Vol. XIV 
1897 
General Notes. 99 
with assistance later in the day, but a violent rain storm prevented my 
doing so. 
The next day, however, to my sorrow, I counted five eggs upon the 
ground and the nest completely blown out. Undismayed, she began 
work again in the same bunch of moss, but she was not encouraged at all 
by her mate, who would fly into a hollow near at hand and whistle for her, 
but she paid no attention to the hollow —just looked in and left. She 
worked rapidly and carried huge mouthfuls at every trip. Upon climbing 
to the nest on May 3 I found that it contained three eggs, and I left it for 
a full set. I was doomed to disappointment again, however, for the next 
day was very stormy, and upon visiting the tree I saw all the eggs on the 
ground and the nest, which was composed of dry leaves, hair, sedge, 
feathers and snake skins, was blown down in a mass. The fact of the 
Tufted Titmouse breeding in the Spanish moss is certainly a surprising 
departure for this bird.—ArtTHuUR T. WayNE, Mount Pleasant, South 
Carolina. 
The Whistled Call of Parus atricapillus common to both Sexes.— The 
well-known spring and summer call of the Chickadee, consisting of three 
clear whistles, is uttered by both sexes. I am not aware that record has 
ever been made of this fact, which I determined some time ago by the 
judicious use of firearms.— JONATHAN DwicutT, Jr., M. D., New Vork 
City. 
Passer domesticus at Archer, Fla., and other Florida Notes.— While 
collecting in Florida the past summer I killed a male P. domesticus at 
Archer on July 1. I can find no record of it having been recorded from 
this section before, and a number of persons to whom I showed the speci- 
men said they had never seen one there before. 
In sections of the State traveled over, where I have collected in pre- 
vious years, I noticed a very perceptible falling off in the number of many 
of the large Waders. In Tampa Bay, however, I found the Roseate 
Spoonbill not uncommon, flocks of forty or fifty individuals being seen 
on two or three occasions, besides stragglers. I found them feeding in 
the boggy interiors of some of the mangrove islands and with a little 
caution was able to secure specimens.—T. GILBERT PEARSON, Guilford 
College, N. C. 
Records of Two Birds rare on Long Island, N. Y.— Contopus borealis.— 
Giraud in his ‘ Birds of Long Island’ makes no record of this species.. Mr. 
William Dutcher in ‘The Auk’ (Vol. VI, p. 137), records the capture of 
the third specimen taken on Long Island (Aug. 11, 1888), two previous 
records having been made: one by Mr. N. T. Lawrence in ‘ Forest and 
Stream,’ Vol. X, p. 235, and the other by Mr. DeL. Berier in ‘Bull. Nutt. 
Orn. Club, Vol. V, p. 46. A single specimen of C. doreal’s from Long 
Island is contained in the collection of the Long Island Historical Society. 
