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Birds will respond to friendship and kindly treatment and they 

 repay with large interest and confidence the kindly sympathy we 

 extend to them. They add a rare charm to life, which can be appre- 

 ciated only by one who learns to know and to love them. 



They are busy workers destroying an almost incalculable num- 

 ber of hurtful worms, grubs and fully-grown insects, and, if they do 

 steal a cherry or a strawberry now and then, they more than repay 

 the loss by the incalculable service they render. 



We may well regard as clear gain whatever charm they add to 

 this world by their presence in it, whatever pleasure is thus added 

 to our lives, as we cherish for them the growing interest of better 

 acquaintance and fuller friendship. 



East Winthrop, Me., May 20th, 1907. 



Articles Contributing Data Bearing upon the 



Canadian Fauna in the Vicinity of 



Portland, Me. 



That several birds of northern breeding range bred at Cape 

 Elizabeth and Scarborough, Me., under favorable conditions, is a 

 fact first pointed out by Mr. Nathan Clifford Brown in 1879.^ In 

 this paper Mr. Brown mentioned the Magnolia and Blackburnian 

 Warblers, the Junco and White-throated Sparrow, indicating their 

 relative abundance. 



In 1882'-, he added (List of Birds of Portland and Vicinity) the 

 Golden-crowned Kinglet, Solitary Vireo, and Olive-sided Fly- 

 catcher^ to the breeding list, and mentioned the probable breeding 

 of the Yellow-rumped Warbler. 



Attention was called in 1897^ to the extension of the spruce 

 woods fully to Cape Elizabeth, from more eastern sections of Maine. 



iBrown, BulL Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. IV, pp. 106, 107. 



^Brown, Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. II, pp. 5, 7, 10, IS. 



"Norton, Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. II, p. 100. 



