Quiscalus &. aeneus . 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. Killing a Water Thrush? 
1897. The Bronzed Crackles have a small roost in a dense thick- 
June 3. et of second growth birches and poplars on the island in Leon¬ 
ard's Pond. To this ten or a dozen birds of b oth sexes fly¬ 
by twos and threes soon after sunset every evening. The 
ground under the trees is covered with their droppings. Wat- 
rous found a 7/ater Thrush's nest in a small root bank directly 
beneath this roost. It contained five eggs about a week ago 
but when I visited it with him on the Sth the eggs were all 
broken and the shells intermingled with the lining of the 
nest while the pool of water beneath was strewn with the Wa¬ 
ter Thrush's feathers. Could a Crackle have committed this 
foul deed? 
