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Prothonotary Warblers in Vermont 



"Evening grosbeaks from January 20 to May 9, 1916, and returning 

 on December 13, 1916, were St. Johnsbury's most famous bird guests 

 during the past year," writes Miss Inez Addie Howe. "Now they are 

 quite at home in the village for the winter (January). Rusty black- 

 birds nested in St. Johnsbury during the season of 1916. Prothonotary 

 warblers were seen in and near St. Johnsbury from May 14 to July 22, 

 1916. I have every reason to believe that they nested at Stiles' pond, 

 although I could not find the nest. Two, evidently a pair, were seen 

 there at intervals from June 20 to July 22. On May 16, I saw a least 

 sandpiper on Sleepers river above Emerson Falls. A pair of towhees 

 were noted June 10. A water thrush nested at Lime pond in Danville 

 last season, the nesting site being very near to the home of a large 

 colony of muskrats." 



Woodstock Has Bird Club 



Following a lecture by Ernest Harold Baynes before the Lucy 

 Mackenzie Humane society, (Woodstock), in November, 1916, a bird 

 club was organized to be conducted under its auspices. Mrs. W. H. 

 Moore was chosen president and Mr. Richard Marble, secretary. Fifty 

 dollars was voted for the immediate use of the club, ond plans are under 

 way for the establishment of feed stations in various parts of the vil- 

 lage, as well as for an organized campaign against the encroachment 

 of the English^sparrow. 



Doings of Hartland Club 



"The Hartland Nature club continued its study of the song and 

 chipping sparrow in 1916, devoting one meeting to the subject, and 

 adding some interesting nests of both birds to their collection," writes 

 Mrs. A. B. Morgan. 



