The Ball Bird Conservation Club's record for the year 1920, of 

 birds visiting Augusta and vicinity, was 152 species. 



Miss Carrie E. Miller, in her book "Birds of Lewiston and Vicin- 

 ity," lists 161 species. This is a dainty little book of the author's 

 careful records, personal observations and experiences, with an in- 

 troduction by the late Professor J. Y. Stanton of Bates College. 

 The beautiful frontispiece shows Prof. Stanton on the campus, with 

 one of the College buildings in the background. "My natural ear," 

 says Miss Miller in the preface, "is attuned to music, so many of 

 my remarks will be on the songs of birds, for to me, as to John 

 Burroughs, 'What is a bird without its song? It seems to me that 

 I do not know a bird till I have heard its voice'." As Prof. Stanton 

 remarks in the Introduction, "there is much more in Miss Miller's 

 pamphlet than a mere catalogue of birds." 



A RARE BIRD VISITOR TO MAINE. 



Mrs. C. W. Alexander, President of the Ball Bird Conservation 

 Club of Augusta, who has the honor of identifying a rare bird 

 visitant to Hallowell last Fall as the Arkansas Kingbird, sends us 

 the following clipping from the Kennebec Journal of Feb. 7 : 



"Probably the rarest bird to visit Maine during a long term of 

 years, was the Arkansas Kingbird that appeared early in November, 

 at the home of Mrs. B. F. Fuller, Middle Street, Hallowell. This 

 species, generally known as the Western Kingbird, is a stranger 

 east of the Mississippi, with but six records of appearance in New 

 England, one of which was in Maine. Much interest has been mani- 

 fested by bird organizations, and many thanks are due Mrs. Warren 

 and Miss Miller of the Stanton Bird Club of Lewiston and Auburn 

 for statistics from the Auk Magazine, which read as follows : "One 

 taken by Mr. George E. Brown, at Elliott, Maine, in October, 1865, 

 one by Mr. Frederick A. Kennard at Chatham, Mass., on October 

 20th, 1912, one by L. C. Jones, at Falmouth, Mass., on November 

 10th, 1918, now in the mounted collection of the Boston Society of 

 Natural History. One long dead, picked up by Mr. D. L. Garrison 

 at Marston's Mills, Cape Cod, on February 9th, 1920, one seen by 

 Charles W. Townsend, M. D., at Ipswich, Mass., on September 19th, 

 1920, and one seen by Mr. Charles B. Floyd at Marblehead Neck, 

 Mass., on November 20th, 1920." Mr. Floyd has been communi- 

 cated with to make positive the identification of the Hallowell speci- 

 men, which had been observed by several members of the Ball Bird 

 Conservation Club, who consider it a rare acquisition to the Club 

 record. 



The bird was last seen on Jan. 15th. Undoubtedly it has perished, 

 as it was a fly catcher, and winters from Mexico to Guatemala. 



Mrs. C. W. Alexander. 



