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perhaps worth while to record the fact, since but one record l of their 

 appearance there seems to have been made. Eight or ten birds formed the 

 flock, which I watched at close range for an hour or so, at the corner of the 

 Lake Drive and Forest Avenue, whilst they were feeding in trees and on 

 the ground. About half of them were males. 



The writer was at Lakewood, except for an absence of five weeks, from 

 September 18, 1918, to March 22, 1919, and did not see Grosbeaks on any 

 other occasion. — Nathan Clifford Brown, Portland, Maine. 



Evening Grosbeak (Hesperiphor.a v. vespertina) in Ohio in May. — 



There were few if any reports of the Evening Grosbeak west of the Alleghenies 

 for the winter of 1918-19, so it somewhat surprised me when on May 18 

 Mr. Glenn Vesy told me there was a male bird down in the Grackle roost, 

 a thick growth of various haws and wild apples on the flats of Grand River. 

 Knowing that he would not be liable to make a mistake, I looked through the 

 growth late that afternoon but without result. However, upon visiting 

 the place next morning the bird was there and, as reported, was a male in 

 the best of adult plumage. The ground in places was strewn with the 

 fallen haw apples of the fall before, and it was upon these that the bird was 

 feeding. He was still there on the afternoon of May 20, but the next day 

 I failed to find him. — E. A. Doolittle, PainesvillefOhio. 



Henslow's Sparrow in New York and Virginia. — One of the best 

 recent bird discoveries in the Ithaca region was the location of a breeding 

 colony of Henslow's Sparrow (Passerherbulus henslowi) on a sedgy hill side 

 just south of Wilseyville (10 miles south of Ithaca), N. Y. On May 14, 

 1916, Mr Ludlow Griscom found three male birds on this rather high hill. 

 The spot has a northern exposure and the birds were fond of sitting on the 

 sedgy stools or in the tops of pine seedlings. They were very rail-like and 

 elusive. On June 1 of the same year Mr. Griscom showed several of us 

 the site, Dr. A. A. Allen being of the party. At that time we found five 

 males, a few females, and a nest with one egg and three young. The nest is 

 very difficult to find. On June 8 the same five males were in evidence. The 

 following year, on July 5, 1917, Messrs. Allen and G. A. Bailey found 

 another nest with four eggs. In 1916 (July 2), after the discovery of it at 

 Ithaca, the author found one Henslow's Sparrow at Emerson, N. Y., at the 

 northern end of Cayuga Lake. In 1918 another colony was found on the 

 game farm of the university. This year (1919), on May 11, Mr. S. E. R. 

 Simpson found it near Varna (three or four miles northeast of Ithaca, 

 N. Y.). 



The year following my introduction to this species, on May 30, 1917, 

 Mr. Francis Harper showed me the Alexandria Va. colony and I deter- 

 mined to watch for the species southward. I heard it in two or three 

 localities southward to Elmont, Va., where I made a definite journal record 



'Auk, XXXIV, p. 477. 



