And now for a request: 
Vol. IV of the Revista of the Museo Sho. Paulo contains the following 
erence: "Breeding of Mycteria americana,Ibis,I8°96,p.587". Can you ki 
ailow Mr Deane to tr cribe for me the gist of 
Hudson, (Apgentine Ornith.),-has also a ference 
this work? 
I am,of course,anong the highly gratified people that have noted the set- 
tiling of the "Waralione " Rail myvstery.Added to the latest Condor Issue is 
a photographic postal that has just reached my desk from Mr Ingersoll ;dis- 
playing a N/6 Laying of April 8,U1t.I am jusg seeking fuller information, 
at the hands of Mr Inger 
It may surprise you to learn;that not only have I complete photographic re- 
cords of the breeding of the Yellow Rail,in Benson County ,North Dakota; but 
have a set of Six,-possibly incomplete,-Eggs of the Black Pee the 
same County,the same Coulee and the same colonyiInasmuch as the Black Rail 
is not even accredited to North Dakota ,at allthis is certainly surprising. 
I saw three or four birds;as well as an equal number of Yellow Rails.The 
entire colony probably comprised not over a dozen birds,the last season I 
Curiously enough,the Black Rails whose 
found,nad made no nest.The eges were just laid beneath a scanty fal- 
len wisp of course grass,on a Wet meadow;where Water lav either at or an 
above the surface. 
to these birds I have gs la ast three specimens,-(during 
the autumnal migration),-at Hibbing,Minnesota, (St.Louis County). 
I trust you may be glad to know that 
strong,unremitting effort to bring the man ipt of my book up to the 
of our present knowledge concerning the Nesting Habits of North 

