239 
1880, 
Lophodytes eueullatus. 
Maine (Lake Uinbagog ). 
May 3U. 
A pair on 
loadows, 
26. 
Sot B-8. Some of tho eggs incubated about tiireedays; 
the remainder fresh. Cavity in tho top of a tall dead 
elm. The entraiice, at a point vdier e a limb had broken' 
off, was not v/ider than a man’s fist; the cavity, formed 
bu decay, deseepulod about ttreo feet; tho eggs wero par¬ 
tially co'/ored by the bird’s dovni of ■.Yi'i.ich the nest was 
vdiolly composed. Their shells vnore so thick and hard 
tha.t they wore drilled only v/ith great difficulty; yolk 
pale oraiige. We found this nest by seeing the female 
enter it. She came flying in from the lake and cir¬ 
cled about the tree several times, sailing with motion¬ 
less wings, then alighted on the edge of tho hole and 
crawled in v/ith some difficulty. No amount of pounding 
v/ith an axe at tho b8,se of tlie tree sufficed to start 
her out, butvp v/’hon ray guide began to climb it she at 
once emerged from the }i.ol 0 and disappeared. Later she 
returned aiwl circled maJiy times about the tree, but re¬ 
fused to enter the hole v/'hie’i wq had chopped out. This 
nest 'was about thirty-five feet above tho '.rater; tho 
stub, a very rotton one, stood 
cove on the lake shore near th( 
',v'i th a fev.- others in a 
i Hayvmrd farm. 
.Juno 11 
24, 
Sept. 3. 
A female \.-'ith a brood of six young swimming in the 
grass near shore. As we approached, the mother flopped, 
off heavily along the surface utteririg lier characteris¬ 
tic croak. The young, scattered in all directions, 
dived so adroitly that we could not catch any of thin. 
They probably put pp only the bill and that beneath some 
iSloating 'water plant, for each one that wo pursued v/as 
soon lost sight of. 
Brood of seven young accompanied by the r.’iother-, 
near tho mouth of Cambridge River. Six of the ducklings 
dove so adroitly that it was i.^possible to catch them, 
but the seventh had in some way broken one of its legs 
whic.i nad set in a stiff position impodoing its movenients 
so that it was easily secured. 
Six in a close bunch hurling over the pond in the 
rneadov; from the diroctio: of Cambridge River in the even¬ 
ing t v/i'light. 
o 
1881. 
A flock in Leonard’s Ponef, and a single bird in tho 
Androscoggin which dived exactly like a Groobe. 
May 14. 
Sho 0 an adult male v/hich, just flying ahead of tho 
female, passed over my head, followed the channel at the 
base of B Point. Iridos groonish-yellov,'; bill black; 
roof of mouth flesh color with longit-dinal black stripe; 
tarsi and feet dusky with brownish-yellow on inner sur¬ 
face. 
