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Northward Range of Ammodramus lecontei. — On May 22, 1908, I saw 

 two Leconte Sparrows on a low marshy flat in the delta of the Athabasca 

 River, on the south side of Lake Athabasca, opposite Fort Chipewyan. 

 Tried for some time to flush a bird, and finally, hearing a faint squeaking 

 in the dry dead grass, rushed noisily forward, and succeeded in scaring 

 one male up on a dead stump and shooting it. I considered this to be 

 rather far north for this species, until I saw a specimen collected by Mr. 

 Harry W. Jones, at Hay River, at the western end of Great Slave Lake, 

 June 23, 1908. — R. M. Anderson, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York City. 



Correction. — Dr. Charles W. Townsend has called my attention to the 

 fact that there are two previous records of lark sparrows at Ipswich, Mass., 

 — one shot by him Aug. 21, 1904, one seen by him Aug. 12, 1905 — mak- 

 ing our bird of August 28, 1908 (Auk, XXV, p. 476) the third instead of 

 the second record, as I thought. — Lidian E. Bridge and E. D. Board- 

 man, West Medford, Mass. 



Breeding of Dendroica striata at Great Slave Lake. — June 24, 190S, while 

 crossing the burned over area on the high rocky center of Moose Island, 

 near Fort Resolution, I stepped across a small dead spruce lying on the 

 ground, and a small plainly colored bird darted from the mass of tall dead 

 grass which surrounded the trunk of the fallen tree. The bird disappeared 

 in the underbrush at once without uttering a sound. Concealing myself, 

 I waited about twenty minutes and the bird stealthily approached the 

 nest hopping from bush to bush, occasionally uttering a sharp, nervous 

 tsip like the alarm note of the Junco. The bird proved to be a female 

 Black-poll Warbler. The nest was placed directly on the ground in the 

 middle of a clump of tall grasses, immediately underneath a small, fallen 

 spruce, the trunk of which was lying about ten inches above the ground. 

 The nest was composed of dead grasses, mixed with cottony substances 

 and a little moss, lined with finer grasses, and a few feathers including 

 one tail feather of a Fox Sparrow. The four eggs were advanced in incu- 

 bation; whitish colored, spotted with light brown tending to form a wreath 

 around the larger end, the wreath more distinct in some specimens than 

 others. — R. M. Anderson, Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., New York City. 



The Black- throated Green Warbler as a Nesting Species on Long Island, 

 N. Y.— On July 5, 1908, Mr. Francis Harper, of College Point, L. I., and 

 I observed at close range a male Black-throated Green Warbler (Den- 

 droica virens) feeding three newly fledged young about a mile north of 

 Lake Ronkonkoma, L. I. At least one other male was heard singing in 

 the neighborhood. As neither of us had ever before found this bird on 

 Long Island in summer and as no definite record of its having nested there 

 is given in the most recent publication on the birds of Long Island (' A List 

 of the Birds of Long Island,' by Wm. C. Braislin, M. D. Abstr. Proc. Lin- 

 nsean Soc. of N. Y., Nos. 17-19, pub. Oct. 22, 1907), we were at first dis- 



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