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June 
Chaetura pelagica. 
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Lake Umbagog. 
Nest in hole in dead pin6. 
Nearly opposite this spot (north bank of Androscoggin 
a little below the mouth of Megalloway) on the south bank stands a 
large white pine which has died within a year or two. As we were 
passing this tree on our way down river we saw a Chimney Swift en¬ 
ter a small, round hole (no larger than a Hairy Woodpecker's hole) 
in the side of the trunk about 20 ft. above the ground. The bird 
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did not fly - or flutter - or drop into the hole-but alighting on 
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its lower edge crawled in precisely as a Tree Swallow wet&d have 
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done. On our return we tapped the tree with an oar and the Swift 
came out like a shot, darting off over the river and out of sight. 
I was most anxious to have the tree cut open, but the trunk was so 
large and the bark so thick and hard that Watrous pronounced it 
usdes-s-to- - try.t-o-el-imb i-t, even with the aid of his dimming.. 
irons. 
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