314 General Notes. \_f^^ 



This little Sparrow is a rare summer resident in Western New York. I 

 have been on the lookout for it for six or seven years but without finding- 

 it until last spring. On May 2, 1894, I was riding my wheel just outside 

 the city when my ear caught the peculiar note of this species. I stopped 

 to investigate and soon flushed a Grasshopper Sparrow. I returned to 

 the spot next day and secured a specimen and saw five or six others. 

 Later in the season, on and about the first of June, I searched on several 

 occasions for the nest of two pairs which frequented the same field, north 

 of the city. And still later in June I saw one of these Sparrows near 

 Abbott's Corners, and another near North Boston. 



Thryothorus ludovicianus. Carolina Wren. — On the 5th of Novem- 

 ber, 1894, I was passing through a patch of fallen timber in the woods 

 near Stony Point and stopped to watch some Chickadees. When I 

 started on I was startled by a loud chattering such as I had never heard 

 before. It was fully ten minutes before I caught sight of the author of 

 it, and had the pleasure of adding a Carolina Wren to my collection. I 

 have not seen any record of its capture in Western New York previous to 

 this. It was taken just after a severe gale from the southwest. — James 

 Savage, Buffalo, N. T. 



Two Unique Nesting-sites in and about Camp Buildings in Hamilton 

 County, New York. — On July 29, 1894, while visiting at Camp Killoquah 

 Forked Lake, Hamilton County, New York, I saw some very suspicious 

 looking straws sticking out from a niche between the logs and behind 

 the framing of a window in the side of the main building of the 

 camp. Upon investigation they proved to be a part of a Junco's nest, 

 which contained four fresh eggs. In the crevice between the two logs 

 just above, there was also an old nest, which had evidently been used for 

 some previous brood. These nests were rather i-emarkable on account of 

 their close proximity to the door of the camp, through which every one 

 there was wont to go, and beside which, in the course of a day, a good 

 deal of work was done. I learned from the guides that this pair of Juncos 

 had been around there all the spring, and they were still often to be seen 

 picking up crumbs about the kitchen and dining room. The nest was 

 made of cedar bark and grasses, and lined with long deep hairs, which the 

 birds had picked up in the vicinity. 



On August 3, 1894, I found a Chimney Swift's nest placed just under 

 the ridge pole of an old log barn and against the side of one of the logs 

 of which it was constructed. Such a position was new to me as I had 

 always thought they built either in chimneys or in hollow trees, and it 

 was additionally interesting from the fact that it was within a foot of an 

 enormous hornet's nest. The five young birds which were nearly fledged 

 were clinging to the bark of the logs in the immediate vicinity and 

 seemed to get on much better with the hornets than I did. — F. II. 

 Kennaki), Brooklhie, Mass. 



