JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL .SOCIETY. 77 



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A Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of Birds 



Vol. VII Published December 1, 1905 No. 4 



SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 50 cents a year; 15 cents a copy 



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, Gapt. H. L. Spinney, Seguin Associate Editor 

 Ora W. Knight, Bangor 



The closing number of volume VII of the Maine Journal is 

 issued promptly at the time it is due, and the day of publication 

 coincides with the first day of the annual meeting of the Maine 

 Ornithological Society, held in Portland this year in the rooms of the 

 Portland Society of Natural History. The members will find that 

 the editors have done all that was possible with the facilities 

 afforded them. It has been difficult to induce our trained observers 

 of birds to give the Journal the result of their investigations. 

 During the coming year, if the Journal is to be continued, it will be 

 necessary for each member to contribute something to these columns, 

 even if it is nothing more than a brief note telling when the first 

 Bluebird came in the spring or when the last Warbler was seen in 

 the fall. If we all take hold in earnest we can make the Maine 

 Journal one of the most interesting publications in its class in the 

 country. If the whole burden of providing matter is left to the 

 editors then the Journal will not fairly represent the vSociety. This 

 is a subject which the editor hopes to discuss with the members at 

 the present annual meeting. 



Some means of better financial support must l)e provided if the 

 Maine Journal is to be continued. If every member paid his dues 

 promptly and if every subscriber sent in his cash at the first of the 

 year there would be no need of this appeal. At present the printer 

 is unpaid for the last two numbers and the deficit must l)e ]irovided 

 by the Society. 



