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It was quite cold for several days and on this day the thermometer regis- 

 tered 41 degrees and the birds seemed too cold to fly far. 



Species identified were : 



Mniotilta varia. Black and White Warbler. — Fifty individuals. 



Vermivora rubricapilla rubricapilla. Nashville Warbler. — 

 Twenty-five individuals. 



Compsothlypis americana usnese. Northern Partjla Warbler. — 

 Four hundred individuals. 



Dendroica caerulescens caerulescens. Black-throated Blue 

 Warbler. — One hundred individuals. 



Dendroica magnolia. Magnolia Warbler. — .Seventy-five indi- 

 viduals. 



Dendroica fusca. Blackburnian Warbler. — ■ Two hundred indi- 

 viduals. 



Dendroica virens. Black-throated Green Warbler. — One hun- 

 dred individuals. 



Wilsonia citrina. Hooded Warbler. — Twenty-five individuals. 



Setophaga ruticilla Redstart. — One hundred and twenty-five 

 individuals. 



Sitta canadensis. Red-breasted Nuthatch. — Nested in Highland 

 Park Pinetum, five young were raised in an Audubon Bird House No. 2, 

 placed on an Electric-wire pole in the midst of thick hemlocks. Young 

 birds in the nest on June 17, 1917. They left the nest on June 28, 1917 

 and the parents and young often came to the food station for suet. 



This is the first record we have noticed of their breeding in Monroe 

 County, N. Y. 



Penthestes hudsonicus littoralis. Acadian Chickadee. — December 

 11, 1913, 1 bird: January 2 to 16, 1914, two birds reported four times, 

 Highland Park, Rochester, N. Y. The birds were watched at a distance of 

 from six to eight feet, and also shown to local bird authorities (mentioned 

 in ' Birds of New York,' by E. H. Eaton). — Wm. L. G. Edson and R. E. 

 Horsey, The Herbarium, Higldand Park, Reservoir Ave., Rochester, N. Y. 



Notes from St. Marks, Fla. — Following are records of birds seen in 

 this vicinity during the past few weeks: 



Limosa fedoa. Marbled Godwit. — A single bird, September 16, 

 mi a sand-bar near the lighthouse in company with Black-bellied Plovers, 

 Turnstone, Least and Semipalmated Sandpipers and Red-backed Sand- 

 pipers. 



Vermivora pinus. Blue-winged Warbler. — One taken October 9, 

 in low pine and oak grove, bordering our village. But one bird seen. The 

 first record for our county it is believed and an uncommon migrant in 

 Florida. 



Tyrannus verticalis. Arkansas Kingbird. — Two were observed 

 October 1 1 , in our village close by the railroad and near the river, invariably 

 perched in topmost twigs of dead oaks that overlooked a grove of pine 



