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times at Pt. Pelee, Essex Co., Ontario, and apparently nested there. — 

 Bradshaw H. Swales, Ann Arbor, Mich. 



The Carolina Wren in the Maine Wilderness. — Late in June 1 

 visited the Fish and Game Preserve of the Megantic Club which is locatedj 

 in northwestern Maine, and extends from Beaver Pond, about twenty- 

 five miles north of the Rangeley Lake, to Lake Megantic in Quebec. A 

 large part of this is primeval forest, a clearing having been made only for 

 the accommodation of camps, and little or no lumlaering has ever been done 

 on the preserve. 



I reached Beaver Pond about noon of June 21st, and almost the first 

 bird song I heard was that of the Carolina Wren. I did not succeed in 

 seeing the bird, but one who is famihar with the song in the South, and has 

 heard it in New Jersey, and two or three times on Long Island, cannot 

 mistake it, even in the Maine woods. — John Lewis Childs, Floral Park, 

 N. Y. 



Notes from Wisconsin. — Bonasa umbellus umbellus. Ruffed 

 Grouse. — The crops of ten Ruffed Grouse taken in Chippewa County 

 Nov. 25-28, 1915, were examined and seven found to contain largely 

 the pods of the vine Amphicarpa;a — " Hog Peanut." This vine was verj' 

 plentiful in the region trailing over the bushy growth in the burned areas. 

 The " crop statistics " of one of the birds, which contained all the kinds 

 of food noted in the others, is as follows: 



37 pods of Amphicarpoea 3 leaflets of strawberry (green) 



130 seeds " " 1 leaf of wintergreen 



105 small reddish leaf buds 1 berry of wintergreen 



17 seeds of Desmodium The remains of an insect and one 



36 leaflets of clover (green) small pebble 



Spizella pallida. Clat-colored Sparrow. — Clay-colored Spar- 

 rows were found to be quite abundant in the vicinity of Friendship, Adams 

 County, July 4, 1915, and one nest with four eggs was located. The land 

 is flat and the soil sandy with a very patchy growth of jack-pines occa- 

 sionally mixed with black oaks. The open patches are partly bush grown 

 and partly grassy. Farms were not plentiful in the region visited. The 

 combination of open places and woods made bird-life very plentiful and it 

 was interesting to find the Chipping, the Field and the Clay-colored Spar- 

 rows all numerous in one locality. 



Thryothorus ludovicianus ludovicianus. Carolina Wren. — One 

 bird was seen near Madison July IS, 1915. 



Planesticus migratorius migratorius. Robin. — An albino robin 

 that was reported to have spent the summer near the campus of the Uni- 

 versity of Wisconsin was seen Oct. 12, 1915, about two weeks before 

 the last large flock of migrating robins was noted (flock of 35 on Oct. 30). 

 In the spring of 1916, an albino robin was noted in the same vicinity on 



