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similar to a robin's except in size. All the American thrushes have 

 blue or greenish blue eggs, plain except the Russet-backed which is 

 marked with large pale-spots of reddish brown. 



Norman W. Swayne: We shall have a photographic competition this 

 year full particulars of which will be published next month. 



Alfred J. Meyer, 330 E. 14th St., New York:— Can any of the read- 

 ers of A. O. tell me where I can find a nest of the Great Blue Heron 

 this spring. Having made some good pictures of some of the more 

 common herons I am very desirous of trying my luck with the Blue. 



L. L. Haskins: — The bird which you describe is the black-throated 

 bunting or dickcissel. It is fairly common in Wisconsin. The prairie 

 horned lark and the white-rumped shrike are found in Wis. 



BOOK REVIEWS, 



Camp Fires in the Wilderness, by E. W. Burt ($1.00, The Nationa 

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 Well illustrated with half tone engravings. 



The Story of a Martin Colony, by J. Warren Jacobs, Waynesburg, 

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A writer in Bird-Lore (The Macmillan Company) record an instance 

 which seems to prove the possession of a surprising memory on the 

 part of a bird. She so tamed a White-breasted Nuthatch in Central 

 Park, New York City, in the winter of 1900, that the bird came to her 

 at sight, whenever she appeared in the park. In April, 1901, the bird 

 disappeared and did not return the succeeding winter; but in December, 

 1902, apparently the same bird reappeared, and recognizing its friend, 

 at once perched upon her hand in search of the nuts it had been accus- 

 tomed to find there, two years before. 



