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N.C. Six eggs, incubation advanced. White, 

 speckled and spotted all over the surface (but 

 more heavily near the larger ends) with chest- 

 nut: .73X.55; .74x.55; .74x.55; .74x.5r); 

 .74X.55; .75x.55. 



Set XL April 27, 1888. Buncombe County, 

 N. C. Six eggs, incubation begun. Light 

 creamy virhite, speckled with hazel: .71x.5;3; 

 .73x 54; .72x.54; .74x..54; .73x.?.2; .73x.5L 



SetXIL April 24, 1888. Buncombe County, 

 N". C, Seven eggs, incubation begun. White, 

 speckled and spotted, more heavily at the 

 larger ends, with vinaceous-rufous, and a few 

 specks of lilac-gray: .75x.r)."i; .74x.r)G; 

 .74X..56; .7lx..'')8; .7ox..56; .73x.54; .73x.5G. 



Set XIII. May 4, 1889. Buncombe County, 

 N". C. Six eggs, incubaticm advanced. White, 

 speckled and spotted with chestnut. On tno 

 of the eggs the markings are principally con- 

 fined to the smaller ends, but on tlie others 

 they are at the larger ends; and on one egg the 

 markings form a wreath. This last is a rare 

 type of marking for tiiis species, being the 

 only one so marked in the whole series: .75 x .55; 

 .74 X .55 ; .70 x .55 ; .(ii) x .5-.^ ; .70 x .53 ; .72 x .'4>. 



Set XIV. May2, I8S;). Wake County, N.C\ 

 Seven eggs, fresh. White, speckled and 

 spotted all over the surface with hazel and a 

 few specks of lilac-jiray: .70x.54; .()Ux.55; 

 .()9x.54; .71 x..54; .71x.54; .70x.55; .72x.5.7. 



Set XV. May 1, 1888. Edgecombe County, 

 N. C. Five eggs, incubation advanced. Light 

 creamy white, speckled and spotted with 

 hazel. The markings are much lu avier near 

 the larger ends: .74x.55; .74x.55; .77x.5(); 

 .73 X .55; .75 x .54. 



Set XVI. April 25, 1880. Buncombe 

 County, N. C. Seven eggs, fresh. White, 

 spotted, principally at the larger ends 

 with vinaceou.s-rufous, and a few spots of lilac: 

 .70 X .55; .08 x .54; .OS x .55; .07 x .51 ; .0)5 x .55 ; 

 .05 X .55; .70 x .50. 



Set XVII. May 2, 1880. Wake County, X. 

 C. Six eggs, incubation be^un. White, very 

 heavily spotted, almost entirely at the larger 

 ends, with burnt sienna. Five of the eggs are 

 thus marked, and so lieavily in some instances 

 that the ground color is obscured at the larj;er 

 ends; but the sixth egg is almost entirely mi- 

 ni arketl, except a few small specks of cinna- 

 mon-rufous and lilac-gray: .70x.55; .0i)x.52; 

 .71X.53; .70X..53; .09x..52; .08x.51. 



Set XVIII. May 2, 1888. Buncombe County, 

 N. C. Six eggs, fresh. Light creamy white, 

 speckled and spotted all over the surface, but 

 more heavily at the larger ends, wiMi hazel. 

 There are also a few specks of lilac-gray on 



some of the eggs: .74x.50; .74x.58; .71x.56; 

 .74 X .50 ; .72 x .55 ; .71 x .55. 



Set XIX. June 7, 1889. Buncombe County, 

 N. C. Five eggs, incubation begun. White, 

 speckled and spotted with hazel. In the case 

 of three of the eggs the markings are evenly 

 distributed all over the surface, while on the 

 other two they are heavier near the larger 

 ends: .75x.53; .75x.52; .74x.53; .75x.54; 

 .76x .55; .72 x.54. 



Set XX. May 0,1887. Edgecombe County, 

 X. C. Five eggs, fresh. White, heavily 

 speckled and spotted with burnt sienna and 

 drab-gray. There are markings all over the 

 surface, but they are much thicker and heavier 

 near the larger ends: .72x.55; .G9x.50; 

 .05X.55; .73 x.54; .09x..54. 



Set XXI. June 8,1888. Wake County, N. 

 C. Five eggs, incubation begun. White, 

 heavily spotted with burnt sienna. Have also 

 a few si)ots of drab-gvay. On four of the eggs 

 the markings are so heavy at the larger ends 

 that they almost ol)scure the ground color, 

 while the fifth egg has fewer spots: .70x.52; 

 .08X.53; .08x.51; .08x.51; .eOx.52; .08x.5-l. 



Set XXII. June 2, 1887. Buncombe County, 

 X. C. Five eggs, fresh. White, spotted, prin- 

 cii)ally at the larger ends, with burnt sienna, 

 and a few spots of drab-gray: .77 x55; .70 x.54 

 .74X.53; .74X.53; .73X.53. J.P.N. 



Do Minks Climb Trees Out West? 



I see in the last number of the O. & O. that 

 it is not unusual for woodchncks to climb 

 trees, but whoever heard of a mink climbing a 

 tree"' 



Early one morning last month, while walk- 

 ing with my dog near a marshy place, I'onto 

 suddenly saw a mink and took after him, 

 caught and threw him a few feet, when the 

 mink picked himself up and ran up a pine tree 

 near by with the agility of a sijuirrel. I did 

 not know before that a mink ever undertook 

 to climb a tree. E. P. Jeuka. 



North UrooktteUl, Mass. 



Belding's Savannah Sparrow. 



"There is little probability tliat such at- 

 temi>fed discrimination will survive the official 

 efi(|uefte of the present flutter in American 

 ornithology." — Cune.s Kci/, p((</'' 873, 3(/ 

 Uerised Ediflnu, ISiK). 



