Birds of Dead Elver Region, Me. F.H.O, 



15. Anfliua ludoiyiciamis, (American Titlark). A 

 small flock seen on the open marsh near Plagstaif 

 pond September, 1885, is the only instance I can 

 record of their occurrence. 



(To be Cqntiiuiei) 



j ^.ili&O. xi.Aug.isse.p.jQjj^y// 



Fall Birds of Northern Maine. 

 F.H. Carpenter. 



American Pipit (Anthus pensylvanicus) . A 

 few were started from the tall grass at a 

 " logan " while plodding up the river. 

 O.&O. XII.Nov. 1887 p. 18.3 



Occurrence of the Titlark (Anthus pensilvanicus) in Maine, in Spring, 



— On the afternoon of May 15, 1889, my brother, Mr. Ralph H. Norton, 

 and I saw a flock of twenty-four Titlarks alight in a field of young grain, 



on the outskirts of Saocarappa village, which forms the west end of West- 

 brook. My brother shot one of these birds (a female), for my collection, 

 whereupon the others left the vicinity. 



As changes have been wrought, since that date, it seems well to be 

 explicit about the place. This was in the field owned by Capt. Issac 

 Quimby at a point close to Mechanic Street and about two hundred yards 

 south of the street since accepted as Green Street. 



The instance has been reported in Bulletin No. 3, University of Maine, 

 p. 122 (Knight's Birds of Maine), but as I am not aware of another spring 

 record for Maine, yet published, it has seemed desirable to give the par- 

 ticulars. — Arthur H. Norton, Museum of Natural History, Portland, 

 Maine. , ,,, -2 



Am k, XXlll, July , leo >, p . J V/ - 3 



The Titlark at Portland, Maine, in Spring, — The spring record of 

 the Titlark [Anthus pensilvanicus) in Maine should include a solitary 

 bird which I saw about half past three o'clock in the afternoon of May 

 10, 1905, within the city limits of Portland. It passed me close at hand, 

 constantly calling and flying low in a southwesterly direction, near the 

 north end of St. John Street, where there are vacant lots extending to 

 open fields. — Nathan Clifford Brown, Portland, Maine. 



Auk, XXlll, July , 19oa, p , -3 V Z-. 



A propos of Dr. Coues' recent prediction* that the Titlark {Anthus 

 ludovicianus) will jet be ascertained to breed occasionallj along the Maine 

 coast, is there anything but inferential evidence to indicate that it occurs 

 there at all in spring or summer? Being known to pass through Massa- 

 chusetts in spring and to occur on the island of Grand Mananf at that 

 season,^ it is fair to suppose that the Titlark also touches at favorable 

 points m Maine while route to its breeding grounds. Nevertheless 

 neither my own observations nor the records of other observers substan- 

 tiate this hypothesis. ?7. tf. /3>i^,w«,^ . ' 



*N. E. Bird Life, p. 104, foot note, 

 t See Herrick, Birds of Grand Man 



BuII,K.O.O, T.July. 1882, p. /8^-/90. 



