14 UPTON, MAINE 1871 75. Quiscalus versicolor. Common on the lake especially among the stubs. Nearly as shy as in Massachusetts. Found two nests on June 3rd contained four eggs well advanced and the other (June 7) contained a like number in a similar condition. The first was built in a hole in an old "stub" with an entrance barely large enough to admit the bird, and was composed of dry grass, coarse weed stalks ect. without mud; the other composed of the ordinary materials was placed in the fork of a small beech growing over the water. 76. Corvus Americanus. Quite common everywhere. 77. Cyanura cristata. Common; saw one May 30 take an egg from the nest of a Robin and make off with it; fiercely pursued by the parent bird. 78. Ectopistes miyratoria. Common: saw them nearly every day sometimes in pairs, but frequently in flocks of twenty or more. 79. Bonasa umbellus. Heard the drumming of the male, but did not see a single specimen. 80. Ardea herodias. Common on the lake. 81. Botaurus lentiginosus. Found three nests on a small float- ing island in the lake, June 3rd, containing respectively, six, three and five eggs all quite fresh. The nests were rude struc- ture of sticks placed on the quaking, boggy ground amid a growth of low bushes and were all within a few rods of one an-other. The females were all sitting and did not rise till nearly stepped on. We found only one male on the island, where he might be heard singing at all times of the day, and even