JOURNAL OF MAINE OKNITIIOI^OGICAI, SOCIETY. 5 1 



Fish Hawks on the Damariscotta River. 



B3' Hknry H. Richards. 



This colony of Fish Hawks was ol^served by myself and my 

 brother (Prof. R. H. Richards, of Massachusetts Institute of Tech- 

 nology), about 1S66 or 1867. It was on the point separating Seal 

 Cove from the main river, and the 5^oung birds were about half 

 fledged at the time I saw them. There must have been ten or a 

 dozen nests in the colonj^ and they were built on top of spruces 

 about thirty feet high, or rather on what had been the third or 

 fourth tier of branches from the top, the "leader" of the trees hav- 

 ing been killed by the operations of the birds. 



We watched the old birds feeding the young, and were much 

 interested to find that the young were fed promiscuously, with no 

 apparent regard for family ties. We saw as many as four or five 

 different adult birds successively feeding the young of one nest, and 

 the question of which nest should receive the next fish seemed to 

 be determined by the vociferousness of its occupants. 



The Fifteenth Annual Meeting. 



The fifteenth annual meeting of the Maine Ornithological 

 Society will be held Frida}^ and vSaturday, November 25th and 

 26th, 19 10, in the lecture room of the Portland Society of Natural 

 History, 22 Elm street, Portland, Me. The meeting will open 

 November 25th, at 10.30 A. M., with a business session and exhi- 

 bition of specimens. At 2.30 P. M., a public session for the reading 

 and discussion of papers, and at S.oo P. M., a public session devoted 

 to papers illustrated by lantern slides. 



During the past year some remarkably rare and interesting 

 birds have been taken, and will form a feature of the Friday morn- 

 ing session. At the same meeting it will be decided whether the 

 time Saturday shall be devoted to an excursion to one of the 

 beaches near by where birds resort, or to exercises in the lecture 

 room. 



