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Lake Umbagog, Maine. Nesting under the roof of a 
piazza. 
1S97. Mr Chandler showed me a Barn Swallow sitting on a nest 
June IS. placed vender the roof of the piazza nearly over the front 
steps and within two or three yards of the fror$t door of the 
house. The nest- which rests on a square timber about 3 ft. 
above the floor- was occupied two years ago by a Robin which 
reared a brood in it. Last year it was unoccupied. No one 
knows just when or by what bird it was built originally but 
it looks most like a Robin's nest and it has certainly been 
in its present position for three or four years. Of course 
the Swallows have added a feather lining. 
C. tells me that the two Swallows take turns at incubat¬ 
ing and change places every 15 or 20 minutes (I saw this for 
myself two days later). They pay no attention to the people 
walking or sitting beneath them and yesterday one of the young 
men, standing nearly under the nest, fired upwards of fifty 
shots from a rifle without disturbing the sitting bird. 
