AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



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A FAVORITE FISHING POOL. 



Photo by C. A Reed. 



The larger trout are fairly successful in avoiding the hooks of human 

 anglers, but the smaller ones are not so fortunate in escaping the beak 

 of this more adept feathered angler and he rarely misses his aim. For 

 a good many years a pair of Kingfishers have made their home along 

 the banks of a certain small stream within the limits of the city of 

 Worcester. Here in the solitude of the woods through which the 

 stream flows, they have regaled themselves on trout, dace, sunfish, etc. 

 Now and again, amid the babel of the numerous smaller birds, the 

 Avarning rattle of one of them will ring out either for conversation with 

 his mate or as a cry of exultation over the capture of another finny crea- 

 ture. Their nest is in the bank under the roots of an overhanging oak. 

 Doubtless if we could see the nest at the end of the tunnel we would 



