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Just after my arrival, two men came into the station to ssLy that a 

 "big" White Owl, had flown across the track and gone down on the 

 marsh, a short distance above the road. Upon hearing this, every 

 one rushed out to see this newcomer, and perched on a hayrack 

 where he could plainly be seen, was a very large Arctic Owl. He 

 was fiercely attacked by two Crows that were feeding near by, and 

 flew hither and thither in the effort to escape from them, but, finding 

 it impossible to do so, he made for the woods, at Grand Beach, 

 closely attended by his assailants. I regretted that he was disturbed 

 by the Crows, for otherwise I should have had a better view of this 

 somewhat rare visitor, the first of his kind that I had ever seen. 



I made my way to the shore, where I found a large flock of 

 Snow Buntings, a dozen Shorelarks, and a few Crows. The tide 

 was at its lowest ebb, and scattered about the flats were companies 

 of Herring Gulls, but, although I scanned each group with my 

 glass, I did not see a single Black-backed Gull, which was rather 

 unusual. In the river, so called, and very near the shore, w^ere 

 forty or fifty Old Squaws, and a little farther away, about the same 

 number of Shelldrake. I did not see any Meadowlarks, but was 

 told that they are wintering at the Point, keeping to the lowest part 

 of the marsh except when they are driven up by very high tides, as 

 on the 26th of December, when twenty were seen near the station. — 

 Sara C. Eastman^ Portland^ Me. 



My First Record of the Goldfinch in 1910. — On New 

 Year's Day, 19 10, I saw a flock of Goldfinches feeding on the seeds 

 in the cones of larches, spruces, and cedars, on the Dr. Parcher 

 place in lillsworth. They also picked fallen seeds from the ground. 

 In the flock of thirty or more Goldfinches was one Pine Siskin. 

 They called "'per chee chee^'" and "''tseeV . — C. J. Stamvood, Ells- 

 worth, Mc. 



Doves and Pigeons of the United States. — In the 

 Journal of September, Mr. Beckett tells us that there were nine 

 species of Doves or Pigeons indigenous to our country. He 



