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Rough-legged Hawk) are the two following for the Field Sparrow, 



Auk, IV, p. 259 and X, p. 205. Four Field Sparrows were seen by Mr. 

 Treat near Hartford, Conn., in January, 1886, and one in January, 1887. 

 The second record is for Massachusetts; a bird was seen by Mr. Torrev at 

 Wellesley, Dec. 19, 1892, and again Jan. 8, 1893. 



Cape Cod is, of course, exceptionally well fitted to shelter these birds 

 in winter, as sno^v rarel\' lingers there for more than a few days and 

 because there are extensive marshes which are always opened by the tide. 

 It is probable, however, that similar conditions exist in Rhode Island and 

 in Connecticut, so that it would be worth while for observers in those 

 States to investigate the marshes there, unless indeed some, or all, of the 



above-mentioned birds are already known to winter along the Sound. 



Ralph Hoffmann, Belmonf, Mass. 



Notes from Southern New Jersey. — • Phalaropus lobatus. Northern 

 Phalarope. — Two specimens of this rare visitant to the New Jersev 

 coast were secured on Peck's Beach, Cape May Co., on the 23rd of May, 

 1894, and are now in my collection. The above and the one taken by Mr. 

 L. F. Bowers, the day previous (22nd) at the same place, proved to be 

 females. It is said to be extremely rare in this section. The great storm 

 which swept the coast from the 19th to the 22nd of this month, no doubt 

 compelled the birds to seek shelter upon this island. 



Ammodramus henslowii. Henslow's Sparrow. — While engaged in 

 collecting a few shore birds on the 22nd of May, 1S94, upon Peck's Beach, 

 I ran across a nest of this Sparrow. It was placed at the brink of a small 

 sand dune, the top of which was about six feet above the level of the 

 beach. The nest was sunken flush with the sand and directlj- against the 

 roots of a solitary bunch of grass. The bird did not leave the nest until 

 I had approached within three feet and almost touched her breast with my 

 finger, when she flew to the edge of a thicket of bayberry and hollv 

 bushes some distance away, and, while protesting vigorously', did not come 

 near or call up her mate. The nest, of bleached sedge grass with a lining 

 of fine grass stems, contained four partly incubated eggs of a very light 

 greenish to grayish white, thickly speckled and spotted with chestnut and 

 hazel, with a very little vandyke brown here and there. The markings 

 were confluent at the larger end in two and at the smaller end of the 

 remaining two eggs. One egg also shows many olive gray shell 

 markings. They measure .71 X .63, .70 X .62, .70 X .62, .70 X .62, and 

 are short ovate to oval. — Frank L. Blrns, Berxvyn, Chester Co.. Pa. 



Some Notes from Pennsylvania. — The summer of 1894 I spent in 

 Pike County, Pennsylvania, in the Delaware \^alley. Through June my 

 friend, H. L. Beadel, was with me, and together we explored the woods 

 around Dingman's Ferry, our headquarters. On June 14 we made our 

 first important find, the nest and eggs of the Canadian Warbler {Sylvatiia 

 canadensis). The deeply cupped nest was under a tangle of laurel roots, 



