I have never been at Lake Umbagog early enough in spring to see Gooseanders engaged in courtship there but on March 16th 1909. I watched a number of them devoting themselves to it in Fresh Pond,------ Cambridge, Massachusetts. This experience is described in my journal as follows;--- H. A. Purdie and I visited Fresh Pond this morning reaching it about nine o'clockand finding it partly open, partly skimmed over with thin ice that formed last night. Thirty one Gooseanders were swimming in a large space of clear water on the western side of the pond. Nine- teen were drakes in full plumage and twelve females or young males (not to be certainly distinguished from the females even in spring). For the first half hour or so most of the drakes were constantly courting the females. Unfortunately I was at this time on Hemlock Point and the birds fully half-a-mile away. But on the calm water and in the clear morning light they could be seen very distinctly through my strong glass and I do not think I was in any respect deceived as to what they did although their apparent silence may have been due to the fact that I was too far from them to hear the notes they may have uttered. Their be- haviour was in some respects not unlike that of the Whistler drakes which I watched on February 27th. In number varying from three or four