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her hunger was fully satisfied. A flock of 

 American Crossbills and a few White- 

 winged ones have spent two months or 

 more in some pines in our town, and a pair 

 of Red-breasted Nuthatches have fed 

 from a tree close to the window in the 

 same grounds w'ith the pines. Downy 

 Woodpeckers have also shared the suet 

 with them, both seemingly unmindful 

 of eyes and glasses that were prying into 

 their affairs, on most occasions when they 

 came for meals. 



By the first of May, a very green world 

 emerged from its white blanket, and there 

 was a busy horde of Robins hard at work 

 on our lawn when I looked out early in 

 the morning, and today the business of 

 reconstructing nests seems to be in prog- 

 ress. — F.^NNY S. Watrous, Wellsboro, 

 Tioga county, Pa. 



More Central Park (New York City) Notes 

 See, also, Bird-Lore for December, looS 



Creai Horned Owl. — I should like to 

 record a Great Horned Owl which my 

 brother and I saw on the afternoon of 

 December lo, 1908, in the Ramble. 

 It was completely dazed, and permitted 

 a very close approach. We flushed it from 

 a dense thicket of creepers near the ground. 

 This is the first time that this Owl has been 

 seen in Central Park, to my knowledge. 



Cape May Warbler. — In addition to the 

 individuals recorded in the December 

 (1908) number of this magazine, I should 

 like to record another seen on October 11. 

 It was a male. 



Black and While Warbler. — An indi- 

 vidual of this species was seen for several 

 days in the Ramble in November, disap- 

 pearing after the fourteenth of the month. 

 I did not see it, but several other observers 

 noticed it. This is, of course, a very late 

 date. 



Blackpoll Warbler. — ^This Warbler was 

 excessively abundant this autumn. It 

 arrived August 21, and I saw it last on 

 October 22. This date is two weeks later 



than that given in 'The Warblers of North 

 America.' 



Brown Thrasher. — I have three records 

 of this bird in November, — one on the 

 sixth, two on the ninth, and one on the 

 thirteenth. 



Pine Siskin. — Mr. Stanley V. Ladow 

 and I saw a flock of these birds on October 

 17. This bird has always been rare in the 

 park. The date is also an early one. 



It might also be of interest to add that 

 I have seen 104 species in the park during 

 1908. I also know of sixteen other species 

 seen by other observers, making a grand 

 total of 120 species. It has been a very 

 good year and four birds have been added 

 to the park list, which now contains over 

 160 species. — Ludlow Griscom, New 

 York City. 



Nesting Notes from California 



On May 28, 1908, I found a triple nest 

 of the San Diego Red-winged Blackbird 

 in a clump of weeds and tules on Coyote 

 creek. The nests were built one directly 

 above the other, and so close together that 

 the two lower ones could not be entered 

 by a bird. All the nests were apparently 

 complete, although none of them contained 

 eggs. I could not discover any cause for 

 the building of this triple nest. 



On June 6, 1908, I found a Mourning 

 Dove's nest containing four eggs. The 

 nest was in a eucalpytus tree about eight 

 feet from the ground, and was the usual 

 platform of sticks, except that it was 

 placed on the remnant of an old California 

 Shrike nest. When discovered, two of the 

 eggs were well incubated, while the other 

 two were fresh. On June 14, the first two 

 eggs had hatched, and on the 21st the 

 birds left the nest. Meanwhile, one of the 

 other two eggs disappeared, while the 

 other egg hatched, but the bird died in 

 the nest. I do not know whether both 

 sets of eggs were laid by the same bird or 

 not. — John McB. Robertson, Buena 

 Park, Orange county, Cal. 



