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Other feathers scattered about, also cast-up pellets, suggest the 

 owl might have been preyed on by some rapacious bird or mam- 

 mal. 



Snowy Owl — Nyctea nyctea. Several have been killed along 

 the river-marshes prior to 1896, where it was an irregular 

 straggler in winter (Smith). 



Black-billed Cuckoo — Coccyzus erythrophthalmus. Found 

 nesting about Holmesburgh in 1902 (Miller), 



Hairy Woodpecker — Dryobates villosus villosus. Only one 

 example taken, August 4, 1895, above Crystal Springs. Nested 

 in the Axe Factory Woods. 



Yellow-bellied Sapsucker — Sphyrapicus varius varius. One 

 taken Holmesburg January 22, 1894. 



Red-headed Woodpecker — Melanerpes erythrocephalus. My 

 records October 3, 1894, September 7, 1896, October 8, 9, and 

 12, 1897, and July 1907. Nested at Eden in 1897 and 1898, 

 and one seen at Sandiford in winter 1904 (Miller). 



Whip-poor-will — Antrostomus vociferus vociferus. August 

 1892, August 10, 1894, August 1895, and October 11, 1894. 



NiGHTHAWK — Chordeiles virginiamis virginianus. My records, 

 April 9, 1895, September 13, 1895, several in September 1896, 

 many September 11, 1911, four, on 23 and one on 25, 



Olive-sided Flycatcher — Nuttallornis borealis. One obtained 

 September 5, 1894 by Mr. F. F. Carthage *. 



Yellow-bellied Flycatcher — Empidonax jiaviventris. My 

 examples obtained August 20 and 21, 1895, September 26, 1896, 

 and May 6, 1909. 



Acadian Flycatcher — Empidonax virescens. Found occa- 

 sionally about La Grange. 



Alder Flycatcher — Empidonax trailli. One taken above 

 Crystal Springs May 18, 1895. 



Horned Lark — Otocoris alpestris alpestris. Flock in Feb- 

 ruary 1895 and another in February 1905. 



Fish Crow — Corvus ossifragus. Nested at Torresdale April 

 10, 1902 and Crystal Springs May 1912? (Miller). No ex- 

 amples were obtained between May and December. 



*Cassinia, 1903, p. 73. 



