Clangula clangula americana. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1897. progress in the least for it he crossed them either by running or June 6. 9./ by a succession of short, quick leaps as nimble as those of a small Frog. Poor little waif! It was most pathetic to see it him start off thus alone and unprotected on it his perilous jour-ney of life rejoicing, evidently, in his freedom and the novel-ty of its his surroundings but quite unconscious of the dangers which lay before it him. I could only hope that one or the other of the two female Whistlers which we started from the water near the nest tree would adopt and care for it him and I was glad to see one of them fly back into the forest after we left. had departed.