14 Upton, Maine. 1871 75. Discalbus versicolor. Common on the lake especially among the stubs. Nearly as shy as in Massachusetts. Found two nests: one 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 web composed of dry grass, worn weed stalks &c 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. White common everywhere. 77. Cyanusa 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. Ectopistus migratoria. Common: saw them nearly every day sometimes in pairs, but frequently their effects of twenty or more. 79. Boncha 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 out on a small floating island in the lake June 3rd containing respectively, six, three and four eggs all quite fresh. The nests were such structures of sticks placed on the quaking boggy ground covered with a growth of low bushes (and were all within a few rods of one another. The females were all sitting and did not rise till nearly stepped on. We found only one male on the island, whom we might have missed singing at all times of the day and even after the nests were robbed, he did not desert it.