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few of the northern visitors have been seen : Red-polls but two or 

 three times, and two flocks of Bohemian Waxwings. 



National, Iowa. - Althea R. Sherman. 



BIRD NOTES FROM SUMMIT, NEW JERSEY. 



December 14th. 1910— A song sparrow at my window, on the 

 brealvfast-slielf. First visitor of this name ever observed at this 

 date. 



December 15th — A hermit thriisli feeding under my window. 

 Certainly a strange winter visitor. 



December ISth — For three days an oven-bird has been back and 

 forth by my window. Cold intense. 



December 24th — The hermit thrush under my window again today. 



January 31st — Several little brown creepers ; first seen this year. 



February 1st — A phoebe bird calling. 



February 2nd — Two phoeebe birds on the trumpet vine. Sleet 

 is over everything ; cold intense ; the sound of the bird-voices is 

 pathetic. 



February 13tli- — A song sparrow on woodbine. Mr. W. DeWitt 

 Miller reports evening grosbeaks at Plainfield. N. J. 



February 25th — A robin. 



February 2Tth — Song birds everywhere today. " Peter, Peter, 

 Peter " : sounds from the trees, and song sparrows are filling the 

 air with songs. 



January .30th, 1912 — Thermometer registers sixteen below zero, 

 but phoebe is forcibly telling his name. 



February 10th — Early morning ; thermometer at ten below : phnebe 

 telling that he is thei'e. 



February 19th — ]\Iif=^s C. R. Thompson, of L. H. Nature League, 

 Asbury Park, N. J., reports a song sparrow, a white-throated spar- 

 row, and a flock of red-polls and goldfinches seen during the re- 

 cent cold days. 



Summit, yew Jrrscii. Georgtanna Klingle Holmes. 



EGRETS |AT HURON, OHIO. 

 On July 5, 1911. at 6:30 a. m., I was called to the telephone and 

 informed that there was a white crane at the mouth of Old Woman 

 Creek, three miles east of Huron, where the creek empties into 

 Lake Erie. I caught the car and arrived there at 7 a. m.. finding 

 the bird standing at the edge of ,the mars!h, knee deep in the wa- 

 ter. It would walk around, at times darting its head beneath the 

 surface as if feeding. From the pure light straw-yellow bill and 

 black legs, I decided that it was an egret (HerocUas egretta). It 



