346 MAINE, (L. Umbagog) 1876. (June 3.) Nest hole of Bucephala Haliastus, and the nest of Anas Majarachus immediately I put on charge of No 9 gun and making for lowing flight a short distance or paddled to the nest and picked up a g B. Circulatus. Returning to the Hub my man came the swarm up when too my own exa amination another scratching was heard and another duck shot but of the dam hole. This time I find a little wildy & probably missed as the bird went off though he acted as if wounded, continuing his ascent with "great expectation" of ducks eggs my man reached the last and looked in to find only emptiness or even literally striking a large cavity with the bottom covered with damp cotton wood. Post mortem examination of the bird that recited the fact that the eggs would not have been laid in less than a week or 10 days. The hole had undoubtedly been selected as a nesting place. It was a natural cavity rather in the side of the tree at the height of about 15 feet above the water running down three feet with a diameter at its mouth of about 16 inches. Whether the second bird was the g or not I could not make up my mind, it looked very like the first as it came out. Continuing our search in & around the mouth of the Megalloway river we found several likely looking holes but no nests. While dodging through the stubs a duck came flying past very high up and giving him plenty of allowances I find and