Nesting of the Junco in Eastern Massachusetts.— -On May 25, 1905, 
in the Middlesex Fells, near the Medford border, I ran across a pair of 
Juneos (Junco hyemalis) with food in their bills. I watched them and 
the female soon went to the nest. It was situated under the edge of a 
tussock of grass, in an open space in the woods, and contained four well- 
grown young. 
The nearest breeding record I have yet found is Fitchburg, mentioned 
by Messrs. Howe and Allen in their ‘ Birds of Massachusetts. — R. S. Eustis, 
Cambridge, Mass. . . . _ 
S0k t XZ1U, Jan., 1906 , p./*J. 
The Junco Breeding at Wellfleet. Mass.— On June 16, 1906, at Well- 
fleet, Cape Cod, Mass., I flushed a Junco (Junco hyemalis) from beside a 
wood-road. On investigation I found a nest, containing four young birds. 
It was placed under a tussock of grass about four feet from the road, run- 
ning parallel to a pond.— John A.JRemick, in.. Boston, Mass ._ 
Au&i X-A.lv , . 19 ' -I ■' 
Junco Breeding in Concord and Lexington, Mass. — Junco hye- 
malis hyemalis has been generally considered a bird characteristic of the 
Canadian fauna. Its ordinary distribution in Massachusetts during the 
breeding season embraces the lofty hill country of the western part of the 
State, and a narrow elevated strip of land running south from Mt. Monad- 
nock, N. H., into Worcester Co., Mass., and forming the water-shed which 
divides the tributaries of the Connecticut from those of the Nashua River. 
In this strip are included the rounded mountain domes known as Watatick 
(1847 ft.) and Wachusett (2016 ft.). I recall but three instances of Junco 
breeding in the eastern part of the Atlantic slope of Massachusetts, viz.: 
in Middlesex Fells (Eustis, Auk, xxii. 103, Jan. 1906), Wellfleet, Barnstable 
Co. (Remick, Auk, XXIV, 102, Jan. 1907), and Wellesley, Norfolk Co. 
(A. P. Morse, Pocket List of the Birds of Eastern Massachusetts, p. 64, 
1912). 
In the latter part of May, 1915, Mr. C. A. Robbins called my attention 
to a pair of Juneos established on the edge of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery 
in Concord, and on the 6th of the following June Dr. W. M. Tyler and I 
watched both of the parent birds as they were busily employed in carrying 
food to their young, concealed in the branches of some tall white pines. 
On the 20th of the same month Dr. Tyler and I found another pair feed- 
ing fledged young near the old Paint Mine in Lexington, about six miles 
from the Concord locality. This family of birds was seen by us at the same 
place on several occasions up to the 18th of July. — Walter Faxon, 
Lexington, Mass, *** 1 9^/9/S 97 
Junco breeding at West Quincy, Mass. — On July 16, I noticed a 
male Junco hyemalis hyemalis at Fuller’s Quarry, West Quincy, Mass. 
Mr. Winthrop S. Brooks of the Boston Museum of Natural History and 
Dr. Stanley Cobb were with me at the time and we followed him up, 
finding to our surprise that he had young in the vicinity, one of which we 
saw him feed. 
It seems worth while reporting this instance of a Junco’s breeding at this 
latitude, at an elevation not much over 200 feet, as we found the past 
records were very scanty. — N. C. Foot, M. D., Milton, Mass. 
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