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Carolina and Virginia Rail, with good 

 results from May 34th to June 13tli and 

 from May 25th excellent sets of Red- 

 winged Blackbird were taked. 



The restless Spotted Sandpiper have 

 been taken by me in fresh sets from 

 May 23rd to June 30th. 



The Golden-winged and Red-headed 

 Woodpecker, and Grassfinch commence 

 incubation on the 23rd of May. 



Several years ago a friend of mine 

 shot a splendid specimen of King Rail, 

 and made me a present of it. I skinned 

 it to save the skin, and found that it 

 had a fully developed egg within which 

 is now in my possession. This some- 

 what confirmed my idea that this splen- 

 did bird breeds in this locality, a fact 

 unknown by our Ornithologists' and to 

 confirm my idea, I was lucky enough to 

 find in the Pt. Abino swamp, on May 

 30, 1894, a nest containing ten splendid 

 eggs. Proof positive. 



Wood Thrush commence incubation 

 on the 25th of May, and the Long-billed 

 Marsh Wren have their several nests 

 ready for breeding purposes from May 

 27th to June 2d. 



The Belted Kingfisher, Downy Wood- 

 pecker and Mai'yland Yellow-throat, 

 start breeding in this locality from May 

 30th to June 2d, and fresh eggs have 

 been taken by me of the Meadovvlark 

 from May 30th to July 10th, which 

 proves in my mind that under favorable 

 circumstances they raise two broods. 



June 1st seems to be a lucky date for 

 me. Have laken Least Bittern from 1st 

 to 19th. One fine set of Chestnut-sided 

 Warbler, a splendid set of Bobolink. 

 From June 1st to 8th, sets of Green 

 Heron, and from 1st to 8th, American 

 Redstart, and in quite abundance, the 

 Purple Martin, in fresh sets from June 

 1st to 23rd. 



I have had the pleasure to find on the 

 4th, 10th and 19th of June, large and fine 

 sets of the Florida Gallinule. In the 

 same period the Yellow Warbler com- 

 mences to breed in its downj^ nest. 



Have taken fresh sets of Wilson's 

 Thrush Rose-breasted Grosbeak and 

 Purple Finch, on June 7th. 



Between June 10th and 14th, 1 have 

 found fresh sets of White-eyed and Red- 

 eyed Vix'eo, Barn Swallow, and sevei'al 

 large and nice sets of Marsh Hawk. 



The best find was on a bright spring 

 morning, June 15th, where I was suc- 

 cessful enough to locate, sixty feet from 

 the ground, on a small twig of a great 

 elm tree, the nest of a Cerulean Warb- 

 ler. After a hard climb I brought down 

 the nest with four beautifully marked 

 fresh eggs. We oecasionly see the 

 Warbler, but to my knowledge no one 

 living in Buffalo ever found the nest. 

 About the same time I found in the 

 centre of a small wood, on the outer 

 branches of a beech, the artistically 

 built nest of our Ruby-throated Hum- 

 ming Bird containing two tiny white 

 fresh eggs. It is quite an ornament in 

 my collection. 



June 16th is the day for Bank Swal- 

 low, and the Kingbirds, and Chimney 

 Swifts to start breeding. 



Fresh eggs of the Cedar Waxwing wei'e 

 taken by me on the 18th of June. Only 

 once have I been fortunate enough to 

 take a fine set of the Scarlet Tanager, 

 and on the 21st of June, in an unoccupied 

 quarry, on the bare rock a fine set of 

 two eggs of the Nighthawk greeted 

 my eye, and on the 10th of July, a very 

 hot summer day, in a swampy meadowy 

 with small underbrush, H feet above 

 the ground, in young maple sapling, I 

 found an aitistically built nest of the 

 Hooded Warbler, containing two almost 

 full-fledged young and one egg, which 

 is now in my collection. 



Edward Reineckr. 



Buffalo, N. Y. 



Birds and Storms. 



On June 10th, last, a companion and 

 myself, were bathing in a small lake a 

 few miles distant from Minneapolis. It 



