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however ; and I regret to add that the rapid destruction of the 
forests about the city is tending rapidly to the local extermination 
of the bird. In fact, in Deering, where I first made its acquaint- 
ance, it is now hardly to be found except during the migrations. 
Young leave the nest about July 10. 
On the 13th of June, 1874, I found a nest, containing four eggs, 
of Zonotrichia albicollis in Scarborough, and subsequent observations 
have proved the species almost a common summer resident. It is 
perhaps more numerous in Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough than 
elsewhere, but is to be found, in suitable localities, quite throughout 
Cumberland County through the summer months. Its nesting in 
Massachusetts has been recorded,* but it has been regarded a repre- 
sentative of the Fauna of Northern New England and Canada. 
Junco liy emails completes the list of so-called Northern species 
which I have to record as breeding in this vicinity. Although it is 
probably the rarest of the summer-resident Fringillidoe , it occurs 
every year. Like the preceding three species, it particularly affects 
the wilder portions of Scarborough and Cape Elizabeth, where the 
country closely resembles that of Northern Maine. The young leave 
the nest about August 1. I am, of course, aware of the numerous 
instances in which this bird has been detected nesting in mountain- 
ous districts far to the south of Portland, but I believe no record has 
hitherto been made of its breeding, in level country, in this latitude. 
Dr. Brewer writes t of Dendroeca pinus that it has not been found 
in Maine by Professor Yerrill nor by Mr. Boardman, but I am in- 
formed that it appears in Professor Yerrill’s supplementary catalogue 
as “ rare [in Maine] in summer.” On the contrary, it is an abun- 
dant summer resident in this part of the State. It arrives very 
early in spring, occasionally by the middle of April, and by the third 
week in June brings out its young. With regard to its range, I 
found it, in 1875, common at Brunswick, the easternmost township 
of Cumberland County ; and it even occasionally reaches Calais, as 
I learn from a marginal note by Mr. Boardman upon a copy of his 
list. In the western part of the State, however, it does not occur 
so far to the north. I detected but one specimen in Northern York 
County during two weeks’ work in 1875, and Mr. Brewster writes 
me that he is very sure it is not found at Lake Umbagog, unless 
fortuitously. 
* Hist. N. A. Birds, Vol. I, p. 575. 
+ Ibid., p. 269. 
