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prisingly short distance. It was silent but 

 wagged its tail as in the other case. — 

 A. D. Tinker, Ann ,ff arbor, Mich. 



A Winter Rose-breasted Grosbeak 



From January 26 up to today (February 

 13), there has been in and about our yard 

 here a bird which I think I can positively 

 identify as an immature male Rose- 

 breasted Grosbeak. This bird has been 

 about practically every day, including some 

 days when there was five inches of snow 

 on the ground and the thermometer was 

 down to zero. The bird's chief food seems 

 to be the seeds of the common honeysuckle; 

 it also eats suet, and a number of times has 

 been down on the ground picking up 

 crumbs with the English and Tree 

 Sparrows. 



As this bird is now getting rather tame — 

 eating suet from a lilac bush just outside 

 our window — I shall no doubt have the 

 opportunity to make further study of it, 



A WINTER ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK 

 Photographed by C. D. Brown 



TREE SPARROW 

 Photographed by C. D. Brown 



and possibly get some photographs 

 later on. — Clarence D. Brown, 

 Rutherford, N. J. 



[Mr. Brown subsequently sent the 

 photograph, herewith published, 

 confirming his identification in the 

 most satisfactory manner. The 

 portrait of a Tree Sparrow, which 

 posed for him while waiting for-the 

 Grosbeak, is also presented. — Ed.] 



Notes on the Mourning Dove 



On May 20, 1907, a curious nest 

 of the Mourning Dove was found 

 in a rather deep ravine leading 

 down to the Huron river. The birds 

 had apparently appropriated the 

 home of a pair of Robins, as the 

 nest was in too good a state of re- 

 pair to be a last-year's one, and, in 

 their usual careless manner, had 

 laid a few twigs and rootlets on the 

 top of it, forming a two-storied 



