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complement of eggs nearly pipped. The nest was located under 

 the shelter of the roof of a small porch adjoining a deserted fruit 

 house. The nest was at one end of the porch, and running to the 

 other end were the other five nests in varying stages of preserva- 

 tion according to age, the one at the other end being the oldest 

 and represented only by fragments of nest material, the others in 

 order of age to the fresh nest. This year's nest completed the 

 width of the porch. Question, will the birds go back to the other 

 end and begin again? 



A White Spotted Bluebird's Egg.— On April 27, 1902, a 

 Bluebird's nest was found in an old apple tree containing four 

 greenish-blue eggs and one with white blotches 



Bristol, Pa. Thos. D. Keim. 



Notes From Iowa: — Leconte Sparrow (Ammodrarrms 

 lecontei). On the evening of October 20 and the morning of Octo- 

 ber 25th, I found here near Denmark, Iowa, three individuals of 

 Leconte Sparrow. On the first date mentioned I saw only one. 

 At that time I did not know what the bird was. I was watching 

 the birds in a low brushy hollow beside the road. There were 

 many Juncos, Tree Sparrows and White-throated Sparrows 

 about, but my attention was called to it by its quick excited 

 notes and some of the other birds chasing it about. It was light- 

 er in color than the other sparrows and. seemed much smaller. 

 It never flew up high but flitted about among the weeds and 

 grass. It was so restless and active and keep so closely down 

 among the weeds that I could not distinguish its markings with 

 my glasses. The next Saturday morning I went down along the 

 same road with a gun. £ found two of the same sparrows and 

 shot one. It was extremely difficult to see them far enough 

 away to get a shot at them. I could walk up to within five or 

 six feet of them and literally kick them out of the weeds but 

 they would dive down into them again within ten feet and run 

 along underneath them. The two were evidently a pair and one 

 was a little more distinctly marked than the other. The strip of 

 weeds beside the road was only five or six feet wide but I passed 

 them several times going that close to them. At no time did 

 they get higher than three feet above the ground. The specimen 

 I shot was too badly torn to keep but I was able to positively 

 identify it. 



Bewick Wren (Thayomanes bewickii). I found one in the yard 

 near the edge of town on Sunday October 26th. It was around a 

 large wood pile for some time and I managed to get several good 

 looks at it with my binoculars. The flanks were distinctively 

 rufous or reddish-brown while over the eye was a whitish band. 

 It did not have the excited note most wrens I have seen had, 

 but had only a low chirp which could not be heard far off. It 

 inspected the wood pile all over from end to end and on every 

 side; and if anything it seemed to carry its tail even straighter 

 up over its back than most of the wrens I have noticed. It was 

 too small for a Carolina Wren and having the line over the eye 

 and the reddish flanks so plainly I could call it nothing else than 

 Bewick Wren. R. L. Baird. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



The following letter from Mr. Benj. T. Gault, written at Cay- 

 enne, French Guiaua, shortly after his arrival there, is too full of 



