Ardea herodias. Lake Umbagog. Great Blue Herons nesting near Sunday Cove. 1903 June 14 Alva Coolidge tells me that the Grest Blue Herons are nesting again in large numbers near Sunday Cove. (He afterwards wrote both me and John E.Thayer that he visited this heronry a day or two after my departure. There were upwards of 100 nests but nearly all of them were empty. He saw only one living adult bird which was feeding young in one of the nests but he found about twenty-five dead Herons (all adults) lying about on the ground. Most of them had been covered with rotten wood torn from an old log. He thought they had been dead about two weeks. Not far from the place he came upon a deserted camp on the Lake shore where Partridge wings lay scattered about. Evidently some murderous vandal or vandals had visited the heronry early in June and killed practically all the birds. Their eggs, he thought, had been af- terwards eaten by other birds.)