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affair and rather flat top. It looked 

 as if it had been used several seasons, 

 new material being added each year. 

 The only lining was a few finer 

 twigs and a little pieces of beech 

 bark. The four eggs were larger in 

 measurements than my set of three 

 that I got several years ago. I think 

 the Hawk will use these nests again 

 and hope to pay them a call another 

 season. 



R. B. Simpson, 



Warren, Pa. 



Albino Robin at Springfield, Illinois 

 A partially albino Robin was ob- 

 served near Springfield, 111 on May 

 31, 1920. The bird presented so 

 strange an appearance that the writer 

 was puzzled for the moment as to its 

 identity, but an examination through 

 the field glass soon removed any 

 doubt. The head, throat and breast 

 were pure white, merging into rufous- 

 red of the normal robin shade on the 

 belly; tail black or blackish; wings 

 and back variegated white and black- 

 ish slate-color; bill straw-yellow. The 

 flight and actions of the bird were 

 characteristic. 



A. D. Du Bois. 



Another Albino Robin 

 Charles F. Perkins of Weeping 

 Water, Nebr., recently killed and 

 mounted a pure Albino Robin, and 

 has thereby gotten himself into more 

 or less hot water with the local Audu- 

 bon Society, and the U. S. Government 

 for violating the Migratory Bird 

 treaty law. 



Hawks 



"I wonder if you had any report 

 as to the number of Hawks this year. 

 I have never seen so many of them. 

 Between Mr. Bent and myself we 

 have located over forty nests, includ- 

 ing 333, 343, 337, 339. Every place 



where I have ever found a Red 

 Shoulder's nest had one in it this 

 year. In one case the bird came back 

 to the same old nest after the absence 

 of eight years." 



Chester S. Day, 

 Boston, Mass. 



North Dakota Birds of Coulee and 

 Moraine 



For the fourteenth time, last June, 

 I visited my favorite Yellow Rail nest- 

 ing grounds. For the first time I 

 was unsuccessful. The birds were 

 strangely erratic; and the covert 

 where I found them dense. But, oh, 

 the lure! Sadly fewer, most of the 

 water birds, the ducks. But the 

 Sharp-tailed Grouse were abundant, 

 about the willow copses. A few 

 drakes, of sundry kinds, were dabbling 

 in the springs that bordered one sec- 

 tion of the coulee. With them were 

 two male Willets, quite as strident as 

 ever, when they were flushing. Rare- 

 ly, of an afternoon, a Godwit would 

 wing his majestic way, above me; im- 

 periously questioning my presence in 

 his wide domain. Rarely, more so 

 than of old, a male Wilson Phalarope 

 would flush, hysterically, from his 

 nest, and away he would flutter, gasp- 

 ing atid quacking. Of the instant, out 

 from the nowhere, would come dart- 

 ing two or three elegant females; and 

 the fugitive sitter would have a sorry 

 time of it, with his impulsive dodging 

 of the amazonian suitresses. 



While trying to locate the nest of 

 Short-billed Marsh Wrens. But Gerard 

 Allan Abbott had been there before 

 me), I suddenly jumped out of my 

 tracks at the sound of the watchman's 

 rattle of a Bittern. She budged not, as 

 I approached, but dared me, with 

 lusty snarlings. Two days later I set 

 up my camera in front of her; where- 

 at she flew into a rage. Backward, 

 and still backward, I moved the tri- 



