Ardea herodias. 
Lake Umbagog. Great Blue Herons nesting near Sunday Cove. 
1903 
June 14 Alva Coolidge tells me that the Grest Blue Herons are 
nesting again in large numbers near Sunday Cove. (He afterwards 
wrote both me and John E.Thayer that he visited this heronry a day 
or two after my departure. There were upwards of 100 nests but 
nearly all of them were empty. He saw only one living adult bird 
which was feeding young in one of the nests but he found about 
twenty-five dead'Herons (all adults) lying about on the ground. 
Most of them had been covered with rotten wood torn from an old 
log. He thought they had been dead about two weeks. Not far from 
the place he came upon a deserted camp on the Lake shore where 
Partridge wings lay scattered about. Evidently some murderous 
vandal or vandals had visited the heronry early in June and killed 
practically all the birds. Their eggs, he thought, had been af¬ 
terwards eaten by other birds.) 
