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though I was the only one to note it this 

 year. The former breeds there sparingly. 



On May 2, and once later, I saw the 

 Nashville Warbler. This is one of our 

 rarer regular migrants. 



On May 15, I heard a peculiar song, 

 starting like the Chipping Sparrow's, and 

 ending as though it needed a little grease. 

 I finally caught sight of the bird and got 

 very near it. It was a Tennessee Warbler. 

 It stayed five days, and sang so persist- 

 ently, even after dark, that everybody 

 at our house was glad when it had gone. 

 Two summer records of note were of 



Schrenk and myself at my summer home 

 at Northport Point, Michigan. This bath 

 is built of ordinary country' rock, and the 

 cement used in its construction cost 

 probably thirty-five cents. As \\ill be seen 

 by reference to the photograph, the bowl 

 is built of flat stone, the inside being 

 thoroughly cemented and afterward water- 

 proofed with sulphate of zinc. The bath 

 proper is probably two and one-half feet 

 in diameter, and two to two and one-half 

 inches deep. As will be seen, it is located 

 in the woods, and in the summer it is no 

 unusual thing to see as many as twenty 



AN INK\rK\M\F, BIRD-BATH 



about fifty Little Blue Herons in the 

 white phase, and a dozen large Egrets. 

 They were seen in the marshes along the 

 Potomac, near the National Cemetery 

 at Arlington. 



Some other species seen were the White- 

 crowned Sparrow, the Ring-billed Gull, 

 and the W^arbling Vireo. — Raymond W. 

 Moore, Kensington, Montgomery County, 

 Md. 



An Inexpensive Bird-bath 



I am inclosing herewith a photograph 

 of a bird-bath erected by Dr. Herman Von 



birds in and about the bath. Among the 

 birds that utilize this bath are Robins, 

 several kinds of Warblers, Vireos, and 

 Cedar Waxwings. — W. E. Barnes, St. 

 Louis, Mo. 



The Wild Pigeon in Minnesota? 



Yesterday, a little above this city 

 (which is on the St. Croix River, twenty 

 miles east of St. Paul), I, with three 

 others, saw a bird which I am sure was a 

 Passenger Pigeon. For fifteen years, I 

 have studied the birds of Minnesota; and 

 my daughter, a high-school junior of 



