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A Quarterly MageLzine Devoted to the Study and Protection of Birds 



Vol. IX Published March 1, 1907 No. 1 



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The manuscript for Ora W. Knight's new book on "The Birds 

 of Maine" is practically ready and will be sent to the printer during 

 the present month. The volume will be of intense interest to all bird 

 students in the State, and can hardly fail to be very much in demand. 



The reports from members on their observations of winter birds 

 during Christmas week seem to be fully up to last year's records. 

 The thanks of the Society are due to all who have contributed so 

 freely to this department, which has come to be one of the most 

 interesting and valuable in the Journal. 



The spring migration is close at hand and it is earnestly desired " 

 that all members .send to the Journal early reports of their observa- 

 tions during April and the first half of May. Items of interest to 

 appear in the June number should be received by the editor not 

 later than May 2oth. 



In an early number of Bird- Lore a sketch of the Maine 

 Ornithological Society, written by Mr. J. Merton Swain, will appear, 

 accompanied by an excellent group photograph of members who 

 were present at the last annual meeting in Portland. In a later 

 issue of the Journal, this history of the Society will be reproduced 

 from Bird-Lore. 



"Cassinia," an annual devoted to the Ornithology of Pennsyl- 

 vania, New Jersey and Delaware, has been received from the Dela- 

 ware Valley Ornithological Club. It contains a sketch of William 

 Bartram, "A Study of the Solitary Vireo," "Summer Birds of 

 Western Pike County, Pennsylvania," "The Concordville Robin 

 and Grackle Roost," and other articles of permanent value. 



During a recent visit to Chicago, the editor of the Journal 

 spent a very pleasant morning in the Field Columbian Museum, in 

 company with Mr. Ruthven Deane. This Museum is destined to be 

 one of the leading institutions of the kind in the world. It is now 

 accommodated in the old art building of the World's Fair at Chicago, 

 but the late Marshall Field left $4,000,000 for a new building which 

 is soon to be erected, and another $4,000,000 to maintain it. The 

 collection of birds and mammals is especially large and interesting. 



