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When removed from its site in the mould, and rootlets of the “turn up,” 
I found that the outside circumference was atout fourteen inches, inside 
it would be about eight. The door was near the top in the outer side, 
leaving a soft and warm cavity of about two inches deep for the reception 
of the eggs and the cradle of the young. I did not at this time see or 
hear either of the parent Wrens, near the nest, but when I next visited 
the place, the songs of the male bird fairly made the echoes ring in the 
vicinity. There was, however, no mistaking the sound as that of the 
Winter or Wood Wren, for there is no other Canadian bird that makes a 
nest in any way resembling it, though the eggs are very like those of the 
Chickadee and Brown Creeper. From what I could see of the inside of 
this nest when discovered, I inferred that it was finished, and probably 
occupied, and I was not disappointed, for on inserting a finger, I found 
that it contained five eggs, and perfectly fresh, the color almost pure 
white, with a few reddish dots towards the larger end, being less spotted 
than others that I had seen, and before the contents were extracted they 
had a pinkish hue. Some five or six other newly made nests of this 
species were observed in this vicinity the past season, but none of them 
contained eggs or had inner lining, and I am led to conclude that they 
were the work of male birds. All of these were in the roots of fallen 
trees, and well concealed, and the female must have had her true nest 
near by, as the songs of the males were heard throughout the season. 
This was the fourth nest with eggs found in this vicinity in a period 
of fourteen years.—Wwo. L. KELLSs, Listowel. 
(Forty-Second Meeting, March 11, 1891.) 
Perisoreus canadensis. Picoides arcticus. Dryobates villosus 
leucomelas. Nyctala acadica.—On February 24, received a pair of 
each of these species from Bardsville, Muskoka.—W. Cross. 
Loxia curvirostra minor.—February 25, saw a small flock, feeding 
on Mountain Ash berries, on College Street, Toronto.—E. DEACON. 
Spinus tristis—February 26. A flock of twenty are feeding on 
crumbs at my back-door, the first I have seen this season. 
Acanthis linaria.—I have neither seen nor heard one this winter. 
February 21. 
Corvus americana.—Occasional during this winter, 1891.—A. KAy, 
Port Sidney, (is about 150 miles north of Toronto.—EDITORS.) 
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