from the house, singing between mouthfuls, when the two birds hopped 

 toward each other, lifted their heads and sang, together and alternately, 

 in a very sweet and friendly manner, and then returned to their coffee 

 and rolls. — Mrs. T. D. Dershimer, Sqiiarctofi, Wyomitig Co., Fa. 



Horned Grebe, Colymbus auritus, in Chester Co., Penn. — On the 

 2ist of April, i8g6, an employe of the Pennsylvania railroad handed me 

 a female Horned Grebe, Colymbus auritus, which had been picked up 

 close to the track at Paoli, Chester county, early in the morning of that 

 date. It had undoubtedly met its death through violent contact with the 

 overhead wires, although I could find no injury except a slight cut at the 

 tip of one wing. It was in fine plumage and exceedingly fat. Its stomach 

 contained a quantity of green moss and fragments of water beetles, 

 probably secured from one of our fresh water streams. What caused 

 this decidedly aquatic species to venture so far from any considerable body 

 of water, I am unable to venture an opinion, as we have had no consid- 

 erable storm for some time previous to the date of its capture. — F. L. 

 Burns, Berivyn, Pe?m. 



The Attachment of Loggerhead Shrikes to Previous Nesting 

 Sites. — How many collectors are aware that Shrikes will return annually 

 to the same locality to build their nests ? Early in May, 1891, I found a 

 Loggerhead Shrike's nest in a certain tree within a mile of my home, 

 and took the set of six eggs. The birds rebuilt in a neighboring tree and 

 in a couple of weeks I took the second set of five eggs. A third set was 

 laid and the young were successfully reared by the Shrikes, who built 

 the nest on the site of the first one. In 1892 I happened to be passing 

 that way, and to my surprise I found a nest with five eggs, occupying the 

 site of the previous year. I took these and the birds at once rebuilt in 

 the same place, rearing the young this time. In 1893, 1894 and 1895 I 

 again took sets from the same site, and in each case the birds rebuilt and 

 reared their young in the same tree. I am now wondering whether this 

 year will find them on deck again or not, but I am very confident that I 

 will take a set of eggs there early in May. I have knowledge of two 

 other pairs of these birds which have nested for three years very near the 

 same localities, but only in one case have they occupied the same tree, 

 this occuring on the first and third years that the birds were observed. 

 There cannot be any reasonable doubt that it is the same birds which 

 return yearly to their former nesting places. Other collectors in this 

 locality have informed me that they have taken nests in the same vicinity 



