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made against the gull, has been start- 

 ed by parties who do not want the 

 gulls protected, and who. no doubt, are 

 working to get the gulls strickeli oft" 

 the list of protected birds. 



Special arrangements have been 

 made for the members to stop, while 

 attending the annual meeting, at Ho- 

 tel North (opposite the M. C. station). 

 This will be convenient for all, as it 

 is so near the station; the electrics 

 passing the hotel go directly past the 

 State House. 



Mr. Guy H. Briggs has taken two 

 more sets of albino eggs of the blue- 

 bird from the same pair of birds men- 

 tioned in the .Inly number, (see July 

 number, page 31), this making five al- 

 bino sets from the same pair in one 

 year. He also reports another nest of 

 the Pine Warbler at Livermore, on 

 July 6, containing four eggs on the 

 point of hatching. 



While in Knox ccjunty, in the town 

 of Washington, near Razorville, "Ye 

 Editor" got a specimen, while not 

 ornithological, it is a rare capture, and 

 may be worth mention. On Oct. 4, in 

 the above town, I got ah animal weigh- 

 ing about forty pounds. It was new 

 to me, but on looking it up, I decided 

 it to be a male Badger (Taxidea a 

 Americanus). It was very fat and 

 gave evidence of being quite old. One 

 of our members, Mr. Manly Hardy of 

 Brewer, who is an authority on birds 

 and animals, writes me that it seems 

 hardly possible that it can be a Badg- 

 er, as he knows of no such an occur- 



rence east of the Mississippi river, and 

 suggests that if it is a Badger it might 

 beone escaped from a menagerie. Yet 

 Mr. John Turner, on whose farm it 

 was taken, says he is quite sure they 

 saw the animal near the house last 

 fall. It is being mounted by State 

 Taxidermist Homer Dill, and will 

 probably be placed in the State House 

 at Augusta. 



Our former editor. Mr. C. H. Morrill 

 of Pittsfield has just returned from a 

 summer's sojourn on the Cumb 

 Shore, in Nova Scotia. Mr. Morrill's 

 health has been poorly since last win- 

 ter. He was not able to do much work 

 among the birds, in the past spring, 

 securing only a few nest photos and 

 doing very little collecting specimens. 

 He informed your editor, Wednesday,, 

 Oct. 9, that in some ways he felt im- 

 proved since going to Nova Scotia, but 

 on account of the extreme cold of our 

 Maine winters, he started, Tuesday, 

 Oct. 15. for Southern Pines, N. C. 

 Every member of the M. 0. S. will 

 heartily join the editor in wishing Mr. 

 Morrill a pleasant winter and a 

 speedy recovery. We all will miss his 

 presence at the next meeting, but hope 

 to see him back in the spring, fully 

 restored to his former good health, 

 ready to fall into line with the return- 

 ing birds, of which he is an enthusias- 

 tic student. Mr. Morrill tells me he 

 saw very few birds while in Nova 

 Scotia, only a few of the more com- 

 mon birds. He was disappointed in 

 not seeing more of the Warblers. We 

 hope to have some notes of interest 

 from him on the birds observed dur- 

 ing his sojourn in the Soutli. 



There seems to be considerable evi- 

 dence of birds and feathers, the sale 



