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Again a few daj's later (Aug. 4), several, hundred miles farther down the 

 Columbia, at the Little Dalles, Washington I heard a Red-eje singing in 

 some large trees at the edge of the river. This latter place is nearly two 

 hundred miles to the south of Golden and about the same distance south- 

 east of Ashcroft. 



These facts make it seem at least probable that the species will be found 

 in all favorable situations throughout the intermediate region. — C. F. 

 Batchelder, Cambridge, Mass. 



The Chestnut-sided Warbler Nesting in Missouri. — Central Illinois is 

 generally considered to be the southernmost limit in the Mississippi 

 Valley of the summer home of this Warbler, and thus far there appears to 

 be no record for southern Iowa. I desire to say, however, that while in 

 Missouri the past June (1892) I observed D. pensylvanica on two occasions 

 and under circuinstances that point most conclusively to the probability 

 of its nesting in that State. On June 3, while visiting the woods skirting 

 the River Des Peres near St. Louis, in company with Mr. O. Widmann 

 of Old Orchard, Mo., a male was discovered singing in the top of a tree 

 on the edge of a blackberry thicket and to all appearances settled for the 

 season, Mr. Widmann's attention being first directed to it by the peculi- 

 arity of its song as a summer resident for that locality. 



Later, on the 19th of the month, while riding by wagon in Reynolds 

 County. Mo., from Edge Hill to Middlebrook, and about halfway between 

 those points a male and a female were detected by me in the act of copula- 

 tion, the locality being a tract of country formerly cleared of its timber by 

 charcoal burners, but now growing up with brush. This was in a region 

 about ninety miles south by southwest from St. Louis. Mr. Widmann again 

 saw a male (probably the original bird) in the first locality herein men- 

 tioned on June 21, and we were informed by Mr. Philo W. Smith, Jr., of 

 St. Louis, that he had taken as many as six nests of the Chestnut-sided 

 Warbler in one day at Greenwood, a small suburb a few miles west of the 

 city. 



In the light of our previous knowledge, the foregoing notes will serve 

 to extend considerably the known breeding range of this bird. — B. F. 

 Gault, Glen Ellyn, Dti Page Co.., Illinois. 



Two Cape Cod Records. — Rallus elegans. — ^Mr. P. L. Small o^ 

 Provincetown, Mass., has presented me with the remains of a King Rail 

 that was caught in a muskrat trap in North Truro early in February, 

 1892. The skin has been badly damaged by mice, but enough is left 

 unhurt to make the identification cei'tain. Mr. Small received the bird in 

 the flesh a few days after it was taken. The early part of the winter of 

 1891-1892 was very mild in eastern Massachusetts, and I am told that 

 until the middle of February there was no ice in the marshes where the 

 Rail was captured. 



