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in her bill and was fixing the nest. — S. 

 UsHiODA, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Hooded Warbler on Long Island 



I recently made a bird-record which 

 seemed rather unusual to me, so I am 

 sending it to you with permission to use 

 it in Bird-Lore if you wish to do so. 



On the morning of August 22, I was 

 delighted to make the acquaintance of the 

 Hooded Warbler, which I had hardly 

 hoped to see on eastern Long Island.. It 

 was beside a bush-grown path on a wooded 

 hillside, just above a little valley. For 

 about a half-hour it was in sight, darting 

 from twig to twig, picking insects from 

 the leaves, and bathing in some water in 

 a hollow stump. The light was perfect 

 and the bird, part of the time, only fifteen 

 feet from me, so that the markings were 

 plainly visible both with and without 

 glasses. The plain greenish upper parts 

 without wing bars, clear yellow under parts 

 and forehead, black cap and bib with the 

 connecting black strap, and white in some 

 of the tail feathers were all distinctly seen. 



The bird was accompanied by four or 

 five Redstarts, three or four Black-and- 

 Whites, a Canadian Warbler, an Ovenbird, 

 and a Northern Water-Thrush, while a 

 Blue-winged Warbler was seen not far 

 away. The day was the second or third 

 very warm one following cooler weather. 

 It is my theory that the Hooded Warbler 

 might have strayed up from the South 

 and met this group of migrating Warblers 

 that had started down from the North 

 during the cool wave. — Mabel R. Wig- 

 gins, East Marion, N. Y. 



Is the House Wren a Bigamist ? 



Is the House Wren a bigamist? I have 

 eight boxes around my place, on pea- 

 trellis, trees, woodshed, and house porch, 

 etc., all occupied, but I have noticed only 

 two male Wrens singing. I cannot keep 

 track of their movements, but there seem 

 to be fewer males than females. 



The EngHsh Sparrow is a brute; he 

 puts his head in the hole of the box and 



pecks the young birds, not minding the 

 fighting of the parent Wrens. 



One Wren-box has a Robin's nest on 

 top of it, and year after year the two 

 families dwell in harmony. — E. I. Met- 

 CALF, Foreston, Minn. 



Red-Headed Woodpecker Nesting 

 on Long Island 



It may be of interest to know that Red- 

 headed Woodpeckers have nested this 

 season in the dead limb of a maple tree on 

 our main street. They were first seen and 

 heard about May 20. The tree where they 

 are nesting is opposite my sister's home, so 

 we see the birds daily, but as yet have 

 seen no young. The old birds fly to the 

 ground near her front-porch for crumbs 

 which she throws out. — E. M. Lowerre, 

 Southold, N. Y. 



From Ames, Iowa 



The most nearly perfect albino Robin 

 I have ever seen visited me a few weeks 

 ago. All the feathers were snowy white 

 except. the rosy breast and one dark tail 

 feather. 



The White-crowned Sparrow has been 

 seen here on the campus this year and 

 also the Blue Grosbeak. These are not 

 common in the vicinity of Ames. — Mrs. 

 F. L. Battell, Ames, Iowa. 



Brewster's Warbler in Iowa 



On May 11, while observing the migrat- 

 ing Warblers in a small wooded region at 

 Devil's Glen, along Duck Creek near 

 Bettendorf, I noticed a number of 

 Golden-winged Warblers. After watching 

 these and other species of Warblers, I 

 discovered a bird with yellow crown and 

 wing bars, black line through the eye and 

 "underparts uniformly light, without the 

 black throat patch of the Golden-winged. 

 Later I saw another similar one, although 

 this may have been the same one observed 

 before. On looking up the description 

 after my return home, I found that it was 

 Brewster's Warbler, but noticed that this 



