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two feet deep here. It was very beautifully and compactly built of a 

 dark green moss mixed with its seed stalks, fine rootlets, and a few pieces 

 of dead maple leaves on the bottom. The lining was made of fine white 

 rootlets, each piece about two inches long and which resembled horse hair. 

 The outside was about four inches in diameter and two inches in depth 

 with walls three quarters of an inch thick. We again visited the same 

 locality on June 6 with the hope of finding a second set, but a careful 

 search of every root did not reveal one. Three males were singing a few 

 hundred feet apart and two birds, each in different parts of the swamp, 

 were feeding young, just able to fly, one of which I shot, as I did also a male. 



Near my home in South Auburn in former years I have seen the Water- 

 Thrush during the migration in spring as early as May 7, and they have 

 lingered with us until the fifteenth of the month. Probably the birds are 

 mated as soon as they arrive on their breeding ground and commence to 

 build their nest at once, for the first egg was probably laid in this nest by 

 May 12. 



This is the first instance of its breeding in Rhode Island, and from the 

 number of birds noted, it now can be called a rare local summer resident, 

 and spring and fall migrant. — Harry S. Hathaway, South Auburn, R. I. 



A Robin's Nest without Mud. — In the Summer of 1900 or 1901 1 noted 

 a Robin on Boston Common building a nest on a linden. No mud was 

 then accessible anywhere on the Common and the Robin had apparently 

 put no mud into this nest. It appeared to be built wholly of the dry 

 trash used by English Sparrows in nest-building. It was some 25 feet 

 up from the ground and could not be closely examined but from all points 

 of view, in bulk and shapelessness as well as in material, it presented the 

 appearance of an English Sparrow's nest of average or a trifle less than 

 average size. If I had not watched the Robin in building it I should have 

 called it an English Sparrow's nest, without hesitation. When first seen, 

 the nest was nearly finished. — Fletcher Osgood, Chelsea, Mass. 



The Birds of Wyoming: Some Corrections. — Prominent among the 

 earlier articles on Wyoming birds is one published by Dr. Brewer, entitled 

 ' Notes on the birds of Wyoming and Colorado Territories, by C. H. Holden, 

 Jr.; with additional memoranda by C. E. Aiken' (Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. 

 Hist., XV, 1872, pp. 193-210). Although not definitely so stated, the 

 implication is strong that all of these records were made in the vicinity 

 of Sherman, Wyoming. The Holden notes were really taken at this 

 locality, but those of Aiken refer to his experiences in the vicinity of 

 Fountain, Colo., near Colorado Springs. A few months after the issue 

 of this paper, Dr. Coues called attention (Am. Nat., VII, 1873, p. 420) 

 to the true location of the Aiken records, but previous to the discovery 

 by him of the facts of the case, he himself had already incorporated in 

 the manuscript of his 'Birds of the Northwest,' some of the Colorado 



