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weather. Thus we have a record of the Song Sparrow sta^dng all 

 winter in i\.ndroscoggin County. 



J. M. Swain. 

 Farmington, May 10, 1908. 



A Green Heron and Other Notes. — On May 5th, while 

 looking over the material in the shop of James & Norcross, State 

 taxidermists, at Winthrop, I saw a Green Heron that had been 

 brought in. It had been taken near Winthrop a few days previous. 

 Mr. Clark, a game warden living at Smithfield, told me he had seen 

 several of this little Green Heron about this section. 



April 22nd, while driving from Stratton to Flagstaff, as we came 

 in sight of the Dead River, I saw four Herring Gulls flying up the 

 river in the direction of the Rangeley L,akes. Mr. A. P. Wing, of 

 Flagstaff, tells me the large Gulls in years past nested on Gull 

 Island, in Flagstaff Pond, but visitors had shot at them, and the 

 eggs had been so often disturbed that they no longer breed there. 



On April i6th I saw a pair of Yellow Palm Warblers near East 

 Madison (Somerset Co.) I did not see the Myrtle Warblers till the 

 27th. Usually I have seen these two Warblers at about the same 

 time. This would seem to be an earl 3^ record of arrival for the 

 Yellow Palm Warbler. 



I have noted the Meadowlarks more abundant this spring in 

 the localities I have usually seen them in Franklin and Somerset 

 Counties than at any time previous. It is to be hoped they may 

 thrive and become numerous in all parts of our State that are suit- 

 able for their existence. 



May 6th, while driving from Winthrop to Readfield, as I came 

 near the shore of Maranacook L,ake, near Readfield, I saw and 

 counted twenty-seven Yellow Palm Warblers. There seemed to be 

 considerable of a flight on of these Warblers. 



While driving from Farmington to New Vineyard a short time 

 ago, I saw a Chickadee suspended by the neck, in the forks of a 

 small bush, in a thick tangle of bushes and vines. I examined the 



