disappeared in the fall, just as our summer residents did, and still 

 their breeding places were for years unknown. 



It is true that when these birds appeared about the "Ripley," 

 bearing Audubon on his voyage to Labrador, that the seamen who 

 knew the Carey's Chickens only generally, told him that they bred 

 abundantly on the Mud and Seal Islands off the coast of' Nova 

 Scotia, but these men had not distinguished the present bird from 

 the Leach's Petrel which is the species breeding there. 



In due course of time the present species was found breeding in 

 the midst of the South Temperate Zone, and we now know that these 

 small sea birds are only passing an antarctic winter in the mild 

 northern summer. 



BIRD NOTES AND NEWS 



In the last number of the Auk, for January, 1921, are to be found 

 several articles bearing more or less fully on Maine birds : first 

 that of Dr. Alfred O. Gross (one of the editors of this Journal), 

 presenting the first installment of his intensive study of the Dick- 

 cissel ; in this paper the records for Maine are summarized. The late 

 Horace Wright presents an extensive study of the occurrence of 

 the Bohemian Waxwing in New England, with several Maine reports 

 previously unrecorded. 



Dr. Harry C. Oberholser maintains (correctly, we believe), that 

 the Blue Jay of the northeastern L^nited States, including Maine, 

 requires a new sub-specific name, which is given as Cyanocitta cris- 

 tata bromia. Mr. Ruthven Deane presents two new records of the 

 occurrence in the State of the American Egret, together with a sum- 

 mary of its previous records, six in number, making eight for the 

 State. 



The minutes of the recent Congress of the American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union, held in Washington, D. C, November 8 to 11, 1930, 

 show that twelve persons in Maine were elected to Associate mem- 

 bership in the Union; curiously, one of these was elected and has 

 continued in membership since 1918. The Union is now represented 

 in Maine by one Fellow, Mr. Nathan Clifford Brown, who is also 

 one of its founders, two Members and twenty-seven Associates. Two 

 Maine Members and five Associates have died. 



Birdlore for November-December, 1920, shows that at the annual 

 meeting of the National Association of Audubon Societies, held in 



