FOR THE PEOPLE FOR EDVCATION FOR SCIENCE LIBRARY OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Mnc •^ yjh THE OOLOGIST FOR THE STUDENT OF BIRDS THEIR NESTS AND EGGS VOLUME XXVI ALBION, N. Y., and LACON, ILL. R. MaGOON Barnes, Publisher 1910 ^ « %jp. /^.^^//■>^ ? X INDEX TO VOL. XXVIl CONTRIBUTORS. Abbott, Gerald A 10 Alexander, Charles P 13 Bailey, H. H 106 Barnes 1-7-15-17-18-19-22-23-25-29 37-42-45-46-47-53-57-68-83 84 86-87-93-95-97-104-107-123-126 135-136-138-140-145-147-151 Baynard. Oscar E 112 Bishop, H. E 5-83-86-87-89-100 Blake, Sidney F •. . .98-100 Brown, W. J 134 Burleigh, Thomas D. 147 Burtch, Verdi 5-58-138 Burrows, D. B 112 Campbell, E. W 51 Dean, F. A. W 52 Dickey, Sam 48 Dinsmore, Ray 51 Dippie, G. F 124 Forrest, Earle R 116-134 Fuller, R. T 4-136 Hersey, F. Seymour 44-49-70 Hornung, Dr. John 141 Howell, A. B 6 Howes, Paul G. 14-72-75-77-81 Jackson, Thomas H 62-74 Jacobs, J. Warren 50 Jewett, Stanley G 32 Judd, Perry L 6-51 Judd, Percy J 13 Kilpatrick, Brown 62 Kohler, Louis S 121-122-128-145 Kraus, Glen V IDS La Grange, George L 102 Longstreet, Rupert J 93-120-152- Lungsford, Chas., Jr 126 McMillen, Howard W 120 McMillen, Wheeler 97 Miller, Richard F 34-67-116-126- 129-134-144-145 Nuss, Ghale M 129 Peabody, P. B 90 Perry, Troup D 54 Perz, R. M. 62 Pitcairn, William G 23 Ramsden, Charles T 48-152 Rawson, C. L 129 Read, A. C .5-14-15-35-42-62-77-84 Reineke, Ottomar 15-38-88 Reynolds, A. G 132 Rockey, K. H. 25 Rust, Henry J 135 Shepardson, D. 1 129 Simpson, R. B. ..2-32-34-35-64-65-98-147 Snyder, C. K 43 Snyder, J. 0 75 Strong, William 70 Truesdale, Fred 49-52-110-111 Vandercook, C. B 51 VosBurgh, Geo. W. H 23-83-120-144 Walker, Alexander 128-133-147 Walker, E. P 19 Warren 23 IV THE I OOLOGIST ERRATA. Vol. 26, Page 237 — reads Female Rose- breasted Grosbeak, in lieu of Cedar Waxwing; See Vol. 27, 83. " 26, Page 188— Credit article on Dusky Warbler to A. K. Sny- der. " 26, No. 9— For Isle of Pines Tana- ager, read "Spindallis pirlter" pinus. "' 27, Page 62— For "Nest and Eggs of Kentucky Warbler in Penn- sylvania Photo May 28, 1905 by Thomas H. Jackson; read "Nest Egg and young of Mourn- ing Dove." The photo that should have appeared here will be found on page 73; see page 74. ■" 27, Page 71 — Credit article on D. V. O. C. to Wm. Strong. " 27, Page 89 — For "Nest and eggs of Swamp Sparrow," read "Nest and Eggs of Meadowlark," see pages 74 and 100. ■" 27, Page 47 — ^For "Spindalis Pe- trel," read "Priotelus temnu- rus;" See page 152. " 27, Page 108— For "Gaudalupe Is- lands," read "Galapagos Is- lands." ILLUSTRATIONS. PORTRAITS John F. Ferry 21 Thomas H. Jackson 137 Troup D. Perry 85 Walter Raine and Wife 125 LANDSCAPE VIEWS Nesting territory of Blackhead- ed Gull 79 Nesting territory of Hermit Thrush 138 Valley of Rhone River 78 BIRDS Black Vulture sunning on Cac- tus 105 Black Vulture on Cathedral Dome 102 Canada Geese in Confinement. 33 Collection of Jesse T. Craven. .140 Group of Great Blue Heron .... 16 Hermit Thrush on nest. 138-139-140 Mandarin Duck 36 Wild Ducks in Captivity 28 Wild Ducks and Geese in Cap- tivity 30-31 Wild Geese in Captivity 31 Wild Swan in Captivity 26 Wood Cock on Nest 9-38-39-40 Wood Duck 36 Young Black Headed Gull . . .74-76 Young Mourning Dove 63 EGGS Abnormal Chicken 84 Series of The Limpkin 151 Series of Golden Eagle 2 Series of Solitary Sandpiper. . 84 NESTS AND EGGS Black-headed Gull 80-81 Black-throated Green Warbler 58 Black Vulture 107 Chimney Swift 113 Cliff Swallow 115 Coot 133 Crow 114 Hermit Thrush 138-139-140 Kentucky Warbler 73 Meadowlark 89 Mourning Dove 63 Orange Crowned Warbler .... 68 Ruffed Grouse 87 Swainson's Warbler 54-55 Woodcock 12-41 BIRDS. Anhinga 143 Ani 5 Albatross 122 Bittern American 120 THE OOLOOIST V Least 5-15-42-116-126 Cory's Least 18 Blackbird 5-96-102-134-140-145 Brewer's 18-45-140 English "i"!" Redwing 7-118-121-127-134-144 Yellowheaded 45 Bluebird 23-100-119-121-127 Western 13 Bobolink 45-118-121-127 Booby 123 Bnshtit, California 45 Brant 24-30 Bunting 143 Black-throated 42 Dickcissel 45-118 Indigo 118-121-126-127 Lark 46 Painted 120-143 Buzzard — See Vulture. Caracara 141-152 Cassowary 122 Cat Bird 15-45-99 110-118-119-120-121-127 Chat— See Warblers. Chewink 99-110 Chickadee 99-121-127 Carolina 119-152 Plumbeous 86 Valdez Chestnut-sided 47 Chicken 94 Chuck-Will's Widow — See Nightjars. Condor — See Vulture. Coot— American 117-120-127-133 Cormorant 34-45-143 Double-crested 45 Cowbird 7-47-61-64-96-108 118-121-127-128-139-152 Crane 24-29-123 Creeper-Brown 45-120 Crossbill 100 White-winged 131 Crow 3-45-98-1X4- 115-118-121-127-147 Crow's Fish 118 Cuckoo 19-108 Black-billed 42-98-117-121 Yellow-billed 42-117-120-121-127 Lizard 84 Curlew 143 Dickcissel — See Bunting Dove Cuban Ground 5-84 Cuban Ground W. 1 5-42-84 Mourning 45-51-63-74-117- 121-126-142-147-152 White-winged 142-152 Ruddy Quail 48-152 Dowitcher 152 Duck American Merganser .. .100-126-152 Baldpate 28-29-30-31 Black (Dusky) 28-29-126-130 Black-Red-legged 87 Bhiebill 27 Bufflehead 29-127 Canvassback 27-29-45-126 Crested 24-29 Florida 29 Galdwall 27 Golden-eye-American 29-100 Golden-eye-Barrow's 29 Gray Call 28-29-30-31 Harlequin 29-152 Hooded Merganser 42 Indian Runner 24-29 Mallard 24-27-29-97-120-126 Mandarin 24-27-29-97-120-126 Masked 28-29 Mottled 29 Old Squaw 29 Pintail 28-29-30-31-126 Redhead 27-28-29-30-31-45 Redlegged 86 Ringnecked 29 Ruddy 29 Scaup-Greater 29 Lesser 29 Shoveller 29-30-31 Spoonbill 143 Teal 27-29-30-31 Teal, Cinnamon 29 White Call 28-29-30-31 VI THE OOLOGIST Widgeon 27 Wood 28-29-30-31-36- 42-72-116-126-130 Eagle 100-123 Bald 43-45-97-117-127 Bald Florida 45 Golden Eagle 1-2-43-55-57 Flycatcher 140 Alder 118 Black & White 142 Derby 142 Great-crested 42-118-120-121-127 Olive-sided 13-100 Fewee 5 Pewee, Wood 118-121-127 Pewee, Cuban-wood 5-84 Phoebe 45-46-98-118-121-127 Red-eyed 42 Traille's 42 Vermillion 142 Yellow-bellied 13 Falcon — See Hawks. Finch Chafinch 77-79 Grass 143 Green 77-79 Lark 42 Pine .....100 Purple 98-127 Flicker — See Woodpecker. Gallinule Florida 90-117 Gnatcatcher Plumbeous 86 Goldfinch 118-121-127 Green-backed 140 Goose 133 Bean 29 Blue 29 Cackling 29 Canada 29-30-31-33-97-120-126 Chinese 24-29 Egyptian 24-29 Emden 24-29 Emperor 29 Snow-Lesser 29 Snow-Ross's 29 Toulouse 24-29 White-checked 29 White-fronted, American . . . 29-30-31 Crackle 141 Bronzed 121 Cuban 5-42-84 Florida 15 Purple 118-121-127 Grassquit Melodious 84 Yellow-faced 84 Grebe Least 15 Little Brown 77-79 Holboell's 100-129 Grosbeak 19-83 Black-yellow 143 Blue 127-143 Cardinal 118-127 Pine 144 Rose-breasted 19-42-118-128 Western Blue 143 Grouse Canadian Spruce 32 Valdez Canadian Spruce 47 Pinneated 121 Ruffed 23-32-86-87-98-121 Gull 121 Black-headed 74-75-77-79 Boneparte's 13-120 Franklin's 96 Herring 120 Swallow-tailed 108-144 Hawk 123 Broad-winged 84-117-131-152 Cooper's 42-45-117-121-126-131 Duck , 42-45 Fish '. 93-95-131 Goshawk 18 Harland's 3 Marsh 15-35-42-45-121-131-143 Mexican Black 143 Mexican Goshawk 143 Night 117-120-121-127-135-136 Peregeine Falcon 143 Prairie Falcon 52-110 Red-shouldered 117-131 THE OOLOGIST VII Red-tailed . . .3-6-35-42-50-107-121-131 Redtailed, Western 45 Sharpshinned 18-45-121-149 Span-ow 42-100-117-121 Sparrow, Cuban 84 Sparrow, Desert 143 Sparrow, English IS Swainson's 3 Heron 97 Black-crested Night 116 Blue 143 Cuban White 5 Egret 143 Great Blue 15-16-17-45-126 Great White 5-143 Green 42-45-97-116-120-126 Green Southern 5 Little Blue 5-126-143 Ward's 106 Horned Lark 7-49-121-140 Hummingbird 42-118 Emerald 108 Ricord's 61 Rubythroated 46-96-121-127 Ibis Glossy 143 White 143-152 White faced 112 Wood 112-143 Jaeger, Long-tailed 152 Jay 140-142 Blue 20-98-118-121-127-152 California 140 Canada 32 Florida 132 Long-crested 142 Long-tailed 142 Junco 11-98-121-127 Killdeer — See Plover. Kingbird Arkansas 140 Common 98-118-120-121-127 Conch's 142 Cuban 5-84 Gray 42-84-120 Western 6 Kingfisher 97-143 Belted 5-117-120-121-127 Kinglet Golden-crowned 32-99 Kites 143 Mississippi 46 Swallow-tailed 42 Lark Finch 42 Meadow 42-84-89-100-118-121-127 Meadow Cuban 5-42 Sky 42 Horned 7 Horned Prairie 48 Limpkin 5-150-151 Loon 129-152 Macaw 143 Magpie, European 80 Man-o-war Bird 122-152 Martin Cuban 107 Purple 118-120-121-127 Meadowlark — See Lark. Mockingbird 112 Mockingbird, Western 6 Murre "Brunnich's 13-15 California 45 Xight Jars Chuck-will's Widow 120 Night Hawk 117-120-127-135-136 Osprey 117-126 Whip-poor-will 98-121-126 Nuthatch 6 Red-breasted 99 White-breasted 42-119-121-127 Oriole 120 Audubon's 86 Baltimore 45-110-118-121-127 Bullock's 140 Cuban 5-84 Orchard 118-121-127 Red-bellied 42 Ostrich 122 Owl Barn 117 VJII THE OO'.OGIST Barred 42-127-148 Cuban Pigmy 5-35 Great Horned 42-127-131-148-152 Long-eared 117 Saw Whet 32 Screech 20-45-117-121-127 Snowy 35-45 Oystercatcher, Am. 46 Paraquet Carolina 107 Parrott 142 Parrott, Cuban 5 Pelican, White 45-123 Penquin 122 Pewee — See Flycatcher. Pheasant Ring-necked 104 Phcebc — See Flycatcher Pigeon 5-84 Passenger 18-107 White-crowned 5-15 Wood 14 Pitpit, American 122 Plover Black-breasted 120 Golden, American 152 Kildeer 32-42-117-121-126-136-142 Semi-palmated 32-120-143 Spotted 143 Upland 117 Wilson's 120 Prairie Chicken 42-87 Ptarmigan, Nontague Rock 47 White-tailed 124 Puffin, Tufted 45 Quail Bob-white 45-52-98-117-121-126 California 140 Florida 152 Rail Black 107 Carolina 126-130 Clapper 46 King 90-117-126 Hail, Sora 46-120 Virginia 42-44-90-117-120-152 Yellow 107 Raven, Am 52-100-110 Rhea 122 Road runner 45 Robin, Am 5-G-14-23-55-57- 70-100-119-122-127-131 Sanderling 120 Sandpiper Baird's 51 Bartramian 13-18-88-121 Least 32 Semi-palmated 32-120 Solitary 4-15-46 Spotted 15-97-120-121-126 Sapsucker, Yellow-bellied 120-127 Shearwater Audubon's 152 Shrike Northern 100 Great Northern 42-145 Loggerhead 3 Migrant 3 White-rumped 3-121 Snipe 18 Dowitcher 152 Greater-Yellowlegs 13-15-143-152 Jack 51 Wilson's 15-126 Sparrow 110-140 Chipping 98-118-121-127 Clay-colored 46 Dusky Seaside 152 Sparrow, Field 98-118-121-127 Fox 120 Valdez 47 Grasshopper 46-118 Ground 110 House (English) 6-15-20-46-49- 110-118-134 Savannah 47 Song 7-89-98-118-121-127-143 Swamp 88-100-118-127 Vesper 98-118-121-127-143 White-throated 98-121-127-132 Yellow-winged 42 Starling 18 Stilt, Black & White 143 THE OOLOGIST IX Swallow 102 Bank 118-127 Barn 83-99-118-120-127-136 Cliff 115-116-118-121-152 Rough-winged 118 Tree 42-97-120 White-bellied 42 Swan 25-45-123 Australian Black 26-29 European 26-29 Mute 19-29 Whistling 26-29 Swift Chimney 98-113-114-117- 120-121-122-127 Palm 5 White-throated 49-111 Tanager 143 Isle of Pines 48 Scarlet 42-99-118-121-127 Summer 127 Tern 120 Black 152 Common 97 Least 120 Thrasher 110 Brown . . .23-83-99-119-121-127-129-134 Thrush Black 77 Fieldfare 14 Hermit 100-120-138-139 Red-legged 5-42-84 Wilson's 5 Wood 55-100-108-119-120-127 Titmouse Blackcapped 42-99-121-127 Blue 82 Carolina 55-119-152 Coal 81 Crested 82 Great 81 Plain 128 Plumbeous 86 Tufted 119-120-127 Tody Cuban 62 Towhee 5-118-121-127 Trogan 42-147 Cuban 47 Isle of Pines 5 Turkey- Wild 46-120-126 Turnstone 120 Vireo Black Whiskered 42-84 Cassin's 45 Red-eyed 99-119-120-121 Solitary 99 Warbling 119-127 White-eyed 55-119-127-144 Yellow-throated 119 Vulture 62-123 Black 46-101-102-105- 106-107-112-126-141 California 19-45 Turkey 35-42-46-62-84 106-109-112-117-126 Turkey, Southern 5 Wagtail Pied 79 Gray 79 Warbler 100 Bachman's 46 Baybreasted 32 Black & White ..15-46-99-120-122-144 Blackburnian 32-99-152 Black-throated Blue ..45-46-64-99-120 Black-throated Green 15-55- 99-139-152 Blackpoll 100 Blue Winged 119-121 Canadian 99 Cape May 13-120 Cerulean 65 Chestnut sided 99-122 Dusky 6 Kentucky 62-73-74-119 Kirtland's 108 Magnolia 152 Maryland Yellowthroat ....5-15-42- 46-55-99-119-127 Mourning 46 Myrtle 15-67-99-120 Ovenbird . .15-32-46-99-110-119-120-121 THE OOLOGIST Orange-crowned 32-67 Palm 5-15-84 Palm Yellow 15 Parula 5-15-45-99-100 Prairie 15-100 Redstart, Am 5-15-42-45-77- 99-119-120-121-122-127-128 Redstart, Painted 45 Swainson's 46-54-55 Tennessee 15-46 Wilson's 46 Yellow 42-45-69-96-119- 120-121-127-147 Yellow br. Chat 18-42-119-127 Yellow-throated 5-15-121 Yellow-throated Florida 84 Waterthrush 5-14-15-99-120 Waterthrush, Louisiana . . . .5-15-119 Wormeating 119-120-152 Waxwing, Cedar 83-99-119-121-127-136 Willett 120 Woodcock 9-10-11-12-38-42- 45-46-117-121-126-131 Woodpecker 96-140-146 Arctic, 3 toed 13 Cuban Green 5 Downy 42-117-120-121-152 Downy Valdez 47 Flicker 98-106-117-121-127 Flicker, Northern 117 Gardner's 42 Hairy 98-117-121 Pileated 32-45-150-152 Pileated, Northern 147 Red cockaded 120 Redbellied 42-84 Red-bellied Cuban 84 Redheaded 17-42-117-121-127-152 Yellow-bellied 42-120-127 Waterauzel 45 Wren 42 Bewick's 47 Carolina 34-55-119-122-127 Catalina Island 47 House 119-120-121-127 House, Western 13 Marsh, Long billed ...45-119-121-127 Marsh, Short billed 119-121 Parkman's 45 .Winter 98 ANIMALS. Fox 32 Wildcat 32 Snakes 75 The Oologist. BIRDS-NESTS-EGGS TAXIDERMY Vol. XXVII. No. 1. ALBION, N. Y., JAN. 15, 1910. Whole No. 270 BRIER SPECIAL^ ANNOUNCEMENTS Wanted. 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BIRDS THE CELEBRATED HUNGARIAN AND ENOLISH PARTRIDGES AND PHEAS- ANTS, capercailzies, black game, wild turkeys, tiuails, rabbits, deer, etc. for stock purposes. Fancy pheasants, peafowl, swans, cranes, storks, ornamental geese and ducks, foxes, squirrels, ferrets, and all kinds of birds and animals. WENZ ct M ACKENSEN, Dept. H, Pheasantry iV: Game Park. Yardley, Pa. FOR S.\LE:— A collection of Mexican bird- skins, containing several hundreds of spe- cies: perfect skins with careful data. This collection incUides a variety of Raptores and (lamebirds. Will dispose of same, individ- ually, or as a whole No exchange. AUS- TIN PAUL SMITH, Box HI, Brownsville, Texas. WANTED.— Specimens of Black-capped Petrel, Rodger Fulmar, Dark-bodied Shear- water, Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Black- vented Shearwater. Townsend's Shearwater Readings Petrel, Guadaloupe Petrel. Black Petrel. Blue faced Booby, Blue-footed Booby. Brewster's Booby, Trompeter Swan. White- cheeked (ionse. Elegant and Trudeau's Tern. Surf Rird, Krider's Hawk, Harlan's Hawk, Peale's FaUon, Black .Merlin. Mottled (Jvvl, Masked Bob-white, .\ttwater"s Prairie Hen. We will pay good prices or exchange for any first class specimens of above material. Address. Box 524. New Haven. Conn. WANTED. -To buy first class skins of the Hawks and Owls, or will give good exchange in books. Write S. V. WHARRA.M, Geneva, Ohio. W.\NTED. — To exchange bird skins of Northern Illinois with somebody for birds from his locality, including western varieties of our common birds if possible. CHAS. K. CARPENTER, 183 Fox St., Aurora, Illinois. WANTED.- Skins of all the quails, par- tridges, grouse and pheasants of Mexico, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia (all over the world), cash or exchange. Write what you have and what you want. J. F. FR.\ZIER. Audubon, Iowa. WANTED.— P'irst class skins of Murrelets. Gulls, Shearwaters, Rails, Shore Birds. Grouse, Hawks, Owls, particularly Snowy and (ireat Gray, and certain small land birds. Offer representative Southern California species, also tine sets of personally taken Heermann's Gulls and Blue-footed Boobies. All reliable collectors send lists. PINGREY I. OSBURN. Pas.idena, Calif. Thirty 1-Airopean birds' skins, good quality and capable of being mounted. Perhaps of twenty species; such as European Dipper. Hoopoe, Wryneck, Kingfisher, etc. $10 for the lot. AUSTIN PAUL SMITH, Box 141, Brownsville, Texas. WANTED.-Skins of Masked Bob-white, Eskimo Curlew. San Pedro, Partridge, Spotted Owl. Flammulated Screech Owl. Pribilof Sand Piper, Bristle-thighed Curlew, and any other rare skins. J. F. FRAZIER, Audubon. Iowa. COSTA RK^'A SKINS.— Write me your wants. Bird and Manimel skins collected from this locality for cash. HE^NRY F. R^ \"EN. Box 73. Linion. Costa Rica. Any collectors having a few good labeled specimens of foreign birds, send list. I will give A 1 skins of Illinois and California birds. Also offer skins of common specimens from Illiiidis for nests and sets of small species. HKXRYK. COALE, Highland Park, Lake Co.. 111. A 1 mounted birds of rare eggs in sets to exchange for game head, fur rugs. Address GEORGE SWEZEY. 61071 polk St., Newark, N.J. II THE OOLOGIST BIRDS-Continued WANTED.— A few good skins of the Aleu- tian Tern (Sterna aleutica) Thayer Museum, Lancaster. Mass. WANTED.— The following first class skins: one pair Tree Sparrow, one pair Western Tree Sparrow, one pair Chipping Sparrow, one female Clay Colored Sparrow, one pair Western Chipping Sparrow, one pair Brewer's Sparrow, one pair Field Sparrow, and one pair Western Field Sparrow, all extra A. 1. suitable for mounting. R. M. BARNES. Lacon. Ills. WANTED.— All mounted specimens of Woodcock, Wood Duck, Great PMue Heron, all Quails and Grouse, for cash. L.MILLER, 1129 E, Market St.. Indianapolis. Ind. WANTED. -Male and female of Wood Duck. Great Horned Owl. Screech Owl, Spar- row Hawk. Flicker, Baltimore Oriole, Blue Jay and Scarlet Taiiager. The first five with nests in section of hollow tree and the latter three wit hue- 1 sand eggs in sect ion of original branches. For further particulars address J. FRIESSEK, 5(t'0 Lake Ave.. Chicago, 111. EGGS EGGS IN FINE SETS-I can supply fol- lowing species: 121, 207, 2ma. 29 , 295, 301, 30-', 313. 318, 319, 321. 327, 328, 3.'i3. 354. 354a, ;359. 360c', 370a, 376, 417, 419. 421, 420&, 459, 475,487, 490./. 490,^, 513a, 518. 533. 534. 536, 554. 567ft. 581i. 586 5936, 607, 641, 637, 654a, 68;-ia, 697, 702, 708, 706. 730, 735ft, 736a, 738, 749, 754, 763. Exchange lists in- vited. THOMAS H. JACKSON, West Ches- ter, Pa., 304 N. Franklin St. WANTED.— Sets of eggs not in my collec- tion, including many ordinary varieties, and especially western and noriherly species. Send list to B. W. ARNOLD. Albany. N. Y. FOR EXCHANGE.— Fine sets of Least Tern, Black Skimmer, Louisiana Heron, Wayne's Clapper Rail, Florida Burrowing Owl, and others. For parliculars address W. W. WOKTIIINGTON, Shelter Island Heights, New York. TO EXCHANGE — Sets with data. North American and Foreign. Can use man.v com- mon kinds of both. Dr. T. VV. RICHARDS U. S. Navy, 1911 N. St., N. VV., Washington D. C. EXCHANGE. -A fine series of ten of the Pallas Miirre from Cape Hope, Alaska. I want 188. 332, 343. 348. 362, 364 and many other*, D. E. BROWN, 6044 1st Ave.. No. W, Sta. F. Seattle, Wash. FOR EXCHANGE- First class Eggs in sets. C. S. RUTIIEI^FORD. Revere. .Mo. FOR S \LE.— Some rare single eggs from Iceland, Loons, Sjua. Glaucous Gull. Old- squaw, Northern Eider, Bean Goose, Whoop- ing Swan, (lOlden I'lover. Dunlin, Godwit, Ruff, SnowHake, Iceland Falcon, and others. Send for full list to H. WARREN, Room 215 St. James Chambers. Adelaide St., E.. Toronto, Ont. FOR EXCHANGE. - Eggs in tine sets. beautiful minerals, buttcrtties and moths in dust and insect proof cases, and other natural history specimens. Want all the above. Send lists and receive mine. LEWIS C. SNYDER, Lacona, New Y'ork. WANTED.-Setsof 351, 352, 352a. 206, and many common sets; have to offer choice sets 679 1-4 417 1-2 419 1-2. 337, 339. 375, 263, 261, 273 and many other choice sets: send list and re- ceive mine. R KY DINSMORE. Perry, Ohio "I have perfect sets of Mourning. Cerulean Black throated, ±iiue and Black throated Green Warbler, American Woodcock. Bar- tramian Sandpiper, King Rail, Canadian Spruce, Grouse and Sharp Shinned Hawk for exchange. 1 desire sets o: American Flam- ingo, Long-billed Curlew, Semipalmated Plover, Franklin's Grouse, Bonaparte's Gull. Williamson's Saysucker, White-headed and Red Cockaded Woodpecker, Pink-sided Junco, Huctou's and Black uapped Yireo. Sennelt's Orange-crowned and Connecticut Warbler and Canada Jay. GERARD ALAN ABBOTT. 945 Marquette Bldg., Chicago. FOR EXCHANGE. -First-class sets; have a series of Bartramian Sandpiper, American Biciern, Chestnut-collared Longspur. Amer- ican Herring, and Rmg-biiied uuUs. Also some good singles and slightly imperfect sets, personally collected in North Dakota. I want Cones "Key" last edition; taxidermist instruments, calipers, sets of Whip-poor-will and others. FRED MALTBY, 1667 Jefferson St., Kansas City, Mo. Volumes and odd numbers of ornithologi- cal publications. If j ou want the lot at your own price send for list and make offer. B. S. BOW DISH, 141 Bioadway, New York City. Iofferl-3, 2-4 Fish Crow, 1-5 201, 1-5 194; all for a set of Bartman's Sandpiper 4 or 5 eggs, W. B. CRISPIN, Salem. N. J. FOR EXCHANGE.-Eggs61-7. 37 1-1: 491-3, 58 20-2 2-3, 62 1-3, 64 1-4, 65 9-1 1-2, 80 7-2 1-4 7-3, 114-1 1-2, 122 1-4, 123b 1-4, 141 1 10, 127 1-3, 1S7 1-4 190 1-3, 191 1-4, 194 4-3, 199 4-3, 201 3-4, 211 1-4. 211-2 1-9, 219 1-3, 221 1-4 1-11, 226 1-4, 269 1-4,280 1-3, ;^21 19-2. 326 8-2. 333 1 5, 337b 1-2 2-3, 339 2-4, 339b 2-2, 345 1-1, 346 30-2 ($10 set;' 349 1-2, 355 1-4, 359 1-2, 1-4, 3ti5 1-3, 368a 1-3 (one broken), 373c 1-3, 374 4-4, 378 17. 380 1-3 one missing*. 384 1-4 2-6, 385 4-5, 387 2-4, 3S9 3-4 l-^s, (one gone;, 3917-5, 410 1-4 3-5 2-6, 413 1-6, 419 21-2, 420a 1 1, 453 1-4 1-6, 456 2-4, 471 1-3, 475 1-5, 483 1-3, 496 2-2, 5U0 1-4. ,577 1-4, 593a 1-3 19-4, 594a 3-4, 652 1-5, 713 2-4, 3-5 7-6, 719 1-5.746 1-4,766 1-5, Gray-tailed Hawk, 1-2 2-3 1-4 $1.25, per egg; White-throated F'alcon 1-2, $4.50 per eg?: Green Woodpecker 1-4, 75c. per egg; Brown Jay 1-4 1-5 75c. per egg; Mexi- can Crow 1-4 1-5 75c. per egg; Lesson's Oriole 1-5 50c per egg; skins for exchange. 515. 54-4, 60-4:64 1. 65-5, 137-8, 142 5, 143-7. 146-11. 149-2, 258a-7, 289b 4, 264-2. Many eggs in broken sets, full data, 1-3 off. Would buy or ex- cliange for, it at a bargain, any kind of nuiscinn specimens, such as relics, fossils, shells, minerals, corals, etc., etc. J. M. CARROLL, San Marcos, Texas. BOOKS FOR EXCHANGE.-Nicely bound vols, of Bird Lore, a partially complete file of Oologist from No. 1 to date, many vols, and odd numbers of bird magazines, also a few nice sets to exchange. I want especially No. 6 Nol. V the Oologist and No. 6 Vol. I the Nidologist. H. J. KOFAHL, 911 Congress Avenue, Ausl in, Texas. WANTED.— Back numbers of The Auk. Nuttafs Bulletin and other bird magazines, also on insects. Have numbers to exchange. G. W. HUMPHREY, Dedham, Mass. THE OOLOGIST III BOOKS-Continued FOR SALE— The following books: Birds of North and Middle America by Ridgway, Parts I, II, III, and IV. Birds of Wyoming 1902, by Knight, Our Northern and Eastern Birds, by E. A. Samuels, Nuttall's Ornithol- ogy, two volumes. The Auk, Vols. 16, 21. 22, 23 and 24. All in excellent condition. Will sell cheap, F. V. HUBEL, Clarkston, Mich. WANTED. -A copy of Goss "Birds of Kansas." Will give good exchange in sets or cash. DR. W. I. MITCHELL, 321 Barnes Bldg., Wichita, Kan. WANTED.— Northern and southern raw furs. Highest market price paid. All goods held subject to approval of valuation. Price list free. GEORGE J. TILLS, Albion, N. Y. J Will sell for best offer: Ridg way's "Manuel,"' 4th edition: Raine's "Bird Nesting in Northwest Canada, and Vols. I, IV. V, VI, VII. VIII, IX, X. XL XII. XIII. XIV, of "Oologist." Clean and in good condition. Also Davie's "'Nests and Eggs," cloth bound, 5th edition, in fair condition, and several good books on chess. FRED MALTBY, 1667 Jefferson, St.. Kansas City, Mo. -In perfect condition. ""The 1 Birds" by Henry Nehrling, FOR SALE. . North American ^..^.. ^^ ^.^...^ ... — », German text, cloth bound, gilt edge, 66S pages and .56 plates, showing 137 species in natural color. Original price $15. Sells for $7. ERICH DIET;RICH. C"anby. Oregon. WANTED.-The Auk. Vol. II, Nos. 2, 3. 4, Vol. IV, Nos. 2, 4, Vol. V, Nos. 2. 3, 4. Vol. VI, Nos. 1. 3. For cash or exchange. LOUISA. FUERTES. Ithaca. N. Y. BIRD LORE.-V.'ill pay cash for Bird-Lore, Vol. II, No. 2, Vol. 3. No. 1, Vol. VII, No. 1 If you can furnish any or all, write stating price. FRANK H.LATTIN, M. D. Albion, N. Y. MISCELLANEOUS EXCHANGE. - Send stamp for list of articles to exchange or sell. DAVID PRATT, Box 538 Freefort. Maine. High grade cameras, lenses, field glasses, etc. for natural history w'ork. I import them and can save yt)U money. Correspondence invited. C. E. WEBSTER, No. Yakima, Wash. WANTED.— (iood photographs of nests and eggs of .Mississippi Valley Migrants breeding in north i e.. Warblers. Sparrows, etc. ,1. F. FERRY.Chicago, 111., Careof Field Museum of Natural History. FOR SALE.— Basket work, of all shapes and patterns, mats, bows, pappoose baskets and other works of art of the "Northern Cali- fornia Indian." Price list free and your money back, if goods bought are not as represented. Address C. IR VIN CLAY, Box 353, Eureka. Cal. FOR SA LE.—l large black bear skin with skull, claws and leg bones, well salted. Also 1 bull moo'-e with nice pair of Antlers. These skins are first class with full measurements. WM. SIMPSON, Box 484 Portage La Prairie. Manitoba. FOR EXCHAN(iE.- Scientific shells and books, fossils and stone relics. I want good United States and foreign stamps. T. S. HILL, Moodys, Okla. FOR SALE.— 2 black bear cubs, tame and healthy, about 6 months old, $40.00. 23 live Canada Geese. 1 gandor, a tine breeding pen, $'20.00. WM. SIMPSON, Box 484, Portage La Prairie, Manitoba. _^____ Leon L. Pray. Specialist in small bird and small mammal taxidermy. Specimens from smallest size to size of Raccoon and Horned Owl mounted. First class work only. Ad- dress correspondence to 5630 Ingleside Ave., Chicago, 111. If you wish to purchase books on Natural History. Science, Travels, etc., write to The Bulletin. If not in stock, they may be ob- tained for you as the proprietors have ex- ceptional opportunities of buying scarce works. "'THE BULLETIN," 4 Duke St.. Adelphi, London, England. FOR EXCH.\NGE.-A representative col- lection of Ohio Indian relics, consisting of over 400 arrow heads, 29 celts. 14 grooved axes, spear heads, drills, hammer stones, plummets, chisels, gorget, pipe, stone beads, pestles, flint knives, etc. Want first class eggs in complete sets with full and complete data. Send lists and receive tracings of specimens. B. R. BALES, Circieville, Ohio. WANTED.— Mounting condition, otter fisher, marten, wolverine, grey timber wolf, white blazed face, badger, all skulls. Address E. W. C A M P B E L L . Taxidermist, 323 Wyoming Ave, Pottston, Pa. EXCH.\NGH— 200 mounted Microscopical specimens of animal tissues. (Pathological, Histological and Bacteriological) toexchange for stamps, coins or Indian relics, etc. Also specimens of Fossil Coral (Lithortrotion canadense) to exchange. .T. M. BROOKS, M. D, Golden City, Mo. FOR SALE. -Large Flint Lock Pistol, 16 inches in length. $6.00: Puritan foot stove tin, with wood frame. $1.50: pair of iron spectacles 75c. JAMES (). JOHNSON, Southington. Conn. FOR EXCHAN(4E.— Four by five Premo Film-plate Camera outfit. ^teveDs' Offhand pistol, 32 calibre Colts repeating rifle: fo nature and sporting goods and books. OWEN M. (i.VTES, Box 54 Mansfield. Ohio. He has acbipvcd a large measure oi success as a citlzeu jiiid man who ha£ been thoughtful aud considerate in bis owu home aud a kiud neighbor. ;3irv i^CliC-y. It's one tiling to Hud the poor cows and uiistaUcs in youi- dairy i)olicy, but it's another thing to correct these. What would you think of a doctor who was good at diagnosis and a fail- ure at cuvingV The OoLOGisT. Vol. XXVII. No. 1. Albion, N. Y. January 15, 1910. Whole No. 270 Publislud Monthly, by R. M. Barnes, Lacon, Illinois. PERSONAL The well known bird student, P. G. Howes, of Stamford, Connecticut, is now in Europe, our last communica- tion from him being from Paris. He expects to remain abroad until some- time in April and has promised us a number of interesting notes on Euro- pean birds, and particularly of Ameri- can birds which have been transplant- ed to that territory. We are sure they will be appreciated by our readers. We have just received a letter from our eld friend, S. B. Ladd, now of Reading, Pennsylvania. In years past Mr. Ladd was well known as a leading Oolcgist and an active collector, and exchanged much with collectors throughout the country. Of late Mr. Ladd has done little in oology and our letter was the first communication we have had from him for more than fif- teen j'ears. As usual with the older boys, he accompanies the letter with a request for a sample copy of THE OOLOGIST. We attended a meeting of the South- ern Division of this flourishing California Bird organization at Lcs Angeles, December 30th 1909, and there had the the pleasure of meeting seventeen or eighteen mem- bers of the club, which was truly a gratification to us. The live interest evidenced by the attendance, by the splendid papers and discussions was indeed a revelaticn to one who lives where there is no person with whom to exchange similar ideas. Wculd that a Ccoper Club, a Wilson Club cr some other bird club existed in every state in the Union in as flourishing a condition as our Califor- nia friends maintain their splendid or- ganizaticn. V\"hile in California we had the plea- sure of meeting A. M. Ingersoll, a well known bird student of San Diego, who with his wife was stopping at one of the leading Lcs Angeles hotels for the winter. Mr. Ingerscll is the second person with whom the editor of this publication ever arranged an exchange cf eggs. That was in the long, long ago. Until this meeting in California, we had never seen Mr. Ingersoll, though had kept up a correspondence acquaintance with him for many years. It is a pleasure now to know that he is not only one of the leading oolo- gists cf the coast, and that he has per- haps the most complete collection of North American eggs existing on the coast, but also that he has by strict attention to business and legitimate means, accumulated a competence. He has now retired to enjoy the fruits of his industry and declining years. No doubt he will spend a large portion of his time in his favorite pursuit, the study of birds. THE OOLOGIST THE OOLOGIST TRAPPING A GOLDEN EAGLE. A few years ago I spent the fall months in Kansas on an uncle's ranch. The country was rough rolling prairie. Nearby was a large creek and along this stream was considerable timber. Squirrels (gray and fox) were abun- dant. Quail very plentiful. Rabbits (both common and jack) were plenty. On the creek several varieties of ducks were found. I was out about every day and game dinners were of regular occurrence. Immense flocks of larks, longspurs and blackbirds were about, but about all the summer residents and small land migrants had gone. Raptores were abundant and I shot quite a number. Along early in November the Golden Eagles appeared. Some days four or five were about. Of course I wanted one but they didn't stay about the tim- ber much, but kept to the prairie where it was impossible to stalk them. . Near the house was quite a hill about which eagles as well as other raptores circled. At one place near the base of this hill a gully started and eventually found its way to the big creek. Close to the head of this gully near the base of the hill there had been an old stack of hay or alf- alfa and several small stakes were still sticking in the ground. I found that I could slip up the gully to with- in one hundred feet of this spot so I went over on the prairie, kicked out a big jack rabbit, handed him a charge of sixes and took him over and tied him to one of the little stakes. Noth- ing happened until the second morn- ing, when I found the whole bait gone. I went after another jack rabbit and tied him to the stake. I watched quite sharp that day, but nothing appeared near the bait. Next morning I again found my bait gone. I now concluded I had a coyote to deal with, so I went to a nearby rar.ch and borrowed a heavy steel trap. A good many pieces and chunks of flint rocks lay arcund about the hills and within two feet of the bait, lay a chunk that weighed about fifteen pounds. To avoid too much tramping about, I took along a little board on which I stood. I dug out a place for the trap and carefully set and covered it. I wired the chain to the end of the rock and buried that end. All dirt I put in a basket and what was left, I carried away. It was a good job and the brisk wind that blew all day helped to carry off any scent; also to smooth things over. Alter quartering about over the pra- irie, I shot another jack which I tied to the usual stake. Next morning I found trap, stone and all gone. I soon located it in a nearby cornfield and in it was a big coyote with the handcuffs on a front foot. He had eaten at the bait a little and mutilated it, and I ccncluded to leave it as it was and re- set the trap. Before night I had taken two crows out. Next morning returning from the creek with a bunch of nice fat mall- ards I saw an excited flock of crows flying about over my trap. Pretty soon I saw a big black bird at the bait. I hadn't seen a buzzard for some time, so I concluded I had old goldie fast. I noticed however that it ap- peared to be eating and did not flop about as a trapped bird should. So I got into the gully and sneaked up. Crawling carefully up I peered over and there not one hundred feet away was a big golden eagle sitting broad- side on. I had only one shell of BB and this I sent into his shoulders ex- pecting him to roll over. To my sur- prise he sprang into the air instead. In my second barrel I had a shell of good old reliable sixes with which size I have had most success killing things THE OOLOGIST both big and little. Before he was fairly started, I sent the sixes at his big head and he was mine without a kick. It was a nice specimen and in fine plumage and measured six feet eleven inches in expanse. The BB's I found on skinning had probably fatally hurt the bird, but it would probably have escaped me entirely if the sixes had not done the work. The strange part of it was that a crow had got caught and the eagle going to the bait had killed the crow and when I shot was eating it. The body was about half eaten and quite warm. Next day I saw a large bird flopping about in the trap so I went over and found a big black hawk that proved to be a Harlan's. The next day I had to take up my trap as I was getting ready to leave for home. Before tak- ing it up a big Red-tail got in. This red-tail was an adult; quite light-col- ored underneath with hardly any markings. Its mate I flushed and shot from a bend in the gully. This one had killed a rabbit on which it was feasting when shot. From this experience I concluded that if I could have staid a little long- er and put out six or eight baits, more than one eagle would have come back with me. While there the last week in Sep- tember there was a flight of Swain- son's Hawks. I saw as many as fifty three in one flock. They were not very shy and I shot a number in dif- ferent plumage. They fed entirely on grasshoppers. I never saw such num- bers of hawks as during the week they were about. R. B. SIMPSON. The Migrant Shrike? The reading of Mr. Leach's letter in the December Oologist set me to thinking about the old puzzle "Which shirke is it?" For several years past I have seen and collected the eggs of our com- mon shirke, calling it Lanius ludovlcla- nus excubitorides; sets of six being almost always found here in first sets. On looking over back files of the Oolo- gist I have found that there is some confusion on the shrike question. In the December, 1904, Oologist, Mr. C. P. Alexander writes a rather long and interesting article on the White- rumped Shrike, telling of finding sev- eral nests near Gloversville, N. Y. All the notes he makes tally with my experience of the common shrike. He closes thanking "Mr. Benjamin Hoag for identifying properly these birds from descriptions I sent him." In the Oologist for December, 1906, Editor Short says, in answer to R. F. M. who asks whether it is the White- rumped Shrike or the Loggerhead in Hennepin County, Minnesota: "The two forms unquestionably intergrade in Southern Xew York, Northern Penn- sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska." Short further says, "We draw a line (to divide the species) from Connecticut westerly through Southern New York, Northern Penn- sylvania and Northern Ohio straight to the Rockies." In the December, 1907, Oologist, I find this from Mr. Alexander again: "On May 5, near Gloversville, I found a nest of Migrant Shrike in a thorn apple tree, ten feet up, containing six eggs." In parenthesis Editor Short asks, "Was this bird not Excubitor- ides?" (White-rumped Shrike.) Now Editor Barnes briefly tells Mr. Leach that his birds are Migrant Shrikes, thereby endorsing what L. A. Fuertes had previously told Leach. Is there not someone who can speak as one having authority about these birds, this newly-made variety? I think many would like to have this question settled for good. R. T. FULLER, Lacona, New York. THE OOLOGIST THE OOLOGIST A Paddle Down The Nuevas River, November 20, 1909. The Nuevas river is a small but winding river which flows through Mc- Kinley, Isle of Pines, Cuba. One Sat- urday, three of us decided to take the boat and paddle down the river a ways to see what birds we could. So we put some extra rope, a small hatch- et, and a heavy hunting knife togeth- er with something to eat and the shot gun. We finally got started about 9.00 a. m.. rather late for the best observa- tion. Every turn in the river disclos- ed some new beauties. The river is lined on both sides with heavy jungles and royal palms. Sev- eral small rapids and log jams fur- nished excitement as well as novelty to the trip. We paddled down the river for about five miles, rested a half hour and started back about twelve. We had to pole most of the way back because of the swift current. Southern, Green Herons, Cuban Ori- oles, Red-legged Thurshes, Cuban Wood Pewees, Anis, and Blackbirds (Ptiloxena atrovolacea 3-4) were com- mon. Cuban Ground Doves, Southern Turkey Buzards, Water-thrushes, and Cuban Grackles were abundant. Three or four Least Bittern, West Indian Mourning Doves, Palm Warblers and Cuban Kingbirds, West Indian Mourn- ing Doves, Palm Warblers and Cuban Kingbirds were also seen. Several Cuban Green Woodpeckers, Louisiana Water-thrushes, together with Cuban (Great) White Heron (1), Little Blue Heron (1), Belted Kingfishers (2), Pigeon (Columba inornata 8-10). White head Pigeon (2), Cuban Mea- dowlark (2), Cuban Pigmy Owl (2), Simpkin (1), Parula Warbler (2-3), American Redstart (1), Cuban Parrot (2), Maryland Yellow-throat (1), Isle of Pines Trogon (1), and Palm Swift (2). An alligator was also shot. We re- turned home tired, but more than iv.