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higher pitched. Upon investigation we 

 found it came from a flock of fourteen 

 Evening Grosbeaks. When we first saw 

 them they were feeding on the ground 

 near the edge of a field, but a little later 

 they flew to a sugar maple where they 

 allowed us to observe them closely. There 

 were about five males in the flock. 



This species has not been observed in 

 New Haven County to our knowledge, 

 so late in the season (May 12). ^Richard 

 Edes Harrison and John B. Derby, 

 New Haven, Conn. 



spent two days, May 13 and 14, 1916, in 

 or near a large fern-leaved beech tree on 

 her lawn. "The bird appeared at first in 

 company with some Indigo Buntings 

 feeding upon the ground. The Indigo 

 birds soon passed on, however, leaving 

 their cousin alone but seemingly very 

 much at home and unafraid. Telephone- 

 bells rang and word was passed around 

 among the members of the Wyncote Bird 

 Club, many of whom came to see the rare 

 and beautiful bird." 



Horned Larks at Rochester 



I have seen in Bird-Lore notes on the 

 Horned Lark in winter at Troy, N. Y., 

 and on the Prairie Horned Lark in sum- 

 mer in Nebraska. Here in Rochester, 

 N. Y., we have the Prairie Horned Lark 

 all the year round. On March 10, 1916, 

 when we were having the worst part of 

 our winter, I saw two of the birds on the 

 snow and ice while I was skating on the 

 eastern widewaters of the Erie Canal. On 

 April 2, I saw one bird and found its nest 

 with four young in it on the well-kept 

 slopes of Cobbs Hill reservoir, which sup- 

 plies part of the city with water. The 

 nest was made of just a few pieces of grass 

 woven together on the ground and was 

 within a quarter of a mile of the wide- 

 waters. 



Again, on October 18, I saw two of the 

 Larks back of the reservoir. They were on 

 a short, level stretch of gravelly soil where 

 there was little grass. I did not see them 

 until I started them from the ground, but 

 they could be easily recognized by the 

 combination of their size, white tail 

 feathers, swift flight and sweet notes. 

 The Prairie Horned Lark has been on the 

 bird-list of the Rochester Park Depart- 

 ment almost every month of the year. — 

 Raymond Reuter, Rochester, N. Y. 



A Painted Bunting in Pennsylvania 



Miss Esther Heacock writes from 

 Wyncote, in southeastern Pennsylvania, 

 of the visit of a Painted Bunting, which 



Vermont Notes 



The observations concerning the Juncos 

 and the White-throated Sparrows reported 

 by Eliza F. Miller in Sept.-Oct. (1915) 

 Bird-Lore interested us very much, for 

 we had noted similar conditions. 



Heretofore, in this neighborhood, these 

 two species have nested and spent the 

 summer in the mountains, never coming 

 to a lower altitude than 1,000 feet and 

 rarely below 1,500 feet. But during the 

 summer of 191 5, Juncos were seen at 

 various points in the valley all summer, 

 and on June 27 a pair was found nesting 

 in a dooryard near the edge of the village 

 at an altitude of about 700 feet. 



A large number of White-throated 

 Sparrows, taking possession of a hill not 

 over 900 feet in altitude and 2 miles 

 from the foot of the mountains, remained 

 there all summer singing and nesting. 



We also noted two pairs of Canadian 

 Warblers nesting at 1,000 feet, which is 

 500 feet lower than we have ever found 

 them nesting before. 



We laid this change in the habits of these 

 birds to the extreme coolness of the sum- 

 mer in this region. 



Another unusual event with us was a 

 migration of the Tennessee Warbler which 

 occurred from May 20 to May 26, 1915, 

 inclusive. This Warbler has been observed 

 here but once in the past fifteen years, 

 and at that time only a single individual 

 was seen. 



These birds seemed to prefer the tops of 

 the deciduous trees and were singing con. 



