Field Notes. 135 



As I tiii-ned to see what become of tbe bird I saw that it liad 

 alighted on a log but a few feet away. At once I saw that it was 

 not the Kentucky, and as the bird afforded me every opportunity 

 for a perfect identification I had" the pleasure of making a study 

 of my first Prothonotary Warbler at very close range, as it re- 

 mained within less than twenty-five feet of me for at least twenty 

 minutes. 



Purple Martin. — On March 19, 1907, a single Purple Martin made 

 its appearance at the martin box owned by E. M, Long in Cadiz. 

 They usually appear here before the end of that month. 



Cowblrd. — From February 23, 1906, on to the end of the month, 

 I saw a Cowbird in my garden every day. I find it the most irreg- 

 ular in its arrival of all our summer residents. 



Whistling Swan.— On March 18, 1907, Frank McCombs shot a 

 Whistling Swan five miles north of Cadiz, and four days later one 

 was shot by W. E. Mong about ten miles north of Cadiz. The birds 

 were shot simply because they were rare and furnished a target 

 for the gunner. Harry B. McConnell, Cadiz, Ohio. 



Henslow's Sparrow Nesting in Ohio. — On June M. 1904, at Tif- 

 fin, Seneca County, Ohio, I took a nest and four eggs in a rather 

 swampy clover field three miles northeast of town. I flushed the 

 bird from the nest, but could not get the proper identifying glance 

 at him, although I heard the note " tse seep " several times, and I 

 knew the bird from former experience in the Mississippi Valley. 

 On September 25, 190G. I was lucky enough to see the species there 

 as recorded in the Wilson Bulletin, December, 1900, page 130, which 

 confirmed my former identification. In order to be absolutely cer- 

 tain I had Mr. J. Claire Wood, our fellow member, send me his set, 

 taken in Michigan. On comparing the two sets of eggs they at 

 once showed to be the same species' eggs, viz., Henslow's Spar- 

 rows. My whole set is more uniform in coloration than his, the 

 greenish tint is not quite so heavy in my eggs ; the pattern of the 

 spots is the same. Ground color greenish white, a wreath of red- 

 dish and lavender specks on the blunt end, smaller reddish specks 

 over the body of the egg. His set of three eggs averages 1S.G3 x 

 13.55 mm. ; my set averages lS.87,x 13.75 mm. The location of 

 the nests was the same, built on the bottom side of a grass tus- 

 sock, sunk in the ground and arched over as some Meadowlark's 

 nests are. They were both composed of grass, rather loosely made, 

 but still more substantial than those of the Grasshopper Sparrow. 

 H'ence there is no doubt but what my original identification was 

 correct, and that I took on that memorable day the prnt aiithoitic 

 set of cf/f/s of IIcit.'<loic\s t^parroio in Ohio. I want to express my 



