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Unusual Nesting Site of the Snowbird. — In the town of Otis, 
Berkshire County, Massachusetts, while rummaging on August 10, 1874, 
through an old barn from which a part of the roof had recently been blown, 
my attention was attracted by the chirping of a female Junco hyemalis. 
After watching her I found she had a nest in which were three or four 
young birds, hut a few days old. The nest was placed on the edge of a 
scaffold under some hay which projected several inches beyond the cavity 
where the nest was placed. No extra material was used in making the 
nest, which was composed entirely of spears of hay. The female was feed- 
ing the young, and I watched her pass out and in several times. — Harry 
T. Gates, Hartford, Conn. 
Bull. N.O.O, 5, Oct, , I860, p. J131-2HO. 
July 20— Found two nests of the Snow- 
bird, or Ivory-billed Blue-bird, as the na- 
tives here call them, but known to the 
book-men as Junco hy emails. Each nest 
contained four freshly laid eggs. 
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Junco hyemalis Nesting in a Bush. — Apropos of my description of 
the nesting of Junco carolinensis,* Mr. S. N. Rhoads, of Haddonsfield, 
New Jersey, writes me: “About the year 1874, when traveling through 
the White Mountains of New Hampshire, I found the nest of Junco 
hyemalis in a green bush (juniper?) about four feet high, on the summit 
of Mt. Willard. The nest, which was placed about two feet from the 
ground, contained a set of four eggs, for the safety of which the birds were 
very solicitous, thus giving me an ample opportunity to identify them.” 
This is the first authentic instance of bush-nesting on the part of J. 
hyemalis which has come to my knowledge. — William Brewster, Cam- 
bridge, Mass. Auk, S, April, I860, p. Jill’ 1& 
Birds of Dead River Region, Me, F. H, O. 
52. Junco hyemalis, (Snow Bird). A common 
resident in summer, in the mountains north of 
Head River as well as in the Bigelow chain. In 
the vicinity of the camp at Tim Pond we found 
several nests, and on Mt. Bigelow they were the 
commonest birds. The nests were in every in- 
stance placed on the ground, and in no case did 
they contain more than four eggs as a comple- 
ment. The eggs present in coloration all the 
variations of the family, with aground color from 
w lite to almost a green, or sometimes totally ob- 
scured, and blotched with various shades of brown 
often congregating about the larger end, leaving 
the remainder of the egg almost immaculate, and 
again profusely and entirely covered with blotches 
they present a pleasing variation. 
411 k, XII, July, 1895, P Jjq. 
Two Unique Nesting-sites in and about Camp Buildings in Hamilton 
County, New York. — On July 29, 1894, while visiting at Camp Killoquah 
Forked Lake, Hamilton County, New York, I saw some very suspicious 
looking straws sticking out from a niche between the logs and behind 
the framing of a window in the side of the main building of the 
camp. Upon investigation they proved to be a part of a Tunco’s nest, 
which contained four fresh eggs. In the crevice between the two logs 
just above, there was also an old nest, which had evidently been used for 
some previous brood. These nests were rather remarkable on account of 
their close proximity to the door of the camp, through which every one 
there was wont to go, and beside which, in the course of a day, a good 
deal of work was done. I learned from the guides that this pair of Juncos 
had been around there all the spring, and they were still often to be seen 
picking up crumbs about the kitchen and dining room. The nest was 
made of cedar bark and grasses, and lined with long deep hairs, which the 
birds had picked up in the vicinity. l 3 a aviO-on-t. 
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