Ube journal of 



uhe 9//aine Ornitholoffical oocietj/. 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGY. 



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

 THESE ARE OUR OBJECTS." 



VOL. III. 



FAIRFIELD MAINE, JULY, 1901. 



NUMBER 3. 



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/IDalne ^ ©rnitbolooical 

 Society. 



WILLIAM L. POWERS, Gardiner, President. 

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

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

 J. MERTON SWAIN, Falrfleld, Editor. 



PROF. A. L. LANE, Watorville, Councillor. 



ORA W. KNIGHT, Bangor, Councillor. 



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Sixth annual meeting to be held the Friday 

 and Saturday following Thanksgiving, 1901, at 

 State House, Augusta. 



locality this season, but no amount of 

 patient research has brought the nest 

 to light. A pair, also, ai'e nesting in 

 Wiuslow, but I am not able, with the 

 limited time I have, to locate the nest. 



John Lord, the Portland taxidermist, 

 has an adult female Yellow Crowned 

 Night Heron, taken April 13, at Back 

 Bay, Portland harbor. While in his 

 rooms, recently, I had the pleasure of 

 examining the bird. It is a fine plu- 

 maged bird, and is the first record of 

 its occurrence in the State. He also 

 has an adult fematle Caspian Tern, 

 taken at Clapboard Island, Casco Bay, 

 Me., May 11. It is a perfect plumaged 

 bird, and it has been finely mounted. 

 Prof. Lee is to have this bird for the 

 Bowdoin College collection. Records 

 of this bird's occurrence in the State 

 have been few. A specimen was taken 

 at Richmond Island, Cape Elizabeth, 

 Me., in '95. (Cf. Norton, Proc. Port. 

 Soc. Nat. His. April 1, '97, P. 104.) 



jEMtorials. 



Last spring, while driving from 

 Athens to Hartland, in Somerset coun- 

 ty, on my regular three weeks' trip, 

 on the "warpath," I observed the 

 Mourning "Warbler, evidently nesting. 

 A pair have been observed in the same 



Capt. Spinney writes, "I never saw 

 so small flight of small birds as the 

 past spring has brought. Even the 

 Sparrows were limited." He took a 

 little blue heron at Popham Beach, 

 Me., May 19, a female, and the ovaries 

 indicated that the bird would have 



