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number of feet of crab twigs as the first had of plnm; also the crab twigs 

 composed three and one half times as many pieces as all the other 

 materials together. As to whether the birds break dead twigs from the 

 trees or pick from the ground I cannot say; but if the former, it would 

 have been possible for the birds to climb over the trees and without 

 going to the ground to have obtained all the materials used in the first 

 nest within twenty or thirty feet of the nest, and' the bulk of the second 

 nest the same. The two pieces of Osage Orange appeared to have been 

 picked from the brushwood, and the Waahoo roots evidently came from 

 the creek bank not more than fifty feet distant. At present I will not 

 draw any conclusions; but the facts would indicate: That it was possible 

 that the bulk of the material was picked from the trees and not from the 

 ground; also the birds made use of the material which was most easily 

 obtainable. 



ViKGiNius H. Ch.\se, ITadv Petra, Stark Co., III. 



THE LORAIN COUNTY, OHIO, WINTER BIRD 

 FAUNA FOR 1898-9. 



The work of determining with some degree of completeness what is 

 our winter bird fauna for any given year as well as for a term of years, 

 which was begun in December, 1897, has been continued during the 

 season just closed. An account of that work may be of interest as a 

 comparison with the 1897-8 results. 



The severe storm of November 19-22, which swept from Montana 

 sharply south-eastward across the central Mississippi Valley and upper 

 lake region, thence north-eastward into Ontario, when it rapidly dimin- 

 ished, ushered in an early Winter, with snow as far south as Kentucky 

 and freezing temperature nearly to the Gulf. Freezing temperatures 

 continued in Ohio during the remainder of November and into December, 

 with readings of 10°, 8° and 5° on the 8th, loth and 14th of December, 

 respectively. About the middle of December a marked warm wave 

 overspread the country, which continued, with moderate fluctuations, 

 until the close of the month, when another cold wave swept down from 

 the north-west. During this warm period Bluebirds, Robins and Medow- 

 larks were many times reported. 



The first few days of January were moderately warm, but the zero 



