OF MAINE. 
oF OS 
ORA W. KNIGHT, Bangor, President. 
WM. L. POWERS, Gardiner, Vice President. 
L. W. ROBBINS, Gardiner, Sec’y-Treas. 
J. C. MEAD, No. Bridgton, Editor. 
PROF. A. L. LANE, Waterville, Councillor. 
CAPT. H. L. SPINNEY, Seguin Island, Councillor. 
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Dear Mr. Brewster: — 
tT send you by mail the bird which was recorded by Sverett 
at a 
Smith in his List of 
7 
ace digo Mere. di Moiese Saad CLeecm aS iS 
Wiscasset svecimen of Summer Tanager.This bird belongs to the collecti- 
on at Bowdoin College,and was loaned me by Prof.lee who states Bae Mies 
caw the bird there and assures me that the record wasi based on 
Prof.Lee tells me that Nathan Clifford Brown afterward saw this 
pronounced it to be a young scarlet Vanager, 
list was published I have been endeavoring to 
race ie" Se 1. wi a View Of asSCelualnine Whether 0b Was correc so 
identified or not,and at last my efforts have been rewarded. » 
On comparison with female Scarlet Tanagers the specimen secms 
Somewhat different in color and the bill is slizhtly larger and differ- 
ent shaped and colored. Unfortunately I have no female Summer Tanagers 
Lo comoare it with. 
Wal toy ou. please settl 
let me know about. it. 
Piease return the bird to Prof.leslie A. Lee, Bowdoin Co'lege, 
Brunswick, Me. 
Does.the vounz of. the Lesser Snow Goose ever have a dusky 
‘gray tail?I recently saw a mounted soecimen of Ghese which I am inc! inad 
to believe may have been a young Blue Goose as {LS unver Varts and tail 
he : cd ar 
were a dusky grayish blue,while beneath it was a duskyWhite,which was 
nhearly oure white on the belly. 

