up of eighty-one pieces. The dry box-elder pedicels measured ten feet 

 and the live ones two feet and contained twenty-two pairs of seeds. So 

 the total number of pieces in the nest was one hundred and twenty, and 

 the total length of these pieces was thirty-eight feet. In addition to 

 these there were eleven crab-apple leaves, ten of choke-cherry and fifty - 

 three of box-elder, making a total of seventy-four and a grand total of 

 one hundred and ninety-four pieces, which the bird had brought together 

 for the nest ; and it was not such a remarkable nest either. There was 

 nothing in the construction of this nest that might not have been 

 procured within fifty feet of the tree upon which it was built. 



Although it is not always possible to tell just what each piece in a bird's 

 nest is from, it usually is, particularly if one has studied the botany 

 of the locality somewhat. — Virginius H Chase, IVady Pet-ra, IlL 



GENERAL NOTES. 



Notes from Minnesota. — Eggs of Le Conte's Sparrow. — On June i8 

 I took a set of four eggs with nest of Le Conte's Sparrow in Otter Tail 

 County, Minn. The nest was in a meadow near running water, in a 

 clump of weeds, and was composed of weeds, lined with fine, dry, yellow 

 grass. The female was sitting and the eggs were very slightly incubated. 

 They were pinkish-brown, dotted and streaked with dark-brown and 

 black, and measured as follows : . Sox. 56, . Sox. 54, .yS x .52 and .76X .50. 



An Albino English Sparrow. — While driving on a country road near 

 St. Paul, on July 3, I saw an English Sparrow nearly all white, among 

 a flock of twenty or thirty other Sparrows. The bird was white, or more 

 of a cream color, speckled on the wings, breast and tail with brownish- 

 black. 



A Large Set of Cuckoo. — Mr. Oliver V. Jones, of Minneapolis, took a 

 set of eight Black-billed Cuckoo last May. The eggs were all of normal 

 size and varied greatly in incubation as usual, and were undoubtedly laid 

 by one bird, as a careful watch was kept to discover more than two birds. 

 The eggs were piled up in the form of a pyramid to keep from rolling off. 

 — Walton I. Mitchell, St Paid, Minn. 



Nestling Down. — Mr. Howard P. Mitchell, who has in charge in- 

 vestigations relating to " Nestling Down," sends the following for pub- 

 lication : 



On the i6th of May, 1S94, I observed two young Horned Larks with nest- 



