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twelve feet from the ground. About them were bones and feathers of 

 pigeons, chickens and duclvs. The eggs are now in the collection of Jos. F. 

 Honecker, Oak I'orest, Ind., by whom they were found and reported. 



Ectopistes miiiratorias. I'assenger Pigeon ; Wild Pigeon. — Joseph F. 

 Honecker reports seeing a Wild I'igeon, with young, near Raymond, in 

 Franklin County, in the spring of 11)05. The same person says : "On May 

 18, 190G. I had the good fortune to find three nests of the Wild Pigeon 

 about one half mile east of Oak Forest, Franklin County, Indiana. The 

 nests were about eight to fifteen feet from the ground in a small elm tree. 

 Two of them contained two eggs each and one contained two young only 

 a few days old. I saw the six adult birds at one time, and observed them 

 until the young were grown. They were last seen together in a flock, July 

 13. There is another record of the capture of a specimen in Shelby County. 



Meleuiiris aallopavo. (Linn.) Wild Turkey. — According to Mr. E. J. 

 Chansler, a few are still to be found in the southern part of Knox County, 

 Ind. 



Dcrnlroica vigors! i. Pine Warbler. — C. P. Smith, during the summer of 

 1904, visited the sand dunes near Michigan City. There among the pine 

 trees he found Pine Warblers. They were fairly common June 19-23. 

 Though the birds were in full song, he did not find the nest. He de- 

 scribes the song as very similar to that of a Chipping Sparrow ; in fact, so 

 similar that he was deceived by it at first. The preceding summer (1903) 

 the same observer, while studying the biology of the State Forest Reserve, 

 at Henryville, saw Pine Warblers three or four times among the pine- 

 covered "knobs." The last of July he found adults feeding young that were 

 practically full grown. ITiey doubtless nested there. 



Pelidna aJpiiia pacifica. Ked-backcd Sandpiper; Aremican Dunlin. — A 

 specimen taken October 11, 1905, from a flock of shore birds at a pond in 

 Marion CountJ^ north of Indianapolis, was presented to me by Philip Baker. 

 This is the first fall record for this vicinity. 



Aegialitis meloda circirnicincta. Belted Piping Plover. — A fine group o; 

 these birds, with four eggs, m the collection of the Chicago Academy of 

 Sciences, was taken at Millers, Indiana. June 13, 1905 (F. M. Woodruff). 



Nu7neniHS borealis. Eskimo Curlew.- — There are few recorded speci- 

 mens of this rare migrant from Indiaiui. It, therefore, is of interest to 

 learn from Mr. J. II. Fleming, Toronto, Ont, that he has one marked 

 Chalmers. Ind., male, April 19, 1S90(?). 



Phalucrocoraa- ililophus. Double-crested Cormorant. — Mr. Roman 



