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arrival of a flock of Starlings at Vincentown, N. J., at the home of Mr. 

 Lewis Prickett, about two years ago. The birds have remained ever since, 

 nesting in bird boxes and about the barn, and are highly prized by the 

 residents of the farm. 



Other Starling records that have come to my notice are a bird examined 

 in the shop of Mr. Axe, a Philadelphia taxidermist, by Mr. R. F. Miller, shot 

 early in November, 1907, along with another individual at Tacony, Phila- 

 delphia, on the Delaware. A specimen in the possession of Mr. Philip 

 Laurent, was shot on the Meadows below Philadelphia, December 15, 1907, 

 by David Bou\ier; five others were seen at the same place December 22. 



A specimen now in the Academy collection, was shot from a flock at 

 Tuckerton, N. J., by Mr. Joseph Sapp, early in December, 1907. 



Mr. C. J. Pennock writes me that the bird has also reached Delaware. 

 He examined one of three that were shot on the Bay Shore near Smyrna, 

 November 15, 1903. A large flock was seen in the same vicinity about 

 ten days later. — Witmer Stoxe, Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. 



Another Clarke's Crow taken in Missouri. — Mr. E. A. Dodge of Louisiana, 

 Pike Co., Mo., sent me a photograph of a Clarke's Crow, Nucijraga colum- 

 hiana QN'ils.), which was killed by Mr. Mike Creamer near Louisiana on 

 October 12, 1907. It was mounted by Mr. Dodge and is now in his collec- 

 tion. With the exception of a specimen taken April 1, 1891, in Crittenden 

 Co., Ai-k., this is the farthest eastern occurrence of the species. — O. Wid- 

 MANN, St. Louis, Mo. 



Bobolinks Summering in Southern Pennsylvania. — Perhaps it might 

 interest some readers of ' The Auk ' to learn that for some years past there 

 have been several localities within twenty miles of Philadelphia where 

 the Bobolink {Dolichonyx oryzivorus) reared its young. Chapman, in his 

 'Handbook,' gives its southern summer range as "southern New .Jersey," 

 and despite assiduous searching, my efforts to find a more southerly record 

 for the east have been vain. It is with the view of establishing a new local- 

 ity that this is written. 



In the summer of 1906, I spent the time from the latter part of June till 

 the corresponding portion of July in the vicinity of Bristol, Bucks Co., 

 Pa., and within eighteen miles of Philadelphia. Here I observed the Bobo- 

 link frequently and often saw the parents in the act of feeding the young. 

 From reliable informers I gathered that the birds were no more abundant 

 that year than usual. Again, in the spring of 1907, I was in the vicinity of 

 Newtown, Bucks Co., and saw several pairs of the birds, the males in full 

 song. Here I was in company with J. Harris Reed, and he infonned me 

 that the birds were usually to be found there throughout the summer, and 

 that several years since he had discovered a nest in that locality. Several 

 days later, on June 9, I spent the day on the Tiniciun meadows to the 

 south of Philadelphia, and what was my surprise to see several males (three) 

 in full song. Again on the 14th they were seen in the same locality, which 