- paid for our work for we had seen thirty species which was not so bad for the late start. A. C. READ. The Towhee in New York. On July 4th last I found a Towhee's nest in a rather unusual position. It was placed about eighteen inches from the ground on, rather than in a low thick sloping bush. I was going through a thick piece of undergrowth and came out into an old abandoned vineyard which was then overgrown with sumac, weeds and scrubby bush- es. I saw a nest ahead of me and a bird on it, which at first glance I took to be a Wilson's Thrush, as the nest was placed up from the ground as this Thrush sometimes places hers. But I saw at once that it was a female Towhee. I tried to get a picture of the bird on the nest, but she slipped away before I could get my camera ready, and began to scold me. I did two nice views of the nest, one show- ing just the nest and eggs taken from the side, and the other showing more of the bush, was taken from above. The nest was on a steep side hill about 125 feet elevation above the lake in the valley below. Verdi Burtch, Branchport, N. Y. Bird Accidents. I have noticed with interest the ac- counts of bird accidents in the last two issues cf the The Oologist. I too have noticed two bird accidents the past year. One accident is iden- tical with the one described by Mr. DuBcis in the December issue. A robin endeavoring to take a string, that was wound around a limb, to her nest had hopelessly en- tangled its feet. In this instance, how- THE OOLOGIST ever, the bird was released before it was too late. The other accident is a more peculi- ar one. Early one morning during March, 1909, one of my friends was awakened by a thumping on the roof outside. The noise continued some time and finally he arose to investi- gate and found that an English Spar- row was fast in the eve trough. A ladder was procured and the bird was taken down but not before the bird had succombed. It was found that the birds feet were frozen fast in the ice in the trough and the bird was un- able to extricate itself. The water which remained in the trough was suf- ficient to cover the bird's feet and this having frozen during the night held the bird fast to its roost. It hardly seems possibly that a bird could sleep with water freezing about its feet but such was apparently the case. H. E. BISHOP. Sad Result. While reading the December OOLO- GIST, 1909, I noticed an accident which befel some birds which reminds me of one incident familiar to me which happened at my former resi- dence in Boulder, Colorado. Where a mountain stream threads its way through the city and along its bank there is a grove which contains a great many kinds of small birds such at Nuthatches, Robbins, etc. Among the numbers, my sister found a Western Kingbird swinging from a string and on examining it, the bird was found with the string which formerly hung in a loop, twisted around the bird's neck, which evident- ly choked it, and death resulted. This happened during the nesting season and it is very reasonable how it happened to meet the unusual death. PERRY L. JUDD. Rathdrum, Idaho. Unusual Eggs. In THE OOLOGIST for May, I see that in the article "The Red Tail Hawks," the author refers to an egg of the Eastern Redtail, measuring 2.23 xl.66 inches as being unusually small. This egg is the smallest in width of any of which I have heard, but there is an egg of this species in my collec- tion which is much shorter. It is one of a set of three from Michigan, and the eggs measure 2.16x1.90, 2.18x1.88, and 2.20x1.84. This is .20 of an inch shorter than the average given by Mr. Davie. I also have a set of Western Mocking- bird's eggs, collected by myself near Pasadena, California, the largest egg of which is .18 of an inch above the average length. They measure re- spectively 1.12X.75, 1.09X.76 and 1.09x .75. Later, I collected a second set from this pair, and it is interesting to note that these were still above average size, measuring l.Olx.74, .99x.74, and .97X.73 A. B. HOWELL. Special Notice. All subscribers whose numbers are below No. 257 are dropped from our mailing lists with this issue. We can- not send our publication to trose who do not pay. R. M BARNES. The Dusky Warbler. Through an oversight of the printer, the article appearing on page 188 of Volume 26, (November, 1909,) of THE OOLOGIST relating to the Dusky WARBLER was not credited to Mr. A. K. Snyder who is the author thereof. This is due Mr. Snyder as the article was not only readable, but related to a species concerning which there is but little ornithological literature. THE OOLOGIST The Poor Cowbird. In attendance upon a meeting of the Cooper Club at Los Angeles, a few days ago, the Editor listened to a very readable paper on the alleged discovery of a new sub-species of the Cowbird inhabiting the arid lands of Utah and Nevada; presumably also substantially all the lands lying be- tween Sierra Nevada and Rocky Moun- tains. The January issue of the Auk con- tains another article upon the alleged discovery of another sub-species of Cowbird inhabiting Northwest Canada. We extend our sympathy to the Cow- bird. We presume many alleged sub- species will now be discovered inhabit- ing various portions of the United States. The unfortunate Cowbird will now be torn, rent, cut chopped and split into infinitismal fragments of sub-species with which proceeding we have absolutely no sympathy what- ever, as it is now carried on in Ameri- can ornithology. Witness the fate of the Song Sparrow, Redwing Blackbird, Horned Lark, etc., most of which have been sub-divided and refined and re- refined until even the great bird doc- tors often are unable to tell which is which, nor from whence the specimen came; and frequently wind up as an excuse for their lack of knowledge of the alleged knowledge necessary to differentiate the various sub-species with this statement — "intermediate between" so and so. Collections. We have just recently examined and estimated the value of the collection of eggs of Mr. Thomas H. Jackson of Westchester, Pennsylvania, and learn it to be among the most complete in the country, containing as it does, 737 species and sub-si)ecies, mostly in sin- gle sets; though in many of the rarer varieties, and in some of the exceed- ingly rare species, goodly series are represented. It is remarkable for a number of unusually rare specimens in proportion to the size of the collec- tion. Our old friend Professor W. Otto Emerson of Hayards, California, kind- ly forwarded us a list of his collection of nests and eggs. It was a pleasure to peruse the same and to learrr that it represented 469 species and sub- species of North American birds, most- ly in single sets, through a consider- able proportion are represented by series. Professor Emerson's well known accuracy and care is reflected in this accumulation, and he is to be congratulated upon the splendid rep- resentation that his collection con- tains. Fred Truesdale of Shandon, Califor- nia forwarded us the datas accompany- ing the eggs in his collection for our inspection. Though a comparatively beginner in oology, ,Mr. Truesdale has accumulated 158 varieties, some of them exceedingly rare specimens, and in the course of years to come, we have no doubt it will become one of the leading collections on the coast. See to it that your name is on our subscription list for 1910. Our Make Up. With this issue we make a slight change in the make-up of THE OOLO GIST. Hereafter the advertising mat ter will be paged with Roman letters, and the reading matter numerically. THE OOLOGIST Just about as mucb can be expected of boys and girls as from a uewly set orchard if both are started and then allowed to shift for themselves. The old Harry in the shape of weeds and ill manners, borers and bad habits is sure to get them. No slipshod or ab- sentee oversight will give satisfactory results. It pays an owner in dollars to giv( his buildings a good coat of paint and make the premises shipshape if he is contemplating selling. It will give just as large a return in chunks o1 solid satisfaction for himself and fam Ily if he isn't thinking of selling. Es pecially is such improvement of th« place to be commended from thi standpoint of the passerby. In most states the law as to fence? requires a railroad to provide its right of way with a fence of the kind which the farmer has or may want to ereci adjacent thereto. To Illustrate, if a landowner wishes to fence hog tight a tract of land bordering on the right of way, the railroad would have to erect a fence of this description on the line bordering such tract. Following one line means success in a majority of cases, but did not with the Illinois farmer who got fine homestead land at $1.25 per acre sixty years ago, haf? grown nothing but wheat and corn on it since and today gets but two bushels of wheat and ten of corn per acre, and even to get this paltry return has to let his land rest part of the time at that to get its breath. He was one of your practical fellows who followed in the agricul- tural ruts of his forefathers and had no time for lead pencil farmers or ex- periment stMtion l)Ul]etins The pasture should be one of the best assets on a well managed farm and if properly handled should give as large a return with as little outlay of work as any other acres on the place. One way in which its etBciency may be increased is to give it a light top dressing' of fertilizer with the spreader, paying special attention to the spots where the soil seems to be the thinnest. In this way an effective disposal can be made of much of the manure which accumulates about the stables during the summer months, which if not carried out would lose about half of its fertilizing value from exposure to rain and weather. A discerning contributor to a well known dairy paper in accounting for the financially strapped condition of so many dairymen in sections of New York which he visited finds the chief reasons for their unenviable condition to be poor cows, the buying of mucb feed that ought to be raised on th^ farm, failure to utilize to their full value the crops that are produced, es- pecially corn, and waste of money in extravagant personal habits when it ought to be spent for supplies for the home and feed for the dairy cows. The causes cited by this Investigator would seem to be suflBcient to account for a good deal of low ebb dairying and farming. It is a fact conceded by all dairymen and feeders that pasture grass is a.s nearly a perfect feed as it is possible to have. There are several reasons for this One is that it is juicy and sucru- lent and, entirely apart from its nutri- tive properties, is eaten with keen rel- ish by all domestic animals. Added to this is the f^"^t that it contains in nice- ly balanced proportions the several nutritive elements required for meat and milk production. Another point is that it is not eaten in stuffy, ill venti- lated and poorly lighted barns, but in the op-en, where with every mouthful of grass taken into the stomach a breath of sweet fresh air is taken into the lungs, purifying the blood, aiding the heart action and increasing to fi maximum the animal's power of as- similation, which in turn makes possi- ble the consumption of still larcer nuanrities at THE OOLOGIST By way of showing that me w^'^i does not have a monopoly in the o;) portunities it offers for home seel^ers may be cited the case of a colony of Italians who a short time ago settled In CliMutaiiqua county. N Y. 'i'her" were 400 I'len in the colony, which uunilu'red "2.000 with women and chil- dren The\ bought up 1.758 acres of land at $."!."> an acre and put it into vineyards, and the same land is toda;- valued at SirA) an acre, an increase in value of more than 400 per cent The same thing on a smaller scale is being done by other foreigners in this and other New England states, the land being used for the production of a great vajicty of early vegetables and other staiWe food crops Bred to an almost painful thrift In the old coun- tries, they have come U) the new and by applying the same methods in the sections mentioned are becoming well to do. where the less thrifty American is scarcely able to elie out a living. The Awakening. Two weeks after he had faced thv^ parson with the only giri in the world he chanced upon Jones, one of his old bachelor friends. "Well, old man." remarked the lat- ter, grinning. "1 can't say you look the part of a hapi)y benedict. What's the trouble? Have you sutfered a disap- pointment'/" "I have." answered the other grimly. "My wife can't sing.'" "Can't sing'r" echoed Jones cheerily. "Byt in that case 1 should have said you were to be congratulated." "That's not the trouble." responded the young husband. "The trouble is she thinks she can I" His Authority. Browning— 1 hear you are engaged to that yrai7ig widow who is visiting relatives here. Is it true? Greening- Yes. Browning— How did you discov- er that she was the one woman in the World for an old bachelor like you'/ Greening— Why. she— er— told me so — Chicago News. Prices for Back Numbers ot the YOUNG OOLOCriST AND THE OOLOGIST will, during 1910, remain as below: After which the prices of many num- bers will be advanced and possibly not obtainable at any price. Should yov desire back numbers to complete youi flle, NO"W is the time to purchase. You can never obtain them for less money and possibly not at any price, as our stock ranges from only 1 to 25 copies of an issue. Prices for 1909 Are as Follovws: Nos. 1.14, 18. 31. 34-.35. 42, 53. 86, 89, 111,130 ,132 137, 139, 140, 1.53, 158, are 50 cents each; Nos. 9, 66-67, 76, 77. 78. 79. 88, 90. 100 113, 138, 146, are 25 cents each. Nos. 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 54, 55, 56, 75, 87. 123, 127, 128, 129, 144. 149, are 15 cents each. Nos. 19, 20, 22. 27, 28, 38, 39, 40, 45, 50, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65, TO, 74, 80. 93, 114, 115, 126, 133, 135, are 10 cents each. iliF"All other numbers 5c. per copy. For $12 will send prepaid a copy of every issue ever published. No. 1 to 145.— 30 far as now on hand. This offer in- cludes your subscription through 1910. My prices for back numbers of the YOUNG OOLOGIST and OOLOGIST in volumes, are as follows: Vol. I, 1884-5, Nos. 1 to 12 $ .90 Vol. II, 1S,«5, Nos. 13 to 14 50 Vol. Ill, 1886, Nos. 15 to 20 90 Vol. IV, 1887, Nos. 21 to 25-26.... 1.00 Vol. V, 1SS8, Nos. 27 to 38 1.50 Vol. VI, 1889, Nos. 39 to 50 75 Vol. VII, 1890, Nos. 51 to 62 75 Vol. VIII, 1891, Nos. 63 to 74 75 Vol. IX, 1892, Nos. 75 to 86 90 Vol. X, 1893, Nos. 87 to 98 1.00 Vol. XI, 1894. Nos. 99 to 110 50 Vol. XII. 1895, Nos. Ill to 122 l.OO Vol. XIII, 1896, Nos, 123 to 127 50 Vol XIV, 1897, Nos. 128 to 139 1.50 Vol. XV, 1898, Nos. 140 to 149 60 Vol. XVI, 1899, Nos. 150 to 161.. .75 Vol. XVII, 1900, Nos. 162 to 171.. .50 Vol. XVIII, 1901, Nos. 172 to 183. .50 Vol. XIX, 1902, Nos. 184 to 195 50 Vol. XX. 1903, Nos. 196 to 197 10 Vol. XXI, 1904, No. 198 to 209 50 Vol. XXIT. 1905. Nos. 210 to 221 50 Vol. XXIII, L90fi, 222 to 233 50 Vol, XXIV, 1907, 2M. to 245 55 Vol. XXV. 1908. 246 to 257 50 For $5.25 I will send prepaid a copy of every issue published, Nos. 1 to 209, Inclusive, except the twenty-nine, (29), 25c.. 50c. and 75c. copies. For $2.50 I will send prepaid every copy published, Nos, 1 to 209, inclusive, except the sixty copies priced above at 10c or over — I50U.ND V0LU.MES — Can be fiirnislipfj, strongly bound In clotb and hoards, as follow?: Vol. I and II YOUNG OOLOGIST bound In one Tolnnie $1.00 Vol. IX. The 00LOG!ST for '92, 29S pages of valuable and instructive Oological and Ornitliological matter with many full page Illustrations $1.00 Or, if you order the two volumes at one time, we will send them by return mall for only $1.75. Every student of birds, their nests and eKgs, should have these two volumes In their library. The valuable information they contain. Is worth many times the price. Address plainly, K, M, BARNES, Lacon, 111. VI THE OOLOGIST In continuation of its series of plates of the Sparrows of North America IN COLOR Bird-Lore for January-Feb- ruary (Vol. XIL, No. i) con- tains colored figures of the Grasshopper, Henslow's Baird's and LeConie's Spar- rows. The series was begun in Bird-Lore for November-De- cember, where the Chipping, Field, Tree, Clay-colored and Brewer's Sparrows were fig- ured. As long as the supply lasts we will give a copy of this 1 00-page number, containing the first plate of the Sparrow series, to all subscribers to Bird-Lore for 1910. Single numbers 20 cents. Annual subscription $1.00 BIRD-LORE, Harrisburg, Pa. McCALL PATTERNS CclLbrated for style, perfect fit, simplicity and reliability nearly 40 years. Sold in nearly every city and town in the United States and Canada, or by mail direct. More sold than any other make. Send for free catalogue. McCALL'S MAGAZINE More subscribers than any other fashion magazine — million a month. Invaluable. Lat- est styles, patterns, dressmaking, milliner)', plain sevying, fancy needlewoik, hairdressing, etiquette, good stories, etc. Only 50 cents a year (worth double), including a free pattern. Subscribe today, or send for sample copy. WONDERFUL INDUCEMENTS to Agents. Postal brings picniiuiTi catalogue and new cash prize ofleis. Address rUE McCAU CO.. 238 to 248 W. 37Ui St.. NEW YORK BACK NUMBERS OF THE OOLOGIST WANTED ^ol. 1, No . 1. " 2 2. " s, 4. " -i, 1,3, 4. " 5, 5,6. " 6, 4. " 7, 3. " 8, 4, 5, 8. " 10, 2,3, 4. " 11, 2 " 12, 1,'3. " 13, 5. " 11, 1,3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 " 15, 1,5, 7,12. " 16, 4,9. " 26, 9. I will buy a large number of each'of the above back numbers for cash at the rate they are listed at, as being for sale in this number of THE OOLO- GIST. Address, R. M. BARNES, Lacon, 111. THE OOLOGIST VII I WANT THE FOLLOWING. %( The Condor'' Please look this list over careful- ly and if you have any of them write me. North American Fauna, No. 23. The Wilson Billitin, Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, •34. The Curlew, Published by O. P. Hau ger of Orleans, Ind., Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. The Ornithologist and Oologist Semi- Annual, Published in 1889-90-91 by Wm. H. Foote of Pittsfield, Mass., and by C. C. Maxfield of Danbury, Conn., in 1891. All numbers pub- lished except Nos. Vol. 1, No. 2, and Vol. 2, No. 2. The Wilson Quarterly, No. 2, Vol. 4, July, 1892. The Wilson Journal, Vol 1, Jany., 1893 and Vol. 2, June, 1893. Notes on Rhode Island Ornithology, Published by Reginald Heber Howe, Jr., 1890. The Oologist, of Utica, N. Y., Vols. 1-5 inclusive, for 1875 to 1881, any numbers. Journal of the Maine Ornithological Club. A complete file or any num- bers. The Audubon Magazine. A complete file, any numbers. Birds of California, In relation to the fruit industry — Beal, Part II. The Oologist — This magazine — Vol. III. No. 4; Vol. IV, Nos. 1, 3, 4; Vol. V, No. 6; Vol. VII, Nos. 3 and 10. Catalogue of Canadian Birds, by Prof. ]McCoun, Part I. I will pay the very highest market price for all or any part of the above in case R. M. Barnes, Lacon, Ills. A Magazine of Western Ornithology Edited by J. Grinnell. Associate Editors: Wm. L. Finley, Robert B. Rockwell "Official Organ of the Cooper Orni- thological Club." Vol. XI, 1909 will contain the usual interesting articles by live active ornithologists and will be illustrated by the high- est class of half tones. You can- not afford to miss a number. Published bi-monthly at Holly- wood, California. Subscription : 1^1.50 per year net in advance. Single copies: 30c each. Foreign subscription. $1.7^. J. Eugene Law, Business Mgr. Hollywood, California. W. Lee Chambers, Asst. Mgr. Santa Monica, California. Birds Eggs I have for exchange for species desired by me to complete series of many very common kinds; a very large list of duplicates. Send me your exchange list. R. M. BARNES, Lacon, 111. BOOKS and MAGAZINES Especially pertaining to Ornithology and nature study. Oologist and Taxidermists Tools Write me just wbat you want. I can save you money. BENJAMIN H0A6, Stephentown, New York. HELP BOOST Send in not only your own renewal subscription, but one for a friend— it will help some. VIII THE OOLOGIST The Oologist for 1910 Will be Better Than Ever Splendid bird articles will be printed, writ- ten by the best bird observers in America, detailing original field observations. First-class illustrations will be used, portray- ing original field subjects never before pub- lished. Advertisers will receive greater returns than ever by using our columns. Help us extend our influence and subscrip- tion list. THE OOLOGIST Albion, N. Y., or Lacon, Illinois The Oologist. BIRDS-NESTS-EGGS TAXIDERMY Vol. XXVII. No. 2. ALBION, N. Y., FEB. 15, 1910. Whole No. 271 BRIEF SPBOIAL. ANNOU NCBM ENTS Wanted, Exchange. For Sale, Etc, inserted in this department at 25 cents for each 25 words for one issue ; each additional word 1 cent. No notice inserted for less than 25 cents. TAKE NOTICE. SUBSCKIPTION. 50 CENTS PER YEAR Examine the number on the wrapper of your Oologfist. It denotes the time your subscription expires. Remember we must be notitied if you wish it discontinued and all arrearages must be paid. 2(j9 your sub- scription expires with this issue. 281 your subscription expires with December issue 1910. Other expirations can be computed by intermediate numbers at the rate of one number per month. Entered as second-class matter De- cember 21, 1903, at the post office, at Albion, N. Y., under the Act of Con- gress of March 8, 1879. In answering advertisements in these columns mention "The Oologist," and thereby help us, as well as the ad- vertiser and yourself. BIROS THE CELEBRATED HUNGARIAN AND ENGLISH PARTRIDGES AND PHEAS- ANTS, capercailzies, black game, wild turkeys, (juails, rabbits, deer. etc. for stock purposes. Fancy pheasants, peafowl, swans, cranes, storks, ornamental geese and ducks, foxes, squirrels, ferrets, and all kinds of birds and animals. WP:NZ lV MACKENSEN, Dept. H. Pheasantry ct Game Park. Yardley, Pa. WANTED. --Specimens of Black-capped Petrel. Rodger Fulmar. Dark-bodied Shear- water. Wedge-tailed Shearwater. Black- vented Shearwater, Townsend's Shearwater Keadings Petrel, Guadaloupe Petrel. Black Petrel. Blue faced Booby, Blue-footed Booby. Brewster's Booby, Trompeter Swan, White- cheeked Goose, Elegant and Trudeau's Tern, ^urf Rird, Krider's Hawk. Harlan's Hawk, Peale's Falcon, Black Merlin, Mottled Owl, Masked Bob-white, Attwater's Prairie Hen. We will pay gO(^d prices or exchange for any first class specimens of above material. Address. Box .524. New Haven. Conn. WANTED. -To buy first class skins of the Hawks and Owls, or will give good exchange in books. Write S. V. WHARHAM, (jeneva, Ohio. QUALITY BIRD SKINS.-If you are in need of material from the Lower Rio Grande, southward in Mexico: let me hear from you. My work is gauged by quality, not quantity of output; a fact worthy of your serious con- sideration, when adding to your collection. Series representing the species from the egg to the adult can be arranged for. .\USTIN P.VUL SMITH, Box 111. Brownsville, Texas, A 1 mounted birds of rare eggs in sets to exchange for game head, fur rugs. Address GEORGE SWEZEY. 61071 Polk St.. Newark, N.J. WANTED.- Skins of all the quails, par- tridges, grouse and pheasants of Mexico, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia (all over the world), cash or exchange. Write what you have and what you want. J. F. FRAZIER. Audubon, Iowa. WANTED.— First class skins of Murrelets. Gulls, Shearwaters, Rails, Shore Birds, Grouse, Hawks, (,)wls, particularly Snowy and Great Gray, and certain small land birds. Offer representative Southern California species, also tine sets of personally taken Heermann's Gulls and Blue-footed Boobies. All reliable collectors send lists. PINGREY I. OSBURN. Pasadena. Calif. WANTED. -Skins of Masked Bob-white, Eskimo Curlew, San Pedro. Partridge. Spotted Owl, Flamraulated Screech Owl, Pribilof Sand Piper, Bristle-thighed Curlew, and any other rare skins. J. F. FRAZIER. Audubon, Iowa. COSTA RICA SKINS.— Write me your wants. Bird and Mammel skins collected from this locality for cash. HENRY F, RA YEN. Box 73. Limon. Costa Rica. Any collectors having a few good labeled specimens of foreign birds, send list. I will give A 1 skins of Illinois and California birds. Also offer skins of common specimens from Illinois for nests and sets of small species. HENRY K. COALE. Highland Park, Lake Co.. 111. TO EXCHANGE. -Finely mounted birds and deer heads, several hundred Natural History and Sportsman's magazines, for binl aijd mammal skins. GEO. F. GUELF, Taxidermist. Brockport. N. Y. WANTED.— All mounted specimens of Woodcock. Wood Duck, Great Blue Heron. al! Quails and Grouse, for cash. L. MILLER, 1129 E. Market St., Indianapolis, nd. II THE OOLOGIST BIRDS-Continued BIRDS OF PREY: The skins of the forms of this order, that I can offer from time to time, cannot be excelled in point of quality, and data. AUSTIN PAUL SMITH, Box m Brownsville, Texas. fll WANTED.— A few good skins of the Aleu- tian Tern (Sterna aleutica) Thayer Museum, Lancaster, Mass. WANTED.— The following first class skins: one pair Tree Sparrow, one pair Western Tree Sparrow, one pair Chipping Sparrow, one female Clay Colored Sparrow, one pair Western Chipping Sparrow, one pair Brewer's Sparrow, one pair Field Sparrow, and one pair Western Field Sparrow, all extra A. 1. suitable for mounting. R. M. BARNES, Lacon, Ills. WANTED. -Male and female of Wood Duck. Great Horned Owl. Screech Owl, Spar- row Hawk. Flicker, Baltimt)re Oriole, Blue Jay and Scarlet Tanager. The first five with nests in section of hollow tree and the latter three with nests and eggs in section of original branches. For further particulars address J. FRIESSER, 5620 Lake Ave.. Chicago, 111. EGGS EXCHANGE.— Several sets of Black Tern for what you have. DR. E. S. SCHMIDT, Green Bay, Wis. WANTED.— For cash only. One good egg cabinet. Address, EUGENE KEITHLEY, St. Michaels, Md., Box 124. LU Send exchange lists of first class sets for mine.— J. W PRESTON, 1411 13th Ave.. Spokane, Wash, a FOR EXCHANGE.-Fine sets of Least Tern, Black Skimmer, Louisiana Heron, Wayne's Clapper Rail, Florida Burrowing Owl, and others. For parliculars address W. W. WORTHINGTON. Shelter Island Heights, New York. TO EXCHANGE -Sets with data. North American and Foreign. Can use many com- mon kinds of both. Dr. T. W. RICHARDS U. S. Navy, 1911 N. St.. N. W.. Washington D. C. EXCHANGE. -A Hne series of ten of the Pallas Murre from Cape Hope, Alaska. I want 188. 332, 343. 348, 362, 364 and many others, D. E. BROWN, 6044 1st Ave.. No. W, Sta. F. Seattle. Wash. Ft)R SALE.— Some rare single eggs from Iceland, Loons, Sjua, Glaucous Gull. Old- squaw, Northern Eider, Bean Goose, Whoop- ing Swan, (iolden Plover. Dunlin. Godwit. Ruff. Snowtlake, Iceland Falcon, and others. Send for full list to H. WARREN, Room 215 St. .Tamos Chambers. Adelaide St., E.. Toronto, Out. FOR EXCHANGE. - Eggs in fine sets, beautiful minerals, butterflies and moths in dust and insectproof cases, and other natural history specimens. Want all the above. Send lists and receive mine. LEWIS C. SNYDER, Lacona, New York. Volumes and odd numbers of ornithologi- cal publications. If you want the lot at your own price send for list and make offer. B. S. BOWDISH. 141 Broadway, New York city. FOR EXCHANGE- First class Eggs in sets. C. S. RUTHERFORD, Revere, Mo. WANTED.-Setsof 351, 352, 352a. 206. and many common sets; have to offer choice sets 679 1-4,417 1-2.4191-2,337, 339. 375, 263, 261. 273 and many other choice sets; send list and re- ceive mine. RAY' DINSMORE, Perry, Ohio "I have perfect sets of Mourning, Cerulean Black throated. Blue and Black throated (ireen Warbler, American Woodcock, Bar- tramian Sandpiper. King Rail, Canadian Spruce, Grouse and Sharp Shinned Hawk for exchange. 1 desire sets oi American Flam- ingo, Long-billed Curlew, Semipalmated Plover, Franklin's Grouse, Bonaparte's Gull, Williamson's Sapsucker, W hiie-headed and Red Cockaded Woodpecker, Pink-sided Junco, Hutton's and Black capped Vireo. Sennett's Orange-crowned and Connecticut Warbler and Canada Jay. GERARD ALAN ABBuTT. 945 Marquette Bldg.. Chicago. FOR EXCHANGE.- First-class sets; have a series of Bartramian Sandpiper, American Bittern, Chestnut-collared Longspur, Amer- ican Herring, and Ring-billed Gulls. Also some good singles and slightly imperfect sets, personally collected in North Dakota. I want Cones "Key" last edition; taxidermist instruments, calipers, sets of Whip-poor-will and others. FRED MALTBY, 1667 Jefferson St., Kansas City, Mo. I offer 1-3, 2-4 Fish Crow, 1-5 201, 1-5 194; all for a set of Bartman's Sandpiper 4 or 5 eggs. W. B. CRISPIN. Salem. N. J. FOR EXCHANGE.-Eggs 6 1-7, 37 1-1: 491-3, 58 20-2 2-3, 62 1-3, 64 1-4, 65 9-1 1-2, 80 7-2 1-4 7-3. 114-1 1-2, 122 1-4. 123b 1-4, 141 1 10, 127 1-3, 187 1-4 190 1-3, 191 1-4, 194 4-3, 199 4-3, 201 3-4, 211 1-4. 211-2 1-9. 219 1-3, 221 1-4 Ml. 226 1-4, 269 1-4, 280 1-3, 321 19-2. 326 8-2. 333 1 5, 337b 1-2 2-3. 339 2-4. 339b 2-2, 345 1-1, 346 30-2 ($10 set;' 349 1-2, 355 1-4, 359 1-2, 1-4. 365 1-3, 368a 1-3 (one broken), 373c 1-3, 374 4-4, 378 1-7. 380 1-3 one missing) , 384 1-4 2-6. 385 4-5. 387 2-4, 389 3-4 1-a. (one gone). 3917-5, 410 1-4 3-5 2-6. 413 1-6, 419 21-2, 420a 1-1,453 1-4 1-6, 456 2-4, 471 1-3. 475 1-5. 483 1-3, 496 2-2, 500 1-4, 577 1-4, 593a 1-3 19-4, 594a 3-4. 652 1-5. 713 2-4, 3-5 7-6. 7191-5.746 1-4,7661-5, Gray-tailed Hawk, 1-2 2-31-4 11.25, per egg; White-throated Falcon 1-2, $4.50 per egg; Green Woodpecker 1-4, 75c. per egg; Brown Jay 1-4 1-5 75c. per egg; Mexi- can Crow 1-4 1-5 75c. per egg; Lesson's Oriole 1-5 50c per egg; skins for exchange. 51-5, 54-4, 60-4:64-1. 65-5, 137-8, 142-5, 143-7. 146-11. 149-2. 258a-7, 289b 4, 264-2. Many eggs in broken sets, full data, 1-3 off. Would buy or ex- change for. if at a bargain, any kind of museum specimens, such as relics, fossils, shells, minerals, corals, etc., etc. J. M. CARROLL. San Marcos, Texas. BOOKS ORNITAOLOGY,- Specimens and Books. See "The Bulletin." Post free for 3 cent stamp. THE BULLETIN, 4 Duke St, (2) Adelphi, London, p:ngland. WANTED.— Back numbers of The Auk. Nuttal's Bulletin and other bird magazines, also on insects. Have numbers to exchange. G. W. HUMPHREY. Dedham. Mass. WANTED. -Books on birds. Will pay a reasonable cash price for those that I desire. State title aud author, conaition. etc. CHAS. F. CARR, (Personal), New London, \\'is. THE OOLOGIST III BOOKS-Continued Have your Oologists or other magazines, bound by a careful, painstaking hand pro- less. Write what you have and get styles. Prices reasonable. Exchange considered. H< »\VAKD W. McMILLEN. Ada. Ohio. c l"OK SALE.-Complete tile, The Condor. !fl8.l»0; ten volumes The Auk. $15.00: eight volumes The American Naturalist. $12.00. Other bargains in ornithological publica- tions, complete volumes and odd numbers. DK. K. P. DROWXE. Chilesburg. Virginia. f.j I offer cash for odd numbers or complete volumes of The Auk for the years 1884 to 1889 inclusive. K. C. .McGREGOR.. Manila. P.I.[1 WANTED.- "Birds of Manitoba." by Ernest Seaton Thompson. HARRIET H. WRIGHT. 1637 Gratiot Ave.. Saginaw. W. S.. Mich. fEx] WANTED.— Bird Lore. Will pay 3Uc. each for vol. 2. No. 2. vol. 3, No. 1. 2. vol. 7. No. 1. Also want first three volames of Condor. LAUREN TREMBER, 136 Dewey St.. Phila delphia. Pa. [I] SALE OR EXCHANGE.-Capen's Oology, Nidiologist. Vol. 1. Nos. 1 and 2. Want cash or Bendire's Vol. II. A. C. DYKE, Bridge- water. Mass. [1] FOR SALE— Alden's Cyclopedia of Science, .3 vols.: 20th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; The Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, by .Tordon and P'ver- man. 73 colored plates; Bulletin of V. S. Fish Commission. Vol. XXIV. Sub-tropical Rambles. Pike; Tent Life in Siberia, Kennon; and A Trip Around the World. Moerlin. with 11(1 colored illustrations, full page.. Or will exchange for books on birds or eggs in sets. Will sell cheap. VERDI BURTCH. Hranchport, N. Y. [1] SALE AND FOR EXCHAN(;E.-By W. Otto Emerson. Haywards. Palm Cottage. Calif. Auk. Vol's, (new) 13. 14, 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. (unbound); Osprey. Vol. I. No. 1-9. Nid. Vol. 1-3-7. Vol. III. 1-3; Oregon Naturalist. Vol. III. Vol. 4-1: Zoe. Vol. 1. 1-2-9. Vol. II. 1-4. Vol. III.2. Vol. IV, 4; Oologist. Utica. N. Y. Vol. 4-5. latter bound. Latter Volume: Coopers Club Bull. Vol. I, 1 and index, others also; Report af Ornithology by C. Hart Merriam l&.«tJ-87-H^: Birds of Wyoming. 1902: Ridgways Hummingbirds; Birds of Mexico. Bryant; Calif. Water Birds. No. III. Loomis; Birds of Mexico. Lawrence. Bull. No. 4. I'. S. Museum l>-76; Oology New England. Samules, Land Birds, 1864; Birds of Santa Cruxe Co. Calif. McGregor. FOR SALE.— The following books: Birds of North and Middle America by Ridgway. Parts I, II. Ill, and IV. Birds of Wyoming 1902. by Knight, Our Northern and Eastern Birds, by E. A. Samuels, Nuttall's Ornithol- ogy, two volumes. The Auk. Vols. 16. 21. 22. 23 and 24; All in excellent condition. Will sell cheap. F. C. HFBEL, Clarkston. Mich. WANTED.-A copy of Goss "Birds of Kansas." Will give good exchange in sets or cash. DR. W. I. MITCHELL. 321 Barnes Bldg.. Wichita. Kan. WANTED.— Northern and southern raw furs. Highest market price paid. All goods held subject to approval of valuation. Price list free- GEORGE J. TILLS. Albion. N. Y. Will sell for best offer: Ridg way's "Manuel," 4th edition; Raine's "Bird Nesting in Northwest Canada, and Vols. I. IV. V, VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. of "Oologist." Clean and in good condition. Also Davie's "Nests and Eggs." cloth bound, 5th edition, in fair condition, and several good books on chess. FRED MALTBY, 1667 Jefferson, St.. Kansas City. Mo. FOR SALE. -In perfect condition. "The North American Birds" by Henry Nehrling, German text, cloth bound, gilt edge, 668 pages and 36 plates, showing 137 species in natural color. Original price $15. Sells for |7. ERICH DIETRICH. Canby. Oregon. WANTED.-TheAuk. Vol. II. Nos. 2. .3. 4. Vol. IV. Nos. 2. 4. Vol. V. Nos. 2. 3. 4, Vol. VI, Nos. 1. 3. For cash or exchange. LOUISA. FUERTES. Ithaca. N. Y. _. BIRD LORE.- V.'ill pay cash for Bird-Lore, Vol. II. No. 2. Vol. 3. No. 1. Vol. VII. No. 1 If you can furnish any or all. write stating price. FRANK H.LATTIN, M. D. Albion, N. Y. MISCELLANEOUS WANTED.