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quarter of an inch in length. Its chief food is the nectar of flowers, 



which it extracts with a humming noise like the bee, and suspends its 

 nest from trees, laying two white eggs, the size of a pea. 



Jay. — A bird with particoloured plumage, of the crow kind. It is 

 taught to speak. 



Tit Mouse. — A small bird which feeds on the brains of other birds, 

 which it attacks with great ferosity. 



Notes from Montgomery, Ohio. — Sparrow Hawk. — During the 

 month of December, 1892, a pair of Sparrow Hawks roosted nightly 

 upon the shutter of a window of my room. It was an upstairs window, 

 close under the eaves and in an angle cf the house ; hence a sheltered 

 location. About dusk I would often go quietly to my room and look at 

 the pair sitting side by side, with their heads drawn down to the 

 shoulders and the feathers of the body puffed out until they looked 

 quite round. 



Red-shouldered Hawk. — During the winter of 1891, a chum of mine 

 was walking through an orchard about nine p. m. to return to a neighbor 

 a gun he had borrowed. On walking under an apple tree he heard a dis- 

 turbance in the branches, and firing almost at random, brought down a 

 badly mangled Red-shouldered Hawk, in mature plumage, which is much 

 less often seen here than the immature. This bird was not more than 

 ten feet from the ground. 



Carolina Wren and English Sparrow. — Perhaps ten years ago I 

 often went to an uncle's to spend a night or day, and there his hay-stacks 

 would be perforated with holes from six to twelve inches deep, and from 

 four to six feet from the ground, probably by English Sparrows. By 

 going about the stacks after dark and putting my hand in the holes I 

 frequently caught English Sparrows, and on one occasion a Carolina 

 Wren. The Sparrows often roost in great numbers in corn cribs and 

 grainaries ; and in school-boy days several of us would take a lantern 

 and go to a crib, and climb around, pocketing the birds as fast as one 

 took them from the crannies, or as they were caught on the wing as they 

 flew wildly about. Sometimes the birds would get to fighting in our 

 pockets and when they would bite sharply through our clothes it made 

 things even more lively than before. We would often get as many as 

 twenty-five at one haul and fully as many more escaped; all this from 

 one farm. During the months of August and September Mourning Doves 

 commonly roost on the ground in weedy fields ; sometimes in pairs, often 

 in small flocks. In the same season, perhaps at others also, Flickers and 



