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while a belated Maryland Yellow-throat complains of the disturbance. 

 As the sun sinks low behind the timber we merge from the marsh, 

 tired, weary and dirty, but we forget all about this when a little bird 

 jumps up under our feet and skulks off to a willow bush, where we send 

 a No. 12 invitation from the .44 X. L. to which he graciously responds. 

 Luck once more ! It is my first Lincoln's Sparrow, a fitting climax to 

 the day. 



Paul Bartsch, \]\tshinirto)i, /). C. 



A FEW BELATED REMARKS UPON THE NESTING 

 OF JUNCO. 



Some time ago there appeared in the Bulletin an appeal from the 

 Editor for "light" upon the genus Junco. At the time I was quite 

 busy, and though I wanted to give what little experience that I had had 

 to my brother members, I failed at the time to get opportunity to do so, 

 and not till now have I gotten the leisure, though the query still remains, 

 and all along remained, in my thoughts. 



Standing in my back yard, at my home in Lynchburg, Va., are three 

 specimens of Juniper -I'ljginica. In the gloaming, I used to take fre- 

 quent strolls out in the yard to drink in the perfumes of the southern roses, 

 inhale the pure air, and look and wonder at those glorious sun bursts and 

 cloud effects such as you see only in the quiet valleys of " Old Virginia," 

 with the blue rim of the Alleghanies as a background, and the magnifi- 

 cent " Peaks of Otter," the highest of Virginia moun,tains, rising up in 

 quiet dignity in the distance, with the lazy tinkling of home-ward bound 

 cow-bells and the " slowly winding herds over the lea." It is on such 

 an evening that I most enjoy myself. To be away from the mad, rush 

 and clamor of the city, and to lose myself in pleasant thoughts and 

 reveries and to commue with " Nature in her visible forms" alone and 

 undisturbed. It was at such times that I became familiar with the roost- 

 ing places of Junco. In the dense foliage of I'irffinica they would settle 

 themselves. Often I have watched them flying into the trees, exposing 

 their white rectrices and dodging hither and thither among the dense 

 foliage. There was a box elder tree standing in the yard and frequently 

 numbers would settle into this and spend the night, but not so numer- 

 ously as in the cedars, the Juniper 7'irji^inica. This was Junco hyejna- 

 lis or perhaps some few were of the carolinensis sub-species. The 

 season was late fall and the birds were there for the winter. They 



