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shrubs and bushes, and with a verj small spring brook flowing through 

 the centre, I took a nest and four eggs of the Yellow-breasted Chat 

 {^Icteria z'trens). Only one pair of birds was found, and I am assured by 

 Mr. Egbert Bagg, of Utica, N. Y., who was the compiler of the list of 

 Oneida County birds, that this is the first known record of the occurrence 

 ot the Yellow-breasted Chat in Oneida County. 



A Whip-poor-will (Atiirosiomus vociferus) made his first stop here this 

 season, although they are resident in localities twenty miles to the east 

 or west. — W. J. B. Williams, Holland Patent, N. Y. 



Curious Nesting of American Redstart. — On June 5, 1898, while 

 hunting through a great timber swamp in Yates Co., N. Y., in company 

 with Mr. C F. Stone, I saw a Vireo's nest and the bird on it appeared to 

 be new to me, but as I drew near it left the nest, dropped to the ground 

 and fluttered away, when I recognized it as a female American Redstart 

 {Setopkaga ruticilla). Mr. Stone then came up and we examined the 

 nest and found it to be an old Red-eyed Vireo's ( Vireo olivaceus), newly 

 lined by the Redstart with the fine red bark fiber that it usually uses to 

 line its nests with in this locality, and it contained three fresh eggs 

 of the Redstart. — Verdi Burtch, Penn Van, N. Y. 



Nesting of the Robin. — In 'The Auk' for Juh-, 1S98 (p. 274) I read 

 Mr. S. M. McCormick's very interesting article on the ' Nesting Habits of 

 the Robin,' and having found a rather unusual place for a nest I would 

 like to report it. In Woodbourne, N. Y., Dr. Munson has a large dwelling 

 with a piazza in front over which a honeysuckle has been trained, and in 

 this vine, about eight feet up, on a branch three quarters of an inch in 

 circumference, with six little runners, the nest was built, it being made 

 doubly secure by the winding of grasses around the branches, covering 

 the bottom entirely. But what struck me as remarkable was the almost 

 perpendicular hanging of the nest, looking very much as a China saucer 

 does on a bracket. The bottom partially rested against some wire that 

 the vine ran on, but it was not fastened to it. Two broods were raised in 

 it without any attempt at house-cleaning. Possibly they found there was 

 no time for such a luxury. I was very sorry not to see the birds in it, 

 but I did not get to the place in time. — A. A. Crolius, Neiv York City. 



A Note on the Wood Thrush. — It seems worthy of mention, that^on 

 examining a large series of Wood Thrushes {Turdus mustelinus) taken 

 throughout their range, the majority of specimens from west of, the 

 Appalachian Highlands and the St. Lawrence Valley average much 

 smaller in measurements (bill, culmen .56 in. and depth .18, tarsus 1.08, 

 and wing 4.22), than those from east of the Highlands (bill, culmen, 

 .63-!- and depth .21-I-, tarsus 1.15, and wing 4.31). Typical western 



