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SHORT NOTES. 



Mr. Arthur T. Wayne, Mt. Pleasant, S. C, writes: "Heard but a sin- 

 gle Pine Linnet this year ! " He also mentions finding a nest of the Bald 

 Eagle containing two almost fresh eggs, on January 20. The nest was in 

 an enormous dead pine tree, loi feet and 8 inches high. The tree was 

 struck by lightning last summer. His record of a Great Horned Owl's 

 nest containing two young birds, one of them about ten days old, on Jan- 

 uary 22, is probably the earliest for that bird yet recorded. The nest 

 was in the top of a 'green' pifte about go feet from the ground, and con- 

 tained, besides the two young birds, a large rat with its head eaten off. 



Mr. G. M. Burdick writes that between March 9 and 14, Bluebird, 

 Robin, Bronzed Grackle, Red-winged Blackbird and Meadowlark, 

 arrived at Milton Junction, Wis. 



Under date of March 12. Miss Caroline Mathews, Waterville, Me., 

 writes : " We shall not have the birds with us very early this spring, as 

 the snow is still deep." It was the same day that 40 species were 

 recorded at Oberlin, Ohio, 13 of them new records for the year. 



OUR COMMITTEES FOR 1898. 



How many Final Report Special Bulletins shall we have this year? 

 That entirely depends on th© work of individual members. For several 

 years we have been working upon the Warblers, the subject being 

 divided into three heads. One of these has to do with the breeding 

 birds only — Nesting — and is capable of development along lines of the 

 greatest value, if each member will lend his earnest aid to the chairman, 

 Mr. H. C. Higgins, Cincinnatus, N. Y. Surely each member can watch 

 a nest of the Yellow Warbler from its beginning until the young have 

 left. Many may be able to do the same with some one or more of th^ 

 other more or less common species. Will not each one make an earnest 

 effort to contribute to this report at the close of the nesting season of 

 1898 ? The information you will gain from such a study will be far 

 greater than you may imagine. 



The migrations of the Warblers are peculiarly interesting because of 

 the uncertainty of their appearance during any season. In this subject 

 lie many interesting problems of the influence of weather iipon bird 



