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an}' morning their song ma}' be recognized, as the bird sits usually 

 on a prominent perch and sings a clear distinct warble. Summer 

 resident Warblers are now in their glory, flitting busily from tree 

 to tree and singing as well as they are able almost every hour in 

 the day. Warblers known to nest in this immediate vicinity are 

 the Black and White, Nashville, Parula, Yellow, Myrtle, Magno- 

 lia, Chestnut-sided, Blackburnian, Black-throated Green, Pine, 

 Ovenbird, Northern Yellowthroat, Redstart, and perhaps one or 

 two more very rarely. The Myrtle Warblef is very uncommon 

 here during the summer. 



Fish Hawks Forty Years Ago. 



By Pkrcivai. B. Koi.fk, Portland. 



One beautiful morning in the spring of 1868, with two of my 

 friends, Charles Fox and Will Yeaton. I started in a row boat for a 

 Httle outing at Great Diamond Island. As we were rowing on the 

 left side of the island, I noticed three large pine trees on one of the 

 points standing out alone by themselves. In the top of the tallest 

 one a Fish Hawk's nest could be seen plainly, as the nest is about 

 the size. of a bushel basket. We rowed our boat into a little cove, 

 and after beaching her safely we started for the pine trees with the 

 intention of one of us going up to the nest for the eggs. We found 

 that the first limb on the tree was about tliirty feet from the ground, 

 so after talking it over we decided not to try that da3% but wait un- 

 til we could come later with ropes and a revolver to keep the male 

 bird away. 



We started off over the island for anything that would give us 

 a good time, and as we came well into the center of the island, 

 where there was a swamp, we noticed a lone tree, very large. In 

 the top of that was another Fish Hawk's nest, one of the largest I 

 ever saw, and I can remember that the birds built in the same nest 

 for years. We remained all day and returned late in the afternoon. 



