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markings. The set in question was found at Milford Mills, Chester 

 County, Pa., on May 17, 1894, at which time the nest contained two eggs. 

 Being obliged to leave the locality on the following day, I had Mr. Frank 

 Powell forward me the nest and eggs as soon as the set was complete. 

 On close inspection there is seen a faint suggestion of a few small spots 

 on the larger end of one of the eggs, but this is not noticeable on casual 

 exainination. The eggs are somewhat shorter than the ordinary type, 

 but the transverse diameter is greater, thus giving them more of a 

 rounded appearance. Their color, aside from the absence of spots, is 

 normal. There was nothing unusual about the nest, it being composed 

 of dried grass and lined with horse hair. It was built in the forks of a 

 limb of an apple tree in an orchard. — Willard L. M.\ris, Nerviozvn, Pa. 



Junco hyemalis shufeldti in Lower California. — In looking over a 

 small series of Juncos taken the past spring between Tia Juana and San 

 Fernando, Lower California, I was somewhat surprised to find one 

 specimen that was easily referable to shufeldti. Upon turning to my note- 

 book I find that the bird in question was taken on March 29, in tlieCarriso 

 Valley, about six miles east of Tia Juana and two or three miles south of 

 the United States boundary line. It was a fine male and the only Junco 

 noted in several days' collecting at that point. With the exception of 

 J. h. tozvnsendi which, so far as my observations go, is confined to the 

 immediate region of San Pedro Martir, all of the other Juncos that I have 

 examined from the northern part of the peninsula have proven to be 

 typical J. h. t/iurberi. In January, 1894, I secured a single specimen of 

 this race in a willow thicket at El Rosario, the most southern point that 

 I have met with the genus. I found thurheri common in the Burro 

 Canon, a short distance north of Ensenada, in late April, and they Tiiay 

 have been nesting though I have no positive evidence of their so doing, 

 so near the sea level. 



If is more than probable that Mr. Bryant's Guadaloupe Island record of 

 J. oregonus (Catalogue Birds of Lower California), refers to thurheri, 

 that race not having been described at the time the list was published. — 

 A. W. Anthony, San Diego, Cala. 



Mortality among White-bellied Swallows in Florida. ^ — During the 

 almost unprecedented cold snap which prevailed throughout Florida in 

 the first half of February, an exceedingly large number of White-bellied 

 Swallows succumbed to the severity of the weather. These were either 

 directly killed by the sudden fall in temperature or were overcome by the 

 scarcity of insect food occasioned by the protracted cold. While I have 

 no information as to the condition of affairs in other parts of the State, it 

 seems reasonable to suppose that what was observed in this section 

 obtained elsewhere. 



(3n February 13, while dri\ ing along the stage route between Lake 

 Worth and Biscavne Bay, numerous dead birds were noticed. At New 



