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Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
1397. Watrous and Gilbert went up the Megalloway this morning 
June 1. finding a Kingfisher's nest (from which they started the bird) 
in the river bank near Horse Shoe Bend. 
June 2. We made the first stop (in a trip up the Megalloway this 
morning) at "Parson's landing" where Watrous found a King¬ 
fisher's nest yesterday. The hole was in a bank of pure, hard 
olay about five feet above the river. It ran in almost per¬ 
fectly straight but ascending slightly for a distance of ex¬ 
actly four feet from the face of the bank to the back of the 
nest chamber which was nearly circular in shape with smoothly 
finished walls and measured 3 inches in height by 12 inches 
in diameter, the bottom being slightly hollowed and just 20 
inches below the surface of the ground above. The exterior 
entrance to the tunnel measured 4 inches wide by 3 1/2, inches 
high. Six perfectly fresh eggs arranged in a circle lay on 
the bare damp clay in the middle of the chamber. There was 
absolutely no trace of a nest-indeed no extraneous material 
whatever save one small fish bone. 
One of the birds was perched on a root within twenty 
yards of the nest and flew off, rattling, as we approached. 
The other was in the nest. She made no sign when I thrust in 
a long, slender rod but when we dug down to the nest from a- 
bove through the roof of the chamber she emerged from the en- 
