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FIELD NOTES 



GOLDEN EAGLE (Aqiiila ohrysaetos) IN OHO. 



I recently met with an early record of this species in northern 

 Ohio, which may be worthy of reference, as the original record Is 

 in a rare and obscure publication. Rev. Chas. Fox of Grosse Isle, 

 Mich., has la note on this bird in his paper on "The Birds of Mich- 

 igan " as follows : " Golden Eagle. The late Rev. William Wright 

 had a liA'e Golden Eagle, Aquila chrysaetos, taken near Toledo, Ohio, 

 in 1851." Fox, Peninsular Journ. of Medic. Vol. I, 1853, Oct., p. 

 160. 



Mus. of Zoology, Ann Arbor, Mich. B. H. Swales. 



LARGE NUMBERS OF PINE SISKINS IN MAY. 



Ever since coming to Marshalltown I have looked in vain for 

 the Pine Siskin (Pinus spinus) . until on May 8, 1914, as I passed 

 a flock of singing goldfinches high in a clump of cottonwoods, I 

 heard what I took to be a rather peculiar variation of the song. 

 I stopped and examined the flock of perhaps twenty-five birds care- 

 fully through the glasses. Most of them were goldfinches without 

 a doubt, but there were at least six which, in the early morning 

 light, appeared darker than the rest. T took one of these and it 

 proved to be a female pine siskin. I saw no more of them until 

 the eleventh, when two were noted. On the thirteenth they became 

 abundant about town and remained so until the eighteenth. A 

 ten-mile trip along the river on the sixteenth found them present 

 everywhere. Hardly a tree but had its quota of pine siskins. The 

 last one was noted on May twenty-third. All my previous Iowa 

 records have been in winter or early spring and I was rather 

 surprised at this invasion. 



Marshalltown, Iowa. Ira N. Gabrielson. 



SECOND BREEDING RECORD OF THE CHESTNUT-SIDED 



WARBLER (Dendroica pensijlvania) FOR CHESTER 



COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. 



Dr. Warren mentions liaving met with tliis bird in tlie county 

 during the breeding season, but Samuel B. Ladd's discovery of the 

 nest and five eggs (now in the collection of J. Parker Norris, Jr.) 

 on the high ground near Frazer, May 27th. 1900, appears to be the 

 first authentic county record. Believing that diligent search would 

 reveal it nesting at Berwyn, which is only six miles from Frazer 

 and on the same chestnut-covered ridge, I memorized tlie song of 

 the migrant during the great northward movement of May 14th, 



