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as subsequent visits to this beautiful region or observations of corre- 

 spondents enabled me to do. Such added species were the Barn Owl, 

 Savannah Sparrow, Mockingbird (XXVI, p. 438), and later the Winter 

 Wren as a breeder in the highest parts of Garrett County. My last two 

 visits in 1918 and the present year, besides revealing many interesting 

 changes, enable me to add the following species to the list: 



Guiraca c. caerulea. Blue Grosbeak. — On July 9, 1918, while 

 going up the bush-bordered path on one of the hills at Cumberland, I 

 saw a family of old and young of this species, winch I had never encoun- 

 tered in Maryland before. As if to obviate the necessity for me to ex- 

 plain away the objection that they might have been Indigo-birds, a fam- 

 ily of this species started up at the same place and joined in the commotion 

 going on. 



Sturnus vulgaris. Starling. — In its westward invasion the Starling 

 has now reached Cumberland. Under date of February 27, 1920, my 

 friend, Mr. John A. Fulton, of Cumberland, wrote me that he had for sev- 

 eral weeks noticed a flock of apparently new and strange birds about 

 the city, but since they were silent and always flew high, he could not 

 make them out. About this time they commenced to make their head- 

 quarters in the court house tower and in the vines on the Episcopal church, 

 where they were recognized as Starlings. To make matters certain, the 

 janitor of the church knocked one down with a stick, which specimen 

 was brought to Mr. Fulton, who in turn was so kind as to send it to me. 

 There were about 100 in the flock. Later in the spring they would spend 

 the day along the edge of the Potomac, but for the night they would re- 

 turn to the above-mentioned buildings. 



Iridoprocne bicolor. Tree Swallow. — During my residence at 

 Cumberland with the numerous excursions into various parts of the two 

 westernmost counties of the state, together with the several subsequent 

 visits I had never once seen this species, not even as a migrant — probably 

 an oversight. Therefore I was much surprised to find it this summer 

 as a summer resident. I saw three repeatedly at Crellin, near Oakland, 

 a mile from the West Virginia line, on June 29 and the following days. 

 They entered holes in dead trees, which had been killed by the damming 

 of the Youghiogheny River for sawmill purposes, resulting in a pond-like 

 widening out of the river, which otherwise here is merely a creek. No 

 doubt the mates were in the holes incubating eggs. The Rough-winged 

 Swallow, which I had so far only seen in the lower parts of the region, 

 nested in the same trees. 



Passerculus sandwichensis savanna. Savannah Sparrow. — I was 

 surprised to find this bird in numbers at Accident, in the higher parts of 

 Garrett County. I had seen it once only, in 1906, near Oakland, and 

 here it was this year plentifully. It was not here in 1914 and 1918, be- 

 cause I am certain I could not have overlooked it. 



Compsothlypis americana usneae. Northern Parula Warbler. 

 I had never seen this bird as a summer resident in the higher parts of 



