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1914, and on the 30tli had the good fortune to recognize it again 

 at the edge of the woods (elevation about 525 feet) just back of 

 my home. The male sang at intervals all day long from some one 

 of the several chestnut-oak trees standing in a narrow^ slashing 

 planted in wheat: '' Che-che-che-chew," or after a short flight, the 

 last two syllables were apt to have a peculiar twist " icee-cliee,'' 

 suggesting the Maryland Yellow-throat. The female was not no- 

 ticed until June 6th, when the pair chased a Catbird about in the 

 tangled thicket of chestnut, scrub and chestnut-oak, blackberry 

 and raspberry bushes to the left of the clearing. Search as I might 

 I was unable to locate the nest up to June 10th, when I judged 

 the first brood, if not destroyed, had flown. 



However, as I was returning home on July 10th a little before 

 sundown, the pair betrayed by their actions on a dead tree at the 

 opposite side of the small clearing to which I had devoted my 

 search, that the nest was not far away. Soon the female, with 

 drooping wings and trembling violently, flew down and revealed 

 her nest twelve feet in the woods?, about one and one-half feet 

 from the ground in the prongs of a wild azalea bush. It contained 

 two young not more than four days old and an infertile egg. The 

 dainty little nest, taken after the young had flown, is composed 

 of stems of the tumbling grass, vegetable down, narrow strips of 

 plant and wild grape-vine bark ; and (unlike the nest found by 

 "Mr. Ladd, which was lined with hair moss) lined with split grass 

 and a few shreds of grape-vine bark. Feank L. Burns. 



THE INTRODUCTION AND LOCAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE 

 STARLING (Sturnus vdgaris) IN SOUTH- 

 EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. 



It is well known that about a hundred Starlings were imported 

 and liberated in Central Park, New- York, 1890-91, and that in ten 

 years the numerous progeny of these birds had spread northward 

 as far up the Connecticut valley as Springfield, Mass., and south- 

 ward over New Jersey. 



It seems probable that the Delaware valley was reached via the 

 Passaic; Raritan and Millstone rivers, and the naturally roving dis- 

 position of this species was excellently served in association with 

 wandering bands of Crows, Cowbirds, Blackbirds and Crackles dur- 

 ing the fall and winter months, and soon spread over Mercer, 

 Burlington, Camden and Gloucester counties, N. J., Bucks and Phil- 

 adelphia counties. Pa. It is recorded on the Jersey coast as far 

 south as Cape May in 1909, two years earlier than at Salem on 

 the Delaware. 



Although it was reported in Philadelphia county as early as 



