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Ceryle alcyon.
Lake Umbagog, New England.
Six eggs (3029), June 2, 1897, coll.Wm.Brewster. Bird
started from nest. Eggs fresh. In low bank of pure, hard clay on
Megalloway River at Parson's Landing (just below Bear Brook).
Total length of tunnel 4 ft. (Cf.journal for full details).
. . . . . . .
7 - 2 eggs, (2049), June 12, 1876, coll.H.R.Godwin.
Eggs fresh. Hole in sand bank 3 ft.deep. Eggs laid on fishes'
bones & scales. 2 eggs were broken by G. Upton-
. . . . . . .
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