Ceryle alcyon 
Maine (Lake Umbagog). 
1880 . 
June %% 4 
'Sot D-o. Fresh. Hole in side of sandy wound in 
pas iuro, oar* otra ting horizontally about rive foot; o 
laid on a bod of Pino C sh bones; the male caught on 
tho nest; upon oxa: dninj ] : .Lro f round that ho was Lnou~ 
b iiig. Tlas nost was in Abbott*s pasture. Thora 
was no bade proper, tho birds having simply pierced a 
hole in the sice o ' a li tla nound where tho earth a d 
er\ blab . 6-i.vc, (^,,-tV^j) 
Corn-son during our stay but their re others diminished 
towards its close. 
