Quiscalus q. aeneus. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1897. We found five or six Crow Blackbirds' nests (about the May 28. Outlet), all in hollow stubs over the water. Most of them were empty and apparently not quite finished but two held sets of five eggs each, one set being fresh, the slightly in- cubated. One of these nests was as bulky and elaborately constructed as are most of the nests which are placed on the branches of trees, the other was a thin shell of mud scantily lined with dry grass. In the case of the former the hollow of the tree was large and roomy, in that of the latter the nest, slight as it was, fitted it closely all around. June 6. Jim and I spent the entire morning in photographing a Bronzed Grackle which had a nest (with a set of four remarka- bly beautiful eggs) in a small, isolated, hollow stub on the north side of the Androscoggin not far from the mouth of the Megaloway. The female was sitting hard (the eggs had been incubated four or five days) and after she had become accus- tomed to the boat she would usually return to the nest in a few minutes after the camera was adjusted. But to get it firmly fixed in the right position was a matter requiring much time and patience for the water was at least eight feet deep and the bottom so hard that it was almost impossible to make the long poles, which we had lashed to the tripod legs, take a firm hold. We succeeded in the end, however, and the pic- 82