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until about a week later when I had the good fortune to see both male and 

 female. 



I frequently saw one or the other of the birds, occasionally both together, 

 all during the breeding season but was not able to locate a nest though 

 feeling sure that they had built one in that immediate vicinity. 



The character of the woods was such as would appeal to a Bachman's 

 Warbler in breeding time. High trees with thick undergrowth covered 

 rolling ground, each depression being very damp and almost swampy. In 

 the densest part of the woods there was a stagnant pool and in and about 

 this pool a pair of Solitary Sandpipers elected to spend the time from April 

 to the middle of June after which time I was unable to watch them, being out 

 of the city. Early in the season they paid very little attention to visitors 

 and when disturbed would fly up with their characteristic piping notes, 

 then immediately settle down again in the very place where they had been 

 feeding, but about the first of June only one bird was in evidence at a time 

 and when a visitor approached it would scurry out of sight into the mass 

 of swamp willows which filled the center of the pool. Might not these 

 birds have been nesting there, too? — Etta S. Wilson, Detroit, Michigan. 



The Canada Warbler again in Colorado. — A specimen of the Canada 

 Warbler (Wilsonia canadensis) was taken on Clear Creek, Colo., near 

 Denver, by my brother, Arthur Rett, on May 26, 1917. It is a male in 

 excellent plumage, and is now in my collection. — E. Rett, Denver, Colo. 



Mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos polyglottos) Spending the Winter at 

 West Haven, Conn. — I announced in the April, 1917, number of ' The 

 Auk ' the presence of a Mockingbird in West Haven, Conn., from November 

 8, 1916, to March 24, 1917. 



On July 17, 1917, the bird returned and is passing the winter at the same 

 place. (January 20, 1918.) Last winter the bird would not take food 

 put out for it but preferred to eat Honeysuckle and Bittersweet berries, 

 but. this winter it takes food put out for it and has become so tame as to 

 alight on the windowsill and eat food. I have also observed it eating the 

 dry seed pods of the asparagus which it swallowed whole as it does the 

 berries of the Bittersweet. 



On November 18, 1917, while at Colonial Park, a summer resort about 

 two miles from West Haven, I observed another Mocker which was eating 

 the berries of a Honeysuckle vine that grew along a fence. The extreme 

 cold weather during the last few days of December and the first of January, 

 I thought would surely kill our Mocker, but he came through all safe and 

 seems none the worse. During that time the thermometer went as low 

 as twelve degrees below zero, which proves that Mockingbirds are not 

 altogether southern birds but can stand our northern winters. The 

 plumage of this bird is quite different this winter, having a great deal more 

 white in the wings and tail so I would judge that it was a young bird when 

 it passed the winter of 1916 and 1917 with us. — Nelson E. Wilmot, 

 West Haven, Conn. 



