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longer. I visited the nest every year, and as it was always occupied 

 I concluded that the same pair came back to the home nest every 

 year. — //. W.JctvclL Farmiiigton, Me. 



Birds Drop their Eggs While Flying. — How many have 

 ever noticed that birds drop their eggs while flying, and when quite 

 a distance from the nest ? The first bird I noticed which did this 

 was a Bluebird. I was working in a garden when I noticed a Blue- 

 bird flying about twenty feet in the air. As she passed by and be- 

 fore she flew over a fence she dropped, or, in other words, laid an 

 ^%%, while on the wing. The egg had developed so fast no doubt 

 she could not wait until the nest was reached. The same thing 

 occurred with a Robin that was forty or fifty feet from the nest, 

 which she was trying to reach, but did not in time. The Robin's 

 egg was broken, but the Bluebird's fell into the sand and did not 

 break, which seemed to me very singular. — H. IV. Jcivdl, Far»iing- 

 toii, Me. 



White-Crowneu Sparrows at Mt. Desert, Me. — On 

 May 15th, 1909, just before dark, I saw two White-crowned 

 Sparrows on a brush pile by a brook that run into the mill pond at 

 Norwood Cove. They were the handsomest birds seen this spring. 

 The Ovenbird and Yellow Warbler arrived the next morning. May 

 i6th, for the first time this year. — Sam A. Lurvey. 



Bird Notes from the Vicinity of Portland, Me. — 

 During the month of November, 1909, I made three visits to 

 Delano Park in the hope of finding Myrtle Warblers, but without 

 success. A lady whom I met on the occasion of my second visit 

 told me that she had seen some that morning. On the nth of 

 December, I saw three feeding among the bayberry bushes, and, as 

 I was watching them, eight more came from some place beyond the 

 Park and alighted in a pine tree near which I stood. I cannot 

 express the pleasure it gave me to see these beautiful little Warblers, 

 which, I think, are passing their seventh winter at the Cape. 



On the morning of January ist, 1910, I went . to Pine Point. 



