In the National Museum in Washington there is a Phila- 

 delphia vireo marked "Rutland County, Vermont." This bird 

 was not in the 190o list. 



While on Mount Killington :\Iarch (I, IDIO, G. H. Ross and 

 the writer saw at about 30()(» feet altitude a few waxwings 

 mingled with some redpolls. The birds stopped only a few 

 seconds in a tree so that positive identification without a glass 

 was impossible, but at such an altitude at that time of the 

 year we believed them to be Bohemian waxwings. Neither of 

 us had seen this bird in Vermont before. Of course, there are 

 a few records. 



KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE GAT 



W. H. Phillips, Brattleboro 



A few years ago "Country Life in America" contained an 

 article by Mr. John Burroughs, entitled "Love and War 

 Among the Bluebirds." showing that birds fall an easy prey 

 to cats while battling with each other. The article was very 

 interesting to me from the fact that a short time previous 

 to that date I witnessed a peculiar battle beween two female 

 bluebirds, with a male bluebird as referee. Possibly one 

 female was fighting a rival for the aiTections of the male, who 

 kept hovering about them, uttering his plaintive cry, and 

 seemingly trying to separate them. The battle occurred about 

 seven o'clock one morning in April. I am reasonably sure 

 that two of the birds were a pair that nested the two pre- 

 vious seasons in a nest I set up in my back yard, and the 

 other female was an interloper, perhaps smitten with the 

 handsome blue-coated gentleman, and trying to win his afifec- 

 tions. The battle began around the nest ; the females would 

 meet in the air, when they would clinch and fall to the 

 ground, lying for a moment like birds shot down with a gun ; 

 then they separated, flying into a large near-by apple- 

 tree, closely followed by the male still trying to quiet them, 

 and stop the fighting. 



My wife and I were not the only spectators, for as the 

 battle proceeded we noticed a neighbor's cat across the gar- 



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