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havoc there. They all left before ten A. M., but a few scattering 

 ones have come since then. They have come for several years. 

 March 22d, Robins arrived en masse, ten on the apple tree, fifty or 

 more in the orchard, first seen this year. One thing interested me 

 especially, the English Sparrows started in on my feast, unbidden, 

 but the Chickadees put them to rout, a pair driving a dozen Spar- 

 rows, and now, a month after the Chickadees' departure, the Spar- 

 rows have not come back, although they are about the street. 



Manasseh Smith. 

 Woodfords, March 30, 1908. 



NoTEvS FROM Bridgton. — March 12th, I saw my only Prairie 

 Horned Lark for the season. It was near the railroad station at 

 North Bridgton. On the afternoon of April 13th, a large flock of 

 Geese, estimated at two hundred by many who saw them, settled 

 on the ice in Long Lake, midway between the North Bridgton and 

 Harrison shores. I had an excellent opportunity to study them 

 through field glasses. In my own mind they were Snow Geese, 

 being far too white for Canadas ; in fact, to the naked eye they 

 looked almost absolutely without color. Evidently they had lost 

 their leader, for when startled they flew away in a dozen small 

 harrow formations instead of one large one, as is so often the custom 

 of the family. Col. Fred Hale told me of seeing a flock of similar 

 size and description on the ice of Sebago Lake the day following. 

 In this locality there has been a marked increase in the number of 

 Pileated Woodpeckers within the last ten years. 



April 14th, in Yarmouth, I saw a Meadowlark, interesting to 

 me as being the only time I have happened to meet this species in 

 Maine. 



James Carroll Mead. 



North Bridgton, May 4th, 1908. 



Bird Fatalities. — One morning, during one of the early sum- 

 mer months of 1907, two Pigeons sat on the roof for some hours wait- 

 ing an opportunity to glean their usual breakfast from the streets. 



