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plumage and very fat. I have never 

 before noted this species later than 

 the middle of October. 



A small number of Swamp .Spar- 

 rows have spent the past winter in 

 the Fresh Pond Marshes at Cam- 

 bridge. 



F. SEYMOUR HERSEY. 



Records of Note. 



Editor, The Oologist. 



Dear Sir: — Is it the custom of The 

 Bob-white (Colinus virginanus), in 

 winter, to go into holes under rocks 

 or in the ground, at night? 



On three occasions I have caught 

 Bob-whites in unbaited steel traps, 

 which I had set in holes known to be 

 inhaljited by Opossums or Skunks. 



On two of these occasions, when I 

 went to the trap the next morning 

 I found the ground strewn with feath- 

 ers, the 'bird having ibeen killed and 

 eaten toy the Opossum or Skunk 

 which lived in the hole. It seems to 

 me that had the bird escaped ibeing 

 caught in the trap and had entered 

 the hole it would have met the same 



fate. 



J. F. TAYLOR, 



The Editor has not had the per« 

 sonal experience with Bob-white to 

 intelligently answer this question. 



The fact that we have seen only 

 four specimens of this bird wild in 

 this locality in past eight years, will 

 explain. 



Will some one else answer? We 

 will gladly give space. — ^Ed. 



"Condor," Vol. XI, No. 1. 



Mr. Bowles, of Tacoma, chronicles 

 an interesting, unexplained and very 

 fatal epidemic of tape-worm in Pa- 

 cific Coast birds. 



'Mr.' Claude Cummings, of Pinole, 

 Calif., for many years a subscriber to 

 the Oologist, was accidentally killed 

 by the discharge of his gun while 

 cleaning it. 



The Editor has received reports of 

 the finding of Lomita Wren breeding 

 in Los Angeles County, Calif., in 

 1907, and the discovery of an adven- 

 titious egg of the Dwarf Cowbird in 

 Ventura County, Calif., the past sea- 

 son (1908). 



The records appear to be authen- 

 tic, and we believe them to he un- 

 usual. 



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