Two Interesting Records from New Mexico

I 1 2 General 2ofe$.[-Auk L Jan. growth vhich vhere it encroaches upon the pines makes a dense and vell-shaded woods.Early in the morning we vould invariably find several Ilermit Thrushes near the springs.Soon, hovever, they would retire to the deep woods whence we could hear their songs until late in the afternoon.During each of the folloving snmmers I have nade many trips to this locality, the earliest and latest dates being Jnne 2 4_ and September 2 7. Of all the days spent there I can only recall one instance, a dark cloudy day late in August, upon vhich I neither heard nor sav a Hermit Thrush.Although the writer has never found a nest he has seen the young birds repeatedly and feels quite confident that at least three pairs nested there during the past sramnet.So far my experience leads me to believe that this "boreal island," occupying less than one square nile, is the only spot where the Hermit Thrush nests on Martha's Vineyard.--HERBERTL. Cot;GiNs, Germantawn, ]'a.Notes from Ontario.--In 'The Auk' for October, 898, I reported the finding of the nest and eggs of the Solitary Sandpiper (rotaus solilaroeus) on Sincoe Island, Ontario.Since that tine careful inquiry has revealed the fact that this bird is a constant snmmer resident about Kingston, and that it breeds pretty regularly is probable.This snmmer I spent a month (August) on the Petewawa River, a hundred and fifty miles north of Kingston.This river runs through an uninhabited district and rises in Algorquln Park, which is reserved by the Ontario Government for the protection of game.The whole of the sonthem branch of the Petewawa was investigated, and nearly everywhere the Solitary Sandpiper was encountered, singly, and in snall flocks, the flocks consisting invariably of two parent birds and this season's young.On the 4th of August the young were more than half grown, and able to fly well.Although the Sandpipers were so easily approached in this unfreqnented district, that it was a sinple natter to identify then, still in order to leave no doubt, a specinen (adult) was taken frown one of the flocks.No Spotted Sandpipers were seen.The Petewawa district is extrenely rich in Warblers, many of the rarer ones undoubtedly breeding there, but among the common birds it was interesting to find the Maryland Yellow-throat.A brood of Hermit Thrushes was seen, and the Great Horned Owl was extrenely common.Near Renfrew, ninety miles north of Kingston, Ba-tramian Sandpipers (Bargramia lonfficauda) were noted in the fields.I have now traced this bird in Eastern Ontario over a region nearly a hundred niles sqnare.--C.K. CLARKE, M.D., ]?ockwood 1tosfiilal, Iinffslon, Onlar'o.Two Interesting Records from New Mexico.--During the fall while collecting about Albuquerque, N.M., two birds new to the fauna of the Territory have come before the vriter's notice, accounts of vhich doubtless are of interest.

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