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adult birds occasionally were seen, but did not enter the 

 house.* 



Mrs. Elizabeth B. Davenport of Brattleboro, Vt., says 

 that a martin house was abandoned, and that dead young 

 and eggs were found inside. 



Miss Abby P. Churchill of Fitchburg, Mass., asserts that 

 thirty or forty young martins and three adults were found 

 dead in their nests at Bellows Falls, Vt., after the storm of 

 June 21. 



These reports come from southern Vermont, where the 

 meteorological conditions prevailing in June approximated 

 those in the nearer parts of Massachusetts ; but the storm 

 of the 15th was not so severe there as in eastern Massachu- 

 setts. The greatest precipitation reported on any one day 

 was at Jacksonville, near Brattleboro, — 3.45 inches on 

 June 12. The next heaviest was 3 inches on the 21st, at 

 the same station. 



All that i)ortion of Vermont lying north of "Woodstock 

 and Manchester, and comprising about four-fifths of its area, 

 received less than 3 inches of rainfall for the month. In all 

 this region probably no unusual bird mortality occurred. 

 Dr. Perkins, State entomologist at Burlington, has not noted 

 anything unusual there* 



The storms in Rhode Island were not generally so severe 

 as in Massachusetts, and the average precipitation for the 

 month was (5.52 inches. The storms appear to have been 

 most severe in the north-eastern part of the State, and less so 

 in the south-eastern part. Mr. II. AV. Tinkham of Swansea, 

 Mass., who lives on the Rhode Island line, makes a full report 

 of the destruction of vouno; birds and eo-(rs there : and Prof. 

 John Barlow of the Rhode Island College of Agriculture 

 and the Mechanic Arts, at Kingston, states that one colony 

 of purple martins in that locality was not injured ; but 

 Prof. Cooper Curtice noted that the storm " broke down 

 many trees and tipped out the birds." 



The average precipitation in (Connecticut for the month of 

 June, 7.44 inches, was greater than that of any other State. 

 Unfortunately, very little information has been received from 



* " Bird Lore" for September-October, 1903, p. 165. 



