JOURNAL OP MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



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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 Louis E. Legge, 22 Dow Street, Portland, Maine. 



We note with much 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 by all interested in bird 

 life. The Journal's columns are always open to contributors of 

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

 members will, through this medium, disseminate such knowledge as 

 they personally possess. 



October Birds at Pine Point. — Saturday, Oct. i6th, was 

 spent at Grand Beach and Pine Point, At the former place I 

 found an immense flock of Myrtle Warblers, a small flock of 

 Juncos, a few Chickadees, three Robins and some Crows. The 

 extreme restlessness of the Warblers led me to conclude that they 

 were nearly ready to start on their journe}' southward. At Pine 

 Point, I saw on a large sand bar hundreds of Herring Gulls, and 

 among them were eight Black-backed Gulls. I was greatly sur- 

 prised at seeing at least three hundred Wilson's Terns, that had 

 followed a school of small fish in from the ocean, and were waiting 

 for them to be left in the shallows by the receding tide. The 

 birds flew in a body, occasionally alighting on the shore. Never 

 in the bird world have I seen anything more beautiful than were 

 their evolutions, their wings and bodies glistening in the sunlight 

 as they wheeled and turned about in the air, and I felt richly re- 

 paid for my long tramp to the extreme end of the Point. — Sara C. 

 Eastman^ Portland. 



Late Nesting of Several Birds. — This season is rather 

 unusual in the respect that many birds have been found nesting, or 

 with young, at dates far later than ever noted before. For instance, 

 the writer found a nest of the Black-billed Cuckoo, containing two 

 eggs, only partly incubated, on August 21st, atGlenburn. Septem- 

 ber 4th, at Islesboro, several pairs of Barn Swallows were feeding 

 their young, which were still in the nests, although fully fledged. 



A correspondent. Miss Cordelia J. Stanwood, of Ellsworth, 

 writes: — "August 25th, helpless little Chimney Swifts were falling 



