382 Norton, N'otes on some Maine Birds. [oct. 



It was apparently first recorded by Mr. Geo. A. Boardman in 1869/ 

 a specimen taken near Calais. Though mentioned as the first to come 

 to his notice the exact date is not given. 



In 1875 2 another was recorded by Mr. Boardman at Calais (original 

 record not seen). 



In 1893,^ Mr. Wm. Dutcher (on the statement of Mr. Boardman) 

 recorded a third from Calais. Mr. Dutcher quoted Boardman as writing 

 that it was the sixth he had known from the vicinitj^ Since Mr. Board- 

 man included the " St. Croix Vallej'," Grand Manan, and adjacent 

 islands in his vicinity, there can be little or no doubt that the six included 

 the Campobello, Grand Manan and other New Brunswick records."" 



September 25, 1897,'' Wm. L. Powers shot an adult male in Whitefield, 

 On August 26, 1904,'' an adult male was shot at Lubec, and secured by 

 Clarence H. Clark. 



August 20, 1901,' a specimen was taken alive near Dover, and one^ 

 has been recorded as shot at Eliot (date not given) . 



July 6, 1909,^ an adult male was taken at Monhegan Island, and passed 

 into the possession of Judge Charles F. Jenne3^ 



Tyraimus melancholicus satrapa. Lichtenstein's Kingbird.^ 

 On October 31, 1915, Mr. George Oliver observed this stranger near his 

 house in Scarborough, and secured it for the collection of the Portland 

 Society of Natm'al History. Mr. Oliver said that it was seen the day before 

 it was taken, and was thought to have been a shrike. Upon reaching the 

 identification given, it was sent to the United States National Museum, 

 where it was confirmed by Mr. H. C. Oberholser, and Mr. Robert 

 Ridgway. The bird was a young male, in very good condition. The 

 digestive organs were sent to Mr. W. L. McAtee, of the U. S. Biological 

 Survey, who gave the following report, with permission to use it in the 

 present connection. 



» 1869. Boardman, Am. Nat., Ill, p. 498. 



2 1875. Boardman, Forest & Stream, III: .375. See Bailey, 1881, Forest & Stream. 

 Bird Notes, 30. 



3 1893. Dutcher, Auk, X: 82. 



1 In 1897 (Bull. 3, Univ. Me., p. 58) Ora W. Knight attempted a compilation of the Maine 

 records of the Vultures committing several serious errors. In the work cited, Mr. Smith's 

 report of Catharies aura septentrionalis (Forest & Stream, 1883, XX: 285) was transferred 

 to the present species. In Birds of Maine, 1908, p. 213, the report is dropped, with the 

 erroneous statement that Mr. Smith had reported the wrong species. (Cf. Auk, XXVIII, 

 263-264) and the Campobello, N. B., specimen of the present species, recorded by 

 Boardman, 1879, F. & S., XIII: 605, and Deane, 1880, B. N. O. C, V: 63 and Smith, 

 1883, F. «&. S., XX: 26, was reported as an Eastport specimen. This error also reappears 

 in Birds of Maine, 1908, page 215. 



5 1897. [Powers], Maine Sportsman, Nov., 1897, 8. 



6 1905. Clark, Journ. Me. Orn. Soc, VII: 23. 

 ' 1908. Knight, Birds of Maine, 215. 



8 1908. Knight, W. L. Fernald, Birds of Maine, 215. 



9 1909. Maynard, Becords of Walks and Talks, with Nature, II: 116-122, also Journal 

 Me. Orn. Soc, XI: 121. 



