JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



for farther investigation and settlement. 

 Prof. Lee, Chairman of the Committee 

 on Anatomy, reported some progress had 

 been made during the past year, but no 

 report was ready as yet. IJy his request 

 the same committee was re-appointed to 

 continue the work the coming year. 

 The Committee on resolutions made the 

 following report : 



Resolved, That the thanks of the 

 Society are due and are hereby tendered 

 to the Faculty of Bowdoin College, for 

 the use of the Searles Biological Labor- 

 atory and especially to Professors Lee 

 and Little, who made the meeting pleas- 

 ant and successful, and to the Maine 

 Central Railroad for reduced rates. 



Signed, A. H. Norton, L. A. Lee, A. 

 P. Larrabee. 



This report was accepted and adopted. 



'I'he committee on work for the ensu- 

 ing year, reported : Recommending the 

 family of Warblers as a special study, 

 and requesting that every member pre- 

 pare notes and bring them, or send them 

 to our next annual meeting, with what- 

 ever specimens or photos they may have 

 bearing on this subject of study. 



Signed, J. M. Swain, Mrs. A. IT. 

 Norton, E. E. Johnson. 



This report was accepted and adopted. 



The matter of holding a summer meet- 

 ing was then discussed favorably, and 

 voted to be placed in the hands of the 

 Executive Committee for action. 



The name of Howard J. Noble of 

 Lewiston, was proposed and he was 

 elected as an active member. Prof. 

 Lee spoke in favor of holding our next 

 annual meeting in Lewiston. After dis- 

 cussion as to when the next Annual be 

 held, Prof. Lane recommended holding 

 it near the time of the meeting of the 

 Maine Pedigogical Society. 



The meeting was then opened to the 

 public and the following papers read : 



On the Perfected Plumage of the King- 

 Eider Duck, written by A. H. Norton, 

 read by Mrs. A. H. Norton of West- 

 brook; a contribution to the Life Hist- 

 ory of Leach's Petrel, by Arthur H. 

 Norton. The reports of the families 

 studied the past year were then taken 

 up, viz. : The Anatidie, Hirundinidai 

 and Turdid*. A paper was read : 

 Notes on the Geese, Ducks, Swans, 

 Swallows and Thrushes, by J. Mertou 

 Swain of Portland. Notes on Birds in 

 Region of Lake Umbagog, by A. P. 

 Larrabee, of Gardiner. A Phoebe's 

 Summer, by C. H. Morrell, of Pittsfield, 

 read by Prof. Lee. Notes on subject 

 of Study for the past year, by E. E. 

 Johnson, of Lewiston. 



It was then voted, that the papers 

 read be placed in the hands of the editor 

 for publication in the Journal. 



The meeting then was adjourned 

 sine-die. 



Austin P. Larrabee, Sec. Pi'o-tem. 



Some Birds of Sunshine and Vicinity. 



ORA W. KNIGHT. 



(Concluded.) 

 Leach's Petrel. Oceanodroma leti- 

 corhoa (Vieill). The "Cary Chickens" 

 breed only on the outer and most inac- 

 cessible islands. Seal Island is the 

 great headquarters of this species, and 

 for a mild estimate I should say that 

 between two thousand and five thousand 

 pair nested there annually. On Little 

 Spoon there are perhaps five hundred 

 pair of breeding birds. On Green Is- 



