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upon which a few flowers and sparce 

 grass grow. 



First we searched for Spotted Sand- 

 pipers, but they were much less abund- 

 ant than in 1914 and we were unable 

 to locate any nests. We then waded 

 through some of the sloughs after 

 Least Bitterns and American Bitterns. 

 These were not nesting in the same 

 places that we found them in a few 

 days earlier in 1914 and we were again 

 disappointed in not finding any nests. 

 We found many Red-wing nests, which 

 contained mostly full sets of eggs, and 

 also eight Long-billed Marsh Wren 

 nests with from one to five eggs. 



Prom there we walked along one 

 of the sand ridges to a large dead pine 

 which looked good for a Sparrow 

 Hawk's nest. Before reaching the stub 

 a Flicker flew out of a hole about 20 

 feet up. I climbed up and reaching 

 in an arm's length felt the whole floor 

 of the cavity covered with eggs. The 

 nest contained 12 eggs, all of which 

 were about half incubated except two. 

 One of these was bad and watery, and 

 the other was about the size of a Red- 

 headed Woodpecker's egg and was 

 fresh. This is the largest set of Flick- 

 er eggs I have ever heard of having 

 been taken at one time. 



A few hundred yards farther on we 

 flushed a sparrow from a nest on a 

 horizontal branch of a pine tree about 

 ten feet up and containing three young 

 a week old. The nest was made of 

 fine rootlets and grass, and I at once 

 took it to be a Chipping Sparrow's, 

 many of which I have found in the 

 South. The owner soon came back 

 and was recognized as a Chipping 

 Sparrow. We were much elated at 

 this find for this variety of sparrow 

 has not been found breeding in Lake 

 County for some years. Mr. Henry 

 K. Coale states that he has never seen 

 a Chipping Sparrow in Lake County in 

 the twenty years of his residence and 



collecting throughout this region. We 

 were still more surprised to find two 

 more Chippy nests with three and four 

 eggs. These last two nests were sit- 

 uated in cedar brush one and two feet 

 from the ground. 



Walter A. Goelitz. 



Bobolinks. 

 During the season of 1915 Bobolinks 

 seemed to be uncommonly plentiful 

 find I found a number of five sets. One 

 set of five and nest collected June 2d; 

 me set of five and nest collected June 

 15th; and one set of seven and nest 

 collected June 15th. 



George W. H. vosBurgh. 

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Dove's Nest. 



On July 29th, 1915, in Austinburg 

 Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio, I 

 found a mourning dove's nest contain- 

 ing three young doves all of one size. 

 Nest placed on the forked limb of an 

 old apple tree. This is the first time 

 I have ever found a nest of this bird 

 with more than two eggs or young in. 

 I have found several of the nests on 

 the ground. S. V. Wharram. 



Suggests Method of Saving Trumpeter 

 Swan. 



Mr. R. M. Barnes of Lacon, 111., sug- 

 gests a method of saving the trumpe- 

 ter swan from extinction in a letter to 

 the "Bulletin," which it takes pleasure 

 in reproducing herewith: 



"I should be very glad to see your 

 organization endeavor to perpetuate 

 the trumpeter swan which I regard as 

 the most magnificent of all North 

 American birds. This bird is now on 

 the verge of extinction. John M. Thay- 

 er, of Lancaster, Mass., has one, the 

 New York Biological [Zoological?] 

 Gardens have two, the Lincoln Park in 

 Chicago has two, and I have three on 

 my home place here. These are the 

 only birds of this species that I know 



