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appearance. The egg measured one 

 and one-sixteenth by seven-eights 

 inches, and was white, thickly covered 

 with reddish markings, and was very 

 badly incubated. Mr. Darlington nor 

 I could identify it. 



E. M. Kenworthy. 

 Delaware. 



An Albine Starling. 



Among the several breeds of Star- 

 lings (Sturnus vulgaris) which were 

 reared in my bird-cottage during the 

 spring of 1912, there was one brood of 

 four which was a true albine. As this 

 bird lived to be but four weeks old, 

 when a neighbor's cat devoured him, 

 it is rather difficult to say if this first 

 plumage would have been replaced by 

 the normal plumage of the adult 

 stages. However, the first plumage of 

 this bird was a glistening white with- 

 out the least traces of markings of any 

 kind. Its bill was quite normal, its 

 eyes, straw-color, tinged with pink 

 and its feet and legs, straw-color with 

 slight traces of red appearing at num- 

 erous places on their surface. 



Louis S. Kohler. 

 Bloomfield, X. J. 



Nesting of the Wood Thrush in 

 IVIississippi. 

 In looking over one of my books the 

 other day 1 was surprised to find the 

 breeding range of the Wood Thrush 

 given to be from North Carolina and 

 Kansas north to Northern United 

 States, as I had always regarded it as 

 being one of our common birds down 

 here in South Mississippi. In 1909 1 

 took my first set of four eggs of the 

 Wood Thrush, on May 20th. The nest 

 was about eight feet up in a small 

 cedar and the bird was on the nest. 

 This set was badly incubated but I 

 took no more sets of these this year as 

 it was late in the season. The next 

 year I took a set of two on May 15 and 



found another set the same day which 

 held two eggs. On the 16th I found 

 a nest with two eggs and on the 21st 

 I found two nests with four eggs each, 

 one of which I took. On May 24th 

 I found my last set of four. In 1911 

 I found five nests. On May 2d I found 

 the first nest which held one egg. 

 One nest was found on the 7th, two 

 on the 12th, and the last on the 21st. 

 In 1912 I did not take any sets as I 

 was at work on the Coast all the 

 spring, but I used to scare the birds 

 up from the palmetto thickets on 

 Deer Island quite often when I would 

 go over there. So this year I was on 

 the watch early and on the 28th of 

 April I found a nest with four eggs 

 and nearby another new one which 

 four days later held four also. Then 

 I found my old pair nesting on the 

 campus of the College and on May the 

 2d this nest held four greenish-blue 

 beauties. I have noticed that it is al- 

 ways the same piece of woods that 

 they nest in and so I am going out 

 soon and see how many I can find. 



Early Spring Notes. 



Under date of April 1st just twen- 

 ty species of our birds have arrived. 

 As I write I am listening to the sweet 

 incomparable warble of Bewick's 

 Wren. He has been here for several 

 days and for three seasons past the 

 welcome little southerner has been 

 coming regularly. Last May a pair 

 built a nest in a lumber pile here in 

 the village only a stone's throw from 

 the store and I secured a photo of an- 

 other family of young Bewick's in a 

 paint bucket hanging in a brick milk 

 house. 



Have taken, in the village, under 

 date March 29th, a fresh set of six 

 Screech Owl, the earliest set I have 

 ever taken outside of timber. I have 

 always found the timber Screechers 

 from two to three weeks earlier than 



