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AND ODLOGIST. 
Although I obtained bxit the two eggs 
mentioned during the season of ’76,1 con¬ 
soled myself with the thought that now I 
knew where to look for the nests of 
Clarke’s Crow, I would have no difficulty 
in finding all the eggs I wanted during 
the coming season, and fondly counted on 
adding a fine series of at least a dozen sets 
to my collection in the near future. In 
this I w'as mistaken, however, and I am 
still waiting for the chance to do it. 
[Concluded Next Mouth ] 
Notes from Centre Lisle, N. Y.‘ 
I presume yott remember my inquiry last 
Winter about the Wood Sparrow and your 
reply. I don’t know its scientific name and 
the only mention of this bird in print that 
I have seen is in Studer’s Birds of N. 
A., page 84. I have found but one man, a 
taxidermist, who pretended to know this 
sparrow. He showed me a stuffed speci¬ 
men but did not know its scientific name. 
I have seen the one he pointed out for two 
or three weeks in Spring time for several 
years. Its song is certainly very sweet. 
The 15th of last April I shot a singer of 
this Wood Sparrow, and took down the 
following description: Length 5^ inches, 
extent of wings 9 inches. Color, top of head 
and upper breast, chestnut, back and wings 
browm, two white bands across latter im- 
der parts, light neck, throat, and over eyes 
ashy blue, upper beak black, under beak 
yellow. Will any of this help you to rec¬ 
ognize the species"? 
Notes from Florence Springs, M. T. 
May 20.—Saw the eggs of the Sickle 
Billed Curlew at a stage station near Ft. 
Benton. May 25.—Found a Western Field 
Lark's nest in process of constniction. 
June 6.—Found the nest of a Brewer’s 
Blackbird with four eggs. June 21.—Brew'- 
er’s Blackbird with four eggs and two eggs 
of the Cow Bird. June 21.—Found Field 
Plover’s nest with young just breaking 
through. June 29.—The eggs in the Brew'- 
er’s Blackbird’s nest found June 12, just 
hatched. July 16.—Found nest of Field 
Lark with four eggs, and with the shells 
just cracked. I have found three nests of 
the Brewer's Blackbird, two that were on 
the ground, and the one found June 21st, 
was about eight inches above the ground 
in a small shrub on the bank of a small 
stream. All of these nests were found in a 
small valley near the head of the Dearborn 
River, Montana Territory.— Jas. M. Cro ft. 
Red-headed Woodpeckers. 
This bird is a rare visitor in this 
vicinity, seldom more than one or two 
being seen during the season, and then 
only while migrating, usually in the Fall, 
but very rarely in the Spring. The first 
one observed this season was on the 10th 
of September. On the 12th I saw three, 
and on the 20th I saw one. Early on the 
morning of the 24th of September they 
began to pass over in large numbers, and 
continued to pass until about ten o’clock, 
after which very few were seen, except 
straggling groups of three or foam, and oc¬ 
casionally a single one was seen to pass 
over during the day- The flight must have 
consisted of several hiuidred, principally 
young birds. They came from the east 
and were flying west. Many of them in 
their'flight would alight for a few' minutes 
in the orchards and corn fields to feed on 
the half-ripened corn, or search among the 
apple trees for the larva or eggs of insects 
but would soon continue on their journey, 
and their places would be supplied by 
others. I noticed one or tw'o to dart out 
and seize an insect in the manner of a fly¬ 
catcher. The following day but two or 
three were seen. A few' stragglers, how¬ 
ever, were occasionally met with up to the 
10th of October, and one was seen as late 
as the 2.3d of November. I secured seve¬ 
ral specimens. Upon dissecting them I 
found their stomachs filled with remnants 
of acorns and insects. — A. H. llelrne, 
MlUrfs Place. L. I. 
