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from those of slellaris. In one case a male stellaris was singing 

 in the grass within ten feet of a nest containing five chocolate 

 eggs; he was the only bird seen in the neighborhood, and, after 

 hunting for several hours, I could find no other nest, yet I 

 should not consider myself justified in stating that the chocolate 

 eggs belonged to stellaris. 



Dr. Detwiller has made one or two statements that are open 

 to question, as may be seen in a recent "Auk," and his record 

 is therefore doubtful, especially when the fact is taken into con- 

 sideration that dozens of ornithologists have worked and worked 

 over again the whole of eastern Pennsylvania without finding a 

 nest, or at least not recording it if found. However, the bird 

 is of extremely local distribution, and it is possible that Dr. 

 Detwiller's record is correct. 



Another record, although not from the territor}^ covered by 

 this paper, is of interest. It was furnislied by Mr. Stone and is 

 as follows in his own words: " Mr. C. J. Pennock found a nest 

 in a marsh along the Delaware River near Wilmington, Del., 

 that he regards as this species, on the ground of white eggs. I, 

 as I told him., am skeptical (perhaps too much so), because I do 

 not believe the species associates with the Long-billed Wren in 

 tide-water marshes, and as you know the latter sometimes laj'S 

 albino eggs. . . . The notes in Chaj)man's " Handbook " con- 

 firm my suspicions above, i. e., that the bird does not breed 

 this far south or in the river marshes." 



From the little that I have been able to gather on the subject 

 I would say that I think the nest found by Mr. Pennock was 

 that of stellaris, for as far as I can learn they do, even though 

 it may be rarely, breed in tide-water marshes, and in company 

 with T. palusiris. Audubon says, "Dr. Trudcau informs me 

 that he found its (stellaris) nest in the Delaware marshes, and 

 saw both male and female near it, but could not procure them, 

 being at the time without a gun; tlie eggs were four." * 



These marshes were probably tidal, although they may have 

 been farther north. At any rate, they were river marshes. 



Then in Dallas Lore Sharp's delightful " Roof and Meadow," 



* Birds of America. 



