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Pigeon Holes. 



HIlEAiaVATEIt INLAND.— What seems to 

 liave been a young- Sooty Shearwater (I'uflinus 

 striekhindi, or 1'. fuligiiiosus) was found here 

 in a garden on the morning' of the 4th inst. 

 some J50 miles from the coast. The bird 

 seemed completely exhausted and died during 

 the day. A heavy storm had been on the pre- 

 ceding- twenty-four hours. — Edgak Magjsiess, 

 Attalla. Ala., May 10, 1S98. 



sparsely fringe a hillside overlooldng the Se- 

 basticook. All were busily feedJDg and shree, 

 shree, shreeing-, as thoug-h it were JIarch in- 

 stead of May. These are all i have seen since 

 last November. — C. H. Mokkell, I'ittsfield, Me. 



LATE MIGRA'JTON OF THE BRONZE 

 GKACKLE. — During- the past four years I have 

 noticed flocks of lironze Grackles or Crow 

 Blackbirds migrating- southward early in No- 

 vember. For three years in succession they 



WHERE THE PEKEGRINE BRED. 



WHEKE THE TKRECRINE BRED.— My old 

 friend, S. S. Haldeinan, is now chiefly remem- 

 bered in ornithology as the authority for the 

 name Sialia sialis, which he tised for the Blue- 

 bird in Trego's fieogra))hy of Pennsyh'ania, 

 1S43. About 20 years ago he gave me the pho- 

 toe-rajih of C'hickis Rock which appears in 

 this number of The Osprey, and which n-as a 

 place where the Peregrine used to breed be- 

 fore the railroad invaded that region. The 

 view also shows TTaldeman's house, in what is 

 now the village of Chickies. or Chiques. Lan- 

 caster Co., Pa., on the Peuna. R. R., about 2^ 

 miles southeast of Hari-isbnrg. — Elliott 

 CouES, Washington, D. C. 



BELATED FLOCK OF PTNE RTSKTNS.— On 

 the Ifith of May T saw a flock of about 2.5 Pine 

 Siskins in the birch and spruce trees, which 



passed in the first week of this month, but as 

 October of 1S9T was quite warm, they did not 

 pass until the middle of the next month. 

 Those that nest here leave with their young 

 the last of ,Tuly and first of August. Can some 

 of our ornithologists tell the readers of The 

 OsPRF.y how far north these late flocks nest? 

 — J. C. Elliott. Swanwick, HI. 



T'lLEATED WOODPECKER'S EGCS.— T had 

 the good fortune to take this season three sets 

 of I'ileated Woodpecker's eggs, one of which 

 contained a decided runt, as the following 

 measurements show: 1.3.3 x .98. 1.33 x 1.00. 1.35x 

 .98, 1.00 X .85. I also took a set of five Spotted 

 Sandpiper's eggs, which T think is an unusual 

 number. — F. B. Spaltlding, Lancaster, N. H., 

 .\ugust 21, 1898. 