— Mounting condition, otter, fisher, marten, wolverine, grey timber wolf, white blazed face, baager. all skulls. Address E. W. CAMPBELL. Taxidermist, 323 Wyoming Ave.. Pittston, Pa. Jl] WANTED.— Pair of long thin rooster spurs; old U. S. coins and postage stamps; confederate bills and stamps; perfect copper or stone implements: first volumes of O. A- O. GEO. W. H. VOS BURGH. 284 Riverside St., ■Janesville.jWis. a fl]_ Arickaia Indian collection for sale. Per- sonally collected. Bone implements, arrow heads, stone hammers, etc. Send stamp for photo and price. 11. E. Lee. Pierre. S. D. [1| Have ten pairs Buffalo Horns, five polished, five in rough; 2 large Snake Skins. 12 feet and IS feet with heads. 2 Mamosett Monkeys, mounted, no stands. Any reasonable offers; cash preferred. B. HARTLEY, 97 Smith St.. New Haven. Conn. [2] TO EXCHANGE.-Collection of over 200 scientific cabinet shells (40 species Cyprae) for Warblers in sets with nests or Indian relics, arrowpoints. spearpoints and cere- monial axes preferred. First fair offer takes the list. List sent if stamp is enclosed. L. B. HOWSLEY, .MuUan, Idaho. [1) FOR SALE.— 1 black bear skin showing following measurements: Length, 6 feet, 6i inches: height at shoulder. .34* in.; at hip. 36 in. (iirth center of body. 4 feet 6i in, I>arge and perfect teeth and claws with skull and leg bones. Prepaid. $25,00. One unmounted moosehead: spreads .=i4^ in., length of palm 27 in., width Hi in. 24 points; A 1 scalp. Pre- paid $:35.00. One elk head, spread 42 in., beam 51. 6 and 7 points; very fine even head. A 1 scalp. Prepaid $35.00. WILLIAM SIMPSON, Portage la Prairie. Manitoba. Box 484. [1] EXCHANGE. -200 mounted Microscopical specimens of animal tissues. (Pathological, Histologi(?al and Bacteriological) to exchange for stamps, coins or Indian relics, etc. Also specimens of Fossil Coral (Lithortrotion canadense) to exchange. J. M. BROOKS, M. D.. Golden City. Mo. (U IV THE OOLOGIST MISCELLANEOUS— Continued. Exchange of buttertlies wanted. Will col- lect other lines of Natural history for butter- flies. GEO. ROSSITER, 312 13th Av. East; Calgary. Alta. [l\_ EXCHANGE. — Send stamp for list of articles to exchange or sell. DAVID PRATT, Box 538 Freefort. Maine. |1] WANTED.— Good photographs of nests and eggs of Mississippi Valley Migrants breeding in north i e.. Warblers, Sparrows, etc. J. F. FERRY, Chicago, 111.. Care of Field Museum of Natural History. 1 1] FOR SALE.— Basket w;ork, of ali shapes and patterns, mats, bows, pappoose baskets and other works of art of the "Northern Cali- fornia Indian." Price list free and your money back, if goods bought are not as represented. Address C. IR VIN CLAY, Box 353. Eureka. Cal. [1] FOR SALE.— 1 large black bear skin with skull, claws and leg bones, well salted. Also 1 bull moose with nice pair of Antlers. These skins are first class with full measurements. WM. SIMPSON, Box 4«4 Portage La Prairie, Manitoba. [IJ FOR EXCHANGE.— Scientific shells and books, fossils and stone relics. I want good United States and foreign stamps. T. S. HILL, Moodys, Okla. [l] FOR SALE.^2 black bear cubs, tame and healthy, about 6 months old, $40.00. 23 live Canada Geese. 1 gandor, a fine breeding pen, $20.00. WM. SIMPSON, Box 4»1, Portage La Prairie, Manitoba. [1] If you wish to purchase books on Natural History. Science, Travels, etc., write to The Bulletin. If not in stock, they may be ob- tained for you as the proprietors have ex- ceptional opportunities of buying scarce works. "THE BULLETIN," 4 Duke St., Adelphi, London, England. [1) FOR EXCHANGE.- A representative col- lection of Ohio Indian relics, consisting of over 400 arrow heads, 29 celts, 14 grooved axes, spear heads, drills, hammer stones, plummets, chisels, gorget, pipe, stone beads, pestles, flint knives, etc. Want first class eggs in complete sets with full and complete data. Send lists and receive tracings of specimens. B. R. BALES, Circleville, Ohio. [1 WANTED.— Mounting coudition, otter fisher, marten, wolverine, grey timber wolf, white blazed face, badger, all skulls. Address E. W. CAMPBELL. Taxidermist, 323 Wyoming Ave, Pottston, Pa. UJ FOR SALE.- Large Flint Lock Pistol, 16 inches in length. $6.00; Puritan foot stove tin, with wood frame, $1.50; pair of iron spectacles 75c. JAMES O. .JOHNSON, Southington. Conn. [IJ FOR EXCHANCiE.— Four by five Premo Film-plate Camera outfit, Stevens' Offhand pistol, 32 calibre Colts repeating rifie; for nature and sporting goods and books. OWEN M. (;ATES, Box 54 Mansfield, Ohio.H Is your Subscription paid up ? The Migrant Shrike. J. Claire Wood. In THE OOLOGIST for January, 1910, Mr. R. T. Fuller of Lacona, New York, desires to know which variety of Lanius ludovicianvis inhabits his state. Beyond a doubt, migrans is the only breeding form and if either ex- cubitorides or true ludoricianus should occur at all it could be only as a very rare straggler. Probably the latest and generally accepted authority on geographical distribution is Prof. Ridgway's "Birds of North and Mid- dle America," and according to this great work, excubitorfdes is not found East of the Great Plains while the range of migrans is given as the great- er part of United States East of the Great Plains; breeding North to New Brunswick, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Northern New York, Quebec, Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota and Southward to midland Virginia and western Carolina, Ken- tucky and eastern Kasas; in winter, southward to Mississippi, Louisana and Texas. The range of true ludov- icianus is given as "Coast district of South Carolina and Georgia to south- ern Florida, and westward over the coastal plain of the Gulf States to Louisiana." Excepting borealis, all the shrikes I have collected here are typical mi- grans. My first were taken August 10, 1890, and last April, 25, 1909. I have found them in every month of the year except January. SUBSCRIBERS! READ NOTICE ON PAGE 11 •Notice No. 259." The OoLOGisT. Vol. XXVII. No. 2. Albion, N. Y. February 15, 1910. Whole No. 271 Published Monthly, by R. M. Barnes, Laron, Illinois. Plate 3. Female Woodcock brooding egg^^N^Jft^ok County, Illinois. Photo bj- George A. Abbott. 10 THE OOLOGIST Where the Woodcock Lurks. "Meet me at six to-morrow morning near Crow Creek. When you reach a clump of Sumach follow up the ridge to some heavy undergrowth, known as Hazel Top. This drizzle has practi- cally taken the frcst out of the ground, and the Woodcoclv will be probing the mellow soil along the brook- bottom. Last year while scouting among this undergrowth, I chanced up on an old hen with four little Bog-suckers. They ■were the prettiest creatures 1 ever saw; probably out of the shell about three days, and covered with mark ings of hazel brown and chestnut. Many of our birds emerge from the shell naked and blind. Often they are awkward and ungainly after leaving the nest. I held these chicks in my hand and studied them carefully for half an hour, much to the discomforture of the parent. She circled about drop- ping into the leaves, strutting lil<^e a Turkey Cock, wings drooped and bill slightly open. I'm sure this pair have taken up their abode in the same tract this Spring, because I heard the male "Circling." 'Up the Creek where the stream broadens into a slough' I shot several Mallard. At dusk when I reached Hazel Top, the moon was rising and I listened for that nasal note so sug- gestive of the Night-hawk'fe call. Pres- ently 1 heard the old cock who was quite a ventriloquist. After locating the bush under which 1 heard him "queeking," a rustle of wings predict- ed an aerial flight. I walked around in the soft ooze, tempted to look for the mate, feeling positive she was cov- ering four yellow-brown eggs on some one of the many knolls. If we go there tomorrow I hope to show you what appears to be a ball of animated leaves. Do net be surprised if I stop or pause abruptly, as I'm apt to walk within two feet of the nest before her black beads lend to that somber bed of leaves a most vital appearance." Ralph appeared at the appointed time next morning, and with a stroi:^ west wind blowing against our faces, we headed up the rivulet. The first brush we entered, near the foot of Hazel Top, had been burned since the shedding of the leaves last Fall and beiore the Catkins had burst forth this month. Three or lour chalky patches on the leaves announced the presence of a Woodcock, and closer scrutinizing revealed honey-combed patches in the earth, showing where the birds had been probing within the last twenty-tour hours. "Did you hear that whistle: Sounded like the notes of a Cow Bird? That was tne Woodcock, his short, broad wings with their outer primaries turn- ed, produces that quivering whistle wneii using perpendicular to a height Gi ten leet before taking a horizontal cuuise and dropping zig-zag into an- other cover. The hen is sitting furth- er wesiwara in tne unburued portion; the bushes heie are too exposed around the base." I crawled through the fence to ex- amine a clump of poplars and saw the female, her back toward me, with head and bill turned at right angles to her body. She was five feet from the fence post and sitting with a south exposure. Never before had I "caught" one on the nest, sitting at "right an- gles." If this madam had turned her head to look, it was before I saw her, and she remained in what appeared to be a very cramped position for fif- teen minutes. Ralph stooped to stroke that velvet like back before she vacat- ed her nest. 1 never saw such an ir- regularly marked clutch. If I were to send them to some correspondent he might accuse me of "making up a THE OOLOGIST 11 set." There are three distinct types in that set of four. "There is another place just over the shore line of Lake Michigan where the Philohela Minor lurks from mid- dle March to early August. We will go out there to-morrow. The place is grown up with pucker bush, roses and alders. An ideal place and harboring at least three pair of Owl Snipe. Old hunters tell me, prior to 1900, no less than fifteen pairs arrived there in ear- ly Spring and on July 4th, when the season opened for Woodcock shooting, some hunters secured fifteen birds in a day. Only two fellows had access to the place, and they kept it "under their hat," realizing the possible de- struction of the entire Woodcock tribe if the place we frequented by indis- creet hunters. These two men were true sportsmen and they never visit- ed the place but once a year." Ralph, interested in taking migra- tion notes, did not meet me as agreed, so I hoofed it alone. Making a bee- line for one of the choicest spots in the brush. I stopped to survey the black soil. The two handsome males were sitting side by side under a little popular; one jerked up his tail and strutted over the ridge, the other took flight in the same direction. Beating back and forth in the copse, I detected an egg under the leaves at the base of a grape vine. The bird had cunningly covered her product and only a tenth of the shell was vis- ible through the dead leaves. Five days later I returneil with my camera friend, and we made four successful exposures, three of parent on nest, and one of the eggs. Thinking she would lay a second set the place was revisited and two weeks later I found her squatting in the midst cf a few briers near a wooded path fifty yardo from the first nest. She jumped from her domain revealing a most unique clutch of three eggs, two normal in size and the third decidedly a runt, not larger than a Tow-hee's egg. I went to Poplar Lake on May 1st, 1909. It was a typical March day. A heavy, wet snow had been falling and the wind was blowing forty miles an hour. A ridge extends along the shore of the Lake and this is sheltered by elms and hazel sprouts. Peabody Birds and Juncos were dodging in and out among the brush piles and oc- casionally a little Winter Wren dart- ed out almost beneath my feet. Un- der a fallen limb and surrounded by snow flakes, (not Snow Buntings) was a large Woodcock covering a well formed, deeply cupped nest in a soft bed of leaves and grass. She winked occasionally and I was sure this was not in keeping with an incubating bird. Undoubtedly she was covering an in- complete set, only to protect them from the inclement weather. To dis- turb a Woodcock while laying, or cov- ering an incomplete set, often causes her to abandon the nest entirely, so 1 withdrew without Intruding further. A few days later after a warm thaw, she was visited by myself and camera lr:end. The madam had settled down very complacently and permitted us to make several exposures with the lens only one and one-half feet from her The rest held four very richly marked eggs, evenly spotted with chestnut brcwn, one of the prevailing shades in a Woodcock's plumage. GERALD ALAN ABBOTT. Notice No. 259. With this issue of The OOLOGIST we drri) all subscribers from our broks whose numbers are below 2.59. This we hate to do but the post office regulations are imperative. Better renew at once and keep in the game as we will give you a better magazine for the price than any other in Amer- ica. We hope each one cf our sub- scribers will send us a new subscrip- tion before April 1st. Try and see what you can do for The OOLOGIST. 12 THE OOLOGIST Plate 4. Nest and eggs of American Woodcock, Cook County, Illinois. Photo by George A. Abbott. THE OOLOGIST 13 Some Fulton County, (N. Y.) Birds. During the past two years a few interesting birds have been added to the Avi-fauna of Fulton County, New Yoi-k. These are as follows: Uria lomvia, Linn. Brunnich's Mur- re. A single specimen was shot Decem- ber 1^0, 1908, at Red Bunch, near Mun- sonville. It was sitting on a snow liank, and as the hunters approached, Hew directly toward them, when they shot it. Larus Philadelphia, Ord. Bonaparte's Gull. A young mounted specimen of this gull is in the Fulton House at Canada Lake. It was shot on West Lake, in the fall of 1900. Totanus melanoleucus, Gmel. Great- er Yellow-legs. A mounted specimen is in the Ful- ton House at Canada Lake. It was shot in front of the hotel, in October, 1897. Bartramla longicauda, Bechst. Bartra- mian Sandpiper. On May 6, 1909, and .June 23, 1909, single specimens were observed. On .lune 27, 1909, I noted four specimens in a grassy field, one mile East of .Johnston. Three were noted in the air at one time. On .June 28, 1909. I went over and secured a specimen. There is scarcely a doubt but that the bird was breeding, but careful search failed to reveal the nest Picoides arcticus. Swains. Artie three- toed Woodpecker. .\ male was secured in Cold Spring Woods. Southeast of Gloversville, New Ycrk, on October 30,1907. by Carver Pruyn. Nuttalornis borealis, Swains. Olive sided Flycatcher. A specimen was taken in the Johns- town Cemetery, May 30, 1909. This specimen and the next are in the Cor- nell University collection. Empidonax flaviventris, Baird. Yel- low-bellied Flycatcher. A beautiful specimen was secured May 22, 1909, in Mosher's Woods, Northeast of Johnstown. It was sitt- ing low down on a brush-pile, in com- pany with male Indigo Buntings. The only other record for the county that I have is September 26, 1903, in the chestnut woods, three miles west of Gloversville, New York. Dendroica tigrina, Gmelix. Cape May Warbler. Two males in Johnstown on May 18, 1909. The first record for the county. CHARLES P. ALEXANDER. increase. The year 1908 there was a pair of Western House Wrens which built be- hind a board so placed as to form a miniature tunnel between the logs of a log house, near Rathdrum, Idaho. They raised two flocks and the next year I placed three bird boxes up and they were occupied during the summer of 1909 and one pair still nested be- hind the board. The results from the three boxes were twenty-one offspring who lived principally on plant lice and small bugs, which is certainly a great item to the orchardists. In all, four pairs produced twenty- eight young, which required a great many plant parasites. A Western Blue Bii'd nested in (Uie of the boxes after the Wrens left it to tend their young. PERCY J. JUDD. What do you think of the OOLO- GIST this month? We are now hook in the harness and will give you the best OOLOGIST ever published dur- ing 1910. Just see if we do not. 14 THE OOLOGIST The American Robin in England. P. G. Howes. In the early part of 1908, at just what time I cannot say, a dozen Ameri- can Robins were tal^en to England and kept in a large aviary in a country garden. When breeding time came, the birds nested readily in the aviary but as as congregation is not congen- ial with the family Turdidae, many of the clutches were broken and none were likely to be hatched. When this was discovered, the remaining eggs were carefully removed and deposited in the nests of various English birds of the Thrush family. The experiment worked wonderfully, and at the end of the summer, the dozen American birds were greatly increased in numbers. So far, so good. The English sum- mer as breathed in the shade of a beautiful garden proved thoroughly sympathetic with the robins. They fed and bred and flourished without disturbance from their neighbors or surroundings. If they remain, the rob- ins will be a real addition to England and the British will look upon them with even more pleasure than they mark the coming of the first gentle green of their alien tree, the larch. The pleasing fact is now to be chronicled that up to December 10th, 1908, they have remained. One mi- grating period is over. Many Black- birds (Tundus merula) and thrushes have migrated to France and flocks of other birds have launched them- selvs from the shores of Kent south- wards and eastwards. With almost all birds, congregation precedes mi- gration. The safety of numbers arms them against the peril of the long journey. "The storm of wings". The American birds however have not con- gregated, and they still remain in the garden in twos and threes as if wait- ing for another summer in this new nesting haunt, a place of quiet and beauty. There is a certain English thrush called the Field-fare (Turdus pilaris), and it is thought by English orni- thologists that the robins may migrate with their cousins in the Spring. I do not believe this, for the strongest instincts drive the birds at nesting time to the nesting home of their parents. The rigour of the English winter is another danger but having seen these birds pass through all kinds of weather in America I am confident that the English winters will not af- fect the success of the experiment. It is a strong likelihood that the Ameri- can robin has now been naturalized into England. It was published in an English news- paper not long ago, that as a return experiment, a number of Wood Pig- eons (Columba palumbus), a very com- mon bird in France and England, would soon be sent to America. The Wood Pigeons are shot by the thous- ands in England around Christmas time. It is a favorite sport of the farm- ers to shoot the birds from "caches" within reach of the ground, well baited during the previous week. By the latter part of December, as a rule, a great horde of the Pigeons have migrated from Scandinavia to the midland counties, and in some years, three or four farmers will kill as many as three hundred in a day. It is truly like the old days of the Passenger Pigeon in America. Such slaughter is an outrage and dis- gusting to all the better nature of mankind. — Editor. From Isle of Pines. Some Fall Migration Notes made on the Isle of Pines, Cuba, 1909. Aug. 20, First Water-thiMLshes of the season (8-4). THE OOLOGIST 15 Aug. 22, Water-thnishes fairly com- mon. Aug. 23, Black and White Warbler (1), Aug. 30, (1). Aug. 24, Louisana Water-thrush (1). Sept. 18, Yellow-throated Warbler (1), Oct. S, (1). Greater Yellow-legs (4). Sept. 21, Spotted Sandpiper (1). Sept. 25, Palm Warbler (1), Sept. 29, common, Oct. 4, abundant. Oct. 3, Maryland Yellows-throat (1). Oct. 4, Least Bittern (1), Oct. 9, (3). Oct. 6, Parula Warbler (4-6), Oct. 24, common. Prairie Warbler, (2) Oct. 24, Common for them. Yellow Palm Warbler (1) very rare. Oct. 16, American Redstart (4-6), Oct. 20, common. Catbird (1). Oct. 12, Marsh Hawk (1), also on Oct. 13, 14, 15, 18, 19. White-crown- ed Pigeon (1) last seen, also on Oct. 11 (1), and Sept. 24 (2). Oct. 21, Black-throated Green Warb- ler (1), Oct. 26, (1), Wilson's Snipe (1). Oct. 24. Oven-bird (1). Oct. 28, Black-throated Green Warb- ler *(1 shot.) Oct. 26, Myrtle Warbler (2), Nov. 26, (1). Oct. 27, Solitary Sandpiper (2). Nov. IC, Catbird (2), Nov. 19, com- mon. Nov. 4, Tennessee Warbler, (1). Dec. 25, Least Grebe (2). For some unknown reason no Black- throated Blue Warblers have been seen this winter although in December, 1908, it was the most common warb- ler here. A. C. READ. A' Correction. Mr. A. C. Read of the Isle of Pines writes us as follows: "I wish to make a correction in the scientific name of the Isle of Pines Tanager published in the Nov., 1909. OOLOGIST. The name should be Spindalis pretrei pinus. In the July 1909 OOLOGIST, I had some notes on the Florida Grackle, Quiscalus quis- cula aglaeus, which was a case of mis- taken identity. It should have been (^uban Grackle, Holoquiscalus gundl- achi. Keep Up the Campaign Mr. Herron. No more English Sparrows frequent San Bernardino County. R. B. Her- ron, county bird man has just return- ed from a thorough investigation, af- ter pursuing a most strenuous cam- paign against the foreign pest, and brings news that the birds have eith- er all been killed or have given this county the farewell. During the early spring there was much complaint, it being declared that the aliens were nipping off fruit buds, also that they were driving native song birds from the state, or slaugh- tering them, and Mr. Herron commenc- ed a campaign, which has resulted in entirely exterminating the pest. — San Bernardino Sun. The Great Blue Heron. (Ardea herodias). The group of this splendid bird illustrated on the opposite page has been presented to the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences by me. It took several years of hard work, aided by my son, Edward, to get the material for the same. The Heronry is about fifty miles north of Buffalo, located near the Tonawanda Swamp and only a fearless climber could get to the nests, which are located on elms from one hundred to one hundred twenty feet up; a hard task when higher than the nests to haul up the kodak and take the pictures of the nests contain- ing eggs in sets from four to six, and 16 THE OOLOGIST THE OOLOGIST 17 two months later of the young. The Herons arrive here from the South in the first days of April and start at once to look over their previous nests, repairing and strengthening them for their occupancy. In the middle of April they start laying eggs. About a month later, the young appear and now the work of getting nourishment for them is no easy matter. They have to fly as far as fifty miles, and can be seen near Grand Island and Navy Island standing in Niagara River, watching for fish, with which they re- turn to the young to satisfy their rav- enous appetites. The long flight is necessary because it is impossible for them to get down to the ground in the heronry on account of the dense shrub- bery. A continuous croaking of the old birds is heard. It takes fully from two to two and a half months until the young can take care of themselves, and to bring them down out cf their nests is no easy problem. The bark of these elms is from one to one and a quarter inches thick, making it necessary to plant the spurs very deep to sustain the weight of the body. During the time we were up to the nests, the Herons circled above us with loud croaking, alight- ing occasionally on some high point to watch our maneuvers. Great care is necessary for a])proaching the nest from below, as the slightest distur- bance of the nest brings down a show- er of the dry white droppings of the birds, which is extremely irritating in case it reaches an eye. As we ap- proach home, the female leaves the nest and fliles in wide circles over our her.ds, croaking defiance to the intrud- er. To get the young Herons out of the nest is extremely difficult, as they are large and awkard birds, and cling ten- aciously to every branch within reach. Nearly all the Zoos in the United States have in the past been provided with birds from this Heronry, and when i)roperly treated their existence can be maintained in captivity for a number of years. The Herons of this section only raise one brood a year. It is hoped that every reader of this articles will use every effort to pre- serve this nesting site of these stately birds. OTTOMAR REINECKE. Books Received. Birds of the Leeward Islands, by Prof. Charles B. Corey, 1909. This is a pamphlet review of the work of Mr. .lohn F. Ferry upon these islards and contains lists relating to the various islands visited aggregating 161 species. It is issued by ^he Field Museum of Natui-al History. It is gotten up with the usual evidence of care-taking accuracy which character- izes all of Professor Corey's work, and will be a reference manual relat- ing to the ornithology of these islands for years to come. Catalogue of Canadian Birds, by .John Macown and .James M. Macown; Government Printing Office, Ottawa, Canada, 1909 — issued by the Depart- ment of Mines, Geological Survey Branch. This splendid work is a re-issuance of the catalogue of Canadian Birds originally issued in parts as follows: Part 1, 1900: Part 2, 1903; Part 3, 1904, by Prof. .John Macown. Though much of it is re-written and all of it is brought down to date, containing as it does 761 pages, is a monumental work upon the subject of Canadian Birds, by far the most complete now in existence. It is a splendid produc- tion and indeed a highly valuable ad- dition To the literature of that sub.1ect; 18 THE OOLOGIST and will remain for years a standard work of reference relating to the orni- thology of the Dominion. The me- chanical make up of the work is a credit to the public printing of Can- ada. The Warbler, Vol. V., 1909. Bulle- tin of the Childs Museum of North American Ornithology. This number of the Warbler consist- ing of thirty-one pages and three half tones, is at hand, containing the fol- lowing entitled articles. Breeding of the Sharp-shinned Hawk on Long Island. Last record of the Breeding of the Bartramian Sandpiper in Maine. The Bleating and Breeding of the Snipe. ; Long Island Bird Notes. The Chat. Authentic eggs of Corey's Least Bit- tern. Brewer's Blackbird. The Starling. Collecting in Northeastern Siberia. And a Supplementary catalogue of the Natural History Books of Childs Museum and Library. It is well gotten up and full of inter- esting bird matter. Would that Brother Childs would again resume the publication of the Warbler as of yore. We have always regretted its discontinuance as a bi- monthly magazines. The Passenger Pigeon. A final effort is now being made to definitely determine whether the Pass- enger Pigeon is extinct. The following rewards will be paid in connection with the plan: $300.00 for the first next or nesting colony on the North American conti- nent; $100.00 for the first nest in Mass- achusetts; $100.00 for the first nest in Connecticut; $100.00 for the first in Illinois. The nests must be undisturbed and reported in confidence to C. F. Hodge, at Clark University, Worcester, Mass- achusetts, and they will be by him confirmed at the expense of the donors of the fund and not at the expense of the discoverers; which will leave the reward complete for the person or per- sons making these finds. All previous rewards for freshly killed specimens of this bird are can- celled and all persons killing or des- troying the bird or its nest will be prosecuted. It is hoped that bird lovers through- out the land will give special atten- tion to this matter this season, and they need have no fear of the final dis- position of such nest or nests as may be discovered. They will not be dis- turbed, collected nor injured in any way, even if to prevent which, it should be necessary to place an arm- ed guard over the nest or nests until the young leave. We trust some of the readers of THE OOLOGIST will be successful in securing some of these large rewards. FRAUD. One of our subscribers Writes us as follows: "There are a lot of bogus eggs float- ing around and the only way they can be discovered is by comparing the sus- pected eggs with a series of genuine ones. In making my collection I have thrown out as bogus, probably a dozen sets, and I have refused to accept many that I believed were frauds. A common case of subtitution is to palm off fifteen cent English Sparrow Hawk eggs for those of our Sharp Shinned Hawks, worth a dollar each. Some time ago there were a lot of fraud Goshawk eggs floating around, of which I have a set or two. I was also THE OOLOGIST 19 offered a set of six. There are said to be quite a number of Mute Swan eggs, in collections that are labeled California Vulture, and nobody can tell the difference unless he knows how to do it." If any such practices as these come to the notice of any of our readers, it will be a pleasure to the publisher of this magazine to bulletin the guilty parties in our columns, and let the world know who it is that is engaged in swindling, and if possible to fol- low it up with criminal proceedings for use of the mails for fraudulent purposes. A year or two in a federal penitentiary for some of those engaged in this sort of work would go a long ways towards clarifying the oological atmosphere. Keep your eye on the frauds and when you get one of them dead to rights, send us the proof and then sit up an^ Lacon. 111. VI THE OOLOGIST ki The Condor 55 A Magazine of Western Ornithology Edited by J. Grinnell. Associate Editors: Wm. L. Finley, Robert B. Rockwell "Official Organ of the Cooper Orni- thological Club." Vol. XI, 1909 will contain the usual interesting articles by live active ornithologists and will be illustrated by the high- est class of half tones. You can- not afford to miss a number. Published bi-monthly at Holly- wood, California.- Subscription : $1.50 per year net in advance. Single copies: 30c each. Foreign subscription. $i.7S- J. Eugene Law, Business Mgr. Hollywood, California. W. Lee Chambers, Asst. Mgr. Santa Monica, California. Birds Eggs I have for exchange for species desired by me to complete series of many very common kinds; a very large list of duplicates. Send me your exchange list. R. M. BARNES, Lacon, III. BOOKS and MAGAZINES Especially pertaining to Ornithology and nature study. Oologist and Taxidermists Tools ■ Write me just what you want. I can save you money. BENJAMIN HOAQ, Siephentowrn, New York. HELP BOOST Send in not only yonr own renewal subscription, but one for a friend— it will help some. In continuation of its series of plates of the Sparrows of North America IN COLOR Bird- Lore for January- Feb- ruary (Vol. XII, No. i) con- tains colored figures of the Grasshopper, Henslow's Baird's and LeConie's Spar- rows. The series was begun in Bird-Lore for November-De- cember, where the Chipping, Field, Tree, Clay-colored and Brewer's Sparrows were fig- ured. As long as the supply lasts we will give a copy of this loo-page number, containing the first plate of the Sparrow series, to all subscribers to Bird-Lore for 191 0. Single numbers 20 cents. Annual subscription $1.00 BIRD-LORE, Harrisburg, Pa. THE OOLOGIST VII ^^ McCALL PATTERNS Celebrnted for style, perfect fit, simplicity and reliability nearly 40 ye.irs. Sold in nearly every city and town in the United States and Canada, or by mail direct. More soki tl.an any other make. Send for free catalogi:e. McCALL'S MAGAZINE More subscribers than any other fashion magazine — million a month. Invaluable. Lat- est styles, patterns, dressmaking, millinery, plain sewing, fancy needlework, hairdressing, etiquette, good stories, etc. Only 50 cents a year (worth double), including a free pattern. Subscribe today, or send for sample copy. WONDERFUL INDUCEMENTS to Agents. Postal brings premium catalogue and new cash jirizc ofle: s. Address THE McCALL CO.. 238 to 248 W. 37(h St.. NEW YORK ALL SENT PREPAID. Cut the Lining Egg Drills 25c each.. 4 selected sizes $1.00 If not the best you ever used, return and get your money. Blow pipes. Best Nickel, 20c, 30c, and 40 Regular Egg Drills, 20c, 25c, 35c, 50c and 1.00 Best Steel Climbers, without straps, $2.00; with straps 3.00 Davie's Nests and Eggs, 5th Ed. and New subscription to Oolo- gist 1.60 Write me your wants. Lists for the asking. Benjamin Hoag, Stephentown, New York. BACK NUMBERS OF THE OOLOGIST WANTED Vol. 1, No . 1. ;;; 9 3, 4. 4, 4. 0, 5,6. 6, 4. / . 3 8, 4,5, 8. 10, -\ 3, 4. 1^, 1, 13, 5. 14, 3,5, 10, 11, 12 15, 1,7, 16, 4,9. 26, 9. I will buy a large number of each of the above back numbers for cash at the rate they are listed at, as being for sale in this number of THE OOLO- GIST. Address, R. M. BARNES, Lacon, 111. OOLOGIST ADVERTISING RESULTS I have disposed of 47 volumes of Books, the Typewriter, 16 sets of eggs (in exchange) and numerous articles that would fill a page. I have received as a result of insert- ing a want add in THE OOLOGIST, 32 sets of eggs, innumerable Ornitholog- ical and Oological Books and Pamph- lets, 155 arrow and spear points and 25 miscellaneous Indian relics. Now if this isn't worth the price paid for the insertion, kindly tell me what is? I received letters from Mexico to England and for awhile, I was "sorry that I spoke." Such good luck accompanied my other add that I am sending you an- other to run one issue and if there is anything left of them I will notify you in time to extend it.. I don't want an- other such rain of inquiries if I can help it. This isn't gush.. Everything I have written above can be verified." L. B. HOWSLEY.. . VIII THE OOLOGIST The Oologist for 1910 Will be Better Than Ever Splendid bird articles will be printed, writ- ten by the best bird observers in America, detailing original field observations. First-class illustrations will be used, portray- ing original field subjects never before pub- lished. Advertisers will receive greater returns than ever by .using our columns. Help us extend our influence and subscrip- tion list. THE OOLOQIST Albion, N. Y., or Lacon, Illinois The Oologist. BIRDS-NESTS-EGGS TAXIDERMY Vol. XXVII. No. 3. ALBION, N. Y., MARCH 15, 1910. Whole No. 272 BRIER SPBCIAl^ ANNOUNCEMENTS Wanted, Exchange, For Sale, Etc., inserted in this department at 25 cents for each 25 words for one issue ; each additional word 1 cent. No notice inserted for less than 25 cents. TAKE NOTICE. SUBSCRIPTION, 50 CENTS PER YEAR Examine the number on the wrapper of your Oologist. It denotes the time your subscription expires. Remember we must be notified if you wish it discontinued and all arrearages must be paid. 272 your sub- scription expires with this issue. 281 your subscription expires with December issue 1910. Other expirations can be computed by intermediate numbers at the rate of one number per month. Entered as second-class matter De- cember 21, 1903, at the post office, at Albion, N. Y., under the Act of Con- gress of March 3, 1879. In answering advertisements in these columns mention "The Oologist," and thereby help us, as well as the ad- vertiser and yourself. BIRDS THE CELEBRATED HUNGARIAN AND ENGLISH PARTRIDGES AND PHEAS- ANTS, capercailzies, black game, wild turkeys, quails, rabbits, deer, etc. for stock purposes. Fancy pheasants, peafowl, swans, cranes, storks, ornamental geese and ducks, foxes, squirrels, ferrets, and all kinds of birds and animals. WENZ cVr M ACKENSEN, Dept. H. Pheasantry it Game Park, Yardley, Pa. BIRDS OF PREY: The skins of the forms of this order, that I can offer from time to time, cannot be excelled in point of quality, and data. AUSTIN PAUL SMITH, Box 141 Brownsville, Texas. fU WANTED.— A few good skins of the Aleu- tian Tern (Sterna aleutica) Thayer Museum, Lancaster, Mass. WANTED. -To buy first class skins of the Hawks and Owls, or will give good exchange in books. Write S. V. WHAKRA.M, Geneva. Ohio. QUALITY BIRD SKINS.-If you are in need of material from the Lower Kio Grande, southward in Mexico; let me hear from you. My work is gauged by quality, not quantity of output; a fact worthy of your serious con- sideration, when adding to your collection. Series representing the species from the egg to the adult can be arranged for. AUSTIN PAUL SMITH, Box 111, Brownsville, Texas. WANTED.