Paleo anatum 1896 Lake Umbagog. August 20 21st & 27th 20 At about 10 A.M. as I was walking near the landing at the Soda House a large Drake Hawk appeared soaring in circles overhead. Presently it flitted off down a long ravine over the marsh and on reaching the pond swooped down towards the water several times in quick succession but it did not get anything & I could see nothing in the pond. Finally it came back a little high, in one again was joined by a smaller male Drake Hawk which both darting in circles in company, darted off over the Cambridge River toward the 2 screening a little more than I think both were old birds but of this I could not make sure. 21st A very large & flying about over the marshes at the Outlets. On coming to the river opposite the mouth of Leonard's Pond the hawk rose to a height of about 30 feet & then darted down with great velocity skimming the water with such force as to half bury himself & making a noise like that produced by a Thrasher Hawk. When the rose I saw distinctly that the bore nothing in its talons. We had just passed over this stretch of river in a boat & I am very sure that there was no Drake or other water fowl there. Did this Paleo start at a fish? The place where the descended was near the middle of the river where the water is free from weeds & rather deep. 1898. August Grafton hotel.