Q2 General Notes. [January 



Mr. Maynard has reported (Birds of E. N. A.. 1S79, p. 16S) seeing a 

 Canada Jay 111 Newtonville "in early summer" about 1875, but Mr. Mann's 

 bird seems to be tin- first that lias been actually taken in Massachusetts. — 

 William Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. 



A Second Nest and Eggs of Picicorvus columbianus taken in Colorado. — 

 Mr. Denis Gale, of Gold Hill, Boulder Co., Colorado, writes me that he 

 found a second nest of Clark's Nutcracker, containing three fresh eggs, 

 on April 16. 1889. He found the nesting site first on March 12, noticing 

 one of the birds trying to break oft" a small twig from a dead tree, and 

 watching the direction it took afterwards. The bird which came from be- 

 hind him tlew high over his head, and after waiting for some time he 

 noticed both birds flying to and from a certain point fully fiveorsix times. 

 Alter a careful search he finally found a few twigs lying upon a horizontal 

 limb in the dense top of a small scrubby pine-tree about twelve feet high 

 and six inches in diameter. On visiting the place again a week later, at 

 his approach one of the birds tlew oil' a neighboring tree uttering his warn- 

 ing note, but upon inspection he found no changes or augmentation of the 

 twigs, ami concluded therefrom that a new nesting site had been selected, 

 and when he visited the spota week later still with the same results his con- 

 clusion seemed to be verified and he made an exhaustive search within a 

 radius of a mile of this point, hut all to no purpose, seeing neither nests 

 nor birds. Four weeks later, on April 16, passing close to the place where 

 the birds had commenced building first, he stopped to look once more at 

 the site first selected by this pair of birds, and much to his surprise dis- 

 covered a bulky nest in place of the few twigs first noticed, with the female 

 on it and covering three eggs. The nest was placed about nine feet from 

 the ground, and resembles the one taken in iSSS in every particular: per- 

 haps it is a little more bulky still. The eggs hear a close resemblance to 

 the first set found by Mr. Gale, excepting that the markings are possibly 

 a little more decided ami numerous. They measure 1.34X .90, 1.37 X .91. 

 and 1.39 X .92 inch. Mr. Gale's first nest, containing three fresli eggs also, 

 was found on March 5, 18SS, six weeks earlier and probably an unusually 

 early case. — -Charles E. Bendike, Washington, D. C. 



Bullock's Oriole in Maine. — Mr. Manly Hardy writes me that a male 

 Bullock's Oriole ( Icterus bullocki) was shot "a few miles from Bangor, 

 Maine, about the middle of November. 1SS9. and sent in the flesh to Mr. 

 Crosby, the well-known Bangor taxidermist, bv whom it was mounted 

 Mr. Hardy has lately examined the bird and compared it with a Western 

 specimen, from which it differs only in being "a little more of a canary 

 color." 



This capture adds a species to the New Engand list as well as to the 

 fauna of Maine. It also affords still another example of the curious tact 

 that most of the Western and Southern birds which occur in New England 

 as rare or purelv accidental stragglers, are found in late autumn or early- 

 winter. — William Brewster, Cambridge, Muss. 