-Male and female of Wood Duck, Great Horned Owl, Screech Owl, Spar- row Hawk. Flicker, Baltimore Oriole, Blue Jay and Scarlet Tanager. The first five with nests in section of hollow tree and the latter three with nests and eggs in section of original branches. For further particulars address J. FRIESSER, 5620 Lake Ave., Chicago, 111. WANTED. -Skins of all the quails, par- tridges, grouse and pheasants of Mexico, Central and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia tall over the world), cash or exchange. Write what you have and what you.want. J. F. FRAZIER, Audubon, Iowa. WANTED.— First class skins of Murrelets, Gulls, Shearwaters, Rails. Shore Birds. Grouse, Hawks, Owls, particularly Snowy and (ireat Gray, and certain small land birds. Offer representative Southern California species, also fine sets of personally taken Heermann's Gulls and Blue-footed Boobies. All reliable collectors send lists. PINGREY I. OSBURN. Pasadena. Calif. WANTED. -Skins of Masked Bob-white. Eskimo (Curlew, San Pedro, Partridge, Spotted Owl. Flammulated Screech OwL Pribilof Sand Piper, Bristle-thighed Curlew, and any other rare skins. J. F. FRAZIER. Audubon, Iowa. COSTA RICA SKINS.— Write me your wants. Bird and Mammel skins collected from this locality for cash. HENRY F. R^^ YEN, Box 73. Limon, Costa Rica. Any collectors having a few good labeled specimens of foreign birds, send list. I will give A 1 skins of Illinois and California birds. Also offer skins of common specimens from Illinois for nests and sets cf small species. HENRY K. COALE, Highland Park, Lake Co.. 111. TO EXCHANGE. -Finely mounted birds and deer heads, several hundred Natural History and Sportsman's magazines, for bird and mammal skins. GEO. F. GUELF, Taxidermist. Brockport. N. Y. WANTED.— All mounted specimens of Woodcock, Wood Duck, Great Blue Heron, all Quails and Grouse, for cash. L. MILLER, 1129 E, Market St.. Indianapolis, Ind. II THE OOLOGIST EGGS EXCHANGE— Several sets of Black Tern for what you have. DR. E. S. SCHMIDT. Green Bay, Wis. WANTED.— For cash only. One good egg cabinet. Address, EUGENE KEITHLEY, St. Michaels, Md.. Box 124. [IJ Send exchange lists of first class sets for mine.-J. W PRESTON, 1411 13th Ave., Spokane, Wash. 2 FOR EXCHANGE.— Pine sets of Least Tern, Black Skimmer, Louisiana Heron, Wayne's Clapper Rail, Florida Burrowing Owl. and others. For parliculars address W. W. WORTHINGTON, Shelter Island Heights, New York. TO EXCHANGE -Sets with data. North American and Foreign. Can use many com- mon kinds of both. Dr. T. W. RICHARDS U. S. Navy, 1911 N. St.. N. W., Washington D.C. EXCHANGE.-A tine series of ten of the Pallas Murre from Cape Hope, Alaska. I want 188. 332, 343, 348, 362, 364 and many others, D.E. BROWN, 6044 1st Ave.. No. W, Sta. F. Seattle. Wash. FOR SALE.— Some rare single eggs from Iceland, Loons, Sjua, Glaucous Gull, Old- squaw, Northern Eider, Bean Goose, Whoop- ing Swan, Golden Plover. Dunlin. Godwit, Ruff, Snowttake, Iceland Falcon, and others. Send for full list to H. WARREN, Room 215 St. James Chambers, Adelaide St., E., Toronto, Ont. FOR EXCHANGE. - Eggs in fine sets, beautiful minerals, butterflies and moths in dust and insect proof cases, and other natural history specimens. Want all the above. Send lists and receive mine. LEWIS C. SNYDER, Lacona, New York. FOR EXCHANGE- First class Eggs sets. C. S. RUTHERFORD, Revere, Mo. HI WANTED.-Setsof 351, 352, 352a. 206, and many common sets; have to offer choice sets 679 1-4,417 1-2.419 1-2.337. 339. .375. 263, 261, 273 and many other choice sets; send list and re- ceive mine. RAY DINSMORE, Perry, Ohio "I have perfect sets of Mourning, Cerulean Black throated, Blue and Black throated Green Warbler. American Woodcock, Bar- tramian Sandpiper. King Rail, Canadian Spruce, Grouse and Sharp Shinned Hawk for exchange. I desire sets of American Flam- ingo, Long-billed Curlew, Semipalmated Plover, Franklin's Grouse, Bonaparte's Gull. Williamson's Sapsucker, White-headed and Red Cockaded Woodpecker, Pink-sided Junco. Huttoii's and Black Capped Vireo. Sennett's Orange-crowned and Connecticut Warbler and Canada Jay. GERARD ALAN ABBOTT. 945 Marquette Bldg., Chicago. I offer 1-3. 2-4 Fish Crow, 1-5 201. 1-5 194; all for a set of Bartman's Sandpiper 4 or 5 eggs. W. B. CRISPIN, Salem, N. J. WANTED.— Sets with or without nests. Particularly Sharp-tail and Seaside Sparrow. DR. J. P. BALL, Frankford, Pa. [2] FOR EXCHANGE.-A collection of eggs with data including Whip-poor-will, Oven- bird, etc. for Botanical Works, especially ones on Ferns and Mosses. HARRY W. CLUTE, 13 Allen St.. Gloversville, N. Y. |1] WANTED.-In good sets: 340, 357, 451, 485, 548, 554a, 566, 568, 570a, 610a, 646, 647, 660, 672, 672a. 690, 700, 719a. Can offer 89, 95, 101, 207. 293a, 294, 295, 309, 332, 339a, 351. 359, 384, 416, 417. 419, 420b, 460, 479. 533. 534, 536, 569, 575, 575a, 594a, 602, 607, 637, 639. 641, 730, 763 and 315 (1871). THOMAS H. JACKSON, 304 N. Franklin St., West Chester, Pa. [3] FOR EXCHANGE.-Eggs 6 1-7, 37 1-1: 491-3. 58 20-2 2-3, 62 1-3, 64 1-4, 65 9-1 1-2, 80 7-2 1-4 7-3, 114-1 1-2, 122 1-4, 123b 1-4, 141 1 10, 127 1-3, 187 1-4 190 1-3, 191 1-4, 194 4-3, 199 4-3, 201 3-4, 211 1-4. 211-2 1-9, 219 1-3. 221 1-4 1-11, 226 1-4, 269 1-4,280 1-3, 321 19-2. 326 8-2, 333 1 5, 337b 1-2 2-3, 339 2-4, 339b 2-2, 345 1-1, 346 30-2 ($10 set;' 349 1-2, 355 1-4, 359 1-2, 1-4, 365 1-3, 368a 1-3 (one broken), 373c 1-3, 374 4-4, 378 1-7, 380 1-3 one missing), 384 1-4 2-6, 385 4-5. 387 2-4. 389 3-4 l-s. (one gone), 3917-5, 410 1-4 3-5 2-6. 413 1-6, 419 21-2, 420a 1-1, 453 1-4 1-6, 456 2-4, 471 1-3, 475 1-5, 483 1-3, 496 2-2, 500 1-4, 577 1-4, 593a 1-3 19-4, 594a 3-4. 652 1-5. 713 2-4, 3-5 7-6, 7191-5.7461-4,766 1-5, (iray-tailed Hawk, 1-2 2-3 1-4 $1.25, per egg; White-throated Falcon 1-2, $4.50 per egg; Green Woodpecker 1-4, 75c. per egg; Brown Jay 1-4 1-5 75c. per egg; Mexi- can Crow 1-4 1-5 75c. per egg; Lesson's Oriole 1-5 50c per egg; skins for exchange. 515, 54-4, 60-4:64-1. 65-5, 137-8, 142-5, 143-7. 146-11, 149-2, 258a-7, 289b 4, 264-2. Many eggs in broken sets, full data. 1-3 off. Would buy or ex- change for, if at a bargain, any kind of museum specimens, such as relics, fossils, shells, minerals, corals, etc., etc. J. M. CARROLL, San Marcos, Texas. Ornithology and Oology. Specimens and Books. See the Bulletin, post free for 3 cent unused stamp. THE BULLETIN, 4 Duke St.. Adelphi. London, W. C. England. Birds Eggs I have for exchange for species desired by me to complete series of many very common kinds; a very large list of duplicates. Send me your exchange list. Is your Subscription paid up ? R. M. BARNES, Lacon, III. THE OOLOGIST III BOOKS BOOKS-Continued ORNITHOLOGY,- Specimens and Books. See "The Bulletin." Post free for 3 cent stamp. THE BULLETIN, 4 Duke St, (2) Adelphi, London. England. WANTED.— Back numbers of The Auk. Nuttal's Bulletin and other bird magazines, also on insects. Have numbers to exchange. G. W. HUMPHREY. Dedham. Mass. WANTED.-Books on birds. Will pay a reasonable cash price for those that I desire. State title aud author, conaition. etc. CHAS. F. CARR, (Personal), New London, Wis. Have your Oologists or other magazines, bound by a careful, painstaking hand pro- cess. Write what you have and get stj'les. Prices reasonable. Exchange considered. HOWARD W. McMILLEN, Ada, Ohio. c FOR SALE.— Complete tile. The Condor, $18.00; ten volumes The Auk, $15.00; eight volumes The American Naturalist, $12.00. Other bargains in ornithological publica- tions, complete volumes and odd numbers. DR. F. P. DROWN E, Cfailesburg, Virginia. [3 WANTED. -A copy of Goss "Birds of Kansas." Will give good exchange in sets or cash. DR. W. I. MITCHELL. 321 Barnes Bldg., Wichita, Kan. FOR SALE.-In perfect condition. "The North American Birds" by Henry Nehrling, German text, cloth bound, gilt edge. (J6.s pages and 3tj plates, showing 137 species in natural color. Original price $15. Sells for $7. ERICH DIETRICH. Canby. Oregon. WANTED.-The Auk. Vol. II. Nos. 2, 3, 4. Vol. IV. Nos. 2, 4, Vol. V, Nos. 2, 3, 4, Vol. VI, Nos. 1. 3. For cash or exchange. LOL'IS A. FUERTES, Ithaca. N. Y. BIRD LORE.-Vrill pay cash for Bird-Lore, Vol. II. No. 2, Vol. 3. No. 1. Vol. VII. No. 1 If you can furnish any or all, write stating price. FRANK H.LATTIN, M. D. Albion. N. Y. WANTED.— Bird Books; will pay a reason- able price for those I wish. State what you have, and on what condition, price, etc. CHAS. F. CARR. New London. Wis. [2] WANTED— Old ]]ird books and magazines. Will pay cash. Quote what you have. Also wish sets of Golden and Bald Eagle. Good exchange. BEN'JAMIN HOA(i. Stephen- town, N. Y. (1) SALE AND FOR EXCHAN(;E.-By W. Otto Emerson, Haywards, Palm Cottage. Calif. Auk. Vol's, (new) 13. 14, 15. ItJ. 17. 18. 19, (unbound); Osprey, Vol. I. No. l-;i. Nid. Vol. 1-3-7. Vol. III. 1-3; Oregon Naturalist. Vol. Ill, Vol. 4-1; Zoe, Vol. I, 1-2-9. Vol, II, 1-4, Vol, 111,2, Vol. IV, 4; Oologist, Utica, N. Y. Vol, 4-5, latter bound. Latter Volume; Coopers Club Bull. Vol. I, 1 and index, others also; Report af Ornithology by C. Hart Merriam 18«()-87-S.s; Birds of Wyoming, 1902; Ridgways Hummingbirds; Birds of Mexico, Bryant; Calif. Water Birds, No. III. Loomis; Birds of Mexico. Lavvrence, Bull. No. 4. U. S. Museum 1«76; Oology New England, Samules, Land Birds, 1864; Birds of Santa Cruxe Co. Calif. McGregor. I offer cash for odd numbers or complete volumes of The Auk for the years 1884 to 1889 inclusive. R. C. .Mr(JREG(JR, Manila, P. I. [I WANTED,- "Birds of Manitoba," by Ernest Seaton Thompson. HARRIET H. WRIGHT. 1637 Gratiot Ave., Saginaw, W, S,. Mich. [Ex] WANTED.— Bird Lore. Will pay 50c. each for vol. 2, No. 2. vol. 3, No. l, 2, vol. 7, No. L Also want first three volumes of (Jondor. L.JlUREN TRE.MPER, 136 Dewey St.. Phila- delphia. Pa. [1] SALE OR EXCHANGE.-Capen's Oology, Nldiologist. Vol. 1. Nos. 1 and 2. Want cash or Bendire's Vol. II. A. C. DYKE, Bridge- water, Mass. [1] FOR SALE— Alden's Cyclopedia of Science. 3 vols.: 20th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology; The Shore Fishes of the Hawaiian Islands, by .Tordon and Ever- man. 73 colored plates; Bulletin of U. S. Fish Commission. Vol. XXIV, Sub-tropical Rambles, Pike: Tent Life in Siberia, Kennon; and A Trip Around the World, .Moerlin, with 110 colored illustrations, full page.. Or will exchange for books on birds or eggs in sets. Will sell cheap, VERDI BURTCH, Branchport, N. Y. [1] FOR SALE.-The following books: Birds of North and Middle America by Ridgway, Parts I. II, III, and IV. Birds of Wyoming 1902, by Knight, Our Northern and Eastern Birds, by E. A. Samuels, Nuttall's Ornithol- ogy, two volumes. The Auk, Vols. 16, 21, 22. 23 and 24. All in excellent condition. Will sell cheap. F. C. HUBEL, Clarkston, Mich. WANTED.— Northern and southern raw furs. Highest market price paid. All goods held subject to approval of valuation. Price list free. GEOR(iE ,1. TILLS. Albion, N. Y. 60 YEARS- EXPERIENCE Trade Marks Designs . . Copyrights &c. Anvone sending a sketch and description may quickly ascertain our opinion free whether aa invention is probably patentable. Communica- tions strictly confidential. HANDBOOK on Patent* gent free. Oldest agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive tpecial notice, without charge, in the Scientific JInierican. A handsomely illustrated weekly. Largest clTk culation of any scientific journal. Terms, |3 c year ; four months, (L Sold by all newsdealers, MUNN iCo.36»««'»^«»' New Yorl Branch Office. 626 F St. Washington. D. C. IV THE OOLOGIST MISCELLANEOUS WANTED— Mounting condition, otter, fisher, marten, wolverine, grey timber wolf, white blazed face, badger, all skulls. Address E. W. CAMPBELL, Taxidermist, 323 Wyoming Ave., Pittston, Pa. Jl] Arickara Indian collection for sale. Per- sonally collected. Bone implements, arrow heads, stone hammers, etc. Send stamp for photo and price. H. E. Lee, Pierre, S. D. [IJ Have ten pairs Buffalo Horns, five polished, five in rough; 2 large Snake Skins, 12 feet and 18 feet with heads. 2 Mamosett Monkeys, mounted, no stands. Any reasonable offers; cash preferred. B. HARTLEY, 97 Smith St.. New Haven, Conn, |2] TO EXCHANGE.-Collection of over 200 scientific cabinet shells (40 species Cyprae) for Warblers in sets with nests or Indian relics, arrowpoints, spearpoints and cere- monial axes preferred. First fair offer takes the list. List sent if stamp is enclosed. L. B. HOWSLEY. Mullan, Idaho. [1) EXCHANGE.-200 mounted Microscopical specimens of animal tissues. (Pathological, Histological and Bacteriological) to exchange for stamps, coins or Indian relics, etc. Also specimens of Fossil Coral (Lithortrotion canadense) to exchange. J. M. BROOKS. M. D., Golden City, Mo. (IJ If you wish to purchase books on Natural History. Science, Travels, etc.. write to The Bulletin. If not in stock, they may be ob- tained for you as the proprietors have ex- ceptional opportunities of buving scarce works. "THE BULLETIN," 4 Duke St.. Adelphi, London, England. fl] FOR EXCHANGE. -A representative col- lection of Ohio Indian relics, consisting of over 400 arrow heads, 29 celts. 14 grooved axes, spear heads, drills, hammer stones, plummets, chisels, gorget, pipe, stone beads, pestles, flint knives, etc. Want first class eggs in complete sets with full and complete data. Send lists and receive tracings of specimens. B. R. BALES, Circleville, Ohio.[l WANTED.— Mounting coudition, otter fisher, marten, wolverine, grey timber wolf, white blazed lace, badger, all skulls. Address E. W. CAMPBELL. Taxidermist, 323 Wyoming Ave. Pottston, Pa. [IJ FOR SALE.-Large Flint Lock PijTol, 16 inches in length, $(j.00: Puritan foot stove tin, with wood frame, $1.50; pair of iron spectacles 75c. JAMES (). JOHNSON, Southington, Conn. [Ij FOR EXCHANGE.-Four by five Premo Fdm-plate Camera outfit, Stevens' Offhand pistol. 32 calibre Colts repeating rifle; for nature and sporting goods and books. OWEN M. (;ATES. Box 54 Mansfield. Ohio.H FOR EXCHANGE.-32 Steven's smooth bore rifle for a 22 or 32 caliber pistol, long barrel, also "Oregon Naturalist, 189(j" com- plete at $1.00 per volume. STANLEY G. JEWETT, 582 Bidwell Ave., Portland, Ore. (1) WANTED.— Some first class pieces of clean stretched birch bark, in strips of not less than 12 inches x 18 inches. Suitable for mounting photos. Send me your prices at ence. L. V. MEDICUS, 3002 Chestnut St.. Kansas City, Mo. I WANT THE FOLLOWING. Please look this list over careful- ly and if you have any of them write me. The Wilson Billitin, Nos (i, 7, The Curlew, Published by O. P. Hau ger of Orleans, Ind., Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. The Ornithologist and Oologist Semi- Annual, Published in 1889-90-91 by Wm. H. Foote of Pittsfield, Mass., and by C. C. Maxfield of Danbury, Conn, in 1891. No. Vol. 1. The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 3. The Wilson Journal, Vol 1, Jany., 1893 and Vol. 2, June, 1893. Notes on Rhode Island Ornithology, Published by Reginald Heber Howe, Jr., 1890. The Oologist, of Utica, N. Y., Vols. 1-5 inclusive, for 1875 to 1881, any numbers. Journal of the Maine Ornithological Club. Vol. 2, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2, 3, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2, 3. Vol. 5, No. 3, 4, Vol. 6, No. 3, 4. Birds of California, In relation to the fruit industry — Beal, Part H. The Oologist — This magazine — Vol. Ill, No. 4; Vol. IV, Nos. 1, 3, 4; Vol. V, No. 6; Vol. VII, Nos. 3 and la. Catalogue of Canadian Birds, by Prof. McCoun, Part I, 1st Ed. I will pay the very highest market price for all or any part of the above in case R. M. Barnes, Albion, N. Y. and Lacon, Ills. The OoLOGiST. Vol. XXVII. No. 3. Albion, N. Y. March 15, 1910. Whole No. 272 Published Monthly, by R. M. Barnes, Albion, N. Y., and Lacon, Illinois. JOHN FARWELL FERRY Born October 12th, Veil — Died February 11th, 131C. THE OOLOGIST John Farwell Ferry. "Good afternoon : are you connect- ed with this Institution?" "Yes sir; is there anything I can do for you?" A number of years ago in August, the writer was leaning over the dis- ply case of North American birds eggs in the Field Museum of Natural His- tory in Chicago, when a tall athletic appearing young man of studious mein passed. Addressing the above words to him, a kind voice replied as above. That was the commencement of the friendship long existing between Mr. Ferry and the present editor of THE OOLOGIST. Mr. Ferry died in Chicago at St. Luke's Hospital on the 11th day of February, 1910, of acute pneumonia, af- ter but a few days illness. He was born October 12, 1877 and graduated from Yale in 1901, ranking well to- ward the top of his class. At different p ■.-: ds of his life, he was connected with the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, the Field Museum of Natural History at Chi- cago, and the United States Biologi- cal Survey at Washington; doing field work for these institutions as a matter of choice. This he chose in lieu of a life of trade. He sought the green fields and bubbling brooks, for every day associates, rather than the huge ledgers and bustle of the office of a great commercial institution. He was a grandson of the late John V. Farwell, one of the merchant prin- ces of Chicago, and h^ hi:.^. flowed the same sturdy Scotch blood that made for success in his grandfather, in ev- ery undertaking in which he engaged. Mr. Ferry was religious by instinct, and always championed the side of right regardless of popular opinion, or present policy. During his exper- ience in the field, he visited the moun- tains of California, the deserts of Ari- zona, the Island of Porto Rica, the Isthmus of Panama, the Saskatche- wan Country of Canada, and the is- lands of the Carribean Sea, lying oil the Northeast coast of South America. In the latter islands visiting places never before visited by white man, and discovering birds never before scienti- fically described by man, and thereby added to the known list of birds of that vicinity and materially. The writer was with Mr. Ferry for thirty days in the Saskatchewan country in Canada in the Spring of 1909. The close association of camp life revealed to me the many lovable characteristics with which he was en- dowed. A more ardent scientist could not be found. A more careful or ac- curate collector and observer is sel- dom seen. A more energetic person would indeed be a novelty. Many times while resting myself, after a hard days work in Canada and noting that my friend Ferry was still busy at someth- ing, perhaps way into the night — and sometimes he worked until two o'clock — I would chide him for attempting to do too much, or working too long. Another thing that impressed me much was the great regard that Mr. Ferry had for his mother, and the great amount of credit he gave his mother for his scientific success. Many, many times he told me of the interest his mother took in his work, and of the assistance she had been to him therein; more than once announc- ing with almost boyish pride, "Moth- er can make as good a bird skin as I can." The family has lost, American Orni- thology has lost, and we have all lost one who deserved the highest respect and sincere admiration as a citizen, a scientist and a friend. Editor. THE OOLOGIST 23 NEWS ITEMS. Two Snowy Owls were shot January 3, 1910, at Holley, New York. One almost perfect Albino Ruff Grouse was seen by Harry R. Warren early in January, 1910, at Holley, New York. We are in receipt of an invitation to attend an International Ornithological Congress to be held in the City of Ber- lin, Germany from May 30th to June 4th, 1910. Stress of other business will prevent our attendance? The first Bluebird arrived at the home of THE OOLOGIST at Lacon, Illinois, March 5th, 1910. And the first Robin, March 8th. Both species being from one to two weeks late, pos- sibly owing to the extreme winter; though the weather has been unusual- ly mild for ten days before their arri- val for this time of year. During the spring of 1909, near Row- an Station, on the route of the Butler, Harmony and Newcastle car line, I found a nest of the American Robin (Planesticus migratorius) placed on one of the railroad ties on a trestle, the top of the nest being only about three inches from the bottom of the rail! One of those heavy electric cars thundered over that trestle every half- hour, but, strange to say, it didn't seem to bother the old bird at all, for she never left the nest. The nest con- tained four well incubated eggs. Wm. G. Pitcairn. I have in my collection a set of three eggs of the Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) which merits a writing up. To begin with, the eggs are usualy large for the species in this section, measuring as follows: 1.27x .93; 1.26X.94; 1.28x.93 inches. The ground color of the eggs is pale groen, and they are very sparsely speckled instead of being heavily peppered as in the case with the normal egg of the species. The nest was on the ground under a log, and after the three eggs had been laid, the birds deserted the nest. When collected, all the eggs were out of the nest, one being at least two feet away. Wm. G. Pitcairn. We have recently had the privilege of inspecting a catalogue of the collec- tion of North American Birds eggs owned by the late Charles K. Worthen of Warsaw, Illinois, at the time of his decease. As Mr. Worthen was a scientist well known to all ornithologists and oolo- gists not only in America, but in Europe, one whose standing for abso- lute integrity was beyond question, it may be of interest to our readers to know that at the time of his death, Mr. Worthen's private collection of North American Birds consisted of 333 species, comprising 6.50 sets and 1406 eggs. It may be of interest to some of the readers of THE OOLOGIST to know of the measures taken by the Depart- ment of Commerce and Labor, for the protection of our nsrtive birds on the Reservations of the Lighthouse Es- tablishments. No one is allowed to destroy a bird or its nest, or nesting place, and must protect the same as far as possible. This was brought about through the doings of the Audu- mcn Society. The undersigned spent some time on a Reservation on the North side of the Gclden Gate Channel. Every even- ing as soon as the light was started, everv gull in the neighborhood would begin flying around the lantern, along up the shore aways, up over the rocks of the coast, out over the bay, and back by way of the channel, around the lantern again. They would keep this up for perhaps an hour or more. Among the most delightful trips I ever had. were the ones in interest of Botany of Oology, taken in the wild rough region, along the Pacific, in California. Geo. W. H. Vos Burgh. THE OOLOGIST 25 The Domestication of American Wild Fowl. Upon the discovery of America, vast uncounted herds of bison roamed at will over the middle parts of the con- tinent. The Great Auk, the Labra- dor Duck, and the Eskimo Curlew were in multitudes along the East shore of our continent. The Califor- nia Condor soared in majestic cir- cles and in great numbers over the mountains of the Pacific slope and un- numbered millions of Passenger Pig- eons migrated in flocks, darkening the sun for days at a time; and the beau- tiful colors of the Carolina Paraquet were an everyday sight throughout most of the Eastern half of what is now the United States. But they are gone. The Great Auk and the Labrador Duck are known only from a few, very few specimens preserved in Museums; the Eskimo Curlew and the Condor are on the verge of extinction: and a last effort is now being made to discover whether or not the Passenger Pigeon is or is not, and the Carolina Paraquet is not. One of the wonders of the early day was the enormous flocks of wild fowl frequenting all the known waters of North America. Vast countless multi- tudes winged their way from the South to the North and back to the South again annually. Ducks, geese, and swan were a staple source of meat supply. Their nests were everywhere. The din of their vast congregations in the Spring and Fall at places could be heard for miles. The thunder of their wings as they rose from marsh, lake and river was like the roar of a distant train. They too are rapidly going. The Illinois River, one of the very great migration highways in an early time, was noted for the vast numbers of wild fowl passing along during Spring and Fall migration, in one day long years ago the writer counted flocks of wild fowl flying along the Easterly side of the Illinois valley more than two miles from the river, which were estimated to contain $15,- 000 birds passing a given point in ten hours. Today, these flocks are nearly gone. Where formerly there were a thousand ducks, today there are not over a hundred. Where formerly there were a thousand swan, today there is perhaps one. Where formerly there was a flock of geese, now there is oc- casionally a pair. The ultimate result is not far to see. Unless something is done to preserve the wild fowl of North American continent, they too will soon be a thing of the past. What id to he done? Protection will not do it; it will help; it will postpone the inevitable, but the inevitable will come; that inevitable when there is no wild fowl, unless scmething is done; something beside protection. Game protection as now practiced is mere cr less of a farce. To preserve a duck or a goose or any other bird frr six months in order that you may kill it at the end of the six months, does not tend to perman- ently increase the supply. Yet it is far better than nothing. The longer the ultimate destruction of our wild fowl is postponed, the better it will be for us. Realizing this fact, the writer for many years has been experimenting in the domestication of our native wild fowl, both ducks and geese. It has now got to where it is a fad; particularly in the eastern part of the country where the wild fowl are now all but extinct, for the wealthier to lay out their places with landscape gard- eners, build pools and ponds, minature lakes and brooks, and stock them with North American ducks and geese for THE OOLOGIST 27 purely orniniental purposes. Our theory of it is that it' we can domesti- cate the various North American wild fowl, they will last forever; they will become a source of national wealth and of added meat supply; they will be ornamental and will be preserved from utter extinction. Thinking perhaps some of our ex- periments along this line would be of interest, we have given over this num- ber of THE OOLOGIST largely to the proposition of North American Wild Fowl in confinement. In order to keep such birds in con- finement, it is proper and in some places necessary to get the consent of the local game warden. Then pre- pare a place where there is plenty of shade and plenty of room and some water. The small quantity of water with which a duck or goose can get along is surprising, and nearly all species, with proper surroundings will nest in confinement. In the winter it is necessary, when- ever the mercury goes below zero, to keep your birds dry; give them nothing but drinking water, and do not allow them to get wet or even damp. Fur- nish them with a little artificial heat: in fact we turn on heat whenever the mercury reaches ten degrees above zero; though this is not necessary. Supply the pond ducks, mallartls, teal, gadwalls, widgeons and the like with a wide grassy slough if possible and shallow water in summer, the deep water ducks, canvas back, red heads, blue bills and allied races with a pool or tank sunk into the ground at least two feet deep. Give the wood ducks if a small running stream with one or two peels in it a couple of feet deep. In summer the geese must all have water at least two feet deep. One of the main reasons why it has been nearly impossible heretofore to raise wild fowl in confinement is tliat those who have undeitaken it did not un- derstand that cur North American wiM di;cks ard geese with but few ex- ceptiors will net breed unless it is in the water. They must have water deep enough for this purpose. It is commcn practise to take the eggs from the old birds and set them under a chicken hen. This is all well enough if you keep your birds where they are not secluded; but if they have a place which is secluded, leave them alone; they will hatch their own eggs. But do net forget the more seclusion they have, the longer it will take you to get rid of their wild nature; this can only be gotten rid of by continuous contact with man, and by kindness and selective breeding; selecting" out of each brood annually the quietest and tamest birds, and i)utting them by themselves We are presenting herewith a num- ber of half tones showing the general manner of keeping wild fowl in con- finement, and the pleasure to be de- rived therefrom. Certainly they are among the mcst decorative birds that can be found upon a country place. As to feed, if you have a natural marsh which is large enough, they re- quiie but little feed in the summer; otherwise they must have ground feed, mixed grains, some charcoal, and some dried beef scraps er dried blocd in abrut the same proportion, that the same is fed to pheasants, besides plen- ty of green feed clover, grass, cab- bage, etc. Notice to Subscribers. With this issue we cease mailing THE OOLOGIST to our subscribers whose number a])pears on the wrap- l)er in which this issue is mailed, be- low 260. THE OOLOGIST will be better than ever; the subscription list i.=; growing all the time, so if you de- sire hot only the best bird .magazine but the best advertising medioim fci' everything relating to birds and bird s'lidv. vcu should remain on the books c! THE OOLOGIST. In order to do ^ >. ycu must remit promptly. Better ir.k at your number, and DOIT NOW 1 THE OOLOGIST 29 Domestication of North American Wild Fowl Continued. The writer has now in liis enclos- ures, seven different varieties of wikl geese, and fourteen of wild ducks, con- fined to those represented in the A. O. U. list, and finds the Mallard, the Wood Duck, the Dusky Duck and the Red Head to be the most tractable; and the Baldpate, the Sprig, and Teal to be the wildest. Among the geese the Canada Goose is by far the easiest bird tamed. It is no special trouble to domesticate Can- ada Geese until they remain on your place and rear their young, in practi- cally the same manner that tame geese will. In commencing experiments of this character, it is always best to pinion your birds; that is, tie a string around the outer joint of the wing just outside of the joint proper, but not so as to encircle the thumb joint or bastard wing. Draw this string as tight as you can; then take a pair of very sharp shears or tree pruners and clip off the outer joint of the wing just outside of the string. Hold your bird in your hand until you are certain that the string has compressed the muscles, arteries and veins to such an extent that your bird is not bleed- ing. If you find this to be the case, place him on the ground, and let him go. From that time on he will take care of himself. Do not attempt to pinion a freshly trapped or caught bird. Do not pinion him until after he has been in confinement a consid- erable period of time; that is, long enough for him to learn to eat and to be satisfied with the food he gets in confinement. This is imperative; oth- erwise your bird will not eat and will die. Until such times as he is ready to be pinioned, keep him from flying by clipping the feathers closely from one wing, and do not pinion your birds when it is extremely cold nor when it is very warm, nor when they are moulting, or you will lose them. The best way to get along this line is to procure from the hunters of your vicinity, such wounded or wing tip- ped birds as they may come into i)os- session of. Messrs. Wenz & Mackensen of Yardley, Pennsylvania have kindly loaned to us for the purpose of this issue, six of the plates herewith pre- sented, viz: The plate showing the Australian, Black, European, Mute and American Whistling Swans; the plate showing the Egyptian, Chinese, Toul- ouse, Emden Geese, and the Mallard, Crested, Indian Runner, Ducks, and Cranes, the plate showing the drove of Canada Geese; the plate showing the Wood, Mandarin, Black, Redhead, Pintail, Baldpate, Gray Call, White Call and Mallard Ducks, as well as the two small plates showing the Chinese Mandarin and the Wood Duck. The half tones herewith numbered Plates 13 and 14 are from views tak- en in our own duck yard at Lacon, Il- linois. We should like very much to see our readers encourage the propogation of North American Wild Fowl, believ- ing that that is the ultimate solution of the question of preventing our vast flocks of wild fowl from ultimately be- coming totally extinct. Wanted. One pair each of the following live birds in good condition. (Wing tipped birds would be satisfactory) : Florida. Mottled Cinnamon Teal, Shoveller, Canvas Back, Ameri- can Scaup, Lesser Scaup, Ring-neck- ere will "send them by return mall for only $1.75. Kvery student of birds, their nests and eKgs, should have these two volumes In their library. The valuable information they contain. 8 worth many times the price. Address plainly. K. M. BARNES, Albi jn. N. Y. Lacon. III. VIII THE OOLOGIST The Oologist for 1910 Will be Better Than Ever Splendid bird articles will be printed, writ- ten by the best bird observers in America, detailing original field observations. First-class illustrations will be used, portray- ing original field subjects never before pub- lished. Advertisers will receive greater returns than ever by using our columns. Help us extend our influence and subscrip- tion list. THE OOLOGIST Albion, N. Y., or Lacon, Illinois The Oologist. B1RDS-NESTS--EGGS TAXIOeRMY Vol. XXVII. No. 4. ALBION, N. Y., APRIL 15, 1910. Whole No. 273 BRIER SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Wanted, Exchange, For Sale, Etc., inserted in this department at 25 cents for each 25 words for one issue ; each additional word 1 cent. No notice inserted for less than 25 cents. TAKE NOTICE. SUBSCKIPTION, 50 CENTS PER YEAR Examine the number on the wrapper of your Oologist. It denotes the time your subscription expires. Remember we must be notified if you wish it discontinued and all arrearages must be paid. 273 your sub- scription expires with this issue. 281 your subscription expires with December issue 191U. Other expirations can be computed by intermediate numbers at the rate of one number per month. Entered as second-class matter De- cember 21, 1903, at the post office, at Albion, N. Y., under the Act of Con- gress of March 3, 1879. In answering advertisements in these columns mention "The Oologist," and thereby help us, as well as the ad- vertise and j'ourself. BIRDS WANTED.— For cash in mounting con- dition; skins of Ivory-billed Pileated Wood- pecker. L. A. PARRE. Batavia. 111. d' WANTED.— A few good skins of the Aleu- tian Tern (Sterna aleutica) Thayer Museum, Lancaster. Mass. WANTED.— One first set each of Sandhill and Whooping Crane, one pair of skins of Whooping Crane. Will exchange specimens from Northwest Canada. MACK AY A- DIP PIE. Calgary. Alberta. WANTED. -Skins of birds of the Rocky Mountain and Oulf states, also a few rare Eastern. Can offer material from Baja Cali- fornia (Mexico) and good exchange in well made Western skins. Please send complete lists. PINGREE I. OSBURNE, Pasadena, ai8T will, during 1910, remain as below: After which the prices of many num- bers will be advanced and possibly not obtainable at any price. Should you desire back numbers to complete youi file, NOW is the time to purchase. You can never obtain them for less money and possibly not at any price, as our stock ranges from only 1 to 25 copies of an issue. Prtc«8 for 1910 Are as FoIIovm: Nos. 1,14. 18, 31, 34-35, 42, 53, 86, 89, Ul.lSO , 132 137. 139, 140, 153. 158, are 50 cents each: Nos. 9, 66-67, 76, 77, 78, 79, 88, 90, 100, 113, 138, 146, are 25 cents each. Nos. 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 54, 65, 66, 75, 87, 123, 127, 128, 129. 144. 149, are 16 cents each. Nos. 19, 20, 22, 27, 28, 38, 39, 40, 46, 60, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 70, 74, 80, 93, 114, 115, 126, 133, 135, are 10 cents each. Siir'All other numbers 5c. per copy. For $12 will send prepaid a copy of every issue ever published. No. 1 to 145.— 30 far as now on hand. This offer in- cludes your subscription through 1910. 