2 JOURNAI, OF MAINE OJf NITHOLOGICAI. SOCIETY. 



The name of Miss Ht ' ~ Vaujihan St., Portland. 



was presented for menifx.rship. Tl»c ballot was cast and Miss Lewis 

 declared elected. 



I'resident Lee then read a letter from Prof. Wni. L. I'owers. of 

 Gardiner, relative to a communication from Hon. L. T. Carleton in 

 regard to the discontinuation of the JofRNAi. and publishing our 

 proceedings in hi^ maga/ine. The matter was discussed at some 

 length and was tabled to come up at the Saturday session. 



Mr. Swains rcjjort as Secretary and Treasurer was th<" < iU'd 

 for. which was read and referred to the auditing committee 



Mr. Hrownson then gave his refwrt as editor on the JorRNAL. 

 He state<l that the financial condition of the Joi'RNAt. was not flat- 

 tering, and suggested that the sul»scription price be raised to $1.00. 

 On motion of Mr. Norton, it was voted to accept Mr. Krowiison's 

 rejmrl and refer it to the auditing committee ; also voted to raise 

 the price of sul>scription and associate membership to $1.00 per 

 annuni. 



.\s no other business was presented. I'resulenl Lee passed on 

 to the scientific session. 



Mr. Hrownson was called to report the Christmas bird census 

 taken last year ('05). His report was very interesting to all present, 

 and he asked as many members as possibly could to make another 

 census. Ixrginning Dec. 2\d, at daybreak, and continuing till Jan. 

 I St. at stindown. 



Mr. Arthur H. Norton was then called and gave a most inter- 

 esting pa|x;r, "Habits of Birds," which was listened to with great 

 interest. 



Mr. J. Mcrton Swain then read a paper. "A l»ay among the 

 Tcrtis, ■ which was followed by remarks and questions by the fol- 

 lowing mcml)ers: Messrs. Norton, Brown.son, Spaulding. David and 

 Prof. Lee. 



The next article on the program was a symposium on birds, 

 which was f)pened by Prcsidetit Lee. His talk on his ol>ser\ations 

 was extremely interesting and held the clo.sest attention. He spoke 

 of a trip he made Aug. 20th from Northeast Carr>* to Norcross, and 



