1895] MARYLAND ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 339 
“A regular migrant at Washington, not rare, but of irreg- 
ular abundance from May 3 (’91 and ’92) to May 16 (’88 and 
’90) and from August 29 (’87), when Mr. R. Ridgway shot one 
at Gainesville, Va., to September 28 (’89)’ (Richmond). 
On Dan’s Mountain, in Alleghany County, I found 2 pairs, 
one located at Pompey Smash, the other about a mile distant at 
Lauertown. Morning and evening, from June 5 to 14, ’95, 
both the males could be heard singing. On June 8, I found 
the nest of the Pompey Smash pair; it contained a young bird 
not 24 hoursoldand 2 infertile eggs. On the 14th I again 
visited this nest; on being disturbed the young one scrambled 
out of the nest and fell to the ground; I replaced it and hope 
it arrived at maturity, and will live to a green old age. 
Guiraca czrulea (597). Blue Grosbeak. 
This large sized edition of the Indigo bird seems to nest 
more or less regularly in southern Maryland, Washington being 
about its northern limit, where it is noted as “rather rare, from 
first week of May to middle of September” (A. C., 68). 
“ During the summer of ’87 a pair nested twice on my father’s 
farm, about a half-mile east of the District of Columbia. On 
June 24 I took the first nest and 4 eggs from the fork of a peach 
tree, about 7 feet up. . . . In August evidently the same 
birds nested in a small cedar. I have observed them every sea- 
son since, but have found no more nests” (A. B. Farnham, 
Oologist, viii, 219-20). 
At Washington “a male was seen on June 30, ’89; a pair, 
male and female, were taken by Wm. Palmer on August 15, 
’92, and several were seen and one shot on September 19, 786. 
At Kensington, Md., a nest was found early in June ’95, by 
J. D. Figgins, and another with 4 eggs was found at Laurel 
about June 10, 795, by Geo. Marshall” (Richmond), One was 
taken in Howard County, on July 29, ’93 (Resler). On 
August 3, 91, a pair were seen feeding flying young on the 
Windsor Road, about a half-mile this side of Powhattan (Gray 
