Ube Journal ot 



TJhe /T^aine Ornithological uoc/elj/. 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGY. 



'BIRD PROTECTION, BIRD STUDY, THE SPREAD OF THE KNOWLEDGE THUS GAINED, 

 THESE ARE OUR OBJECTS." 



VOL. III. 



FAIRFIELD, MAINE, APRIL 1901. 



NO. 2. 



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/IDaine * ©ruitbolooical 

 Society?. 



•UILLIA.M L. POWERS, Gardiner, President. 

 CAPT. H. L. SPINNEY, Seguin, Vice President. 

 A. H. NORTOX, Westbrook, Secretary— Treas. 

 .1. MERTON SWAIN, Waterville, Editor. 



PROF. A. L. LANE. Waterville, CoiiuclUor. 



ORA W. KNIGHT, Bangor, Councillor. 



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 Me. 



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Sixth annual meeting to be held the Friday 

 and Saturday following Thanksgiving, 1901, at 

 State House, Augusta. 



JEMtorials. 



It is with pleasure that we are able 

 to inform our readers that the bill 

 framed by our law committee and rec- 

 ommended by our Society, has passed 

 both houses and has been signed by 

 the Governor and has become a law. 



The thanks of the members and all 

 those who have an interest in the new 

 law are due to Mr. Butcher and to Dr. 

 Palmer for their efforts and the inter- 

 est they have taken in its behalf, as 



well as to Mr. Carleton and Mr. Mead, 

 whose influence at the State House has 

 greatly aided the bill in its passage. 

 Also to Prof. Lee, who so kindly went 

 to Augusta on the day of the hearing 

 before the committee with the stere- 

 opticon to show the pictures that Mr. 

 Butcher wished to show, most of which 

 he took on the Maine coast last sum- 

 mer. Other members who were pres- 

 ent in the interest of the bill were 

 Prof. Powers, Secretary Norton and 

 "ye editor." The Committee on Bird 

 Protection hope to see some good re- 

 sults from the new law the coming sea- 

 son. 



The Horned Larks were first noted 

 on Feb. 21st. One individual was seen 

 near Liberty, in Waldo Co. This one 

 was, without much doubt, Praticola. 

 The next flock I saw in Lincoln Co., 

 near Alna, on Feb. 27th. Small flocks 

 have been quite common since. I have 

 observed them in Kennebec, Somerset, 

 Piscataquis, Knox, Lincoln, Waldo and 

 Franklin Co's. From careful examina- 

 tions made with the field glass, I am 

 of the opinion that the larger part of 

 the birds I've noted were Praticola. 

 On one bright, pleasant day while in 

 Waldo Co. I heard some very pleasing 

 musical bird notes, which much resem- 

 bled the suppressed medley often made 

 by Carpodacus purpureus. I immedi- 

 ately made search, expecting to find 

 the Purple Finch, when I discovered 

 three Horned Larks feeding in the mid- 



