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Ceryle alcvon. 
Lake Urabagog, Maine. 
appl iecl 
1897. trance hole and flew off in silence. I have A the feminine 
June 2. pronoun to this bird but as a matter of fact I was unable to 
get a sufficiently good view of either of the pair to make 
out which was the male and which the female. 
Ceryle alcvon . 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. 
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1895 
Kingfishers are unusually numerous about the Lake this 
Sept. 5. autumn. Every little nook or indentation of the shore has its 
bird and the larger coves have three or four who are continu¬ 
ally fighting and chasing one another about in' the attempt to 
maintain or secure the best fishing grounds. When the Lake 
is calm as it has been to-dav one cah hear the plunge of a 
Kingfisher half-a-mile or more away- a dull full thump, like 
that of a large stone thrown into the water. 
Lake Umbagog, Maine. Sweat Meadow. 
Kingfisher strikes a fish too large to capture. 
1900. 
Sept.14. 
Afterwards as were taking some photographs oi the 
pond (we were going down the Androscoggin River) a Kingfisher 
hovered near us and plunging into the water struck a fish so 
large that after a brief struggle he was obliged to let it go, 
being quite unable apparently to raise it above the surface. 
I canrjot recall ever seeing this happen before. 
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