Clangula clangula americana. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1897. hour before it swam at all fast or vigorously. One of the June 8. first things it did was to begin picking at various small ob- jects - bits of bark and weed - floating on the water. It ap- parently swallowed several of these fragments. After a lit- tle while it tried climbing over the sides of the tub. When it had accomplished this feat several times we removed about half the water but it went up the sides almost as easily as before clinging with its claws to the wet wood. By noon it had learned to spring, either from the water or from the bot- tom of a box, ten or twelve inches straight upward. The mus- cular power and vigor of its thick legs was indeed remarkable and it seemed to get as firm resistance for the upward spring from the water as from the smooth boards. Thus far we have been unable to find any food which the poor little thing seems to relish. It has picked at and swal- lowed a little egg yolk, and some wriggling fragments of earth- worms excited it greatly at first but after getting several of them well down its throat it ejected them with evident dis- gust. Indeed I fear that it will die of starvation although it is quite willing to try everything that we offer it. Late in the afternoon while testing an earthworm it dropped the fragment which began sinking in the water. It at once thrust its head beneath the surface and tried to catch