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had done before. I began searching over every inch of ground and after 

 half an hour's work I found a tiny nest sunken on a level with the 

 ground, which was so well concealed by its small size and the thick clump 

 of grass in Avhich it was located that I could not remove my eyes without 

 again having to search for it. The structure was four inches in depth 

 and well arched over at the top, resembling nothing more than a tiny 

 burrow; so dark was the interior of the nest that the eggs could not be 

 discerned until the surrounding growth had been displaced. This nest 

 was composed of fine grasses, very compactly woven, and the walls were 

 thick and strong. Incubation was far advanced in the five eggs which it 

 <;ontained, the ground color of which was grayish white thickly and 

 uniformly marked with specks of light brown. 



I found it no easy matter to obtain the bird, as it never flew for more 

 than a few yards without dropping into the grass, and only took wing 

 when almost trampled upon. At last, however, I secured the bird with a 

 snap shot when it took a longer flight than usual. The bird proved 

 beyond all question to belong to Anunodrainus tiehotii, and the bird, 

 nest and eggs are now in the collection of Dr. H. B. Bishop. Few sets, 

 if any, of this spariow have been taken within the limits of the United 

 States, though Arnold and Raine have taken sets in Canada. The set 

 described above was taken near Devils Lake City, N. D. — Charles 

 W. BowNAN, Devils Lake, IV. D. 



Henslow's Sparrow in Chester County, Pa. — On April 25, 1904, I shot 

 a male Henslow's Sparrow (Ammodratnns heitslozvii) at Cupola, Chester 

 Co., Pa. There were some six pairs of these sparrows in an overgrown, 

 upland field. They ran under the matted grass like meadow mice and it 

 was almost impossible to flush them, but their weak, two-syllabled notes 

 could be heard on every side. On another visit to the locality, on May 8, 

 only a single bird was seen and on May 22 they seemed to have entirely- 

 deserted the spot, as none were to be found. — Chreswell J. Hunt, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



Henslow's Sparrow at Bethlehem, Pa. — A Correction. — In view of 

 the recent occurrences of Henslow's Sparrow (Ammodramus henslowii) in 

 New Jersey and Pennsylvania, it seems desirable to call attention to an 

 erroneous record furnished to Dr. B. H. Warren and first published in his 

 Birds of Pennsylvania.' On p. 236 he says: "Nests have been taken in 

 our state by Dr. Detwiller of Bethlehem and Mr. Roddy of Millersville." 

 In my ' Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey,' after correspond- 

 ing with both gentlemen, I published more explicit data concerning the 

 dates and localities of these nests. 



Subsequently a portion of the late Dr. Detwiller's collection came into 

 possession of the Academy of Natural Sciences, and among other speci- 

 mens are two birds labeled " Cotnrniculus kenslowi, Bethlehem, June, 



