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was very bulky, composed mainly of grass, with some shreds from 

 corn stalks, and a few horse hairs in the lining. A row of wheat 

 supported the nest at the rear, the next row was several inches in 

 front of it; there was no other vegetation about the nest. 



The afternoon of May 16th Mr. Albert F. Ganier and myself 

 were working over a clover and timothy field at my home place in 

 hopes of locating a nest of the Grasshopper Sparrow. The pro- 

 verbial barefoot boy appeared on the scene, and when he learned 

 that we were looking for bird's nests told us of a " ground spar- 

 row's " nest in an adjoining field, which we decided to investigate. 

 Arriving at the nest we found one of the parent birds about to 

 feed the young, and were able to get a good look at it and to sat- 

 isfy ourselves that it was a Bachman's Sparrow. The nest held 

 four birds about six days old. The location of the nest was very 

 different from the first. It was under a piece of brush which had 

 been thrown in a " gully " to check the action of the rain, on an 

 old worn out, washed away piece of land. There was little vege- 

 tation about the nest, only a little grass and some weeds and briers 

 growing up through the brush; and surrounding this the ground was 

 almost bare for a space several feet wide. There was a great con- 

 trast between the situation and surroundings of these two nests 

 and both are different from the situation in which Mr. Ganier has 

 found this species nesting at Nashville, Tennessee, as described 

 and illustrated in the March issue of the Wilson Bulletin. 



Ben J. Blincoe. 



Bardstown, Ky. 



STARLINGS NEST AT HURON. OHIO 



During February, 1921, I had had reports that there were some 

 strange blackbirds staying at Mr. Carl Heimberger's farm about 

 two miles southwest of town, but it was March 13th before I had 

 a chance to investigate. 



On that day, however, my wife and I walked out that way on 

 one of our hikes and found eight or ten starlings. They came 

 from the cupola of the barn one or two at a time and there seemed 

 to be more inside. The long yellow bill and speckled plumage 

 identified them at once. Mr. Heimberger stated that this was the 

 second winter these birds had been around the barn. The winter 

 before there had been about six or eight, but they had left In the 

 spring and returned again in the fall at the approach of cold 

 weather. They had increased in number until in February there 

 must have been nearly two hundred. They did not stay around in 

 the daytime, but would leave and return in the evening about four 

 o'clock, collecting first in some tree and then going to the cupola 

 of the barn to roost. During the week following our visit all the 

 starlings but one pair left and these seemed to be Investigating the 

 hollow stub of a branch on an old apple tree near the barn. On 



