. Bird-lore . of the Hartford Bird StudyClub, with the result that they are con- fident llic birds are breeding in tliis sec-lion. I am interested to know whetherother students in Connecticut ha\-enoticed an increase in the number of Red-heads seen in the state within the lastyear or two. Several years ago, so many Bluebirdswere killed by the severe winter that thefollowing spring almost none were seen,and many northerners who look anxiouslyforward to the first sweet whistle of thisbird were utterly discouraged by theappalling mortality among the they have come back, sincew
. Bird-lore . of the Hartford Bird StudyClub, with the result that they are con- fident llic birds are breeding in tliis sec-lion. I am interested to know whetherother students in Connecticut ha\-enoticed an increase in the number of Red-heads seen in the state within the lastyear or two. Several years ago, so many Bluebirdswere killed by the severe winter that thefollowing spring almost none were seen,and many northerners who look anxiouslyforward to the first sweet whistle of thisbird were utterly discouraged by theappalling mortality among the they have come back, sincewithin the past month I have seen more ofthem than previously observed in manyyears all taken together. Have seen sev-eral large flocks of them, and on everywalk, this past month, have seen from tento fifty or more. Good luck to this faith-ful harbinger of spring, and may his kindmultiply and fill the land with their sweetwarble as the sap begins to flow in thesugar orchards.—-Geo. T. GriswoldHarlford, liLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEEPhotographed by Arthur A. Allen, Ithaca, N. Y. 2^oafe ji^etosi anb aebiehjs; Distribution and Migratiox of NorthAmerican Rails and Their Wells W. Cooke. AssistantBiologist, Bull. No. 12S. U. S. .Agric. Cont. from the Bureau ofBiological Survey. 50 pages, 19 mapsin text. To his valuable bulletins on the Ducksand Geese, Shore-birds, Herons, and othergroups. Professor Cooke now adds astudy of the distribution and migrationof our Rails, Cranes, Coots and information he presents is designedto serve as a basis for protective legis-lation for the species by states in whichthey are found. (Footnote, p. i.) The species which particularly requirethis protection are, as might be expected,those that are pursued by the sportsmanand market-hunter. Chief among theseis the Sora or Carolina Rail. ProfessorCooke tells us that on September 15 and16, 1881, two men killed 1,235 oi thesebirds at the mouth of the James River,while as many
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