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A Quarterly Magazine Devoted to the Study and Protection of Birds 



Vol. XIII Published June, 1911 No. 2 



SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $1.00 a year; 25 cents a copy 



The Maine Ornithological Society comprises in its membership the leading 

 ornithologists and bird students of Maine. The membership is constantly in- 

 creasing and the interest in the Society was never greater than now. If you are 

 interested in birds and wish to know more about them you should by all means 

 send in jour name for membership in this Society. The dues are one dollar a 

 year, and payment of this sum entitles each person elected to membership to the 

 Journal free of charge. Application for membership should be made to the 

 Secretary, Mr. Dana VV. Sweet, Phillips, Maine. Mr. Sweet is also the Treas- 

 urer and the annual dues should be paid to him. All persons, both young and 

 old, are eligible to membership. It is not necessary for one to be versed in bird 

 lore in order to insure his election to this Society. The larger the membership 

 the more can be done in the way of improving the Journal and increasing its 

 size. Send in your name without further delay. The Society will be glad to 

 welcome you to its meetings, which are held once a year in different cities. 



The index to volumes I to XII inclusive of the Journal is 

 being put in shape for printing. The index is calculated to show 

 every specific name, scientific, common and local, every author and 

 title occurring in the first twelve volumes of the Journal, with 

 reference to every page where they occur. The index will make 

 about twenty-five printed pages of a size unifom with the Journal 

 of to-day, suitable for binding with it. The time of printing this 

 will be governed to some extent by the demand. Advance orders 

 are solicited on the basis of 50 cents per copy. These should be 

 sent to Journal, Maine Ornithological Society, 22 Elm street, 

 Portland, Maine. 



During the recent session of the Maine Legislature, the follow- 

 ing measures relating to birds were passed : 



An act creating a close time on Rider Ducks, from February 

 first to October first, with the bag and sale restrictions of the gen- 



