JOURNAL OV MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



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Notes and observations upon bird life within our State are earnestly desired from all our readers 

 for publication in this column, and should be sent to Louis E. Leggre, 22 Dow Street, Portland, Maine. 



An Ovenbird Incubating Two Eggs. — June 14, 1910, an 

 Ovenbird was incubating two eggs. June 18th, the bird was absent 

 from the nest, but the eggs were warm. June 20th, the nest was 

 deserted. One egg appeared to have been sucked. The other was 

 so sticky that a few of the white hairs of the perpetrator of the crime 

 were glued to it. The nest was conspicuously placed in an open, 

 deciduous growth, beside a pathway and only partially roofed. On 

 the opposite side of the footway was an evergreen timber. The 

 structure was rather loosely constructed of beech and maple leaves, 

 a little Hypnum schreberi, fern moss, a few pine needles, and a little 

 hay. It was lined with leaves and a few horsehairs. The eggs 

 were marked with rufous brown and chestnut. They were slightly 

 spotted all over ; one was wreathed around the larger end with dots, 

 the other had the spots on the crown. I discovered the nest by 

 hearing the bird fly as I was walking in the woods. While I was 

 searching for a possible nest, the bird flew back and forth among the 

 trees, but uttered no sound. — Cordelia J. Stamvood, Ellsworth, Mr. 



Early Arrival of the Winter Yellowlkgs (Totanus 

 Havipes). — I saw a Winter Yellowlegs to-day, the first arrival here 

 this year, April 7, 19 10. — Fred S. Walker, Pine Point, Maine. 



A Eate Meadowlark at Gouldsborough . — While at 

 Corea, in the town of Gouldsborough, Maine, early in November, 

 1910, I saw a Meadowlark on the nth, 12th and 13th. It usually 

 fed on a sea beach, and was wild, rising and taking a wide circle to 

 some other place, but soon returned to its piece of beach. Though 

 I remained until November 15th, it was not seen after the 13th. — 

 . Xrthur //. Norton, Portland, Maine. 



Eatk Nesting ok the Hermit Thrush. — August 15, 1910, 

 I found a Hermit Thrush's nest with three eggs. The nest was in 



