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which the visits of these' birds have given me. There are mail}' 

 bird students in this city, and I have no doubt that those who pos- 

 sess or have access to pleasant gardens coukl furnish a longer list 

 than that which is here given. 



Maine Notes. 



In the July Auk, Mr. Arthur H. Norton has several notes of 

 general interest to Maine readers, and the substance of them are here 

 reprinted. 



"During the week of November i6th to 21st. 1908, a Lesser 

 Snow Goose {CheJi hyperborea nivalis) was shot by a fox hunter in 

 a field in Gorhani, Maine. The bird was much emaciated and in 

 the immature plumage in which it is usually seen in Maine. It was 

 mounted by, and is in the possession of, Mr. Leonard Leighton. of 

 Westbrook, where I made an examination of it." 



"On February 14, 1909, in a garden in the outskirts of Sacca- 

 rappa village. Westbrook, I collected an adult male Hoary Redpoll 

 (Aranf/iis hornemamii exilipcs.) It was accompanied at the time bv 

 another bird, which I believe to have been of the same form, but 

 this was not positiveh* determined. Two and three birds had been 

 visiting the place for several days previous to the capture, and I had 

 become positive that one at least was a Hoary Redpoll, undoubtedly 

 the one secured." 



"Having recently had occasion to examine some Gray-cheeked 

 Thrushes, all of the specimens contained in the collections of the 

 Portland Society of Natural History and of the writer were brought 

 together. This revealed the fact that a specimen in the Natural 

 History Society's collection is a Bicknell's Thrush. It is a 3'oung 

 female, taken in Cumberland County, Maine, September 30, 1878. 

 Although the specimen is so characteristic that no doubt existed as 

 to its identity, it was submitted to Dr. Charles W. Richmond for 

 verification. 



"There appears to be no previous record of a specimen taken in 



