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The Louisiana Water-Thrush Breeding in Berkshire County, Mass.— 

 On the eleventh of June, 1896, I found a pair of Louisiana Water- 

 Thrushes (Seiurus molaeilla) feeding fledged young, near a clear moun- 

 tain brook in Sheffield, Berkshire Co., Mass. — Walter Faxon, Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



The Mockingbird {Mimus folyglottos) in Canada. — A young Mocking- 

 bird taken in the fall of 1S94 and sent to me from Sable Island, Nova 

 Scotia, constitutes the fifth record of this species for Canada. The other 

 four are so scattered and have been so often incompletely quoted it seems 

 worth while to review them here. They stand as follows : 



I. Strathroy, Ont. (Strathroy Age [newspaper], July 1, 1SS0; Forest 

 and Stream, XV, Aug. 26, 1SS0, p. 67; Bull. N. O. C., VI, 1SS1, p. 112). 

 A single bird was seen in the town but not captured. 



II. Chatham, Ont. (Morden and Saunders, Canadian Sportsman and 

 Naturalist, II, Nov. 1882, p. 1S4; Chamberlain, Cat. Canadian Birds, 18S7. 

 p. no; Mcllwraith, Birds of Ontario, revised ed., 1894, P: 3^8 ; Piers, 

 Trans. X. S. Inst. Xat. Sci., I, ser. 2, pt. iv, 1895, p. 409). 



In point of time, 1860, this is the first Mockingbird taken in Canada. 

 Mr. Edwin W . Sandys, who originally furnished the record, was recently 

 seen bv the writer, and he tells me the bird was secured by his father and 

 is now in a collection of stuffed birds made by him. It was seen perched 

 on the ridge pole of a barn one June morning just after a warm southerly 

 gale, and its rich song was what first drew attention to it. 



III. Hamilton, Ont. (Mcllwraith, Birds of Ontario, 1SS6, p. 2S4, revised 

 ed., 1894, p.388; Chamberlain, Cat. Canadian Birds, 18S7, p. no; Piers, 

 Trans. X. S. Inst. Sci , I, ser. 2, pt. iv, 1S95, p. 409). A pair of birds 

 spent the summer of 1SS3 at East Hamilton. 



IV. Truro, N. S. (McLennan, Orn. and Ool., XIV, Aug. 1SS9, p. 136; 

 Piers, Trans. X. S. Inst. Xat. Sci., I, ser. 2, pt. iv, pp. 40S-410). A bird 

 was wounded and caught alive July 1, 1SS9. It showed no signs of being 

 an escaped cage bird. Then it was put in a cage, where it lived for three 

 years when it died and was thrown away. 



V. Sable Island, N. S. This is a young bird in much worn first 

 plumage, taken in the fall of 1S94. I have been unable to obtain any 

 information about the specimen except that it did not come to the island 

 in a cage, and we can only assume it was carried thither by some resistless 

 storm, perhaps from the mainland or more likely from some far more 

 southern home. — Jonathan Dwight, Jr., New York City. 



Thriothorus or Thryothorus ? — I am interested in Mr. William 

 Palmer's ' Thoughts on the New Check-List,' which suggests some 

 thoughts in me. One of these thoughts is, that Mr. Palmer's criticisms 

 are perfectlv candid and sincere, and, therefore, should not be taken de 

 haul en has, but welcomed for anything they offer for the bettering of the 

 Committee's performance. Another thought suggested is, that sometimes 



