72 JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Notes on Some Birds of Pleasant Ridge. 



By O. W. Knight, Bangor, Me. 

 While attending the meeting of the Jos'Selyn Botanical Society at 

 Plea.sant Ridge Plantation, Rowe Pond Camps, July 2 to 7, 1906, a 

 few birds were noticed whose presence it seems desirable to record. 

 Herring Gull. — A few gulls were noticed about Rowe Pond 

 from time to time which evidently came there to feed, though doubt- 

 less they were nesting on some one of the larger ponds not far dis- 

 tant. 



Rusty Blackbird. — This species evidently breeds rather gen- 

 erally about the ponds and streams of this locality, only one pair of 

 birds being found in a given place. I noticed a pair which most 

 certainly had a nest with young birds at the head of Rowe Pond, 

 and another pair were evidently nesting at the outlet of the same 

 pond. A pair were nesting on the shore of Bean Pond, another pair 

 at Brandy Pond, and several pairs were noticed scattered at intervals 

 along the boggy shores of Jewett Brook, only a pair in a place. 



American Golden-eye. — An old bird and four young of this 

 species were to be seen sporting in the waters of Rowe Pond. 



Many species of Warblers were breeding in the woods and 

 about the shores of the ponds in this region. Among the species 

 noted as rather common were Blackburnian Warbler, Myrtle Warb- 

 ler, Yellow Palm Warbler, Tennessee Warbler, Bay-breasted Warb- 

 ler, Canadian Warbler, as well as our commoner species whose 

 presence would be naturally expected. 



Among the Vireos present were noted the Solitary, Warbling 

 and Red-eyed as common. I saw one individual and heard it sing, 

 which was most certainly a Philadelphia Vireo, though it is with 

 considerable hesitancy that the name of such a rare species is men- 

 tioned in the absence of the bird in hand to verify the record. 



Winter Wrens were common everywhere and in full song. 



Canada Jays were seen on two occasions. 



American and White-winged Crossbills were seen in large flocks 

 flying overhead or feeding on the seeds of various conifers. 



