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feet up in a yellow birch. I think a 

 set was secured after I left. A nest 

 of the Canadian Warbler was found 

 on a steep bank covered with rho- 

 dodendron. It contained five eggs. 

 Three nests of the Magnolia Warbler 

 were found. Two were in small hem- 

 locks less than ten feet up and each 

 contained four eggs. The third one 

 was about three feet up in a rho- 

 dodendron and held three eggs on the 

 12th. Two nests of the Blue-headed 

 Vireo was found. The first one was ten 

 feet up and fifteen feet out in a large 

 hemlock. The second was in the 

 top of a small hemlock only six 

 feet up and one foot out. Both con- 

 tained four eggs. Another nest was 

 found about seven feet up in a rho- 

 dodendron but it had not been laid 

 in when I left. A nest of the Black- 

 burnian Warbler was discovered about 

 eighty feet up in a white pine but the 

 bird deserted. A couple of weeks 

 later Harlow collected a set of this 

 species from a tree near where the 

 first nest was found, probably the 

 same pair of birds built both nests 



During our stay one hundred species 

 of birds were seen and forty-five were 

 found nesting. 



Albert D. McGrew. 



Illustrations accompanying the 

 foregoing articles will be found on the 

 following pages of The Oologist: 



Magnolia Warbler, page 85; Black 

 Throated Blue Warbler, page 87; Yel- 

 low Warbler, page 89; Northern 

 Water Thrush, page 91-93; Black 

 Throated Green Warbler, page 132 of 

 present volume. — Editor. 



A Peculiar Accident to Florida Caerula 

 Little Blue Heron 



On July 29th, 1916, while my oldest 

 son was catching soft crabs on the 

 beach of my farm fronting on James 

 River, he noticed a young Little Blue 

 Heron in its white coat, evidently 



trying to escape from some hidden 

 object in the shallow water not far 

 distant. He secured the bird and its 

 captor, which proved to be a large 

 bunch of oysters, by putting his crs h 

 net over it and brought it to me a T . 

 the house with two toes of the Heron 

 still fast in the bill of the oyster. It 

 was kept alive several days, during 

 which time it was photographed in 

 numerous positions by Dr. B. R. Bales 

 who happened to stop for a short visit 

 en route to New York. 



H. H. Bailey, 

 Newport News, Virginia. 



For illustration of this odd happen- 

 ing see page 111. 



Paul G. Howes 



Paul G. Howes, than whom no one 

 is more loved by readers of The 

 Oologist has been selected as Assist- 

 ant Curator to the Bruce Museum of 

 Grenwich, Conn., which was establish- 

 ed by the late Robert M. Bruce in 

 1908 "as a natural history historical 

 and art museum for the use and 

 benefit of the public in such manner 

 and under such rules as may be pre- 

 scribed by the select men of the town 

 board and trustees." Edward F. 

 Bigelow, editor of Guide to Nature and 

 originator of Arcadia, is the curator. 

 It is hoped to make this the best 

 museum in the state. We are advised 

 that they are installing groups and 

 we have not a doubt but if they leave 

 Howes in active charge that it will 

 not be long until the Bruce Museum 

 will be the best museum in the state 

 of Connecticut. Our readers of course 

 will imagine his joy in taking up such 

 work . 



However we are advised he has 

 just been called to duty in the Navy 

 and of course this will be an inter- 

 ruption. — Editor. 



