84 General Notes. [£J 



June I saw the birds feeding five young ones, and a few days later, I found 

 the nest, where the young were raised. The nest was placed in the lower 

 branches of a cottonwood about ten feet from the ground. April 1, 1917, 

 the birds were back in their old haunts, and on April 15, they had finished 

 repairing the old nest. April 23, I collected a set of six fresh eggs. The 

 shrikes then moved away about two hundred and fifty feet and repaired a 

 last year's robin nest. The ninth of May I looked into the nest and found 

 five fresh eggs. This nest was placed twenty feet from the ground. Two or 

 three days later the nest blew down or was torn down. 



One week later a new nest was built, also in a cottonwood six feet from 

 the ground. It contained three eggs. Laborers went to work trimming 

 the trees and by cutting off the lower branches, the nest was destroyed. 

 June 2 a new nest was found in a cottonwood fifteen feet from the first nest. 

 It contained six fresh eggs. 



I collected this set, and the birds again went to work, this time repairing 

 an old nest of a Brown Thrasher. This nest was about seventy feet from 

 Nest No. 1 and five feet from the ground. It contained on the fifteenth 

 of June a set of six fresh eggs. 



I had robbed the birds of two sets of eggs and had seen two sets lost by 

 accident, and however interesting it might have been to carry the experi- 

 ment farther, I could not do it, so I watched the birds raise a family of 

 six healthy young. 



I have now in my collection two sets or twelve eggs of these birds and 

 had an opportunity to see fourteen eggs more, and I found them all so near 

 alike, that it would be impossible to pick out the different sets, if the eggs 

 became mixed. 



When I found the first nest the birds would stay near by, whenever I 

 went to examine it. Later they grew so bold, that if I came near the 

 nest, they would fly at me screaming and biting, one even causing me a 

 bleeding wound on my hand. 



As the country is level, open, almost treeless, and I did a good deal of 

 exploring, I feel certain that these were the only pair of shrikes in this 

 locality, and that I could not possibly have overlooked another pair of 

 birds. — J. K. Jensen, U. S. Indian School, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 



Uncommon Birds at Hatley, Stanstead County, Quebec. — It 



may be interesting to record the fact of having found the Red-headed 

 Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) breeding here this summer, the 

 nest being in a dead maple tree at the roadside about fifteen feet above the 

 ground, and when found on July 16, containing four young birds which left 

 the nest between July 31 and August 4. During the same month, and 

 whilst on my way to visit the above nest I came across an example of the 

 Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura septentrionalis) on July 31, which I was 

 enabled to follow about in a large wood for some considerable time and 

 thoroughly identify. Two months later, or on September 24, whilst hunt- 



