New York City October 25, 26, 1920, Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson was 

 elected president to succeed William Dutcher, who died July 1, 1920. 

 Mr. Pearson has served the Association as Secretary since its organ- 

 ization in 1904. Through his active experience no one could be 

 better qualified for this important position than he, and with his 

 genial, democratic personality, broad vision, and progressive spirit, 

 keenness in analyzing new propositions and in reaching decisive 

 conclusions, with the executive ability to organize and make a success 

 of new plans, the continued efficiency and progress of this great 

 organization is assured. 



Readers of this department are asked to co-operate with the 

 editors of the Maine Naturalist through the contribution of notes 

 and short articles, material for this department should be sent to 

 Dr. A. O. Gross, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, or to Arthur 

 H. Norton, Museum of Natural History, Portland, Maine. Such 

 assistance will be appreciated both by the readers and by the editors. 



LuBEC Bird Notes. — 



As Mr. C. H. Clark had expressed doubts as to the presence of 

 some species of summer birds here, out of justice to those who 

 reported them, he took a ten-mile cross-country trip Sunday, and 

 reports that he had the pleasure of seeing robins and hearing them 

 in full song. One of them was so enthusiastic over the mild and 

 spring-like day that he was caroling his April mating song. 



A flock of Colaptes auratus, commonly known as "yellow-ham- 

 mer," were feeding in a thinly wooded pasture. There is no pre- 

 vious record of this bird in the winter season. 



Meadow larks are also in evidence, being the first winter occurrence 

 since the mild winter of 1911-12, when the ground remained bare 

 until Jan. 14 and again became bare the first of February. 



It will no doubt interest those who are technical observers, to 

 know that in a flock of the common chickadees Mr. Clark found 

 one of the rare Parus hudsonictts, which is a chickadee having brown 

 marking in place of the usual shiny black. 



The golden-crowned kinglet was found in many wooded localities, 

 and as active as in fly-time. — The (Lubec) Herald of Feb. 3. 



The Logcock in Warren. — 



One lone individual of the Pileated Woodpecker was a two-days' 

 visitor at the Knox Arboretum in South Warren, in the early part 

 of the Winter. On each day when seen it was feeding on the ground 

 under pines in company with Juncos. When approached, it flew 

 up, uttering a peculiar whistling note, and alighted in trees nearby. 

 During 35 years' residence here, this is the first Logcock that I have 

 seen or heard. — N. W. Lermond. 



