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until dark. All of them fly toward 

 the southeast or east. 



August 20. — Found an old nest to- 

 day, in a hedge, up near the top, in a 

 fork of an upright branch. It was 

 composed entirely of the soft silken 

 seeds of the thistle, woven together 

 into a shallow cup, and glued to the 

 branch in some manner. I do not 

 know what bird it belonged to. (Very 

 likely readers will identify it as that 

 of the goldfinch. P. M. S.) Gold- 

 finches are now having a gay time, 

 swinging on the heads of the thistle, 

 and scattering the downy seeds in all 

 directions. 



Sept. 3. — Nighthawks still continue 

 to fly overhead. Notes made Aug. 13 

 state that all fly southeast or east. 

 This is a mistake, as I have later 

 seen them flying north and northeast. 

 On cloudy days they appear earlier in 

 the afternoon. 



Sept. 9.— A dabchick was seen on 

 a pond near town. 



Sept. 13.— Nighthawks flying about 

 for the last time. 



Oct. 11.— Cool and cloudy, having 

 the appearance of snow. Snowbirds 

 (junco) appeared on their return from 

 the north. Saw a pair of white-eyed 

 vireos in company with a flock of 

 sparrows along a hedge. Crows go to 

 the grove every night to roost. Some- 

 times straggling and sometimes in a 

 large company. 

 Lewistown, Mont. 



P. M. SILLOWAY. 



Late Nesting of the Hummingbird. 



The recent article in the Oologist 

 relative to the nesting of the Hum- 

 mingbird calls to mind a nest which 

 I examined in 1904. On August 20 

 it contained 2 hatching eggs. Built 

 10 feet up on horizontal hemlock limb 

 and very deep. Place, Washington 

 County, Md. This is the latest rec- 



ord I have of this bird's nesting. I do 

 not believe that these birds rear two 

 broods this far north. 



Also examined a Goldfinch's nest on 

 Sept. 23, which contained 3 fresh 

 eggs. The usual time for fresh eggs 

 here, (Mont. Co., Pa.), is July 25 to 

 Aug. 30, but this is my latest date. 

 R. C. HARLOW. 



EDITORIAL. 



We have seen no copy of "Ameri- 

 can Ornithology," since July-August 

 issue (double number), and we now 

 hear that, owing to complications 

 with Post Office Department, Friend 

 Reed has suspended publication in- 

 definitely. Let us hope that he will 

 get matters straightened up soon and 

 resume. 



We are in receipt of copy, "Notes 

 on Wisconsin Mollusca," from the au- 

 thor, G. H. Chadwick, formerly with 

 Ward's Nat. Science Est., Milwaukee 

 Public Museum, etc., and now State 

 zoologist of New York. 



It is a strictly technical list of all 

 Wisconsin shells found by or authen- 

 tically reported to the author, gotten 

 up in pamphlet form of 32 pp. 



It enumerates 115 species, mostly 

 positively identified, and must prove 

 of great value to all interested in the 

 shells of Wisconsin and surrounding 

 localities. 



We reprint Percival's Bobolink 

 Song from Davies' "Odds and Ends," 

 in this issue. We intended to use 

 this with an exhaustive article on 

 Bobolink by Prescott, but owing to de- 

 lay in getting half-tone to use with it, 

 we are forced to leave it for next 

 month. 



Through the courtesy of S. R. 

 Morse, Curator of the Museum, we 

 have received a copy of the 1905 Re- 

 port of the State Museum of New 

 Jersey. 



