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Tlie Joooiel ot The lei Oroiilopal Society. 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGY. 



'^hM protection^ bird siudyj the spread of the knowledge thus ffainedj these are our objects/^ 



Vol. II. 



BANGOE, MAINE, MARCH, 1900. 



No. 



Cbe IHaine Ornitbological Society. 



Prof. W. L. Powers. Gardiner, - President 

 Capt. H. L. Spinney, Seguin, Vice-President 

 A. H. Norton, Westbroolc, - - Sec'y— Treas. 

 J. Merton Swain. Portland, - - - - Editor 

 Prof. A. L. Lane, Waterville. - - Councilor 

 O. W. Knight, Bangor, - - - - Councilor 



All subscriptions and business communications 

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

 Business JVEanager, Bangor, Maine. 



All articles for publication must be sent to the 

 Editor. 



All communications requiring an answer must 

 be accompanied bj' 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-oflfice 

 at Bangor, Maine. 



(S&Horictt. 



The latter part of February we had a 

 very pleasant visit from Mr. Knight, he 

 being in Portland and vicinity on bus- 

 iness some over a week. 



During his stay here we had, in com- 

 pany with John Lord, the taxidermist, 

 Mr. Hinds and Mr. Walter Hinds, 

 who has recently been in New Mexico 

 in search of bird life, the pleasure of a 



visit to the home of Mr. Walter Rich, 

 the printer and engraver on Exchange 

 Street, and while there were shown his 

 mounted birds, mostly shore and game 

 birds. But the best of all was his col- 

 lection of drawings, of many of our 

 New England game, shore and beach 

 birds, including many of the Ducks, 

 Grouse. Plover and Sandpipers. 



They are very fine and well worth 

 seeing, and a credit to an artist of no 

 small ability. The birds and their sur- 

 roundings are %ery natural and life-like, 

 and show a great deal of study on the 

 part of Mr. Rich. They are. by far, 

 the best drawings of birds, we ever had 

 the pleasure of examining. They will 

 compare favorably with the best bird 

 pictures that have been published by 

 our best artists in this country. It is to 

 be hoped that many of Mr. Rich's draw- 

 ings may be published in the future, 

 that the public may have the benefit of 

 such good work as Mr, Rich is capable of 

 doing. 



Tlie editor has a new sub-species on 

 his list of birds that takes considerable 

 of his time and study at present. It is 

 "Parus woodfordsi," and has been with 

 us since November. Sometimes our 

 little "Nid" goes by the name of "Chic- 

 a-dee" and at othertimes she is "Pewee" 

 (Sayornis Phoebe Portlandae). 



