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CowBiRD IN ViREo's Nest. — Recently while examining vari- 

 ous specimens in the collection of Mr. Thomas J. Battey, of Provi- 

 dence, R. I., the data accompanying a nest of the Red-eyed Vireo, 

 taken at Camp Wyonegonic, Bridgton, Maine, interested me. 



Mr. Battey kindly consented to its use in the Journal, and 

 allowed me to make the following copy : 



"This beautiful nest, trimmed with birch bark, was built by the 

 Red-eyed Vireo in a hazel bush near the Camp at Bridgton, 1905. 

 After one egg w^as laid, a Cowbird deposited one, and then the Vireo 

 laid one more. The Cowbird hatched first and then one of the 

 Vireos. The birds grew nicely until the Cowbird left the nest, 

 when the Vireos neglected their own little fledgling, and it died, 

 apparently starved. The other egg did not hatch. T. J. B [attey]." 



Arthur H. Norton. 

 Portland, Oct. 15, 1906. 



Notes from Phillips. — A flock of Herring Gulls came to 

 Sweet's Pond, New Vineyard, April 29th, and stayed over a week. 

 I saw as many as sixteen at one time. May 5th, I saw on the same 

 pond a flock of nine lyoons, where I had seen but two last year and 

 none previously. May 21st, I discovered a pair of Philadelphia 

 Vireos in the maples in front of my house. They remained there a 

 w^eek or more. The song was similar to that of the Red-eyed Vireo, 

 but much less varied, and could be heard only about one-quarter as 

 far. The Warblers came about a week later than usual, and some 

 of the migrant birds w^ere unusually late in taking their departure 

 for the north. May 23rd, I saw a Ruby-crowned Kinglet. The last 

 one previously seen was May 14th, up to which date they had been 

 common. I saw a Wilson's Warbler feeding among the apple 

 blossoms in my garden May 29th. This bird remained until May 

 31st, when I saw it for the last time. It had not the least vestige of 

 a crown cap. I saw two males May 30th, at the edge of an alder 

 bog. I also saw a vSolitary Sandpiper the same day. A pair of 

 Juncos built a nest in my barn eight feet from the ground. The 

 nest was in a mortise of a crossbeam overhead, in the middle of a 



