8o JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SCIKTY. 



The Meadowlark in Bangor. — Having tried for several 

 years to locate the Meadowlark near Bangor, I have this year been 

 rewarded for what trouble I have been to, and in such a way as to 

 leave no room for doubt as to there being some of these beautiful 

 and useful birds in this vicinity. On Sunday, Jul}'^ loth, in com- 

 pany with Mr. Cyrus Winch, taxidermist at the University of Maine, 

 who had previously told me where he thought Meadowlarks were 

 nesting and had kindly consented to show me the place, we went to 

 a field on the outskirts of the city through which Howard Street 

 runs, and we were there but a very short time when we flushed four 

 or five birds. One of them perched in a small tree about twenty- 

 five feet from the ground, facing us, in such a good position for 

 observation as to leave no room for doubt as to their identity as 

 Meadowlarks, even by unaided vision. Nevertheless, we were care- 

 ful to use the field glasses to make sure. I think some of the birds 

 must have been young, although they appeared to be full fledged. 

 Not long after this, about the middle of July, while in conversation 

 with my friend, Mr. Leathers, who resides on Ohio Street, a short 

 distance out of the city, he told me of seeing on his place and about 

 the orchard what to him was a strange bird, and under circum- 

 stances that caused him to believe they were nesting near. From 

 the description he gave me I mistrusted they were Meadowlarks. 

 Later, on the 31st of July, after my office work was finished, I 

 boarded an electric car, and, going out to his house, was again hap- 

 pily surprised on finding four more Meadowlarks, all full grown, 

 and so near me that I did not need to use the glasses. On October 

 loth I again saw two on the Broadway road, about two miles out 

 of the city. Mr. Winch has told me of other instances of seeing 

 them this year. We were unable to procure a nest, but that there 

 are some of these birds near Bangor there is no doubt whatever. — 



A. L. Chase, Bangor, Me., Nov. 2, igio. 



