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We can give you a better Journal, 

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 way. Send me records of collecting 

 trips and unusual finds; descriptions 

 of home made tools .and cabinets; 

 records of your . experience in using 

 solvents in blowing eggs, or preserv- 

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These may be of value and if so we 

 don't ask you to write for nothing. 



Interesting phc^tos of Birds and 

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OOLCXiisT. 



All Subscriptions, Advertisements, 

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I am here to take care of these nijit- 

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Assuring you that I shall devote al^ 

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 OoLOOiST and asking your charitj' 

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Faithfully, 



Ernest H. Short, 

 Jan. 1st. l'J()4 Chili, N. Y. 



P.,S. By the way, — I wish to thank 

 my many friends and patrons for nu- 

 merous good wishes and congratula- 

 tions I have received dur ing the past 

 month. E. S. 



Editorial Notes and Clippings. 



Breeding of Myrtle Warbli;r. 



The following extract from an article 

 by C.J. Young in the "Daily Herald" 

 of Guelph, Ont. we deem of enough 

 general interest to reprint here. 



"Of the nests, the Black-throated 

 Blue was in a small maple sapling 

 near a hardwood bush, found.- May 

 28th, when it contained four afresh 

 eggs. This is the usual location for 

 that Species. The nest of the Myrtle 

 Warbler was in a second growth pine, 

 two other nests in small cedars, a 

 fourth in a small spruce, each from 

 five to twelve feet from the ground. 

 With regard to this biril, I notice it 

 has a decided preference for the vicin- 

 ity of water in the breeding season, as 

 three out of the four nests referred to 

 were located on islands in the lakes 

 hereabouts, the other was in a tamarac 

 swamp not far from Sharbot Lake, and 

 one I found some years ago was in a 

 cedar alongside of Calabogie Lake, in 

 Renfrew County. In each case the nest 

 was largely built externally of twigs of 

 spruce and hemlock (I have preserved 

 two of them), and the lining consisted 

 of feathers, which were in every case a 

 prominent feature. The late Mr. Mcll- 

 wraith mentions this, but Mr. Kells, 

 of Listowell, has apparently not observ- 

 ed it, writing in the O. F. Naturalist 

 Magazine, Vol. xvi., Nov. 7, of a nest 

 lu' found as being lined with rootlets 

 and hair. It does not therefore seem 



