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General Notes. 
this bird was shot in September, 1878, on the banks of the Schuylkill, 
below Philadelphia. I believe it is rather unusual for this species to be 
taken so far inland. 
11. Mergulus alle. Little Auk; Dovekie. — A specimen of this 
bird, now in my collection, was found in an exhausted condition in the early 
part of December, 1878, in New Jersey, near Philadelphia, more than 
sixty miles from the ocean. — Spencer Trotter, Philadelphia , Pa. 
[This specimen is referred to also in a note received from Mr. William 
L. Collins, Frankford P. O., Philadelphia. He adds : “ I am also in- 
formed of another specimen in the possession of Professor E. D. Cope, 
which was taken near Atlantic City, N. J., about the end of November, 
1878. See also p. 228 of this number of the Bulletin. — Eds.] 
Nesting of the Kentucky Warbler ( Oporornis formosa ) in 
Ohio. — Although the Kentucky Warbler has long been a well-known 
summer resident of Southwestern Ohio, its nest and eggs have hitherto 
eluded the vigilant search of our local ornithologists, and have, in con- 
sequence, been classed among their especial desiderata. As the nesting 
habits of this species have been recorded in but a few instances, and only 
once in Ohio,* a notice of a nest and eggs recently taken near Madison ville 
may be of interest to readers of the Bulletin. 
The locality chosen for this nest was a gentle slope, well wooded and 
covered with undergrowth, situated within a short distance of a small 
woodland stream on the border of an open glade. The nest, which was 
placed on the ground at the root of a small elm sapling, was concealed by 
a sparse growth of weeds, and consisted of two distinct portions. The 
foundation was a saucer-shaped mass of beech and maple leaves loosely 
interwoven with a few weed stems, and retained its shape sufficiently well 
to permit careful handling without injury ; surmounting this basal portion 
was the nest proper, a rather bulky and inelegant structure, elliptical in 
shape, composed of dark-brown rootlets and weed stems, with which were 
interwoven a few dried leaves. There was also a trace of an effort at 
horse-hair lining, a half-dozen hairs perhaps being disposed around its 
interior. Its measurements are as follows : — Internal long diameter, 2^ 
inches; internal short diameter, 2 inches; depth of cavity, inches; 
average thickness of nest proper, about inch ; ditto of foundation, about 
1 inch. The eggs, which are four in number (exclusive of the Cowbird’s 
egg which accompanies them), are oblong-oval in shape, spotted and 
speckled everywhere with reddish-brown and lilac on a glossy white 
ground, the markings on two specimens being massed at the larger end, 
while those on the other two form a distinct “ wreath ” around the rather 
* By Dr. J. P. Kirtland. I am unable to refer to the original record at 
present ; it is mentioned incidentally, however, by Dr. Brewer, in Hist. N. Am. 
Birds, Yol. I, p. 293. 
