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THB OOLOGIST 



May 20, 1914. Redstart seen on 

 nest in black birch about ten feet up. 



July 5, Redstart's nest about 30 

 feet up in ash, tree. Seen both sexes 

 feeding young every time they could. 



July 5, Redstart nest found in a 

 crotch of an elderberry bush about 

 four feet from the ground. Three 

 eggs in it. Flowers in bloom. Be- 

 lieved to be second breeding. 



July 19, Three full-grown young of 

 same species there. 



Now I am going to write a few notes 

 on some tragedies of rose-breasted 

 grosbeak's nests along the Concord 

 River. 



May 18, 1911. A rose-breasted gros 

 beak's nest in the fork of a young sap- 

 ling about 20 feet up. Male around it 

 Female not seen. One week later the 

 nest was cancelled. Branches of the 

 tree showed fresh broken. 



May 20, 1913. Another nest of same 

 species found in same place as it was 

 in 1911. Five days later female seen 

 on it. June 6, same female still on 

 it. June 20, nest not there. Branches 

 of tree showed fresh broken. 



Myles S. McGeever. 

 Lowell, Mass. 



Breeding Records of the Upland 

 Plover. 



(Bartramia longicauda) 

 Breeding records of the Upland 

 Plover, (Bartramia longicauda) in Vir- 

 ginia are so rare now, that I was much 

 pleased to find a pair on July 19th, 

 1913, at Massanetta Springs, Rocking- 

 liam County with young a few days 

 old. When first seen the old birds 

 made a great outcry, and finally got 

 the young into an uncut wheat field, 

 where I could not follow them. A 

 gentleman who was with me at the 

 time, informed me they formerly bred 

 commonly in Fauquier County and 

 when shot during the fall months, 

 were very fat. A few pairs bred this 



season (1914) in Montgomery County, 

 and from other records coming to us, 

 they were more common breeders in 

 the state this year, than for a number 

 of seasons past. 



H. B. Bailey. 



Sea Birds Ashore. 



On July 2d, 1914, Prof. L. W. Welch 

 and the writer found dead on the sand 

 three miles west of Sunset Beach in 

 Los Angeles County, Southern Cali- 

 fornia, three pinkfooted sheerwaters 

 (Puffinus creatopus), three sooty 

 shearwaters (Puffinus griseus), one 

 Pacific Loon (Gavia pacifica) and an 

 Ancient Murrelet (Synthliboramphus 

 antiquus). 



The shearwaters were covered with 

 oil and this is the cause for their 

 deaths. The Ancient Murrelet was 

 shot. Three holes penetrated its left 

 side and one limb was gone. This is 

 the first Ancient Murrelet I have seen 

 in this territory. 



Alfred Cookman. 

 Dept. of Biology, 



University of So. California. 



Rough Winged and Bank Swallows. 



By S. S. Dickey. 

 Owing to the neglectful and unsci- 

 entific observations of a local oologia* 

 I was for some years past led to be- 

 lieve that the bank swallow nested in 

 the vicinity of Waynesburg, Pennsyl- 

 vania. Upon reading some recent arti- 

 cles concerning the two swallows 

 (Riparia riparia and Stelgidopteryx 

 serripennis; and, again, upon compar- 

 ing my observations on the swallows 

 with those of my friend, Professor 

 Richard C. Harlow, I was sufficiently 

 interested to peruse my recorded notes 

 relating to these birds and to make a 

 further study in the field. 



I formerly thought that the swallows 

 which resorted to crevices in rocks, 

 stone walls, etc., for nesting sites were 



