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ever, a diflBciilt problem, and has eluded the search of a number of ornithol- 

 ogists around this very lake for several years. On June 12, 1915, the nest 

 was found by J. D. Carter in a low shi'ub well hidden and within twenty- 

 four inches of the ground. One egg was laid on the 14th, but the nest was 

 found destroyed on the 27th when it was again visited. On July 17 I 

 found a new nest containing three fresh eggs in almost the same spot or 

 within six feet of the first one; it was also well hidden, and it was by the 

 luckiest chance that I happened to see it. The bu-d was not flushed either 

 time, and was generally heard uttering the short harsh note from a hundred 

 to five hundred feet away, giving little clew to the general position of the 

 nest. While I was photographing, the parent bird ventured within fifteen 

 feet of me, but all the time hidden in the thicket and occasionally uttering 

 an unconcerned low single note. The nest was built of soft bleached gi'ass, 

 lined with fine thin material, the eggs being rich cream and spotted almost 

 exactly like the Wood Pewee's eggs. I think this nest is the first recorded 

 for the State of Pennsylvania. — Wm. L. Baily, Ardmore, Pa. 



Yellow-bellied Flycatcher {Empidonax flavioentris) Breeding on the 

 Pocono Mountain, Pa. — A nest containing four eggs was found along 

 the Tobyhanna Creek, on Pocono Mountain in Monroe County, Pa., by 

 Geo. H. Stuart, 3rd., in company with J. Fletcher Street on June 27, 

 1915. I had found a nest containing four fresh eggs in almost the identi- 

 cal spot eight years previous, June 23, 1907, in company C G. Abbott, 

 and though we did not collect the nest we obtained excellent photographs 

 of the eggs and one of the birds on the nest. On July 17, 1915, 1 found a 

 third nest containing three young about two days old, which I photo- 

 graphed; and I also obtained another picture of the parent near the nest. 

 Duritig an hour's stay within about thirty feet of the nest, both birds 

 were near by, somewhat anxious, and uttering every few seconds their 

 drawling " pe-a." 



The nesting sites were all in little open sunny spots of wet sphagnum in 

 the dense secluded forest of spruce, hemlock, balsam and tamarack; and 

 all through the moss grew the wintergreen, bunch berry and occasionally 

 the fragrant white swamp azalia. The nests were hidden in the sides of 

 little mounds of sphagnum; only a little black flat hole was visible, which 

 did not even look suspicious. The nest which had young was composed 

 first of small spruce twigs, and then lined thickly with pine needles only, 

 and set right in the sphagnum deeply cupped. As I had not flushed the 

 bird, I poked my finger into it for investigation before I knew it to be a nest. 

 Mr. Stuart's nest, which contained eggs, was simply lined with pine 

 needles. This is the only spot on Mt. Pocono where we have found this 

 species breeding, and it is safe to state that there were at least three pairs 

 in the vicinity. — Wm. L. Baily, Ardmore, Pa. 



Swainson's Hawk in Illinois. — An interesting record is the capture 

 of a beautifully marked specimen of Buteo swainsoni, near Waukegan, by 



