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keep to an area of not over twenty acres in the center of the point. Though 

 I watched his movements closely for considerable periods I could never 

 discover that he approached any nest, had a mate or young, nor did a 

 search of the small cedars, pitch pines, and bushes of the area reveal them. 

 I must conclude therefore that he was a stray, probably straggling north 

 very late indeed and possibly stopped by the ocean lying immediately 

 north for some twenty miles. I heard and saw him for the last time on 

 August 27, though he may well have remained there until the fall migra- 

 tion. — Arthur C. Comey, Cambridge, Mass. 



Labrador and Acadian Chickadees at Hartley, Stanstead County, 

 Quebec. — On the early and no doubt record date of September 3, two 

 examples of the Labrador Chickadee (Penthestes hudsonicus nigricans) 

 were obtained and three others noted between then and the twenty-first, 

 whilst on October 11 two examples of the Acadian (Penthestes hudsonicus 

 littoralis) were seen at close quarters and easily identified from the former, 

 not so much from the fact of their backs being brown instead of dusky, 

 the caps undifferentiated, and the sides of a strong brown tint, but more 

 from their behavior and the tone of their voice, which was entirely differ- 

 ent to that of the sixteen nigricans I have so far come across. The same 

 wheezy note was certainly there, but it was stronger and more insistent 

 than in nigricans, which has a very feeble wheeze. As regards their 

 behavior they came close down to me of their own accord and when 

 whistled, the same as atricapillus will, a thing I have never known nigri- 

 cans to do, in fact it has always been a matter of much difficulty to get a 

 shot at these latter owing to their restless and nervous state. — H. Mousley, 

 H alley, Que. 



Willow Thrush in Pennsylvania.— I wish to report the finding of 

 a male specimen of Willow Thrush, Hylocichla fuscescens salicicola, 

 August 28, 1913, in Capitol Park, Harrisburg, Penna. This bird had 

 evidently struck a wire as was indicated by a mark found when the bird was 

 skinned. The skin I sent to Mr. Harry C. Oberholser of the U. S. Bio- 

 logical Survey, Washington, D. C, who identified it as the Willow Thrush. 

 It is now in the collection of the Pennsylvania State Museum. There is 

 no previous record of this subspecies occurring in Pennsylvania. — Boyd P. 

 Rothrock, State Museum, Harrisburg, Pa. 



Subsequent Nestings. — I was very interested in reading an article 

 by Mr. Mousley on subsequent nestings, (Auk, October, 1917). I have 

 seen many interesting cases, and find that most birds will lay two or three 

 sets of eggs in succession, but the most persistent pair of birds I have ever 

 seen, were a pair of White-rumped Shrikes. 



I first made the acquaintance of these birds on the 16th of May, 1916, 

 at the Fairview Cemetery at Wahpeton, North Dakota. The second of 



