Another nesting season has passed, and it is here accounted for. Many people have obligingly prepared lists of the nests which they were able to find and of the other evidences of nesting they noticed, and they have sent them to The Flicker or to the Museum of Natural History. From these lists the data in this article have been gathered.

Without doubt, many more birdwatchers found nests which would prove of interest but were not reported.

Perhaps many more species would be represented here had we access to the records of such observers.

From Duluth, Dr. Olga Lakela incorporated with her report the findings of the following people: Mrs. Arthur Roberts and Henry Roberts, Rose Shimmick, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Baeder, Mr. and Mrs. Joel Broenel, Mrs.

Richard Northup, Mary Elwell, Byron Bray, Alma Chesley, Hulda Adams, Warren Hamerston, and Harry Kahn.

From the Twin Cities we have used reports of these observers: Brother Hubert Lewis, Brother J. Pius, Thomas Meyer, Lewis L. Barrett, Oscar Owre, Lulu May Aler, Milton D. Thompson, W. J. Breckenridge, A. C. Rosenwinkel, Bob· Larson, Carlyle Sather, George Rickert, Mrs. I. A. Lupient, Tilford Moore, Byron Harrell, Wm. H. Longley, Severena Holmberg, Janet Sanl'ord, and Eldeen and Don Jacobs.

It may be of interest to note, for matter of comparison, the results of the past six nesting seasons, although the reasons for the similarities or differences may be of little significance (if those reasons could even be ascertained).

The inclusion of colonies in which several hundred pairs may be nesting somewhat complicates these figures, which are only approximate.

Year	Species	Ind. Nests.	No. in Col.
1941	86	800	200
1942	110	1220	100
1943	94	400	1500
1944	98	1200	1200
1945	107	1800	200
1946	93	546	500

Nesting of 150 species is represented in these articles for the past six years.

This total does not include at least three species, nesting of which has come to the attention of the authors.

Dr. Ralph Dawson found the nest of an Arctic 3-toed woodpecker in Itasca Park, early July, 1945; a cormorant colony on an island in Lake of the Woods contained several hundred large young in early July, 1945. A cursory inspection of several past issues of The Flicker shows that the king rail has recently nested here, although it was not recorded in this regular series of articles on nesting.

Some of the nests not reported in these years are those of the black duck, gadwall, green-winged teal, sharp-shinned hawk, marsh hawk, Merlin, prairie chicken, barred owl, short-eared owl, winter wren, the golden-winged, blue-winged, parula, and palm warblers, and any of the sharp-tailed sparrows.

These, and a few others unmentioned, nest commonly enough in this state so that they should not be overlooked.

Incidentally, few people include the English sparrow in their lists, probably because they feel it is too common; however, English sparrows should be noted along ·with the others.

We should emphasize that, though we may speak of "nests", it is important to include young birds out of the nest even if the nest is not found when it is evident that the birds were raised in the vicinity. The nesting of many birds is more easily noticed by the appearance of the young, especially the ducks and hole-nesting species whose nests are rather inaccessable. Records of young out of the nest have much more value than merely notes of nests, the contents of which are undeterminable.

Suggestions for keeping records in the most convenient and usable form will appear in a later issue of The Flicker.

Some nests reported lacked sufficient data for use in this report.