6o JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIP^TY. 



Notes from Franklin Co. — I saw a Wood Thrush near Farm- 

 ington village, May 21st. I had visited the same place the morning 

 before without hearing it. I saw another May 24th, near my home 

 in Avon. May 23d, I saw a Philadelphia Vireo. It was singing in 

 a clump of small trees on a bank in a field. The same day I saw a 

 Veery with a pure white place on its upper parts. It seemed to be 

 on the wing near the rump, about the width of a feather, and one- 

 half to three- fourths inches long. — Dana W. Sweety Phillips. 



L,ATE Myrtle Warblers. — On account of illness I have been 

 unable to watch the migration of birds except from the piazza of my 

 cottage in South Portland. As late as May 22nd, a considerable 

 flock of Myrtle Warblers frequented the small gray birch trees which 

 abound here. There were from twenty-five to forty individuals, in all 

 grades of plumage. The adult males are very brilliant in slaty blue, 

 black and yellow. This date seems to me to be quite late for so 

 many of these birds to be in this section of the state, as they rarely 

 nest here. A few Yellow Palm Warblers are with the Myrtles, and 

 it is late for them to be so far south. Brown Thrashers, Catbirds, 

 Baltimore Orioles and Yellow Warblers are quite numerous around 

 the cottage. A large flock of Tree Swallows fly around the field all 

 day, seeking insects in the air, but often settling down among the 

 bayberry bushes and varying their early fare with the waxy ber- 

 ries. — W. H. Brownson^ Por-tland. 



Highland IvAke Migrants. — While I have not been out at 

 all this spring, as is my custom, to watch for the migrants, I have 

 seen a few on the way to my camp at Highland Lake, as noted be- 

 low ; March 27th, i Bluebird; April nth, 5 Phoebes, i Pine Warb- 

 ler; April igth, 2 Yellow Palm Warblers; April 19th, 2 Vesper Spar- 

 rows; April 27th, 3 Spotted Sandpipers; May 2nd, Black-throated 

 Green Warbler, Nashville Warbler, Barn Swallow, Blue-headed 

 Vireo; May 9th, Kingfisher; May 15th, Catbird; May i6th. Oven- 

 bird, Redstart, Chestnut-sided Warbler. 



Mr. Fred Frost reports seeing a flock of 42 Canada Geese going 

 over the Western Promenade March 25th. 



Mr. Harry Hanson reports two Song Sparrows wintering near 

 and about Deering Oaks. The pair were observed at various times 

 during November, December and January — Louis E. Legge, Port- 

 land. 



