INTRODUCTION IX 



Lincoln: No observer reporting, records being given from 

 a few notes appearing in various publications, but the fauna 

 of this small county does not differ from that of the neighbor- 

 ing counties, Sagadahoc and Knox. 



Oxford: J. Waldo Nash, E. E. Johnson, supplemented by 

 notes from Maynard's "List of Birds of Coos Co., N. H. and 

 Oxford Co., Maine" and from Verrill's "List of Birds of Nor- 

 way." 



Penobscot: O. W. Knight, Manly Hardy, and scattering 

 notes from others. 



Piscataquis: Wallace Homer, Charles Whitman. 



Sagadahoc: Capt. H. L. Spinney, C. C. Spratt. 



Somerset: C. H. Morrell, O. W. Knight. 



Waldo: C. C. Spratt, R. H. Howe, and O. W. Knight. 



Washington: Geo. A. Boardman, C. H. Clark. 



York: Stephen J. Adams, Chas. S. Butters, and B. L. 

 Fernald. 



In this connection it is well to state that Mr. Boardman's 

 early lists and records referred to many specimens taken on 

 Canadian soil, and many species cited by the early writers as 

 being taken in Maine were really taken in the adjoining Canad- 

 ian Province of New Brunswick. In 1897, Mr. Boardman 

 went over these records very carefully and as a result all refer- 

 ences to birds wrongfully recorded as taken in Maine, but 

 really taken in New Brunswick, which have been previously 

 cited on his authority are now correctly given, while New 

 Brunswick specimens are eliminated, mention being made of 

 the reason why many of these records do not stand. 



Following the county records in the text we will find a 

 general discussion of the status of each species, descriptions of 

 the nests, eggs, songs and call notes, and peculiar habits or 

 actions which I may have noted, and in fact a general account 

 of the species from the author's point of view especially as 



