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books and have seen no reference to its building a nest such as I have 

 described. — Owen Bryant. Cambridge, Mass. 



Dates of Nesting of Bermuda Birds. — As little has been published in 

 regard to nesting habits of Bermuda birds the following observations 

 may prove interesting. I was not there to find birds' eggs and only an 

 insignificant part of my time was spent at it, so the data are few. 



English Sparrow (Passer domesticus). June 27, 1903. Flatts. Tavo 

 nests with young; i nest with 5 eggs, incubated; 2 nests with 4 eggs, 

 incubated. 



Cat Bird {Galeoscoftes carolinensis). June 28, 1903. Hungary Bay. 

 One nest with 3 eggs, incubated. 



July 8, 1903. Flatts. One nest with three fresh eggs. All the nests I 

 found were in bushes 3-10 feet from ground. (Nests the same as in New 

 England.) 



Yellow-billed Tropic 'Rikt> {P/iai-t/ion Jiavirostris). June 30, 1903, 

 Castle Island. One nest with fresh egg ; several nests with downy 

 young, about 6 in. long. 



June 10. Harrington Sound. One nest with incubated egg ; several 

 nests with half grown young. All were in holes in rock. One was a 

 mere depression in a flat rock; others 2 to 4 feet deep. 



Cardinal Bird. {Cardinalis cardinalis). July 8. Flatts. One nest 

 with three eggs, nearly hatched. In the top of a rather small cedar tree 

 about 20 feet up. It was high enough to be quite conspicuous. The 

 bird called my attention to it by squeaking. 



European Goldfinch [Cardnelis cardticlis). June 29. Trunk Island. 

 Saw one of the old birds fly on to the nest, which was empty but 

 apparently finished. 



July 6. The same nest contained 4 fresh eggs. It was in a cedar tree, 

 about 25 feet up, on a horizontal branch 6 or 7 feet from the trunk. It 

 was made mostly of yellow down and looked very much like the nest of 

 our Yellow-bird. — Owen Bryant, Cambridge, Mass. 



Unusual Records near Boston, Mass. — During the last winter and 

 spring a number of uncommon birds have come under our notice, and 

 although none of them are rare, they may be worthy of record. 



Larus Philadelphia. One was seen flying over the Charles River near 

 the Harvard Bridge, May 14, 1904. 



Sula bassana. A single bird was observed April 8, 1904, off Lynn 

 Beach. 



Mareca americana. One spent April 17, 1904, on the Chestnut Hill 

 Reservoir, Brighton, in company with two Black Ducks. 



Aythya marila. A flock estimated to number about six hundred 

 wintered about Moon Island. We have not found them wintering at any 

 other point in Boston Bay. 



