2 Ceryle alcyon. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1897. trance hole and flew off in silence. I have applied the feminine June 2. pronoun to this bird but as a matter of fact I was unable to got a sufficiently good view of either of the pair to make out which was the male and which the female. Ceryle alcyon. Lake Umbagog, Maine. 1895. Kingfishers are unusually numerous about the Lake this Sept. 5. autumn. Every little nook or indentation of the shore has its bird and the larger coves have three or four who are continu- ally fighting and chasing one another about in the attempt to maintain or secure the best fishing grounds. When the Lake is calm as it has been to-day one can hear the plunge of a Kingfisher half-a-mile or more away- a dull full thump, like that of a large stone thrown into the water. Lake Umbagog, Maine. Sweat Meadow. 1900. Kingfisher strikes a fish too large to capture. Sept. 14. Afterwards as we were taking some photographs of the pond (we were going down the Androscoggin River) a Kingfisher hovered near us and plunging into the water struck a fish so large that after a brief struggle he was obliged to let it go, being quite unable apparently to raise it above the surface. I cannot recall ever seeing this happen before.