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nests sometimes, for I have one in my office which has the appearance 
- of being occupied three seasons, with small additions each year. I know 
= will use the same nest more than once the same year if their eggs 
e taken. Some few years since one of my collectors came upon anet 
os the Marsh- 7 and took the eggs. Some two weeks after he took 
five eggs more from the nest, and in a few days from that time he went re 
to the nest and took two more eggs -e shot the old bird, as she was 
altogether too ree with his chicken 
In Vol. I, No. 11, p. 584, is a very pike and life-like description 
the Chicadee, shi habits, nesting, etc. The writer speaks of the habits 
= the oe of killing it, nang says, ‘‘if "he does not devour it upot 
e spot, it is hung on the crotch of a limb to serve as a meal at somè 
a pte I would like to sis Mr. Fowler if he knows that to bea 
fact from his own observations? Can any one give positive information 
upon the subject? I know this is received as a fact by most 
and it may seem egotistical for me to doubt it, yet I have for years 
watched the Oollyrio borealis from the time it arrives here in fal 
until it goes north in the spring; have seen birds and asshoppers st- 
pended from a crotch or impaled on a thorn or sharp stick by them; but ‘ 
never knew it return to devour them, although I have <a 
for weeks. I think the bird does it for mere sport. ld hardly be 
expected that so active a hunter would be satisfied ee se food whet 
better is so easily obtained. — Wm. Woop, M. D., East Windsor Hill, Cows 
Tae Dwarr Turusu.—In the Naturaist for June there is a notice 
of a Dwarf Thrush (Turdus nanus) killed in Waltham, Mass. On the 1 
April, 1866, I had the good fortune to obtain a bird of the sa 
near Orange, N. J. Like the one mentioned by Mr. S Samuels, it was 
in a high, dry woodland. I do not, however, Siaa this fact as- of ay 
value in determining its speci cifte n i om T. Palla: asii, 
a 
hemian Waxwings were observed in this neighborhood on 
1867. It is very rarely that this bird ever comes so far south, 
is meee in the depth of winter. — T. MARTIN TRIPPE, Oranges 
E HONEY-BEE GLEANING AFTER THE ORIOLE. —TwO little 
Ta scarcely six years of age, were picking the flowers 
s 
honey-bees around the bud hes. They observed that many 
had one or two little holes at the base of the ca lyx tube, a 




differs conan a 
Di Mr. Samuels, I judge it best to insert it here, hoping ea * ne 
still do question as g the specific c differer nee o of ay pe oe 
heir edges, so as to present 8 the" 
ance; ear-coverts quite distinctly streaked with wno: ; sides of the gts throat, > 
th a bluish tinge, the under wing-coverts being of a similar coe, expecially. 
under aiii pure white; tail feathers with a bluish purple ting% -< ii 
webs, Length, 7 inches; alar extent, 11.10; tail, 
wing, 3.75; 3, Otherwise 


