Zhe 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. V. 



FAIRFIELD, MAINE, JULY, 1903. 



NUMBER 3. 



XTbe /IDalne ©rmtbological 

 Society 



CAPT. HERBERT L. SPINNER, 



Popham Beach, Me., 

 PROF. LESLIE A LEE, 



Brunswick, -Me., 

 PROF. WM. POWERS. 



Gardiner, Me., 

 J MERTON SWAIN, 



Skowhegan,, Me., 

 PROF. A. L. LA^E, 



Waterville, Me-, 

 ORA W. KNIGHT, M. Be, 



Bangor, Me-, 



President. 



Vice-President. 



Sec'y. and Treas. 



Editor. 



Councillor. 



Councillor. 



All subscriptions, business communica- 

 tions and articles for publication should be 

 sent to J. Merton Swain, Editor and Pub- 

 lisher, Fairtield, Maine. 



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, eacii in- 

 sertion. Nothing insertedjlor less than 26 els. 



Eighth annual meeting to be held 

 the Friday and Saturday following 

 ThanKsgiving, 1903, at Bangor, Me. 



Entered as second class mail matter 

 at Fairfield, Me. 



Eoftorial Cbat. 



Again we must apologize to our sub- 

 scribers for being late with this issue. 

 There are several reasons for this de- 

 lay. Several of our members who 

 planned to have papers for this issue 

 were prevented from sending them. 



One paper we counted on most was a 

 paper Capt. Spinney had in prepara- 

 tion, but the Capt. was appointed 1st 

 keeper of the Seguin Light, thus mak- 

 ing it with his extra work, impossible 

 for him to complete it. Most of our 

 members were so busy that they found 

 it impossible to attend the summer 

 meeting or send any papers to be read 

 at the meeting. We expect to have 

 material of interest for our October 

 issue to make up for this number, also 

 to make arrangements whereby we 

 can get our Journal out on time in the 

 coming year On account of sickness 

 in the family, and a change in busi- 

 ness, your editor had to break up his 

 home, and being located in different 

 sections, it has made it difficult to get 

 the Journal out on time. Then too, 

 so many changes have been made in 

 the printing house where the Journal 

 is printed, has made it bad for us. But 

 we hope we are getting settled down 

 to business and our Journal will be im- 

 proved as we would like to see it. 

 — o — 

 Several of our subscribers have 

 asked for back numbers of the Jour- 

 nal. We wish to here apologize for 

 our delay in getting them forward to 

 them. On account of the above stated 

 reasons we have not been able to get 

 them forward on time, but we hope to 

 be able to do so very soon now. 

 Enough of the back numbers were 

 saved from the fire, we think, to fill 

 all orders that are in and we will seal 



