810 General Notes. [ October, 
do not know, that had its nest in the basement of a fish hawk’s, 
attack and drive its host from home. 
The nests of the fish hawks were by no means shabby. The 
sticks, of which they were composed, were short and crooked and 
so firmly held together by turf and eelgrass, that it was a diffi- 
cult undertaking to obtain the eggs by tunneling from the bottom. 
The top is very shallow ; in the nests that I examined it was not 
more than two inches deep, but averaging fifty-four inches in diame- 
ter. I noticed that the female sits during the day for a long period 
before the eggs are laid; more than two weeks in one case. 
During the night she leaves the nest and roosts on a neighboring 
limb, where she is very indifferent to all about her, even allowing 4 
person to throw stones at her without flying off. If the nest be 
disturbed during the night, when there are young or eggs, the 
bird flies off only uttering a few cries, and does not return while 
its nest is being robbed. . 
I examined more than twenty trees in which nests were placed, 
and found them all alive, but in a few cases the limb on which the 
nest was placed, was dead.—H.. C. Bumpus. 
BLaAcKBiIRDs CaTCHING FisH.—A mill-dam is in process of repair, 
near my residence, on Boone river. Visiting the spot to-day, I was 
much amused to see some crow blackbirds catching minnows ! a 
one end of the dam the water was forcing its way through in asm 
down stream. In this swift, shallow water, three or four ihe 
blackbirds (doubtless Quiscalus eneus Ridgway) were W & 
: = hea 
young blades were a couple of inches high, but I have 
nothing of:the kind in recent years—Charles Aldrich, Ware 
881. 
_ Hasrts or tue Rocky mountain AxorotL.—Mr. W. E. i 
in an article in the Proceedings of the U. S. National ee him 
on Siredon lichenoides, the larva of Amblystoma, observ — - 
