THE JOURNAL OF 



^he cMaine Ornithological Society. 



H (^uartcrl^ 3ournal of flDaine ©rnitboloo^, 



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

 GAINED, THESE ARE OUR OBJECTS." 



VOL. VI. 



FAIRFIELD, MAINE, APRIL, 1904. 



NUMBER 2 



^he fIDainc ©rnitbolootcal 

 Society. 



Capt. Herbert L. Spinney, 



Popham Beach, Me., 

 Prof. Leslie A. I<ee, 



Brunswick, Me., 

 Prof. Wm. Powers, 



Gardiner, Me., 

 J. Merton Swain, 



Skowhegan, Me. 

 Frank T. Noble, 



Augusta, Me., 

 Prof. A. L. Lane, 



Elast Fairfield, Me., 

 Ora W. Knight, M. Sc, 



Bangor, Me., 



President 



Vice-president 



Sec. and Treas 



Editor 



Asoc. Kditor 



Councillor 



Councillor 



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 and articles for publication should be sent to 

 J. Merton Swain, Editor and Business Manager, 

 Fairfield, Maine. 



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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. 



BOttorial Cbat. 



Bluebirds were seen the 27th. 



Our readers wiU be glad to note the 

 prospect of an early completion of 

 Knights' Birds of Maine. 



The spring arrivals are somewhat 

 later than last year. Yet at this 

 writing (Mch. 26th) a few have been 

 seen. Crows have been seen in the 

 interior for the past two weeks, and 

 today, two song sparrows were seen 

 and a flock of seven robins. The 

 winter birds are staying with us yet. 

 The 24th we saw a flock of pine gros- 

 beaks in Solon. Several good sized 

 flocks of siskins and redpolls have 

 been seen during the week, also a 

 few snowflakes. The horned larks 

 are still numerous along the country 

 roads in the Kennebec Valley. We 

 anticipate there will be quite a num- 

 ber pairs remain to breed. 



MAN'S RELATION TO THE 

 LOWER ANIMALS. 



Prof. J. Y. Stanton, Bates College. 

 [Read before the Maine Ornithological Society, Nov. 

 27, T903, at Gardiner. I 



In all the past centuries until the 

 middle of the present, men in general 

 treated animals as though they had 

 neither feeling nor intelligence nor 

 rights. Grave philosophers, the 

 Cynics and Stoics, including the great 

 Seneca, said that beasts have no 

 thought or feeling, although they 

 seemed to have. Is there any better 

 proof that animals have intelligence 

 and feeling than that they act as 

 though they had? The great Descartes 

 said that all the lower animals are 

 mere unreasoning machines, that all 

 their actions may be explained by the 

 laws of mechanism. Could this man 

 have had any acquaintance with a dog 



