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prepared as a skin by the writer, when it was found to hav^e a skull 

 fracture, a little to the left of the median line, extending the length 

 of the brain case, indicating the nature of its death. It is a female, 

 showing some traces of moult, and having one ovarian ovum about 

 as large as a No. 12 shot. The previous local records seem to have 

 been but three, one l^eing a spring record. May 12, 1900 (Journ. 

 Me. Orn. vSoc, VI, p. 55). The other two were Sept. 20, 1896, 

 {Bull. 3, Univ. of Maine), and Sept. 25, 1897 (Journ. Me. Orn. 

 Soc, VI, p. 55). The present specimen considerably extends the 

 known period of Migration. 



Feeding oe the Chipping Sparrow. — On the afternoon of 

 Sunday, July jtli, while sitting on the piaz/.a at Belmont Lodge, 

 Oxford, Maine, I was much interested in watching the feeding of a 

 Chipping Sparrow that had a nest, witli young, in a willow near by. 

 It occurred to mc to time the birds in their visits, with the following 

 results. F'or the space of over half an hour a bird visited the nest 

 with food every three minutes. The exact times were 5.53, S-S^, 

 5.59, 6.03, 6.06, 6.09, 6.13, 6.16, 6.20, 6.22, 6.26, 6.29. The last 

 time both of the parent liirds were at the nest together. The after- 

 noon was very cloudy, at times with a heavy fog or rain, the wind 

 from the southeast, and light. The bird usually remained about a 



half minute on the nest. 



Edward B. Chamherlain. 



Cumberland Centre, Me., July 1907. 



A New Station for the Short-billed MaRvSh Wren in 

 Maine.^ — The writer is happy to be able to record the fact, that June 

 15th, he saw fully a hundred Short-billed Marsh Wrens scattered 

 throughout Half Moon Meadows, Glenburn. P'or fully two miles 

 along the meadows they were very abundant and the males were all 

 in full song. This is the second recorded station for this species in 

 Maine, the first one being in Bangor. 



Ora W. Knight. 



Bangor, June 15, 1907. 



