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also black; scapulars, primary, great- 
er, middle and lesser coverts reddish 
brown; tertials, secondaries and pri- 
Crest bluish-white with eight dark 
spots on each feather, forming eight 
distinct rows. 
The Crested Tit is the rarest of the 
tribe and is seldom met with outside 
of the dense spruce forests of the 
mountains. Although I have tramp- 
ed over a large part of the country 
surrounding Vevey, I have yet to find 
this species occurring below 3600 feet. 
The species observed at this altitude 
were seen among the spruces near 
the summit of Mt. Cubby, in a forest 
so dense that it was with no little dif- 
ficulty that the coloring of the birds 
was correctly determined. Like the 
Coal Tit,, the crested species seem to 
find as much food upon the ground as 
in the crevices of bark and conse- 
quently they spend a great deal of 
their time upon the soft floors charac- 
teristic to the forests which they in- 
habit. 
If the crested tit has a regular song, 
I have yet to hear it, in fact, I have 
only heard their call note, a weak 
“Tseep”’, “Tseep”’, or a more drawn 
out “Tseeeep”, resembling that of a 
Brown creeper. 
The nest is composed of almost any 
soft material such as wool, horse hair, 
plant fibres or feathers and is placed 
in situation characteristic to the tit 
tribe. The eggs vary in number from 
five to eight, They are white, sprin- 
kled with reddish brown, the spots 
forming an indistinct wreath around 
the larger end. They measure .62x 
48. P, G. HOWES. 
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Who Knows? We Don’t. 
‘During July, 1909, I was interested 
one day in watching a Barn Swallow 
feeding her young. The young sat on 
a telegraph wire and the old bird, af- 
ter procuring food, would fly to them 
and without stopping, would deposit 
the food in the open mouth of the 
young bird as she passed. The per- 
formance was repeated many times, 
the old bird always passing under the 
wire and the young bird opening its 
mouth to receive the tid-bit at her 
approach. Is this method of feeding 
the young customary with Barn Swal- 
lows or Swallows in general as soon 
as the young leave the nest? 
Ben BISHOP.” 
enc a ere ee 
A Correction. 
I find among my early contributions 
to THE OOLOGIST at page 237, Vol- 
ume 6, an error that should be cor- 
rected. This note should read Fe- 
male Rose-breasted Grosbeak instead 
of Cedar Waxwing. The Grosbeak at 
that time was an entirely new bird to 
this locality and I took it for the fe- 
male Waxwing. That was in the good 
old days when I would rather paint 
and draw the birds than go to the 
woods, but now I do both and enjoy it. 
GEO. W. H. VOS BURGH. 
A aS) Se oe iy! 
We have recently had the pleasure 
of examining the check list of the col- 
lection of the well-known ornitholo- 
gist, A. E. Price of, Grant Park, IIlli- 
nois, and find he has the unusual num- 
ber of 702 species and sub-species rep- 
resented in his collection of North 
American birds eggs. That his col- 
lection is an unusually valuable one 
as to rarity of specimens represented 
may be judged by the fact that in 
checking his list against our own, we 
find 57 varieties in his collection not 
represented in ours, 
eee SR a Oe 
Sunday, May 30, 1909, the nest of a 
Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufus) 
was found in the Catholic cemetery at 
Henry, Illinois, built on the ground 
at the base of a sweet clover bush. So 
