A phoebe's nest in an unusual location was reported by 

 L. H. Potter of West Rutland. The nest was found June 1 

 on a beech tree which had fallen into a stream in Clarendon. 

 The body of the tree was about three feet from the water, 

 held there by the branches, and in a pocket on the under side 

 of a large limb the birds had built their nest. Evidently they 

 had found this a good feeding ground, and there being no 

 other convenient nesting site they chose the dead tree. When 

 found the nest contained four young, all of which grew to 

 maturity. 



I have had for years several lunch tables where I feed the 

 winter birds. We have with us now two downy woodpeckers, 

 three white-breasted nuthatches, five chickadees, two blue jays 

 and seven tree sparrows. In the summer I have one pair of 

 bluebirds who return to their box each spring, also two pairs 

 of robins return to their nests, one pair on top of a box we 

 put up for bluebirds, the other pair in the vines by the piazza 

 post. As we have never seen a shrike and our little terrier 

 keeps cats away we have never had a tragedy at any season. 

 — Mrs. Josephine S. Brozvn, Starksboro. 



The tabulated record of Mr. D. Lewis Dutton of Brandon 

 contains the names of sixty-one species. He recorded an 

 American three-toed woodpecker June 12, at Mount Horrid, 

 Rochester, at an elevation of 2500 feet. He saw a winter 

 wren the same day on the mountain. He reported the mourn- 

 ing dove for April 22, at Leicester. Mr. Dutton reported two 

 pairs of mourning doves that his father knows to have nested 

 in one locality over thirty years, and another pair for ten 

 3^ears within hearing of their house. 



The capture of a full-grown golden eagle by a Halifax 

 farm hand, November 8, was reported by Mr. Harry L. Piper 

 of Brattleboro. The eagle was catching a guinea hen Novem- 

 ber 8, and became entangled in a woven wire fence as it rose 

 with the fowl. The man grabbed it by the neck and legs 

 before it could clear itself. The eagle was sent to the Bronx 

 Park, New York. 



Mrs. James Hartness of Springfield sent in a list of sixty- 

 nine birds, the yellow-billed cuckoo being among them. 