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No. 198 to 209 60 Vol. XXII, 1905, Nos. 210 to 221 60 Vol. XXIII, 1906, 222 to 2;j3 50 Vol. XXIV. 1907, 234. to 245 55 Vol. XXV. 1908, 246 to 257- - 50 For $5.25 I will send prepaid a copy of every issue published, Nos. 1 to 209, Inclusive, except the twenty-nine, (29), 25c.. 50c. and 75c.copies. For $2.50 1 will send prepaid every copy published, Nos. 1 to 209, inclusive, except the sixty copies priced above at 10c or over. — BOUND VOLUMES — Can be furnished, strongly bound In cloth and boards, as follows: Vol. I and 11 YOUNG OOLOGIST bound In one volume Jl.OO Vol. IX. The OOLOGIST for "92, 298 pages of Taluable and instructive Oologlcal and Ornithological matter with many full page illustrations $1.00 Or, if you order the two vojumes at one tlnae, we will send them by return mall for only $1.75. Every student of birds, their nests and eggs, should have these two volumes in their library. The valuable Information they contain, 8 worth many times the price. Address plalnlj-. K. M. BARNES. Albion. N. Y. Lacon. 111. VIII THE OOLOGIST The Oolodist Is Better Than Ever Splendid bird articles are published, writ- ten by the best bird observers in America, detailing original field observations. First-class illustrations are used, portray- ing original field subjects never before pub- lished. Advertisers receive greater returns than ever by using our columns. Help us extend our influence and subscrip- tion list. THE OOLOGIST Albion, N. Y., or Lacon, Illinois The Oologist. BIRDS-NESTS-EGGS TAXI HERMY Vol. XXVII. No. 5. ALBION, N. Y., MAY 15, 1910. Whole No. 274 BRIEF SPECIAL^ ANNOUNCEMENTS Wantefl, Exchange, For Sale, Etc., inserted in this department at 25 cents for each 2& words for one issue; each additional word 1 cent. No notice inserted for less than 25 cents. TAKE NOTICE. SUBSCRIPTION, 50 CENTS PER YEAR Examine the number on the wrapper of your Oologist. It denotes the time your subscription expires. Remember we must be notified if you wish it discontinued and all arrearages must be paid. 273 your sub- scription expires with this issue. 2&I j'our subscription expires with December issue 1910. Other expirations can be comv)nted by intermediate numbers at the rate of one number per month. Entered as second-class matter De- cember 21, i90:^, at the post office, at Albion, N. Y., under the Act of Con- gress of March 3, 1879. In answering advertisements in these columns mention "The Oologist," and thereby help us, as well as the ad- vertiser and yourself. BIRDS WANTED.— For cash in mounting con- dition; skins of Irory-billed Pileated Wood- pecker. L. A. PARRE. Batavia. III. (1) WANTED.— A few good skins of the Aleu- tian Tern (Sterna aleutica) Thayer Museum, Lancaster, Mass. WANTED.— One first set each of Sandhill and Whooping Crane, one pair of skins of Whooping Crane. Will exchange specimens from Northwest Canada. MACKAY & DIPPIE. Calgary, Alberta. WANTED. -Skins of birds of the Rocky Mountain and (iulf states, also a few rare Eastern. Can offer maierial from Baja Cali- fornia (Mexiro) and good exchange in well made Western skins. Please send complete lists. PINGREE I. OSBURNE, Pasadena. Cal. TO EXCHANGE. -Finely mounted birds and deer heads, several hundred Natural History and Si)ortsman's magazines, for bird and mammal skins. GEO. F. GUELF, Taxidermist. Brockport. N. Y. Any collectors having a few good labeled specimens of foreign birds, send list. I will give A 1 skins of Illinois and California birds. Also offer skins of common specimens from Illinois for nests and sets of small species. HENRY K. COALE, Highland Park, Lake Co.. 111. WANTED. -Male and female of Wood Duck. Great Horned Owl. Screech Owl. Spar- row Hawk. Flicker. Baltimore Oriole. Blue Jay and Scarlet Tanager. The first five with nests in section of hollow tree and the latter three withneS'ts and eggs in section of original branches. P'or further particulars address J. FRIESSER, 5620 Lake Ave.. Chicago, 111. WA\TEr).-Ti) buy first class skins nf the Hawks and Owls, or will s\ve good exchange in books. Write S. V. WHARHA vi, Geneva, Ohio. W.ANTED.- To buy first cln^s skins of species east of Mississippi. Kindly quote sex. Also Osprey I, Nos. 1. 2: Xidinlo^isf I, Nos. 1-4: Bulletin' Cooppr Clnb T. Xo. 1: Bird Lore 1900-2: 1901-1. 2: 1905-1: IPOP-'^ll: Audu- bon, Orni^b. B'nff'apbv. vols. 2. -1 5. fll B. H. SWALES, (irosse Is'e, Mich. WANTED.— First clfl"" skins of Murrelets, Gulls. Sbearwatpro. Rails. «hOT-e Birds, Grouse. Hawks. Owls, particularly Snowy and Great Grav. and cer^^ain «mall Innd bird". Offe'- reprpsentntive Soutbprn rplifornia snecies. also finp sets rif pprsonallv taken Pfppprnann's Guile and Blnp-footpd Boobies, \]\ rpii-ahip rnllpctors spnd li«ts. PINGREY I. OSBT^RN. Pasadena. Calif. QT'.ATJTY BIRD SKTN^.— If vou are in pppri of materia' f'-om *^bp T.owpr RioGrande, southward in Mptico; Ipf rnpbear from you. Mv worV- is eaufi'pd bv nullity, not nnantitv of oiifpnt: a fact worthv of your serious f'on- sfdpration. when flddin? to your pollection. «!prips rpprpsPuGn? tbe spec'po from fbp pse to thp qr?"U pqn bP a'-rqnepd for. ATTSTIN PAUL SMITH. Box 141. Brownsville. Texas. "TpTTF CFLFBRATFD HT^NrjATflAN AND KNGLISH PAPTRIDGFS AND PHEAS- ANTS. C9pprnail7ip«. black eame. wild turkey", quftilo. rn^bitp. deer. etc. for stoclc purposes. Fancy pbeasints. pe^ifowl, swnns. cranp«. stork", ornainnpntal ^ppsp and ducks. foTPS onnir'-olQ. fp-^-etq. qnd all Irinds of birdsand animal". WENZ A- M ACKENSEN. Dept H. Phea«antry A- Game Park, Yardley. Pa. Is your Subscription paid up ? II THE OOLOGIST EGGS FOR EXCHANGE- First class Eggs in sets. C. S. RUTHERFORD, Revere, Mo. Send exchange lists of first class sets for mine.-J. W PRESTON, 1111 13th Ave., Spokane, Wash. ] I offer 1-3. 2-4 Fish Crow, 1-5 201. 1-5 194; all for a set of Bartman's Sandpiper 4 or 5 eggs. W. B. CRISPIN, Salem, N. J. WANTED.— Good eggs, Indian relics, and Catocala. I have California buttetflies, sea curiosities and stamps. K. E. DUDGE, 552 Bay street, Santa Cruz. Cal. WANTED.— Sets with or without nests. Particularly Sharp-tail and Seaside Sparrow. DR. J. P. BALL. Frankford, Pa. [21 FOR EXCHANGE.-2-2 Miss. Kite, 2-2 Gl - winged gull, 2-3 gl-winged gull. All coll cted by myself. (J. W. STEVENS. Alva. Okla. WANTED-Eggs in sets wii h original data. Send list of everything and lowest ca>-h price. R. L. MOORE, Vernon, Texas. [1] EXCHANGE. -A tine series of ten of the Pallas Murre from Cape Hope, Alaska. I want 188, 332, 343, 34.S. 362, 3fi4 and many others, D.E. BROWN, 6044 1st Ave.. No. W. Sta. F. Seattle, Wash. FOR EXCHANGE.-Fine set :f 2. 3. 4 and 5 Ferruginous Rough-leg Hawk, on the basis of 75 cents cash value per egg. Only extra fine or rare material wanted. CHILDS MU- SEUM, Floral Park, N. Y. 13] WANTED.-Setsof .351, 352, 352a. 206, and many common sets; have to offer choice sets 679 1-4,417 1-2.4191-2,337, 339, 375, 263, 261, 273 and many other choice sets; send list and re- ceive mine. R KY DINSMORE, Perry, Ohio FOR EXCHANGE.-Fine sets of Least Tern, Black Skimmer, Louisiana Heron, Wayne's Clapper Rail, Florida Burrowing Owl, and others. For parliculars address W. W. WORTHINGTON, Shelter Island Heights, New York. FOR EXCHANGE. - Eggs in fine sets, beautiful minerals, butterflies and moths in dust and insect proof cases, and other natural history specimens. Want all the above. Send lists and receive mine. LEWIS C. SNYDER, Lacona, New York. FOR EXCHANGE.- A few choice sets of glaucous-winged gull. Mack oyster catcher, ring-necked r-lover, Kodiak fox sparrow. Pacific murre. All collected by myself. G. W. STEVENS. Alva, Okla. FOR S \LE.— Some rare single eggs from Iceland, Loons, Sjua, Glaucous Gull, Old- squaw, Northern l]ider. Bean Goose, Whoop- ing Swan, Golden Plover. Dunlin, Godwit, Ruff, Snowflake, Iceland Falcon, and others. Send for full list to H. WARREN, Room 215 St. James Chambers, Adelaide St., E., Toronto, Ont. WANTED.-In good sets: 340, 357, 451. 485, 548, 554a, 566, 568, 570a, 610a, 646, 647, 660, 672, 672a, 690, 700, 719a. Can offer 89, 95, 101, 207, 293a. 294, 295, 309, 332, 339a, 351.359, 384, 416, 417, 419, 420b, 460, 479, 533, 534, 536, 569, 575, 575a, 594a, •602, 607, 637. 639, 641, 730, 763 and 315 (1871). THOMAS H. .JACKSON, 304 N. Franklin. St.. West Chester, Pa. [3] TO EXCHANGE -Sets with data. North American and Foreign. Can use many com- mon kinds of both. Dr. T. W. RICHARDS U. S. Navy, 1911 N. St., N. W., Washington D.C. "I have perfect sets of Mourning, Cerulean Black throated. Blue and Black throated Green Warbler, American Woodcock, Bar- tramian Sandpiper, King Rail, Canadian Spruce, Grouse and Sharp Shinned Hawk for exchange. I desire sets of American Flam- ingo, Long-billed Curlew, Semipalmated Plover, Franklin's Grouse, Bonaparte's Gull, Williamson's Sapsucker, White-headed and Red Cockaded Woodpecker, Pink-sided Junco. Huttou's and Black Capped Vireo, Sennett's Orange-crowned and Connecticut Warbler and Canada Jay. (iERARD ALAN ABBOTT. 945 Marouette Bldg.. Chicago. Birds Eggs I have for exchange for species desired by me to complete series of many very common kinds; a very large list of duplicates. Send me your exchange list. R. M. BARNES, Lacon, 111. Great Success OF THE BULLETIN Rare Specimens and Books to value of Five Thousand Dollars sold during past twelve months. Sample copy for 2-cent stamp. THE BULLETIN 4 Duke St., Adelphi, W. C, LONDON, ENGLAND THE OOI.OGIST III BOOKS FOR EXCHANGE. -A collection of over 800 stone Indian relics, for bird books, or 150 cash. C. F. CARK, New London. Wis. WANTED- "Birds of Manitoba," by Ernest Seaton Thompson. HARRIET H. WRIGHT, 1637 Gratiot Ave., Saginaw, VV, S.. Mich. [Ex] WANTED— Bendire's Life Histories and a 4x5 Camera for cash or ex. for bird books, in- cluding Studer's "Birds of N. A." H. E. BISHOP, Sayre, Pa. fl] WANTED. -The Auk, Vol. II, Nos. 2, 3, 4. Vol. IV, Nos. 2, 4, Vol. V. Nos. 2. 3, 4. Vol. VI. Nos. 1, 3. For cash or exchange. LOUISA. FUERTES, Ithaca, N. Y. WANTED.— Back numbers of The Auk. Nuttal's Bulletin and other bird magazines, also on insects. Have numbers to exchange. G. W. HUMPHREY, Dedham, Mass. WANTED.— Northern and southern raw furs. Highest market price paid. All goods held subject to approval of valuation. Price list free. GEORGE J. TILLS. Albion. N. Y. W^ANTED.-Bookson birds. Will pay a reasonable cash price for those that I desire. State title aud author, conaition. etc. CHAS. F. CARR, (Personal), New London, Wis. BIRD LORE.-V/ill pay cash for Bird-Lore, Vol. II. No. 2, Vol. 3. No. 1, Vol. VII, No. 1 If you can furnish any or all, write stating price. FRANK H. LATTIN, M. D. Albion. N. Y. WHITE HOMER PIGEONS-A few grand birds at $2 a pair. I guarantee each pair cock and hen. Can collect to order first class sets of Tortoise and Turtle. JAMES O. JOHNSON, Southington. Conn. UNBOUND SERIALS.-Auk. vols, xi, xii, xiv; Oologist (1878) vol. vi, Nos. 1-6; O. i O. vols, vii and xviii; Osprey. vols, i (except No. 4) ii, v. For cash offers. W. H. OSGOOD, 5623 Madison Ave., Chicago, 111. (IJ Have your Oologists or other magazines, bound by a careful, painstaking hand pro- cess. Write what you have and get styles. Prices reasonable. Exchange considered. HOW'ARD W. McMILLEN. Ada, Ohio. c FOR SALE. -In perfect condition. "The North American Birds" by Henry Nehrling, German text, cloth bound, gilt edge, 668 pages and 36 plates, showing 137 species in natural color. Original price $15. Sells for $7. ERICH DIETRICH. Canby, Oregon. FOR SALE.-Complete file. The Condor, .$18.00: ten volumes The Auk. $15.00; eight volumes The American Naturalist, $12.00. Other bargains in ornithological publica- tions, complete volumes and odd numbers. DR. F. P. DROWNE. Chilesburg. Virginia.[3 WANTED. -Odd numbers and vols, of Field & Forest, Random Notes, Ottawa Naturalist, Quar. Journ.. Boston Zoo. Soc. Jour., Me. Orn. Soc, Bull. Mich, Orn. Club, Wilson Bull. The Collectors .Monthly. The Zoe, Canadian Sportsman, The Osprey (Ashland, Ky.), The Young Ornithologist (Boston), Proc. Nat. Sci. Asso. Staten Is., Oologists Journal, Hawk-Eye O & O, etc., etc. F. B. McKECHNIE, Ponkapog, Mass. (I) WANTED.— A clean copy of The Oologist, Vol. 5, No. 6. Cash. All my old correspond- ents please note change of address. HAKRY J. KOFAHL. Hollywood Sta., Los Angeles, Cal. (1) WANTED.— American Ornithology, Sept. 1905, and July-Aug., 1906. State lowest cash price. EARLE R. FORREST, 357 N. Main St., Washington, Penna. (1) WANTED.— Auk. Vol. 2, complete, or parts of same, and any old bird separates of Nat. Hist., Society's reports, and books in ex- change or cash. W. OTTO EMERSON, Palm Cottage, Haywards, California. (l) You must have "The Bulletin" it you want cheap, good and scarce boot* s and pamphlets on Ornithology, Botany. Zoology, Tras-el, Science. World Wide Circulation. .Specimen copy for 3 cent stamp. THE BULLETIN, 4 Duke St.. Adelphi. London, W. C. England. (1)_ BIRD MAGAZINES.-I have about 500 old bird magazines for exchange, including complete volimies of Auk, Condor, Nidiolo- gist, (Jsprey, Oregon Naturalist, and odd numbers of all of these. W. LEE CHAM- BERS, 1226 11th St., Santa Monica, Cal. P'or sale or to exchange for books, maga- zinesor bird skins .0 ct O vols. VI, VII, VIII, XVI, XVII. NIdologist vols. II. Ill, IV. Trans Wis. Acad. Odd vols.; Auk XI, 3 and 4; XII. 3; XX, 2; Capens Oology; Oologist, vols. VII to XVII inc. bound. Hardwlck's Science Gossip. F. B. McKECHNIE, Ponk- apog, Mass. FOR SALE.— The following books: Birds of North and Middle America by Ridgway, Parts I, II, III, and IV. Birds of Wyoming 1902, by Knight, Our x'>Jorthern and Eastern Birds, by E. A. Samuels, Nuttall's Ornithol- ogy, two volumes. The Auk, Vols. 16, 21, 22. 23 and 24. All in excellent condition. Will sell cheap, F. C. HUBEL, Clarkston, Mich. SALE AND FOR EXCHANGE.-By W. Otto Emerson. Haywards. Palm Cottage. Calif. Auk. Vol's, (new) 13. 14, 15. 16. 17. 18, 19, (unbound): Osprey, Vol. I. No. 1-9. Nid. Vol. 1-3-7. Vol. III. 1-3; Oregon Naturalist, Vol. Ill, Vol. 4-1: Zoe, Vol. 1, 1-2-9, Vol, II, 1-4, Vol. III. 2, Vol, IV, 4; Oologist, Utica, N. Y. Vol. 4-5, latter bound. Latter Volume; Coopers Club Bull. Vol. I, 1 and index, others also; Report af Ornithology by C. Hart Merriam 1886-87-88: Birds of Wyoming, 1902: Ridgways Hummingbirds: Birds of Mexico, Bryant; Calif. Water Bird", No. III. Loomis: Birds of Mexico. Lawrence. Bull. No. 4, U. S. Museum 1876; Oologv New England, Samules, Land Birds, 1864; Birds of Santa Cruxe Co. Calif. McGregor. _^_^_ BIRDS EGGS FOR EXCHANGE R. M. BARNES, Lacon, III. IV THE OOLOGIST MISCELLANEOUS WANTED— 44 Calibre Culled ing gun and shells in exchange and pair young live Gos- hawks. A liberal price for same. AUTHUR W. BROCKWAY. Hadlynie. Conn. (1) EXCHANGE.— New sixteeii gauge, double barrelled Lefever gun; automatic ejectors, cost forty-flve dollar^; for eg;: cabinet and sets to value. DR. JAMESON, Titusville, Pa. (1) Arickara Indian collection for sale. Per- sonally collected. Bune implements, arrow heads, stone hammers, etc. Send stamp for photo and price. H. E. Lee, Pierre. S. D. [I| FOR SALE.-Large Flint Lock Pistol. 16 inches in length, Jfi.OO; Puritan foot stove tin, with wood frame, $L50: pair of iron spectacles 75c. JAMES O. JOHNSON, Southington, Conn. [IJ WANTED.— Mounting condition, otter, fisher, marten, wolverine, grey timber wolf, white blazed face, banger, all skulls. Address E. W. CAMPBELL, Taxidermist, 323 Wyoming Ave., Pittston. Pa. ]1] Over 100 species of Curios, many rare, in exchange for first class bird skins, native or foreign, single or a collection of skins taken. If inteiestcd write at once and make offer. DR. STRODE. Lewistown, 111. (1) WANTED.— Mounting coudiiion, otter fisher, marten, wolverine, grey timber wolf, white blazed face, badger, all skulls. Address E. W. CAMPBELL. Taxidermist. .S23 Wyoming Ave, Pottston, Pa. [IJ FOR EXCHANGE.-32 Steven's smooth bore rifle for a 22 or 32 caliber pistol, long barrel, also "Oregon Naturalist, IS&U" com- plete at $1.00 per volume. STANLEY G. JEWETT.582Bidwell Ave.. Portland. Ore. (1) FOR EXCHANGE.— Four by five Premo Film-plate Camera outtir. .■^tevens' Offhand pistol. 32 calibre Colts repeating rifle; for nature and si'orting goods and books. OWEN M. GATES, Box 54 Mans-field, Ohio.H WANTED.— Some first class pieces of clean stretched birch bark, in strips of not less than 12 inches .\ 18 inches. Suitable for mounting photos. Send me your prices at once. L. \'. MEDICUS, 3002 Chestnut St., Kansas City, Mo. Have ten pairs Buffalo Horns, five polished, five in rough; 2 large Snake Skins. 12 feet and 18 feet with heads. 2 Mamosett Monkeys, mounted, no stands. Any reasonable offers; cash preferred. B. HARTLP:Y, 97 Smith St.. New Haven, Conn, |2] EXCHANGE. -200 mounted Microscopical specimens of animal tissues, (Pathological. Histological aiid Bacteriological ) to exchange for stamps, coins or Indian relics, etc. Also specimens of Fossil Coral (Lithortrotion canadense) to exchange. J. M. BROOKS, M. D.. Golden City, Mo. 11] TO EXCHANGE.-Collection of over 200 scientific oabiuet shells (40 species Cyprae) for Warblers in sets with nests or Indian relics, arrowpoints, spearpolnts and cere- monial axes preferred. First fair offer takes the list. List sent if stamp is enclosed. L. B.HOWSLEY.MuIlan, Idaho. [1) FOR KXCHANGE. -Bird egs^. young red foxes, raccoons, gray and fox squirrels, or anything found in Central Indiana; golden seal for transplanting, 1 year old, 2 cents; over, 3 cents; ginsing 1 year old, 2 cents; over, 3 cents. Write for what you want and what you have. WIN FIELD CATLIN, Rockville, Ind. (L FOR SALE - Guaranteed Moose. Elk, Caribou and Deer scalps and horns, all cor- rectly handled to mount up satisfactorily. Duty free. Reasonable prices. I can supply any wish in my line; write me. EDWIN DIXON. Ontario's Leading Taxidermist, Main St., Unionville. Ontario. (1) Cameras, Mandolin, Telegraph outfit, Pyrography outfit. Books, Medical Books, Human Skeleton, Double Wall Maps, Swiss Army Rifle. Minerals, Small Self-inking Press, New Framed and Unframed Pictures, Universal Bread Maker, Fish Berries, etc. Want Skins tor mounting. Curios or Cash. J. J. WERZ, 501 Ellis St,. Augusta, Ga. FOR EXCHANGE.-A representative col- lection of Ohio Indian relics, consisting of over 400 arrow heads, 29 celts, 14 grooved axes, spear heads, drills, hammer stones, plunime's, chisels, gorget, pipe, stone beads, pestles, flint knives, etc. Want flrst class eggs in complete sets with full and complete data. Send lists and receive tracings of specimens. B. R. BALES, Cireieville, Ohio.[l Knickerbocker Book Shop, Beechwoods. Woodciiffe Lake, N. J. WANTS Baird, Brewer & Ridgeway Water Birds, 1.st edition with colored plates. Also Baird Cassin in Lawrence. The "Bird? of North America" with atlas of 100 colored plates. Holden — "Canary & Cage Birds." Auk— Vol. 1 & 3. Audubon's Ornithological Bibliogra- phy, Vol. 4. "Bird Lore" January & February of i:C5-i:0} complete. Coues' 3d installment Bibliography. Bonaparte's "American Ornithology —4th Vol. edition Philadelphia 1825- 1828. CASH OR EXCHANGE. The OoLOGiST. Vou XXVII. No. 5. Albion, N. Y. May 15, 1910. Whole No. 274 Published Monthly, by R. M. Barnes, Albion, N. Y., and Lacon, Illinois. THE WARBLERS The North American Warblers (Mniotiltidae) are among the most numerous family of the North American birds, occupying a place in our list beginning with (A. O. U. No. 636) Black & White Warbler and ending with (No. 693) Bell's Warbler, and representing some seventy-nine species and sub-species, all but three of which are stragglers, being properly members of this family and truly Nort ^merican birds. They range in size from slightly larger than our largest Humming bird to nearly the size of a Catbird, and include some of our brightest plumaged birds; though as a class they are perhaps as little known to the general public as any other of the larger families of birds. This owing to their diminutive size and more or less secretive habits. Yet few families of birds are of more general service and use to the public. Being entirely migratory, they pass northward just at the time the small buds and leaves are opening under the smiles of Spring, and just at the time that the unnumbered multitudes of insects are hatching and scattering in mil- lions over all of the young growth. The food of the warblers is infinitismal and sometimes almost microscopic insects which are found on buds on the younger leaves of the trees, varied with occasional ground loving insects which are eaten by the ground warblers. The amount of good this family of birds does in the protection of the forests is beyond calculation and they should be rigidly protected. With this issue we present a number of articles upon some of the rarer mem- bers of this highly interesting family. THE OOLOGIST Swainson's Warbler. (Helinaia Swainsonii) By Troup D. Perry, Savannah, Ga. . . Amongst the dark and dismal swamps that dot our beautiful South- new characteristics of this species has come under my observation, which sheds new light on its breeding. Come with me some morning in May, and we will go to its breeding ground ,and there you will find such bird life as land you will find the Summer home would make glad the hearts of any Plate No. 38 — "Nest and Eggs of Swai neon's Warbler in Palmetto Palm," Photo by Troup D. Perry. of this rare and interesting warbler. While not handsome, he has many striking features to give him a place amongst the birds of our Sunny South. I first discovered the eggs of this spe- cie in 1885 but since that time many true lover of nature. Upon entering the swamp, keep still for a few mo- ments and you will soon hear a low sweet song, ventriloquail, to a cer- tain extent but so closely resembling that of the Hooded Warbler that it is THE OOLOGIST 5& almost impossible to tell which is which, (how often have I listened to It standing entranced with every nerve strained and keeping on watch to see the bird when lo' the male Hooded would fly up on some nearby tree and break the spell.) The song is so pene- trating that you can't tell where it comes from. You may think it is over- head when it is feeding on the ground (where most of its feeding it done) in bird) the White-eyed Vireo, Maryland Yellow-throat and the chatter of the Carolina Chickadee and an occasion- al hoot of some Owl comes from the distance. Such are the sounds that greet you when you enter the haunts of the Swainson Warbler. But I am getting away from my subject. Now if you think you have a soft job be- fore you, you are sadly mistaken, for the swamp is full of water, (and Plate No. 31 — "Nest and Eggs of Swai nscn's V/ar'r\zr in Canes." Photo by Troup D. Perry. a few feet of where you stand. While you stand enraptured within the swamp, the whole scene changes, on the right you will hear the clear wnis- tle of the Cardinal, and now and then see one of this gaudy specie fly by, overhead the melancholy song of the Wood Thrush is heard, and from a dis- tance comes the song of the Carolina Wren (which can imitate most any roots trip you up now and then) Pal- metto Gall Cones and a growth of tangled vines, but one never thinks cf trouble while after eggs. Now you commence to hunt. Look for any thing that looks like a bunch of dead leaves, for the nest is nothing more than a mass of dead leaves laid in layers to the depth of several inches, having a rather 56 THE OOLOGIST rough look en the outside but very compact inside. It is lined with pine needles and dead moss, which close- ly resembles horse hair, and if luck is on your side you will see eggs rest- ing in the nest, which will repay you for the hard time you have had wad- ing through the water and fighting the mosquitoes that always infest the swamp. During the twenty years I have been collecting eggs of this spe- cie and several other sets collected by the late Geo. Noble and Dr. Chas. Du Pont, making a total of 54 sets, only four had 4 eggs, so that 3 seems to be the usual number, and at times only two with incubation far advanced. I have never seen but one spotted set and that is now in my collection, pre- sented to me by the late Dr. Du Pont. The spots are rather faint reddish in color and chiefly on the large ends. Thus leaving little doubt in my mind that white eggs are the true color. The female is a very close sitter, al- lowing you to almost take her from the nest, and at last when driven off it is with difficulty that you can shoot them, as they keep so close to the un- der-growth, and all the time in great distress, beating the ground with its wings and trying all the while to lead you away. Now, if you want to se- cure the bird for a specimen, it is right here that patience becomes a virtue, for it will be some time be- fore you will see her lady-ship again, and then the only warning you will have is a slight chirp, repeated at intervals, and by close watching you will see her creeping back on the ground until directly under the nest before she flies to it. I remember on one occasion while standing in water knee deep to see a Swainson fly to a certain bush several times and becom- ing so interested in its movements that I soon forgot my surroundings but I was soon brought to my senses by hearing a swish and looking down I saw a water moccasin. He missed me, but I was more fortunate as my collecting gun soon had him where he was out of the way or doing harm. As I had remarked the bush where I had seen the Swainson going I went over expecting to find a nest being constructed, but instead I found a fe- male sitting on three incubated eggs and the made had been feeding her. They are very sociable, as you will find several jjair breeding together (and here let me say nine times out of ten that by close hunting you will find the nest of the Hooded Warbler as they are always near by) in quite a small space. They do not always breed in swamps or over running wat- er, as some writers claim, as I have found them in Myrtle bushes fully a mile from any water. They seem to prefer canes to any other place, but you will find them in Gall bushes, Vines and Palmettos. The photo of the nest and eggs that accompany this article was taken this season (by W. J. Hoxie) it only contained two eggs, so far incubated that I left them, thinking I would go back and get a chance to photograph the young, but work prevented. It seems they get scarcer every year, as I only took two sets last season and one this, although conditions are still the same as in the years that have passed. They will of- ten build a nest and then desert it as last season I saw several that were ready for eggs, but when I revisited the nest I found them in the same con- dition, still empty. Why they do this I am unable to say. They commence to build the latter part of April, as I have taken eggs by the 7th of May and as late as July 13th. So I think they must rear two broods during the season. European Birds in June Oologist. THE OOLOGIST Very Unusual. A golden eagle was caught alive and ^apparently in a perfectly healthy con- dition and uninjured at Lacon, 111., April 20, 1910 under the following ex- traordinary circumstances: A local fisherman was in a boat near the shore of the overflowed Illi- nois River bottoms when a "black eagle" which had been sitting in a tree on a nearby bluff flew suddenly down onto the ground into the brush very near the boat, in an apparent en- deavor to catch a mouse or some sim- ilar object. The fisherman ran to- wards the eagle which immediately threw itself upon its back and com- menced to strike out with its claws. He threw over it, some strong fish net ■webbing, which he had with him, and captured the bird, took it up home and kept it for some time in a box. Extraordinary as it may seem, in a few days the eagle became perfectly tame and when seen by the editor, a couple of days after capture, permit- ted itself to be stroked and handled, and even lifted out of the box and held in its captor's arms. Repeatedly we saw him take it by the legs and lift its feet and claws from the bottom of the box, stroke the bird on its sides, head and back, and extend its wings one at a time. We ourselves repeat- edly stroked the bird on the head with no resistance from the bird except a lowering of the head. As we would stroke it, the bird would gradually lower its head closer and closer to the bottom of the box in which it was kept, and it frequently uttered a plain- tive low laugh-like gurgle, and acting throughout much like a young bird that had just left the nest; though there were no signs of down upon the plumage and no marks by which we could determine this fact for a cer- tainty. There is no nesting site of this bird within the State of Illinois known to us, nor within several hundred miles of Lacon, and this is the first Golden Eagle that has come under our per- sonal knowledge within the confines of the state. * * * Since writing the foregoing, the bird has been turned out and for several days stayed around the town in the trees and on the house and chimney tops, much to the fright of the local poultry and a few ladies and many small children; doing so far as we know absolutely no damage whatever to any living children. Where it final- ly went is unknown to us, but we trust it will not be molested wherever it may choose to go. EDITOR. More of The American Robin in England. In the northern suburbs of London and across the north-eastern counties a curious bird migration was to be seen today. One of the last of the winter visitors was leaving. The birds had begun to find England too warm, and the desire to nest in more congenial places was upon them. In spite of an early spring, the de- parture is rather late, but fieldfares are the least regular of all the mi- grants. Today they were flying high and in a steady stream; but during the whole journey, at any rate across Hertfordshire, they were chattering in their complacent, unmistakable manner. Many of the fieldfares have already landed in Scandinavia. Probably a good many Avill be left in England for some days yet, but this year the last of the winter visitors have conven- iently left just as the host of summer visitors are arriving. The two streams will pass each other, though on the whole the fieldfares diverge to the north of most of our spring comers. 58 THE OOLOGIST The migration is particularly inter- esting this year, as it is probable that these fieldfares, which are of the thrush tribe, have taken into their company some at any rate of the Am- erican robins, which also are migrat- ory. A dozen of these beautiful birds Nesting of the Black-throated Green Warbler. The Black-throated Green Warbler is ?. regular breeder _ around Branch- port, N. Y. in the numerous gullies that cut into the hills rising from 600 Plate No. 33 — "Nest and Eggs of the Black-throated Green Warbler." Photo by Verdi Burtch. were last year brought to England, and a quantity of eggs successfully hatched, some by wild thrushes and blackbirds, some by the robins them- selves. The whole company flourish- ed greatly, but it is to be feared that the migratory instinct and example has proved too strong for the ma- jority.— English paper. ft. to 800 ft. on both sides of Lake Keuka and its inlet. Nearly every gully has a fringe of hemlocks on its banks and it is in these gullies most- ly above the 300 ft. contour above the lake that it makes its summer home. Arriving here the first week in May THE OOLOGIST 59 it mingles with the mixed bunch of migrating warblers for a week or more then repairs to its breeding grounds. All the nests that I have ever seen were placed in hemlock trees usually on a horizontal limb over an opening, as a wood road or over the water in the gully but a few were in rather thick places and being placed among the thick leaves are easily overlook- ed. The nest is compact, deeply cupped and is composed of fine dead hemlock twigs and strips of bark, lined with fine dead grass, rootlets, fine strips of bark, hair and sometimes a few feathers. Attached to the outside are little bunches of yellowish wooly sub- stance and little fluffy bunches of spiders silk. All of the following nests were found in these gullies: Nest No. 1. The first nest that I ever found (June 1, 1903) was in a small, tall, spindling hemlock in a bunch of rudimentary limbs 30 ft from the ground against the body of the tree. It was in a rather dark place among a lot of large hemlocks and pines about 30 ft. back from the gully bank. I kicked the tree and the fe- male left the nest sailing away to a distant tree but came back bringing the male while I was at the nest. There were four eggs, incubation just begun. Nest No. 2. .June 28, 1903. This was in the same gully as No. 1 and was in a medium sized hemlock 10 ft. up and 4 ft. from the body of the tree, in an open place or slanting. The fe- male was on the nest but left it when I began to climb and hopped about near by while I was at the nest. There were four eggs which must have hatched in about four or five days. One of the eggs was abnormal, be- ing very much elongated. Xest No. 3. June 2, 1904. In a rath- er open place on the bank of Belknap Gully where a few tall spindling hem- locks (the large ones had been cut out) and in one of these which was about 3 in. in diameter I found a nest resting on a small bushy limb against the body of the tree about 16 ft. from the ground. While I was at the nest the female came so close that I could almost reach her. The nest was made of small hemlock twigs, lined with fine strips of inner bark, very fine dead grass and some horsehair. There were some bunches of the wooly sub- stance and a strip of birch bark at- tached to the outside of the nest and it contained 5 fresh eggs. Nest No. 4. June 5, 1904. This nest was at least 30 rods back from the gul- ly bank, on level ground and a few rods from the edge of some woods in a small hemlock 15 ft. up and 3 ft. out on a horizontal limb and contained 4 eggs. Nest No. 5, June 11, 1904. A de- serted nest was 15 ft. up in a hemlock and 6 ft. out over a wood road. It contained one fresh egg, one egg with a hole in it and the shell of another egg. Nest No. 6, June 19, 1904. This was 7 ft. out on a drooping branch of a good sized hemlock that grew out of the bank 15 ft. from the bottom of Chidsey GullJ^ It was 35 ft. above the gully bottom and contained 4 fresh eggs. The female remained on the nest until I touched her with a stick then slipped off and remained near and did not make a bit of fuss. The eggs are about the handsomest of any of this species that I have ever seen, having a creamy white ground thickly blotched, spotted and specked around the larger end with dark chest- nut and lavender shell markings, the specks and a few spots extending over the rest of the egg. 60 THE OOLOGIST Nest No. 7, June 28, 1904. Was in a hemlock 15 ft. up and 7 ft. out over a wood road. It was not far from where I found No. 6, and it contained four fresh eggs which were marlted almost exactly like those found in Nest 6. The female was on the nest and did not leave until I touched her when she dropped to the ground and then came back again real close. I am positive that this was the same bird that built nest No. 6 and she had just nine days in which to build the nest and lay four eggs. Nest No. 8, May 29, 1905. Nest 20 ft. up and 12 ft. on a horizontal limb of a large hemlock and contained three fresh eggs and one egg of Cow- bird. The female stuck to the nest until I jarred the limb when she drop- ped to the ground but soon came back and settled down on the nest when I reached the ground. June 3, 1905, saw a male Black- throated Green singing E-ze-ze-ze-z as he hunted leizurely from branch to branch and finally went to a nest which I found to contain one egg. He sang regularly all of the time changing his tune to E-z when I was at the nest. No more eggs were ever layed in this nest. Nest No. 9, June 14, 1905. A nest in a small hemlock that grew close beside a very large hemlock was 10 ft. up and 6 ft. out on a horizontal limb and contained four fresh eggs. The female was on the nest and af- ter flushing stayed around close by and chipped. Nest No. 10, June 18, 1905. Saw a female feeding and after a time she began to chip and work from branch to branch all around and then into a certain hemlock finally going onto a nest 40 ft. up on a small limb. There were five eggs which probably hatch- ed in a day or two. While I was at the nest the female kept flying around from branch to branch, sometimes- coming quite close. The male appear- ed, was quiet and kept his distance, looking at me in an inquiring way. Af- ter I was on the ground again the fe- male kept chipping and working to- wards the nest but when within a few inches would fly away again, finally went en the nest chipping continually, stayed but a moment and flew away. Soon she came back, went on the nest and was quiet. A pair of Oven- birds came to the tree and were chas- ed away by the* male. Nest No. 11, July 2, 1905. Nest 35 ft. up in a hemlock and 10 ft. out on a limb. The female was on the nest and did not leave until I could almost touch her. There were four eggs near- ly ready to hatch. A large feather in the lining of the nest. Nest No. 12, July 2, 1905. Nest was 40 ft. above the gully bottom in a small leaning hemlock growing out of the gully bank and was on a small limb 3 ft. out. The female was on the nets and left just before I reached her level. The nest contained five well incubated eggs. The female moved silently about through the tree seem- ingly ignoring my presence and pick- ed a worm from a branch within 3 ft. of my hand and went on to the nest only five feet from me and in plain sight, cuddled down and did not move until I started to descend, when she started up but settled down again without leaving the nest. She did not utter a sound while I was there and the male did not appear at all. Vis- ited this nest again July 9th, I had been watching it a few minutes when the female came and fed the young, which were now in the nest. She staid but a few seconds and dropped to the bottom of the gully, 15 minutes later the male came and fed them and dropped to the gully bottom. In 10 minutes the female came and stayed THE OOLOGIST 61 at the nest one minute then dropped to the ground. Seven minutes later a male which I took to be a stranger, appeared in the lower branches, hunt- ed leisurely up through the tree and when near the nest hopped up close and looked in but dodged back as though he was scared, hesitated a sec- ond then flew away. Eleven minutes later the male came and fed the young staying one minute. Then I left the vicinity. Visited the nest again July 23d and found it empty and saw nothing of the young. There was a nest in the same tree in June, 1906, but it was not used. Nest No. 13, June 7, 1907. Nest in same tree and on same branch as No. 12, making the third nest found in the same tree. The Cowbird's eggs were imbedded in the lining of this nest being nearly covered with the lining and there were four eggs of the warbler. Another nest found June 7, had one egg of Cowbird in it and the Warb- ler never used it.. Nest No. 14, June 13, 1909, was in a hemlock a little back from a wood road. It was 12 ft. up and 6 ft. from the body of the tree and contained two eggs. Visited it again June 16th, and the female sat close until I reach- ed her, when she dropped to the ground. I had my camera with me and exposed two plates. The first did not show the nest on account of the dense foliage. Before exposing the second one I cut away the leaves from over the nest and got the result here shown. The female was near all of the time that I was at the nest and after I reached the ground again she flew to it, looked in and dodged back then looked in again and flew away but was on the nest again two minutes after I had left the tree. Ten days later I visited this nest again hoping to get a picture of the young, but it was empty and deserted. Nest No. 15, June 23, 1909. Nest 7 ft. from the body of a small hemlock and 15 ft. from the ground. The tree was situated about half way up a gul ly bank. Nest contained four fresh. eggs and the female was on the nest and after flushing remained close by and was quiet. Of the fifteen nests, here described, nine contained four eggs each, three had five eggs each, one four and two of Cowbird, one three and one of Cow- bird and one had three eggs partly broken and deserted. The latter prob- ably an incomplete set. Cowbirds eggs found in but three nests. The male bird appeared at but two of the nests. The female seemed to do all the incubating and when flushed from the nest invariably dropped to the ground or sailed nearly to the ground but was soon back in the near- by branches and was usually quiet. We find many empty nests every year that are never used and on the second visit we often find the lining torn out or the nest on the ground. VERDI BURTCH, From the Isle of Pines. Ricord's Hummer (Riccordia ricor- dii)— 1. 