354 MAINE, (L. Umbagog) 1876. Monday June 6 D. tigrina Breeding of Bivicalus & Mimuscula Bestor Nest of Ml. melodia. Cloudy with light rain through the forenoon. Harry Bailey arrived last night. After breakfast I dug out my kingfishers nest but found it empty though the fish was completed. It went in three feet turning inclining slightly to the left and ended in an oblong chamber at least 12 in. long by 10 in. wide. The birds were about and I stuffed it up in such a way that I think they could not desert. At 6 o'clock the rain held up a little and I started out down taking the stone path. Shot 7 birds: a & G. Phil. D. tigrina &; D. Blackbird &; My. Can &; Ch. fuligosa &. Heard a Ml. tigrina singing. Found two nests of C. Swainsoni just finished. In L. W. Bailey & Harrington went out on the lake in my boat and found two nests of Loon, Presperea 4 eggs each one set fresh the other nearly hatched. Both these nests were built in dead Spruce trees among the branches & were of the usual bulky substantial character in contrast with the ones placed in stubs. They also found one in a stub with young & a nest of Ml. melodia built in an old robin's nest & containing 3 eggs 6 or 7 day in. I went out among the stubs in my boat after supper and found three swallow nests, two of them on with 4 & one with 5-eggs I took. The former was built in an old dormy woodpeckers hole and the egg were placed on a few feathers & chips only. The latter was built in a large natural cavity and was a beautiful structure. The birds on every bird & dove down within a few inches of ours had snapping their bills. I also found a grackles nest containing young, in an upper hole of C. Lafetae ornatus