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But oh! the fate of this treasure; it 

 was unfortunate. For while moving 

 to anotlier house tlie load of goods up- 

 set, and this with some others, van- 

 ished, and is now only a pleasant 

 dream. 



Owing to the very late spring of 

 1908, several species of Warblers 

 that go further north to nest remained 

 here during the summer; so of course 

 must have nested here, although I 

 found no nests. I saw at times all 

 summer, both the Blackburnian and 

 Blackpoll Warblers. 



S. V. WHARRAM, 

 Geneva, Ohio. 



Vaux's Swift Nesting in Chimneys. 



I recently learned of an unused 

 chimney in a farmhouse near here 

 where a colony of the Vaux's Swift 

 have built their nests and reared 

 young for a number of years; while I, 

 all unsuspecting, watched every hol- 

 low tree in the neighborhood for the 

 past two seasons, hoping to find a 

 nest, as the bird is not rare here. 



Do any of our western readers have 

 knowledge of this swift becoming so 

 much civilized? It's new to me. 



STANLEY G. JEWBTT, 

 Sellwood Sta., 



Portland, Ore. 



From California. 



R. M. Pertz, of Los Angeles, Califor- 

 nia, reports a nest of a California 

 Shrike found ten feet up in an Euca- 

 lyptus tree with six fresh eggs, Febru- 

 ary 2, 1909. Rather early for this spe- 

 cies, we should say. 



Good Beginning. 



The season of 1909 opens propitious- 

 ly for Ye Editor, with a set of four 

 Great Horned Owls, March 6th, and a 

 set of five Barred Owl, March 15th. 

 This is the third set of four Great 



Horned, and the first set of five Bar- 

 red that have come under our person- 

 al observation in a collecting exper- 

 ience of over thirty years. Another 

 set of Great Horned Owl was taken 

 March 28th. 



Unusual. 



Last spring and summer, there was 

 at the edge of the street in front of 

 my house, a pool of water caused by a 

 leak in the water connection. Natur- 

 ally this made a great drinking and 

 bathing place for the birds, and at 

 different times between May 1st and 

 August 1st, found the following eggs, 

 which had been deposited on the 

 ground near the water. 



English Sparrow, 3; Song Sparrow, 

 1; Chipping Sparrow, 2; Robin, 2 (one 

 about the size of Catbird's egg), on 

 July 28th). 



Is not this an unusual occurrence? 

 I did not know that it was customary 

 for birds to drop eggs in this manner. 

 K. B. SQUIRES, 



Greensport, L. I. 



It is not very uncommon to occa- 

 sionally find an egg of some of these 

 species dropped away from the nest, 

 but it is quite unusual to find so many 

 dropped at one place. — EDITOR. 



' From the Isle of Pines. 



The Oologist: — 



A short time ago I sent you a list of 

 birds which I identified on my trip 

 down here, and I promised that you 

 would hear from me later. Every day 

 now the warblers are becoming more 

 plentiful. Up to this date I have iden- 

 tified forty-five species of birds most 

 of which I had met before in Ohio, and 

 there are about as many more which 

 I have seen, and have been unable to 

 name. The Ground Doves are begin- 

 ning to nest. I have run across five 

 of them on our place since January 

 20th. Quail are fairly plentiful and go 



