Clangula c.americana. Lake Umbagog, Maine. Nest and eggs. 1896. On May 30th we saw a pair of Golden-eyes flying over June 1. Leonard's Pond, one (the drake, I think) making a very duck- like sound - shorter and flatter than the quack of a Black Duck but still not unlike it a qua-qua-qua-qua or ca-ca-ca-ca- ea uttered very rapidly. This morning Watrous found what is doubtless their nest about 15 feet above the ground or rather water (2 ft. deep beneath the nest) near the top of a large red maple stub to which the bark is still clinging and beside which a young, living maple apparently a sprout from the roots of the old tree, makes a convenient ladder to the nest. The larger stub is split off at the top and there is a ragged cleft or crevice 4 to 6 inches wide in its face. In this crevice on a level with its base is the nest containing 10 eggs which are crowded in so tightly that it proved difficult to extract one and all according to Watrous stood directly on end. They were completely surrounded and covered with down a quantity of which shows at the opening. Watrous saw the fe- male Golden-eye flying away from the stub as he approached it but he is not sure she came out of the hole. The drake af- terwards circled over the stub. 20