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sons. To this, the Captain further wrote: 

 "My son says that the Swallows were still 

 with him this summer." Thus it would 

 seem that the Swallows of Caldwell, New 

 York, have, for generations, had a nesting 

 habit peculiar to that locality. — Burton 

 W. Gates, Worcester, Mass. 



A LARGE PHOEBE'S NEST 



A Large Phcebe's Nest 



The accompanying photograph shows a 

 Phoebe's nest which was built on the stone 

 wall of a bridge two feet wide and three 

 ■feet high, under which the water from a 

 small ravine passes. The nest, which was 

 within two feet of the mouth of the bridge, 

 measures ten inches high and six inches 

 wide, and gradually tapers from the center 

 to the bottom. — C. F. Stone, Branchport, 

 JV. Y. 



The Palm Warbler in New Jersey 



The Palm Warbler [Dendroica palma- 

 rtim), usually one of our rarest fall mi- 

 grants, was rather common during the past 

 season in the vicinity of Plainfield, New 

 Jersey. I noted six individuals, four in one 

 flock, on September 22, two on the follow- 

 ing day and one on October 4. The Yel- 



low Palm Warbler, on the other hand, was 

 scarcer than usual, a single bird met with 

 on October 4 being the only one observed. 

 — W. DeW. Miller, Plainfield, N. J. 



The Pine Grosbeak at Englewood, N. J. 



It is not often, now-a-days, that I have 

 the pleasure of adding a new name to my 

 list of Englewood birds, and a Pine Gros- 

 beak which visited me October 25 of this 

 year received a correspondingly cordial wel- 

 come. The bird's clearly whistled nuhee- 

 'whee-yer , or ivhee-'uihee-'whee, at once 

 announced the presence of a stranger ; and 

 an imitation of the calls met with a quick 

 response, the bird eventually drinking from 

 a pool of water within ten feet of me. 



Not only is this the first bird of the spe- 

 cies which I have seen at Englewood, but 

 the date of the bird's occurrence is surpri- 

 singly early. Dr. L. B. Bishop writes me 

 that three individuals of this species were 

 seen at New Haven, Connecticut, October 

 30, and other reports from Brattleboro, Ver- 

 mont, by Mrs. E. B. Davenport, and Mo- 

 nadnock. New Hampshire, by Gerald H. 

 Thayer, indicate an unusual southward 

 movement of Pine Grosbeaks. — Frank M. 

 Chapman, Engleivood, N. J. 



The Twenty-first Congress of the Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists' Union 



The twenty-first congress of the Ameri- 

 can Ornithologists' Union was held at the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadel- 

 phia, November 17-19, 1903. The attend- 

 ance was large, the papers presented were 

 of a high order, and the congress was one 

 of the most successful ever held by the 

 Union. 



The election for officers and members 

 resulted as follows: President, Charles B. 

 Cory; vice-presidents, Charles F. Batchel- 

 der, E. W. Nelson; secretary, John H. 

 Sage; treasurer, J. Dwight, Jr.; council- 

 ors, Frank M. Chapman, Ruthven Deane, 

 William Dutcher, A. K. Fisher, Charles 

 W. Richmond, Thomas S. Roberts, Wit- 

 mer Stone ; corresponding fellows. Dr. 

 Emil A. Goeldi, Para, Brazil; Dr. E. C. 

 Hellmayr, Munich ; Dr. Peter Sushkin. 



