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Dryobates borealis. Red-cockaded Woodpecker. — This woodpecker 

 is also a bird which has not been recorded as breeding in Missouri. Un- 

 fortunately I found no nests but of its breeding there there can be no 

 question for I found it fairly common in Shannon County and in those 

 portions of Carter County where the pine has not yet been lumbered from 

 early in March till the middle of June. On May 12, 1907, I secured a 

 male in Shannon County, whose breast and belly showed that he had 

 been sharing with his mate in the duties of incubation. 



Empidonax traillii alnorum. Traill's Flycatcher. — This flycatcher, 

 though recorded from the Mississippi Valley both north and south of Mis- 

 souri, has not previously been found in Missouri. On June 3, 1907, I 

 saw a pair of these birds near Grandin, Carter County, Mo., and secured 

 the female. Dr. J. A. Allen confirmed my identification of this species. 



Loxia leucoptera. White-winged Crossbill. — On April 18, 1907, I 

 secured a female White-winged Crossbill which was feeding in company 

 with two female American Crossbills in the top of a fallen yellow pine. 

 This makes the first record for Missouri. 



Peucaea aestivalis bachmanii. Bachman's Sparrow. — This bird also 

 has not been heretofore recorded as breeding in Missouri, but I found it 

 common throughout the virgin mixed pine and oak forests of Shannon 

 County from April 6 till I left on May 15 for Grandin, Carter County. In 

 Carter County the pine had been mostly cut off and the Bachman's Sparrow- 

 was rather rare, but on May 27, 1907, I secured a nest containing two eggs 

 of Bachman's Sparrow and three eggs of the Cowbird, all with incubation 

 far advanced. 



Sitta pusilla. Brown-headed Nuthatch. — Though I found no proof 

 of the breeding of the Brown-headed Nuthatch in Missouri, the probabili- 

 ties are strongly in favor of it. On March 19, 1907, I secured a pair of 

 these birds together in some yellow pines on the edge of a small clearing 

 in Shannon County. The female was flying back and forth to an old 

 dead pine and seemed to be much disturbed after I had secured the male. — 

 E. Seymour Woodruff, New York, N. Y. 



Audubon's Ornithological Biography. — In the January 'Auk' (XXIV, 

 p. Ill) Mr. Ruthven Deane, of Chicago, speaks of a copy of Vol. I, of 

 Audubon's Ornithological Biography, bearing the imprint, "Philadelphia: 

 Judah Dobson, Agent, 108 Chestnut Street; and H. H. Porter, Literary 

 Rooms, 121 Chestnut Street, MDCCCXXXI"; and says that after careful 

 search he has only recently found a similar copy. 



I beg to say that in the library of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 

 (Philadelphia) the first volume has the same imprint. The other four 

 volumes have, each, the imprint, "Edinburgh, Adam & Charles Black," 

 with the years 1834, 1835, 1838, and 1839, respectively. All but Volume 

 II were presented to the Academy by the author. My own Volume II 

 bears the imprint "Boston, Hilliard, Gray & Company, 1835." 



I have two duplicates of volume III, Adam & Charles Black, which I 

 would sell or exchange for Volumes I and IV. — Nath. E. Janney, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa. 



