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clubs and societies. In thi.s way he has created an interest in birds 

 that in no better way could be brought about. Mr. Brownson's bird 

 articles, appearing in the Portland Daily Advertiser at intervals dur- 

 ing the summer and winter, have proven of great interest to bird 

 lovers. These articles are not only interesting but instructive, and 

 are looked forward, to by a large number of readers with much 

 pleasure. Louis E. Legge. 



Portland, Feb. 5. 



Albinism in the English Sparrow. — During the spring 

 and summer of 1906 I had a treat watching an English Sparrow 

 {Passer domesticus), which was a partial albino. The bird was a 

 female; her head was almost white, with some white spots on the 

 neck and wings. She had a nest behind the G. A. R. sign on one 

 of the brick blocks here, near the post office, and just across the 

 street from Keyes Square, where I live. I noticed her in the spring, 

 summer and up into the fall, when all at once she was seen no more. 

 The boys were shooting the sparrows with air guns, and perhaps 

 they killed her. I shall keep looking for her, and if I don't see her 

 again, if she hatched her, eggs, there may be a bird having the same 

 peculiarity. 



An amusing incident connected with this Sparrow is worth tell- 

 ing. A blacksmith, whose shop is just across the street from where 

 the Sparrow lived, was asked if he had noticed the Sparrow with 

 the white head. He replied he had seen the bird with the egg-shell 

 on its head, he having thought that the shell had stayed on the 

 bird's head since it was hatched. H. W. Jewell. 



Farmington, Jan. 16. 



HuDSONiAN Chickadee at Cape Elizabeth. — On Jan. 13, 

 1907, the Hudsonian Chickadee was discovered with a flock of 

 Black Caps. My attention was first called by a strange note which 

 I did not recognize ; I investigated and caught a glimpse of a bird, 

 but not sufficient to recognize same. I followed the flock through a 



