152 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 88 



It Avas clear that Bay Point is the favorite gathering plaoe of the 

 Caspian Terns, and that the few individuals which have hitherto been 

 seen in the vicinitj' of Cedar Point and the east Sandusky marshes were 

 birds that had wandered from here. Taken all in all, Bay Point is a 

 far more favorable place to observe the southward migrations than 

 Cedar Point. 



Lyxds .Joxes. 



The Golden Winged Warbler in Central Iowa. 



In Anderson's "Birds of Iowa" practically all of the records of this 

 species are from the eastern part of the state. To these I would like to 

 add two records for central Io\^a. Both of these were made in Marshall 

 County along the Iowa Eiver. The first record was May 24, 1J»1.3, when 

 an adult male was taken out of a dense hawthorne and wild crab thicket. 

 I caught just a glimpse of him and then hunted for more than an hour 

 before I finally succeeded in securing it. 



The other record was on May 11, 12, and 13, 1914. The 11th and 12th 

 were cloudy and cold following warm weather. One male Golden-wing 

 was found about a small sheltered spring during these three days. He 

 could be found almost any time during the day and was never more 

 than a few yards away. It was presumably the same bird, as it was 

 always found in company of two Chestnut-sided Warblers. 



Ira N. Gabrielsox. 



A Wren Incident. 



On Saturday, May 1(3, a couple of my friends went on an over Sun- 

 day camping trip up the Iowa Eiver. They pitched their tent, and in 

 disposing of their coats hung one of them on a small thorn apple tree. 

 Sunday a wren appeared and seemed to be quite fascinated by the pos- 

 sibilities of that coat. My friends placed a few bread crumbs on the 

 coat sleeve and the bird soon found them. A little later it commenced 

 to investigate the pockets and scramlpled about through all vi tliem. in- 

 cluding a large game pocket. 



It finally decided on the pocket to be preferred as a nesting site and 

 commenced to clean out. This pocket happened to contain cartridges 

 for a 22-caliber rifle and the Avren was seen to carry thirt.v-uine of them 

 out of it. Some of them were simply pushed out over the edge of the 

 pocket while others were carried some distance from the coat before 

 being dropped into the grass. The bird worked industriousl.v until every 

 cartridge was out of the pocket and then, after scratclwng around 

 vigorously, proceeded to carry sticks and straw into tlie pocket and 

 built a nest. 



Unfortunately operations had to be suspended at this point, as the coat 

 vvas needed for the return trip to town. 



Ira N. Gabrielsox. 



