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rather rare. Spring and fall migrant. 

 Occasionally noted early in May and 

 again late in September. 



20. Oven-bird — Common summer 

 resident anywhere in woodland. 



21. Water-thrush — Summer resident 

 but not common. More common as 

 a migrant. An occasional pair can be 

 met with in the mountains in summer 

 along the larger streams. 



22. Louisiana Water-thrush — Took 

 one here August 24th, 1894. The only 

 one I have ever seen to recognize. 



23. Connecticut Warbler — Straggler. 

 Have often looked for this warbler 

 but never saw but one. That one I 

 took September 21, 1902. 



24. Mourning Warbler — Summer res- 

 ident. Not at all uncommon as a 

 breeder and found in very much the 

 same situations as the Yellowthroat. 

 The female is shy and secretive and 

 the nests difficult to locate. 



25. Maryland Yellow-throat — Sum- 

 mer resident. Rather common any- 

 where about brush, briars and weeds. 



26. Chat — Never met the Chat here 

 but once as already recorded in THE 

 OOLOGIST. First heard and located 

 the male on May 28, 1911, and latter 

 found there was a pair. June 8th I 

 found their nest and eggs. 



27. Hooded Warbler — Summer resi- 

 dent. Not common but found in suit- 

 able brushy ridges in hardwood tim- 

 ber. 



28. Wilson's Warbler — Rather rare 

 spring and fall migrant late in May 

 and again in September. 



29. Canadian Warbler — Summer res- 

 ident, in suitable situations along 

 mountain streams and fern covered 

 ledges of rocks. Nests under banks, 

 under the roots of upturned trees and 

 amongst the ferns and moss on the 

 sides of large rocks and ledges. A 

 close sitter and hard to flush. 



30. American Redstart — Rather com- 

 mon summer resident. Found any- 



where where there are trees. 



Of the 16 species found breeding 

 here I have only found five (Yellow, 

 Chestnut-sided, Yellow-throat, Hood- 

 ed and Redstart) to be victims of the 

 Cowbird. As the most of the warb- 

 lers found here nest back in the wood- 

 ed regions and the Cowbird is more 

 an inhabitant of cleared districts, 

 most of the warblers here escape the 

 task of raising Cowbirds. 



R. B. Simpson. 

 Warren, Penna. 



Nesting of the Wood Thrush in Texas. 



In THE OOLOGIST for June, 1913, 

 I read, with much interest, an article 

 on the Wood Thrush nesting in Mis- 

 sissippi; however, the name of the 

 writer is not given. He proceeds to 

 state that in going over one of his 

 bird books, he saw where the Wood 

 Thrush was confined to the Eastern 

 and Northeastern States. I had ob- 

 served that myself in nearly every 

 one of the books except in Prof. Ridg- 

 way's "Birds of North and Middle 

 America," where the bird is said to 

 breed west to Texas, and probably to 

 Harris County, with a query after the 

 latter. 



I do not know where Prof. Ridgway 

 gets his data in reference to the Wood 

 Thrush in summer in Harris county, 

 for Dr. Nehrling gave the bird as a 

 winter resident in his list of 1882, 

 and later Houston ornithologists have 

 not, to the best of my knowledge, 

 published any notes on the species' 

 hence I am writing these few notes on 

 a nest I found near Houston, several 

 years ago. 



On April 29, 1911, while wandering 

 through a patch of open deciduous 

 woods on Buffalo Bayou about six 

 miles west of Houston, I spied a nest 

 in plain sight on a bare limb about 

 twelve feet up in a small oak sapling. 

 The nest was set firmly on a horizon- 



