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Tlie \mA ol Tlie laioe Onilliolopal Society, 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGY. 



^'hM proteotioBj bird study, the spread of the knowledge tbusgainedj these are out objects/ 



Vol. II. BANGOR, MAINE, 



JANUARY, 



III 



1900. 



No. 1 



Cbe niaine Ornitbolodical Societv. 



Prof. W. L. Powers, Gardiner, 

 Capt. H. L. Spinney, Seguin, 

 A. H. Norton, Westbrook, - 

 J. Merton Swain, Portland, 

 Prof. A. L. Lane, Waterville, 

 O. W. Knight, Bangor, - - 



President 



Vice-President 



Sec'y— Treas. 



- - - Editor 



■ - Councilor 



Councilor 



All subscriptions and business communications 

 should be sent to O. W. Knight. Publisher and 

 Business Manager, Bangor, Maine. 



All articles for publication must be sent to the 

 Editor. 



All communications requiring an answer must 

 be accompanied by stamps to prepay the reply. 



subscription. 

 25 Cts. per Year. Single number, 10 Cts. 

 Advertising rates furnished on application. 



Entered as second class matter at the post-office 

 at Bangor, Maine. 



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One year has rolled by and our little 

 Journal, with this issue, enters the field, 

 on its second year's work. That it has 

 been a success, as well as a welcome 

 visitor to the homes of all our nienibers 

 and readers, no one will dispute. Its 

 success in the future, fellow-members, 

 depends upon each and every one of us. 

 Let us, each one, feel our responsibility, 



and work together, and build up our 

 society to that standard, which shall 

 rank well with similar societies in our 

 sister States, and that we may publish a 

 Journal that will be hailed with joy 

 throughout our broad laud. Let us 

 make it a Journal that bird-students and 

 bird-lovers will feel the need of, and 

 thus acquire a wide circulation. Our 

 annual meeting was a very pleasant and 

 profitable one. The one thing lacking, 

 was the presence of some of our promi- 

 nent officers, members and workers. 

 Circumstances may, sometimes, prevent 

 our attending the annual meeting, but 

 let us so far as is possible, lay our plans 

 carefully, and make it a point to be 

 there promptly, ready to do our part of 

 the work, even if but a small pait. 

 That we may help make the meeting a 

 success and impress on the minds of the 

 visitors, that we are a society deeply in 

 earnest, working for a good cause, as 

 well as an interesting one, and that we 

 fulfil what we promise to the public, 

 when we invite them into our meetings. 

 The members are earnestly requested to 

 contribute notes and items of news, and 

 original articles, that we may fill out our 

 twelve pages and that our "hopper" 

 may be full, and that each number may 

 be of special interest and full of good 

 things, and thus cause a desire on the 

 part of the readers, to have our Journal 

 enlarged and made better in the future. 



