? 
in shape. Gan it have been in the nest over the winter? If 
laid this spring why was it deposited so long before the other 
six? 
Two or three hours later we found a third Whistler's 
b it'd 
nest by watching the^while we were eating lunch. She first 
alighted on the water near the tree and for fifteen or twenty 
minutes swam or drifted aimlessly about preening her feathers. 
Then she flew out over the pond describing a great circle or 
rather loop rising gradually until she had attained a height 
of about twenty feet when she made directly for the nest, 
which was about thirty feet above the water. On nearing the 
tree she pitched up sharply the remaining ten feet keeping 
her wings in rapid motion up to the last moment but checking 
her speed very considerably just before she reached the hole. 
Some intervening branches prevented me frora seeing just how 
she entered.it. 
Half-an-hour after this we paddled qaiietly across to the 
tree. As soon as I had taken a position which commanded a 
good view of the hole Watrous struck the base of the stump a 
single slight blow with his paddle. This was immediately fol- 
lowed by a scratching sound in the hollow above and then the 
