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I'roceeditig tf) :i p;itch of vvoodlainl in which I iiail previously located two 

 pairs, I quickly discovered one of the males, and in the course of half an 

 hour his mate appeared, whereupon I transferred my attention to her. 

 After an hour's patient watching she at last was seen to go to her nest, 

 which was thus discovered to be saddled on the fork of a horizontal 

 branch of a certain kind of tree, far out from the trunk, and fully 50 feet 

 from the ground. The only way it could possibly be reached was by 

 climbing a tall, slim butternut tree adjacent, thus enabling one to scoop 

 out the eggs by means of a net attached to the end of a pole. However, 

 on May 26 the plan was successfully carried out, though not without con- 

 siderable risk; in addition the nest was secured and the female bird shot, 

 thus putting tiie identification beyond question. The male came about 

 at the time, but apparently manifested little concern. 



The nest was a small, neat structure, tightly fastened to its branch, and 

 composed mainly of weed stalks and strips of bark, though the outside, 

 whose texture was rendered firmer by means of a plentiful supply of 

 saliva and cobwebs, presented a decidedly white appearance, owing to 

 the color of the stems composing it as well as to the bits of paper and 

 hornets' nest added. The lining was simply finer weed stalks. It con- 

 tained three eggs of the Warbler and one of the Cowbird, all fresh, so 

 that the set was probably incomplete. In color they almost exactly re- 

 semble a set of American Redstarts in my collection, differing only in 

 being slightly shorter. The ground-color is white, vvith a rather decided 

 suggestion of bluish-green, spotted over, in the style of most Warblers, 

 vvith reddish-brown, the spots tending to aggregate at and around the 

 larger end. 



The eggs, the nest, and the female bird are now in the collection 

 of Dr. C. Hart Merriam of Washington, D. C— W. E. Clyde Todd, 

 Beaver, Beaver County, Pa. 



Marian's Marsh Wren ( Cistot/ioriis inariance) onrfii"^ Coast of South Car- 

 olina. — On December 16, 1890, I shot a fine adult njp^€. of this new bird. 

 This specimen was the only one I could find, althoilgfe the Long-billed 

 Marsh Wren was very abundant the same day. This record extends its 

 range about two hundred miles or more to the northward. — Arthur T. 

 Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S. C 



The Bluebird Wintering near Boston. — On the 9th of December, 1890, 

 my neighbor, Mr. E. F. Holden, reported a Bluebird in the village. I 

 found one in the same valley on the 21st of that month, and saw it after- 

 ward at different times up to Febuary 5. My own dates were as follows : 

 December 21, 22, 27, 29; January 3. 30; February i, 4, 5. On three of 

 these occasions the bird was perched in an ash-tree beside an old barn, in 

 which I suspected it of finding shelter. At three other times it was within 

 a very few rods of the same spot, and at the farthest it was less than a quarter 

 of a mile away. The casual appearance of a Bluebird here in mid-winter 

 would not be worthy of record, but I am not aware that one has ever been 



