38 THE SUBJECT OF FAUNAL AREAS. 



the State, extending southward as far as the Umbagog 

 Lakes in the western part. Concerning central and 

 northeastern Maine I cannot speak with certainty, but 

 the coast region, from Mount Desert to Eastport, to- 

 gether with the islands of the Bay of Fundy, and the 

 southeastern coast of New Brunswick, belong to the 

 Canadian Fauna. The central and southern parts of 

 Nova Scotia, however, are somewhat more southern 

 in character. ... I have found that forests of spruce 

 and white birch, so characteristic of the northern parts 

 of New England, generally commence with the south- 

 ern limits of the Canadian Fauna, yet most of the 

 birds seem in no way dependent upon such forests, 

 and many do not even frequent them." 



The meeting-place of these two Faunae in New 

 Hampshire and Maine has been noted by Messrs. 

 Maynard and Brewster in a paper by the former in the 

 Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History 

 (xiv, Oct., 1871). Writing of the Birds of Coos County, 

 N. H., and Oxford County, Me., Mr. Maynard gives 

 these localities as places where the Faunae come to- 

 gether, and draws the dividing line in the following 

 manner : " Starting on the northeast coast of Maine, 

 near Mount Desert, the dividing line of these faunae pro- 

 ceeds in a southwesterly direction along the southern 

 margin of the mountain-range which stretches across 

 the State to the White Mountains. Here it declines 

 to the south, reaching quite to Rye Beach ; then once 

 more proceeds northwest along the western border of 

 the mountain-range into Vermont, where it is not my 

 present purpose to trace it. So abruptly is the line 

 defined in many places by the range of mountains, 

 that some birds which occur in abundance on one side 



