92 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 95 



THE NORTHERN PILEATED WOODPECKER AND PINE GROS- 

 BEAK IN NORTHWESTERN OHIO. 



The Pileated Woodpecker is quite common in Ashtabula County, 

 Ohio. I have also found it in the adjoining counties of Lake and Trum- 

 bull. In Ashtabula County I have found it nesting in the townships 

 of Harpersfield, Morgan and Austinburg. In the heavily timbered 

 portions of the county the bird is more plentiful. I have never 

 known of one using the same nesting site in two successive years. 

 The nests I have found have all been near the top of tall stubs. 

 This season there is one in an old beach about thirty-flve feet high. 

 At least three weeks were required to excavate the site. On still 

 mornings I have heard them drumming at a distance of over half 

 a mile. 



On April 21, in the woods in Austinburg, I saw a flock of 

 twelve Pine Grosbeaks. They seemed to be feeding on the seeds 

 of a tulip tree. On the 23 I again saw five more. This is the 

 first time I have seen this bird in the county. 



Austinburg. 0. S V. Warren. 



Red Phalarope in South Dakota. 

 (A Correction.) 

 In the Wilson Bulletin, XXVI, June, 1914, page 103, the Red 

 Phalarope (P. fulicarhis) was reported as having been taken on a 

 sandbar in the Missouri river a short distance below Sioux City, 

 thus making the first record for Iowa. This was the first state- 

 ment given to me by Mr. Anderson, and although he had corrected 

 it before I sent the note for publication, the mistake was made 

 through an error on my part. The fact is, the specimen was taken 

 near McCook Lake, a few miles in the opposite direction, but 

 across the line, in South Dakota. The record, then, belongs to 

 the latter state. So far as I have been able to examine the litera- 

 ture relating to the birds of South Dakota, I find but one instance 

 of the Red Phalarope having been taken; and this is recorded by 

 Visher (1909) as having been taken near Rapid City, May 27, 1904, 

 by Henry Behrens, in whose collection the specimen probably still 

 remains. 



Sioux City, loica. T. C. Stephens. 



WREN NOTES. 

 The first item which I wish to record has to do with a peculiar 

 assortment of nest material used by a pair of Western House 

 Wrens; or rather, which was offered by the male to the female. 



