98 THE OOLOGIST 
WINTER WREN NESTING. 
May 22d along the stream that flows 
through the region inhabited by my 
pair of Goshawks I found a nest of 
Winter Wren. 
The stream flows over and among 
many moss and fern-covered rocks, Fal- 
len timber and cld legs are numerous. 
Asthereisalarge amount of pine and 
hemlock the woods are cool, damp and 
shady, making an ideal place for this 
wren to summer. The nest was plac- 
ed under and among the rcots of a 
partly fallen birch. It was well under 
and entirely concealed from view unless 
a person got down on hands and knees 
to look. The nest was a large ball 
of green moss with a few fine dead 
twigs of hemlock about the small hole 
or entrance. The nest was thickly lin- 
ed with feathers of some bird that had 
likely been eaten by a hawk or owl. 
The nest contained five fresh eggs. 
Pure white with a few brown dots. 
The female sat very close. 
The Winter Wren is not uncommon 
in summer and a few are found in 
suitable places, but its nest is very 
hard to find here. Decoy nests are 
frequently seen under logs and roots 
of fallen trees. 
R. B. SIMPSON. 
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BIRDS OBSERVED 
HILLSBORO CO., N. H. 
The only articles with which I am 
acquainted dealing, with the birds of 
Hillsboro County, were published in 
the O. & O. in 1892 by A. M, Farmer. 
Besides seattered notes, he printed in 
O. & O. September, 1892, a list of 
thirty-six birds observed in Northern 
Hillsboro County from June 27 to July 
2,1892. It is partly to supplement this 
list that the following notes, based on 
observations made at Sharon and vVi- 
cinity, in Southern Hillsboro County, 
at an altitude of about fourteen hun- 
IN SOUTHERN > 
dred feet, from July 14th to August 
11, 1909, are-written. Species starred 
were not given in Farmer’s list. 
x 1. Bob-white (Colinus  virginai- 
nus). One heard on July 25th and 
27th in Temple. 
2. Rutfed Grouse, (Bonasa unbel- 
lus). Three seen, July 17-22. 
3. Black-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzua 
erythrophthalmus). A single bird 
seen in Sharon on July 27th, on its 
nest, which held one just hatched 
bird, one pipped egg, and one not 
pipped. 
x 4. Hairy Woodpecker (Dryobates 
villosus). Two seen together in Sha- 
TOTS ee HU Oyal ten tele 
x 5. Flicker, (Colaptes a luteus). 
About four seen. 
6. Whip-poor-will, (Antrostomus vo- 
ciferus). Some six heard. 
7. Chimney Swift, (Chateura pel- 
agica). Not common. 
8. Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus). 
Saw three or four between Sharon and 
Petersboro, August 11. 
9. Phoebe (Sayorius phoebe). One 
seen July*28, and one heard in Tem- 
ple July 27. 
10. Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata). 
Not common, 
11. Crow, 
chos). Not common. 
x 12. Purple Finch, (Carpodacus 
purpureus), A female seen in Sharon 
July 15, 
13. Vesper Sparrow 
gramineus). Uncommon. 
14. White-throated Sparrow (Zon- 
otrichia albicollis). Not common. 
First heard singing on July 14. 
15. Chipping Sparrow (Spizella 
passerina). Uncommon. 
16. Field Sparrow (Spizella pusil- 
(Corvus brachyrhyn- 
(Pooecetes 
la). Fairly common, 
re ILM 
common; 
Junco (Junco hyemalis). Not 
first seen (two) on July 
14, in Sharon. 
