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Hoary and Common, about one-fourth of the number being the 

 Hoary. They remained about the low wet places and devoted most 

 of their time to feeding, seeming to have ravenous appetites. 



Piping Plover. — August ist I had the good fortune to secure a 

 fine specimen of this species, and it is the only one I have seen since 

 I have been observing the birds. Careful observers report this l)ird 

 as very rare. This specimen was shot on the sand beach near this 

 village. The taxidermist, who does about all the work of that kind, 

 and, who is a careful bird student, said that this was the first of this 

 species he had seen. 



Pomerine Jaeger. — July 14th I had the good fortune to secure 

 one of these interesting birds. It was a male bird in fine plumage 

 and was shot on the beach in this town, which makes it doubly inter- 

 esting as they are rarely seen except at sea. 



Bluebird. — Last 3'ear there was quite a scarcity of Bluebirds in 

 this section and it seemed as if their number was diminishing, but I 

 have just returned from a trip through the eastern and northern 

 parts of this county, and was pleased to find them more numerous 

 than they have been for several years, every township having a 

 good sized colony. 



Whooping Szt'an.^li may be of interest to some of our readers 



to know that the Whooping Swan referred to in a previous number of 



the Journal, as being the only one of the species captured in the 



United States, and at that time being in my collection, has been 



sold to the John Lewis Childs museum. Floral Park, N. Y., which 



contains the largest collection of North American birds in the world. 



Clarence H. Clark. 

 Lubec, Me., Aug. 12, 1907. 



Lincoln's Sparrow {Melospiza lincohii) at Portland. — Mr. 

 Arthur H. Norton contributes to the Auk for Jul3\ 1907, the follow- 

 ing note: On June i, 1907, Mr. Nathan Clifford Brown brought, 

 and donated to the Society of Natural History, a perfectly fresh 

 specimen of Lincoln's Sparrow. It was found dead by Mr. Brown 

 on Congress street, the principal thoroughfare of Portland. It was 



