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the north coast of Santiago Province in eastern Cuba on May 20, 1909. 

 These pines are locally known as " Pinares de Mayari," and extend over an 

 area of some 50 square miles, the ground underneath them being covered 

 to a depth of from 6 to 12 feet with loose iron ore which is being crushed by 

 the Spanish American Iron Co. and sent to the " States." The altitude 

 of the Pinares is 1800 feet above sea level. 



It is worthy of note that this warbler is not found in the pines on the 

 south coast of this province, where I have looked for it diligently ; nor is it 

 found, according to Dr. Gundlach, on the He of Pines where there are to 

 be found large extents of pine woods. Although there are clumps of other 

 timber scattered here and there through the pine forest D. pityophila is 

 not to be found in them, it living strictly on the pines and usually in the 

 highest branches, where were it not for its song it would be next to im- 

 possible to locate, as it is very difficult to see among the branches. I have 

 never seen it on the ground and believe it does not leave the trees. 



On the above date I found full grown young flying about showing it to 

 be an early breeder. Heretofore it has been reported only from western 

 Cuba, where Dr. Gundlach found it. — Charles T. Ramsden, Guanta- 

 namo, Cuba. 



A New Breeding Record for Wayne Co., Michigan. — In a hawthorn 

 pasture on P. C. 669, Ecorse Township, August 13, 1910, I found a nest 

 of the Mockingbird containing three young that would have flown in a 

 day or two. The adult birds were present in dirty and worn plumage 

 with a suggestion of molt and with sexual organs reduced to minimum size, 

 indicating a conclusion of the breeding season. The nest was placed two 

 and a half feet above the ground in a hawthorn tree, a typical Brown 

 Thrasher site, but it differed somewhat in construction from the nest of 

 that species or the Catbird. The foundation was composed entirely of 

 dead hawthorn twigs, those with the greatest profusion of thorns being 

 selected. The sides were of the same material except that near and on the 

 top an abundance of small dried aster plants were interwoven, including 

 the stems, leaves and flowers. The inner foundation consisted of black 

 horse-hair, about a quarter of an inch thick on the bottom and thinning 

 to nothing an inch up the sides; this and the inner sides of the walls were 

 concealed beneath a covering of dried aster leaves and flowers. The nest 

 presented an excellent example of protective coloration, for viewed from 

 any angle above its surface the general aspect of gray blended with the 

 backs of the young birds. On the other hand it was very poorly concealed, 

 in fact, I first saw it at a distance of about thirty yards. Later, both the 

 pasture and surroundings were thoroughly searched but no trace of a 

 previous brood was found. Of the three nestling Mockingbirds two were 

 males and the other a female. 



Southern birds occasionally appear here during the spring migrations, 

 apparently carried north in flocks of other species. This may explain the 



