Seiurus noveboracensis. Lake Umbagog, Maine. Photographing bird and nest. 1896. I spent most of the forenoon at Leonard's Pond where I June 5. took eight photographs of the Water Thrush at or near her nest from which I started her many times. She is wonderfully mild and patient under this almost incessant persecution. Not once this morning did she chirp for her mate or make any de- monstration whatever. I had no difficulty in setting up my camera and focusing her on the nest at a distance of three feet or less. Indeed when I wished to start her I usually had to shake the focusing cloth within a few inches of her face. Then she would slip off, run away a few yards, feed for a moment or perhaps take a bath and within a minute or two, if I permitted it, walk sedately into her nest often passing di- rectly under the camera on her way. When I wished to get her to cross a certain selected spot of sunlight I had little difficulty in driving her over the exact place. She would often pause for a moment almost at my feet and look up at me with an expression of wonderment but without the slightest sign of fear. Poor, demure little creature! x x x x eggs The four pretty look as if they might hatch any moment.