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received in any previous season. The dates and localities are as follows : 



Anoka, Anoka Co., Minn., Nov. 21, 1905. 



St. Paul, Ramsey Co., Minn., Dec. 11, 1905. 



International Falls, Itaska Co., Minn., Dec. 18, 1905. 



Duluth, St. Louis Co., Minn., Jan. 3, 1906. 



Lake Minnetonka, Hennepin Co., Minn., Jan. 22, 1906. 



New Brighton, Anoka Co., Minn., Jan. 24, 1906. 



Laddie's Lake, Anoka Co., Minn., Jan. 29, 1906. 



Fort Snelling, Hennepin Co., Minn., Feb. 21, 1906. 



Dr. P. L. Hatch in his 'Notes on the Birds of Minnesota," 1892, writes 

 that since 1874 he had seen very few specimens of this owl in the hands 

 of sportsmen and taxidermists. — Ruthven Deane, Chicago III. 



Eggs and Nests of the Thick-billed Parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachyr- 

 hyncha). — My collector, Mr. Wilmot W. Brown, found several sets of eggs 

 of the Thick-billed Parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha) while collecting 

 in Chihuahua. As these are among the first, if not the first eggs of this 

 bird, that have been found it may be interesting to record them. 



The following are his notes : — 

 . No. 2. Colonia Pachaco, Chihuahua, Aug. 11, 1905. I found the eggs 

 in a deserted nest of an Imperial Woodpecker in a high dead pine about 

 eighty feet from the ground. There were two eggs in the hole on the bare 

 wood. The hole was two feet deep and about eight inches across — the 

 entrance was six inches in diameter. The tree w>as about one hundred 

 feet high and was thirty-six inches in diameter at the base and was so dry 

 that the bark had all peeled off. It was very difficult to climb, not to 

 mention the danger. I took both parent birds. The tree was located 

 on a flat-topped mountain at an altitude of 7500 feet above the sea. The 

 measurements of these eggs are as follows: 1.64 X 1.20,1.59 X 1.20 inches. 



No. 3. Near Pachaco, Chihuahua, Aug. 14, 1905. Nest about sixty 

 feet from the ground in a dead pine tree. Hole about two feet deep and 

 eight inches across. Sawdust like material in bottom of hole on which 

 the eggs rested. Eggs two, quite fresh. Altitude, 7000 feet. Measure- 

 ments, 1.54 X 1.22, 1.51 X 1.19. 



No. 4. Near Pachaco, Chihuahua, Aug. 15, 1905. Nest in a dry dead 

 pine tree about seventy feet from ground. Hole seven inches in diameter 

 at entrance and nine inches across inside, and about eighteen inches deep. 

 The nest contained one egg in an advanced state of incubation — about 

 ready to hatch. It rested on sawdust like material. Altitude, 7000 feet. 

 Measurements, 1.52 X 1.15. 



No. 5. Colonia Pachaco, Chihuahua, Aug. 17, 1905. Nest in a dry 

 dead pine tree about sixty feet from ground. It contained one young 

 one and one egg about ready to hatch. The hole was two feet deep, eight 

 inches wide inside, and the entrance was nearly round and about six inches 

 across. Altitude about 6500 feet. Measurements, 1.49 X 1.22. 



