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ground. The fishermen of the neighborhood carried home with them 

 baskets filled with these birds to eat." 



Cistothorus palustris griseus. Worthington's Marsh Wren. — A 

 Wren taken in the salt marshes at old Topsail Inlet, near Beaufort, on 

 August 2, was identified by Prof. Robert Ridgway as being C. f. griseus. 

 The birds seemed not uncommon in certain of the marshes and several 

 unoccupied nests were examined. In the marsh on Gull Island, in Pam- 

 lico Sound, about twenty miles north of Cape Hatteras, Marsh Wrens 

 were found in numbers on May 20. Twelve nests were examined, but 

 no eggs or young were found. A specimen taken at this place was pro- 

 nounced by Mr. C. S. Brim ley of Raleigh, N. C, to be. griseus. Wrens 

 heard singing in the marshes about Southport on June 9, I took to be of 

 this variety, but I did not secure any specimens and hence cannot be posi- 

 tive as to this identification. 



SOME WINTER BIRDS OF NOVA SCOTIA. 



BY C. H. MORRELL. 



I was in Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, from the first of 

 December, 1897, until the fourth of April, 1898, and though 

 collecting was not the object of my visit, careful observations 

 were made and notes taken of the birds seen during that time. 

 The variety of species to be found there at that period is not 

 extensive. December, the first week in January, the last week 

 in February and the month of March was spent on the shore of 

 Chignecto Bay, principally at Shulee, though some time was spent 

 at Joggins, River Hebert and Amherst. During the greater part 

 of January and February I was at Parrsboro on the Basin of 

 Minas. There was little snow in December, the ground being 

 bare most of the time, and no very cold weather. The principal 

 snowfall was in January and February, and the coldest weather 

 was during those months. Several severe storms occurred. 

 March was exceptionally fair and pleasant. The sun shown 

 warm from almost cloudless skies and under its influence the 

 snow melted rapidly, the migrants began to arrive, and the 

 winter birds were soon in full song. 



