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very cold and the frozen ground, thawing under a warm morning sun, had 

 been adhesive enough first to stick, then' with the chill of the air to again 

 congeal upon the projecting member as the bird sought its breakfast. 



The Lark was in perfect physical condition when collected, notwithstand- 

 ing the cumbersome disadvantage under which it lived, a circumstance 

 as interesting to the teratologist and others as it is also surprising, consider- 

 ing the malformation of so highly essential an organ. — J. Dewey Soper, 

 Preston, Ontario. 



The Raven in Connecticut. — On May 25, 1919, we observed a Raven 

 (Corvus corax principalis) about on the border line between the towns of 

 Norwalk and Westport, Conn. The bird was circling over a large salt 

 marsh. We observed it through 12-diameter binoculars. The soaring 

 flight, the widespread primary feathers, large size, and coal-black color were 

 clear without a glass. Through the glass we could see the heavy raven 

 beak, and that the head was feathered and black, points that left no doubt 

 in our minds of the identification of the bird. Both of us are familiar with 

 the Raven in other regions where it is of more common occurrence. — Clif- 

 ford H. Pangburn and Aretas A. Saunders, Norwalk, Conn. 



A Strange Blue Jay Flight. — May 25 of this year found me hunting 

 warblers along a narrow tree-bordered roadway skirting a swamp, a few 

 hundred yards from the beach of Lake Erie. By chance I looked up and 

 saw five Blue Jays flying about fifty feet above the tree tops, and before 

 my glance had ended others came into view and still others behind them. 

 They were flying northeast and keeping very quiet. I began to count them, 

 and in about fifteen minutes' time had seen ninety-five Jays. And this 

 does not begin to number those that passed, for, on account of the trees, 

 my view to each side was much restricted, and there is no telling how many 

 had gone on before I casually looked up. They were in a long stream, with 

 now and then a bunch of five to fifteen. Can any one suggest a plausible 

 reason for Jays to be flying in such numbers during the nesting season? — 

 E. A. Doolittle, Painesi v Hle, Ohio. 



Evening Grosbeaks about Beverly Farms, Mass. — In early May, 

 when I moved to Beverly Farms from Florida, my neighbors, Mr L. A. 

 Shaw and Mr. Gordon Means, spoke to me of the many Evening Grosbeaks 

 which they had seen during the latter part of the winter. They told me 

 that from 75 to 100 birds appeared about March 10 and were seen daily 

 after that date. They never entered the woodland at all, but spent their 

 entire time about the shrubberies and tree plantations of the lawns and 

 gardens between Pride's Crossing and Beverly Farms. Their number was 

 somewhat diminished when I saw them first about May 14, and on the night 

 of May 19 all of the others disappeared from the neighborhood. — T. 

 Barbour, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



