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A Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of Birds 



Vol. VII Published March 1, 1905 No. 1 



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OFFICERS OF THE MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Pres , Prof. Leslie A. Lee, Brunswick W. H. Brownson, Portland, 

 Vice-Pres.. Dr. H. H. Brock, Portland Editor 



Sec.-Treas., J. Merton Swain, Skowhegan Frank T. Noble, Augusta, 

 Councillors, Capt. H. L. Spinney, Seguin Associate Editor 



Ora W. Knight, Bangor 



Mr. Rutliven Deaiie, of Chicago, is becoming almost a Maine 

 ornithologist, since he spends his summers in Scarboro and naturally 

 takes a lively interest in the bird life which he finds there in con- 

 siderable variety. Mr. Deane is one of the leading members of the 

 American Ornithologists' Union, and it is therefore quite an acquisi- 

 tion to this State to have the advantage of his observations. 

 Among the matters of special import, of which he has written from 

 time to time to the editor, are the finding of a pair of Myrtle War- 

 blers nesting in Scarboro in the summer of 1903, and the noting of a 

 small flock of Old Squaws along that coast during the summer 

 months. He has contril^uted to the January number of the Auk a 

 valuable account of seeing a Turkey Vulture in Scarboro during 

 the summer of 1904. He says : "While driving at Scarboro Beach, 

 Maine, on Aug. 3, 1904, my attention was directed to a large bird 

 flying over the woods several hundred j^ards back from the road. I 

 at first took it to be an eagle, but at second glance the characteristic 

 sailing of the bird, with ti])S of wings raised, left no doubt as to its 

 identity. The Buzzard crossed the road behind us, circling over 

 the salt marshes of the lyibby river, and finally recrossed the road 

 directly over our carriage and sufficiently near for us to distinctly 

 see the crimson head and neck." In the Auk Mr. Deane states that 



