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l! Bucophala anericana. 
jj Maino (Lako Itebagog). 
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1B72, || 
.Juno 3. ' A nest containing four of this species and one of 
I: the Hooded Merganser was found by Gideon Stone in a stub 
about fifteen foot above the water. 
1873. 
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Aug„ 12. [ Shot a young bird on Ca mbridge River about tv/o 
|‘ miles above the dam. 
" 19.1 Shot a young bird about half grown near the mouth 
of Bottle Brook on the Megalloway; it was alone, and 
'i diving for food. 
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1876. 
June 3. 
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June 6. ‘ 
A female shot to-fiay near the Outlet would have laid 
her first egg in a few hours. 
George Hayv/ard tells me' that he took a set of fif¬ 
teen eggs on T?ay 18 last; the tiost was in a dead stub 
about twelve feet above the v/ater, the eggs i.vearly fresh. 
The female was exceedingly shy and regularly flew from 
the hole before he got within gunshot of the tree. Ho 
consid >rs this seocies one of t.ie shyest of the ducks 
vrhen sitting. 
15.! I have long known that the nests of this soocios 
often contained parasit cal eggs of other Ducks, ospecial- 
; ly of the Hooded Merganser. It now appears thattho 
whistler soinotiines returns the compliment, for Alva Cool¬ 
ie idge tolls me that while collecting for Dr.Steam’s son 
l| he took a set of thirteen Duck’s eggs, and six Whistlers. 
; A female Vfood Duck was sitting on these eggs. 
1880. . 
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June 1. :i Round a nest in a natural cavity about ten feet 
Ii above the 'water in' the east side of a small ash stub. 
I; The hole descended about twelve inches. The female 
i| flev/ from the hole when we v/ere about tvventy yards avray; 
li her bill v/as wide open, but, save for the vdiistling of 
I her wings, she went off in silence. The cavity eontain- 
I od three whole eggs, from one of which a duckling \>ras 
:| trying to escape, and throe recently hatched jroung. 
1 | There vras no nest, only a li tie of the birds down about 
|i the eggs and young. 
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Sot C-11. Hggs far advanced; nest in a natural 
cavity entering the end of a largo broken branch of al 
elm stub and descended about three feet; entrance 
twelve inches in diameter. Upon rapping at the base of 
the stub vro irjimediatoly hoard a Duck’s clav/s rattling 
against the trunk inside and presently a female v/hist- 
ler appeared at t^'.e entrar-ce ai.-d immediately took wing 
croaking like the Hooded Merganser as . she v/ent off. 
