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ally a scarce summer resident, this bird was unusually plentiful this year 

 (1914) . On July 28, 1 saw a flock of about 60, nearly all were adult males. — 

 J. A. Munro, Okanagan Landing, B. C. 



Some Unusual Breeding Records from South Carolina. — Wood 

 Duck (Aix sponsa). In view of the alarming decrease in numbers of this 

 species in recent years, the following record is of particular interest. On 

 June 23, 1912, in the Otranto Swamp near Charleston, S. C, I found a 

 brood of seventeen well grown young. This, I believe, is an unusually 

 large number, as all of the authorities which I have consulted on the subj ect 

 give the full complement of eggs as ranging from eight to fifteen. In this 

 case it is probable that even more than seventeen eggs were laid as it must 

 be rare indeed for a full set of eggs to be hatched and the young brought 

 to the age of two or three weeks without casualty of any kind. 



It has been suggested that two sets of eggs may have been laid in the 

 same nest. 



Woodcock (Philohela minor). Although Woodcock are known to 

 breed sparingly in the coast region of South Carolina, definite records of 

 breeding are few. On February 22, 1913, a female was shot at Summer- 

 ville, near Charleston, S. C, and was found to contain several eggs the 

 largest of which would probably have been laid the next day. 



Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus ludovicianus) . While the 

 Loggerhead often begins nest building in February, it is seldom that eggs 

 are laid before the end of March, and I have never before known a pair to 

 be successful in incubating during the inclement weather that usually 

 prevails in the early part of that month. However, on March 30, 1913, I 

 saw a young Loggerhead which could not be distinguished from its parents 

 in size, and could be recognized as a young bird only by its actions and 

 because it was being fed regularly. We had ample opportunity to watch 

 this performance for the parents were busy catching insects while the 

 young bird followed them closely and by fluttering and squawking, in- 

 sisted upon having his share. Allowing twelve days for incubation and at 

 least as many for the then age of the youngster — both of which estimates 

 are probably very low — the full set of eggs must have been complete by 

 March 6, if not earlier. — Francis M. Weston, Jr., Charleston, S. C. 



Notes on Some Birds of the Maryland Alleghanies ; An Anomaly 

 in the Check-List.— After a lapse of twelve years, the writer was fortu- 

 nate enough to be able to again spend a week in the highest part of the 

 Maryland Alleghanies, namely at Accident in Garrett County. This is 

 the westernmost county of Maryland and the hamlet in question is about 

 ten to fifteen miles northeast of Deer Park and Mountain Lake Park, the 

 well-known summer resorts on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The 

 natural features of this so-called glade region of the Alleghanies, its beauty 

 and attractiveness to the naturalist and nature-lover, have been more 

 fully described in Vol. XXI of ' The Auk,' in the article headed: ' Birds 

 of Western Maryland.' Excepting the melancholy fact that saw-mill and 



