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with assistance later in the da_y, but a violent rain storm prevented my 

 doing so. 



The next day, iiowever, to my sorrow, I counted five eggs upon the 

 ground and tlie nest completely blown out. Undismayed, she began 

 work again in the same bunch of moss, but she was not encoui-aged at all 

 by her mate, who would fly into a hollow near at hand and whistle for her, 

 but she paid no attention to the hollow — just looked in and left. She 

 worked rapidly and carried huge mouthfuls at every trip. Upon climbing 

 to the nest on May 3 I found that it contained three eggs, and I left it for 

 a full set. I was doomed to disappointment again, however, for the next 

 day was very stormy, and upon visiting the tree I saw all the eggs on the 

 ground and the nest, which was composed of dry leaves, hair, sedge, 

 feathers and snake skins, was blown down in a mass. The fact of the 

 Tufted Titmouse breeding in the Spanish moss is certainly a surprising 

 departure for this bird. — Arthur T. Wayne, Mount Pleasant, South 

 Carolina. 



The Whistled Call of Parus atricapillus common to both Sexes. — The 



well-known spring and summer call of the Chickadee, consisting of three 

 clear whistles, is uttered by both sexes. I am not aware that record has 

 ever been made of this fact, which I determined some time ago by the 

 judicious use of firearms. — Jonathan Dwight, Jr., M. D., New York 

 City. 



Passer domesticus at Archer, Fla., and other Florida Notes. — While 

 collecting in Florida the past summer I killed a male P. domesticus at 

 Archer on July i. I can find no record of it having been recorded from 

 this section before, and a number of persons to whom I showed the speci- 

 men said thev had never seen one there before. 



In sections of the State traveled over, where I have collected in pre- 

 viousyears, I noticed a very perceptible falling off in the number of many 

 of the large Waders. In Tampa Bay, however, I found the Roseate 

 Spoonbill not uncommon, flocks of forty or fifty individuals being seen 

 on two or three occasions, besides stragglers. I found them feeding in 

 the boggy interiors of some of the mangrove islands and with a little 

 caution was able to secure specimens. — T. Gilbert Pearson, Guilford 

 College, N. C. 



Records of Two Birds rare on Long Island, N. Y. — Contopus borealis. — 

 Giraud in his ' Birds of Long Island ' makes no record of this species. Mr. 

 William Dutcher in 'The Auk' (Vol. VI, p. 137), records the capture of 

 the third specimen taken on Long Island (Aug. 11, 1S88), two previous 

 records having been made : one by Mr. N. T. Lawrence in ' Forest and 

 Stream,' Vol. X, p. 235, and the other by Mr. DeL. Berier in 'Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club,' Vol. V, p. 46. A single specimen of C. borealis from Long 

 Island is contained in the collection of the Long Island Historical Society. 



