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A Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of Birds 

 Vol. XH Published September 1, 1910 No. 3 



SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $1.00 a year: 25 cents a copy 



The Maine Ornithological Society comprises in its member.ship the leading 

 ornithologists and bird students of Maine. The membership is constantly in- 

 creasing and the interest in the Society was never greater than now. If you are 

 interested in birds and wish to know more about them you .should by all means 

 send in vour name for member.ship in this Society. The dues are one dollar a 

 year, and payment of this sum entitles each person elected to membership to the 

 Journal free of charge. Application for memlicrship should be made to the 

 Secretary, Mr. Dana W. Sweet, Phillips, Maine. Mr. Sweet is also the Treas- 

 urer and the annual dues should l)e paid to him. All persons, both young and 

 old, are eligible to membership. It is not neces.sary for one to be versed in bird 

 lore in order to insure his election to this vSociety. The larger the membership 

 the more can be done in the way of improving the Journal and increasing its 

 size. Send in your name without further delay. The Society will be glad to 

 welcome you to its meetings, which are held once a year in different cities. 



The fifteenth annual meeting, of which notice is given on an- 

 other page, is to mark one of the important stages of the society's 

 history : the December ntimlier of the Journal will complete the 

 twelfth volume of that publication. The paper first appeared as a 

 twelve-page quarterly, of crude appearance, yet through the aid of 

 appreciative supporters and the efforts of successive editors, it has 

 been placed in excellent standing among the minor ornithological 

 papers of this country. Its financial standing to-day is better than 

 at any time during the past eight years. Yet now, as throughout 

 its history, the Journal is able to secure suitable material to fill its 

 pages only by persistent solicitation on the part of its editors. So 

 marked is the increasing difficulty of procuring material suitable for 

 publication that it has become a question for serious consideration 

 whether or not the Journal should tie continued after the present 



