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Random Notes from Easton, Pa Ceryle alcyon alcyon Belted 

 .m hi i' I iv i Kin ilong Bu Weill Creel calling 



In til-, on Januai . I, 1911. 



Colaptes auratu8 luteus Northeb i Flicker On< een on 



Februarj 13, 1909 'I In i thefii ' and only winter record I have foi the 

 sped 



Archilochus colubria RrjBI fHBO rED II' mm obird. I female or 

 :i bird of the in an orchard here on Octobei 3, 1908 The 



Hummingbird u nail) leavi more than a week earlier. 



Loxia curviroatra minor Cro bill On April 13, 1912, I 

 Cro bill in i mall maple tree, apparently feeding on the bud* They 

 v.ii< quite I'.h!' -I ible to approach very near to them. 



Spizella pusilla pusilla Field Sparrow. On Novembei 27, 1908, 

 two Field Sparrow were eenina tangled briar thicket. Anotherone 

 obs< i ■•. ed "n January '■>, 1909. 



Compsothlypis americana usneae Northern Parula Warbler. 

 In 1907 I iv. iln ivarblei on October 17; while in the following 

 one wa i seen on Octobei I" These are late date 



Dendroica virena Black-throated Green Warbleh \n im- 

 mature biid wa een as late a October31, 1907. 



Setophaga ruticilla. El Either a female or an immatuie 



bird wa ob erved along the < i ober 27, 1909. This 



ionally. On June 8, 1907, an occupied neat w;tu 



discovered abi feel above the ground in an upright crotch of a 



vine, pendant on a tree \i the time the female wa on the tie t. 



Sitta canadensis Red-breasted Nuthatch Thl bird 

 erratic i itanl here During the fall of 1906 it ibundant from 



embei 25 until October 30, when t f * * - last one was noted. In 1907 but 

 one individual werved. Then thespi ippeaied from here 



and for three year none was een. But on October II, 1911, a solitary 

 bird was noted; while on October 17 and is, 1912, several were observed. 



Rogulus calendula calendula. Rubi i On 



February 27, 1911, a male Ruby-crowned Kinglet iva een and po itively 

 identified. The bird was flitting about in the undergrowth of a woods 

 giving its wren-like call. Tin is not the first wintei record foi this 

 locality, for during January and March, 1908, th 

 several i im< ' inia, 1908, p 6 1 



Hylocichla guttata pallasi Hermit Thri h Vgain I wish to 



report the presence of this pecie here in winter (Auk, Vol. XXIX, i> 250). 



On December 25, \'>\-, I iw an individual of the pecie in the under- 



/th of a woods on a mnny hillside. Thebudwas watched sohn time 



and closelj observi I It call, habit ol aervou ly jerking the tail up and 



n with .-i r i accompanying flap of the wings, and the coloration, which 



haracteristic of the Hermit Thru h, left no doubl ae to the true iden- 



the bird I !dw iRD .1 I ■'. M • Pa 



