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end. The sizes range from 2.32x1.77 to 2.63x1.83, the average 
size of specimens measured being 2.49x1.80. 
On several occasions, two or three eggs of the Ruddy were 
found in nests which were merely low platforms of broken- 
down grass, resembling closely the nest of the bittern. In one 
nest of the Rjuddy, there were two, and in another, three eggs 
much smaller than Ruddy’s eggs and of a greenish color. They 
were evidently laid by some other variety of Duck. Plate 
XLVIII shows a nest of the Bittern containing two eggs of that 
bird and one of the Ruddy. 
172. Canada Goose. 
Branta canadensis (Linn.). 
.Although most of the geese go> farther north to spend the sum¬ 
mer and rear their young, a few were found nesting about some 
of the lakes of this region,. At a ranch on the shore of Glen 
Lake, where a stop was made, there was a Canada, Goose which 
had been captured the year before, when only a few days old. 
Its wings were clipped and it wandered about in and out of the 
cabin at will. It was at this place, Glen Lake, that the first 
nests of the Canada Goose were found. On a low, gravelly 
island in the Lake, two eggs were found and parts of the shell 
of two others. The tw4 eggs were partly chipped and contained 
goslings, ready to hatch but dead. The eggs lay on a mass of 
rubbish which had, probably, been the nest. The water had 
recently risen and submerged most of the island, flooding the 
nest. The same day, May 26, on another island near by a nest 
was found containing three eggs in which incubation was ad¬ 
vanced. The island was rather low and was overgrown with 
short grass and weeds. There were numerous small logs and 
stumps scattered about and among these—about three rods from 
the water’s edge—the nest had been built. The base of the nest 
was a platform of small, long sticks and twigs. On this was 
placed a mat of fine grasses, the hollow being lined with a 
good supply of grayish down in which was mixed a little grass. 
The nest measured twenty-nine inches outside diameter, eleven 
inches inside diameter; five and one-half inches outside depth, 
and three and one-fourth inches inside depth. It was not hidden 
by grass or weeds and could easily be seen at the distance of a 
rod. The goose left the nest when the spot was approached, 
