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gical specimens, or Indian stone and 

 copper implements. Wliat I wish to 

 speak of here was tlie abundance of 

 Killdeer that nested in a certain flat 

 open field on the north side of the 

 city; I don't recollect just how many 

 nests I found but they were plentiful, 

 and each contained its quota of four 

 speckled beauties, some nests were 

 hollows in the ground, some more 

 elaborately built. One in particular 

 which I collected, with four beautiful 

 eggs, was a great heap of pebbles with 

 a deep hollow at the top, just large 

 enough to hold the eggs, points in, this 

 is the first stone nest I ever found and 

 it being situated on a piece of ground 

 that was sandy and full of very small 

 gravel, satisfied me that the Killdeer 

 uses just what is nearest at hand for 

 lining to the hollow that serves for 

 the nest. The nest in pastures are 

 usually lined with roots or pieces from 

 the lower end of old dead grass stems 

 and bits of dead wood. 



George W. H. VosBurgh. 

 Zion City, Illinois. 



Nefting Dates for 1898 

 The following list of dates on which 

 fresh sets of a few birds of Dud- 

 dridge County, West Virginia, were 

 taken, although getting old may be 

 of inteiest, as I don't see much about 

 birds from that region. 

 3;57 Red-tailed Hawk; April 

 eggs. 

 Hairy Woodpecker; May 



eggs. 

 Downy Woodpecker; May 

 eggs. 

 Whip-poor-will; May 7, 2 eggs; 

 10th, 2 eggs; 11th, 2 eggs; 19th, 

 2 fets of 2; 26th, 2 eggs; June 

 29th, 2 eggs. 

 Hunmer; May 29, 2 eggs. 

 Acadian Flycatcher; May 28 and 

 June 10, sets of 3 eggs each. 

 593 Cardinal; May 25, 3 eggs. 



39:i 



394 



12, 

 15, 

 11, 



41 



428 

 465 



608 



624 

 628 

 636 



639 

 642 



648 

 G58 



675 

 677 



681 



683 



718 



731 



751 



Scarlet Tanager; May 18, 3 eggs; 



May 20, 4 eggs; May 25, 3 eggs; 



May 30, 4 eggs. 

 Red-eyed Vireo; May 21, 3 eggs; 



first set of the season. 

 Yellow-throated Vireo; May 14, 



3 eggs. 



Black & White Warbler; May 15, 



4 eggs; May 19, 3 eggs; May 21, 

 4 eggs; May 31, 4 eggs. 



Worm-eating Warbler; May 25, 4 



eggs; May 31, 4 eggs. 

 Golden-winged Warbler; May 23, 



4 eggs. 

 Parula Warbler; May 14, 5 eggs; 



May 20, 4 eggs; June 1, 4 eggs. 

 Cerulean Warbler; May 12, 4 



eggs ;May 20, 2 sets of 4; May 



24, 3, and May 30, 4 eggs. 

 Water-thrush; May 24, 5 eggs. 

 Kentucky Warbler; May 20, June 



1st and 5th, 5 eggs each. 

 Maryland Yellow-throat; May 28, 



4 eggs. 



nth, and 19th, 4 



Chat; May 9th, 



eggs each. 

 Carolina Wren; May 29, 5 eggs; 



June 2, 5 eggs. 

 Tufted Titmouse; May 8, 7 eggs; 



May 11, 6 eggs. 

 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher; May 11, 



5 eggs; May 14, 3 eggs. 



R. B. Simpson. 

 Warren, Pa. 



An Oddly Situated Phoebe's Nest. 



Of all the curiously situated Phoe- 

 be's nests that I have ever found, the 

 strangest came under my observation 

 this year. It was found on May 28, 

 1911, at Lower Merion, Montgomery 

 County, Pennsylvania, and was under- 

 neath a small plank bridge spanning 

 a brook in a woods, over which a lone- 

 ly road passed. The bridge was 

 about two yards wide and six feet 

 high and the walls were of stone. 

 An old shovel had been stuck blade 

 first into the wall by a workman and 



