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to see them wink, and it was a fine opportunity to study the positions 

 they assume. They are very wary during the nesting season for 

 the keeper told me that in the four years of his residence there he 

 has found but two eggs. There was an enormous colony of Terns 

 on a rocky island, about one hundred yards from the main island. 

 The keeper estimated the number at between five thousand and six 

 thousand. I saw many birds during the trip to the Seal Island. A 

 Jaeger flew quite near to the boat, also a Sooty Shearwater. Four 

 or five small bunches of Phalaropes were seen. I was quite sur- 

 prised to observe a Black Tern among the birds in the Tern colony, 

 but was not able to get very near it. Leach's Petrel was breeding 

 on the island, but a couple of dogs were making sad havoc among 

 them, quite a number of dead birds being seen lying near the nest 



holes. 



Allan L. Moses. 

 Grand Manan, N. B., August 25, 1908. 



Portland Bird Notes. — July 28th, I made a trip to Outer 

 Green Island and proceeded from there to Bluff Island. For several 

 years Common Terns have not bred on Outer Green Island, but this 

 year a small colony numbering perhaps three hundred birds have 

 spent the summer there, and have bred to a considerable extent. 

 Upwards of a dozen nests with eggs were found on the rocks on the 

 highest part of the island. One or two Ruddy Turnstones were 

 seen flying from Outer Green Island to Junk of Pork. On the way 

 from Outer Green Island to Bluff Island, we ran across a flock of 

 thirty or forty Northern Phalaropes, this being an unusually early 

 date for them to be as far west as this. On Bluff Island the colony 

 of Common Terns has considerably increased over last year. Then 

 it was estimated that two thousand birds were living there, but this 

 year it seemed certain that there were three thousand birds. Later 

 in the season after the young birds were all on the wing the greater 

 part of the colony could be seen almost any day on the sandbar 

 between Pine Point and Prout's Neck, and it was evident from the 

 size of the flocks there that the number of birds was fully up to the 

 above estimate. When I visited Bluff Island the 28th of July, the 



