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Palm Warbler with some dead grass 

 in her beak and in a short time she 

 carried it to a mossy knoll out in the 

 pasture about 50 feet from edge of 

 woods. In about 10 days time I went 

 again; there was two Warbler eggs 

 and a Cowbird egg. I removed the 

 Cowbird egg and in four days more 

 went again and found three Warbler 

 eggs with the female setting. She 

 did not leave the nest until my hand 

 was within a foot of her when she 

 fluttered along on the grass to the 

 edge of the woods and while she kept 

 near enough to be seen readily did 

 not seem to care much what happen- 

 ed. The nest was sunken into the 

 moss and well under a leaning apple 

 bush and partly hidden by dead grass. 

 It was well made for a ground build- 

 er, of dead grass finer inside and lin- 

 ed with quite a number of small feath- 

 ers. This bird nests in Northern 

 Maine in fair numbers every year but 

 starts in so. much earlier than the 

 other Warblers that one usually finds 

 young instead of sets. Nests are us- 

 ually under boughs of some coniferous 

 bush and all I have seen have had 

 quite a number of small feathers for 

 lining. The eggs are somewhat like 

 some sets of Magnolia Warblers I 

 have taken, having a somewhat cloud- 

 ed effect in the markings, but are 

 quite good size, as large as those of 

 the Black-throated Blue Warbler. 



W. J. Clayton. 

 I found a Cowbird egg in a Hermit 

 Thrush's nest the same day I found 

 the egg in the Warbler's nest. He is 

 a family of three now and all are 

 doing well, all about same size and 

 color. W. J. C. 



of Kentucky Warbler" and credited to 

 our friend T. Hr Jackson. 



Curiously enough this very mistake 

 occurred once before, (See Vol. XXVII 

 pg. 63). The cut we intended to re- 

 print last month will be found in Vol. 

 XXVII at page 113. 



We have been expecting that Jack- 

 son would kill us, and don't know as 

 we would blame him very much, but 

 as we have not heard from him, sup- 

 pose he prefers to suffer in silence. 

 Maybe he regards us as past redemp- 

 tion. Possibly he may be right, for 

 surely there is no excuse for such a 

 blunder either the first or the second 

 time. 



Prairie Homed Lark. 

 While walking in the country on 

 April 12th, I found my first homed 

 lark's nest. The bird sat very close, 

 and flushed from a nest that was lined 

 with nothing but fine grasses, which is 

 unlike the description given by other 

 Oologists, most of them stating that 

 the nest is usually lined with feath- 

 ers. It contained four very slightly 

 incubated eggs. I am certain that it 

 was a homed lark, but am not positive 

 of the exact species. Is it not rather 

 late for the nesting of a homed lark 

 in this part of the state? I will be 

 very thankful to anyone giving the de- 

 sired information. 



Owen J. Gromme. 

 Fon Du Lac, Wis. 



No, it is not unusually late. — Editor. 



One On Us. 



In the June issue, we published 

 (Page 113) a half tone of a Mourning 

 Dove's nest with a young bird and 

 egg. This was labeled "Nest and Eggs 



We have recently added to our col- 

 lection a perfect set of four eggs of 

 the extremely rare Great Gray Owl 

 (Scotiaptex nebulosa nebulosa) taken 

 in Alaska very near the Arctic Circle. 

 Really authentic sets of eggs of this 

 bird are exceedingly rare in collec- 

 tions, and of course we prize the addi- 

 tion very much. 



