ago and saw a Mink. Muskrats are common at the lake altho I saw none. We also looked over the place where a Mallard nested in a tree covered with ferns. But what we did see was several Merganers and a large flock of Night-hawks. The mergamers were of course at a distance. What I saw of them was, a bird of the size of a teal but with a very long snakey looking head and neck. The Crest was kept depressed while flying, and fly about the lake. The were all in a dull exclipse plumage and might have been males, females or young - I don't know. They all appeared to have a stripe down the center of the back due, Bowls say, to the hollow between the wings and wing coverts which is unusually