Ardea herodias. Great Blue Heron 1889. Maine. I. Umbagog. Seen daily in September and in October up to the 17th. We often heard them at night when it was perfectly dark flying over the lake uttering their loud horse cry. They do not, however, appear to see nearly as well after dark as in the day time, though on several occasions when we were lying in wait for Ducks at Moose Point one of these birds would pass directly overhead within fif- teen or twenty yards, although we were not at all well concealed. During the day time their sight is far keener than that of any oth- er animal found in this region. Often when I was creeping out to a flock of Black Ducks and when I fancied myself perfectly con- cealed I have had one of these Herons discover me and take wing when it seemed impossible that he could have either seen or heard me. They resort to the smallest ponds among the woods and are found along such narrow streams as the Cambridge River where the trees interlace their tops in many places over the water. The guides tell me that these Herons are easily approached at night by hunters who are “jacking” deer. They gaze at the light in stupid bewilderment and often allow the boat to approach so closely that they can be struck with a short paddle. They breed about the lake still, for a reliable man told me that he found a nest an which the bird was sitting only last spring. He thinks they no longer breed in colonies, but scattered nests are to be found all over the wooded region about the Lake often a mile or more from water.