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THE JOURNAL OF 



^he cMaine Ornithological Society. 



B (^uartcii^ Sournal of flDainc ©rnitbolOG^. 



BIRD PROTECTION, BIRD STUDY, THE SPREAD OF THE KNOWLEDGE THUS 

 GAINED, THESE ARE OUR OBJECTS." 



VOL. VI. 



FAIRFIELD, MAINE, JANUARY, 1904. 



NUMBER 1 



Z\)c flDainc ©rnitholoijical 

 Socict\>. 



Catt. Herhkrt I,. Spinney, 



Popham Beach, Me., 

 Trof. LESLIE A. Lee, 



Brunswick, Me., 

 Prof. Wm. Powers, 



Gardiner, Me., 

 J. Mkrton Swain, 



.Skowhegan, Me. 

 Frank T. Noble, 



Augusta, Me., 

 Prof. A. L. Lane, 



VVaterville, Me., 

 Ora W. Knight, M. Sc, 



Bangor, Me., 



President 



Vice-])res!dent 



Sec. and Treas 



Editor 



Asoc. Editor 



Councillor 



Councillor 



All subscriptions, business communications 

 and articles for publication should be sent to 

 J. Merton Swain, Editor and Business Manager, 

 Fairfield, Maine. 



All communications requiring an answer 

 must be accompanied by stamps for reply. 



SUBSCRIPTIONS. 



50 cts. per year. .Single copies 15 cts. 

 Advertising rates 25 cts. per inch each inser- 

 tion. Nothing inserted for less than 25 cts. 



Ninth annual meeting to be held the Friday 

 and Saturday following Thanksgiving, 1904, at 

 Bangor, Maine. 



Entered as second class mail matter at Fair- 

 field, Me. 



BOttodal Cbat. 



We have received notice from 

 Messrs. Dana, Estes & Co. of the com- 

 pletion of the fifth revised edition of 

 Dr. Elliott Coues' "Key to North 

 American Birds" which will be ready 



for distribution on Dec. 15. This 

 work is published in two volumes. 

 The publisher's price is: Cloth octa- 

 vo ten dollars. This is the most com- 

 plete work on birds that has ever been 

 written. 



Another year has glided swiftly by 

 and with this issue we begin Vol. VI. 

 A very pleasant and profitable meet- 

 ing was held at Gardiner and the out- 

 look is brighter for another year than 

 any year previous. We have a better 

 supply of papers on hand from the 

 annual meeting than we had last year, 

 and with the addition of an associate 

 editor, we believe we have good rea- 

 sons to anticipate a marked improve- 

 ment in Vol VI. 



Howard McAdam, a taxidermist of 

 Calais, writes me that a swan was shot 

 at Mud lake, near Crawford lake, Me., 

 Sept. 10, 1903, by Chas. S. Hunnewell 

 of Alexandria, Me. Mr. McAdam 

 mounted the bird and says he does 

 not think it a captive bird as it bore 

 no marks of captivity, that he could 

 not determine the variety, but thinks 

 it a trumpeter. Its measurements 

 were, length, 3 feet and 11.75 inches; 

 wing, 17.75 inches; extent, 5 feet, and 

 9 inches. He mentions that this bird 

 is now for sale. 



Large flocks of pine grosbeaks were 



