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'New York (Lake (Icorge, May 8, 1877 

 and May 16, 1881)'. According to Eaton, 

 this must have been at the head of Lake 

 George in Warren County. Lunch was 

 eaten on the rocks of the cascade three 

 or four rods above but in plain sight of the 

 nest; but the parent birds refused to 

 approach to feed the young, and kept up 

 an almost incessant alarm note. Evidently 

 the female bird was the less fearless, 

 coming to within two or three feet of the 

 nest on a large stick in the debris; yet 

 she would approach no nearer. 



Near the lower end of Big Notch, in 

 the Putnam Mountains, north of Peaked 

 Mountain, in southern West Fort Ann, 

 a pair of Canadian Warblers, with their 

 necklaces of black streaks was seen June 

 27, 1918. They were very much alarmed 

 at my presence in this wild, rocky, un- 

 frequented spot, and so uneasy that they 

 must have been nesting somewhere about. 

 This would be another new nesting record 

 for Washington County, although pre- 

 sumably the birds have always nested 

 along the wild, broken mountain ridge 

 between Lake George and Lake Cham- 

 plain. The Canadian Warbler is a common 

 summer resident in Essex County, and 

 also a summer resident among the moun- 

 tains of Warren County. 



On the morning of November 4, there 

 was a flock of six Evening Grosbeaks in 

 the maple trees about the house, but they 

 have not been seen since. The winter of 

 1918-1919 was exceptionally mild. Early 

 in the winter a Northern Shrike was about, 

 and occasionally there was a flock of 

 about 100 Starlings in the orchard trees. 

 There was a noticeable scarcity of White- 

 breasted Nuthatches again, as last winter; 

 and probably only one pair came for suet 

 and chopped peanuts occasionally. I 

 cannot account for the scarcity of the 

 Nuthatches, as during winters previous to 

 1917-1918 they had been almost as 

 abundant at the feeding-baskets as the 

 Chickadees. Have others noticed the 

 scarcity of the White-breasted Nuthatch, 

 or is it merely a local condition? 



Prairie Horned Larks came back in 

 January to 'sweet cheerie' over the bare 



fields; and a line flock of Kediiolls were 

 about nearly every day, gleaning weed 

 seeds or the seeds from the black birch 

 tree at Glenwood wood's margin. A Robin 

 came to the garden crab-tree the morning 

 of January 28, and was also there most of 

 the following day, sunning himself and 

 feasting on frozen apples. He was seen 

 again the afternoon of February 14 during 

 a rain and sleet storm. — Stewart H. 

 BuRNHAM, Hudson Falls, N. Y. 



A Red-Eyed Vireo's Nest 



I am a Japanese student now at Ithaca 

 and have become interested in your 

 American birds. 



Recently I discovered a nest of the 

 Red-eyed Vireo near here, and after much 



RED-EYED VIREO WORKING 

 ON ITS NEST 



efTort succeeded in obtaining the photo- 

 graph here enclosed. The nest was 

 located about ten feet high in the outer 

 branches of a tree, but fortunately the 

 tree grew in a gorge, the rim of which was 

 near to the nest. I therefore set up my 

 camera close to the nest, and, with the 

 aid of a thread release, photographed the 

 bird and nest. 



Almost every time the bird came back 

 to her nest, she brought some white stuff 



