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was shilling brightly. These conditions, together with the fact that 

 the house was painted white, probably favored the collision. 



Miss Farida Wiley. 



Bachman's Sparrow in Tuscarawas County. — I have the pleas- 

 ure of reporting a Bachman's Sparrow for this county. It was seen 

 April 22, on a weedy and bushy hillside in the northeastern part of 

 the county, about a mile and a half northeast of Strasburg. As it 

 sat on a fence-post about three rods away from me, And sang di- 

 vinely, while my field-glass was fixed upon it, there could be no mis- 

 take of its wonderful vocal performances to be in error regarding it. 

 According to Dawson's "Birds of Ohio," this bird has not hitherto 

 been identified in this State farther north than Fairfield County. 

 If any record of the bird's appearance has been made since the pub- 

 lication of Dawson's work, I have not seen it. My record brings 

 the summer range of this lovely songster considerably farther north. 

 The little minstrel rehearsed all the varieties of tune, now sprightly 

 and glad, now slow and pensive, which Mr. Dawson describes so 

 graphically. It is really wonderful that such a common-looking lit- 

 tle bird should have so superb a syrinx. 



Leander S. Keyser, Canal Dover, Ohio. 



Bald Eagle {Halicrtus ICKCOcepJialits) and Great Horned Owl 

 (Bubo viri/iiiiainis) occupying the same nest. — On the 15th of Jan- 

 uary, 1908, I received a box of Eagle's eggs from Florida, among 

 which was one set collected under unusual circumstances as well as 

 furnishing a remarkable record for a large sized nest of this species. 



The locality was in Desota county, and the date of collection, De- 

 cember 17, 1907. 



The gentleman who collected the eggs, writes that the old bird left 

 the nest as he neared the large pine tree in which it was placed. A 

 climb of 70 feet brought him to the top of the nest, but ere he had 

 reached this point, he flushed a Horned Owl from a rude cavity in 

 the side of the Eagle's nest, in which she had formed a nest and 

 deposited two eggs. 



This nest had been used for years by Bald Eagles, each annual 

 addition of materials increasing the height until it reached fifteen 

 feet up between the main forks of the tree. At the liottom it was 

 eight feet through, where it was jammed in between the forks, and 

 from here it tapered to four feet, ten feet up, and again spread out 

 to six feet on top where the two Eagle eggs rested on soft, dry grass 

 in the rudely-formed depression. 



Four feet from the bottom of this huge pile of branches and debris 

 was the Owl's home, containing two freshly laid eggs. 



The Eagle's eggs must have been laid quite early in the month, as 

 the embryos were beginning to form. They are large, clean, hand- 



