Ube Journal ot 



Uhe 9/faine Ornithological Society. 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGY. 



'BIRD PROTECTION, BIRD STUDY, THE SPREAD OF THE KNOWLEDGE THUS GAINED, 

 THESE ARE OUR OBJECTS." 



VOL. IV. 



FAIRFIELD, MAINE, JULY, 1902. 



NUMBER 3. 



Zfte * /JDaine * ©rnttbological 



Society. 



WILLIAM L. POWERS, Gardiner, President. 

 CAPT. H. L. SPINNEY, Seguin, Vice President. 

 A. H. NORTON, Westbrook, Secretary— Treas. 

 J. MERTON SWAIN, Fairfield, Editor. 



PROF. A. L. LANE, Waterville, Councillor. 



ORA W. KNIGHT, Bangor, Councillor. 



All subscriptions, business communications and 

 articles for publication should be sent to J. Mor- 

 ton Swain, Editor and Publisher, Fairfield, 

 Me. / 



All 'communications requiring an answer must 

 be accompanied by stamps for reply. 



SUBSCRIPTIONS. 



50 cts. per year. Single copies 15c. 



Advertising rates, 25 cts. per inch, each in- 

 sertion. Nothing inserted for less than 25 cts. 



Seventh annual meeting to be held 

 the Friday and Saturday following 

 Thanksgiving, 1902, at Portland, Me. 



Entered as second class mail matter, 

 Fairfield, Me. 



JEottorial Cbat. 



Circular No. 1 has heen printed and 

 sent to the officers and members for 

 distribution among their friends, 

 with the hopes that we may increase 

 our membership. We are very anx- 

 ious to get as many names of our 



teachers in the state as is possible, on 

 our subscription and. membership list. 

 It costs but 50 cents to become an 

 associate member with the Journal for 

 one year. We believe the teachers 

 would receive good value for this 

 small sum if they would join our 

 ranks. Any one wishing more of 

 these circulars can have them by 

 sending a card to the editor. 



— o — 

 Editor Dingley of the Lewiston 

 Journal wrote the editor of the 

 Journal M. O. S. that he thought it 

 unkind to publish the remark your 

 editor wrote, following Bro. Mor- 

 rill's art, Journal vol. IV., P. 33, we 

 at once wrote him the circumstances, 

 stating how we were troubled to get 

 back our manuscript from Mr. Noble 

 (then one of their reporters) in time 

 to publish in our Journal. It seems 

 to have been through Mr. Noble's ne- 

 glect that our grievance came about, 

 and not the fault of the Lewiston 

 Journal. Editor Dingley states: "The 

 Journal's motto in all cases of this 

 nature is the Golden Rule, which is 

 a pretty safe one, we think.' We can 

 heartily endorse this and trust our re- 

 lations in the future may be mutually 

 pleasant. 



The article on shooting matches in 

 our last Journal was written by Mr. 

 F. F. Burr, instead of Burt. For 

 which mistake the editor begs to offer 

 his apology to the writer. 



We. very much regret that the talk 



