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FIELD NOTES 



A TWO-STORY YELLOW WARBLER'S NEST. 



We have found a yellow warbler's nest with a cowbird's egg in the 

 bottom, over which the warbler had built a second floor on which to lay 

 her own eggs. ' E. A. Fields. 



Sioux City, Iowa. 



PARTICULAR WRENS. 



A pair of wrens had reared a brood in a box on our back porch and 

 were preparing to raise a second brood, when the cover of the box was 

 loosened by the wind and was tied down with a white string. This 

 aroused suspicion on the part of Mrs. Wren, who immediately removed 

 the six eggs and part of the nest. I removed the rest of the nest, but 

 the wrens did not use the box again. What became of the eggs I do not 

 know, as there was no trace of them either in the box or on the porch. 



Sioux City, Iowa. E. A. Fields. 



COWBIRDS MONOPOLIZING A RED-EYED VIREO'S NEST. 



In the woods bordering Lake Okoboji, Iowa, in July, 1912, some bird 

 lovers discovered a daintily constructed red-eyed vireo's nest, covered 

 with a pure white, web-like substance, making it the most beautiful nest 

 we had ever seen. Evidently we were not the only ones attracted to it, 

 as it contained four cowbird 's eggs and no vireo 's eggs. While we ex- 

 amined the nest the vireos, much disturbed, sat on a branch near by. We 

 removed the eggs and returned a week later, hoping to find that the 

 proper owners had used it, but the nest was empty and another vireo's 

 nest was being built near by, presumably by the same birds. 



Sioux City, Iowa. E. A. Fields. 



THE RED PHALAROPE IN IOWA. 

 Through the kindness of Mr. A. J. Anderson I was permitted to see a 

 specimen of Phalaropus fulicarius, which had been shot on a sandbar in 

 the Missouri river below Sioux City. It was presented to Mr. Anderson 

 on November 28, 1912, and had been taken a day or two before. The 

 bird was in the white winter plumage. It was mounted and is now in 

 Mr. Anderson's collection. It seems that this species has never hereto- 

 fore been reported for either Iowa or Nebraska. T. C. Stephens. 



FALL RECORD OF THE GOLDEN PLOVER. 



On October 15, 1913, my friend, Mr. Fred C. Smith, learned of large 



flocks of strange birds along the Missouri river bottoms near the villages 



of Owego and Holly Springs. Word came to the Sioux City sportsmen of 



the abundance of these birds, and several went down. Mr. William 



