1073. 
A ■ * ft OQ 
tin . 
/up, 2 , 
187b. 
Hay hii, 
Jdno 4i. 
<■> 1 \J ' 
80, 
Ur-,.,. On 
. ■:*>/J /Ot>| 
Jun ■ 5, 
Ceryje alcyon, 
Maine {Lake Umbagog 
Ifot nearly as abundant as in July, 
' f ; *i* young* app r mtly just from thar rest ‘ 
on Cambridge Kivor above tho dan. They .nro very noisy 
keeping up a con tinual rattling, noro subdued in tono"*^ ’ 
but oth '-rv/iso similar to that of the adult, 
M P^i 3 " at vork excavating a hole in a gro&vol bank 
oxposod by tho cut tiro-; of •. drain, 
1 ‘‘ ' 1 '"■ -■ o t r ■ r.y, i £ Y r 'bV al— 
though t. 3 hole was cor.iplstod.. .C ; -ent. i.: thro--/ '-“eat 
incl uutig slightly to the loft and ending in an oblong 
ciuM-iU ;r_about a foot long by too inches v/ido', 
- nas s iba sand bank near hr own * s '-'avorn. Grafton 
contained so von frosh ogga, Thu hole penetrated only ' 
about throe foot. 
U-''' 
Sot of so von oggs incubated' . few days. GXS^ c, H-f*' 
, » *ank about tw foot high by roadside; 
hoio mt-.'red about five foot; eggs laid on a heap of 
: x -Pones in a pocket at the oxtrunity. Panale 
Sitting; wo thumped on the ground' above and thru* fc In a 
- ° without starting hor, but shortly afterwards as'wo 
■••ere standing in frnot of of tho bank, she earn out with 
.a heavy flutter mu! hi uv off over the woods, Tor did " 
sue return although m hoard h >rr rattl.tr-' in the dintr.no 
f his hol ° • , ' as at loasl ' a:i eighth (h . . ilo from the T.ato: 
** L o A** c ■■ j. - > • > t>#d ci bo u t t hr r >q <\ yjg w 
h“ : >, Inoubatodsovon days—-bank of Cambridge V 
e’"h r ■ b IO ' ; . ?V>adow; tho ho3 -° ' tratod about five 
10 ;t .in sandy loam; eggs laid on res i of fine fish-so’- -s 
" 0;in,x0 £1 >w from the holonrhor. vo stamped on the bonk 
above, , 
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