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thing rare at this time of the year. Dec. 28th. Lots of Black Ducks 

 sitting on No Man's land to-day, and on neighboring islands to-day. 



Or A W. Knight, Bangor. 

 I went out the afternoons of the 26tli and 27th and did not see 

 a solitary native species, though within the city limits I saw thou- 

 sands of English Sparrows and hundreds of Doves. I covered likely 

 territory each time, but in vain. A friend reported seeing two 

 Crows at Bucksport on Christmas day. The birds are common in 

 certain localities here all the winter, and if I had been able to give a 

 whole day to this census I could have visited a locality where I 

 could have most certainly added many species to my list seen. 



Dana Sweet, Phillips. 



Dec. 24th, American Crossbill, American Goldfinch, Black- 

 Capped Chickadee. Dec. 27th, Blue Jay, American Crossbill, 

 Black-capped Chickadee. Dec. 28th, Hairy Woodpecker, Pileated 

 Woodpecker, Blue Jay, American Goldfinch, Northern Shrike, 

 Red-breasted Nuthatch, Black-capped Chickadee. Dec. 29th, 

 American Goldfinch, Snow Bunting. Dec. 30th, Saw-whet Owl, 

 Blue Jay, American Crossbill, American Goldfinch, Red-breasted 

 Nuthatch, Black-capped Chickadee. Dec. 31st, American Cross- 

 bill, American Goldfinch, Snow Bunting, Black-capped Chickadee. 



Dec. 24th. While on my way to church, I saw Crossbills, Gold- 

 finches and Chickadees, while passing through evergreen woods. 

 I saw the same species there the following Sunday. 



Dec. 29th. I walked two miles and saw a flock of 10 vSnow 

 Buntings, a flock of about 10 Goldfinches, and another flock of 

 Snow Buntings, there being only 4 in the last flock. 



Dec. 30th. I went three miles and found Jays, Goldfinches 

 and Crossbills common. 



Dec. 25th and Dec. 26th. I was at work cutting and hacking 

 ice and recorded no species. The rest of the week I was cutting 

 wood near a swamp in the woods and recorded the species that 



