356 MAINE, (L. Umbagog.) 1876. Thursday June 8 Forenoon clear, clouded up at noon and rained most of P.M. Took the Steamboat in the morning with W. Bailey and Hopsony at Molly's rock. took "Ninety" Warrenston as guide from a party of river drivers, leaving the boat at the millt we rowed up Rapid river as far as "Cedar Thump", where we cut out a nest of Sphyraepius with 5 eggs (3 days in,) which we had been told of by the Capt. of the boat. Starting down river from here we spent most of the day between the thump & the lake hunting the stubs carefully and getting three more sets of Sphyrspicus' eggs, The nest at Cedar Thump was about 8 ft. above the river in the very heart of a live poplar tree. The birds had selected a spot where a knot had been and bored straight in for some thin inches then down about 12 in. The next nest was in a dead birch about the same height up and contained 7 eggs, two of them perfectly fresh, the other five incubated from 5 or 6 days. We saw only one pair of birds about the place. The next was some 40 ft up, in a very rotten brick stub. "Ninety" found this with some risk; it contained six eggs nearly fresh. The last was in a birch Stub about 18 ft up; it contained six eggs perfectly fresh. Besides these we found two more which were inaccessible but one of which we shall cut down. Saw the pair of Mergans Am, which evidently had a nest but still could not find it. Also saw a Scopelodytes that apparently flew from a stub but could not find this either. Saw a pair of Scolopaxus and a small flock of Perosorus Can among them several young in full feather fit on the member lead colorful plumage, found a