Notes from Field and Study 
1906. May 9.—An Ovyenbird 
by a cat. Also a Brown Thrasher. 
May 13.—A Thrush killed by cat. 
May 20.—A black cat caught a young 
Robin. 
Many Juncos are sacrificed every year. 
—Mrs. Oscar OLDBERG, Chicago, Il. 
eaten 
Tufted Titmouse in Northern New Jersey 
In the May-June issue of Brrp-Lore, 
a note appears recording the Tufted Tit- 
mouse from Pine Brook, N. J. It may be 
of interest to Brirp-Lore’s readers to 
know that the bird is tolerably common 
in this neighborhood in winter, and oc- 
casionally in summer. I have it recorded 
in January, February, March, April and 
May, 1908; May and August, 19009; 
March and April 1910.—IsaBet McC. 
Lemmon, Englewood, N. J. 
A Late Pine Siskin 
June 17, 1910, I saw, and positively 
identified, a Pine Siskin, in a row of apple 
trees near our house. This species was 
entirely absent here last winter, as were 
also the Redpolls and Crossbills. This 
is the first time that I have known the 
Siskin to be here in summer.—L. HENRY 
Porter, Clarendon, Vt. 
A Hummingbird Guest 
While visiting a friend who had spent 
the summer in Colorado, the enclosed 
picture was shown me, and these brief 
facts told. ‘We arrived at the ‘Broad- 
moor’ late in July, and the very first 
morning were taken out to see the nest 
of a Hummingbird built over an electric 
light in the north gallery of the hotel. 
The guests in the hotel had been very 
solicitous about the little mother’s wel- 
fare, as soon as it was discovered that she 
was really determined to build her nest in 
so unusual a place. When she began to 
remain on the nest at night, they begged 
that the light should be turned off early, 
so the heat might not destroy the eggs. 
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All the people about the house entered 
into the plans made for protecting her, 
and in due time two Hummers were 
hatched and safely reared by the brave 
little parents. 
“The clerk of the hotel was kept busy 
exhibiting his interesting tenants, and. 
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Se ee ; TES Sa Eas ats tac — 
- NEST OF HUMMER ON THE PIAZZA OF 
A COLORADO SPRINGS HOTEL 
to do so without disturbing them, a 
mirror was put into requisition. Held at 
the proper angle we could see the cunning 
nest and two poor little featherless crea- 
tures whose only sign of life, at first, was 
the opening of mouths that seemed to 
bear no relation whatever to the size 
of the bodies they belonged to. Days 
passed, feathers came out, and at last, 
one morning, when our visit was made, 
nothing remained but the birth-place of 
the smallest atoms I ever saw that could 
be called birds.’—Mrs. M. L. SrepHEn- 
son, Helena, Ark. 
