yS JOURNAL AND PROCKEDINGS. 



right in the Hne of the thrush's flight, and the shock to the bird was 

 so severe as to bring stunning and unconsciousness, and the point of 

 the bird's beak penetrated the palm of the hand held out, target-like, 

 as to make a wound that after healing left an indelible scar that my 

 brother was accustomed to exhibit years after when narrating the 

 incident. 



The golden-quilled wood-pecker, the shore-lark, the meadow- 

 lark and the quail are the birds said to most frequently meet their 

 end by striking the telegraph wires, as reported of by the railway 

 track repairers. 



A number of the summer migrant birds are now fostering their 

 second brood of the season. Yesterday (July 2nd) some corn hoers 

 disturbed a plover of the Kill-deer species that was sitting on four 

 eggs placed in a slight depression of the ground near a hill of corn. 

 It was said that the irritated bird threw most demoniacal looks at 

 the disturbers of her peace and dignity. The bird was as little mo- 

 lested as possible, and the incubating process was soon resumed. 



When ploughing in the same field about a month ago, a mother 

 bird of the same species was noticed wandering with a brood of four 

 young that were apparently only a few days out of the egg-shell, and 

 one of the Saiid-pipers has a nest with eggs situated but a few rods 

 from the above. The eggs of these two birds differ but little in 

 form, size or color. 



