The Black-throated Bunting, Yellow-breasted -Ghat; and,. Connecticut 
Warbler in Ontario. — On June i, 1884 , Mr. Wm. L. Bailey, collecting with 
Mr. A. P. Saunders and the writer at Point Pelee, found several Black- 
throated Buntings in a meadow about two miles from the end of the Point. 
Knowing of no previous record in Canada, we were all much interested; 
and subsequently, in extending our search, we found one or more pairs in 
almost every field. All our efforts to discover a nest seemed doomed to 
fail ; and even when we spent much time and care in watching the birds, 
and marking down the place where the supposed nest was, we could never 
succeed. The males spent much time in singing their monotonous ditty 
from tree-tops and fence-posts, and even during the heat of the day our 
presence was sufficient to start them going. This appeared to act as a 
partial alarm to the female, and if we approached, the male would fly over 
her and give an alarm-note, precisely after the manner of the Bobolink 
under similar circumstances. 
On June 6, in passing through one of the ‘Bunting fields’ on the return 
trip, the writer flushed a female from a fresh set of five eggs of the usual 
size and color. The nest, which is now before me, was placed on , not in 
the ground, among the stems of a tuft of weeds, and is composed of leaves 
externally, and lined with fine, dry grass. Its measurements are as fol- 
lows : outside diameter, 100 mm.; inside diameter, 63 mm.; height out- 
side, 63 mm. ; depth inside, 45 mm. These birds were observed in every 
suitable locality on the Point, and on the return drive they were heard 
constantly till we had gone three miles into the mainland, when no more 
were noticed. 
MS. & ■ r of'sn e&r+ts r 
Auk, 2 , July, 1886. p. 3 0 7 - 308 '. 
The Black-throated Bunting ( Euspiza americana) nesting in Mas- 
sachusetts. — Mr. Frank E. Bean of Medford has called my attention to 
a nest and four eggs of this bird found by him in the above town on the 
9th of June, 1877, at which date the eggs were fresh. The nest, seem- 
ingly large for the species, was supported about a foot from the ground by 
the stem of a bush and the blades of the grass-clump in which it was 
placed. Both nest and eggs are quite typical. Towards the last of June 
he found, in another locality, a second nest containing four young. This 
was in a field bordering the highway ; the song of the male bird perched 
on the fence-rails hard by first attracted his attention, and both birds 
were soon seen feeding the nestlings. Mr. Bean thinks that more than 
these two pairs may have raised young in his vicinity, as he has heard 
other birds in this and previous years. But few instances of the nesting 
of the Black-throated Bunting in Massachusetts are known, and it is to be 
hoped that this bird of “neat plumage” and “trim form,” so common in 
the Middle and Western States, where it is known as the “Little Field 
Lark,” “ Dick-sissel” and “Judas-Bird,” will gradually become a perma- 
nent resident of our fields and bushy pastures. — H. A. Purdie, Newton, 
Mass. 
Bull, N. O.O. 3, Jan. , 18?8. p. 
Nesting of the Black-throated Bunting ( Euspiza americana ) 
in Massachusetts. — On page 45, Yol. Ill, of the Bulletin, Mr. Purdie 
records the finding of two nests of this Bunting in Medford, Mass., in 
June, 1877, one containing eggs and the other young, and on page 190 
mention is made of several specimens seen at ILingham, Mass., in June, 
1878, one pair seen feeding their young. 
Although this bird has been rarely met with of late years in the State, 
yet it would seem that a limited number must breed with us every year. 
Through the kindness of Mr. N. C. Hammond I am enabled to record 
an instance of its breeding in Hyde Park, Mass., where he collected a nest 
containing four eggs, about August 1, 1878. The nest was placed on the 
ground in the middle of a large open field, and from the lateness of this 
date would indicate that it must have been a second brood. — Ruthven 
Deane, Cambridge, Mass. Bull. N.O.C. 4, April, 1870, p. 
