BummerBasidonts on Southwest 
Coast of Maine, T, H» Montgomery, Jr, 
583. Lincoln’s Sparrow. Shot a young $ 
July 14tli at Bootlibay. On August 9th, shot 
one young $ , one adult $ , and two other adults, 
on Bobson’s Island, Penobscot Bay. The 
island seemed inhabited almost altogether 
by the genus melospiza , principally M. 
fa sciata. 
Osim&O, iai Mov,l390. p,W2 
Lincoln’s Sparrow ( Melospiza lincolni ) at Portland, Maine. On June 1, 
1907, Mr. Nathan Clifford Brown brought, and donated, to the Society of 
Natural History a perfectly fresh specimen of Lincoln’s Sparrow. It 
was found dead by Mr. Brown on Congress Street, the principal thorough- 
fare of Portland. 
It was prepared as a skin by the writer, when it was found to have a 
skull fracture, a little to the left of the median line, extending the length 
of the brain case, indicating the nature of its death. It is a female, show- 
ing some traces of moult, and having one ovarian ovum about as large as a 
No. 12 shot. 
The previous local records seem to have been but three, one being a 
spring record, May 12, 1900 (Journ. Maine Orn. Soc., VI, p. 55). The 
other two were Sept. 20, 1896 (Bull. 3, Univ. of Maine), and Sept. 25, 1897 
(Journ. Maine Orn. Soc., VI, p. 55). 
The present specimen considerably extends the known period of migra- 
tion.- A™* 2W-3M. 
