THE OREGON NATURALIST. 15, 



NESTING OF THE RED-BREASTED found in 1894 and about three feet higher up. 

 SAPSUCKER. -phe hole was seven inches deep and four inches 



in diameter at the bottom. The entrance was 

 [Read at the second annual meeting of the ^ne and one half inches in diameter. I had to 

 Northwestern Ornithological Association.] 



cut away the wood with a hatchet to secure the 

 In presenting the following notes to the As- 



.... . eggs and a chip falling in, cracked one of them 



sociation it is not my intention to contradict the 



thus damaging the set. They were one fourth 

 statements of others on this subject, but to call . 



incubated; pure white when blown, with but 

 attention to the variation in nesting of Sphyra- ... . . 



slight variation in the ends and averaged 

 picus ruber. 



. 72 X .90 inches. 

 In "Davie's Nests and Eggs." it is stated on 



Some time after, I found the birds feeding 

 the authority of Captain Bendire, that the Red 



young in the hole occupied in 1894. I cannot 

 breasted Sapsucker breeds " in healthy live as- . , , 



give the date, for I failed to make a note of it 

 pen trees" and also that the nest "is situated 



at the time. In closing I desire to state that 

 fron fifteen to twenty-five feet from the ground 



the nests which were excavated nearest to the 

 and usually excavated below the first limb of 



ground, were but a few feet from the stub in 



which they were situated. 



Fred H. Andrus. 



RECENT PUBLICATION. 



the tree." In these particulars my observa- 

 tions differ from those of all other reports that 

 I have seen. 



My first record of a nest of this species, is 

 June 25th, 1892; when I saw a pair of these 

 birds feeding their young, in a hole in a dead The tenth Bulletin of "North American 

 fir-tree. I did not measure the height, but es- Fauna" published by the U.S. Department of 

 timated it to be 60 feet. This was when on a Agriculture comes to hand this month contain- 



,. , . . . T ,1 n-u -1 "^^ ^ revision of the Shrews of the American 



(ishing excursion to Loon lake. 1 he remainder „ n. • 



Genera, Blarina and Notiosorex, by C. Hart 

 of my finds were about half a mile from my Merriam; The Long-tailed Shrews of the East- 

 present home, near Kelloggs, Or. and as all ern United States, by Gerrit S. Miller jr.; 

 the nests were near each other it is not only Synopsis of the American Shrews of the Genus 



possible but probable, that they were made by ^'"'^^' ^^ ^- ^I'"^'' Merriam. 



, . , The first two parts of the Bulletin contain 



the same bird, ., , . ^ ^ . , , 



notliiiig relatmg 10 Oregon Species but the third 



In 1893 I found another nest in a dead fir ,,^,^ ^ (Synopsis of the American Shrews of the 



tree about fifty feet from the ground, but in Genus Sorex.) contains a description of six Ore- 



1894 the birds had come down some, nesting go" species, two of which are new. They are 



only twenty-two feet above the ground, in a ^^ ^^^^^ov^s: Sorex {at pkyrax) denJirii .Sorex 



, ,^ , , , , , , , , {alophymx^bendirii palmeri. Sorex vas^rans. 



dead fir stub about three hundred yards Ironi ,. , • ,• ,. , . , . 



iiO'ex oatrdt. Sorex troitjhndgii. Sorex 



the tree occupied in 1893. This nest was found padficus; and are described, in part, as follows: 

 June 6th and contained young. ^^^^^ vagrans, Baird. 



May 27th 1895 I collected my first eggs. General characters. — Size, small, tail medium 

 The nest was in the same dead fir as the nest about equaling body without head; third unicus- 



