. The Ornithologists' and oologists' semi-annual . THE O. & O. SEMI-ANNUAL. 13 COLLECTING OFF THE COAST OF MAINE. BY CHAS. 8. BUTTERS, HAVERHILL, HAVE not been in the habit ofwriting for magazines, but per-haps some of the readers of theO. & O. Semi-Annual wouldHke to learn about a trip I tookthis spring down the coast. A paity of ten of us left New-buryport, Mass., July 6th, on afishing excursion, but if anyonehad examined my trunk, they would have found many articlesthat were of no use in a fishing trip ; i. e., four large cigar boxes,filled with cotton, drills, blow-pipes, embryo hoo
. The Ornithologists' and oologists' semi-annual . THE O. & O. SEMI-ANNUAL. 13 COLLECTING OFF THE COAST OF MAINE. BY CHAS. 8. BUTTERS, HAVERHILL, HAVE not been in the habit ofwriting for magazines, but per-haps some of the readers of theO. & O. Semi-Annual wouldHke to learn about a trip I tookthis spring down the coast. A paity of ten of us left New-buryport, Mass., July 6th, on afishing excursion, but if anyonehad examined my trunk, they would have found many articlesthat were of no use in a fishing trip ; i. e., four large cigar boxes,filled with cotton, drills, blow-pipes, embryo hooks and note-books. I went prepared in case anything should turn up. On the morning of July 8th, after leaving Portland Harbor, wewere becalmed oft Green Island, about ten miles from the of the crew rowed me ashore to see if I could find anythingin the line of specimens. When we left the yacht we could not see anything of any birds,but as we neared the island we could see birds flying up in alldirections, which we found, on closer examination, to be expecting to identify Terns eggs bv flushing the birdwill be most sadly m
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