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out the faulty portions, which in nearly all cages relate to abstract points 

 similar to those just cited, the pages bear the impress of accurate observa- 

 tion and original thought, while no one who loves the out-door side of 

 Nature can fail to sympathize with the author's sentiment or to be im- 

 pressed by the truth and beauty of many of his passages. It is a pity that 

 one who writes so delightfully will mar his work by a persistent adhesion 

 to false principles. -»-William Brewster.] 



0*)cncr;il 31otes. 



I'm Golden-crested Wren breeding in the Colorado Valley. — 

 July 1. at an elevation of [1,500 feet, I shot an adult Golden-crested 

 Wren {Regulus satrapa). Its presence made its nesting here almost a 

 certainty, but all doubts were set at rest by the capture of a young bird 

 just from the nest, in another part of the comity, at 11,000 feet on July 25. 

 Several others were heard and seen. I judge it is not uncommon, but 

 from the fact of its ordinary call-notes being so deceptively similar to the 

 Creeper's notes, it is easily passed by. So far as I know it seems to range 

 a little above the hulk of the Ruby-crowns. — Frank M. Drew, Hoxv- 

 ardsvilk, San Juan County, ' 



Notes <>n the Winter Wren (Anortkura troglodytes hyemalis). — 

 M\ chance acquaintance with a chapter in the lite-history of this species. 

 during a recent visit to Grand Manan. N.B., may not be uninteresting i<> 

 the readers of the Bulletin. I was informed by Mr. S. F. Cheney that its 

 occurrence in that locality, where it is called the Spruce Wren, is not 

 common. He has seen an occasional pair in previous years, principally 

 in the winter season, and noted its prolonged sweet song but he had 

 never met with their nest, supposing always that it was placed on the 

 ground in hollow logs. During the breeding season the dense spruce 

 swamps are its home and in such a situation, upon one of the outlying 

 islands near Grand Manan. I found its snugly hidden nest. At that 

 time no owner appeared and I was ignorant of the value of my prize, but 

 visiting the locality again on June 2, and carefully approaching to avoid 

 disturbing its occupant, if any, to a distance of scarce five feet, I saw. 

 cautiously thrust out from the mass of green moss, a brown little head, 

 followed in a moment by the unmistakable form of the Winter Wren. 

 It displayed scarce any fear, alighting only three or four feet from me. 

 jerking its tail forward over its back and scolding vehemently, somewhat 

 in the manner of our common House Wren. After watching it for 

 several minutes, in my anxiety to procure it. I proceeded to back 



