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Some Fulton County, (N. Y.) Birds. 
During the past two years a few 
interesting birds have been added to 
the Avi-fauna of Fulton County, New 
York, These are as follows: 
Uria lomvia, Linn. Brunnich’s Mur- 
re. 
A single specimen was shot Decem- 
ber 20, 1908, at Red Bunch, near Mun- 
sonville. It was sitting on a snow 
bank, and as the hunters approached, 
flew directly toward them, when they 
shot it. 
Larus philadelphia, Ord. 
Gull. 
A young mounted specimen of this 
gull is in the Fulton House at Canada 
Lake. It was shot on West Lake, in 
the fall of 1900. 
Totanus melanoleucus, Gmel. 
er Yellow-legs. 
A mounted specimen is in the Ful- 
ton House at Canada Lake. It was 
shot in front of the hotel, in October, 
1897, 
Bartramia longicauda, Bechst. 
mian Sandpiper. 
On May 6, 1909, and June 23, 1909, 
single specimens were observed. On 
June 27, 1909, I noted four specimens 
in a grassy field, one mile East of 
Johnston. Three were noted in the 
air at one time. On June 28, 1909. 
I went over and secured a specimen. 
There is scarcely a doubt but that the 
bird was breeding, but careful search 
Bonaparte’s 
Great- 
Bartra- 
toed Woodpecker. 
A male was secured in Cold Spring 
Woods, Southeast of Gloversville, New 
Ycrk, on October 30,1907, by Carver 
Pruyn. 
Nuttalornis borealis, Swains. Olive 
sided Flycatcher. 
A specimen was taken in the Johns- 
town Cemetery, May 30, 1909. This 
specimen and the next are in the Cor- 
nell University collection. 
Empidonax flaviventris, Baird. Yel- 
low-bellied Flycatcher. 
A beautiful specimen was secured 
May 22, 1909, in Mosher’s Woods, 
Northeast of Johnstown. It was sitt- 
ing low down on a brush-pile, in com- 
pany with male Indigo Buntings. The 
only other record for the county that 
I have is September 26, 1903, in the 
chestnut woods, three miles west of 
Gloversville, New York. 
Dendroica tigrina, Gmelix. 
Warbler. 
Two males in Johnstown on May 18, 
1909. The first record for the county. 
CHARLES P. ALEXANDER. 
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Cape May 
Increase. 
The year 1908 there was a pair of 
Western House Wrens which built be- 
hind a board so placed.as to form a 
miniature tunnel between the logs of 
a log house, near Rathdrum, Idaho. 
They raised two flocks and. the next 
year I placed three bird boxes up and 
they were occupied during the summer 
of 1909 and one pair still nested be- 
hind the board, 
The results from the three boxes 
were twenty-one offspring who lived 
principally on plant lice and small 
bugs, which is certainly a great item 
to the orchardists, 
In all, four pairs produced twenty- 
eight young, which required a great 
many plant parasites, 
A Western Blue Bird nested in one 
of the boxes after the Wrens left it 
to tend their young. 
PERCY Jz JUDD: 
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