yo Bulletin N'o. 22. 



Chimney Swift, Chtchtra pelagica, placed about six feet below the 

 roof, on boards of the side of the barn. The nest was made in the 

 usual manner, and had at the time, four fresh eggs. 



I found one Golden-winged Warbler, Hebninthofhila clirysoptera, 

 among our visitors this spring. This felllow is so occasional in his visits 

 to Wisconsin that it is a privilege to meet him. 



G. Merton Burdick, Xeiv Auburn, Minn. 



Hooded W.a.rbler. — A hard and continuous down-pouring of rain had 

 driven me homeward from a little collecting tour on the South Valley 

 Hills, near mid-day of the nth of May, 1898. Crossing a typical 

 Pennsylvania ravine, with its small and clear stream at the bottom and 

 steep hillsides covered by medium oak and chestnut with the usual laurel 

 underbrush, I heard an unfamiliar voice in a spicewood thicket and ob- 

 served a pair of birds feeding close to the ground. In the semi-gloom I 

 fired twice before securing one of them. This was my first capture. The 

 species probably formerly nested in our midst, and Dr. Warren is the 

 authority for a breeding record in Chester county in i-ecent years, al- 

 though it is now regarded as a rare migrant in eastern Pennsylvania, 

 while quite common in New Jersey. 



Upon dissection I thought I had secured a male minus the hood and 

 with testes much swollen. I felt sorry I had prevented a possible breed- 

 ing record. Since then I have become convinced that I had mistaken the 

 supra-renla capsules which occur just where the testes are found in the 

 male bird and that my specimen is really a female. Mr. William Pal- 

 mer whose article in the Auk has proven beyond reasonabla doubt that 

 the male attains its hood the first season, has written that my bird is 

 doubtless a female in its second summer. 



Now all of this is common-place enough, but I wonder how many col- 

 lectors have hoodless Hooded Warblers in their cabinets improperly 

 sexed? Doubtless not a few, as Baird, Cones and others of our foremost 

 authorities have made this mistake. 



Fr.\nk L. Burns, Ber-Lvyn, Penn. 



North Greenfield,. Wis. — There seems to be an unusual scarcity of 

 birds here, tho I have not been able to be out in the field much. The 

 usual flocks of Nighthawks and Whippoorwills went thru in August. 

 Bluebirds seem to be common. A few Bob-whites are reported now. 

 There is' a close season for a few years, and sportsmen have been 

 "planting" them in this vicinity and out thru the state. They were 

 practically extinct here a few years ago. 



Relben M. Strong, NortJi (ii-eenfifid, J! Vs. 



