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aratecl places worthy of mention. Mr. George D. Fordyce found it 

 on April 30 and May 1 about seven miles south of Touugstown. This 

 is the first record for that locality. I found a single bird in a held 

 about a mile northwest of Amherst on April 22, and at least half a 

 dozen singing males in a field at what is known as Rye Beach, some 

 three miles west of Huron and a half mile from Lake Erie, on April 

 29, and on each visit to that locality during the entire spring and 

 breeding season. No nests were found in this field, but there could 

 scarcely be any doubt about the fact of breeding. It is to be regret- 

 ted that the region of Oberlin, where the birds were found on two 

 former occasions, could not be carefully worked during their breed- 

 ing season. This bird is both local and erratic in its breeding distri- 

 bution, and should be watched for in meadows and low fields. 



Lynds Jones, OherVin, Ohio. 



Field Notes from Berwyn, Penn. — The cold, wet and late spring 

 of 1907 not only played havoc with our migration averages, but not 

 unnaturally affected the periods of song and nesting. I noticed a male 

 American Redstart as late as June 9th, fly down to our stable steps 

 and from there to the water trough, and after a moment flash past 

 me to the spruce hedge. This species, so far as I know, has never 

 nested in the county, yet it was seen and heard up to the 17th of 

 June, a pretty late date for a non-breeder, when it is taken into con- 

 sideration that we look for its reappearance on its autumnal migra- 

 tion soon after the last of July. 



I must mention a most curious incident occurring at the residence 

 of Mr. John A. Brown, near Devon. On the north side of the house, 

 facing a grove quite close to the rear, a large plate glass window re- 

 flects the woods so perfectly that a person would think he was look- 

 ing into its cool depth, especially during those dull, cheerless days. 

 This illusion frequently deceived the birds. Mr. McCarthy, who 

 brought me for identification a Kentucky Warl)ler killed by flying 

 against this glass, informed me that they picked up dead birds al- 

 most every day under the window, especially Oven-birds ; also Cat- 

 birds, Magnolia, and other migrating Warblers. 



On the 6th day of July, while I was taking snapshots from a win- 

 dow at the wary House Sparrows visiting one of my bird boxes, I 

 unintentionally killed a Robin in its flight to feed a brood of young 

 located in this sparrow-infested box, twenty-five feet in the air. The 

 upper portion of one side of an apartment had become detached, 

 and, much to my surprise, utilized by this bird. I am glad to say 

 that the mate proved faithful and brought up the young, which were 

 a second brood. On August 5th a brood of young Flickers left the lo- 

 cust tree, and on the 9th the last brood of Swifts left the chimney 



