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JOURNAL OF MAINK ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



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I i The poplar stump, the abode of the second 



family of Chickadees, was excavated to about the 

 depth of ten inches. The lining consisted of fern 

 down, fern moss, and hairlike fibres of cedar bark. 

 The mouth of the nest measured one by one and one- 

 half inches. The stump was two and three-eighths 

 inches in diameter. It looked as 

 if it were excavated to the bark at 

 the bottom. The bark was not 

 more than one-eighth of an inch 

 thick. A vertical section of this 

 nest was not unlike that of a pouch 

 drawn in at the top. (Fig. 2.) 

 In the first nest the wood was so 

 badly decayed I think it was im- 

 possible to remove any without 

 removing all. In the second the 

 wood was comparatively firm. 

 The nest reminded me of a Woodpecker's, as I 

 have said before, except that in all Woodpecker's 

 nests I have found the entrance has been on the 

 side, the tree trunk forming the roof. The en- 

 trance to the Chickadee's abode was in the roof. 

 It was also smaller than a Woodpecker's nest. 



^ Fig. 2. 



Fig. 1. 



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Fifteenth Annual Meeting. 



The fifteenth annual meeting of the Maine Ornithological Soci- 

 ety convened at Portland, Nov. 25, 1910, in the lecture room of the 

 Portland Society of Natural History. 



Vice-President, J. M. Swain, called the meeting to order. 



Mr. Arthur Norton read a letter of greeting from the President, 

 Dr. H. H. Brock, who was unable to be present on account of 

 illness. 



