JOURNAL OF MAINP: ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 75 



Notes and observations upon bird life within our State are earnestly desired from all our readers 

 for publication in this column, and should be sent to the Associate Editor, Frank T. Noble, Augusta, 

 Maine. 



We note with ninch satisfaction the increasing frequency with 

 which the members of our society report to this Journal their 

 ornithological observations. This is an important part of our duties, 

 one to another, and should be shared in l)y all interested in bird 

 life. The Journal's columns are always open to contril)utors of 

 items of general interest relating to Maine birds, and we trust oiu" 

 members will, through this medium, disseminate such knowledge as 

 they personally possess. 



Notes from Scarboro Beach. 



Bonaparte's Gull {^Lants philadelpJiia). — The appearance of 

 this species in considerable numbers, so early in the season, seems 

 unusual. I first noticed fifteen or twenty individuals on July 25, 

 1906, fishing in company with the Wilson's Tern at the lower end of 

 Scarboro Beach, near Front's Neck. Among the flock were three 

 or four in the adult sunnuer plumage. Between July 25tli and 

 August 23rd, I have seen a few specimens every few days. Dr. 

 Chas. P. Cones informs me that he first observed them on the same 

 feeding ground, a1)out the middle of July, and has observed them 

 every few days since. Their appearance here at this season would 

 indicate that they had lieen further to the south of their usual breed- 

 ing range. 



Wilson's Tern {Sterna Iiinmdo). — -While approaching Bloody 

 Pond, a strip of fresh water situated back of Scarboro Beach, to 

 watch a flock of some fifty Terns, feeding, I startled three Crows 

 from a little grove of small pitch pines. The Crows, had no sooner 

 gotten underway when they were pursued by three of the Terns, 

 who followed them closely for several hundred yards, darting at 

 them from above and beneath. While it is a common occurrence 

 for the Terns to give chase to their own species, when the pursued is 

 carrying fish to. its young, I have never before ob.served them har- 

 assing other species. [Dr. Townsend, in "Birds of Essex County," 



