. Bird-lore . Between engage-ments the participants would always retreatto the same spots, swapping recriminationswhile gaining their breath and deciding thenext move. Finally, when both sides hadexperienced enough of warfare, articles ofpeace were signed and three pairs of Martinsoccupied the house with one pair of Swallows,all rearing broods under conditions of toler-ance, if not actual intimacy.—F. D Knight,New Britain, Conn. A Cliff Swallow Colony I am sending you a picture of my barnwhich has 300 Cliff Swallow nests. I put upthree shelves under their eaves and theSwallows have built their
. Bird-lore . Between engage-ments the participants would always retreatto the same spots, swapping recriminationswhile gaining their breath and deciding thenext move. Finally, when both sides hadexperienced enough of warfare, articles ofpeace were signed and three pairs of Martinsoccupied the house with one pair of Swallows,all rearing broods under conditions of toler-ance, if not actual intimacy.—F. D Knight,New Britain, Conn. A Cliff Swallow Colony I am sending you a picture of my barnwhich has 300 Cliff Swallow nests. I put upthree shelves under their eaves and theSwallows have built their nests on, above, IS© Bird - Lore and below these shelves. This picture shows230 of the nests, and the remaining 70 are onthe sides of the barn. There are at least 50more Cliff Swallows nests on my otherbuildings. I have a dozen Barn Swallowsnests in one building. Each fall I cover thesenests to protect them from Owls, Sparrows,and Woodpeckers, and remove these coversin the spring when the Swallows A CLIFF SWALLOW COLONY Last spring I cleaned and hung up fiftygourds and had nine box houses for HouseWrens. This fall practically each one had anest in it. I even placed some of the gourdson the porches and the Wrens chose thislocation as readily as any other. The Wrensseem to prefer the dipper gourds to the boxhouses. I also had Bronzed Grackles, Robins,Mourning Doves, and Brown Thrashers,nesting in bracket boxes which I placed inthe trees. I am sixty-four years old, and I enjoyhaving and watching these birds, some ofwhich are not very common in this locality,each season.—Rasmus Christensen, New-ark, Neb. A Queer Mockingbird In Notes from Field and Study for July-August Bird-Lore, 1920, I gave an accountof a Mockingbird which, in the summer of1919, for several successive days, at the sameplace in its medley, imitated in a definiteorder several members of the Flycatcherfamily. On July 1, 1920, I heard the samemedley with the Flycatcher notes in thesame order. Evidently
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