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to the Department; but to publish such information as a record and 

 a fact would have been to join the ranks of the opera glass orni- 

 thologists, and so bring down upon my head the wrath of real col- 

 lectors. What I would like to see is a real record of the Dickcis- 

 sel in Virginia. No hard feelings, Doctor, as neither of us are 

 ornithologists (though you unintentinoally used the word) accord- 

 ing to the advanced code. 



Harold H. Bailey. 



Newport News, Va., 



March 23, 1920. 



NOTES FROM LAKE COUNTY 

 Early Date of Dickcissel. — Always rare in the county, I was 

 pleasantly surprised on April 18 of this year to find a male bird 

 singing his raspy schrecee-scJ^rcc, schree, schrec, scJiree, from the 

 very top of a small tree; dropping to the ground to feed every 

 now and then, but always mounting to the top of a bush or tree 

 again to continue his song. Though not yet in fttll adult summer 

 plumage all characteristics were noted as he fed close at '"hand on, 

 the ground. I believe it unusual to find one this far north at quite 

 such an early date, and as an anomaly in migration comparisons 

 will add that the same day a friend and I discovered a Whistling 

 Swan on the open water of Mentor marsh, fully six weeks later 

 than one would naturally look for this bird. It was not a wounded 

 bird as it flew strongly when 'flushed. It stayed in the vicinity 

 until the 22d. 



Late Date of Bohemian Waxwing. — Lake county was not 

 slighted 'the past winter when the county was visited by large 

 numbers of these interesting wanderers. I first noted a flock of 

 fully 75 birds on January 27, and on February 20 watched for some 

 time a detachment of 'half a dozen feeding on frozen apples in an 

 orchard. On May 11. while hunting Warblers, a single Waxwing 

 flew from one Cottonwood to another some distance away. The 

 larger size and immediate louder call note told me it was a be- 

 lated Bohemian, so I went out of my way to make a close obser- 

 vation. The rufous under tail coverts and the white 'and yellow 

 base on the wings confirmed my first decision. 



E. a. Doolittle. 

 Painesville, Ohio. 



A MAY EVENING GROSBEAK IN LAKE COUNTY 

 To Mr. Glenn Vesy belongs the right of discovery of this bird. 

 He reported seeing a male of the species on May 18, and knowing 

 he would not be liable to be mistaken I searched for it late that 



