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Phalaropes Near Campobello Island, New Bruns- 

 wick. — On July 25, 1907, I was one of the passengers on the 

 steamer Calvin Austin, bound from Portland to Eastport and other 

 points on the Bay of Fundy. The day dawned with a light south 

 breeze, drizzling rain and light fog. Eastport was approached by 

 way of Grand Manan channel and Head Harbor passage. Fre- 

 quently, while running Grand Manan channel, flocks of twenty-five 

 and upwards of small birds were seen circling low over the water, 

 in a westerly direction. These we were unable to identify to our 

 complete satisfaction, though believing them to be Phalaropes. 

 After leaving East Ouoddy Head, a half mile astern, flocks of 

 scores, then hundreds, finally thousands and thousands of undoubted 

 Phalaropes first appeared circling about, then began rising before 

 us, until a solid mass extended from near our starboard (north) bow, 

 as far as we could discern them in the gray light, and thus they 

 surged onward until India Island was approached, when they swept 

 away to the northward, passing or circling to the astern of that 

 island. The explanation of this gathering, which Mr. C. H. Clark, 

 of Eubec, informed me was not unusual, is, that the birds find their 

 feeding ground in the eddy formed by the meeting currents from 

 Cabscook Bay, St. Croix River and Passamaquoddy Bay, between 

 Deer Island, with its approaches, and Campobello Island. 



Arthur H. Norton, 

 Portland, Me., August 27, 1907. 



A Cormorant Near Portland, Maine, in Summer. — On 

 June 28, 1907, while with several other gentlemen at the Hussey, a 

 sunken ledge three and a half nautical miles east-northeast of Port- 

 land Head Eight, a Cormorant flew by from the southwest, going 

 toward Jewell's Island ; this was about five o'clock P. M. It was a 

 male and I believe that it was a carbo. I am not aware that either of 

 the Shags have been observed in this section before in midsummer. 



Arthur H. Norton. 

 Portland, August 27, 1907. 



