1895] MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 339 



" A regular migrant at Washington, not rare, but of irreg- 

 ular abundance from May 3 ('91 and '92) to May 16 ('88 and 

 '90) and from August 29 ('87), when Mr. R. Ridgway shot one 

 at Gainesville, Ya., to September 28 ('89)" (Richmond). 



On Dan's Mountain, in Alleghany County, I found 2 pairs, 

 one located at Pompey Smash, the other about a mile distant at 

 Lauertown. Morning and evening, from June 5 to 14, '95, 

 both the males could be heard singing. On June 8, I found 

 the nest of the Pompey Smash pair; it contained a young bird 

 not 24 hours old and 2 infertile eggs. On the 14th I again 

 visited this nest; on being disturbed the young one scrambled 

 out of the nest and fell to the ground ; I replaced it and hope 

 it arrived at maturity, and will live to a green old age. 



Guiraca caerulea (597). Blue Grosbeak. 



This large sized edition of the Indigo bird seems to nest 

 more or less regularly in southern Maryland, Washington being 

 about its northern limit, where it is noted as " rather rare, from 

 first week of May to middle of September" (A. C., 68). 

 " During the summer of '87 a pair nested twice on my father's 

 farm, about a half-mile east of the District of Columbia. On 

 June 24 I took the first nest and 4 eggs from the fork of a peach 

 tree, about 7 feet up. . .. . In August evidently the same 

 birds nested in a small cedar. I have observed them every sea- 

 son since, but have found no more nests " (A. B. Farnham, 

 Oologist, viii, 219-20). 



At Washington " a male was seen on June 30, '89 ; a pair, 

 male and female, were taken by Wm. Palmer on August 15, 

 '92, and several were seen and one shot on September 19, '86. 

 At Kensington, Md., a nest was found early in June '95, by 

 J. D. Figgins, and another with 4 eggs was found at Laurel 

 about June 10, '95, by Geo. Marshall " (Richmond). One was 

 taken in Howard County, on July 29, '93 (Resler). On 

 August 3, '91, a pair were seen feeding flying young on the 

 Windsor Road, about a half-mile this side of Powhattan (Gray 



