294 General Notes. \jn^ 



Towhee. On March 22, my friend, Mr. John De C^ Briggs, saw two 

 Towhees at Plymouth, Mass. As thej do not usually arrive in Mass- 

 achusetts before the 20th of April, it is probable that they had wintered in 

 that region. — Arthur C. Comey, Cambridge, Mass. 



Colorado Bird Notes. — I desire to record a Western Blue Grosbeak 

 {Guiraca ccerulea eurhyncha) taken near Altona, Boulder Co., Colo., 

 August 16, 1901. The farthest north this bird had previously been ob- 

 served in Colorado was at Morrison. 



I wish also to record the observation of an Indigo Bunting {Cyanospiza 

 cyanea) near Clear Creek, Denver, Colo., May 7, 1901. This is the fourth 

 record for Colorado. 



May 19, 1900, I found twelve Forster's Terns {Sterna forsteri) breeding 

 at Barr, Colo. Mr. Ridgway states (Bull. Essex Institute, V. Nov. 1873, 

 174) that a few were found breeding in the State. I have found no 

 records of their breeding here since that time. 



Also at Barr, on June 20, 1900, I found a set of Canvasback's (Aythya 

 vallisneria) eggs, and on July 4 I found another set, which was appar- 

 ently laid by the same bird. I was informed upon good authority that 

 there were two other pairs breeding in the vicinity. As far as I can deter- 

 mine this is the first record of the Canvasback's breeding in Colorado. — 

 A. H. Felger, Denver, Colo. 



Some Southern New Hampshire and Western Massachusetts Notes. 

 — The young bird student who has developed comparatively good observ- 

 ing powers, but has as yet no reputation, is unfortunate if he is made sole 

 witness to interesting bird happenings which cannot be authenticated. I 

 cannot hope that the following will all be accepted as records ; for, by 

 singularly bad luck, the bird was not secured in anyone of the more inter- 

 esting cases; and I can only wish they had fallen to the lot of some 

 trusted man. 



New Hampshire. 



On July 28, 1900, I saw on the shore of a small lake (Nubanusit Lake) 

 in Hillsboro County, southwestern New Hampshire, just over the line 

 from Cheshire County, a Lincoln's Sparrow {Melospiza lincolnii), whose 

 actions seem to prove it a breeding bird. 



Nubanusit Lake, partly in Cheshire and partly in Hillsboro County-, is 

 a deepish sheet of clear water, of irregular form, being nearly three miles 

 long and varying in width from less than a tenth of a mile to about a 

 mile and a quarter. It lies at a height above the sea of 136S feet, while 

 some of the spruce-clad hills by which it is surrounded reach a height of 

 nearly 2300 feet. 



The lake shore, which is now almost entirely wild, is here and there 

 swampy and bush-grown, but mainly covered by a dense forest of fair- 



