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number of times on the summit of Spruce Knob (4,860 feet alt.), June 19- 

 22. While our party was encamped near this highest elevation in West 

 Virginia we hoped to find this species breeding, but failed to do so. 



Junco hyemalis carolinensis. — I find this note concerning the Carolina 

 Junco, made while on the summit of Spruce Knob. "Nest of Carolina 

 Junco, under edge of stone; lined well with dry grasses; in bed of bloom- 

 ing Cornus canadensis; four eggs." All nests found on the almost bare 

 top of this mountain were similarly placed under the edge of protecting 

 rocks. 



Oporornis Philadelphia. — At the edge of an old ' burning' near the 

 summit of Spruce Knob, Mourning Warblers were seen. As we came down 

 the mountain on the afternoon of June 19, we found old birds feeding their 

 young. The rich song of this species was heard almost constantly on some 

 parts of this mountain. An adult male was taken as it sang on the border 

 of a large tract of rather dwarfed black spruce trees near the top of the 

 knob. I have never seen this warbler in any other part of the Alleghenies 

 in the breeding season. 



Thryomanes bewickii. — Bewick's Wren is the common 'house' Wren 

 of western, southern, central and northern West Virginia. This species is 

 exceedingly common in many sections in the central part of the State, and 

 by no means rare in any of that large region mentioned above. As one 

 goes eastward from the interior of the State, he finds, near the summit of 

 the Alleghenies, that Troglodytes aedon replaces this species. At Horton, 

 on June 16, four species of wrens — Carolina Wren, Bewick's Wren, Winter 

 Wren, and House Wren — were all heard in full song. 



Regulus satrapa. — I took an adult male Golden-crested Kinglet on 

 top of Spruce Knob on June 18. Two of these birds were flying about in 

 the tree-tops. 



Hylocichla fuscescens. — On an old fallen spruce log, half-hidden by 

 branches of hemlock and Allegheny Menziesia, at the foot of Spruce Knob, 

 we found a nest of the Wilson's Thrush. On June 20 it contained four 

 eggs. I found this species in abundance in many of the higher sections of 

 the State while on my trip to the mountains in the middle of last June. 



Hylocichla ustulata swainsonii. — A nest of the Olive-backed Thrush 

 was found in the top of a little spruce, on June 19, near the top of Spruce 

 Knob. It contained one young bird and three eggs. I saw several birds 

 of this species near the same place. It seems that this nest of mine makes 

 the most southern record of the breeding of the Olive-backed Thrush. — 

 Earle A. Brooks, Weston, W. Va. 



Colorado Notes. — Cyanocitta cristata. Blue Jay. — Mr. B. G. Voigt 

 informed me a short time before his death that a Blue Jay, which I ex- 

 amined, had been killed by him half a mile east of Limon, Colorado, in 

 October, 1898. Mr. H. G. Smith's note on this species published in 'The 

 Auk' (Vol. XXII, pp. 81, 82) was taken at Wray, Colorado, just over the 

 Nebraska line. Wray is 165 miles a little north of east of Denver on the 



