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the nest and nearly trod on it. The 

 female never flushed off and chipped 

 in true warbler fashion, soon attract- 

 ing a Black and White, two Louisian- 

 na Water Thrushes and a Canadian. 

 The nest was about thirty feet from 

 the bottom of a very steep hillside 

 and at the base of a small mountain 

 maple sapling. It was built of leaves, 

 tendrils and weed stalks and lined as 

 usual with the Red Hair Moss. The 

 set consisted of the most beautiful 

 eggs I ever saw, but were unfortun- 

 ately lost along with some other rari- 

 ties on the return trip. 



On May 24, we went down the creek 

 and worked the steep hillside and 

 ravines in that locality. Several more 

 "Worm-eaters were heard but due to 

 the great amount of hillside to be 

 covered we found only one more nest. 

 It was cunningly concealed at the 

 base of a small sapling on a hillside 

 and held three very small eggs. The 

 next day the female was sitting on 

 a set of four, when the nest was 

 taken. 



Mr. Dickey has had a wide experi- 

 ence with this species in Greene Co., 

 hut to me it was a pleasant introduc- 

 tion to a bird that I had met but once 

 before thru the kindness of Mr. 

 Frank L. Burns at Berwyn. Taken all 

 in all I would class the Worm-eating 

 Warblers as a regular, tho scarce 

 breeding bird in Hundington County, 

 and trust to continue the acquaintance 

 begun under such charming circum- 

 stances, during the coming year. 



Richard C. Harlow. 



Nesting of the Florida Gallinule in 

 Harris County, Texas. 

 Both the Florida and the Purple 

 Gallinulea are rare summer residents 

 in Harris County, Texas, seen in the 

 marshes and prairie swamps where 

 the tule grass grows high and the 

 Teeds and grasses almost hide the 



water. Although the Purple Gallinule 

 is more common of the two, I have 

 never found its nest, and the follow- 

 ing notes are written from the only 

 nests of the other bird I have ever 

 found: 



On May 28, 1910, I found several 

 nests of the Florida Gallinule in some 

 marshes in the San Jacinto River 

 bottoms adjacent to Galveston Bay. 

 In the edge of one of the lagoons or 

 swampy lakes, where the water was 

 nearly a foot in depth and the grasses 

 and reeds grew nearly as high as 

 one's head, I was looking at a num- 

 ber of Red-winged Blackbird nests 

 when I saw an empty platform of 

 reeds matted together and about six 

 inches in height. This set me to 

 searching and I soon found several 

 more, all empty. I thought my search 

 was to be for nought, when I happen- 

 ed to flush a bird from a clump of tall 

 grasses; I saw at once it was a Florida 

 Gallinule, and turned my attention to 

 the nest and found six soiled buff- 

 brown eggs, sparingly spotted over 

 the entire surface with small specks 

 * and spots of various shades of brown. 

 The nest was cunningly concealed 

 over three inches of water and built 

 up ten inches of reeds, Johnsons grass 

 and saw grass, entirely surrounded by 

 tall reeds with only a single path 

 leading away from the nest. 



I have never taken the time to re- 

 turn to that locality, and hence have 

 found no other nests. 



The six eggs in the set mentioned 

 above measure: 1.77x1.27, 1.76x1.26, 

 1.75x1.25, 1.73x1.26, 1.72x1.27, and 1.67 

 xl.23 in. 

 Houston, Texas. Finlay Simons. 



The Golden-Winged Warbler. 



Early in May, 1913, while I was 



searching for nests of the Northern 



Pileated Woodpecker in a mountain 



valley in the Northern border of Hun- 



