Sterna paradisaea. Lake Umbagog, Maine. Sterna macrur 1574 Thu 17 mm - 15 shot / May 18 1881 morn 19 20 23 Sterna macrura. 1879 Maine Lake Umbagog). June 17. One coursing up and down over the reach of Lake near the house all the afternoon. " 18. Shot an adult male in fine plumage. It was apparently not incubating. 1881. May 18. Saw four in the middle of the Lake near the Outlet. " 20. Four flying near the Outlet, cruising about in their characteristic way, gradually working up to the northern end of the Lake, then turning and hunting back again until lost in the distance beyond Metalluc's Island. In an hour or two they would return. And I have no doubt they went the whole length of the lake. I saw them sweep down to the surface dozens of times but they never caught anything nor indeed ever touched the water. Judging from the emaciated condition of one shot yesterday on Richardson Lake, and another killed to-day by one of the river drivers (who knocked him off a boom of logs with his pick pole) I have no doubt that they would have evidently starved as the pickerel have fairly exterminated all the small fishes that used to swarm in this Lake. The snowy plumage of these beautiful birds showed to great advantage against the background of dark ever-green woods, and we could follow their white forms long after they had lost shape in the distance or catch a quick gleam as they turned in their course. The one shot on Richardson Lake was accompanied by two others. " 23. Shot two males on the Lake near the Outlet; one sitting on a snag, the other on the end of a floating root. Both were extremely emaciated. The stomach of one was filled with Golooptera (many of large size) but showed no traces of fish. The throat and gullet of the other was crammed with small black wasps; there were several more wasps of the same species, a few beetles, and an unidentifiable remains of a small fish in the stomach. Those birds are undoubtedly the survivors of the flock of four seen Saturday: like the females killed at that time they showed no indications of the approach of the breeding season.