JOURNAI, OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 93 



An Extract from Mr. George A. Boardman's 



Journal. 



During a recent visit to Bangor, the editor had the pleasure of 

 making the acquaintance of Mr. Samuel L,. Boardman, the accom- 

 plished editor of the Bangor Commercial . Mr. Boardman is well 

 known to every member of this society, from the fact tkat he wrote 

 the excellent memoirs of the late George A. Boardman, of Calais, 

 the book being entitled "The Naturalist of the St. Croix." Mr. 

 Boardman and the eminent ornithologist of Calais were kinsmen of 

 different branches of the Thomas Boardman who came to Cam- 

 bridge, New England, in 1634, and was steward of Harvard College. 

 They were not very closely related, although they kept up visiting 

 and correspondence for many years. Mr, Boardman, in writing of 

 the life and labors of his distinguished relative, put a great deal of 

 love and hard work into the book, and it is a most creditable piece of 

 biography. Mr. Boardman possesses more or less material written 

 by George A. Boardman, and he has prepared for the current num- 

 ber of the Journal the following extract from the journal of the 

 ornithologist, which has never before appeared in print. It will be 

 read with great interest, since it gives in a peculiarly graphic way an 

 idea of the observations of Mr. Boardman from year to year during 

 the period between 1854 and 1900. 



{From Journal of George A. Boardman , of Calais.) 



