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ORNITHOLOGIST 
[Vol. 7-No. 14. 
fresh meat from the hand. The price for 
them is twenty dollars.— II. vl. Jierry, 
Macon^ Ga. 
Notes from St. John, N. B. 
Mr. James AY. Banks of this city has 
veiw kindly placed in my hands his Oolog'i- 
cal note-book for 1881, from which to make 
extracts for the edification of onr mutnal 
friends the readers of the O. and O. 
On iMay 10 he took his first nest of the 
season, the domicile of that much malifpied 
and wily bird the Common Crow, Corvus 
fragivorus, and had to climb some forty 
feet up a spruce tree for it. The structure 
was composed exteriorly of cedar twi"S 
and lined with moss. It contained five 
fresh eggs. 
June 5.—A Kingfisher, Cergle alcynn^ 
w<is seen going into a hole in a sandJ)ank 
and Banks followed him. After a hard dig 
of about five feet he came to the nest and 
took out six fresh eggs. 
On the day following he found the nest 
of a Snowbird, unco hyetnalis,) under the 
shadow of a large stone in a shady nook. 
There were four eggs in it 2 >artially incu¬ 
bated. About fifty yards further on another 
,1unco had built a home but so far had put 
only two eggs in it. completing the com¬ 
plement of four however within the two 
following days. 
June 10. — Flushed a Hermit Thrush. 
Ilylocichla unalaHcuB ‘pallasl. Between 
you and I, Mr. Editor, do you think it is a 
scpiare deal to give this innocent bii-d such 
a name ? Don’t you think if that bird had 
to sign his name often, say as i)resident of 
a silver 7uining company with well watered 
stock, don’t you think he would — (hiHh 
Mr. Bidgway and tri-nominals ? O con¬ 
fess to a strong desire to cling to the 
“Turdus"of other days, but I suppose I 
must display my acquaintance with tlie 
“ new nomenclature" or, like the fellow 
who the gr.ive digger in Hamlet condemns 
for not having’ been at court. I sliall be 
“ surely damned ’’ in the eyes of your sci¬ 
entific readei-8. Well, this long named 
jjarty got up off three eggs laid in a nest 
on the ground mider the protecting shade 
of a low bending limb of a spnice tree. A 
visit to the nest two days after determined 
the fact that it had been deserted, and Mr. 
Banks says “ I have observed that this spe¬ 
cies of bird frequently deserts a nest after 
it has been discovered." 
June 15.—A Red-headed Woodpecker 
Mclanerpes erythrocephuluH was discovered 
looking out from a hole in a birch stub 
about eight feet from the ground. An in¬ 
vestigation disclosed young birds about 
ready to leave home. 
June 23.—He found a nest of the Ruby- 
crowned Kinglet, {Regulus calendula.,) in a 
dense fir thicket placed on the limb of a 
tree close to the trunk, and about twelve 
feet fi’om the ground. In it were four 
young wth wings almost fit for flight. 
On the same day he flushed a Redstart 
{Setophaga rnticUla.) from a nest fixed in 
the crotch of a limb of a yellow biirli tree 
about twenty feet from the ground. The 
nest and eggs were not mmsual excepting 
in size, being much smaller than any he 
has met \rith before. They had been hash¬ 
ing for some time, for in two days after 
two birds had come out. the other eggs 
bemg sterile. 
June 28 —Was rewarded (?) for a long 
hard tr.xmp by discovering a nest of the 
Olive-b.acked Thrush, Ilylocichla uKtulata 
.<nrain,‘to)ti with two newly hatclied birds 
and one egg. The nest was upon a spruce 
tree about six feet from the ground. 
On the same day he disturbed a Black 
and White Creeper, (or Creeping Warbler, 
as it should be called, the editor of New 
England Bird-life says.) Mniotilta raria 
of authors. She was feeding four young 
birds not more than a day or two out from 
the sljell. — M. Chamberlain. 
Bi.i'k Biud.s. — In our daily drive of twelve 
miles we have seen Blue Birds almost every 
day througli the past Winter, always in 
tlie morning. 
