AND OOLOGIST 
131 
June, 1882.] 
Here a number of large springs break out 
from the shore, this being the only place 
on the whole lake, so far as I know, where 
the water is sweet and palatable, that in 
the lake proper being always more or 
less brackish. Dense masses of tides 
grow up to the shore on each side of this 
spring, leaving a clear sheet of w'ater run¬ 
ning directly into the lake about a hundred 
yards wide and some four feet deep. The 
bottom for some two hundred yards out is 
gravelly, and forms, I j^resume, the only 
suitable spawning ground for certain spe¬ 
cies of fish found in the waters of this 
lake. At the time I visited this lake a spe¬ 
cies of Catostomus, a red-sided sucker, 
from twelve to eighteen inches long, was to 
be found here in countless numbers. My 
camjiing at the head of this spring kept 
the birds away during the day time, but 
shortly after sundown they commenced to 
come in, first by tens, then by fifties, so 
that in less than half an hour a perfect col¬ 
umn some one hundred and fifty yards long 
and from four to six birds deep might be 
seen swimming about on the open water a 
hundred yards or so below where my boat 
was tied up. Gradually they ventured 
nearer, and one immense old fellow, evi¬ 
dently their leader, swam several times 
quite close to the boat and then back 
again to the main body, which kept moving 
uneasily back and forth, apparently not 
satisfied with the looks of things near the 
shore. Finally several birds, bolder than 
the rest, detached themselves from the 
main body and moved ujj somewhat closer 
but still not quite up to the boat. The 
leader, far more courageous than the rest, 
swam nearly around it, and after fidly sat- 
isfying himself with his inspection seemed 
to imply to the rest of the birds by his 
looks to “ come along, everything is all 
right.” 
fCONCLUDEl) NEXT MONTH.] 
Collector’s Movements. —We shall be 
pleased to place on record the movements 
of collectors when made known to us. 
Golden Eagle’s Eggs.— While in camjj 
at Fort Bridger, Wyoming Territory, in 
1871, one of our party brought in from 
the mountain in his saddle bag an egg of 
the Golden Eagle. He found the nest on 
a ledge of rock on the side of a moun¬ 
tain. It was composed of a mass of sticks, 
in the center of which was a young eaglet 
nearly neady to fly, and this egg which he 
brought to me showed no signs of being 
incubated, and I was only sorry the other 
egg had hatched out, for I wanted a full 
set. The old bird showed no alarm, but 
flew about over head just out of gunshot 
however. The egg is globular in shape, 
being nearly as large one way as the other. 
Ground color of a dirty white, covered 
with blotches of what I suiiposed was dirt, 
but on my rubbing it with soa 2 i and water 
and a brush, it refused to come off. Ming¬ 
led with these stains as it were, are shell 
sjjots of lilac and juiiqile. So the egg is 
much darker than any other eagle's egg I 
have seen. Shell smooth, Imt not jiolished. 
Size, 2.84x2.34. Collected June, 1871, at 
an elevation of over eight thousand feet, 
our camp being nearly that height, and the 
egg was taken at a much greater height. 
Other sets containing two eggs are in 
the collection of Geo. H. Heady, Santa 
Cruz, Cal., and J. G. Coojier, of Haywards, 
Cal. Also, Ca])!. Chas. E. Beudire, Fort 
Walla Walla, W. T., and Edwin Dickinson, 
Sjn-inglield, Mass. 
Mr. Coojier also has an egg of the Cali¬ 
fornia Vulture in his collection, which is 
the only one I know off, though he may 
have added others since I heard from him. 
—Snomdon Howland, ]Vewpo/-t, R. I. 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak. —As far as my 
exjierience goes, this bird lays three eggs- 
I have occasionally found them with four, 
and last spring found one with live eggs. 
Is not this unusual ?—(We never found 
but three eggs until last sirring, when we 
re(!eived a set of live from Jerome Troni 
bley, Petersburg, Mich. This was the first 
record of five known to us.— Ed.) 
