Clangula c.americana. Lake Umbagog, Maine. Small set of eggs. 1896. When we reached the grove of stubs near Leonard's Pond June 5. we turned into them and went to the Golden-eye's nest which I found this morning. Watrous climbed to the top of the stub (which is only about 12 ft. high) and looking in saw eggs a- bout 5 ft. down. He then cut a hole just above them which I which could easily reach and through, I examined the nest carefully. they There were only five eggs and although did not more than half fill the available space they were, like those of the set of ten crowded together tightly each egg standing on end and firmly fixed in the rotten wood at the bottom of the cavity. There was but little down but this was carefully disposed a- bout the eggs so that it covered most of them. Supposing the set to be incomplete we took only one egg (substituting for it the rotten egg found in Sweat's Meadow) but on blowing it we found it far advanced in incubation - as the other four eggs proved to be when taken next day. I had no idea that the Golden-eye ever contented itself with so small set of eggs. 22