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A Quarterly Magazine Devoled to the Study and Protection of Birds 

 Vol. X Published September 1, 1908 . No. 3 



SUBSCRIPTION RATES: SI. 00 a year; 25 cenU a copy 



Mr. Howard H. Cleaves, of Staten Island, New York, whose 

 article on Bank vSwallows, in tlie March Journal, was read with 

 interest, contributes to the present number a tribute to the Spotted 

 Sandpiper, with an admirable photograph and a description of how 

 he secured it. Mr. Cleaves is a graceful writer, and his contribu- 

 tions to the Journal are much appreciated. 



Mr. Francis H. Allen, of Boston, who contributes to the July 

 Auk an article on Kumlien's Gull near Boston, has sent to the 

 Journal a fine paper on the l)irds of Monhegan Island, on the 

 Maine coast, and it will be published in the December issue. Mr. 

 Allen spent the week from May 3otli to June 6th at Monhegan, and 

 made a careful reconnoissance of the birds of that region. 



Members who have copies of Vol. 7, No. 1, March, 1905, and 

 who do not care to preser\-c them for binding, will do a favor by 

 sending them to the editor. The file is nearly exhausted for that 

 number of the Journal, and llicre are frequent calls for complete 

 sets from binaries in different parts of the country. Those who 

 have copies issued previous to 1905 should preserve them carefully 

 and send them to the editor unless they are intended for binding. 

 There are many of the early issues of the Journal which are now 

 exhausted, and it is getting to be difficult to make up a complete set. 



The annual meeting of the Maine Ornithological Society will 

 be held on Friday and Saturday following Thanksgiving Day, at 



