Lake Umbagog. 2 wind had drifted them a few rods, ten or a dozen, Grackles collected over them, like so many Gulls or Fish Crows, hovering with dangling legs just above the surface and picking up the pieces rapidly and easily, just touching the water with their feet, but invariably taking the morsel in their bills. As they started to fly to shore, they drew their feet up under the body plumage in front about at the rear end of the sternum. This I saw distinctly, a dozen times or more. Some of the food thus obtained was taken to the young in the nest on the island, but the greater part was devoured by the old birds soon after they reached the nearest shore. One brood of young left the nest to-day and were fluttering about in the trees in the island, although they did not look more than half grown. Thrice during the day I saw almost the entire colony of Grackles pursuing a Broad-winged Hawk across the lake streaming out behind him like the tail of a comet. This was done without the least provocation on the part of the Hawk, who was merely flying sluggishly from shore to shore and did not even pass near the island. On one occasion a dozen or more Grackles chased the Hawk into some dense spruce wood. I saw them mob a Crow in similar manner. Thrice they in their turn were pursued by indignant Robins. Towards evening I noticed a Grackle who seemed