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All subscribers to The Journal, who liav^e not paid for the 

 year 1909, are requested to send their dollars as soon as convenient. 

 The money is needed to pay the current expenses of pul)lishing 

 The Journal, the membership dues, which should l)e paid to the 

 Treasurer, not being sufficient for that purpose. Subscribers, as 

 heretofore, should remit to the editor. 



Attention is again called to the necessity of having a good 

 department of notes, and this can only be accomplished when the 

 members make frequent and generous contributions. The new 

 associate member, Mr. I^ouis E. Legge, has charge of this feature 

 of the magazine, and under his direction there is no doubt that it 

 will be a credit to the Society. It is hoped that members will not fail 

 to respond to Mr. Eegge's request for material to make a good 

 showing. 



Members who have copies of Vol. 7, No. i, March, 1905, Vol. 

 8, No. I, March, 1906, or Vol. 9, No. 4, December, 1907, and who 

 do not care to preserve them for binding, will do a favor by sending 

 them to the editor. The file is nearly exhausted for those issues of 

 The Journal, and there are frequent calls for complete sets from 

 libraries in different parts of the country. Those who have copies 

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 them to the editor unless they are intended for binding. There are 

 many of the early issues of The Journal which are now lacking, 

 and it is getting to be difficult to make up a complete set. 



Lincoln's Sparrow and Mourning Warbler in Port- 

 land, Maine. — On May 30, 1909, I received as one of the victims 

 of a plate glass window on Bowdoin vSt., Portland, a Lincoln's vSpar- 

 row {^Mclospiza Lincolnii), a male in good plumage. This is appar- 

 ently the fifth recorded specimen for the vicinity of Portland. On 

 June I, 1909, from the same source, an adult male Mourning 

 Warbler {Geothlypis Philadelphia). This appears to be the third 

 recorded specimen for the vicinity of Portland. The other two 

 specimens are recorded by Mr. N. C. Brown, May 31, 1876, Deer- 

 ing, Bro7vn Dull. Nidt. Orn. CI.-, Vol. i, p. 95, and May 30, 1868, 

 Cape Elizabeth, Me., Proc. Part. Lac, N. H., Vol. 11, p. i. Both 

 birds are preserved and in my possession. — Miss Helen M. Leivis, 

 Portland, Maine. 



The White-Crowned Sparrow. — After walking a number 

 of miles and visiting several places in a vain search for the White- 

 crowned vSparrow, I gave up all hope of finding it this spring, but 

 on May 26th I was so fortunate as to see a fine specimen of the 

 male bird. He was perched on a post which stands at the edge of a 

 tract of swampy land and appeared to be resting. I called the 

 attention of my companion to him, and as he did not appear to 

 object to our presence we took a long look at him. Should any 

 person in this part of the state see this most interesting bird at a 

 later date, I should be very glad to know it. — Sara C. Eastman. 

 Portland, Maine. 



