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have built another nest, laid eggs, and brought out nearly fullgrown young 

 in twenty days, and there must certainly have been at least one other pair 

 in the vicinity. On August 4 I again saw three Kinglets at the same local- 

 ity, after which date they were not seen again. One at least of those seen 

 on this date had the crown-patch of the adult. 



The first well identified nest of the Golden-crowned Kinglet seems to 

 have been that found by H. D. Minot (Land-birds and Game-birds of New 

 England, ed. 1. 56 (1877)) in the White Mountains of New Hampshire on 

 July 16, 1876. This nest, which contained young birds, was four feet from 

 the ground in a hemlock, pensile like the majority of recorded nests. Mr. 

 Vickery's Lynn nest (O. & O. xiv. 95, 111 (1889)), which contained only 

 three eggs, was in a spruce tree and likewise suspended from a limb. Both 

 the nests of the Golden-crown recorded by H. Austen (O. & O. xiv. 93-94 

 (1889); XV. 106 (1890)) from the vicinity of Halifax, Nova Scotia, were 

 " suspended .... on twigs .... fully three to eight inches underneath the 

 main branch .... fastened by the side with moss to the small branches." 

 One of two nests of the Ruby-crown, however, was built on a limb (1. c. xv. 

 106), while the other was suspended. Brewster's account (Auk, v. 337-344 

 (1888)), the fullest that has yet appeared of the nesting of the Golden- 

 crowned Kinglet, gives details of three nests found in Winchendon (Mass.), 

 or vicinity, all of which were pensile. 



A brief record of the taking of the present nest has already appeared in 

 'The Taxidermist' (no. 4, p. 7 (Oct. 1908)).— S. F. Blake, Stoiighton, 

 Massachusetts. 



A Record of Townsend's Solitaire {Myadesles townsendi). — A male 

 Townsend's Solitaire was taken at CoUegeville, Minnesota, Dec. 20, 1909. 

 Although far from its normal haunts, the bird was very active and its 

 melodious warble broke the monotony of the winter day. Coues remarks, 

 that this bird is " capable of musical expression in an exalted degree." 



When found, it was feeding in a young evergreen grove, planted about 

 a mile and a half from the railway station and only a few hundred feet 

 from Observatory Hill. Dr. Thomas S. Roberts of Minnesota State Uni- 

 versity, Minneapolis, kindly verified my identification. 



Ridgway (Birds of North and Middle Am., Part IV, page 165) says that 

 it has been found " straggling, in autumn or winter to Kansas (Wallace, 

 October) .... and northwestern Illinois (Waukegan, Dec. 16, 1875). 

 Since its breeding range " extends from the Coast Ranges to the Black Hills 

 of North Dakota " (Ridgway loc. cit.), the Minnesota record of Dec. 20, 

 1909, is interesting. The mounted specimen was added to the bird collec- 

 tion of St. John's University Museum, CoUegeville, Minnesota. — Severin 

 Gertken, CoUegeville, Minn. 



Regular Breeding of Alice's Thrush in Arctic East Siberia. — In a 



paper entitled. Notes on the Birds and Mammals of the Arctic Coast of 

 East Siberia (Proc. of the New Engl. Zool. Club, Vol. V, 1914) on page 37 



