Mills — On Georgia Breeding Records. ii 



SOME BREEDING RECORDS FROM EAST POINT, 



GEORGIA. 



BY WILLIAM J. MILLS. 



The notes upon which the following records are based were 

 made during the year 1903. So little has been published re- 

 garding the time of the breeding, except in a general way, 

 that specific records of this sort are welcome. They, like Mr. 

 Smith's migration records, come from a locality farther south 

 than regions usually included in general statements of the 

 times of breeding, and therefore become doubly interesting. — 

 Editor. 



Mimns polyglot&is. — Mockingbird. April 24, found build- 

 ing a nest, which was later deserted. 



Bccolophus bicolor. — Tufted Titmouse. April 26, nest con- 

 taining seven fresh eggs, in the hollow trunk of an apple tree ; 

 entrance four feet from the ground, nest two feet down the 

 hollow. 



Colaptcs auratiis. — Flicker. April 26, nest containing six 

 fresh eggs, in a hollow apple tree. 



Mcgascops asio. — Screech Owl. April 26, nest containing 

 three young, one-third grown, in an old oak top. Female in 

 the gray phase. 



Par us carolincnsis. — Carolina Chickadee. May 3, nest 

 containing six young, about ready to leave the nest. May 7, 

 this brood is gone. There is a note of another brood of four 

 successfully reared, with no date given. 



Spizclla socialis. — Chipping Sparrow. April 30, nest in 

 the process of building in a cedar bush. First egg, May 2. A 

 violent wind on the 3d tipped the nest over, and the birds de- 

 serted. August 0, a brood of four young, apparently about 

 a week old. 



Toxostoma rufuuh.— Brown Thrasher. Nest containing an 

 egg. A week later this nest contained a mass of broken egg 

 shells. May 17, nest containing four eggs, low down in 

 thicket, on a pole, well concealed by a rank growth o>f thorns, 

 briars, etc. May 24, still there. May 31, eggs gone. 



