JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 5 



anything written by him in the Auk or the Ornithologist and Oologist, 

 or other journals, was quite as likely to be culled from his personal 

 letters to Mr. William Brewster or Mr. Joseph M. Wade, or others, 

 as to be directly contributed. He was able at times to report rari- 

 ties. For example, he had seen a Turkey Buzzard near home 1 , and 

 had heard of others being trapped or seen by hunters 2 ; a few winters 

 since he saw a Black (iyrfalcon :i but three or four rods away (and 

 no gun); and he obtained some of the earlier nests of the Red-bellied 

 Nuthatch 4 , the Golden-crowned Kinglet and the American Cross- 

 bill, all near home. .Still these were in no sense discoveries. His 

 observation that the male of the Leach's Petrel 5 more commonly has 

 the bare brooding spot than the female, was a better note. 



"Birds, mammals, Indians were his hobbies. In ethnology he 

 established for the Peabody Museum of Kthnology the fact of can- 

 nibalism among our Maine Indians". However, he did more through 

 advice to others than by direct work. He was consulted upon all 

 sorts of matters, and whenever a strange mammal or bird was taken 

 within many miles it was quite sure to be referred to Mr. Hardy. 



"Though not directly interested in other sciences, father was 

 observant in all. He could at once tell you whether he had ever 

 seen a given rock or flower, and when and where, so that, although 

 neither geologist nor botanist, he was a good adviser. 



"There was never a time when he 'began going in the woods'; 

 he was born to it. With Indians for his playmates and hunters for 

 his friends, he carried a gun from the time when another boy had 

 to go with him, to rest the muzzle on his shoulder while my father 

 took aim and did the shooting. He had an instinct for woodcraft, 

 though by reason of his very delicate health between the years of 

 sixteen and twenty, he was at that period less in the woods than 

 most boys of his age. But about that time his eyes failed him, and, 



'Bull 3, Univ. of Maine, p. 57. 



-Auk, XXII, p. 79. 



s Journ. Maine Orn. Soc, III, p. 28. 



4 Bull. Nutt. Orn. CI., Ill, p. 196. 



-Bull. Nutt. Orn. CI., VI, p. 125. 



^Eleventh Ann. Rept. Peabody Mus. Am. Arch. & Eth., p. 197. 



