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said ' such luck,' ' such hick.' The notes, as has been said, are insect- 

 like in character, especially the first one, which is very lisping, the last 

 note having more volume. The notes are not loud, but may be heard at 

 some distance, and are somewhat ventriloquistic, seeming to come from 

 some general direction but not from any definite spot so that it is impos- 

 sible to locate the birds easily by their notes.' 



While camping at Bass Lake in 1S94, we heard one of these birds at 

 II p. M., the night being clear and moonlight. — ^James O. Dunn, Chicag-o-, 

 III. 



The Rough-winged Swallow (^Stclgidopteryx serripeiDiis.) breeding in 

 North Adams, Berkshire Co., Mass. — Several years ago I noticed a pair 

 of birds that resembled Bank Swallows flying about a limestone cliff in 

 North Adams. The nature of the place led me to suspect these birds 

 were Rough-winged Swallows, but I was unable to pursue the subject 

 further that summer. This year, on the 28th of June, I found two Swal- 

 lows skimming over the surface of a small sheet of water near the above- 

 mentioned cliff and quickly satisfied myself, with the aid of opera-glasses, 

 that they were Rough-wings. It soon appeared that they were engaged 

 in feeding their young, which were enscounced within a narrow, inaces- 

 sible crevice near the summit of the neighboring cliff, about fifty feet 

 from its base. The old birds would pass entirely out of sight within the 

 crevice; the young were invisible. But on the morning of July 2, when 

 I again visited the place, four or five young birds nearly ready to fly were 

 sitting in a row at the mouth of the crevice, while their parents, resting 

 from their labors, basked in the warm morning sun or otherwise disported 

 themselves after the fashion of their tribe. I shot the male, July 2 ; the 

 young left the nest, July 3. 



The Rough-winged Swallow has never before been known to breed in 

 Massachusetts. Indeed, the only previous notice of its occurrence in the 

 State relates to a single specimen killed in Easthampton by W. S. Clark 

 in May, 1851, as recorded by H. L. Clark in 'The Birds of Amherst and 

 Vicinitv,' 18S7, p. 49. A single specimen was captured in Suffield, Conn., 

 June 6, 1S74 (Bull. Nuttall Ornithol. Club, II, 1877, 21) and another in 

 East Hartford, Conn., in June, 1885 (Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., I, 1886, 

 267). It is known to breed in southwestern Connecticut near Bridge- 

 port (B. N. O. C, IV, 1879, 119) and Stamford (Auk, XII, 1895, 86), 

 near the eastern end of Long Island at Shelter Island (Auk, X, 1893, 

 369), and in the lower part of the Hudson River Valley as far north as 

 West Point, N. Y. (B. N. O. C, III, 1S76, 46). The North Adams locality 

 is only about three miles from the southern boundary of Vermont. — 

 Walter Faxon, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass. 



Turdus alicise bicknelli and Otocoris alpestris praticola as Summer 

 Residents of Berkshire County, Mass. — In 18S9 (Auk, VI, 106) I recorded 

 the capture of Bicknell's Thrush on the summit of Mt. Graylock in early 



