30 Bulletin No. 14. 



Snowy Owls were quite abundant during November and December, 1896. 

 and four were taken in a steel trap set on the top of a long pole in an 

 open field. Goshawks were also unusually abundant during the winter, 

 and what is more unusual, were nearly all in adult plumage, and mostly 

 males. Of twenty-one captured, nineteen were in adult plumage, and 

 eighteen were males. We usually have the young birds in far greater 

 numbers than the adult. Pine and Evening Grosbeak were present but 

 not in great numbers. . Lesser Redpolls and Snowflakes were also repre- 

 sented in small numbers. J. N. Clark, Meridian, Wis. 



Pine Siskin, Sftin7ts finus. — Further notes upon the unprecedented 

 southward movement of this species have been received ; this time from 

 the extreme south. Writing of his visit in Louisiana, Mr. Widmann 

 says : "I found it first March 2, a flock of fifty, near Mandeville, 

 La., north of Lake Pontchartrain, and again March 5, at Madisonville, 

 La., also a good sized flock in company with Goldfinches. Then again 

 March 13, in the woods on the right bank of the Mississippi opposite 

 New Orleans, a few, of which Mr. Kopman, a local ornithologist, took a 

 specimen, the first he had ever seen. Prof. Beyer and Mr. Allison, the 

 other ornithologists of New Orleans, confirm his statement, and consider 

 it a rare find." 



The species was fairly common at Oberlin, May 22. 



American Crow, Corvns americanus. — While out collecting Crow 

 eggs on April 22, 1897, with Mr. F. L. Burns, I found a nest containing 

 two young Crows several days old, and Mr. Burns took a set of six eggs 

 from a nest lined with human hair. This is rather an early date for 

 young. Russell Gray, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Is it generally known that early in the season the Towhee has a 

 lengthy, fragmentary, soliloquizing song ? The general effect of it is like 

 the song of Brown Thrasher when heard in the distance. The Towhee 

 utters this song as he works about the brush-piles, his scratching not inter- 

 fering with the song. In scratching for food he hops forward and then 

 kicks back with both feet simultaneously, alighting at his starting point. 

 Beetles and other articles of food are thoroughly masticated before being 

 swallowed. J. C. Galloway, Montgomery, Ohio. 



Warbling Vireo, Vireo gilus. — During the collecting season of 1896, 

 having occasion to collect a few sets of eggs and nests of three birds, 

 eight sets were taken as follows : 



