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New Jersey, -writes me: "About the year 1S74, Avhen traveling through 

 the White Mountains of New Hampshire, I found the nest of Junco 

 kyemalis in a green bush (juniper?) about four feet high, on the summit 

 of Mt. Willard. The nest, which was placed about two feet from the 

 ground, contained a set of four eggs, for the safety of which the birds were 

 very solicitous, thus giving me an ample opportunity to identify them." 



This is the first authentic instance of bush-nesting on the part of y. 

 hy email's which has come to my knowledge. — William Brewster, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass. 



Peculiar Nest of Chelidon erythrogaster. — A nest of the Barn Swallow 

 having no mud or dirt in its composition maybe something of a curiosity. 

 Such a nest was found by me on Cobb's Island, Virginia, July 7, 1S84, 

 under the eaves of the porch of the main house in the settlement. It was 

 rather compactly made up of rootlets and grass, and was thickly lined with 

 downy chicken feathers. It was four and a half inches in diameter and 

 one inch in depth. In it were four newly laid eggs. The writer is wholly 

 at a loss to account for this departure from the usual style of architecture 

 adopted by the Barn Swallow; there was certainly no dearth of mud out 

 of which to construct a nest of the more approved type.— Hugh M. 

 Smith, National Aluscicjn, Washington, D. C. 



The Orange-crowned Warbler in Eastern Massachusetts. — During 

 a visit to Cambridge last autumn, Mr. II. W. Henshaw spent a day 

 with me in rambling through certain fields and woods which we used 

 to ransack together years ago. We had not expected to do much more 

 than enjoy the brilliant autumn coloring and i-evive old-time associations; 

 but late in the afternoon, as we were passing through a lane in Belmont, 

 Mr. Henshaw had the good fortune to discover and shoot an Orange- 

 crowned Warbler (^Hehninthophila celata) which was feeding in a low 

 birch in company with several Yellow-rumps (^Dendroica coronata'). 

 This specimen, an adult male in unusually fine plumage, is only the 

 second for Middlesex County, and, I believe, the fifth for the State. 

 Through my friend's generosity it has found a final resting place in my 

 collection by the side of the female which I shot at Concord in 1876.* 

 The date of this last capture was September 30, 1S85. — William Brew- 

 ster, Cambridge, Mass. 



Seiurus ludovicianus in Maine — A Correction. — The recent death of 

 Prof. C. E. Hamlin makes it necessary to correct an error, which, if he 

 had lived, he intended to have corrected himself. 



In his Catalogue of the Ilirds of Waterville, Maine, f the Large-billed 

 Water-Thrush was included on the evidence of a single specimen (No. 

 2392, Cambridge Museum Comp. Zool.). Professor Hamlin and I re- 



*See Bull. N. O. C, Vol. I, Nov., 1886, pp. 94, 95. 



t Tenth Annual Report of the Maine Board of Agriculture for 1865, pp. 168-173. 



