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so far as I knew there was only one chimney within fifteen miles. There 

 were at least two pairs of grackles about the camp, and I found one nest. 

 It was in a hollow stump which stood in the water. Standing up in the 

 canoe, I could just see into the nest, and I found four young birds. The 

 parent birds did not fly directly to the hole, as the starlings do, but 

 would light on the top of the stump and work their way down carefully 

 to the hole. Above this nest was another — whether an old one or a 

 new one I could not determine, as the top of it was out of reach from 

 the canoe. One wonders what will be the fate of these young grackles 

 when they first attempt a flight from their water-surrounded abode. 

 On June 10th I went up to Lincoln Pond two miles back from the River. 

 Here I found a single nest of a herring gull — three eggs — one hatching 

 when I found the nest. A bird which greatly surprised me on this pond 

 was the prairie horned lark. On my way over to the Pond I saw a fine 

 adult bald eagle and on this pond a loon. There was not a large number 

 of species in the vicinity so far as I could discover, but it was interesting 

 to me to see on their breeding-grounds some of the birds which I had 

 always known as migrants. 



Robert F. Cheney. 

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Sustaining members received during October. 



Adams, Miss Emily 21 Bates St., Cambridge 



Armstrong, Miss Irene The Ludlow, Boston 



Atherton, Mrs. George E 222 Marlboro St., Boston 



Bowditch, Edward Cottage Ave., W. Roxbury 



Bowditch, Miss Elizabeth S 366 Adams St., Milton 



Bradley, Mrs. J. G 312 Beacon St., Boston 



Bridgewater Bird Club Lester W. Sprague, Sec, Bridgewater 



Brown, Miss S. A Hotel Vendome, Boston 



Cutler, Wolcott 104 East 22nd St., New York 



Dutcher, William 939 Central Ave., Plainfield, N. J. 



Gifford, Stephen N., Jr 263 Summer St., Boston 



Morris, Charles Whitney 132 Kemper St., Wollaston 



Robinson, Mrs. Charles W 1535 Cambridge St., Cambridge 



Souther, Channing W., Jr. Allendale St., Jamaica Plain 



Speare, Mrs. Lewis R 28 Sumner St., Newton Centre 



Sparrow, Miss Mariorie 1140 Boylston St., Chestnut Hill 



Swasey, Mrs. Martha S 34 Oak Ave., Worcester 



Torrey, Miss Edith E 164 Huntington Ave., Boston 



Warden, Mrs. Elizabeth E . Box 80, Oxford 



Wood, Miss G. A. 7 Buckingham Place, Cambridge 



Wood, Mrs. Mary Channing 20 Edgehill Rd., Brookline 



Wood, Nelson M., M.D 72 High St., Charlestown 



Worcester, Mrs. H. E 10 Kirkland Road, Cambridge 



Wright, Miss Beatrice 46 Cotswold Rd., Brookline 



Wright, Mrs. James H 371 Harvard St., Cambridge 



Young, Mrs. F. E Hotel Puritan, Boston 



Young, Mr. F. E. Hotel Puritan, Boston 



Young, Miss Marjorie 294 Ashmont St., Ashmont 



Young, Miss Rosamond Rosemont, Duxbury 



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SOME VERMONT BLUEBIRDS 



The following observations were dictated to me without material 

 change by Mr. Willard R. Stoddard of Barnet, Vermont. His house is 

 on an elevated bank of the Connecticut River, about a quarter of a mile 

 from the water. 



