JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 49 



On March 9th, Dr. W. H. Simmons, of Bangor, called me up on 

 the telephone and said he wished to tell me about the flock of 

 Bohemian Waxwings which he had seen daily near his home since 

 the middle of February. He stated that there was a good sized 

 flock of the birds, and that they had been feeding daily on the fruit 

 of a mountain ash tree which grew beside a window of his home, 

 where he could look down on them. The birds had been coming 

 for some time before he paid any especial attention to them, think- 

 ing that they were doubtless Pine Grosbeaks, until he happened to 

 notice that they all had crests, which he knew was not a fact with 

 the Grosbeaks. He then examined the birds critically and identified 

 them as Bohemian Waxwings by their having white wing bars, 

 yellow tips to their tail feathers, and by their prominent crests. Dr. 

 Simmons also states that in February, 1908, a flock of birds of the 

 same size were daily in the habit of visiting the same locality, but 

 at that time he took no particular notice of them, though he is 

 inclined to believe that they were of the present species. 



March nth, the writer and Mr. Winch visited the locality for 

 the purpose of personally seeing the birds. They were not about 

 Dr. Simmons' premises, but he was able to give us an idea of the 

 general route they pursued, so that finally we found the flock feeding 

 on rotten crab apples in an orchard several blocks away. Yes, 

 there is no question as to their identity, as they were positively 

 Bohemian Waxwings. They were busily engaged in eating the 

 rotten apples, sometimes eating the pulp itself, at other times peck- 

 ing the apple to pieces and eating the seeds, which the}^ swallowed 

 without shelling out the meat as do the Pine Grosbeaks. 



Now and then the birds would fly from the tree in which they 

 were feeding to a neighboring tree, uttering low lisping notes and 

 whistlings which sounded very appreciably different in character 

 from the notes of the Cedar birds. 



They were very tame, so that I was able to get up within fifteen 

 feet of them and secured six exposures of them with my pocket 

 kodak. As if to show their kindly and obliging nature, they waited 

 patiently until I was through taking photographs, and then at a 



