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Piscataquis : Wallace Homer submits a fully annotated list of 

 116 species, and Charles Whitman reports on 56. 



Sagadahoc : Herbert L. Spinney has found 180 species here and 

 his list is copiously annotated ; C. C. Spratt of North Bridgton, 

 lists 79 species. 



Somerset : C. H. Morrell presents a fully annotated list of 145 

 species from the southern part of the county, while Prof. F. L. 

 Harvey and O. W. Knight add a few notes from Jackman in the 

 in the northern part. 



Waldo : C. C. Spratt gives a list of 80 species ; O. W. Knight 

 supplements this by notes on many of the birds observed by him 

 within the county. 



Washington : George A. Boardman of Calais has observed and 

 taken 257 species within Washington County. His list is copiously 

 annotated and is the result of long years of careful observation. 

 York : Stephen J. Adams submits a list embracing 102 species 

 which he has observed near the towns of Hiram, Oxford County, 

 Cornish, York County, and Baldwin, Cumberland County ; his 

 notes are thus referable to three counties although in the list they 

 have been credited as noted here : Charles S. Butters has given 

 notes regarding a few seabirds taken at Biddeford Pool. 



Other matters being equal, the first notes received have been 

 used to set forth the county status of a given species, and subse- 

 quent notes on the same species from observers in the same county 

 have not been used unless the conclusions set forth are somewhat 

 different. In some cases the notes of different observers in a given 

 county have been used when they indicate a difference in the status 

 or abundance of a species in the different parts of the county 

 reported on by the observers. 



Thanks are due to the University of Maine and to Professor F. 

 L. Harvey for allowing me free access to its collections and library ; 

 to William Brewster of Cambridge, Mass., for identifying speci- 

 mens submitted to him ; to Harry Merrill of Bangor for the loan 

 of various publications germain to the list; to J. C. Mead of North 

 Bridgton, Arthur H. Norton of Westbrook, and Prof. William L. 

 Powers of Gardiner for the aid they have rendered ; to these and 

 many others who have helped on the work in hand cordial thanks 

 are extended. 



ORA W. KNIGHT. 



BANGOR, March 28, 1897. 



