Tlie Jfliifiial oi Tlie 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF MAINB ORNITHOLOGY. 



'''Bird protectioiij bird siudyj the spread of the knowledge thusffainedj these are our objects/ 



Vol. II. 



BANGOR, MAINE, OCTOBER, 1900. 



No. 



Cbe IHame OrnitbologkaJ Society. 



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

 Capt. H. L. Spinney, Seguin, Vice-Prej-ideut 

 A. H. XORTOX, Westbrook, - - Scc'y— Treas. 

 J. Merton Savain, Portland, - - - - Editor 

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

 O. W. liJs'iGHT, Bangor, - - - - Councilor 



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Having been in Waterville every Mon- 

 day during the summer, I had the 

 pleasure of watching the Swallows cir- 

 cling about and going to their roost, in 

 a large tract of willows on an island, 

 just below the bridge in the Kennebec 

 River. 



My attention was called to this roost 

 and strange manoeuvres of the Swallows 



by Mr. Rates, early in August. Mrs. 

 Bates has described this interesting phe- 

 nomena, in the Auk, a few years ago. 



Thousands of Martins and Barn 

 Swallows, and I think a few Cliff Swal- 

 lows and Swifts, were seen circling 

 about the willows, going to roost, about 

 dusk. The noise made by this countless 

 number of Swallows can not easily be 

 described. In my notes on the Swal- 

 lows for '90, in the July number of the 

 Journal, I remarked on the scarcity of 

 the Swallows about Farmington. Now 

 I have learned where the Swallows were. 

 They must have been congregated in 

 Waterville, perhaps holding a special 

 Swallow congress. 



The Terns along the Maine Coast 

 seem to have fared well under the pro- 

 ted ion given them by the committee of 

 the A. O. U., as they have been unusual- 

 ly plenty this summer and fall. Capt. 

 Spinney writes me, he saw more Tern 

 in one day in August, than he had seen 

 altogether in the past three or four 

 yenrs. 



Capt. Spinney writes me, he has a 

 female Marbled God wit, taken at Pop- 

 ham Beach, Sept. 13th, after a search of 

 eighteen years for it. He has also the 

 Hudsonian, taken at the same place. 

 He states that the latter is not rare 

 there. 



