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cessful. On the iSth and 19th I failed to see them, perhaps because on 

 both days an extremely high wind was sweeping across the ' pasture.' 

 Possibly they had been driven away, with their young, by the sight and 

 sound (and smell) of the racing automobiles, which from the 16th to the 

 19th had possession of the mountain road ! The species has been recorded 

 from several valleys in the White Mountain region, but, so far as I know, 

 not from Mount Washington or any similar locality. — Bradford Tor- 

 rey, Wellesley Hills, Mass. 



The Pine Siskin Breeding at Guelph, Ontario. — During the past 

 winter (1904-1905) the Pine Siskin (Spi?ius pimis) was abundant in the 

 vicinity of Guelph, Ont. After the middle of April no flocks were noted 

 but they were still commonly seen in pairs or groups of three or four 

 individuals. 



All through May they were common and were breeding throughout the 

 county of Wellington. Some ten nests were found, all in white spruces, 

 black spruces, or balsams. 



The first nest for Central Ontario was found in Guelph on May 7, 1905, 

 by Mr. F. Norman Beattie (Bull. Mich. Orn. Club, Vol. VI, Nos. 1-2). 

 Our only previous Ontario records were for the vicinity of Ottawa where 

 Mr. Sarneau has taken seven nests. — A. B. Klugh, Guelph, Ont. 



The White-throated Sparrow Breeding in Eastern Massachusetts. — 

 On nine different days, from June 29 to August 6 of the present year, I 

 heard a White-throated Sparrow {Zonqtrickia albicollis) singing at the 

 same locality in Boxford, Essex Co., Mass., and on several occasions I 

 saw the bird plainly and fully identified it — once when in company with 

 Dr. C. W. Townsend. I was unable to find the female or the nest, but on 

 August 20 I saw at the same place two young birds of this species in the 

 juvenal plumage with speckled breasts, one of them having the tail im- 

 perfectly fledged. They were alone while I watched them and were evi- 

 dently able to shift for themselves. The finding of the young at this 

 time and place and in this plumage seems to establish the fact of the 

 breeding of the bird here. Messrs. Howe and Allen's List cites but two 

 breeding records of this species for eastern Massachusetts — Browne, 

 Bulletin N. O. C, Vol. V, p. 52, of a nest found in Framingham, 

 1879, by Mr. C. E. Haeuber, and Torrey, Auk, Vol. V, pp. 426, 427, of a 

 pair observed for several days at one locality in the breeding season of 

 1888, in the town of Wakefield, the latter not being a "breeding record " 

 strictly speaking. What gives the matter additional interest is the fact 

 that on June 4, at a locality a quarter or half mile distant from that of the 

 bird above-mentioned and also in the town of Boxford, I had previously 

 heard the song of a White-throated Sparrow, but though I visited the 

 place often thereafter I did not hear it again until July 2, when I heard it 

 delivered two or three times and once very distinctly. This song was 

 entirely different from that of the bird of the other locality, being one of 



