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 68 THE CONDOR Vol. XIV been accustomed to make frequent' excursions in late April and early May for the purpose of collecting fresh goose eggs for use on the table. Mr. Connolly of Bijou, having a permit, collected a set which he placed to hatch under a hen. but without success. Shortly after, the local game warden issued warning. and the rifling of goose nests was stopped. Anxious to learn .something of their nesting habits, and hoping I might be in time to find a nest or so, May 23 found me rowing up the fresh water sloughs of the marsh, unmindful of the numerous terns, blackbirds, and other swamp denizens, in my quest for a prospective home of the goose. Nor was I long without reward, for when about one hundred feet from a little island that boasted of a few lodgepole pine saplings and one willow, a goose rose from her nest, took a short run, and rising with heavy flight and loud cries, flew out to open water, where she was joined by her mate. The cries of the pair echoed so loudly over Fig. 23. NEST OF CANADA GOOSE; DEAD MAN'S ISLAND, LAKE TAHOE. THE EGGS WERE COVERED WITH DOWN BY THE PARENT BIRD WHEN IBIVING THE NEST the marsh that it seemed the whole region must be awakened. Landing on the island I found on the ground, at the edge of the willow, a large built-up nest with seven almost fresh eggs. The nest was composed wholly of dry marsh grasses and down, and measured twenty-two inches over all, while the cavity was eleven inches across and three inches deep. The eggs measured in inches: 3.43x2.21, 3.40x2.21, 3.32x2.25, 3.31x2.22, 3.20x2.25, 3.13x2.25, 3.06x2.15. They are dull yellowish white in color, and in shape vary from ovate to elongate ovate. After a row of several miles I noticed a gander in the offing, whose swimming in circles and loud honking gave assurance that the nesting precincts of another pair had been invaded. A heavily timbered island, now close at hand, seemed the most probable nesting place. This isle was so swampy that most of the