4 1-8 in., w. 2.6 in. Male, up- per parts shining green; a white spot or small line behind eye; tail long and bronzy; under parts a metalic green; under tail coverts white. Fe- male, similar but duller. The Hummer is very common in the jungles along the arroyas and rivers and is very fond of feeding from the "Hahogwa" blossoms. It is often seen perching in the thicket just so that a ray of sunshine falls upon it, making a very pretty sight. Often when so occupied it will burst into a song, a very low but quite musical «2 THE OOLOGIST and entirely different from what one would suspect from such a small bird. Cuban Tody, (Todus multicolor) up- per parts light yellowish green, light- er on cheeks; mustach white ending in a broad blue streak; throat scar- let ;lore yellow; bend of wing blue edged with white; underparts white, sides of breast bluish ending in a pale scarlet streak; bill horn colored; up- per mandible darker, feet horn color; under tail coverts yellow; outer tail feathers grayish. L. 3.5 in. This little bird is also quite common in the jungles and is heard even more often than seen, although it is very tame. It is quite curious and seems to try to ask you who you are, what you are doing and what you are going to do at the same time. A. C. READ. Snakes Often Do This. As I was coming home one after- noon from a tramp, I heard a Song Sparrow making a peculiar noise as if angry or frightened. Upon investiga- tion in the marshy grasses, I found its nest and instead of containing eggs, it held a snake fourteen inches long. The snake had swallowed three eggs and was just swallowing the fourth one when I came upon the scene. The egg was so big for the snake that it had to dislocate its jaw to be able to put the egg in its mouth. I wondered how the snake could get any nourishment from the eggs with- ^out breaking them. R. M. PEREZ. Left the Eggs. I had a desire to find a Buzzard's egg to add to my collection, so one Satur- day morning, I took my lunch and set out. I had noticed two Buzzards soaring over a little island before, so I walk- ed in there. When the old mother flew out, I went in and two little buz- zards were on the ground (Feb. 27, 1909.) Next year in 1910 I went the 4th of February and two eggs were there. On March 11th I found two more with a doll leg and several pieces of china. I decided not to take the other eggs if they nested. Brown Kilpatrick. The Kentucky Warbler. If I were asked to name my favorite among the dozen species of the Warb- ler family that come to spend the summers with us here in Southern Pennsylvania, I would unhesitatingly revert to the Kentucky Warbler. With his brilliant black and yellow coat as he moves alertly among the underbrush uttering his vigorous alarm note at your intrusion on his domain, he well merits your admira- tion. But when you have once heard his clear musical song, so loud and distinct you instinctively look for a much larger bird. I am wont to class him with the Cardinal, Carolina Wren, Winter Wren and Tufted Titmouse, all birds of strong characteristics, in song and action. Very similar in volume and melody are some of the notes of the Mourning Warbler, which replace the Kentucky in the Northern counties of Pennsyl- vania. The nesting of the Kentucky Warb- ler is not as strictly localized per- haps as with most of the other spe- cies. The Worm-eater here nearly always builds on a more or less steep hillside in the thick woods; the Blue- wing in a thicket or open space near, or in the woods. But the Kentucky Warbler is equal- ly at home in the deep, wooded swamp, the laurel covered hillside, or on the hill tops among the bunches of under- growth that cover the ground. THE OOLOGIST 63 In the low swampy woodlands near the running streams that flow from every ravine, you will find the most favored locality. I have found more perhaps at the foot of a clump of Spice- wood bushes than in any other one sit- uation. Here a large mass of dry leaves is placed loosely on the ground, on which the nest, proper, is built; and the inner lining of fine, black root- 1 did not see the female leave the nest, and at once supposed it to be the property of a Wormeating Warb- ler; until a closer examination re- vealed the lining of black rootlets. Both parents returned while I was getting my camera ready, and made full identification easy. It was placed in the same situation where the Worm- eater often build ; on a steep hillside, Plate No. 31 — "Nest and eggs of the Kentucky Warbler in Pennsylvania." Photo May 28, 1905 by Thomas H. Jackson. lets, is perhaps as characteristic of the Kentucky Warbler construction as the Worm-eaters favorite and beauti- ful material — the red stems of the Hair Moss, used for the same pur- pose. The nest here illustrated was one of the handsomest I have ever found; both in regard to its construction and its location. under a Laurel bush. It was also well sunken into the dead leaves in the ground and perfectly concealed. The Kentucky Warbler does its full share toward saving the Cowbird from extinction. I recollect one nest some years since, with four Cowbird's eggs, and two of the owners. It was a poor- ly concealed nest and an easy mark. As consistent members of the "Au- 64 THE OOLOGIST dobon Society" we felt it our duty to confiscate the entire outfit and allow the owners of the nest to make a fresh start, trusting to their having setter success the next time. They, as with all our other warblers, are quick to forget their troubles, and I have known a new nest to be started within a week of the time the first was de- spoiled. I think the Cowbird is largely re- sponsible for the restricted increase in numbers of very many of our smal- ler birds: — far beyond all other de- structive agencies combined — not ex- cepting the most enthusiastic oologist. The damages nature quickly and cer- tainly repairs; but those of the Cow- bird — never ! While the Audubon Society is trying to assist all our states in framing bene- ficial laws for the protection of the birds. Why do they not recognize the real character of the Cowbird and, at least remove from him the protection of the law? Instead, however here in Pennsylvania he is classed as a game bird, along with the Bobolink and Purple Crackle and any one who is reckless enough to kill a Cowbird "out of season" or take its eggs is open to trouble. THOMAS H. JACKSON. The Black-Throated Blue Warbler. This pretty little warbler is a com- mon migrant and arrives early in May. Records that I have kept for over fif- teen years show that it has only var- ied from May 5th to 13th in date of its first arrival during that time. About May 1st when the first of the warbler hosts begin to arrive vegeta- tion in this region is not much ad- vanced. In the river valley orchards, maple and thorn trees are just bud- ding into leaf while the mountains are still brown and cold. For this reason the small migrants, especially warblers^ at first migrate along the valley and find food about the buds and startling leaves and at the same time some protection. The Black-throated Blue, is at first common in the valley with the other warblers. As the season advances and the mountains begin to take on their garb of green, the Black-throated Blue becomes much in evidence and when the migrations are over with, and summer sets in, the Black-throat- ed is found as a quite common sum- mer resident. During September it is common when the migration south is taking place. By October 1st they have nearly all disappeared. I have seen one though as late as October 10th (1900), an un- usually late date. In summer they are at home in heavy timber; also regions that have been partly lumbered over where are found plenty of timber and under- brush. They are also found in second growth and slashings but seem to pre- fer the deep shady woods. On the fire- swept barren ridges where is found only rocks, huckleberry brush, sweet fern and stunted brush, it is absent. The male spends most of his time well up in the trees and sings inces- santly. They have at least two dif- ferent songs during the breeding sea- son, one of which greatly resembles the "zee, zee, zee" of the golden- winged warbler. The female is rather shy and keeps close to the ground in laurel brush. Although a rather common breeder, the nests are hard to find. They are usually more or less concealed by foliage and being light colored, and close to the ground are easily overlook- ed. Almost every season I find a nest or two and in June, 1907, I was so for- tunate as to find seven nests. During the past fifteen years, I have examined quite a number. They are THE OOLOGIST 65 always built close to the ground. Usually from ten to twenty-four inches up, rarely more, and I have seen sev- eral in brush hemlock that were but four to six inches off the ground. Laurel beds seem to be their fav- orite nesting sites. Fully two-thirds of the nests I have found were in laur- el. Next to laurel thickets and clumps of- low hemlock, brush is preferred, Only rarely do I see one in green brush. The nests are compact and cup- shaped and sometimes are beautiful structures. The handsomest warblers nests I have ever seen were of this species. The favorite materials are grape vine bark, fine strips of yellow and white birch bark and rotten wood. Many nests are almost entirely built of fine shreds of white and yellow rot- ten wood and are very pretty. For- lining, fine black rootlets and fine grasses are used. Four is the usual number of eggs, occasionally only three. Have not yet found a set of five. All sets I have found were well wreathed, but they vary greatly in ex- tent of markings. Some are simply wreathed and some sets are heavily marked all over. R. B. SIMPSON. The Cerulean Warbler. (Dendroica cerulea.) A few years ago I spent several sea- sons in the mountains of Doddridge County, West Virginia in the employ of the Standard Oil Company. The country there is rougher than at my home here. The mountains are steeper and run to peaks and ridges with none of the platteaus of my home hills. The timber was big and tall, but in that region was entirely hardwood. An evergreen was a rare sight. I missed the fern and moss-covered depths of the cool hemlock forests of Northern Pennsylvania, for here the ground in the woods was dry and along in the Fall, water was a scarce arti- cle. Although I didn't like the country a little bit, I found a few birds com- mon there, that at home were un- known, or occurred only as rare strag- glers. Of these new ones I was most in- terested in the warblers, and found several quite desirable species, such as the Cerulean, Kentucky, Worm-eat- ing, and Golden-winged to be more or less common in summer. Of these I became much interested in the Ceru- lean. In nearly twenty years collecting here at Warren, I have never met with it but twice. I found they arrived there April 20th, 1896, April 22, 1897, and May 1, 1898. On the first day of their arriv- al several could be heard in almost any woods and in a few days they were common. I never saw them about orchards or farm houses. They seemed to prefer the woodland alto- gether, and whether open or heavy, the songs of the males could be heard overhead anywhere, as they spent most of their time singing. After about August 1st they were quiet and soon seemed to have all dis- appeared. Although so common, I found it a difficult matter to find nests. Most of my time I spent near the head of a little stream well up a mountain-side. This place was sloping and not very steep. There was also several benches or flats and it was heavily timbered with mostly oak, hickory and poplar. By spending all spare time possible in watching the different female birds, especially when near the ground in old tree-tops or grape vines, I was en- abled to catch a good many hunting 66 THE OOLOGIST nesting material. It was then up to nie to Keep them in sight until they reached the nest. By watching one place so much I discovered that a great many more birds nested in a favorable locality than I had any idea of. Roaming about and looking at ran- dom I soon found produced no Ceru- lean nests, and with one exception, all that I found were discovered by watching the females. This one ex- ception was on a limb two inches in diameter of a big oak. The nest was built amongst a couple of little sprigs that grew up and because of the leaves could be seen from only one spot on the ground. I passed this tree so often that once I happen- ed to glance up while in just the right place. The females built their nests alone, in no case did the male help, although often he accompanied her to and fro. The nesting material was always procured on or near the ground. One female Cerulean that I saw gathering nesting material, I followed up and found to have just started a nest forty feet up and seven feet from the trunk in a big oak, on a limb two inches in diameter. This was on the morning of May 13th. On the 19th she finished the nest, taking seven days to do the work. On the 26th the female began to incubate a set of four. Altogether I found twelve nests, six in one season. Six of these nests I have data for showing height and distance from the trunk. Of these six one was in a maple forty feet up and twelve feet out on a limb one and one-half inches in diameter. The other five were in oaks which is the tree preferred in that region. These five were as fol- lows: 30 feet up, 5 feet out on a 2 in. limb 40 feet up, 10 feet out on a 2 in. limb 40 feet up, 7 feet out on a 2 in. limb 45 feet up, 6 feet out on a 3 in. limb 40 feet up, 9 feet out on a l^/^ in. limb They were always built on top of a horizontal limb at a point where a branch started out or where several sprigs put cut to give the female a chance to fasten the nest securely. The nests are small and neat. A typi- cal one measures three and one-fourth in diameter and one and one-half inches deep. The material used is shreds and strips of inner bark, shreds of weeds, fine strips of grape vine bark, and veg- etable material, and in one case a few small pieces of a newspaper that I had thrown away were used. The lining was fine shreds of bark, some- times hair and frequently fine grasses. The eggs greatly resemble the eggs of the Yellow warbler, being of a greenish ground color, and well spot- ted with browns and purple, principal- ly in the form of a wreath about the larger end. To collect the nest and eggs I cut two long light poles. At the small end of one I left a fork on which I fastened a paper shoe box filled with-- cotton. On the end of the other I fastened a little forked stick with the tip pointing back. By holding the box out under the nest and carefully pull- ing the nest over, I landed all safely. Also used the same outfit for Gnatcat- chers and Hummers. Here at home I use the same rigging for warblers and others that are out of reach. R. B. SIMPSON. We are in erceipt of a communica- tion to the effect that one of our sub- scribers has "indisputable scientific proof enough at my command to down the combined efforts of all the authori- ties and ornithological societies of America." He must be well equipped with ammunition! THE OOLOGIST 67 The Orange Crowned Warbler. This is one of the rare members of the family, more common dnring mi- gration in the Mississippi Valley, and one of whose nesting habits and home life but very little is known. It is supposed to breed casually in Wiscon- sin and once in a great while in east- ern Canada, but the chief summer home of this species is from Manitoba northwest to Alaska. It is of a rest- less Kinglet like disposition, moving continually about the upper parts of the larger trees. The song is unusual- ly strong for a bird of this size. The eggs are reported as "white or creamy white, finely checked, chiefly on the larger end with reddish or chestnut brown." The view of the nest herewith pre- sented on the following page, is taken from a photo given to the editor by an ornithologist, a number of years ago in Quebec, who claimed at that time that it was a photo of a nest that he had found the summer previously on the north side of the St. Lawrence river, opposite the City of Quebec. It is to be hoped that the next few years will unfold much of the life history of this little-known species. Our Canadian readers are special- ly adjured to look it up and w^rite us the result of their investigations. The IVIyrtle Warbler on Strange Ground. The Myrtle Warbler is a true wood warbler, yet how often do we find it, in the migrations, in places very un- woodlike. There is a locality at Frankford, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, near the Deleware River, where I have found it at these times and often wondered what inducement led the birds to frequent it as they passed through. It consists of a thick growth of button and black alder bushes sev- eral rcres in area, growing in shal- low water and mud, and surrounded on all sides by marsh and cultivated lands, with not a tree within several hundred yards, and the nearest woods over a mile away and across the river in New Jersey. It is here that the Myrtle Warbler will linger in the Spring until into May, and tarry in the Fall until lat- er in November, seemingly contented in such an environment, which seems to me ill adapted to its habits, and one in which very few ornithologists would expect to find it. In this thicket every day after April 20-25 to May 5-10 in the Spring and during October and till Novem- ber 10th and later in the Fall, I can reasonably expect to find the Yellow^- rumped Warbler in it. In fact, it is the only place in this locality at these times where I am absolutely certain to find it, and this I have proven several times when having an "All Day" with the birds. That the birds find an abundance of food in the thicket is easily ascertain- ed by watching them for an hour or two, by observing the host of insects in it, and by shooting a bird and noting its fat and excellent condition, together w'ith its well filled stomach. The majcrity of the birds shot and seen in the thicket have been imma- ture (in fall) and females, but few adult males in nuptial plumage being seen cr taken. I merely mention this as in interesting occurrence, for in woods the majority of the birds ob- served and shot have been males. The thicket being situated along the river, one mile inland, and the only available resting place for birds until they reach the other side of the city (Philadelphia), a distance of about ten miles, migrate on their way South in the fall, following the course of the 68 THE OOLOGIST Deleware, probably drop in, realizing the necessity of rest by perceiving the weary miles of city wilderness before them. This has been suggested to me ^iJ a friend as a probable cause of the birds occurrence in the thicket, but it «eems like a poor suggestion, as a -short flight would carry the tired wan- •derers across the river into Jersey woods. Nevertheless, it is the only ex- impossible to obtain of them in the woods. RICHARD F. MILLER. Lost, Strayed or Stolen. The long promised new edition of the A. O. U. Check list. Can any of our readers tell us when, where or how we can get a glimpse of this much ad- vertised ignis fatuus? Plate No. 40 — "NeEt and Eggs of Orange Crowned Warbler in Quebec, Prov- idence, Canada." planation that I can assign to the "bird's occurrence in such a place. In the Spring they presumably drop in, accepting my friends' theory as the Tight cause of their occurrence, after a fatiguing flight across the city. Anyhow, whatever the cause of their appearance here, I am glad of it, for they have afforded me many hours of interesting study that would have been We have recently added to our col- lection of native wild fowl, seven spe- cimens of the extremely rare Ross's goose, apparently in perfect condition, showing the warty growth about the base of the bill to perfection. They are but little larger than a Mallard duck, and have a low plaintive note like the subdued lowing of a cow at a distance, and not musical. THE OOLOGIST 69 History of a Double Nest of the Yellow Warbler. While climbing over a fence, one day in May 1S99, I noticed in a Wild Rose bush at ray feet a nest of the Yellow Warbler. It was placed about three feet from the ground and some ten cr twelve feet from the shore of a small pond and appeared to be com- pleted, but held no eggs. Passing by the spot again at noon on the 17th I glanced into the nest and saw one egg of the Cowbird, but none of the rightful owners. Curious to see how the Warblers would treat this intrusion into their home I return- ed at 1:30, but the egg was nowhere in sight. Closer examination showed that a thin layer of plant fibres had been laid over the egg; in fact the be- ginning of a second nest. The birds must have worked very rapidly to have secured enough material to en- tirely conceal the egg in so short a time, but during the rest of the after- noon I watched them at their nest building and found they worked con- tinuously without resting. Procuring some soft cotton, I fas- tened it to the twigs of a nearby bush and retired to a tangle of Wild Grape- vine to watch. Hardly had I conceal- ed myself when the male appeared and sang from a sappling just over the nest. The female appeared a moment later and flew directly to the cotton, fluttering before it and tearing off lit- tle tufts which were woven, or rather matted into the nest. At no time did the female alight to tear off the cot- ton, but on each trip poised in the air before it, much as a Hummingbird does in front of a flower. Generally three or four strips were carried to the nest each visit. Arriving at the nest with a beakful of cotton the female settled down into the nest, turning around and tucking in little bits here and there, shaping the sides and rim with her breast and bill, and matting the whole into a solid feltlike substance. No time was wasted at the nest however, and in a few minutes she was back after more material. While the female was thus busily employed, the male flitted from bush to bush, caught an insect here and there, sang, now in the trees overhead, now from the bushes near the nest, but only once or twice did he visit the nest. On these visits he did not appear to be carrying any material for the nest. It was probably simply a tour of inspection and as if satisfied with the way the work was progress- ing he finally disappeared and it was nearly an hour before he canae back, announcing his return by singing in the trees overhead before descending to his mate in the bushes below. By sunset the second nest was to all appearances completed, but when I visited it again next morning I found that the birds had worked in a quan- tity of buff colored vegetable fibres, not materially increasing the bulk of the nest, but toning down the white- ness of the cotton and rendering the structure much less conspicuous than it had been the night before. The nest was now complete and a vacation of several days followed before the eggs were laid. Had the birds been com- pelled to procure their nesting ma- terial in the regular way instead of having a supply so conveniently fur- nished them, the building of this sec- ond nest would doubtless have taken much longer. The first egg was laid May 23d and one was deposited each succeeding day until four had been laid. Incu- bation began at once and lasted ten days, the young appearing on the 5th of June. For the first few days their growth was rather slow, but both parents fed them constantly, the fath- 70 THE OOLOGIST er being fully as assiduous in supply- ing their demands as was his mate. On the fifth day their eyes opened and they began to grow and feather rapid- ly, and when ten days old they left the nest. After the brood had flown I removed the nest. So firmly were the mater- ials matted together that it was with some difficulty that I separated the two nests without damage to either. On some way the old birds or the young in the nest, had managed to break the Cowbird's egg, but its size and shape and the position it occupied in the nest were all plainly indicated by the deep mould left in the under- side of the second nest. F. SEYMOUR HERSEY. Tennessee's Shame! The following we clipped from a daily last winter. It tells a sickening tale. Do you wonder the birds are decreasing? SLAUGHTER OF ROBINS Thousands of Little Songsters Killed in Tennessee and Sold at Ten Cents Dozen. Louisville, Ky. — Robins are numer- ous at Lofton, Tenn., and are "selling readily on the local market at ten cents a dozen," according to a Mur- freesboro special. It should be ex- plained that the robins are not so numerous as they used to be for the fact that they sell for ten cents a dozen has induced many men and boys to engage in the wholesale slaughter of the birds. Thousands of robins, the special says, gather in the cedars to roost, and hunting parties go in the night and capture and kill them in large num- bers. One party caught 2,600 birds in one night. One hunter caught 377 birds in one tree. It is estimated that 150,000 have been killed within the last three weeks. It is great sport — and the robins sell for ten cents a dozen. That is the way in which wild bird life is being protected in some parts of this great country. The robin is a beautiful and harm- less bird. He is an indefatigable de- stroyer of insect pests. Any one who has ever watched him an a lawn can testify to his industry in searching out bugs and worms and his capacity for putting them where they can do no harm. If there is a cherry tree handy he will visit it occasionally, but he much iirefers to forage after living things. He is a cheerful, happy bird and rather likes to make himself handy around the premises, rearing a family the while in the boughs of the old apple tree. He is not much of a singer so far as the quality of his music goes, but he is always willing to give you a sample of the best he can do in that line, and the effect is not unpleasant to the human ear. In fact, the robin is an all round good fellow and is always ready to be friendly and serviceable if given half a chance. It is to be regretted that our neigh- bors in Tennessee are not giving the robin even half a chance, but are mur- dering him in cold blood. There real- ly seems to be no reason for it ex- cept that robins are worth ten cents a dozen. That also would seem to be about the proper market quotation for men who engage in such slaughter, either for pleasure or profit. The D. V. O. C. It is somewhat different to write fully of an organization such as the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club of Philadelphia. Therefore, I shall confine myself to a short article, con- taining the essentials of its concep- tion and life, for which I am indebted to Mr. Witmer Stone, who is perhaps in closer touch with the personal of our beloved clan than any other mem- ber. Organized February 3, 1890, by Wil- liam L. Bailey, George S. Morris, J. H. Reed, Samuel M. Rhoads, Charles A. Voelker, Dr. Spencer Trotter and Witmer Stone, the first meeting was held at the home of Mr. Bailey at 1624 Arch St. Later they were held at 16 N. 7th St., and finally through the efforts of Mr. Stone the club was granted the use of a room at the Academy of Natural Sciences; and March 3, 1891 is memorable as the first meeting held in the Academy THE OOLOGIST 71 building whicli has since been the Chib's home. The object of this Society was, and is the study of birds, in the egg, the field and the cabinet. Any respectable male bird student was eligible to mem- bership, whether — to quote from the club history — "He handled the subject with a gun, the opera-glass, the slap- jack, the pen, the scalpel, the paint brush, the drill or the camera',, and naturally the same conditions hold good at the present time. The founders figured largely as col- lectors for the first few years and formed the nucleus of the D. V. O. C. collection -'of mounted birds, nests and eggs at the Academy of Natural Sciences. This collection is at present a most complete representation of the birds of the Delaware Valley, emorac- ing the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. It contains such local rarities as, — the nests and eggs of the White-throated Sparrow, Gos- hawk, Winter Wren, Brown Creeper, Florida Gallinule, etc. Introduced to the A. O. U. in 1891 by Messrs. Bailey and Stone the club and its work have been endorsed by ornithologists throuhgout the country and are especially familiar to those of the Atlantic Coast. From a total enrollment of 180, death has called twelve, among, them being Dr. Woodhouse and Edwin Sheppard, both of whom were noted and respected for their endeavors along the line of ornithological know- ledge. Among the noted literature publish- ed by the club are "The Bids of East- ern Pennsylvania and New Jersey," by Witmer Stone; "Abstracts of the Pro- ceedings of the D. V. O. C." and "Cas- sinia." the club annual. The meetings are held the first and third Thursday evenings of each month from October to May inclusive. At such times the "adults" and "im- matures" gather and wax enthusiastic about their respective data. These discussions are illustrated by speci- mens of lantern slides, and the spirit of good-fellowship prevails. On the evening of January 6, 1910 was held the 20th Anniversary. It was a time of rejoicing and congratu- lation; of acquaintances renewed among the less active members. Of impromptu speeches there were many. that set forth humorously the trials and tribulations endured by the var- ious members on their field trips. Of course one and all were ready to be "flash-lighted" after which painful op- eration, they retired to the hall to partake of the annual collation, which fittingly brought to a close a memor- able evening. » ♦ » Delos Hatch. Few indeed of the older Oologists of the United States but that know Mr. Hatch. Specimens of eggs taken by him can be found without doubt in every large collection in North Ameri- ca and in most of the larger collec- tions of Europe. He is one of the old time oologists that helped make North American Oology what it now is. Re- cently a representative of one of the local papers visited his home and we present herewith his description of what he saw. WONDERFUL COLLECTION. A De.scription of Interesting Museum of Mr. Delos Hatch. On invitation of Mr. Delos Hatch, the well known taxidermist and col- lector of curios, of this place, a rep- resentative of the Eagle visited his museum on White street Tuesday morning and spent a very pleasant hour or two. Mr. Hatch has his museum on the second floor of a building especially built for the purpose. The large room has a number of windows and a couple of skylights and is almost com- pletely filled with interesting curiosi- ties from actually the four quarters of the earth with specimens of the ani- mal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms. Most of the mounted pieces are ar- ranged around the room in glass show cases which show off their attractions to the best advantage. The animal section includes stuffed wolves, foxes, porcupines, deer, squirrels rabbits, coons, wild hogs and almost every small wild animal of the American continent. There also may be found in this rare collection a large number of mounted reptiles, fresh and salt fish and animals of all kinds. One of the principal exhibits is that of birds and eggs, the collection of v^-hich has been a life long specialty every size, kind and plumage are here of Mr. Hatch and his wife. Birds of 72 THE OOLOGIST in wonderful array, from the common little English sparrow to the beauti- ful birds of the tropics. It is also in- teresting to note the large display of eggs and their different sizes; color- ings and shapes. One of the most interesting sights in the museum, at least to the chil- dren, is a series of groups of birds illustrating "Who Killed Cock Robin?" each set representing some