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move until Mr. Allen had climbed within four feet of the nest. Then there 

 was a sudden avalanche of birds, showing much white in the tails. The 

 old bird struck the ground within 15 yards of the tree and disappeared in 

 the bushes in the usual wounded-bird style. One of the young birds lost 

 itself in the bushes near at hand, while the other remained motionless on 

 the open ground within ten yards of the tree. Here it could be discerned 

 with great difficulty owing to its coloration. I easily caught the bird, 

 and was interested to find its crop, covered mostly with bare skin, bulging 

 with solid contents whose analysis has been given above. 



The measurements of the dried skin are: length, 7.10 inches; wing, 4.10 

 inches; tail, 2.15 inches. — Charles W. Tow t xsend, M. D., Boston, Mass. 



Long-eared Owls resident at Flushing, Long Island, N. Y. — Some 

 time ago I wrote (Auk, XIX, 1902, p. 398) regarding the Barn Owls which 

 formerly occupied a church steeple on Bowne Avenue in Flushing, Borough 

 of Queens. It may be of interest to you to know that within a few hun- 

 dred yards of my studio here on Bowne Avenue, there are now roosting 

 six Long-eared Owls (Asio wilsonianus) . This family of owls has been in 

 and about this neighborhood for several years. They breed here, and 

 this last season they wintered here. Probably they have done so all along. 



I have examined a number of their pellets and found in them nothing 

 but the remains of mice with now and then the bones of an English sparrow. 

 If this is the regular diet of these birds, which from different authorities 

 consulted I infer to be a fact, it might be well to plant a colony of Long- 

 eared Owls in every city and village in the United States. 



The birds roost in the thick foliage of an evergreen tree, but when 

 watched too closely do not hesitate to leave the tree and fly about in broad 

 daylight, and the manner in which they dodge obstructions when approach- 

 ing their former perch, makes it evident that their eyesight is very good 

 even in daylight. — Dan Beard, Flushing, X. Y. 



Nest of Saw-whet Owl at Bridgewater, Mass. — Upon Patriots' Day 

 (April 19, 1906) in Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Mass., I found a nest 

 of the Saw-whet Owl {Cryptoglaux acadica). An old Flicker's excavation, 

 about 16 feet from the ground in a decayed poplar stub, furnished the 

 site. In the bottom of the excavation was an old squirrel's nest, and a 

 quantity of hair and feathers from small animals and birds evidently 

 killed and eaten by the owl. Upon this mass the eggs, 4 in number, were 

 placed. — Arthur C. Dyke, Bridgewater , Mass. 



Uranomitra salvini in Arizona. — In a collection of bird skins made 

 for me by Mr. H. W. Marsden in the Huachuca Mountains of Arizona in 

 the summer of 1905 I found a young female hummingbird, taken at 

 Palmerlee, Cochise County, on July 4, which I was unable to refer to any 

 species recorded in the A. O. U. Check-List. Mr. Oberholser kindly 

 compared this skin with the hummingbirds in the National Museum in 

 Washington and concluded that it was the young of Uranomitra salvini 



