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The Prairie Warbler near Chicago. — I beg to report taking a male 

 Prairie Warbler (Dendroica discolor), at Riverside, 111., ten miles west of 

 Chicago, on May 8, 1907. This is a rare species here. Apparently the 

 only definite rpcords for this locality of those of Mr. Geo. Clingman of 

 June, 1878, and May, 1892, mentioned by Mr. F. M. Woodruff in his ' Birds 

 of the Chicago Area.' — L. E. Wyman, Chicago, III. 



The Kentucky Warbler in Southern New Jersey. — On May 19, 1907, 

 Mr. Richard F. Miller and myself found two Kentucky Warblers along the 

 Pensauken Creek. While locally an abundant species on the Pennsylvania 

 side of the Delaware ( in fact a common breeder in Fairmount Park, Phila- 

 delphia), this bird seems rarely to cross the river. I can find no other 

 records for southern New Jersey. — Chreswell J. Hunt, Philadelphia, 

 Pa. 



Another Canon Wren Record for Colorado. — There are few records 

 of this wren (Calhcrpes mexicanus conspersus) in Colorado. To-day 

 (October 20, 1907) I saw one in a yard stacked with cement building 

 blocks. It was very tame and let me watch it from a distance of three 

 or four feet. — W. L. Burnett, Longmont, Colo. 



Bewick's Wren (Thr^jomanes hewickii) on the Coast of South Carolina. — 

 On October 16, 1907, I saw and positively identified a bird of this species 

 as it rested for about a minute in a live oak tree, which was within sixty 

 feet of a negro house, situated on Oakland plantation, Christ Church 

 Parish, but failed to secure it as it flew into a dense thicket of weeds, briars 

 and bushes. There was no mistake in the identification, as the long fan- 

 shaped tail was diagnostic; besides, it was not the first Bewick's Wren 

 I had ever seen alive, for I found this species in positive abundance at 

 Waukeenah, Florida, in 1894 (see Auk, Vol. XII, 1895, p. 367). 



My friend Mr. Herbert Ravenel Sass (Assistant at the Charleston Mu- 

 seum), secured a specimen at the Navy Yard (within six miles of Charles- 

 ton) on October 17. This specimen is the first that has ever been taken in 

 the low coast region of the State, the bird being confined almost exclusively 

 to the Alpine, Piedmont, and upper counties, and rare or entirely absent 

 south of Richmond County, as it delights in a rolling or hilly country. 



Mr. Leverett M. Loomis found Bewick's Wren breeding at Caesar's Head 

 (3,118 feet), Greenville County (Auk, VIII, 1891, p. 333).— Arthur T. 

 Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S. C. 



A Parasitic Fly Injurious to our Native Birds. — It seems to be well 

 known that in England and on the Continent the nestlings of a number 

 of small birds are not infrequently parasitized by flies, often times with 

 fatal results. It is not so well known that one or more species of these 

 parasitic flies have obtained a foothold in the United States, although 



