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around" yet, if it hadn't been for niy 

 reading in the June number on Page 

 1'22, something al)out a nest of the Che- 

 wink Ijeing found aboitt two miles 

 south-west of Albion by K. B. Mathes. 



Now I believe it is the custom always, 

 that whenevea anyone reports thh "first 

 recorded set" of any species, that ♦ime- 

 one else just "ha})pens around" and 

 claims a ^j;'t;i'io?<.sM-ecord. I think that 

 that has come to be the universal cus- 

 tom. Now. I am not going to do that, 

 Init I would just like to call the atten- 

 tion of all interested to :i short note on 

 page 168 of the August, 185)0 OoLOGi.ST 

 which relates the taking of a nest of the 

 Chewink near Medina. 



The note referre<l to was in the edi- 

 torial column of tliat numl)er; and I 

 quote it here. — "Just as we are going 

 to press, a' 'small l)oy' comes into tlie 

 office of 'ye A.ssociate Editor' ,and dis- 

 plays an egg which he foiuid and gives 

 a description of the bird and nest, and 

 we are convinced that it is the Che- 

 wiidv. This is valuable in that this is 

 rather a northerly breeiling-place for 

 this l)ird and this is the Jirf^t instance of 

 its hrccfiiuf/ here, etc., etc." 



No\v I don't know as that set found 

 in '90 was properly "recorded,'' it Ijeing 

 found by no-one more signiiicant than 

 a '•!,-malll>(>y" and neither parent birds 

 taken. However, I would like to add 

 in regard to that set of eggs, that it was 

 a set oifour; that the egg brought me 

 I)y the lioy, was an egg of the Chewink; 

 and that his careful and accurate des- 

 cription of nest and i)arent-1)ird were 

 as good and perfect idiuitity as the 

 most cautious could d(>.sire, even if the 

 i)gff had not si)oken immistakeablly for 

 itself. And so I hardly think that the 

 nest ff)und near Albion by lyir. Mathes, 

 can !)•• called the "frsl recorded ncsr 

 found in our County, since th(; August, 

 181)0 ()oL(JGl.ST, spoke of the al)ove 

 found nest near Medina. No. I thiidv 

 it is true in this (as in most other things) 

 that Mulina has the start of Albion. 



Please do not understand me as 

 claiming the honor of this achievement. 

 I did not find the nest, nov is it any- 

 thing to me, further than that I think 

 that out of justice to science. May 24. 

 1891 ought not to be considered as the 

 earliest record of Pipilo's Inveding in 

 our I'ounty. 



I regret that I am unalilc to give the 

 date of the taking of the Medina nest, 

 but it was quite late in the sea.son of '90. 



And now, as to just what the status 

 oi Pipilo crythrophtknhnns in our county 

 is, I think that it just reaches the limit 

 of its northern migration V.vw. and 

 that Orleans County is situated just in 

 the northern suburbs of its luibitat, we 

 being visited only hy a few of the most 

 northerly migrating pairs. 



Mr. J. L. Davison, of Lockport, in 

 his Annotated List of the Birds of Niag- 

 ara County (Septeml)er, 1889) speaks 

 of this binl in the following words, viz: 

 "A rare summer resident. On INIay 1 

 and 10, 1886, I saw and secured th.e first 

 I had seen of this species, both females. 

 On June 14, 1887, I sav/ a male and fe- 

 male; did not succeed in finding a nest, 

 Init concluded that they lireed here.'' 

 (Niagara County I might add. adjoins 

 Orleans County directly on the west, 

 and as regards latitude! and oiher con- 

 diti«)ns relative to the migration of t!i(> 

 Chewink, it is just the same in aH par- 

 ticulars. 



In the List of tlie Birds of Buffalo 

 and Vicinity l)y W. H. Bergtold, M. D., 

 we find in regard to the Chewink: "Tol- 

 erable common. Breeds:' But when 

 we consider that this list of the Birds of 

 Buffalo and Vicinity includes notes 

 from a very larc/e vicinity, and that 

 even such .southern counties as Cattar- 

 augus and Chatau(pia are incliided in 

 the wm-d "vicinity," we aic liot sur- 

 ' lirised to find J'ipilo rated as a trifie 

 more common in that list. 



I ;im of the opinion that \\ e would 

 not liave to go far south of our rounty 



