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Both H. D. Minot ('77) and Mr. Wm. Brewster ('95) mention 

 having seen the bird soaring high over the summit of Mt. I,a- 

 fayette. The only recent captures of this eagle in the state are : 

 Bartlett, one caught in a fox trap on Feb. 19 ^ 1893, recorded by 

 " Jagare " ('93) ; Hollis, Dr. W. H. Fox informs me that One 

 was shot eight miles west of this town on Sept. 16, 1881 ; Nexu 

 Hampshire^ Mr. Ralph Hoffmann writes me that he examined 

 a mounted specimen in the shop of W. E. Balch, a taxidermist 

 at lyUnenburg, Vt., and which was said to have been taken in 

 the state. Mr. Balch, on ray inquiry, tells me that it was sent 

 to him on Oct. 9, 1899, from New Hampshire. 



110. Halifeetus leucoceplialiis (I^inn.). Bald EagivE. 

 An uncommon summer resident in the central and northern 

 parts of the state, and occasional at all seasons in the southeast- 

 ern section. It is generally to be found during the summer in 

 small numbers about the larger lakes, as at Umbagog, where, 

 however, Mr. Wm. Brewster ('95, p. 386) does not believe it 

 now nests. Mr. Ned Dearborn ('98, p. 15) finds the bird also 

 along the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee and the river that 

 drains it, and makes the interesting observation that " they usu- 

 ally roost in the same place as long as they remain in a single 

 localit}^, and if there are several in the neighborhood, they gen- 

 erally assemble at nightfall to spend the night together." 

 Doubtless these are not breeding birds. At Newfound Lake, 

 however, is a fine pair of old birds, which probably nests on 

 the mountains near, and returns yearly to the lake to sum- 

 mer ; indeed, the residents say that there has not been a sum- 

 mer for generations, that has not seen a pair of the big birds 

 sailing o\?er these waters. Mr. Vyron D. Eowe, of Randolph, 

 a keen woodsman, tells me that a pair of Bald Eagles has sum- 

 mered for perhaps 25 years on the Presidential Range of the 

 White Mountains, and that until seven years ago, or therea- 

 bouts, the nest was nearly at timber line on Mt. Adams, but 

 that some one robbed it, and the birds have left the site, though 

 he still sees them on the range at intervals during the summer ; 

 in 1902, Mr. Eowe first saw the birds on March 23d. On the 

 coast, a few birds winter, and a specimen is recorded in the Or- 



