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great deal of pain from the compound fracture, we chloroformed 

 it, and now its mounted skin graces the taxidermy collection of the 

 Troy High School. G. C. Fishek. 



*Troy, Ohio. 



An Ovex-Bird at Sea. August 30, 1906, when the fast French 

 steamer La Province, enroute from Havre to New York, was about 

 200 miles ^rom Nova Scotia, an Oven-bird {Seiurus aurocapillus) 

 flew alongside for quite a while, apparently wanting a place to 

 rest but afraid of the many passengers on the decks. The ship's 

 latitude and longitude were 42, 09, 5 N.; &2 17 W. Shortly after 

 noon on coming on deck from the dining room I saw the bird and 

 watched it for nearly half an hour. It kept within a few yards 

 (probably five or ten yards) of the ship. Sometimes it would drop 

 back a little, and we wondered if it were not exhausted. A passen- 

 ger who was on deck while I was at dinner said that while the 

 bird was still alongside he had been watching it for an hour. After 

 this I lost sight of it and supposed it was unable to keep up, but 

 after an interval of about an hour I saw it again (presumably the 

 same bird) and watched it for ten or fifteen minutes. It is quite 

 possible that for a time it was resting somewhere on the ship. 

 The weather was fair and there was no apparent reason for its 

 flying so far from land. E. L. Moset.ey. 



A Brown Creeper's Spiral Flight. During the mating season 

 one often catches glimpses of love-making among birds. At this 

 time the male is frequently seen in playful pursuit of the female 

 who, hy short flights, leads him from limb to limb and tree to tree. 

 It was on March 9, 1904, in the valley of Darby Creek, Delaware 

 county, Pa., that I saw two Brown Creepers engaged in this game 

 of tag. In my experience the Brown Creeper always alights near 

 the base of a tree trunk and then works upward, his course being 

 a spiral one — he travels round and round as he climbs upward. In 

 the pursuit I speak of this same program was carried out, only in- 

 stead of climbing up the trunk the birds would fly up. They 

 alighted near each other upon the tree, then number one would 

 take wing and fly upward, describing one or two complete spirals 

 about the trunk and again alight upon it with number two follow- 

 ing in close pursuit. To travel in a spiral course seemed to be 

 such a well formed habit that they could not get away from it. It 

 was not simply a chance flight, for I saw it repeated again and 

 again. Chreswell J. Hunt. 



Cedar Waxwings as Sapsuckers. Toward the' end of March. 100(5. 

 a sunny spot along the south wall of Blair Hall was frequented 



