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have not the sUghtest doubt but that a careful search will prove it decidedly 

 common in that locality. 



Mr. Hunt's record of the Kentucky Warbler is considered by him to be 

 the only record from southern New Jersey. On July 3, 1904, I observed 

 two individuals of this species at INIanahawkin, a locality still more southern 

 than Pensauken where I again observed it on May 21. 1907. Though 

 undoubtedly rare, it is probably of regular occurrence. — Richard C. 

 Harlow, Edge Hill, Pa. 



Rallus virginianus Breeding in the Delaware Valley. — In ' The Auk ' 



for January, 1908, p. 81, a correspondent appears to infer that the nesting 

 of the Virginia Rail is rare in the location above mentioned. I find already 

 recorded the nesting of this species as follows : In the ' Abstract of Pro- 

 ceedings of Delaware Valley Ornithological Club, Vol. IV, p. 5, three 

 nests on the Delaware marshes below Philadelphia. In 'Cassinia' for 

 1903, p. 51, two nests at Richmond, Philadelphia, in the river marshes. 

 In 'The Oologist,' Vol. Ill, p. 46, there is a record of five nests of this bird 

 found in Chester Coimty, Pa. One of these sets is in my collection. In 

 'The Oologist,' Vol. IV, p. 2, two additional nests are recorded from the 

 same locality. This bird breeds not uncommonly in the extensive marshes 

 along the Delaware River and its tributaries to at least twenty-five miles 

 south of Wilmington. Del. I have a set of 7 eggs collected near Odessa, 

 Del., July 19, 1903, and I have seen the bird in the nesting season near 

 Rehoboth, Del., just below Cape Henlopen, and almost one hundred miles 

 south of Philadelphia, Pa. — C. J. Pennock, Kennett Square, Chester County, 

 Pa. 



Nesting of the Virginia Rail in Philadelphia County, Pa. — During ten 

 years or more of persistent search the writer has failed to find more than 

 two nests of the Virginia Rail (Rallus virginianus) in north Philadelphia 

 County, Pa., and consequently regards the bird as a rare summer resident. 

 The two nests in question were found on May 28, 1903, in a marsh at 

 Richmond, Philadelphia, well in the city limits, and to my chagrin they 

 were subsequently deserted. 



Several times the birds have been since seen during the summer, and a 

 diligent search made for their nests, but without success. — Richard F. 

 Miller, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Nesting of the Coot in Philadelphia County, Pa. — The Coot (Fulica 

 americana) is a common transient in the Delaware Valley, and has always 

 been regarded as such by the writer, despite suspicious stories of its occur- 

 rence during summer told to me by gunners of questionable veracity. This 

 was my belief until the summer of 1906, when I learned of the undoubted 

 breeding of the Coot in this district. 



On August 21, 1906, a gunner observed a Coot with six half grown young 

 swimming together in a reedy tide-water pond at Richmond, Philadelphia, 



