Barus a. smithsonianus. L.P. = Leonard's Pond * = clear - clear - clear day. 1897. Lake Umbagog. May 17' 18 (2 ad 2 in) 20 (3) " 21' ad 22 (2 ad) 23 'x 24 'x 25 = 26 (3) one 27 one ad 28 do 29 ad 30 ? J s. 28 (2 ad in) 29 'ad Black ld. 30 z ds. 31 ' ad Leonard's " Pond. June 2 'P (2 ad in) 5 'P in 6 'P in 7 'P in 9 (3) Punched on Eagle " one clear from 10 a.m. 10' ad 11 (2 ad) 12 'ad . Neon ballanide " Great Island Head of Sault. " " " June 1 Two or three birds have spent most of both yesterday and to-day flying about Leonard's Pond. About half-an-hour before sunset this evening I found them perched in a large dead pine two fairly adult birds sitting side by side on one branch, an immature bird came down on another branch. I huddled almost under them before they would take wing. As it was cloudy at the time. I have little doubt but that they had gone to roost for the night. " 7 Mathews found the shells of a Herring Gull's egg on the ledge or container to Sandy Cove, No signs of nest. These shells looked as if the egg had been cracked this spring. " 9 The Herring Gulls have left out of Leonard's Pond by late boat. We came back in and left it with our horse boat at 10 a. M. to-day three of them alighted on the upper branches of the Eagle tree, a tall dead pine. " 10 Watched on this evening fishing near Great Island. The water was perfectly calm save in several spots a yard or two square where schools of small fish were swimming ruffling the surface as if a breeze had struck it. The Gull would make for one of these spots flying rapidly a yard or two above the surface. On reaching the ruffled place he would plunge clumsily into the water sometimes thrusting his head & neck under but never his body. Scores of fish would fleeing into the air around him but to far as we could see he did not succeed in catching one. 67