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incommoded by the weather. So far as I know, this is the farthest north 

 this species has been found in winter, at least in the Eastern States. 

 Mr. Geo. B. Sennett informs me that lie has never seen it or heard of its 

 being seen in Crawford County, just north of ■ Mercer, where he lived for 

 a number of years. 



This note was published in the 'Ornithologist and Oologist' several 

 years ago, but through a blunder on my part, the name "Bewick's Wren" 

 was substituted for Carolina Wren. — F. LeRoy Homer, New Hamburg, 

 Mercer Co., Pa. 



The Yellow-breasted Chat in Maine. — In the autumn of 1893, — she 

 believes it was during the month of September, — Mrs. William Senter, of 

 Portland, found upon her lawn the mangled remains of a small bird. It 

 had apparently been mouthed by a cat. Mrs. Senter cut off its head, legs, 

 wings and tail, and preserved them. A few day* ago, the relics were 

 shown me. They were those of a Yellow-breasted Chat (Icteria virens) 

 in full autumn plumage. Thus is a bird added to the Maine list. — - 

 Nathan Clifford Brown, Portland, Maine. 



Nesting of the Red-bellied Nuthatch in Templeton, Mass. — On the 

 morning of June 10, 1894, while walking through the woods with my 

 nephew on the banks of Otter River in Templeton, and having for an object 

 anything new or interesting, with an especial 'leaning' towards birds' 

 nests, we came to an old stub about fifteen feet high. Following my 

 usual custom in such cases I pounded vigorously to see if any one was 

 "at home." I was surprised to see a Red-bellied Nuthatch (Si'tta 

 canadensis) fly from the stub and perch on a hemlock limb within six 

 feet of my face and remain therefor some minutes, giving me abundant 

 opportunity to positively identify her. 



I immediately climbed the stub and found a hole which, had I been as 

 familiar with the breeding habits of the Nuthatch as I have since become, 

 I would have recognized at once as belonging to this species. The lower 

 half of the circumference of the hole was thickly smeared with pitch, 

 which seemed such a strange circumstance that I tore that portion of the 

 wood away whole and passed it carefully down to my nephew and we 

 brought it home. I thought at first that the pitch must have dripped 

 from some wounded limb overhead but there was none there, and the 

 stub was perfectly dry and very much decayed ; therefore it must have 

 been brought there by the bird for some purpose doubtless well under- 

 stood by her, but, so far as I can learn, to no one else. 



The hole was about 12 feet from the ground, on the side towards the 

 river (north), and directly over the water where the river widens out into 

 a shallow, weedy lake of perhaps twenty acres in extent. It was about 

 ii inches in diameter and 6 inches deep, running down just inside the 

 hard shell of the stub. The nest was simply a handfull of what appears 

 to be fine shreds of inner bark of the dead branch of some tree, 



