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in central eastern Missouri during the last twenty or thirty years. River- 

 men along the upper Meramec report seeing it occasionally. — Roger N. 

 Baldwin, St. Louis, Mo. 



New Greenland Records. — My attention was lately directed to a 

 European pamphlet entitled ' Dansk Ornithol. Foren Tidskrift,' IV, p. 130, 

 where by an author, O. Helms, under the caption ' Nye Arter for Ostgron- 

 land,' four species are enumerated as having been taken in East Greenland. 

 Two of them, Marila marila and Falco peregrinus, are known to have been 

 taken there in previous years. The other two, Podiceps griseigena and 

 Totanus calidris are new to the A. O. U. Check-List. Although Totanus 

 calidris had been added in the past ex hypothesi, it is not as yet in the List 

 proper. I propose that they be added to the Check-List, the first after 

 Colymbus holboellii (2.1), the second as Totanus totanus (255.1). — W. F. 

 Henninger, New Bremen, Ohio. 



Notes on Birds of Seattle, Washington. — Although the Oregon Jay 

 (Perisoreus obscurus obscurus) is a not uncommon species in this locality 

 from October until April, and quite often observed during the breeding 

 season, there is no record to my knowledge of its eggs having been taken 

 in this State, although D. E. Brown, of Seattle, states that a few years 

 ago he found a nest containing young. 



On April 18, 1909, the writer while looking through a dense strip of 

 second growth of young red firs (Pseudotsuga mucronata) in a heavy wooded 

 tract a few miles east of the city, found a nest of this species. The young 

 fir in which it was built was alongside an old and seldom used path 

 through the second growth, on the edge of a small open space about ten 

 feet in diameter, having a further undergrowth of salal (Gualtheria shallon) 

 and red huckleberry ( Vaccinium parvifolium) shrubs. The tree was 

 five inches in diameter tapering to a height of thirty-five feet, and the 

 nest was placed close against its trunk on four small branches, at a 

 height of twelve feet. It was outwardly constructed of dead dry twigs, 

 next a thick felting of green moss into which was interwoven some white 

 cotton string, and was lined with dry moss, a little dead grass and a few 

 feathers, among the latter some of the Steller's Jay, and is a handsome 

 compact affair. Dimensions: average outside diameter 6| inches, inside 

 diameter 3| inches; depth outside, 5 inches; inside 2 inches. 



The eggs, three in number, were perfectly fresh, of a grayish cast and 

 rather profusely covered with fine specks and spots of a grayish brown and 

 dark brown color, mostly distributed on the larger ends. Measurements 

 are: 1.01 X .77 inch; 1.05 X .76 inch; 1.03 X .76 inch. 



From observation of this species a larger number of individuals may breed 

 in this immediate locality than is generally supposed, but as it is a shy 

 retiring bird during the nesting season, restricting itself to the dense 

 timbered districts, its nest no doubt will remain hard to locate. 



