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anil, with the stream running below them, to secure for the glen a tem- 

 perature and humidity not unlike what is to be found in the forests of 

 Northern Wisconsin. 



In company with my friends, F. H. Severance and W. Trelease, I 

 paid a visit to this glen June 21, 1878. Just below the Falls, where 

 the glen widens, a group of five Winter Wrens (Anorthura troglodytes var. 

 hyemalis) were discovered darting in and out of a brush-pile which lay a 

 short distance back from the stream. On securing one of these, it was 

 found to be a fully fledged young bird, but so immature as to leave no 

 doubt that it was one of a brood which had been reared in the glen. 



It may be added that two Winter Snow-Birds were observed in this glen 

 on the same date, and that an Acadian Flycatcher was obtained there. — 

 F. H. King, Ithaca, X. Y. 



The Sooty Tern in Xew Hampshire. — Up to the present time 

 record has been made of the capture of nine specimens of this Tern in 

 New England,* all these examples having been taken in Massachusetts, 

 Rhode Island, and Connecticut, since September, 1876. I now record the 

 tenth and most northern specimen, a fine adult male, taken at Newmar- 

 ket, N. H., about September 14, 1878, by Mr. D. C. Wiggin. I am in- 

 debted to Mr. Charles I. Goodale, who has preserved the specimen, for the 

 above facts. — Ruthven Deane, Cambridge, Mass. 



Sabine's Gull in Maine. — Mr. G. A. Boardman writes that among 

 the rare birds taken by him last spring (1878) near Calais, Me., is a Sa- 

 bine's Gull {Xema sabinei), in very nearly full plumage. I am also 

 informed that a specimen of the same species was taken not long since at 

 Portland, Me. The only other New England record for the species is 

 Boston Harbor, Mass., September 27, 1874 {Brev;ster, Amer. Sportsman, 

 V, 1875, 370 ; Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XVII, 1875, 449). — 

 J. A. Allen, Cambridge, Muss. 



The White-crowned Sparrow breeding in Vermont. — One of my 

 correspondents, Mr. H. E. Boughton, of Rutland, Vt., writes me that he 

 has, the present summer, found a pair of Zonotrichia leucophrys breeding in 

 that locality. As I know of no other record of this bird breeding in New 

 England, I send the item, with all he writes me in regard to it. "The 

 nest," he says, "was taken by myself, and was situated in a clump of black- 

 berry and maple bushes, and was about three and one half feet from the 

 ground. It is composed entirely of straw and grass, is very bulky, being 

 almost as large as the nest of a Robin on the outside, and about one and one 

 half inches in diameter on the inside. When the nest was approached 

 the bird, which was very shy, would dart off from it and into the bushes 

 like a shot ; but by concealing myself I obtained a good view of her when 

 she returned." — T. M. Brewer, Boston, Mass. 



* Merriam'a Review of the Birds of Connecticut, pp. 134, 135 ; Bull. Nutt. 

 Ornith. Club, Vol. II, pp. 22, 27, January, 1877. 



