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Albino Sparrow : — Wednesday afternoon, I saw an English 

 Sparrow which was pure white on the head, wing coverts and rump. 

 The other feathers were streaked with white. This bird was feed- 

 ing with a flock of other English Sparrows on Church street. About 

 half an hour after I saw it the first time, I again saw it on School 



street. 



Emma S. Day. 

 Gardiner, May 28. 



Some Notes prom Gardiner. — The Mockingbird {Mitius 

 polyglottiis^ Linn.) is without doubt an occasional summer resident 

 in the State of Maine. Some twenty or twenty-three years ago a pair 

 nested and reared their young in the town of Leeds. This fact 

 is certified to by four individuals who had lived for some time in 

 Louisiana, where these birds were very plentiful. One of these four 

 people had lived in Louisiana twenty years, and Mockingbirds were 

 as well known to him as Robins are to us. Mr. L. W. Robbins, of 

 Randolph, Me., believes that a pair nested near his house last sum- 

 mer. He heard one singing nearly every morning for a month, and 

 all indications pointed to nest building, although the nest could not 

 be located. The, singing ceased all at once and it was feared the 

 bird was shot. One thing, however, is certain, and that is that 

 Homer Dill, of Gardiner, Me., took a specimen near his home on 

 the morning of December 14th, 1906. The skin is now in my pos- 

 session, and has been examined by Mr. Norton, curator of the 

 Portland Society of Natural History. 



On the evening of Dec. 17th, 1906, George Otis Turner, of 

 Farmingdale, Me., hearing considerable commotion on his piazza 

 about 7 o'clock, went out to investigate, and found his cat in the act 

 of killing a Purple Gallinule. Mr. Turner rescued the bird before 

 the cat had time to injure its plumage in any way, although not till 

 after life was extinct. It is now in my collection for verification of 

 this record. 



At the time of the great storm, April 9, 1907, about fifteen 

 inches of snow fell here in Gardiner. Fox Sparrows, Juncos, Tree 



