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handsome fresh eggs. In the same tree I noticed anotlier nest, from 

 which flew a Sparrow Hawk from her set of five eggs. The nest was a 

 Mpgpie's in good condition and about the size of the one mentioned. 

 Both nests were about forty feet from the ground. On May 7 another 

 visit to the tree found that the Sparrow Hawk had laid again, this time 

 selecting the other nest, perhaps with hopes of better success in her 

 undertaking. The eggs were well commenced in incubation, and the 

 nest held also one egg of the Yellow-billed Magpie. This I accounted 

 for on the supposition that when I took the five eggs of the Magpie from 

 this nest, the set was not complete and the bird returned and deposited 

 the last egg and deserted the nest, which was subsequently used by the 

 Sparrow Hawks. Another nest of Sparrow Hawks was found on this 

 date (May 7) containing four small young, which were covered with 

 white down. The Magpies and Sparrow Hawks seem to each rear their 

 broods peaceably, neither molesting the other. 



Chester B.arlqw, Saula Clara. Calif. 



Lorain County, Ohio, Notes. — At the close of every season of migra- 

 tion it is interesting and instructive to run over the note-book with a 

 view to counting up the stri^ngers that have been met, and the hitherto 

 quiet species which have performed for our benefit. The list of strangers, 

 which should include such as I have never seen in this county before, 

 tho they may have been seen elsewhere previously, is more than usually 

 long this time, I am happy to say. I will give them in the order in which 

 they were recorded, with the dates for each. 



American Rough-legged Hawk : January 4, one flying over Chance 

 Creek at Vermillion River ; May 9, one flying over a field half a mile 

 south of Oberlin. 



Golden Eagle : February 12, one on the ice on the lake shore near 

 Lorain, Ohio. 



Red-headed Duck : March 12, one on the lake near Oak Point. 



Shoveller : March 12, fourteen on the lake near Oak Point. 



Short-eared Owl : March 12, two on the lake shore near Oak Point. 



Pine Warbler : April 29, one singing in the woods at Oak Point. In 

 full plumage and but little wary. This is the first one I have ever seen 

 alive. 



Bewick's Wren : May 7, one in the woods two miles south of Oberlin. 

 The first one I have ever seen. 



Greater Yellow-legs: May 11, one at the brick-vard ponds, making 

 a great outcry. 



