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indefinitely, or it" the cash is Deeded, as it often is. the pigeons are strung 

 through the nostrils with wire to be peddled about the streets, this latter 

 was done last December to such a degree that the butchers of Guantanamo 

 complained that the consumption of beef decreased. 



This pigeon has the habit of moving about the country in search o( food, 

 which when once found they will not abandon for any amount of shooting 

 bo lonu: as the supply o\ food lasts. During May of each year they congre- 

 gate in huge numbers at certain places on the coast, where they nest on the 

 Mangroves in colonies known as ' Pueblos"; and where unfortunately 

 they are shot by the thousand, very often before the young are able to take 

 eaie of themselves, and therefore must perish. Fortunately some of their 

 nesting colonies are in inaccessible swamps, where they are safe, for the 

 present at least. — Chas. r. Ramsden, Ouankmamo, Cuba. 



The Marsh Hawk Nesting in New Jersey.— During the past twenty 



years, the impression seems to have steadily increased that the Marsh 

 Haw k {Circus hudsonius) is a rare breeder in the state of New Jersey. This 

 is not in accordance with my experience. It is true, that not many nests 

 have been found, but during a number of trips taken to various points in 

 Cape May. Atlantic. Burlington and Ocean Counties during the last 

 live years I have always noted this bird as present during the breeding 

 season. It is never as common in one place as such birds as the Fish Crow 

 or Coeen Heron, but not many hawks are. On the 29th of June. 1912, 

 1 examined a Marsh Hawk's nest with five young and saw another pair of 

 birds undoubtedly nesting, not far from Atlantic City. RlCHARD C. 

 Harlow, State College, Penna. 



The Sharp-shinned Hawk again in Maine in Winter — 1 saw a 

 Sharp-shinned Hawk (Accipiter velox), apparently a male, circling at a 

 height of about seventy-live yards over upper Spring Street. Portland, on 

 the morning of January 27, 1913. The bird has thus been five times re- 

 corded 1 as a winter visitor in Maine after relatively little observation. — 

 Nathan Clifford Brown, Portland, Maim. 



First Michigan Specimen of the Three-toed Woodpecker While 

 enroute to the northern peninsula on the Shires Expedition to the Whitefish 

 Point Region. Michigan, the write] examined a collection of mounted birds 

 in the high school at Sault Ste. Marie. In this collection there is a speci- 

 men of Picoides americanus amerieanus labeled "Soo, October 1. 1910; 

 C. E. Richmond, collector. Although Mt. Richmond has not been located, 

 Mr. M. .1. Walsh, Superintendent of Schools. Sault Ste. Marie. Mates that 

 Mr. Richmond was at that time instructor in biology in the high school, 

 and that there can be DO reasonable doubt of the eotrectness o\ the locality 

 record. 



1 Auk. XXVI LI. p. 265. 



