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of which is prohibited by law, offered 

 to tlie fall trade iu millinery stores. 

 Your editor has called on several retail 

 stores, in every case the proprietor 

 pleading ignorance of a law prohibit- 

 ing the sale of such birds or parts of 

 birds. There will need to be consider- 

 able sharp work done in the State this 

 fall and wiiiter. I am informed that 

 there has been some effort on the part 

 of New York parties to get collectors 

 in this State to procure some of the 

 seabirds for the millinery trade. Mr. 

 Dutcher writes me as follows: 



"I am very much interested in your 

 statement that the millinery people 

 are trying to induce the gunners in 

 Maine to kill the gulls . I do not see 

 what use it would be to them to do so, 

 because they could not find a market. 

 I am just now engaged in breaking up 

 the trade in New York City. Have al- 

 ready brought suit against one party 

 for $3,350, and expect to bring other 

 suits against wholesale dealers. The 

 retail dealers I find are very easily 

 managed; they give up the sale of pro- 

 hibited birds the moment their atten- 

 tion is called to the law. I expect, 

 within a few weeks, to bring suits 

 against two or three large wholesale 

 houses in this city, and if we win our 

 suits as I expect we shall do, the trade 

 will be effectually broken up, I believe, 

 all over the country." 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES FROM 

 LIVERMORE. 



September 25, while at Canton, Ox- 

 ford county, I observed a male Pine 

 Grosbeak, (Pinicola enucleator) and a 

 male White Crowned Sparrow, (Zano- 

 tiichia cucophrys), the first I have 

 seen this fall. 



Sept. 28 I took a trip over hills and 

 through valleys to observe the bird 



life of this locality. The following 

 species were seen: Sharp-shinned Red- 

 Shouldered and Sparrow Hawks, Ca- 

 nadian Ruffled Grouse, American 

 Crows, Blue .Jays, Downy Woodpeck- 

 ers, American Goldfinches, White 

 Crowned Sparrows, Chipping and Song 

 Sparrows, Slate Colored Juncos, White 

 and Red Breasted Nuthatches, Brown 

 Creepers, Wilson's and Hermit 

 Thrushes, Chickadees and Bluebirds, 

 also an abundance of Myrtle Warblers 

 in immature plumage. They have been 

 very plenty this fall in this locality. 

 I find them most plentiful in orchard 

 trees. Livermore seems to be a fine 

 locality to study the Warblers. I have 

 found fifteen species breeding, and no 

 doubt there are several other species 

 that nest here. Those I have found 

 are Black and White, Nashville, N. 

 Parula, Yellow, Black Throated Blue, 

 Myrtle, Magnolia. Chestnut-Sided, 

 Blackburnian, Black Throated Green, 

 Pine, Oven-Bird. Maryland Yellow- 

 Throat, Canadian Warbler and Ameri- 

 can Redstart. 



I take the following from my note 

 book: "Arrivals for 1901, Crows, 

 March 7; Robins, Marcii 24; Bluebirds, 

 April 1; Phoebe, April 14. 



April 13, observed a pair of mated 

 snow Buntings, which I consider very 

 unusual for this locality. April 28, 

 Master Harold Philoon found a nest of 

 the American Robin. It contained 

 three incubated eggs, the earliest rec- 

 ord I have of its nesting here. 



May 17 found a nest of the Canadian 

 Ruffled Grouse. It contained 13 beau- 

 tiful eggs. It was situated under a 

 brush heap in a cedar swamp. 



June 18 took a young No Pileated 

 Woodpecker. This species seems to 

 increase in numbers each year in this 

 locality. 



July 17 caught a pa.ir of young 

 Whip-poor-wills. Very odd looking lit- 

 tle birds. They reminded me of pic- 

 tures I have seen of young Condors. 

 The mother bird felt so badly that I 



