Ardea herodias 1897. Lake Umbagog. Sargent Cove. (Mather) Grafton Outlet. May 12°(Notman) 17' /18 foot del. 26 m. 30' flying high one June To' Canada Pond. 14' (closer from the shore at the same above noon) 1903 June For several years past the Umbagog Herons have nested in the woods a few hundred yards back from the high rocky ledge at the entrance to Sunday Cove. I first heard of this colony in 1900. Oliver Coolidge visited it soon after the middle of June of this year but found that it had been devastated a few days ago by some vandals whose' charred Camp he discovered on the outer shore near at hand. From two letters which he wrote (one to John E. Thayer on June 24th, the other to me on June 26) I extract the following quotations: - "I found about 100 Blue Herons' nests. They were up about 65 or 70 feet. I climbed them; only got one egg & that had a small hole in it. We only saw one old bird and one nest with young. I could not climb the other trees. I went next day & went up. He climbed 30 trees. One tree had six nests but no eggs. We found about 15 or 20 Herons buried up under old rotten logs, nearly all decayed. We pulled them before we found them. We also found eight others on the ground and two Fish Hawks. Someone had been there that every bird except the one /bird/ or one bird with young. It looked as if it had been done about two or three weeks. It must have been done when the birds were laying. x x x There was a camp about 1/4 mile from this place and someone had been stopping then this thing as in saw a lot of Partridge's wings around the camp." [ These extracts are from Coolidge's letter of June 21 to Mr. Thayer. The other letter is in very short ] 20