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a few extracts from notes furuished by W. A. Lee & W. E. 

 McLain, aucl iufonnatioii received from E. F. Gobi), regarding 

 birds found at New Vineyard and Rangeley respectively. 



Hancock : E. F. Murcb lists 70 species found in tbe vicinity of 

 Ellsworth, and A. G. Dorr of Bucksport reports 103 from his local- 

 ity ; O. W. Knight gives notes regarding many of the seabirds 

 which are found breeding among the islands along the coast. 



Kennebec : The Gardiner Branch of the United Ornithologists of 

 Maine has reported on the birds of this county ; the recoi'ds of the 

 rarer species are credited to the individuals responsible for them, 

 while the others are credited to the Branch ; the members of which 

 are, William L. Powers, Clara M. Burleigh, Sadie M, Jewett, 

 Mallian Reed, Lillian Holmes, Martha Webster, Lizzie Church, 

 Austin P. Larrabee, Homer Dill, Maurice Royal, Fred Dill, Ralph 

 Hunt, George Royal, Harold Peacock, Lincoln Harlow, Harold 

 Giddings, Ralph Harden, Charles Austin, George Dow, Edmund 

 Welch, Eben Haley, L. M. Sanborn and L. W. Robbins ; addi- 

 tional records are taken from Prof. Hamlin's "List of the Birds of 

 Waterville." 



Knox : Fred Racklift' of Spruce Head lists 205 species from the 

 county, and A. H. Norton adds 10 more; it is probable that some 

 of the former's notes regarding the presence of certain sandpipers 

 and allied birds in summer, refer to their return from the north in 

 late July and early August, and do not imply that they are present 

 throughout the entire summer. 



Lincoln : This county is represented by a few records taken from 

 various publications, no observer having been found who was will- 

 ing to furnish a county list. We may safely say that the birds of 

 this small county are identical with those found in Knox on the 

 east and Sagadahoc on the west. 



Oxford : J. Waldo Nash of Norway lists 164 species, and E. E. 

 Johnson reports on <S9 found near P^ast Hebron ; a few notes from 

 Maynard's "List of the Birds of Coos County, New Hampshire, and 

 Oxford County, Maine," are used as are some from Verrill's "List 

 of the Birds of Norway," (Maine). 



Penobscot: O. W. Knight gives an annotated list of 155 species 

 found in the southern part of the county, and Manly Hardy adds 

 notes on 24 of the rarer birds ; Granville Gray of Oldtown adds 

 4 species to the list. 



