Clan^ula clan&ula amer icaria . 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
1397. packed closely with then and the absence of as many as -fear tek 
June 8. would ae certainly have left a gap that he could scarcely have 
failed to notice. He is by no means certain that there were 
more than six young and two eggs last night. 
Partially concealing one of the boats (we had taken two) 
among the stubs about 30 yards from the nest and stretching 
myself at full length on the bottom with my head raised just 
enough to enable me to look over the gunwale I lay there per¬ 
fectly motionless for over an hour. No Duck of any kind ap¬ 
peared until 5.10 when a female Whistler came from the direc¬ 
tion of the Megalloway and without any preliminary circling 
alighted on the water a few yards from the nest. After float¬ 
ing motionless on the calm surface for at least two minutes 
with head and neck erect and evidently watching and listening 
intently she flew directly to the lower hole (Watrous says 
she entered at the top of the hollow last night) and alight¬ 
ing on its lower edge stood there for an instant flapping her 
wings a little to maintain her balance. Then she popped in 
throwing up her spread tail just as her body disappeared much 
as a Duck often does when diving. I saw nothing more of her 
although I watched the hole closely for another hour at the 
end of which time {£ .15) Gilbert who had been to the boat for 
his breakfast came to relieve me and to keep guard while I had 
