copy 1 Seiurus noveboracensis. Lake Umbagog, Maine. Photographing bird and nests. 1896. May 30. In the afternoon Watrous and I rowed over to Leonard's Pond. We first landed on the island where W. found two Water Thrushes' nests with, respectively, 4 eggs slightly incubated and 5 eggs far advanced. I had my hands full photographing these nests. One was in a large earth bank under and behind a curtain of earth and fine roots. Of this I made two photographs. The female was very nervous and fussy, chirping and calling up her mate the first thing. She would not go on the nest when the camera was near it but kept running rapidly about around the bank and the camera examining the latter as well as the bulb of my rubber tube which lay several yards off with evident distrust. When started from the nest she would regularly run six or eight yards crouching close to the ground and moving with a slow gliding motion spreading her tail and half spreading and quivering her wings, sometimes turning back and gliding past me or just under the nest, making nor no sound tilting while behaving thus but presently flying up to some branch or root to tilt and chirp with her mate. Both birds were very large and very yellow beneath. This was the nest with 5 eggs. The bank was of clean, fresh sandy loam with no vegetation. The nest was very bulky and outwardly composed wholly of dead leaves. The other nest and its owner were wholly different. The 48