THE JOURNAL OF 



^he cMaine Ornithological Society. 



a (^uarterl^ Sournal of (TDaine ©rnitbolog^. 



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

 GAINED, THESE ARE OUR OBJECTS." 



VOL. VI. 



FAIRFIELD, MAINE, OCTOBER, 1904. 



NUMBER 4 



Z\)c flDaine ©rnttbolooical 

 Society. 



Capt. Herbert L. Spinney, 



Popham Beach, Me.' 

 Prof. Leslie A. Lee, 



Brunswick, Me., 

 Prof. Wm. Powers, 



Gardiner, Me., 

 J. Merton Swain, 



Skowhegan, Me. 

 Frank T. Noble, 



Augusta, Me., 

 Prof. A. L,. I,ane, 



Hinckley, Me., 

 Ora W. Knight, M. Sc, 



Bangor, Me., 



President 



Vice-president 



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. 



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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. 



BMtorfal Cbat. 



We have seen but few winter birds 

 in the state thus far. A few flocks of 

 Snowflakes and Tree Sparrows are 

 about all that have come under our 

 observation. 



Our esteemed friend and fellow 

 member, Mr. Frank M. Richards of 

 Farmington, tells us that he has come 

 to regard the Red-headed Wood- 

 pecker, Alelanerpes eryihrocephalus^ 

 (Linn.) as a not uncommon visitor in 

 Franklin county, having had several 

 specimens brought to him to mount, 

 and has had several observers report 

 seeing the bird about his locality. 



We regret that the Journal comes 

 to you again late. Yet we believe it 

 is "better late than never." We 

 hope to transpose the above for Vol. 

 VII to "better never late." A full 

 report of the ninth annual meeting 

 will be given in the January number. 

 Please note in another column Prof. 

 Knights' notice relative to the revis- 

 ed edition of "The Birds of Maine." 

 We hope to see its early completion, 

 and trust our members and subscrib- 

 ers will be pleased that it is to be a 

 more elaborate edition than was at 

 first planned for. 



Capt. Spinney writes: "I have a 

 Greater Snow Goose, Cheit hyperborea 

 nivalis (Forst.), the second bird for 

 the State. It was taken at Back Riv- 

 er, an estuary of the Kennebec river, 

 in Georgetown, Me., Apr. 25, 1903, 

 by Winfield Todd, and is now in my 

 collection. It is a male bird in first- 

 class plumage and was alone when 

 taken." He also states : The Amer- 



