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been removed, and that there were three more eggs of the 

 Flicker, which I took. These made nine in all, and, as the 

 last two were runts, I concluded that this ended the set, and 

 so I made out my data and marked my eggs as a set of nine. 



However, on June 6 (just five days later) happening to be 

 in the vicinity of the nest, I thought* I would simply climb 

 up and look in, when, imagine my surprise, to find five more 

 eggs. 



June 13 netted me one more egg and June 18 five more, 

 making twenty in all. After this the birds evidently con- 

 cluded that laying eggs in that nest wasn't a paying business 

 as they left the spot for good, and now the pearly white set of 

 412 1-20 graces my cabinet. 



The nest was but twelve feet from the ground in a natural 

 cavity in an apple tree in one. corner of an old orchard. The 

 cav ity was about four feet deep. 



MY FIRST WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILL. 



W. S. JOHNSON. 



The sixteenth day of last February, ('89) I was taking a 

 snow-shoe tramp through a small stretch of woods 

 when suddenly I heard some birds overhead. On looking 

 up I saw a flock of about 30 or 40 birds alight in a tall ever- 

 green tree near which I standing. Upon seeing them I im- 

 mediately raised my gun and fired at one, a red bird, the 

 only one of that color that I saw. At the report of the gun 

 they all flew up except the one at which I had fired, which 



