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fu>i()ii. Travel there is indeed Ial)i)rit)us. The crash and rustle of mv jjroj^ress 

 excited more curiosity than alarm in the birds, both young and old. 



Black-crowned Night Heron. — This bird seems to be increasing and 

 forming new colonies. A nest with newly-hatched young in a low spruce was 

 found on Old Man Island, the first seen there. It was hardly ten feet above the 

 ground. .\t Heron Island the colony has become established, and the same is 

 true of the one at No-Man's-Land. A colony of considerable extent has formed 

 on Bradbury's Island since my visit there in 1903. At all of these places (except 

 Old Man) the young were out of the nests, but close by them. 



Spotted Sandpiper. — This species is abundant on all of the i.slands and 

 ledges affording suitable conditions. I am not aware that it is molested. The 

 young were flying, though one rather young one was seen on Ballast Island, 

 Englishman's Bay. 



OsPREY OR Fish Hawk. — This bird is still common in Penobscot Bay, 

 largely, I believe, owing to an old superstition, which has afforded them protec- 

 tion. Yet the early days of the granite industry reduced their numbers here 

 materially. On Bradbury Island there are several nests on trees, now occupied, 

 so far as I was able to observe. On several ledges between this island and North 

 Haven Island are nests built upon the rocks, perfectly accessible to man. The 

 _\oung birds were about ready to leave the nests, and were now standing upon 

 their flat tops. Some were already flapping their wings in anticipation of 

 flight. — A. H. Norton. 



