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ever, the bird was released before it 

 was too late. 



The other accident is a more peculi- 

 ar one. Early one morning during 

 March, 1909, one of my friends was 

 awakened by a thumping on the roof 

 outside. The noise continued some 

 time and finally he arose to investi- 

 gate and found that an English Spar- 

 row was fast in the eve trough. A 

 ladder was procured and the bird was 

 taken down but not before the bird 

 had succombed. It was found that 

 the birds feet were frozen fast in the 

 ice in the trough and the bird was un- 

 able to extricate itself. The water 

 which remained in the trough was suf- 

 ficient to cover the bird's feet and this 

 having frozen during the night held 

 the bird fast to its roost. It hardly 

 seems possibly that a bird could sleep 

 with water freezing about its feet but 

 such was apparently the case. 



H. E. BISHOP. 



Sad Result. 



While reading the December OOLO- 

 GIST, 1909, I noticed an accident 

 which befel some birds which reminds 

 me of one incident familiar to me 

 which happened at my former resi- 

 dence in Boulder, Colorado. Where a 

 mountain stream threads its way 

 through the city and along its bank 

 there is a grove which contains a 

 great many kinds of small birds such 

 at Nuthatches, Robbins, etc. 



Among the numbers, my sister 

 found a Western Kingbird swinging 

 from a string and on examining it, the 

 bird was found with the string which 

 formerly hung in a loop, twisted 

 around the bird's neck, which evident- 

 ly choked it, and death resulted. 



This happened during the nesting 



season and it is very reasonable how 



it happened to meet the unusual death. 



PERRY L. JUDD. Rathdrum, Idaho. 



Unusual Eggs. 



In THE OOLOGIST for May, I see 

 that in the article "The Red Tail 

 Hawks," the author refers to an egg 

 of the Eastern Redtail, measuring 2.23 

 xl.66 inches as being unusually small. 

 This egg is the smallest in width of 

 any of which I have heard, but there 

 is an egg of this species in my collec- 

 tion which is much shorter. It is one 

 of a set of three from Michigan, and 

 the eggs measure 2.16x1.90, 2.18x1.88, 

 and 2.20x1.84. This is .20 of an inch 

 shorter than the average given by Mr. 

 Davie. 



I also have a set of Western Mocking- 

 bird's eggs, collected by myself near 

 Pasadena, California, the largest egg 

 of which is .18 of an inch above the 

 average length. They measure re- 

 spectively 1.12X.75, 1.09X.76 and 1.09x 

 .75. 



Later, I collected a second set from 



this pair, and it is interesting to note 



that these were still above average 



size, measuring l.Olx.74, .99x.74, and 



.97X.73 



A. B. HOWELL. 



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R. M BARNES. 



The Dusky Warbler. 



Through an oversight of the printer, 

 the article appearing on page 188 of 

 Volume 26, (November, 1909,) of THE 

 OOLOGIST relating to the Dusky 

 WARBLER was not credited to Mr. A. 

 K. Snyder who is the author thereof. 

 This is due Mr. Snyder as the article 

 was not only readable, but related to 

 a species concerning which there is 

 but little ornithological literature. 



