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NOTES. 



BOBOLINKS INCREASING AT BOULDER, COLORADO. 



Bobolinks, once supposed to be rare in Colorado, are common in at 

 least three localities in Boulder county this year, and their songs have 

 been much enjoyed by the writer and others. Last year I saw one east 

 of Boulder and Dr. J. R. Brockett reported one on the University cam- 

 pus at Boulder, and the year before Mr.L.C. Bragg took one near town, 

 but this year I have seen about a dozen every day that I have visited 

 one locality. Popularly our Lark Bunting has been oftencalled "Bobo- 

 link," though there is no good reason for the confusion, as they are 

 readily distinguished. Junius Hendhrson. 



A JANUARY KINGFISHER. 



On January 19th of this year I observed a Belted Kingfisher about 

 two miles below this place on the bank of the Hudson river. The mer- 

 cury stood at 2 degrees below zero and the river was frozen solid from 

 shore to shore. 



I also recorded a bparrow Hawk the same day, but this is not un- 

 usual as I have seen several during the past winter. 



Ossining, N. Y., May 6, '04. Frederick C. Hubel. 



NOTES ON THE NESTING OF THE BLACK TERN. 



On June 27, of this year, Mr. Karl Heilmann and the writer found 

 a nest of the Black Tern with three fresh eggs in the Sandusky Bay 

 marshes. The eggs were placed on a few broken fragments of old flags 

 on what seemed to be a pancake of muck. After I had photographed 

 the nest and eggs and put the dripping camera into the boat, I exam- 

 ined the foundation. The pancake of muck rested on some floating 

 vegetation. This in turn was resting on an old sunken muskrat house, 

 probably three or four years old, which had formed a kind of a sub- 

 marine decayed island. This would indicate that both Langdon as 

 well as Jones and Dawson were right in their respective statements 

 which seem to be at variance; it is the combination of both which gives 

 US' the correct fact at least in this one particular instance. New musk- 

 rat houses or those a year or so old were not used, though in abundance. 



We also saw a pair of Belted Piping Plovers on this date, the nest 

 had probably been destroyed by a recent storm, which had ariven the 

 waves of Lake Erie into the bay clear over the sand-dunes of the Cedar 

 Point peninsula. W. F. Henninger. 



NORTHERN OHIO NOTES. 



Roseate Tern, {Sterna douyalli,) was found in a company of Com- 

 mon Terns which were flying above Big Chicken island, lake Erie, 

 August 26, 1904. While this island lies in Canada it is so near the bor- 

 der of Ohio that the occurrence of this rare Ohio tern here should not 



