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desk during the year of 1911. Mr. 

 Burns is to be congratulated upon the 

 general splendid character of his 

 paper. 



Donald J. Nicholson of Kissinnee, 

 Florida, asks to insert the following: 

 "I am to start for a long trip to the 

 Everglades of Florida, January 4th, to 

 be absent until sometime in June. 

 Preparations for this expedition, cou- 

 pled with business affairs has permit- 

 ted me scarcely any time to properly 

 attend to my correspondence as I 

 should like to have been able to do, 

 and therefore I am forced to leave 

 many letters unanswered to my re- 

 gret. My apology is extended to all 

 involved." 



We are pleased to note that H. C. 

 Higgins, of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, 

 formerly of Cincinnatus, New York, 

 one of the real old guard, has just 

 been appointed one of the three mem- 

 bers of the Massachusetts permanent 

 State Committee on Birds, the com- 

 mittee this year being reduced from 

 five to three. The other members 

 are Charles H. Rice, of Lominster, and 

 Mrs. E. O. Marshall, of New Salem. 

 We have no doubt that Mr. Higgins 

 will be a useful, valuable member. 



Early Nesting of the Bluebird. 



The earliest nesting of the blue- 

 bird I have on record is March 14th, 

 1911. When a nest was found con- 

 taining four fresh eggs. This is very 

 early even this far south, as the ear- 

 liest I ever noted before was on 

 March 23, 1909. When I found a nest 

 containing five fresh eggs. 



The latest nesting of this bird was 

 on July 25, 1910, when a nest was 

 found containing two half grown 

 birds. Wm. Plank, 



Decatur, Arkansas. 



Another Double Shelled Egg. 

 San Diego, Aug. 7. — Kojack,, a resi- 

 dent of San Diego, owns a Plymouth 

 Rock hen which laid a double egg to- 

 day which weighed one-half pound. 

 The prodigy is one of the strangest 

 ever seen here. The outer shell was 

 broken, showing that in addition to 

 containing a complete yolk and white 

 it also contained another egg with 

 a hard shell formation and a perfect 

 white as well as a yolk. The egg was 

 broken in the rooms of the chamber 

 of commerce. 



We are glad to advise our readers 

 that Oscar E. Baynard has recovered 

 his health and is back in Florida. And 

 we hope to be able to soon give our 

 readers some very interesting notes 

 written by Mr. Baynard. 



