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nishing it. Prof. Lee, our president, had partly written sonic bird 

 notes, but did not find time to complete them. Prof. W. L. Powers 

 was asked to send something, but the letter reached him just as he 

 was starting for Seguin to spend a week with our ex-president, 

 Capt. Spinney, and after that it is easily understood that he found 

 laliors enough to keep him l)usy from morning to night. For the 

 December Journal there will be additional solicitations, and it is to 

 be hoped that the editor will not be obliged then to furnish practi- 

 cally all the matter. 



ltr^ Nntf0. 



Notes and observations upon bird life within our State are earnestly desired from all our readers 

 for publication in this column, and should be sent to the Associate Editor, Frank T. Noble, Augusta, 

 Maine. 



A Third Cumberland County Specimen of the Caspian 

 Tern. — While recently examining the collection of Mr. J. A. Cool- 

 broth, ni}' attention was called to a Caspian Tern in full nuptial 

 ]ilumage. It was secured by Mr. Coolbroth several years ago near 

 Richmond's Island, Cape Elizabeth, Me. 



This is the third Cumlicrland Count}' specimen known to be 

 extant, one an immature bird from the same locality, being in the 

 collections of the Portland Society of Natural History, Proc. Port. 

 Soc, Vol. II, p. 104, and one in full nuptial plumage taken in 

 Casco Bay, being in the museum of Bowdoin College, Journal Me. 

 Ornith. Soc, Vol. IV, p. 3. A. H. Norton. 



Wilson\s TiiRTiSii — Cowp.ird. — The associate editor observed 

 this spring an unusual abandonment of a nest by a Wilson's Thrush 

 {Titrdus fiisccsccns) , owing to a Cowbird having deposited an egg 

 therein. 



On June jst, an exceedingly fine, though somewhat exposed, 



, nest of this Thrush was found upon a side hill on the outskirts of 



Augusta. The female was on the nest, and upon being flushed two 



eggs were seen, but in no way disturbed, neither did we loiter in 



the vicinity. 