scene of the tragedy so familiar to every boy and girl. A beautiful section of the museum is that devoted to butterflies of which there are hundreds of different varie- ties, no two alike. Mr. Hatch recently received a consignment of butterflies from Rochester, N. Y. valued at near- ly$150 and consisting of specimens from nearly every country of South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, India and Japan. These butterflies are worth from 50c to $7.50 each. The collection of curios includes minerals, fossils, shells and innumer- able articles of interest. Mr. Hatch has a fine collection of stamps, coins and relics of all kinds and complete sets of American, Canadian and Eng- lish coins from a very early date with most of the coins of other countries. A number of these coins were discov- ered in excavating on the sites of an- cient Roman cities and it is thought that they were coined near the begin- ning of the Christian era. Mr. Hatch also has a large quantity of United States and Confederate pap- er money. Two sheepskin parchments signed by Thos. Jefferson and James Madison are among the rare docu- ments. Mr. Hatch, assisted by his wife, has been collecting curios for the past thirty years and has an extensive ac- quaintance not only among naturalists of the United States but other coun- tries as well. He is constantly ex- changing specimens and receiving new curiosities and rarities to add to his already large and complete collec- tion. He values the entire stock at between $4,000 and $5,000 and the value increases with age. It is an in- tellectual treat for anyone to visit Mr. Hatch's Dime Museum and those who have never seen the exhibits will do well to avail themselves of an early opportunity of seeing the beauties and wonders of nature. The Harvest. This month's OOLOGIST reaches our readers and those of whom are col- lectors are in the midst of the annual Spring harvest. The taking and preparation of bird skins, nests and eggs for the forma- tion of a permanent collection and for scientific studies is perfectly legiti- mate and justified. The destruction of either as the result of a mere tempor- ary fad is to be deprecated, and it is not wrong to take additional speci- mens within reasonable limits for the purpose of exchange; otherwise col- lectors and collections remote from the breeding place of the various species would be unable to add them to their cabinet. We trust that all our read- ers will use reason and discretion with respect to the gathering of speci- mens and that after the close of the season not only our advertising col- umns, but our reading columns as well will leflect a successful year in North American Oology. This Month's Issue. We opine that the oldest of our read- ers— and some of them have taken THE OOLOGIST since the first issue in 1884 — have never seen a better Oologist than we send you this month. If each one of you will take a little interest in the journal and endeavor to sen(i us at least one new subscriber you will thereby show us your appre- ciation for our extra effort. Can you not do so? Bird Notes. Send us in some more of your ob- servations. At the rate we are print- ing them this month, the supply won't last long. May 6th, 1910, a wild wood duck's nest was found in the overflowed Illinois river bottoms about fifteen feet above the water in the hollow end of a broken dead elm tree not over twelve inches in diameter. It contain- ed fourteen eggs, evidently partially incubated, and an unusual quantity of down for this species. THE OOLOGIST hi The Condor" A Magazine of Western Ornithology Edited by J. Grinnell. Associate Editors: Harry S. Swarth, Robt. B. Rockwell "Official Organ of the Cooper Orni- thological Club." Vol. XII, 1910 will contain the usual interesting articles by live active ornithologists and will be illustrated by the high- est class of half tones. You can- not afford to miss a number. Published bi-monthly at Holly- wood, California. Subscription : 1^1.50 per year net in advance- Single copies: 30c each. Foreign subscription. $1.75. J. Eugene Law, Business Mgr. Hollywood, California. W. Lee Chambers, Asst. Mgr. Santa Monica, California. McCALL PATTERNS Celebrated for style, perfect fit, simplicity and reliability nearly 40 years. Sold in nearly every city and town in the United States and Canada, or by mail direct. More sold than any other make. Send for free catalogue. McCALL'S MAGAZINE More subscribers than any other fashion magazine — million a month. Invaluable. Lat- est styles, patterns, dressmaking, millinerj', plain sewing, fancy needlework, hairdressing, etiquette, good stories, etc. Only 50 cents a year (worth double), including a free pattern. Subscribe today, or send for sample copy. WONDERFUL INDUCEMENTS to Agents. Postal brings premium catalogue and new cash prize ofTers. Address (HE UcCALL CO.. 238 to MS W. 37lh SL. NEW YORK In continuation of its series of plates of the Sparrows of North America IN COLOR Bird-Lore for January-Feb- ruary (Vol. XII, No. i) con- tains colored figures of the Grasshopper, Henslow's Baird's and LeCome's Spar- rows. The series was begun in Bird-Lore for November- De- cember, where the Chipping, Field, Tree, Clay-colored and Brewer's Sparrows were fig- ured. The demand for December, 1909, Bird-Lore has so exceeded our esti- mate that, in spite of the fact that we printed an unusually large edi- tion, the supply is now exhausted. We will, however, send a copy of the Sparrow plate (the first of the Sparrows of North America in color) which appeared in that num- ber, to all subscribers to Bird-Lore for 1910 (.Vol. Xll), in order that their series of these plates may be complete. Single numbers 20 cents. Annual subscription $1.00 BIRD-LORE, Harrisburg, Pa. VI THE OOLOGIST The Next Issue OF The Oologist Oologists & Taxidermists Tools Books and Magazines of Every Description Write me just what you wish. I can save you money. Specimen prices. All sent prepaid. Cut the Lining Egg Drills; 16 sizes. They are a delight for fine work. 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Rare North American sets. WANTED: — Ornithological books and maga- zines. Mammals, Birds, Turtles, alive. Osteological material. J. D. Sornborger, Rowley, Mass. ^ Do Not Fail to Get This Number THE OOLOGIST VII I WANT THE FOLLOWING. Please look this list over careful- ly and if you have any of them write me. The Wilson Billitin, Noa 6, 7, 8. The Curlew, Published by O. P. Hau ger of Orleans, Ind., Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. The Ornithologist and Oologist Semi- Annual, Published in 1889-90-91 by Wm. H. Foote of Pittsfield, Mass., and by C. C. Maxfield of Danbury, Conn, in 1S91. No. 1, Vol. I. The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 3. The Wilson Journal, Vol 1, Jany., 1893 and Vol. 2, June, 1893. The Oologist, of Utica, N. Y., Vols. 1-5 inclusive, for 1875 to 1881, any numbers. Journal of the Maine Ornithological Club. Vol. 2, No. 1, 2, 3, Vol. Birds of California, In relation to the fruit industry— Beal, Part II. Catalogue of Canadian Birds, by Prof. McCoun, Part I, 1st Ed. 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For $250 I will send prepaid every copy published, Nos. 1 to 209, inclusive, except the -•'ixty copies priced above at 10c or over — bou.nd volumes — Can he furnished, strongly bound In cloth and honnls, as follow?: Vol. I and II YOUNG OOLOGIST bound In one volume $1.00 Vol. IX. The OOLOGIST for '92, 298 pages of valuable and Instructive Oologlcal and Ornithological matter with many ?nll page illustrations, . .... $1.08 Or. if .vou order the two voijuies at one time, ■ p will send them by return mall for only ll.T.T. Ever.v student of birds, their nests and «^es. should have these two Tolnmes In their llbrar.v. The valuable Information *hey contain. 8 worth man.v times the price. Address pialnlj-. R. M. BARNES, Albion, N. Y, Lacon, 111. VIII THE OOLOGIST EGGS WANTED I want 1 set of each of the following: A. O. U. No. 181, 300, 310, 343, (358.1), (359.1) 375a, 725a. I want 2 sets of each of the following: A. O. U. No. 29, 30a, 47, 63, 70, (76), 79, 103, 129, 131, (138), 139, 141, 142, 143, 160, 167, (172), (179), 180, 208, 311, 332, 341, 360a, 409, 529, 624, 703a. I want 3 sets of each of the following: A. O. U. No. 133, 150, 153, 161, 163, (171.1), 178, 269, 271, 310a, 310c, 325, 339b, 356, 359, 364, 397a, 410, 420, 454, 458, 464, 466, 467, 489, 493, 542b, 573, 581m, 617, 633 658, 683a, 684, 718. I want 4 sets of each of the following: A. O. U. No. 7, 10, 27, 30, (56), 86, (185), 192, 195, 210, 211, 217, 264, 267, 280, 285, 302, (336), 348, 355, 367, 376, 457, 482, 486, 490, 498d, Ets, 593c, 610, 641, 659, 713, 746 756. I want 5 sets of each of the following: 5, 43, 52, (90), 108.1, 120a, 120b, 123a, 186, 188, 196, 200, 204, 206, 207, 218, 227, 252, 278, 286, 287, 289a, 289b, 292, 293a, 300c, 301, 334, 339a, 347a, 349, (351), 352, 375c, 375d, 421, 423, 461, 477, 480, 488a, 499, 513, 529b, 631, 657, 721b, 726, 733, 744,. I want 6 sets of each of the following: 5, 8, 13a, 21, 28, 37, 38, 59, 60, 72, 128, 205, 223, (260), 275, 281, 329, 373a, 373b, 397, 474e, 621, 673, 702, 706, 710, 729, 751a. For these I offer in exchange a very large list of the more common North American species, in original sets with full data. If you have none of the fore- going on hand now, but expect to take any this season, reserve what you take and write me. R. M. BARNES, Lacon, III. The OOlogist. BIRDS-NESTS-EGGS TAXIDERMY Vol. XXVII. No. 6. ALBION, N. Y., JUNE 15, 1910. Whole No. 275 BRIEF SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Wantefl, Exchange, For Sale. Etc. inserted in this department at 25 cents for each 25 words for one issue ; each additional word 1 cent. No notice inserted for less than 25 cents. TAKE NOTICE. SUBSCRIPTION. 50 CENTS PER YEAR Examine the number on the wrapper of your Oologist. It denotes the time your subscription expires. Remember we must be notified if you wish it discontinued and all arrearages must be paid. 275 your sub- scription expires with this issue. 2.^1 your subscription expires with December issue 1910. Other expirations can be computed by intermediate numbers at the rate of one number per month. Entered as second-class matter De- cember 21, 1903, at the post office, at Albion, N. Y., under the Act of Con- gress of March 3, 1879. In answering advertisements in these columns mention "The Oologist," and thereby help us, as well as the ad- vertiser and vourself. BIRDS WANTED.— One first set each of Sandhill and Whooping Crane, one pair of skins of Whooping Crane. Will exchange specimens from Northwest Canada. MACKaY ct DIPPIE. Calgary. Alberta. WANTED. -Skins of birds of the Rocky Mountain and (julf states, also a few rare Eastern. Can offer material from Raja Cali- fornia (Mexico,! and good exchange in well made Western skins. Please send complete lists. PINGREE I. OSBURNE, Pasadena. Cal. TO EXCHANGE.-Finely mounted i>irds and deer heads, several hundred Natural History and Sportsman's magazines, for bird and mammal skins. GEO. F. GCELF, Taxidermist. Brockport. N. Y. Any collectors having a few good labeled specimens of foreign birds, .'^end list. I will give A 1 skins of Illinois and California birds. Also offer skins of common specimens from Illinois for nests and sets of small species. HENRY K. COALE. Highland Park. Lake Co.. 111. WANTED. -Male and female of Wood Duck, (ireat Horned Owl. Screech Owl, Spar- row Hawk. Flicker, Baltimore Oriole. Blue Jay and Scarlet Tanager. The first five with nests in section of hollow tree and the latter three with nests and eggs in section of original branches. For further particulars address J. FRIESSER. 5620 Lake Ave.. Chicago. 111. WAXTED.-Alleggsof the English Spar- row in any stage of incubation. Will pay 3c. per egg. No fresh or blown eggs wanted. Send me all you can get. P. (t. Ho WES. The Maplewood Museum of Natural Science, Stampford, Conn. Nicely mounted birds sold at bargain prices; Canvasback, $3.00: Robins, etc., 75c. Many others. Send stamp for complete list. A. RUSSELL SMITH. Edge Hill. Pa. WANTED.— American and Foreign bird skins. Can offer in exchange moimted birds, bird skins and eggs in sets. Send list with exchange prices. JESSE T. CRAVEN. 811 Roosevelt Ave., I)etroit, Mich. I want 1 perfect skin in full breeding plum- age of each of the following species: A. O. U, No, 396, 454. 45ii,l()0, 168, 170a, 171,177, 1,83, 495a. 498,506,515. 511b, 528, 530b. 534. 542c, 557, 558. =581d. 58:3. 585. 5;i3r. 594. 6t!. 613. 644. 616. 651. 655, 657,659,660,675. <5. 715. 757. 758a. 761, 725. I have duiilicates for exchange of \. O. U. .No. 373. 495, 498, 507, 529. 558. 559, 601, 608, 636, 648. 6f:2. 594, 666. R. M. BARNES, Lacon. 111. • WANTED.— First class skins of -Murrelets, Gulls, Shearwaters, Rails, Shore Birds, Grouse, Hawks, Owls, particularly Snowy and Great Gray, and certain small land birds. Offer representative Southern California species, also tine sets of personally taken Heermann's Gulls and Blue-footed Boobies^ All reliable collectors send lists. PINGREY I. OSBURX. Pasadena, Calif. ^^^ THE CELEBRATED HUXGAKIAXAND EXGLISH PAKTRIDGES AXD PHEAS- AXTS. capercailzies, black game, wild turkeys, quails, rabbits, deer, etc. for stock purposes. Fancy pheasants, peafowl, swans, cranes, storks, ornaitiental geese and ducks, foxes, squirrels, ferrets, and all kinds of birds and animals. WEXZ A- -M ACKENSEN, Dept. H. Pheasantry ct Game Park, "i ardley. Pa. Is your Subscription paid up ? n THE OOLOGIST EGGS FOR EXCHANGE -First class Eggs in sets. C. S. RUTHERFORD. Revere. Mo. Send exchange lists of first class sets for mine.-J. W PRESTON, lill 13th Ave.. Spokane, Wash, j I offer 1-3. 2-4 Fish Crow, 1-5 201, 1-5 194; all for a set of Bartman's Sandpiper 4 or 5 eggs. W. B. CRISPIN. Salem. N. J. WANTED.— Good eggs, Indian relics, and Catocala. I have California butterflies, sea curiosities and stamps. R. E. DODGE, 552 Bay street, Santa Cruz, Cal. WANTED.— Sets with or without nests. Particularly Sharp-tail and Seaside Sparrow. DR. J. P. BALL, Frankford. Pa. [2]! FOR EXCHANGE.-2-2 Miss. Kite. 2-2 Gl- winged gull, 2-3 gl-winged gull. All coll-cted by myself. G. W. STEVENS, Alva, Okla, WANTED— Eggs in sets with original data. Send list of everything and lowest cash price. R. L. MOORE. Vernon. Texas. [1] EXCHANGE.-A fine series of ten of the Pallas Murre from Cape Hope, Alaska. I want 188. 332, 343, 348. 362. 364 and many others, D. E. BROWN, 6044 1st Ave.. No. W. Sta. F. Seattle. Wash. FOR EXCHANGE.-Fine set cf 2. 3. 4 and 5 Ferruginous Rough-leg Hawk, on the basis of 75 cents cash value per egg. Only extra fine or rare material wanted. CHILDS MU- SEUM, Floral Park, N. Y. 13] WANTED.-Setsof 351. 352, 352a. 206, and many common sets; have to offer choice sets 679 1-4, 417 1-2. 419 1-2, 337, 339. 375, 263, 261, 273 and many other choice sets; send list and re- ceive mine. RAY DINSMORE, Perry. Ohio FOR EXCHANGE.-Fine sets of Least Tern, Black Skimmer, Louisiana Heron, Wayne's Clapper Rail, Florida Burrowing Owl, and others. For parliculars address W. W. WORTHINGTON, Shelter Island Heights, New York. FOR EXCHANGE. - Eggs in fine sets, beautiful minerals, butterflies and moths in dust and insect proof cases, and other natural history specimens. Want all the above. Send lists and receive mine. LEWIS C. SNYDER, Lacona, New York. "for EXCHANGE.- a few choice sets of glaucous-winged gull, black oyster catcher, ring-necked rlover, Kodiak fox sparrow. Pacific murre. All collected by myself. G. W. STEVENS, Alva, Okla. FOR SALE.— Some rare single eggs from Iceland, Loons, Sjua, Glaucous Gull, Old- squaw, Northern Eider, Bean Goose, Whoop- ing Swan, Golden Plover. Dunlin. Godwit, Ruff. Snowflake, Iceland Falcon, and others. Send for full list to H. WARREN, Room 215 St. James Chambers, Adelaide St., E., Toronto. Ont. WANTED.-In good sets; 340, 357, 451. 485, 548, 554a, 566. 568, 570a, 610a, 646, 647, 660, 672, 672a, 600, 700, 719a. Can offer 89, 95, 101, 207, 293a, 294, 295, 309. 332, 339a, 351. 359, 384. 416, 417, 419, 420b, 460, 479. 533, 534, 536, 569, 575, 575a, 594a, 602. 607. 637, 639. 641. 730, 763 and 315 (1871). THO>fASH. JACKSON, 304 N.Franklin St., West Chester. Pa. |3] TO EXCHANGE -Sets with data. North American and Foreign. Can use many com- mon kinds of both. Dr. T. W. RICHARDS U. S. Navy, 1911 N. St., N. W., Washington D.C. "I have perfect sets of Mourning, Cerulean Black throated. Blue and Black throated Green Warbler, American Woodcock, Bar- tramian Sandpiper. King Rail, Canadian Spruce, Grouse and Sharp Shinned Hawk for exchange. I desire sets of American Flam- ingo, Long-billed Curlew, Semipalmated Plover. Franklin's Grouse, Bonaparte's Gull, Williamson's Sapsucker, White-headed and Red Cockaded Woodpecker, Pink-sided Junco. Hutton's and Black Capped Vireo,. Sennett's Orange-crowned and Connecticut Warbler and Canada Jay. GERARD ALAN ABBOTT. 945 Marauette Bldg., Chicago. In sending in your exchange notices for nests, skins and eggs, we would appreciate it if you would arrange the numerals in your exchange notice in their numerical order, and not tumble them together hit and miss, as some of our readers are complaining, and we think justly so. I HAVE 273 3-4, 360a 2-4, 365 2-5, 375d 2-2. 476 1-6. 715 4-4. etc. U WABT2-3-5-12-30-32-63-67-70- (76) -90- 92 -106 -108-120a-120c-128-258-318-319-320a- 412-421 with nests; 428-432-433-434-436-439-466- 466a-467-506-507. FRED TRUESDALE, Shan- don, Cal. FOR EXCHANGE.-Eggs in sets with full data. A. O. U. No. No. 1 1-3. 6 1-5. 13 1-1. 16 1-1. 27 1-2, 29 1-2, 30a 1-1, 321-1, 401-3, 43 1-L 49 1-2, 51 1-3, 53 1-3, 56 1-2, 54 1-3, 58 1-3, 64 1-3, 67 1-1, 70 1-3. 72 1-3, 75 1-1, 77 1-2. 79 1-1, 80 1-4, 86 1-1, 106 1-1, 117 1-1, 1201-3, 184 1-3, 191 1-5, 194 1-4, 200 1-3, 2011-5. 202 1-4, 226 1-2. 2711-1. 320a 1-1, 3251-2. 326 1-2, 333 1-4, 337 1-2. 339 1-.3, 348 1-2, 364 1-2, 378 1-1. 431 1-2 with nest; 506 1-2 519b 1-1, also blow pipe, embryo shears and hook and set of cut the lining egg drills. Will exchange all of the above for best offer of Indian bird spear points and other flint and bead relics. Write me and send outline^. HENRY J. RUST, Box 683. Coeur d' Alene. Idaho. I want sets of following North American birds' eggs: A. O. U. Nos. 4, 5. 7, 40. 49. 51. 53, 71). 77. 125. 132, 140. 190, 196, 208. 224. 2.58. 261, 269, 280, 305. 325, 326, 332, 337. 343. 349 352. 360. 362, 364, 368, 373, 375, 393, 394c. 402, 406, 416, 423, 428, 429, 452. 461,464, 466, 466a, 477. 490, 494, 497. 506, 507, 517. 540. 546, 549. 550. 554, 558. 595, 604, 608, 611, 622, 627, 62S. 631, 637, 648. 681. 702, 727. 735, 736. 746. 751, 758a, 759b. For any of these I will give full even rates in exchange, using the Lattin- Shdrt 1905 Catalogue. I can offer A. O. U. Nos. 30a 6-1.32 6-1, 79 1-1. 184 2-3 2-4, 187 2-3 2-4, 199 2-5, 313 1-2, 378a 2-5, 447 2-4. 448 2-4. 505a 1-3, 513 2-3. 528 1-4. 531 1-5. 542c 1-4. 552a 2-4, 578 1-2, 580a 1-2, 593a 1-4, 710 1-3, in sets. Also some desirable singles; a large liit of Shells, Minerals. Fossils, and curios and a few good books. If you have others to offer than those I mention above write me. I may be able to make you an offer. ERNEST H. SHORT. Box 173, Rochester. N. Y. W'ANTED.— A few good skins of the Aleu- tian Tern (Sterna aleutica) Thayer Museum, Lancaster. Mass. THE OOIOGIST III BOOKS WANTED.-TheAuk, Vol. II, Nos. 2, 3, 4. Vol. IV, Nos. 2, 4. Vol. V. Nos. 2, 3, 4. Vol. VI. Nos. 1, 3. For cash or exchange. LOUISA. FUERTES. Ithaca, N. Y. WANTED.— Back numbers of The Auk. Nuttal'a Bulletin and other bird magazines, also on insects. Have numbers to exchange. G. W. HUMPHREY, Dedham, Mass. WANTED.— Northern and southern raw furs. Highest market price paid. All goods held subject to approval of valuation. Price list free. GEORGE J. TILLS. Albion, N. Y. WANTED. -Books on birds. Will pay a reasonable cash price for those that I desire. State title aud author, conaition. etc. CHAS. P. CARR, (Personal). New London, Wis. Have your Oologists or other magazines, bound by a careful, painstaking hand pro- cess. Write what you have and get styles. Prices reasonable. Exchange considered. HOWARD W. McMILLEN. Ada, Ohio. c FOR SALE. -In perfect condition, "The North American Birds" by Henry Nehrling. German text, cloth bound, gilt edge, 668 pages and 36 plates, showing 137 species in natural color. Original price $15. Sells for $7. ERICH DIETRICH, Canby, Oregon. WANTED.— A clean copy of The Oologist, Vol. 5, No. 6. Cash. All my old correspond- ents please note change of address. HARRY .1. KOFAHL. Hollywood Sta., Los Angeles, Cal. (1) WANTED.-American Ornithology, Sept. 1905, and July-Aug., 1906. State lowest cash price. EARLE R. FORREST. 357 N. Main St., Washington, Penna. (1) WANTED.— Auk. Vol. 2, complete, or parts of same, and any old bird separates of Nat. Hist,, Society's reports, and books in ex- change or cash. W. OTTO EMERSON, Palm Cottage, Haywards, California. U) You must have "The Bulletin" if you want cheap, good and scarce booh s and pamphlets on Ornithdlogy. Botany, Zoology, Travel, Science. World Wide Circulation. Specimen copy for 3 cent stamp. THE BULLETIN, 4 Duke St., Adelphi. London, W. C, England. (1)_ BIRD MAGAZINES.— I have about 500 old bird magazines for exchange, including complete volumes of Auk, Condor, Xidiolo- gist, Osprey, Oregon Naturalist, and odd numbers of all of these. W. LEE CHA.VI- BERS, 1226 lllh >?t.. Santa Monica, Cal. For sale or to exchange for books, maga- zinesor bird skins .0 it O vols. VI, VII, VIII, XVI, XVII. Nidologist vols. II. Ill, IV. Trans Wis, Acad. Odd vols.: Auk XI, 3 and 4: XII. 3; XX. 2: Capens Oology: Oologist, vols. VII to XVII inc. bound. Hardwlck's Science Gossip. F. B. McKECHNIE, Ponk- apog, Mass. FOR SALE.— The following books: Birds of North and Middle America by Ridgway. Parts I, II, III. and IV. Birds of Wyoming 1902, by Knight, Our Northern and Eastern Birds, by E. A. Samuels, Nuttall's Ornithol- ogy, two volumes. The Auk, Vols. 16, 21. 22, 23 and 24. All in excellent condition. Will sell cheap, F. C. HUBEL, Clarkston, Mich. SALE AND FOR EXCHANGE.-By W. Otto Emerson, Haywards, Palm Cottage. Calif. Auk, Vol's, (new) 13, 14. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. (unbound); Osprey, Vol. I. No. 1-9, Nid. Vol. 1-3-7, Vol. Ill, 1-3; Oregon Naturalist, Vol. Ill, Vol. 4-1; Zoe. Vol. 1. 1-2-9, Vol, II, 1-4, Vol. Ill, 2, Vol, IV, 4; Oologist, Utica, N. Y. Vol. 4-5, latter bound. Latter Volume: Coopers Club Bull. Vol. I, 1 and index, others also; Report af Ornithology by C. Hart Merriam 1886-87-aS; Birds of Wyoming, 1902; Ridgways Humminebirds; Birds of Mexico. Bryant; Calif. Water Birds, No. Ill, Loomis; Birds of Mexico. Lawrence. Bull. No. 4, U. S. Museum 1876; Oology New England, Samules, Land Birds, 1864; Birds of Santa Cruxe Co. Calif. McGregor. I will give $1.00 for No. 6 of Vol. 5 of THE OOLOGIST in the original covers and in good condition. R. M. BARNES, Lacon, 111. FOR EXCHANGE.-Bird Lore, vols. 1-6, complete; Summer Birds of Flathead Lake; $1 the copy; Auk, many complete volumes. Oologist complete issue; and many others,. Wanted, small camera or kodak, good films on nature subjects, and lantern slides. P. M. SILLOWAY, Virden 111. (1) WANTED.— The following back numbers of THE OOLO(;iST for the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Vol. 2, No. 2; Vol. 3, No. 4; Vol. 5, No. 6; Vol. 6, No. 4; Vol. 13, No. 5; Vol. 14, No. 3 and 10, Vol. 15. No. 7. R. M. BARNES, Lacon, 111. MISCELLANEOUS Taxiderniic Specimens for sale. A fine litter of young coyotes, about five weeks old: all skinned and cleaned in first class condition, with leg and skull bones, and measurements. The mother of the brood can be supplied also if desired. If interested, write. Price reasonable. Will mount one to show natural pose and expression, if desired. G. W. STEVENS, Curator, Okla. State Museum. Alva, Okla. (2) Knickerbocker Book Shop, Beechwoods. Woodcliffe Lake, N. J. WANTS Baird, Brewer & Ridgeway Water Birds. 1st edition with colored plates. Also Baird Cassin in Lawrence. The "Birds of North America" with atlas of 100 colored plates. Holden — "Canary & Cage Birds." Auk— Vol. 1 & 3. Audubon's Ornithological Bibliogra- phy. Vol. 4. "Bird Lore" January & February of 1£C5-1£03 complete. Coues' 3d installment Bibliography. Bonaparte's "American Ornithology — 4th Vol. edition Philadelphia 1825- 1828. CASH OR EXCHANGE. IV THE OOLOGIST J t 4» READY JUNE 30. 1910 A t t t t I EMBRYOLOGICAL | I DEVELOPMENTS I f t Beautifully mounted in the finest ^ 1 Crystal Museum Jars. Neatly labeled 1 <& and hermetically sealed. Showing the ♦!♦ ^C development of a Praecocial Bird (Gal- X *^ lus Domesticus). Embryos are removed ♦!♦ ♦!♦ from the ed^s and mounted on trans- 1 parent ^lass slips. ^<» Order now. Price S8.00 each. A^ Seven stages in each preparation. x I P.G.HOWES, I t Y y The Maplewood Biological Laboratory h,f^ ■■:■ ^ v: ' ■ T pf '-t^^^^A^^^x:^^ i~«U'jk^ rv » S. L. . No. 43 Nest of the Black-headed Gull, Rhone Valley, Switz., Apr. 4, 1310. Photo bv Paul G. Howes. lets and fine grasses. It contained an incomplete set of three eggs, pale bluish-green, closely spotted and speckled with olive brown and under- laying blotches of purplish-grey. I was now close to Villeneuve again and ten minutes later I was standing on the back deck of the S. S. ''Italic" bound for Vevey. I could hear the voices of the birds back in the valley, growing NEW SUBSCRIBERS:— A number of our readers answered our request in the May issue and sent in one or more new subscribers each. This is the kind of support that will keep THE OOLOGIST up to its present high standard. Why cannot each one go and do likewise? You can if you WILL. THE OOLOGIST 81 Notes On Four European Members of The Genus Baeolophus. Parus Major, Great Titmouse. Head and throat black; cheeks and a patch on the naple white; back, rump and tail coverts olive green; scapu- lars dark olive green; primaries and secondaries bluish black, outlined with bluish white; shoulder bright side my window and here they find an abundance of food. The song is sub- ject to great variation, indeed, I do not ever remember watching a flock of this species without hearing some new variation of their usual "Seetira! Seetira! Seetira!" cr their inhospi- table "Git-a-long! Git-a-long! Git!" In suniiiu-r the Great Tit is to be No. 42 Nest of Black headed Gull in Valley of the Rhone, Apr. 4, 1910. Photo by Paul G. Howes. blue; one white wing bar; tail feathers dusky, the outer ones partly white ; un- der parts bright yellow, divided in the center by a black line from chin to vent. Length six inches. Resident. , The Great Tit is the largest of the tribe as well as the commonest here at Veve}^ Hordes of them make daily visits to the cypress trees just out- sought in the heavily wooded sections of the country where it builds its nest of moss, fibers and feathers, plac- ing it in cavities in trees or holes in old walls. The six to eight eggs are white, specked and blotched with red- dish-brown. , Parus britannlcus, Coal Titmouse. Head, throat and center of neck 82 THE OOLOGIST black; ear coverts, sides of neck and nape white; back greyish; wings grey- ish with two white cross bars; tail smoky grey: underparts yellowish white. Length four and one-half inches. Resident. Although the Coal Tit is said to be widely distributed throughout Switzer- land, it does not appear to be at all common. While one may see great numbers of Great Tits in a single day here at Vevey, the coal Tit seldom makes his appearance. It also dif- fers somewhat in its habits from the other species of the same family, of- ten remaining on the ground for long periods at a time as if the thought had never occurred to it that there might be plenty of insect food in the bark crevices of the surrounding trees. In fact, I believe that during the win- ter the Coal Tit eats a great many more seeds than insects. In the spring the majority of these birds retire to the more heavily wood- ed mountainous districts to carry on the duties so important to their vital- ity. The nest is placed in a crevice or a hole in a tree and it is composed al- most entirely of moss and plant fibers. The six or seven eggs are al- most exactly like those of our Chica- dee, both in size and dimensions, but the reddish spots are perhaps gener- ally more numerous on the eggs of this little foreigner. As you enter the spruce groves on the numerous mountains which sur- round Vevey, a short, acute, but musi- cal tinkling will occasionally greet the ear and you know that you have found the Coal Tit at home. His two bright eyes are intent upon every movement, but stand motionless for a minute and the owner of these bright eyes will soon consider you a harm- less lunatic; regain lost confidence and go on unconcernedly about his business, shouting his merry tinkling song and seizing every luckless seed or insect which happens in his hun- gry path. Parus coerulens; Blue Titmouse. Crown blue; sides of head white di- vided by a blackish line from the base of the bill, across the eye to the back of the head, and enclosed by a heavier dark band looped from the nape to the chin ; back of head and nape bright blue; back olive green; tail anv 0 GQ U c 0 c o ^^ Q- Q. '^ Cf) 3 ^ Do Not Fail to Get This Number THE OOLOGIST VII I WANT THE FOLLOWING. Please look this list over careful- ly and if you have any of them write me. The Wilson Billitin, Nos fi, 7, 8. The Curlew, Published by O. P. Hau ger of Orleans, Ind., Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. The Ornithologist and Oologist Semi- Annual, Published in 1889-90-91 by Wm. H. Foote of Pittsfield, Mass., and by C. C. Maxfield of Danbury, Conn, in 1891. No. 1, Vol. I. The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 3. The Wilson Journal, Vol 1, Jany., 1893 and Vol. 2, June, 1893. The Oologist, of Utica, N. Y., Vols. 1-5 inclusive, for 1875 to 1881, any numbers. Journal of the Maine Ornithological Club. Vol. 2, No. 1, 2, 3, Vol. Birds of California, In relation to the fruit industry — Beal, Part II. Catalogue of Canadian Birds, by Prof. McCoun, Part I, 1st Ed. Back Numbers of the Oologist Wanted Vol. 1, No. 1. " 2, 2. " 3, 4. " 4, 4. " 5 5,6. " 6, 4. " 7, 3. " 8, 4, 5, 8. " 10, 2, 3, 4. " 12, 1, " 13, 5. " 14, 3,5, 10, 11, 12. " 15, 1,7, " 16, 4, 9. " 26, 9. I will buy a large number of each of the abo ve back numbers for cash at the rate they are listed at, as being: for sale in this number of THE OOLO- GIST. Address, R M. BARNES, Lacon, 111. Fricea for Back Numbers at tl>« YOtTKG OOLOiilST AND THC OOLOGUT will, during 1910, remain as below: After which the prices of many num- bers will be advanced and possibly not obtainable at any price. Should you desire back numbers to complete youi file. NOW ia the time to purchase. Tou can never obtain them for less money and possibly not at any price, as our Btock ranges from only 1 to 25 coplev of an issue. Pric«i for 1910 Ara •• FoII*«m: Nos. 1.14. 18. 31. 34-35, 42, 53, 86, 89. 111,130 .13? 137. 139. 140. 153. 158. are 50 cents each; Nos. 9, 66-67, 76, 77, 78, 79. 88. 90. 100. 113, 138, 146, are 25 cents each. Nos. 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 64, 66. St. 76. 87. 123. 127, 128, 129. 144. 149. arc 16 cents each. Nos. 19. 20. 22. 27. 28, 38. 39. 40. 46. 60, 60, 61, 63. 64. 65, 70, 74. 80. 93. 114. 116. 126, 133. 135. are 10 cents each. ■^All other numbers 6c. per copy. For $12 will send prepaid a copy of every issue ever published. No. 1 to 146.— 30 far as now on hand. This offer in- cludes your subscription through 1910. My prices for back numbers of tho YOUNG OOLOGIST and OOLOGIST in volumes, are as follows: Vol. I, 1884-5, Nos. 1 to 12 | .90 Vol. II, 1885, Nos. 13 to 14 60 Vol. III. 1886, Nos. 15 to 20 90 Vol. IV, 1887, Nos. 21 to 25-26 1.00 Vol. V, 1888. Nos. 27 to 38 1.60 Vol. VI, 1889. Nos. 39 to 50 76 Vol. VII. 1890. Nos. 51 to 62 76 Vol. VIII. 1891. Nos. 63 to 74 7B Vol. IX, 1892, Nos. 75 to 86 90 Vol. X, 1893, Nos. 87 to 98 1.00 Vol. XI, 1894. Nos. 99 to 110 60 Vol. XII, 1895, Nos. Ill to 122 1.00 Vol. XIII, 1896, Nos. 123 to 127 60 Vol XIV, 1897, Nos. 128 to 139 1.60 Vol. XV, 1898, Nos. 140 to 149 60 Vol. XVI, 1899, Nos. 150 to 161 75 Vol. XVII, 1900, Nos. 162 to 171. . .50 Vol. XVIII, 1901, Nos. 172 to 183.. .60 Vol. XTX, 1902. Nos. 184 to 195 50 Vol. XX, 1903, Nos. 196 to 197 10 Vol. XXI, 1904, No. 198 to 209 50 Vol. XXII. 1905. Nos. 210 to 221 50 Vol. XXIII, 1906, 222 to 233 50 Vol. XXIV. 1907, 234. to 245 55 Vol. .X.XV. 1908. 246 to 2.57- .50 For $5.25 I will send prepaid a copy of every issue published, Nos. 1 to 209. Inclusive, except the twenty-nine, (29), 25c., 50c. and 75c.copies. For $2.50 I will send prepaid every copy published, Nos. 1 to 209, inclusive, except the sixty copies priced above at 10c or over. — BOU^D VOLUMES — Can be furnished, strongly bound In cloth and hoard.s. as follows: Vol. I and II YOUNG OOLOGIST bound In one volume $1.00 Vol. IX. The OOLOGIST for "92, 298 pages of v.iluable and instructlye Oologlcal and Oraitliological matter vrlth many full page illustrations $1.00 Or, if .vou order the two voiJines at one tinte, we will send them by return mall for only $1.75. Every student of birds, their nests (Ind ^gs. should have these two volnmes In their library. The valuable Information 'hey contain, B worth many times the price. Address plainly. R. M. BARNES, Albion. N. Y. Lacon. III. VIII THE OOLOGIST EGGS WANTED I want 1 set of each of the following: A. O. U. No. 181, 300, 310, 343, (358.1), (359.1) 375a, 725a. I want 2 sets of each of the following: A. O. U. No. 29, 30a, 47, 63, 70, (76), 79, 103, 129, 131, (138), 139, 141, 142, 143, 160, 167, (172), (179), 180, 208, 311, 332, 341, 360a, 409, 529, 624, 703a. I want 3 sets of each of the following: A. O. U. No. 133, 150, 153, 161, 163, (171.1), 178, 269, 271, 310a, 310c, 325, ■339b, 356, 359, 364, 397a, 410, 420, 454, 458, 464, 466, 467, 489, 493, 542b, 573, 581m, 617, 633 658, 683a, 684, 718. I want 4 sets of each of the following: A. O. IT. No. 7, 10, 27, 30, (56), 86, (185), 192, 195, 210, 211, 217, 264, 267, 280, 285, 302, (336), 348, 355, 367, 376, 457, 482, 486, 490, 498d, Ets, 593c, 610, 641, 659, 713, 746 756. I want 5 sets of each of the following: * 5, 43, 52, (90), 108.1, 120a, 120b, 123a, 186, 188, 196, 200, 204, 206, 207, 218, 227, 252, 278, 286, 287, 289a, 289b, 292, 293a, 300c, 301, 334, 339a, 347a, 349, (351), 352, 375c, 375d, 421, 423, 461, 477, 480, 488a, 499, 513, 529b, 631, 657, 721b, 726, 733, 744,. I want 6 sets of each of the following: 5, 8, 13a, 21, 28, 37, 38, 59, 60, 72, 128, 205, 223, (260), 275, 281, 329, 373a, 373b, 397, 474e, 621, 673, 702, 706, 710, 729, 751a. For these 1 offer in exchange a very large list of the more common North American species, in original sets with full data. If you have none of the fore- going on hand now, but expect to talve any this season, reserve what you take and write me. R. M. BARNES, Lacon, III. "^ The Oologist. BIRDS-NESTS-EGGS TAXIOERMY Vol. XXVII. No. 7. ALBION, N. Y., JULY 15, 1910. Whole No. 276 BRIER SPECIAl^ ANNOUNCEMENTS Wanted, Exchange, For Sale, Etc. inserted in this department at 25 cents for each 25 words for one issue ; each additional word 1 cent. No notice inserted for less than 25 cents. TAKE NOTICE. SUBSCRIPTION, 50 CENTS PER YEAR Examine the number on the wrapper of your (Jologist. It denotes the time your subscription expires. Remember we must be notilied if you wish it discontinued and all arrearages must be paid. 27(i your sub- scription expires with this issue. 2M your subscription expires with December issue 1910. Other expirations chu be computed by intermediate numbers at the rate of one number per month. BIRDS WANTED.— One tirst set each of Sandhill and Whooping Crane, one pair of skins of Whooping Crane. Will exchange specimens from Northwest Canada. MACKAY it DIPPIK. Calgary. Alberta. WANTED. -Skins of birds of the Rocky Mountain and Gulf states, also a few rare Eastern. Can offer material from Baja Cali- fornia (Mexino) and good exchange In well made Western skins. Please send complete lists. PINGREE I. OSBURNE, Pasadena, Cal. TO EXCHANGE. -Finely mounted birds and deer heads, several hundred Natural Histor5' and Sportsman's magazines, for bird and mammal skins. GEO. F..GUELF, Taxidermist. Brockport. N. Y. Any collectors having a few good Jabeled specimens of foreign birds, send list. I will give A 1 skins of Illinois and California birds. Also offer skins of common specimens from Illinois for nests and sets of small species. HENRY K. COALE. Highland Park, Lake Co., 111. WANTED.