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ever, the bird was released before it 
was too late. 
The other accident is a more peculi- 
ar one, Harly one morning during 
March, 1909, one of my friends was 
awakened by a thumping on the roof 
outside. The noise continued some 
time and finally he arose to investi- 
gate and found that an English Spar- 
row was fast in the eve trough. A 
ladder was procured and the bird was 
taken down but not before the bird 
had succombed. It was found that 
the birds feet were frozen fast in the 
ice in the trough and the bird was un- 
able to extricate itself. The water 
which remained in the trough was suf- 
ficient to cover the bird’s feet and this 
having frozen during the night held 
the bird fast to its roost. It hardly 
seems possibly that a bird could sleep 
with water freezing about its feet but 
such was apparently the case. 
H. E. BISHOP. 
Sad Result. 
While reading the December OOLO- 
GIST, 1909, I noticed an accident 
which befel some birds which reminds 
Me of one incident familiar to me 
which happened at my former resi- 
dence in Boulder, Colorado, Where a 
mountain stream threads its way 
through the city and along its bank 
there is a grove which contains a 
great many kinds of small birds such 
at Nuthatches, Robbins, etc. ; 
Among the numbers, my _ sister 
found a Western Kingbird swinging 
from a string and on examining it, the 
bird was found with the string which 
formerly hung in a_ loop, twisted 
around the bird’s neck, which evident- 
ly choked it, and death resulted. 
This happened during the nesting 
season and it is very reasonable how 
it happened to meet the unusual death. 
PERRY L, JUDD, Rathdrum, Idaho. 
Unusual Eggs. 
In THE OOLOGIST for May, I see 
that in the article “The Red Tail 
Hawks,” the author refers to an egg 
of the Hastern Redtail, measuring 2.23 
x1.66 inches as being unusually small. 
This egg is the smallest in width of 
any of which I have heard, but there 
is an egg of this species in my collec- 
tion which is much shorter. It is one 
of a set of three from Michigan, and 
the eggs measure 2.16x1.90, 2.18x1.88, 
and 2.20x1.84. This is .20 of an inch 
shorter than the average given by Mr. 
Davie. 
I also have a set of Western Mocking- 
bird’s eggs, collected by myself near 
Pasadena, California, the largest egg 
of which is 18 of an inch above the 
average length. They measure re- 
spectively 1.12x.75, 1.09x.76 and 1.09x 
Wd, 
Later, I collected a second set from 
this pair, and it is interesting to note 
that these were still above average 
size, measuring 1.01x.74, .99x.74, and 
NIECE. 
A. B. HOWELL. 
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The Dusky Warbler. 
Through an oversight of the printer, 
the article appearing on page 188 of 
Volume 26, (November, 1909,) of THE 
OOLOGIST relating to the Dusky 
WARBLER was not credited to Mr, A. 
K. Snyder who is the author thereof. 
This is due Mr, Snyder as the article 
was not only readable, but related to 
a species concerning which there is 
but little ornithological literature. 
