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Notes and observations upon bird life within our State are earnestly desired from all our readers 

 for publication in this column, and should be sent to Louis E. Legge, 22 Dow Street, Portland, Mame. 



We note with much satisfaction the increasing frequency with 

 which the members of our society report to the Journal their 

 ornithological observations. This is an important part of our duties, 

 one to another, and should be shared in by all interested in bird 

 life. The Journal's columns are always open to contributors of 

 items of general interest relating to Maine birds, and we trust our 

 members will, through this medium, disseminate such knowledge as 

 they personally possess. 



Meadowlarks IN Androscoggin County. — In an inter- 

 view for the PortIa7id Evc7ii7ig Express of May 22, 1909, to which 

 reference was made in the Journal for December, page 124, I am 

 represented as "surprised to learn that a small colony of Meadow- 

 larks located in Auburn is the only one of the kind in Maine." I 

 certainly was surprised to learn this, for my field notes recorded that 

 Meadowlarks were fairly common — as many as thirty seen in a day 

 — within a mile north and northeast of Lewiston, from April 24th 

 to the date of the interview. It may be added that in smaller 

 numbers — five to ten in a field— I observed the Meadowlark about 

 Lewiston and in various parts of the county throughout the summer. 

 Further, the birds were fully three times as numerous in 1909 as in 

 1908. A happy result of the interview, as reported, was the bringing 

 me considerable information on the bird's distribution over the State 

 from Cumberland County to Somerset and Penobscot.—/^. D. Tubhs, 

 Lcjciston, Mc. 



Meadowlarks in Bangor. — The notes in regard to the 

 occurrence of Meadowlarks in Maine have interested me. There 

 are a good number of the birds to be seen in the vicinity of Bangor 

 during spring and summer. I know four distinct and widely 

 separated localities, none more than a mile and a half from the 

 center of the city, where I am sure to see Meadowlarks, and have 



