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Nores ON CourTSHIe or JuNcOos.—These observations were all 
made in South Rayine, as it is locally called, near the Floyd Mon- 
ument. On the eigth day of March the Junco males were seen 
driving the females. They were driving in and out among the 
bushes in a deep gully, the males uttering the characteristic Junco 
“tsip” repeatedly. On the nineteenth of March the males were 
again seen driving the females, but did not confine themselves, to 
the bushes. The males uttered the characteristic Junco call re- 
peatedly, and on this date I heard for the first time the love song 
of the Junco. It consisted of a low, simple song and a trill. 
On March 26, at 10:30 a. m., in company with V. J. Hayes, I 
watched a pair of Juncos courting. The birds had been flying 
about abundantly all morning, and one pair was finally located in 
a small scrub oak. When they first attracted attention the male 
Was perched on a small limb above and to the left of the female. 
He was bobbing and bowing his head to her; his wings were droop- 
ing and fluttered slightly at times. He uttered almost continu- 
ously a faint twittering song. The female was also bobbing and 
bowing to him and jumped from the branch she was perched on to 
another one to her left and then back again; this was repeated 
three times. The male kept up his bobbing and bowing, but 
turned on his perch so that he faced her all the time. After the 
third repetition of this the female hopped onto the same twig with 
the male. They stood facing each other, bills nearly touching, and 
bowed solemnly, both bobbing their heads at the same time. The 
male’s wings were still dreoping. Then the female hopped back 
to her original perch and the bowing and hopping from one perch 
to another continued for 4 short time. The female for some un- 
known reason flew away, and after about thirty second the male 
followed her. The time consumed in the whole performance was 
about two minutes. 
Sioux City, Towa, April 6, 1917, TRA GABRIELSON. 
TIORNED GREBE AT NEWARK, New JeRSeY.—On April 23, 1911, a 
pair of Tlorned Grebes (Colymbius auritus) appeared on the lakes 
in Branch Brook Park, Newark, N. J. One of the birds was in the 
summer phase and the yellow feathers which form the horned 
crests were well developed and conspicuous. The other still re- 
tained much of its winter plumage and the crests had not ap- 
peared at all. Both birds were yery tame, as they approached 
within seventy feet of the shore where a number of persons were 
congregated and watching the birds performing their expert dives 
and for their reappearances after these numerous submergings. 
There were a nifmber of canoes about them and when these ap- 
