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of the other species under them. On 26 June I found the 

 last one of the season^ as far as my searching went, which 

 held three eggs and one young. This was about a quarter 

 of a mile from my house in the woods. All these nests 

 were built within six feet of the ground, with one exception, 

 situated about ten feet up in the branches of a small poplar. 



Planesticns migratorius propinquus. Western Robin. 

 Near Alix, on 23 April, 1915, I noticed a Robin with a 

 pure white head, also several primaries of the same colour. 

 Nesting began about 19 May, on which date, in this 

 locality, I found eggs but no full clutches. I have managed 

 to rear a young bird, now successfully moulted, which, as 

 my wife remarks, " always starts to sing in unison with the 

 kettle.'^ One specimen reported near the town on 2 April, 

 1916, and I saw one on the 7th. Plentiful everywhere. At 

 Dried Meat Lake I observed a nest with four eggs, neatly 

 concealed in the hollow at the top of a dead tree-stump, on 

 21 May. 



Sialia currucoides. Mountain Bluebird. Decidedly 

 more abundant than in 1914. A pair appeared in the town 

 on 22 March, and later became common. I did not observe 

 any at Sylvan Lake. In 1916, small flocks of adults and 

 young were daily to be seen in the town up to 20 Sep- 

 tember, on which date my notes record two. 



XX V. — Obituary. 



GlACINTO MaRTORELLI. 



As was briefly mentioned in ' The Ibis ' for April, 

 Prof. Martorelli, of the Civic Museum at Milan, and a 

 Foreign Member of the B.O. U. since 1903, died at Milan 

 on 11 December, 1917. 



Born at Turin on 1 October, 1855, Martorelli was 

 educated at the University of his birthplace, obtaining a 

 doctoriate in Natural Science in 1879 for a dissertation 



