I 1 8 General Notes. 



oder Brewer's Starling, ScolecopJiagus Bretveri, Nehrl. iS. cvanoccpk- 

 alus Cab. . . . ). pp. 44-46, 57, 58. (3) Der Kentuckysiinger oder Busch- 

 sanger {Sylvia-Opornis [sic] — forntosa Wils. . . . ), pp. 100-102, 

 (4) Die Einfiedlerdrossel ( T^wr^f^w i'«//rt5// Cab. ... J, pp. 173, 174. (5) 

 Der Gold- oder Kukukspecht {Colaftes auratus Swns. . . . ), pp. 228-230, 

 240, 241, 251-253, 265, 266. (6) Der Scherentyrann, Scheren- oder Gabel- 

 schwanz (^Milvulus forficatus. Swains. . . . ), pp. 325, 326, 333-335. (7) 

 Der blaugraue Fliegenfanger oder Miickenfiinger {Poliopt/la ccerulea 

 Scl.), pp. 368-370, 380, 381, 393. (8) Der Satrap oder das Gelbkron- 

 goldhahnchea {Regtilus satrapa, Lichsts. . . . ), pp. 435, 436. (9) Die 

 Bergdrossel {Oreoscoptes montaiius Brd. . . . ), pp. 528-530. 



189. Rocky Mou7itains-Huttensa)iger oder Stcinschmdtzcr ( • • ■ Sialia 

 arctica Swns.) Ritie Vogehtudic aits den Fclshigebergeii. Von Fr. Trefz. 

 Ibid., p. 81. 



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Description of a Nest of the Water Ouzel. — The nest of the 

 Water Ouzel {Ci'/icltis mexicanus) is perhaps not so well known as to make 

 the following description of one wholly uninteresting. The nest when 

 found was in good condition, and had evidently been used the past season. 

 It was built under a slightly overhanging wall of limestone, on a ledge 

 projecting seven or eight inches from the wall, and about four feet above 

 low-water mark, the deepest part of a swift mountain stream flowing di- 

 rectly beneath. The material of construction was a bright green moss, 

 forming a rather conspicuous object for some distance along the opposite 

 bank. The nest has a nearly spherical interior seven inches in diameter. 

 The entrance is triangular, one side of the triangle forming the top and 

 being three and one-half inches across and three inches above the lower 

 angle. The most exposed side of the nest varies from three to four inches 

 in thickness, the top and remainder being only an inch and a half through. 

 At time of finding, the interior of the nest was perfectly clean, but out- 

 side, just below the opening, the rock was discolored for some distance by 

 excrement of the birds. Side by side with this nest was an older one par- 

 tially destroyed, and 1 fancied I could see traces of still another on the 

 same ledge not far off. The birds had evidently li\ed in the locality for 

 some time. — R. S. Williams, Gold Run, Montana. 



The Short-billed Marsh Wren in New Hampshire. — On the 24th 

 of August, 1881, while investigating the recesses of a fresh water marsh 

 at Rye Beach, N. H., I found a colony of Short-billed Marsh Wrens (C/V- 

 tothorus stellaris) in a small meadow about a mik- from the sea. One 

 bird was shot, and five or six others seen and heard. 



