2o6 General Notes. [^"j' 



are as follows : One shot at St. Thomas, spring of 1890, bj Mr. O. Foster; 

 one taken in a cedar swamp a mile from London, Nov. 30, 1896, this 

 being the first record for Middlesex County, and which is made complete, 

 as far as I am able to ascertain, bj a second taken at Kilworth by Mr. 

 John Thompson, Nov. 17, 1899, both these birds being males. The Rev. 

 C L. Scott reports one shot near Ajlmer, Elgin County, about October, 



1900. From Guelph one is reported by Mr. F. N. Beattie as spending the 

 winter of 1S99 around his place. Other reports come from Chatham and 

 Rond Eau, all of single specimens and apparently stragglers. — J. E. 

 Keays, London, Ont. 



The Philadelphia Vireo in Western Pennsylvania. — I took a Phila- 

 delphia Vireo {Viyeo philadelp/iiciis) near Shields, Pa., on September 6, 



1901. This bird occurs as a rare migrant in Allegheny. Co., Pa., where I 

 took the specimen mentioned above. The only other record of its capture 

 in this county that I am aware of, is a specimen taken by Mr. G. A. Link 

 at Pittsburg, May 15, 1900. Another was taken near Industry, Beaver Co., 

 an adjoining county, in 1891, by Mr. W. E. Clyde Todd. — D. Leet Oliver, 

 Concord, N. H. 



Observations of a Pair of Mockingbirds seen during the Summer of 

 1901 in Solebury Township, Bucks Co., Pennsylvania. — The following 

 notes on a pair of Mockingbirds were made by Mr. Wm. Ely Roberts of 

 New Hope, Bucks Co., Penna. Mr. Roberts is at present a student in 

 Swarthmore College and is a very reliable observer. 



"This pair of Mockingbirds was first seen by myself on June 17, 1901, 

 in Solebury Township, Bucks Co., Pa., about my home, which is two and 

 a half miles west from New Hope and a mile in a direct line from the 

 Delaware River. I was on my way from college and noticed the pair fly 

 out from an osage hedge that extended past my home. I had never seen 

 any birds around that were marked similar to these. Upon looking them 

 up in a Warren's ' Birds of Pennsylvania ' I found that their markings cor- 

 responded to those given by Warren for the Mockingbird. My brother 

 had seen them two days previous and my father had also seen them several 

 days before that. The road marks a divide between two creek valleys. 

 It is possible that the birds followed one or the other of the streams and 

 found things so to their liking here that they stayed to nest. The birds 

 seemed tame, flew about our yard among the pines, and were undisturbed 

 by the wagons on the road. 



"As I was at work on a farm during the birds' stay, I had chance to ob- 

 serve them only in the early morning or evening and at such other times 

 when in the fields adjoining the house. This accounts for the lack of 

 several important dates. I do not know when the nest-building was be- 

 gun. I thought, however, from the actions of the birds that it must be 

 going on. So on July 7, at my first opportunity for search, I found the 

 nest about thirty yards from the house, on the north side of the low 



