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did I ao;ain see a Blue-vvin^ied Warbler or even hear a call that 

 could have been either the Blue-win^ or Nashville Warbler. 



The Nashvilles are rather rare in these woods, indeed al- 

 though 1 collected a great deal there during the year 1 did not 

 meet with another during the spring or entire summer short of 

 five miles from the nest,! particulairly searched in the immediate 

 vicinity of the Blue-wings' nest for them, in order to completely 

 do away with the possibility of there being a Nashvilles' nest in 

 the neighborhood. The nest is composed of dry oak leaves and 

 coarse grass lined with strips of grape bark and an inner lining 

 of fine grasses; but slightly raised from the ground (not more 

 than two inches) in a tussock of grass in the center of a small 

 hazel bush. The cup is very deep, nearly 2 1-2 inches, and 

 only 2 1-4 across at the top. Six eggs seems to be an unus- 

 ually large clutch for this bird, but one finds so few records of 

 the nesting of the species that it may be more usual than sup- 

 posed. 



I could not help but regret that in my eagerness and anx- 

 iety to make positive my identification of what is probably the 

 only record oi the nest and eggs of Helmintliophila pinus in 

 Wisconsin that 1 had destroyed such possibilities of further in- 

 teresting hybrids of the species with allied forms, as I am as 

 well satisfied in my own mind that the Nashville Warbler is the 

 male parent of the set as though 1 had shot him from the nest. 



Since then 1 have taken two more specimens of the Blue- 

 wing in the same county — a male May 28, 1899 and a female 

 May 13, 1900 — the latter within twenty rods of where the young 

 were found. Neither of these were apparently breeding yet 

 when taken. 



N. HOLLISTER, Delavan. Wis. 



THE COLD WAVE OF FEBRUARY 1899, IN 

 DeKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA. 



Having received a few enquiries regarding the cold wave of 

 of 1899, and its effect upon bird life in this locality, I have 

 decided to place before the readers of the BULLETIN the results of 

 my observation. 



