Two Ravens ( Corvus corax principalis ) Seen at Harpswell, Maine. — 
In bringing the local status of the Raven up to date, it seems desirable 
to record two living examples which I saw at Little Mark Island, Harps- 
well, Maine, October 5, 1889. Little Mark Island is about nine and a 
half nautical miles nearly east of Portland. 
The Raven was a bird with which I had had a long acquaintance : there- 
fore, as I watched this pair under favorable conditions, and listened to 
their characteristic notes, I was perfectly sure of the identification — 
Arthur H. Norton, Portland, Me. ,\vQ&s, 2PC1V, Jan., .1907, P 
The Raven near Portland, Maine. — In 1882 I made note 1 of a 
Raven, presumably Corvus corax principalis, which was killed in the town 
of Cumberland, near Portland, December 31, 1875. I examined the speci- 
men at the time; but I do not know what became of it, and therefore can- 
not positively state that it represented principalis. 
No doubt the Raven was to be found regularly about Portland in olden 
times; 2 but I am able to cite only one other record 3 of its occurrence 
within recent years, and that is regrettably indefinite. I have never 
seen the bird alive near the city. I have, however, seen a second local 
specimen. A handsome male, quite typical of principalis, was taken on 
Cape Elizabeth, January 12, 1884, was secured in the flesh for my collec- 
tion and was transferred, a few years later, to the cabinet of the Portland 
Society of Natural History where it remains (No. 3773, N. C. B.). — Nathan 
Clifford Brown, Portland, Me. XX IV, , 190 7 p ./ oc ? 
1 Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. II, p. 17. 
2 See Brewster, Birds of the Cambridge Region, p. 237. 
3 Smith, Forest and Stream, Vol. XIX, 1883, p. 485. 
