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any year since I began to take note of them. Terns are noticeably 

 increasing. — F. N. Johnson, Swanns Island, Maine, 1907. 



The medrics (terns) came about the usual time and the nests 

 soon had from one to four eggs and in one case five. The nests 

 were very plenty and one had to be very careful not to step on the 

 eggs, lying upon the sand, rocks, grass, and even upon the solid 

 ledges, in some cases rolling down hill. After hatching, the long, 

 cold rains killed some of the young, many birds being found lying 

 about the island. — Willis Snow, Metinic Island, Maine, 1907. 



There is a herring weir on the north side of the island and the 

 terns come there in large flocks and sit on the weir stakes and 

 binders and get a great many small herring out of the weir. It 

 does not seem to annoy the parties who own the weir. There is a 

 ledge near there where the birds sit at low water and they seem very 

 tame. Power boats can run very near them, and they don't seem 

 at all alarmed, I think they are much more numerous and also 

 gaining the good will of the public. — Howard T. Ball, Deer Isle, 

 Maine, 1907. 



About 3000 young terns were hatched, of which about 200 died, 

 leaving 2800 reared. — Emanuel Nelson, Woods Hole, Mass., 1907. 



The terns were later than usual; many young died and many 

 eggs failed to hatch owing to cold and late season. — Henry O. 

 Rackett, Gardiner's Island, New York, Sept. 13, 1907. 



Least Terns are about extinct here; otherwise, except the 

 Gull-billed Terns, all species are much more abundant within a 

 radius of 20 miles from Smith's Island north than they were three 

 years ago. On a small lump of about one acre, 140 yards from this 

 station, 17 pairs of Common Terns nested this season and laid three 

 eggs each, from the 51 eggs rearing 43 young, but I do not think 

 the other colonies will average as well, as they were not so near to 

 the station, and I could not keep the Crows away, and they eat 

 many eggs and also some young. — J. R. Andrews, Cobb's Island, 

 Va., 1907. 



We had a heavy rain followed by a second one a day or two 

 afterward, about the second day of August, and I found on the 12th 

 that the young terns had perished by the score; and there seemed 

 to be hundreds of dead young ones, all or nearly all about the 

 same age, and quite a few eggs, dry and unhatched. — Willis Snow, 

 Metinic Green Island, Maine, August 27, 1908. 



