JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



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A Quarterly Mageizine Devoted to the Study and Protection of Birds 



Vol. IX 



Published September 1, 1907 



No. 5 



SUBSCRIPTION RATES: SLOO a year; 25 cents a copy 



OFFICERS OF TBE MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Pres., Prof. Leslie A. Lee, Brunswick 

 Vice-Pres. Dr. H. H. Brock, Portland 

 Sec.-Treas., J. Merton Swain, Farmington 

 Councillors, Capt. H. L. Spinney, Seguin 

 Ora W. Knight, Bangor 



W. H. Brownson, Portland 

 Editor 

 Frank T. Noble, Augusta 

 Associate Editor 



In the Haunts of Swainson's Warbler. 



Dr. M. T. Cleckley. of Augusta, Georgia, has issued a neatly 

 printed pamphlet, "In the Haunts of the Swainson's Warbler," 

 with notes on migration, food, song, description of bird, its nest 

 and eggs, etc., illustrated by photos of nests and eggs. An adver- 

 tisement of the pamphlet appears in the advertising columns of the 

 Journal. Dr. Cleckley discovered a collection of nests of these 

 rare Warblers on May 30, 1903, in a swamp near his home at 

 Augusta, Georgia, and later he pursued his investigations in a 

 neighboring swamp in South Carolina. The Doctor is an enthusias- 

 tic egg collector, and in the course of five seasons he has secured 

 seventy-three eggs, most of which, he remarks, are the pride of his 

 Oological Collection. It is judged that the Doctor has sets of these 

 rare eggs for sale or exchange, and any readers of the Journal who 

 are interested should correspond with him. Most of the nests that 

 he discovered were built in cane brakes, but a few were found in 

 vines and bushes, all situated in the depth of wet and almost im- 

 passable swamps. 



