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on the outskirts of Saccarappa village, which forms the west end of West- 

 brook. My brother shot one of these birds (a female), for my collection, 

 whereupon the others left the vicinity. 



As changes have been wrought, since that date, it seems well to be 

 explicit about the place. This was in the field owned by Capt. Issac 

 Quimby at a point close to Mechanic Street and about two hundred yards 

 south of the street since accepted as Green Street. 



The instance has'been reported in Bulletin No. 3, University of Maine, 

 p. 122 (Knight's Birds of Maine), but as I am not aware of another spring 

 record for Maine, yet published, it has seemed desirable to give the par- 

 ticulars. — Arthur H. Norton, Museum of Natural History, Portland, 

 Maine. 



The Titlark at Portland, Maine, in Spring. — The spring record of 

 the Titlark (Anthus pcnsilranicus) in Maine should include a solitary 

 bird which I saw about half past three o'clock in the afternoon of May 

 10, 1905, within the city limits of Portland. It passed me close at hand, 

 constantly calling and flying low in a southwesterly direction, near the 

 north end of St. John Street, where there are vacant lots extending to 

 open fields. — Nathan Clifford Brown, Portland, Maine. 



The Carolina Chickadee in Southern Michigan. — Last winter P. A. 

 Taverner and I were examining my small series of local Chickadees and 

 among them found one bird that we were certain was Penthestes carolinensis 

 carolinensis. Upon sending the bird to Washington for confirmation 

 Prof. Ridgway returned it as a Carolina Chickadee, probably an immature 

 male. 



I secured this bird on July 17, 1899, in a small woodland in Ecorse 

 Township, Wayne Co., Mich. As far as I can ascertain this is the first 

 bird of this species that has been taken in Michigan. The specimen is 

 number 283 in my collection. — Bradshaw^ H. Swales, Detroit, Mich. 



A Great Flight of Robins and Cedar-birds. — Camden, South Caro- 

 lina, was visited on February 3, 1905, by a storm of sleet and snow. At 

 eight o'clock next morning the town had a wintry aspect, and the ther- 

 mometer indicated only twenty-two degress. There was no sun, but the 

 storm was at an end and the northeast wind was light. When I first looked 

 out of doors, Robins and Cedar-birds were flying over in large numbers, 

 going about west-northwest. It soon became evident that the flight was 

 unusual, and at twenty minutes to nine o'clock I took up a position at a 

 window from which I had an unobstructed view for long distances towards 

 the east, north and west. Here for an hour and a half, pencil and paper 

 in hand, I endeavored to count the passing birds. 



The Robins flew in open order and were little more numerous at one 

 time than another. The Cedar-birds, however, though many of them 



