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JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



on birds, which was so much enjoyed 

 by all present at our last meeting, by 

 Prof. Stanton of Bates College, and 

 which Miss Hodgdon of the Fish and 

 Game office, so kindly took a steno- 

 graphic copy, has been lost. Miss 

 Hodgdon had the note-book contain- 

 ing her copy under her arm, among 

 other books, during a big snowstorm, 

 last winter, while on her way to the 

 State House ,and very unfortunately, 

 it slipped from among the other books 

 and papers, and 'became lost in the 

 snow, and could not be found. But 

 we hope to have a paper by the Pro- 

 fessor for our October Journal. 

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After my day's outing at Bangor, 

 on June 11th, while driving from 

 Burnham to Unity (Waldo Co.) when 

 near a wet place near the Sebasticook 

 river, I heard the song of a Yellow 

 Palm Warbler. Hitching my horse 

 beside the road, I at once made 

 search for the bird, which I soon lo- 

 cated. After a half hour's search, I 

 located the nest with four young. 

 This nest was placed in a dryer situ- 

 ation than was the nest found at Her- 

 mon, it being waste land with grey 

 birches thickly scattered in patches. 

 The nest was well hidden in a tuft of 

 grass, composed very similar to the 

 nest found in the bog. The young 

 were apparently about a week old. 



This same day, while crossing the 

 large meadow known as the Unity 

 Flats, I heard the peculiar stridu- 

 lating song of the Grasshopper Spar- 

 row. I immediately anchored ray 

 horse to a bush and gave chase. It 

 was wild and wary, as was the one 

 which Bro. Morrill and myself saw at 

 Pittsfield last year. 



FIELD NOTES. 



they have noted the past spring. In 

 fact, everyone concludes they never 

 saw them so plenty, even before their 

 numbers were so greatly decimated 

 several years ago. 



We have been on the lookout for 

 new localities where the Prairie Horn- 

 ed Larks may be found breeding, with 

 the following results: One pair were 

 found nesting near the Kennebec river 

 at Benton Station. Five pairs were 

 noted, through the season, along the 

 river up as far as Canaan. One pair 

 were seen between Hartland and 

 Pittsfield, and a pair were noted near 

 the village of Pittsfield. A nest with 

 young was located near Liberty (Wal 

 do Co.) and another in a stubble field 

 in the town of China (Kennebec Co.) 

 Another pair were seen frequently 

 near Unity (Waldo Co.) and Mr, 

 Knight informs me he is reasonably 

 certain a pair were nesting in Aroos- 

 took county. Mr. Briggs reports a 

 pair found by Mr. Teague near Liver- 

 more. This bird seems to be getting 

 more common in this part of the 

 State, and presumably in a few years 

 it will become a fairly common sum- 

 mer resident in these parts. 



Many of our members and fellow 

 observers have remarked on the un- 

 usually large number of Bluebirds 



I have noted several pairs of Golden 

 Crowned Kifiglets nest building in 

 different localities. In Tact, they seem 

 to be a rather common nester in many 

 places. One nest only was located, 

 this in the town of Palermo (Waldo 

 Co.) in a large growth • of fir and 

 spruce trees near China lake. It con- 

 tained young. 



We spent Saturday. May 31st, with 

 Bro. Knight looking after Marsh 

 Birds. After exploring the grounds 

 about the University at Orono. where 

 there are Bronzed Grackles nesting in 

 the spruce and fir balsams about the 

 campus, also many other birds are 

 found there. We wended our way 

 through the fields along the river. 



