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lock, iibout four feet up. The localitv was on liioii laiul,:uKl lieuvilv 

 timbered. 



Merula migratoria propinqua. Wk.stern Roiun. — Common. Resident 

 in the bottom lands and valleys. Summer resident in the hills. 



Cinclus mexicanus. American Dipper. — This bird, of peculiar habits 

 and flight, as well as song, was observed quite often in the winter and 

 spring along the creeks in the hills. I am confident it breeds there, but I 

 seldom saw it through the summer. 



Regulus satrapa olivaceus. — Common resident. 



Parus rufescens. — Common resident in the hills. 



Troglodytes hiemalis pacificus. — Very common resident, and a pro- 

 fuse singer. 1 found many nests of this species, and saw voung birds, 

 but failed to find a nest containing eggs. For a building site, they seem 

 to have a special liking for the under side of an old log that lies up from 

 the ground. 



Cyanocittastelleri.— Steller's Jay is a common resident. I found a nest 

 May 13 with eggs nearly ready to hatch. 



Perisoreus obscurus. Oregon Jay. Meatiiawk. — A common resi- 

 lient. They show little fear about camp in winter, if there is any meat 

 they can get at. I found a nest May 8, with four eggs. It was about ten 

 feet froin the ground in a small hemlock in thick woods, and was made 

 of dead twigs, lined with moss and feathers. — C. W. Swallow, Corval- 

 It's, Orcffoii. 



Notes on the Mniotiltidae of Western Pennsylvania. — Helmitherus 

 vermivorus. Worm-eating Warbler. — First detected in Beaver County 

 on August 16, 1888. when two specimens were secured out of three seen, 

 probably all belonging to the same faniih'. I found it tolerably common 

 in Butler and Armstrong Counties during my stay there in May and June, 

 1889, but did not succeed in taking any nests. In 1S90, however, on May 

 28, I found the nest of a pair in a patch of woods about five miles west of 

 the town of Beaver. This spiing I have found the species in small num- 

 bers in a particularly luxuriant piece of woodland just across the Ohio 

 River from Beaver, where I have no doubt it breeds also. Its note at this 

 season is a trill almost exactly the same as that given by the Chipping 

 Sparrow on its first arrival. 



Helminthophila pinus. BLUii-wiNGED Yellow Warbler. — This 

 species is unaccountably rare in this section, the only specimen wliich 

 has ever come under my notice being one taken May 2, 1891. I regard it 

 as our rarest Warbler, and of course from my own observations cannot 

 say as to its being a summer resident, though Dr. B. H. Warren mentions 

 having seen it in this County in summer (Birds of Pennsylvania, p. 276). 



Helminthophila chrysoptera. Golden-winged Warbler. — A rather 

 common migrant, and occurs also as a summer resident in Beaver, 

 Butler, and Armstrong Counties, being somewhat more abundant in the 

 latter. Repeated efforts have been made to discover the nest, but so far 

 without success, though I have seen the old and young together in July. 



