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Mark Young. 



Captain Mark Young, a Maine warden of the Audubon Socie- 

 ties, died at Matinicus, April 3, 191 1, at the age of seventy-four 

 years and five months. Captain Young was appointed in 1900 as 

 one of the first wardens in Maine, and continued his service to the 

 time of his death. His colony of Herring Gulls, numbering up- 

 wards of ten thousand, with which several other birds were asso- 

 ciated, is one of the largest, most important and interesting bird colo- 

 nies in the State. While a man of ripened years at the time of his 

 appointment, he entered into the spirit of protecting these birds with 

 the zeal and enthusiasm of a boy. He was a man of sterling quali- 

 ties. Besides those of his own community, all who have enjoyed 

 the good fortune of a visit to the remarkable colony of birds under 

 his guidance will mourn his death. 



