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die of the road a short way off, and oc- 

 casionally giving vent to a soft, warb- 

 ling, ventriloquil sound. I approached 

 them quietly and they allowed me to 

 get within a few feet of them, and with 

 the field glass I decided they were of 

 the Prairie variety. 



The Crow reached the interior of the 

 State on "town meeting day" (Mch. 4), 

 and have been quite common since. 

 Two small flocks of Siskins were seen 

 on March 12th, the only ones seen for 

 the winter. Capt. Spinney writes me 

 that the land birds have been unus- 

 ually scarce all winter on the island. 

 That it has been the most lonesome, 

 dreary winter he has ever spent on the 

 island. He has only seen a few Snow- 

 flakes for land birds for over three 

 months. He mentions seeing a few 

 Horned Grebes and says they are of 

 unusual occurrence of late. He also 

 mentions a beautiful pair of Pintails 

 and a pair of the Baldpate from Pop- 

 ham Beach, shot late in November. 

 He is waiting anxiously to hear the 

 pleasing song of the Song Sparrow, 

 which is expected daily. 



An interesting letter, dated March 4, 

 from Mr. Ruthven Deane, of Chicago, 

 (President of the 111. Audobon Society, 

 also a prominent member of the A. O. 

 IJ. and a jolly, good fellow in general) 

 stating that he learned that the Brown 

 Pelican captured at Bar Harbor, 

 whose photo, from life, flgures on the 

 Jan. No. of the Journal (See Dill, Jan. 

 No. Vol. Ill, page 15), was originally 

 brought from South America on board 

 a ship and escaped from Castine. 

 Several members of our Society have 

 mentioned this fact. 



NOTES FROM HANCOCK COUNTY. 



Philadelphia Vireo, in the 'List of the 

 Birds of Maine,' is brief, it may be of 

 interest to hear that, unless I am mis- 

 taken, wo have this bird breeding with 

 us in Bucksport. I have been watching 

 a nest for some time, but thinking it 

 might be, possibly, only a Redeye, I 

 did not quite dare call it the rarer bird, 

 until the evident yellow tint of the un- 

 der iJarts, the lack of the dark line at 

 the edge of the crown, and as one be- 

 comes more familiar with it, the differ- 

 ence in the song lead me to think such 

 was the case. I would like to add, too, 

 to our Hancock county list, a few other 

 birds. The Crested Flycatcher, I saw 

 last year and this season also. With a 

 number of others, I saw in the garden 

 belonging to the Moses greenhouses, 

 last March 21, a Mourning Dove. Last 

 June I spent the best part of one day 

 watching a Cape May Warbler, feeding 

 tiny birds which could hardly have 

 been out of the nest more than a few 

 hours. 



With us, the Solitary Vireo seems 

 unusually plenty this season and Bobo- 

 links are more plenty than last year. 



I am glad to know you are doing so 

 much to protect the birds of our State." 

 AUGUSTA GARDNER. 



Bucksport, June 27, 1900. 



HOW WE ADDED BOB WHITE TO 

 OUR BRIDGTON LIST. 



A Paper Before the Maine Ornitholog- 

 ical Society, at Lewiston, Dec. 22, 

 1900. 



From an interesting letter written by 

 Mrs. W. H. Gardner, we quote the fol- 

 lowing: "As I find the data upon the 



By this time the members must 

 know that I can never make a strictly 

 straightforward, scientific statement. 

 If I could I should simply write "On 

 July 6th, 1897, I observed at North 

 Bridgton, Cumberland Co., Maine, a 

 Bob White, Colinus Virginianus (Linn) 

 and not write all the way around Rob- 

 in Hood's barn. But to me, attending 



