Brown on Birds at Portland, Me. 107 



however ; and I regret to add that the rapid destruction of the 

 forests about the city is tending rapidly to the local extermination 

 of the bird. In fact, in Deering, where I first made its acquaint- 

 ance, it is now hardly to be found except during the migrations. 

 Young leave the nest about July 10. 



On the 13th of June, 1874, I found a nest, containing four eggs, 

 of Zonotrichia albicollis in Scarborough, and subsequent observations 

 have proved the species almost a common summer resident. It is 

 perhaps more numerous in Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough than 

 elsewhere, but is to be found, in suitable localities, quite throughout 

 Cumberland County through the summer months. Its nesting in 

 Massachusetts has been recorded,* but it has been regarded a repre- 

 sentative of the Fauna of Northern New England and Canada. 



Junco hi/emalis completes the list of so-called Northern species 

 which I have to record as breeding in this vicinity. Although it is 

 probably the rarest of the summer-resident Fringillkhe, it occurs 

 every year. Like the pi'eceding three species, it particularly affects 

 the wilder portions of Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth, where the 

 country closely resembles that of Northern Maine. The young leave 

 the nest about August 1. I am, of course, aware of the numerous 

 instances in which this bird has been detected nesting in mountain- 

 ous districts far to the south of Portland, but I believe no record has 

 hitherto been made of its breeding, in level country, in this latitude. 



Dr. Brewer writes t of Dendroeca jiinus that it has not been found 

 in Maine by Professor Verrill nor by Mr. Boardman, but I am in- 

 formed that it appears in Professor Verrill's supplementai-y catalogue 

 as " rare [in Maine] in summer." On the contrary, it is an abun- 

 dant summer resident in this part of the State. It arrives very 

 early in spring, occasionally by the middle of April, and by the third 

 week in June brings out its young. With regard to its range, I 

 found it, in 1875, common at Brunswick, the easternmost township 

 of Cumberland County ; and it even occasionally reaches Calais, as 

 I learn from a marginal note by Mr. Boardman upon a copy of his 

 list. In the western part of the State, however, it does not occur 

 so far to the north. I detected but one specimen in Northern York 

 County during two weeks' work in 1875, and Mr. Brewster writes 

 me that he is very sure it is not found at Lake Umbagog, unless 

 fortuitously. 



* Hist. N. A. Birds, Vol. I, p. 575. 

 + Ibid., p. 269. 



