Iridoprocne bicolor. 1897, Lake Umbagog. May 31. Megalloway River. were // Tree Swallows are nesting everywhere where there were many stubs. They evidently spread over this whole region unlike the Bronzed Grackles which evidently congregate in colonies and of which we saw none up the river to-day. Iridoprocne bicolor. Lake Umbagog. 1903 // Very few Stub Swallows compared to the earlier times but June 14 this is scarcely to be wondered at in view of the fact that the stubs have almost wholly disappeared from this part of the Lake, Most of those which used to stand along or near the river banks have either rotted and fallen or been cut by the lumbermen because they impeded the drives, but those which fringed the shores and es- pecially the coves well back from the course of the river were cut, a few years ago, by the Upton people, for firewood. // 48