OF MAINE. 
oF OT SS 
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. ae i a 
CAPT. H. L. SPINNEY, Seguin Island, Councillor. Bangor, May 2, 18 g& 
Dear Mr. Brewster§ 
YOUR epier Gh Whe Btn Row nemd vad thei rds Were ore @eavied 
later on in good order,.Please accent my thanks for your. kindness in 
naming them for me. 
There is not the slightest doubt but what the 
was taken in Maine.Prof.Harvey is sure it was brought him 
and he thinks by one of the students. Your statement that its plumage 
imdicaves than wt Was Drobap.y 1hled in May oO: June 1S Com oborauive 
statement that -it was orobably brouszht to him by a student, for 
during these two months the students. in the botany class are in the 
woods every day and often kill birds and bring them in.Again Mr. 
Crosby remembers mounting a bird sent him from Orono,by Prof. Harvey, 
in the flesh,and which he at the time called a Hudsonian Chickadee, 
This latter spectes is not represented in our collections, and as we hawe 
Arak 
only about 500 specimens,the limited COE eee itt imorobable that 
any mistake has been made rexarding t] TOCHL IV Ol) hws soe ctmenht, 
Prot; Afb hane-of-the- Coburn -Crassicali-tnstitute;vaterviiie, 
Me,—-has-—-a-specimen.which.Iam inclined.to. believe is Paico vusticolus..» 
t wish Jt were, vossible for you. to see it some time, 
Tf’ you shoul hanven to be In. this State the last of this 
month or the first of next I would be pleased to have you stop in Lan- 
-or-and see vendroica pvalmarum bypoc in its breeding haunbhs. I 
can get away from work almost anv Saturday and would be havpy to show 
you around. 

