THE OOLOGIST 



both cases constituted full and com- 

 plete sets and it would appear from 

 these occurrences that the Brown 

 Thrasher occasionally lays but two 

 eggs in a set like the Robin; not a 

 rare occurrence for second sets as in 

 Mr. Nuss' cases, but a very unusual 

 proceeding, I think, with first clutches. 

 R. F. Miller. 



Personal. 



F. A. W. Dean of Niagara Falls, 

 New York writes under date of June 

 8th: 



"I have just returned from Cali- 

 fornia after a successful collecting 

 trip through the West and South- 

 west." 



Mr. D. J. Nicholson of Orlando, 

 Florida, met with a disappointment 

 this Spring in the discovery of two 

 naked young in the nest of a Pileated 

 Woodpecker which he had been watch- 

 ing for some three weeks in the hopes 

 of securing a set of these rare eggs. 



He also reports taking ten sets of 

 eggs from nests of Ward's Heron 

 (Ardea herodias wardi)"this Spring, 

 and in April following, finding the 

 nests from which he had taken the 

 eggs occupied by young; the outcome 

 of a second laying. The sets contain- 

 ed four and five in about equal pro- 

 portions. 



H. B. Bailey, an old time naturalist, 

 and father of H. H. Bailey, of New- 

 port News, Virginia, spent the month 

 of February studying the birds of 

 Florida, in Southern Osceola County. 



NOTES. 



On April 15 1911,, I found a nest of 

 what I supposed to be the Cardinal. 

 It was placed in a blackberry brier 

 two feet from the ground, and to all 

 appearances was ready for the eggs. 



More than a week afterwards while 

 passing the nest I looked and to my 

 surprise found only one egg, while the 

 female was setting. A week or so 

 later the egg was gone. 



On May 14, I found a nest of the 

 American Crow in a Crabapple tree 

 fifteen feet from the ground. It con- 

 tained five eggs which did not appear 

 to have been set on. I think that is 

 rather late for crows. 



On June 17, I found a nest of the 

 Acadian Flycatcher of three eggs. 

 The nest was in a beech tree over a 

 small ravine about eighteen feet up. 

 This was the same tree in which I 

 found a nest of the same species on 

 June 5 1910. The nests were not 

 more than three feet apart although 

 the nest found this year was not near- 

 ly so compact as the other. The nest 

 of last year however contained only 

 two eggs at the time. 



Charles M. Nuss. 



Yellow Heads Extend Range. 



Thirteen miles down the Wolf river 

 from this City, I own 200 acres of 

 overflowed marsh land, which I use as 

 private hunting grounds for ducks. 

 This Spring for the first time, a colony 

 of Yellow-headed Blackbirds took up 

 their home quarters here. 



Chas. F. Carr, 

 New London, Wis. 



This species nests commonly at 

 I.acon, Illinois, and on further South 

 in the river swamps. We have taken 

 its eggs also as far North as Prince 

 Albert, Saskatchewan. 



Editor. 



NOTES. 



Max Carruth reports the Scarlet 

 Tanager, and Rose-breasted Grosbeak 

 both from Tarrytown, New York, and 

 reports them rare at that place. 



E. J. Court of Washington City, re- 



