. The oist . re in this section. OnMay 15, we took a specimen of theNorthen Parula Warbler another ofour rarer warblers. During the twodays that we were at Port Clinton 82species of birds were observed. Theweather was favorable and birds werevery plentiful although the warblerswere more common on May 15 thanon the 16th. I also wish to report thecapture of the Lark Sparrow, Chon-destes grammacus, by George Chiesaon May 2, this is our first record ofthis more southern bird. Mr. Chiesatook a beautiful specimen of a parti-ally Albino Tree Sparrow March had white specked throuh thechestnut he
. The oist . re in this section. OnMay 15, we took a specimen of theNorthen Parula Warbler another ofour rarer warblers. During the twodays that we were at Port Clinton 82species of birds were observed. Theweather was favorable and birds werevery plentiful although the warblerswere more common on May 15 thanon the 16th. I also wish to report thecapture of the Lark Sparrow, Chon-destes grammacus, by George Chiesaon May 2, this is our first record ofthis more southern bird. Mr. Chiesatook a beautiful specimen of a parti-ally Albino Tree Sparrow March had white specked throuh thechestnut head and also back and first primary of each wing waswhite or nearly so. Yours truly,A. C. Read, Toledo, Ohio. By an oversight in making up AprilNo. of current volume of Oologist,Ml-. Bailey of Xew])ort News, Va., wasnot credited with the article on OddNesting Site, (see page 57, April),which he contributed. Its anothercase where the manager apolo2:i7,eKfor anothers mistake.—E. H. S. 90 THE Double Nest of Catbird. Toronto, Ont. Photo by L. B. Brown. Nesting of the Northern Yellow-throat in Muskoka, Ont., during the Summer of 1905. Rising early one morning June 11th1905 as the sun was showing up inthe east, I took a short walk in thewoods intending to pass the morningwith my friends, the birds. ManyRedstarts flitted about among thelower brances of the trees like bitsof flame color as though they wouldset the trees on fire. Over my headcame the tap, tap of a woodpecker ona hollow limb of a tree and on glanc-ing up saw that it was a Red-headedWoodpecker busy at work searchingfor the insects that might be hiddenthere in the wood, once it flew intothe air after a passing insect in the manner of a fly-catcher, bringing theinsect back to the tree in his beak,where he killed and swallowed other birds were there such asthe Red-eyed Vireo, Least Flycatcher,Scarlet Tanager, Wilsons Thrush, left the woods, and began crossinga meadow with a small brook run-
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