-.Male and female of Wood Duck, (ireat Horned Owl. Screech Owl, Spar- row Hawk. Flicker. Baltimore Oriole, Blue Jay and Scarlet Tanager. The tirst five with nests in section of hollow tree and the latter three with nest s and eggs in section of original branches. For further particulars address J. FRIESSER. 5(20 Lake Ave.. Chicago. 111. WANTED.-Alleggsof the English Spar- row in any stage of incubation. Will pay 3c. §er egg. No fresh or blown eggs wanted, end me all you can get. P. G. HOWES. The Maplewood Museum of Natural Science. Stampford. Conn. Entered as second-class matter De- cember 21, 1903, at the post office, at Albion, N. Y., under the Act of Con- gress of March 3, 1879. In aiiswerint? advertisements in these columns mention "The Oologist," and thereby help us, as well as the ad- vertiser and Vdurself. Nicel;> mounted birds sold at bargain prices; Canvasback, 13.00: Robins, etc.. 75c. Many others. Send stamp for complete list. A. RCSSELL smith. Edge Hill, Pa. WANTED. -Nice skins of Bachman's, Blue-winged. Cape May, Mangrove, (.olden cheeked, Kirkland's. Kentucky Warblers and Pileated Woodpecker. CHARLES L. PHILLIPS. 5 West Weir St., Taunton, Mass. (1) I want 1 perfect skin in full breeding plum- age of each of the following species: A. O. U, No, 39ti, 454. 45(1. -KJO. 4(>s. 470a, 47L 477, 483, 4ii5a. 49S .30(i, 515. 511b. 52S, 53Ub, 5:^4. 542c, 557, 558. 581d. 0N3. 5S5. 593c. 594. (i4l, (i43. 644, (i46. 651. 655, 657, ()59, 6(i0. (575. 679, (isO, 6sl. {J83. ()S5, 715, 757, 758a. 7()1, 725. I have duplicates f(jr exchange of A. O. U. No. 373. 495. 498. 507, 529. 55s. .559, 601. 608, 636, 648, 6(i2, 594, 666. R. M. BARNES, Lacon. 111. WANTED.— First class skins of Murreleti, Gulls, Shearwaters, Rails, Shore Birds, Grouse, Hawks, Owls, particularly Snowy and ( ireat (jray. and certain small land birds. Offer representative Southern California species, also tine sets of personally taken Heermann's Gulls and Blue-footed Boobies. All reliable collectors send lists. PINGREY I. OSBURN. Pasadena. Calif. THE CELEBRATED HUNGARIAN AND ENGLISH PARTRIDGES AND PHEAS- ANTS, capercailzies, black game, wild turkeys, quails, rabbits, deer, etc. for stock purposes. Fancy pheasants, peafowl, swans, cranes, storks, ornamental geese and ducks, foxes, SQUirrels. ferrets, and all kinds of birds and animals. WENZ J: MACKENSEN, Dept. H, Pheasantry & Game Park. Yardley. Pa II THE OOLOGIST EGGS FOR EXCHANGE -First class Eggs in sets. C. S. RUTHERFORD, Revere, Mo. Send exchange lists of first class sets for mine.-J. W PRESTON, lill 13th Ave., Spokane, Wash, i I offer 1-3. 2-4 Fish Crow, 1-5 201, 1-5 194; all for a set of Bartman's Sandpiper 4 or 5 eggs. W. B. CRISPIN, Salem, N. J. WANTED.— Good eggs, Indian relics, and Catocala. I have California butterflies, sea curiosities and stamps. R. E. DODGE, 552 Bay street, Santa Cruz, Cal. WANTED.-Sets with or without nests. Particularly Sharp-tail and Seaside Sparrow. DR. J. P. BALL, Frankford. Pa. [21_ FOR EXCHANGE.-2-2 Miss. Kite. 2-2 til- winged gull, 2-3 gl-winged gull. All coll cted by myself. G. W. STEVENS, Alva, Okla, EXCHANGE. -A tine series of ten of the Pallas Murre from ('ape Hope, Alaska. I want 188, 332, 343, 348, 3(32, 364 and many others, D. E. BROWN, 6044 1st Ave.. No. W, Sta. F. Seattle. Wash. FOR EXCHANGE.-Fine set cf 2. 3. 4 and 5 Ferruginous Rough-leg Hawk, on the basis of 75 cents cash value per egg. Only extra fine or rare material wanted. CHILDS MU- SEUM, Floral Park, N. Y. 13] W^ANTED.-Setsof 351, 352, 352a. 206, and many common sets; have to offer choice sets 6791-4,417 1-2.419 1-2,337, 339. 375, 263, 261, 273 and many other choice sets; send list and re- ceive mine. RAY DINSMORE, Perry, Ohio FOR EXCHANGE.-Fine sets of Least Tern, Black Skimmer, Louisiana Heron, Wayne's Clapper Rail. Florida Burrowing Owl. and others. For parliculars address W. W. WORTHINGTON, Shelter Island Heights, New York. FOR EXCHANGE. - Eggs in fine sets. beautiful minerals, butterflies and moths in dust and insect proof cases, and other natural history specimens. Want all the above. Send lists and receive mine. LEWIS C. SNYDER, Lacona. New York. FOR EXCHAN(iE.-A few choice sets of glaucous-winged gull, black oyster catcher, ring-necked plover, Kodiak fox sparrow. Pacific murre. All collected by myself. G. W. STEVENS, Alva, Okla. FOR SALE.— Some rare single eggs from Iceland, Loons, Sjua, Glaucous Gull, Old- equaw. Northern Eider, Bean Goose, Whoop- ing Swan, Golden Plover. Dunlin, Godwit, Ruff, Snowflake, Iceland Falcon, and others. Send for full list to H. WARREN, Room 215 St. James Chambers, Adelaide St., E., Toronto, Ont. FOR EXCHANGE.-A number of choice sets of Xantus' Murrelet, Black Petrel, Cassin's Auklet. Wanted, sets of Hawk or waders of equal value. A. B. HOWELL, International Fisheries Co.. 940 Atlantic St.. San Diego, Cal. Is your Subscription paid up ? TO EXCHANGE — Sets with data. North American and Foreign. Can use many com- mon kinds of both. Dr. T. W. RICHARDS U. S. Navy, 1911 N. St., N. W., Washington D. C. "I have perfect sets of Mourning, Cerulean Black throated. Blue and Black throated Green Warbler, American Woodcock, Bar- tramian Sandpiper. King Rail, Canadian Spruce, Grouse and Sharp Shinned Hawk for exchange. I desire sets of American Flam- ingo. Long-billed Curlew, Semipalmated Plover, Franklin's Grouse, Bonaparte's Gull, Williamson's Sapsucker, White-headed and Red Cockaded Woodpecker, Pink-sided Junco, Hutton's and Black Capped Vireo, Sennett's Orange-crowned and Connecticut Warbler and Canada Jay. GERARD ALAN ABBOTT. 945 Marquette Bldg., Chicago. In sending in your exchange notices for nests, skins and eggs, we would appreciate it if you would arrange the numerals in your exchange notice in their numerical order, and not tumble them together hit and miss, as some of our readers are complaining, and we think justly so. I HAVE 273 3-4, 360a 2-4, 365 2-5, 375d 2-2. 476 1-6, 715 4 4, etc. U WABT2-3-5-r2-30-32-63-67-70- (76) -90- 92 -106 -108120a-120c-128-258-318-319-320a- 412-421 with nests; 428-432-433-434-436-439-466- 466a-467-506-507, FRED TRUESDALE, Shan- don, Cal. FOR EXCHANGE.-Eggs in sets with full data. A. O. U. No. No. 1 1-3. 6 1-5, 13 1-1, 16 1-1, 27 1-2, 29 1-2, .30a 1-L 321-1, 40 1-3, 43 J-L 49 1-2, 51 1-3, 53 1-3, 56 1-2, 54 1-3, 58 1-3. 64 1-3, 67 1-1. 70 1-3. 72 1-3. 75 1-1, 77 1-2. 79 1-1. 80 1-4, 86 1-1, 106 1-1, 117 1-1, 1201-3, 184 1-3, 191 1-5, 194 1-4, 200 1-3, 2011-5, 202 1-4, 226 1-2. 2711-1, 320a 1-1. 325 1-2, .326 1-2, 333 1-4. 337 1-2, 339 1-3, 348 1-2. .364 1-2. 378 1-1, 431 1-2 with nest; 506 1-2 519b 1-1. also blow pipe, embryo shears and hook and set of cut the lining egg drills. Will exchange all of the above for best offer of Indian bird spear points and other flint and bead relics . Write me and send outlines. HENRY J. RUST. Box 683. Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. I want sets of following North American birds' eggs: A. O. U. Nos. 4, 5, 7, 40, 49. 51. 53, 70. 77. 125. 132, 140, 190. 196. 208, 224, 2.^8. 261, 269, 280, 305. 325, 326, 332, 337, 343, 349 352. 360. 362, 364. 368,373,375,393,3940.402, 406, 416, 423, 428, 429. 452, 461,464. 466, 466a, 477, 490, 494, 497. 506, 507. 517. 540, 546, 549, 550. 554, 558, 595, 604, 608, 611, 622, 627, 628, 631, 637, 648. 681. 702, 727, 735. 736, 746. 751. 758fl.759h. For any of these I will give full even rates in exchange, using the Lattin- Short 1905 Catalogue. I can offer A. O. U. Nos. 30a 6-1. 32 6-1. 791-1. 184 2-3 2-4. 187 2-3 2-4. 199 2-5,313 1-2, 378a 2-5, 447 2-4, 448 2-4, 505a 1-3. 513 2-3. 528 1-4, 531 1-5. 542c 1-4. 552a 2-4, 578 1-2. 580a 1-2, 593a 1-4, 710 1-3, in sets. Also some desirable singles; a large list of Shells. Minerals. Fossils, and curios and a few good books. If you have others to offer than those I mention above write me. I may be able to make you an offer. ERNEST H. SHORT. Box 173, Rochester, N. Y. WANTED.— A few good skins of the Aleu- tian Tern (Sterna aleutica) Thayer Museum. Lancaster, Mass. THE OOI.OGIST 111 BOOKS 'f WANTED.-TheAuk. Vol. II. Nos. 2, 3. 4, Vol. IV, Nos. 2, 4. Vol. V. Nos. 2. 3, 4, Vol. VI. Nos. 1. ;i. For cash or exchange. LOUIS A. FUERTES, Ithaca. N. Y. WANTED.— Back numbers of The Auk. Nuttal's Bulletin and other bird magazines, also on insects. Have numbers to exchange. G. W. HUMPHREY, Dedham, Mass. WANTED.— Northern and southern raw furs. Highest market price paid. All goods held subject to approval of valuation. Price list free. GEORGE J. TILLS. Albion. N. Y. WANTED.-Books on birds. Will pay a reasonable cash price for those that I desire. State title aud author, conaition. etc. CHAS. F. CARR, (Personal), New London, Wis. Have your Oologists or other magazines, bound by a careful, painstaking hand pro- cess. Write what you have and get styles. Prices reasonable. Exchange considered. HOWARD W. McMILLEN, Ada, Ohio. c FOR SALE. -In perfect condition. "The North American Birds" by Henry Nehrling, German text, cloth bound, gilt ^^Xz^, H(xS pages and 36 plates, showing 137 species in natural color. Original price $15. Sells for $7. ERICH DIETRICH. Canby, Oregon. BIRD MAGAZINES.-I have about 500 old bird magazines for exchange, including complete volumes of Auk, Condor, Nidiolo- gist, Osprey, Oregon Naturalist, and odd numbers of all of these. W. LEE CHAM- BERS, 1226 lllh St., Santa Monica, Cal. For sale or to exchange for books, maga- zines or bird skins .Otto vols. VI, VII, VI [I, XVI, XVII. Nidologist vols. II. III. IV. Trans Wis. Acad. Odd vols.: Auk XI, 3 and 4; XII. 3; XX, 2; Capens Oology: Oologist, vols. VII to XVII inc. bound. Hardwlck's Science Gossip. F. B. McKECHNIE, Ponk- apog, Mass. FOR SALE.— The following books: Birds of North and Middle America by Ridgway, Parts I, II, III, and IV\ Birds of Wyoming 1902, by Knight. Our Northern and Eastern Birds, by E. A. Samuels, Nuttall's Ornithol- ogy, two volumes. The Auk, Vols. 16, 21, 22, 23 and 24. All in excellent condition. Will sell cheap, F. C. HUBEL. Clarkston, Mich. EXCHANGE.-Setof 331 1-4 for any good set of Hawk or Owl eggs of the same value. ALEX WALKER. Armour. S. Dak. SALE OR EXCHANGE. -Oologist. Vol. 7, No. 6 to Vol. 13, No. 4. and 140 odd numbers. Complete tiles Condor, Birdlore. Copies of Osprey and Nidiologist. Want Auks, Vols. 9 to 16, or any of these. LAUREN TREMPER, 136 Dewey St., Philadelphia. Pa. (1) EXCH ANGE.-Choice cabinet set s of Royal Tern, Least Tern. Willett. Black Skimmer, Green Heron. Clapper Rail, Boat-tailed Grackle, Painted Bunting, for exchange for common sets. DR. M. T. CLECKLEY, 457 Green St.. Augusta, Ga. (1) WANTED. -Kodak film developing tank, for No, 1 Ft.lding Pocket Kodak (Eastman) 2i X 3i or larger. Write me what you have, stating condition and price. O. A. RENA- HAN, Wawaka, Ind. (le) SALE AND FOR EXCHANGE.-By W. Otto Emerson. Haywards, Palm Cottage. Calif. Auk, Vol's, (new) 13. 14. 15. 16. 17, 18. 19, (unbound): Osprey, Vol. I, No. 1-9, Nid. Vol. 1-3-7. Vol. Ill, 1-3: Oregon Naturalist, Vol. Ill, Vol. 4-1: Zoe, Vol. 1, 1-2-9, Vol, II, 1-4, Vol. 111,2, Vol. IV, 4: Oologist, Utica, N. Y. Vol, 4-5, latter bound. Latter Volume: Coopers Club Bull. Vol. I, 1 and index, others also; Report af Ornithology by C. Hart Merriam 1886-87-W: Birds of Wyoming, 1902: Ridgways Hummingbirds: Birds of Mexico, Bryant: Calif. Water Birds, No. III. Loomis: Birds of Mexico. Lawrence, Bull. No. 4, U. S. Museum 1876: Oology New England, Samules, Land Birds, 1864: Birds of Santa Cruxe Co. Calif. McGregor. I will give 11.00 for No. 6 of Vol. 5 of THE OOLOCilST in the original covers and in good condition. R. M. BARNES, Lacon, 111. WANTED. -The following back numbers of THE OOLOGIST for the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Vol. 2. No. 2: Vol. 3, No. 4: Vol. 5, No. 6; Vol. 6, No. 4: Vol. 13. No. 5: Vol. 14, No. 3 and 10, Vol. 15. No. 7. R. M. BARNES. Lacon, 111. F"OR SALE.— Taylor's Standard American Egg Catalogue, second edition. Published by H. R. Taylor, Alameda. Cal., 1904. 25c. per copy. 3 for 50c. , 7 copies for $1.00. All prepaid for the price. Every egg collector in America should have a copy. W. LEE CHAMBERS. 1226 llth St., Santa Monica. Cal. (2) MISCELLANEOUS Taxiderniic Specimens for sale. A fine litter of young coyotes, about five weeks old: all skinned and cleaned in first class condition, with leg and skull bones, and measurements. The mother of the brood can be supplied also if desired. If interested, write. Price reasonable. Will mount one to show natural pose and expression, if desired. G. W. STEVENS, Curator, Okla. State Museum. Alva. Okla. (2) FOR S>LE.— One Myer System, Cloas Flute. 11 keys, low pitch in case. Used three months. Will sell at very reasonable price. Will send on approval. L. V. MEDIOUS. 3002 Chestnut St., Kansas City, Mo. The Oolog'st is growing every month. If you are interested in l)irds send it to some friend as a birthday gift. Help it along. WANTED FOR CASH.- "Bird Lore" vol- ume X numbers 2, 3, 4. 5 and 6; volume XI, numbers 5 and 6. A!l numbers, including cover pages, must be whole, clean and in perfect condition for binding. I have Studer's "The Birds of North America" con- taining plates of upwards of seven hundred (700; different species and varieties, drawn and colored from nature by Theodore Jasper. These two rare and valuable books I will exchange for best offer of choice sets (Tay- lor's Catalogue.. G. H. MESSENGER, Linden: Iowa. W.A.NTED.-2. 3. 5. 12. 13a. 14. 30. 32. 38, 40a. 42.1. 48. 50. 52, 53, 63, 67, 70, 71, 76, 78, 101, 106. 108. Address FRED TRUESDALE. Shandon, Calif. (1) IV THE OOLOGIST ♦!♦ f T t t T I The Maplewflod Biological Laboratory | ♦♦♦ OFFERS THE FOLLOWING A ♦ <& Botanical Preparations 4 t V Mounted in the Finest Colorless Museum Jars. A t I* Every Preparation Fully Labeled ^ !► 4> Y 1^0- I B, showing the germination of a monocotyledonous ^ ♦^ plant, (Corn) in six stages - - each, $3.00 ^ 1 No. 2 B, showing the germination of a dicotyledonous l' Y plant, (Black Bean), six stages - each, $3.00 Y jL Either of the above preparations mounted in special jar ^ J^ with polished side and white porcelain background, each, ;^6.oo No 3 B, stem sections of eight common plants, each, 1^3.00 No. 4 B, Bulb, stem, petiole and fruit sections of Aris- aema triphyllum, ( Jack-in-the-Pulpit) each, $4.00 [Terms Strictly Cash With Order] 4|> Y I P. G. HOWES, :< t ♦** ,;., 5, 8, 13a, 21, 28, 37, 38, 59, 60, 72, 128, 205, 223, (260), 275, 281, 329, 373a, 373b, 397, 474e, 621, 673, 702, 706, 710, 729, 751a. For these I offer in exchange a very large list of the more common North American species, in original sets with full data. If you have none of the fore- going on hand now, but expect to take any this season, reserve what you take and write me. R. M. Barnes, Lacon, in. The Oologist. BIRDS-NESTS-EGGS TAXIDBRMY Vol. XXVII. No. 8. ALBION, N. Y., AUG. 15, 1910. Whole No. 277 BRIEF SPECIAL. ANNOUNCEMENTS Wanted, P^xchange, For Sale, Etc. inserted in this department at 25 cents for each 25 words for one issue ; each additional word 1 cent. No notice inserted for less than 25 cents. TAKE NOTICE. SUBSCRIPTION, 50 CENTS PER YEAR Examine the number on the wrapper of your Oologist. It denotes the time your subscription expires. Remember we must be notihed if you wish it discontinued and all arrearages must be paid. 276 your sub- scription expires with this issue. 281 your subscription expires with December issue 1910. Other expirations can be computed by intermediate numbers at the rate of one number per month. Entered as second-class matter De- cember 21, l903, at the post office, at Albion, N. Y., under the Act of Con- gress of March 3, 1879. In answering advertisements in these columns mention "The Oologist," and thereby help us, as well as the ad- vertiser and yourself. BIROS WANTED.— One first set each of Sandhill and Whooping Crane, one pair of skins of Whooping Crane. Will exchange specimens from Northwest Canada. MACKAY A* DIPPIE. Calgary. Alberta. WANTED. -Skins of birds of the Rocky Mountain and Gulf states, also a few rare Eastern. Can offer material from Baja Cali- fornia (Mexico) and good exchange in well made Western skins. lists. . \\"ood Ibis 2-3. and Carolina Wren 1 5. These specimens are A 1 and with splendid data. A II leters answered. DON- ALD J. NICHOLSON. Orlando. Fla. ( 1) FOR S.\LE. -.My entire Ornithological Library, eiiher as a whole or by separate volumes. Address S. B. LADD. 215 Walnut St.. Reading. I'a. FOR EXCHANGE.- I have a pair of Climbers wiih straps to exchange for Nature Books or Specimens, or will sell for 12.50 prepaid. E. A. STONER. Greenwood Station. Des .Moines, Iowa. (le) WA.NTED. — Chapman, Study of Birds, with (jtimera. 44 collecting gun with shells and strong pair field glasse«. Have to otter tine i-air Walrus Tusks, skins and eggs. ARTHUR W. BROCKWAY. Hadlyme, Conn. (1) FOR S.\LE.— To settle an estate. 75 pieces U. S. F'ractional Currency; manj- rare. Specimens of all the issues. Also small col- lection coins. Some rare. Prospective buyers write. R. T. Fl'LLER. Lacona, Oswego Co., N. Y. (le) FOR SALE.— As I will travel two years. I will offer for sale during 30 days, a large line of Taxidermist's, Naturalist's and Furrier's tools and supplies at 25 to 50 per cent dis- count from wholesale lists. A large collec- tion of Natural History specimens of every description and books, to highest biddf^r. .\ chance for vou. THOMAS B. TIPTON, Richards. Mo. (1) FOR S>LE.— One Myer System. Cloas Flute. 11 keys, low pitch in case. L'sed three months. Will sell at very reasonable price. Will send on approval. L. V. MEDIOUS, 3002 Chestnut St.. Kansas City. Mo. The Oolog'st is growing every month. If you are interested in birds send it to some friend as a birthday gift. Help it along. BOOKS WANTED.-The Auk. Vol. II, Nos. 2, 3. 4. Vol. I V, Nos. 2, 4. Vol. V, Nos. 2, 3, 4, Vol. VI, Nos. 1, 3. For cash or exchange. LOUIS A. FUERTES. Ithaca. N. Y. WANTED.— Back numbers of The Auk. Nuttal's Bulletin and other bird magazines, also on insects. Have numbers to exchange. G. W. HU.MPHREY, Dedham, Mass. WANTED.— Northern and southern raw furs. Highest market price paid. All goods held subject to approval of valuation. Price list free. GEORGE J. TILLS, Albion, N. Y. WANTED.-Bookson birds. Will pay a reasonable cash price for those that I desire. State title aud author, condition, etc. CHAS. F. CARR. (Personal), New London, Wis. Have your Oologists or other magazines, bound by a careful, painstaking hand pro- cess. Write what you have and get styles. Prices reasonable. Exchange considered. HOWARD W. Mc.MILLEN. Ada, Ohio. c FOR SALE. -In perfect condition. "The North American Birds" by Henry Nehrling, German text, cloth bound, gilt edge, lifiS pages and 36 plates, showing 137 species in natural color. Original price $15. Sells for $7. ERICH DIETRICH. Canby, Oregon. BIRD MAGAZINES.— I have about 500 old bird magazines for exchange, including complete volumes of Auk. Condor. Nidiolo- gist. Osprey, Oregon Naturalist, and odd numbers of all of these. W. LEE ('HA.U- BERS. 1226 11th St.. Santa Monica. Cal. For sale or to exchange for books, maga- zinesor bird skins .O ct O vols. VI, VII. YIII, XVI, XVII. Nidologist vols. II. Ill, IV. Trans Wis. Acad. Odd vols.: Auk XI. 3 and 4: XII. 3: XX, 2; Capens Oology: Oologist, vols. VII to XVII inc. bound. Hardwick's Science Gossip. F. B. McKECHNIE. Ponk- apog, Mass. FOR SALE.— The following books: Birds of North and Middle America by Ridgway, Parts I. II. Ill, and lY. Birds of Wyoming 1902. by Knight, Our Northern and Eastern Birds, by E. A. Samuels, Nuttall's Ornithol- ogy, two volumes. The Auk, Vols. 16. 21. 22. 23 and 24. All in excellent condition. Will sell cheap. F. C. HUBEL. Clarkston. Mich. EXCHANGE.-Setof 331 1-4 for any good set of Hawk or Owl eggs of the same value. ALEX WALKER. Armour. S. Dak. I will give $1.00 for No. 6 of Vol. 5 of THE OOLOGlST in the original covers and in good condition. R. M. BARNES. Lacon. 111. WANTED.-The following back numbers of THE OOLOGIST for the Department of Agriculture, Washington. D. C. Vol. 2. No. 2: Vol. 3. No. 4: Vol. 5, No. 6; Vol. 6, No. 4: Vol. 13. No. 5: Vol.14. No. 3 and 10, Vol. 15. No. 7. R. M. BARNES. Lacon. III. FOR SALE.— Taylor's Standard American Egg Catalogue, second edition. Published by H. R. Taylor. Alameda, Cal., 1904. 25c. per copy. 3 for 50c.. 7 copies for $1.00. All prepaid for the price. Every egg collector in Amerira should have a copy. W. LEE CHAMBERS. 1226 11th St., Santa Monica. Cal. (2) IV THE OOLOGIST THE MAPLEWOOD Biological Laboratory Offers a New Preparation Showing the Anatomy of an Eighteen Day Old Em- bryo of the Common Chicken in Four Preparations No. 1, Cross sections through the head show= ing the head cavity containing brain, eye, etc. No. 2, The digestive organs entire. No. 3, The tongue. No. 4, The feet and legs. The specimens within the jar are attach- ed to a transparent glass plate, thus a rear as well as a front view is afforded. Mounted in i 3 inch glass cylinders with heavy base. Price per jar containing the four preparations as described above $8.50 Delivered R G. HOWES The Maplewood Biological Labor, tory Stamford, Conn. The OoLOGiST. Vol. XXVII. No. 8. Albion, N. Y. Aug. 15, 1910. Whole No.i277 Publislicd Monthly, by R. 31. Barnes, Albion, N. Y., and Laron, Illinois. A LETTER. One of our old friends sends us a letter containing, among other things, the following paragraph, which turns the mind backward to the days when oology in America was young: "I have not been in the field once this season. Like old friend, Troup D. Perry, am getting stiff and the legs will n^t go as they used so. 1 and Perry have corresponded since 1880, and I have yet to find a more sincere man to the heart than he. My, but how the times have changed since those days! Where are all the old egg men? We don't see their names in print any more; have crossed over the Great Divide into new worlds. Coues, Bendire, Wade, Southwick, An- dros, Small, Noble, and Snowden How- land are with the silent majority now." Professor W. Otto Emerson of Hay- wards, California, is now engaged in arranging and cataloguing the oologi- cal collection of the late Walter E. Bryant for the Oakland Public Museum. This collection is not as large as one would suppose, but con- tains many specimens taken in the early 70's when Oakland was a city of less than 40,000 and the ground now covered by the same place which ex- tends in practically solid blocks from Alameda clear to Berkeley and con- tains approximately 200,000 people. Mr. Bryant was in his lifetime, re- garded as one of the best posted orni- thologists in the United States on the Hummingbirds, and probably as the very best in preparing these minute specimens either as skins or mounted birds. Our rid friend Thomas H. Jackson cf West Chester, Pennsylvania, has recently enjoyed the pleasure of an extensive bird observation trip into the wilds of Florida, viewing among other things, the sights of the famous Bird Island, and we are informed, has brought home a splendid collection of photographs taken during his visit to that Mecca of all bird lovers. During his stay in Florida he enjoy- ed the pleasure of a visit with Mr. Oscar Baynard, who is also well known to our readers as a discrimi- nating observer of Florida bird life. At Coronado, Florida, a Fish-hawk was found the other day, in rather an unusual predicament. Someone had set a steel coon trap on a mudbank, bordering one of our salt marshes. The trap was baited w^ith a small fish. The rising tide cov- ered trap and bait. A Fish hawk, seeing the fish under water, dived down for it, with the result that it was caught by one foot in the trap. Evidently the bird had been held thus for two or three days. Its plumage was torn and disarranged, and the bird was so weak and emaciated that for half an hour after being liberat- ed, it was unable to fly away. HUBERT J. LONGSTREET. 94 THE OOLOGIST THE OOLOGIST 95 SAMUEL B. LADD. The older cologists will recognize this name at a glance. During the late '80's and nearly all of the '90's Mr. Ladd and Mr. Thomas H. Jackson, both of West Chester, Pennsylvania, were very ]irominent in the Oological world. Our old friend Jackson is still at it: but Mr. Ladd has drifted away from the hobby of early youth and but re- cently Ye Editor has come into the possession cf the entire collection of North American birds eggs owned by Mr. Ladd, including therein in all probability, some of the more exten- sive and finest series of North Ameri- can Warblers eggs in existence. For many years Mr. Ladd, Mr. Jack- son and J. P. Norris of Philadelphia, were known to egg collectors through- out the United States as being special- ly interested in the warbler family, and they all accumulated not only large, but especially well selected ser- ies of the eggs of these minute birds. The securing of this collection is indeed a prize for our cabinet. Mr. Ladd says in his final communication I'elating to this transaction: "Mr. Barnes. I desire especially to thank you for your exceedingly prompt and liberal settlement of this matter." We may say for Mr. Ladd that, though we have unpacked and check- ed up a good many collections of North American birds eggs, he is by far the most careful packer of speci- mens of this character with whom we have come in contact. Though the out- side case containing this collection was badly rent, smashed and split by the very careful (?) usage it received in expressage, yet there was but one single egg of the entire lot that was broken; something very unusual. Though, of course, there were a num- ber of sets, as there always are on such deals, as this, that failed to check up with the data, all of which was no fault of Mr. Ladd. We hate to lose him from our ranks and have no doubt that anything he undertakes will be pursueil in the same careful, painstaking manner that will ultimately make fcr success. American Bird Banding Association. On December 8, 1909, there was or- ganized in New York City, The Am- erican Bird Banding Association, the object of which is "the banding of wild birds and recording of accurate data on their movements." The formation of this society was the outgrowth of a movement which was started in 1908 by a committee of the New Haven Bird Club, having in mind the study of the movements and migrations of wild birds by means of metal bands which should be at- tached to their legs. These birds bear an address and a serial number, and in anscription reading "Notify The Auk, New York." When a bird is banded, a record i-s made of the number of the band and the species of the bird on which it is used, as well as the date and place of banding. Should this bird ever fall into any- one's hands, it is hoped that as a re- sult of the inscription on the band, a notification of the finding will be sent to The Auk together with a record of the number. In this way it is suppos- ed accurate data may be obtained of the movement of the individual birds, a thing which is not possible by the ordinary methods of the migration FROM MINNESOTA. Minnesota is Popular Summer and Winter resort for 316 Species. Minnesota has 316 species of birds, out of which eighteen are classed un- der the "accidentals and rare," was 96 THE OOLOGIST the interesting iniormation Dr. Thomas S. Roberts, student of orni- tholcgy, gave before the members of the Woman's club of Minneapohs at its meeting in the Handicraft Guild hall yesterday. The topic of his lec- ture was "Birds in Minnesota," and a hall thronged to the very doors was testimony that the club women are much interested in birds. Dr. Roberts divided the feathered in- habitants of the state into classes, as thirty-on^ permanent, 184 summer res- idents, fc -ne migrant species, eigh- teen that coi purposely to enjoy the cool, bracing Minnesota winter, forty- nine are regular winter species; fif- teen species which are purely "acci- dental" winter birds, all of which, with the "accidentals," and "the during the winter onlys" and the occasional vis- itors, make a total of seventy-one win- ter birds. Dr. Roberts made free use of stere- opticon views, which gave a precise idea of the life the Minnesota birds live. The audience came face to face with the humorist, the useful bird, the destructive bird, the sponge, like the cowbird, that lays her eggs in the nest of any other bird and thus shifts the responsibility of feeding and raising her young to foster parents, who in turn faithfully take up the obligation even long after the birds are twice their size. The cowbird is the only Minnesota bird, however, that acts thus, even the Minnesota cuckoo has more pride and, contrary to the En- glish cuckoo, raises its own young, al- though it does not build a nest and just drops its eggs on plain earth. Minnesota even has gulls, the rosy Franklin gull, which differs from the seagull in that it nests inland. The hawk belongs to the destructive birds, and to its ferocious disposition and de- sire for bird food is due the fact that the grouse has become almost extinct in Minnesota. Another destructive bird is the cher- ry bird, that finds its chief delight in destroying the cherry and other fruit blossoms and thus impairing the crop. Among the woodpeckers but one is to be classed among the destructive birds, the sap sucker, which lives on the sap of young trees and feeds its young on it and is thus responsible for the killing of many a slender ash and maple. Otherwise the woodpeck- ers are a useful lot, as they belong to the species with the sticky tongues that pick up ants and destroy ant hills under trees for a living. Others have a tongue built like a long pliable hee- dle that just picks up worms or other harmful insects. The blackbird, the special enemy of the agriculturist, was not forgotten on the list of destructive ones, for it's the black birds that destroys acres and acres of corn just by ripping open the protective silk tissues that cover the ears, and by picking out carefully the heart of that kernel. Dr. Thomas illustrated interestingly the nest of the birds, and the ingen- ious way in which they build to pro- tect them in every possible way from the casual prowler and observer, the number of eggs laid by different spe- cies, which in some cases is not more than one, while other species, like the quail, have nests with as many as sixteen and more. The peculiarities of the rubythroat humming bird, the yellow warbler, the flickers, and all the other 298 varieties were pointed out in the brightly colored illustra- tions thrown on the screen. After the meeting the Japanese prints done by Mrs. Bertha Lum were viewed and tea hour followed. THE OOLOGIST 97 THE NEW AMERICAN ORNITHOLO- GISTS' UNION'S CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. The Auk for Jul.v announces the fact — which is important if true, — that this check list will "probably" be ready for distribution about the end of July. So many false alarms have developed in regard to this long expected pro- duction during the four years since it was first annoimced that we may and we may not have it at the time an- nounced. Let us however live in hopes. The Annual History of these many announcements, delays and excuses for non-appearance might be interest- ing for our readers, but in view of the announcement in The Auk, will not be published at this time. The foregoing was intended for the July issue, but was held up hoping that the lost would be found. At the time of going to press it is still in the land of the unknown. OHIO BIRDS. Indian Lake (Lewiston Reservoir) is a body of water some five or more miles across, situated in the north- western part of Logan county, Ohio. There is much shallow water about the shores where cat tails and rushes grow, making it a haunt much esteem- ed by many kinds of birds. For three successive years, I have visited Indian Lake between July 30 and August 2. I have been much in- terested in the status of the great blue heron, and these visits at the same time for three years have afforded an opportunity for an interesting campar- ison of the numbers of the herons. In 1908, they were abundant. There were scores of young and old flying to and from the heronry on Crane Island, and their croaking was the commonest sound about the water. In 1909, I saw not more than half a dozen. I inquir- ed of persons who permanently re- side about the lake for the cause of the scarcity of herons, but they either did not know or had not noticed. This year, though not so abundant as in 1908, they are quite common, and seem to be well protected. One of them flew within thirty feet of our boat as we rowed along. For many years, a pair of bald eagles has nested unmolested in the top of a tall oak tree on one of the is- lands. Other quite common water birds were kingfisher, little green heron, spotted sandpiper, et cetra. Two mallards were seen flying. At Lake Ridge, a summering place, there is a considerable flock of mallards and Canada geese in captivity. On July 30, 1908, I saw a common tern on In- dian Lake. They do not breed there to my knowledge, and it is the only one I ever saw there. One morning we went out on the water while it was yet dark to watch the coming of the day. Many of the birds began to call or sing at the first glimmer of light. Just as the gilt edge of the sun appeared above the horizon, there was a tremendous whir of wings from the nearby cat tails. It was the tree swallows. Thousands of them were arising from the roost with a whir that was almost a roar. They flew up in an immense, funnel- shaped body, not unlike that of chim- ney swifts when they go to roost in large numbers. In a minute from the time the first bird arose, all were dis- persed and pursuing their insect prey over the glassy waters of the lake. WHEELER McMILLEN. THE OOLOGIST WINTER WREN NESTING. May 22d along the stream that flows through the region inhabited by my pair of Goshawks I found a nest of Winter Wren. The stream flows over and among many moss and fern-covered rocks. Fal- len timber and old logs are numerous. As there is a large amount of pine and hemlock the woods are cool, damp and shady, making an ideal place for this wren to summer. The nest was plac- ed under and among the roots of a partly fallen birch. It was well under and entirely concealed from view unless a person got down on hands and knees to look. The nest was a large ball of green moss with a few fine dead twigs of hemlock about the small hole or entrance. The nest was thickly lin- ed with feathers of some bird that had likely been eaten by a hawk or owl. The nest contained five fresh eggs. Pure white with a few brown dots. The female sat very close. The Winter Wren is not uncommon In summer and a few are found in suitable places, but its nest is very hard to find here. Decoy nests are frequently seen under logs and roots of fallen trees. R. B. SIMPSON. BIRDS OBSERVED IN SOUTHERN HILLSBORO CO., N. H. The only articles with which I am acquainted dealing, with the birds of Hillsboro County, were published in the O. & O. in 1892 by A. M. Farmer. Besides scattered notes, he printed in O. & O. September, 1892, a list of thirty-six birds observed in Northern Hillsboro County from June 27 to July 2, 1892. It is partly to supplement this list that the following notes, based on observations made at Sharon and vi- cinity, in Southern Hillsboro County, at an altitude of about fourteen hun- dred feet, from July 14th to August 11, 1909, are written. Species starred were not given in Farmer's list. X 1. Bob-white (Colinus virginai- nus). One heard on July 25th and 27th in Temple. 2. Ruffed Grouse, (Bonasa unbel- lus). Three seen, July 17-22. 3. Black-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzua erythrophthalmus). A single bird seen in Sharon on July 27th, on its nest, which held one just hatched bird, one pipped egg, and one not pipped. X 4. Hairy Woodpecker (Drj^obates villosus). Two seen together in Sha- ron, July 15tli. X 5. Flicker, (Colaptes a luteus). About four seen. 6. Whip-poor-will, (Antrostomus vo- ciferus). Some six heard. 7. Chimney Swift, (Chateura pel- agica). Not common. 8. Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus). Saw three or four between Sharon and Petersboro, August 11. 0. Phoebe (Sayorius phoebe). One seen July 28, and one heard in Tem- ple July 27. 10. Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata). Not common. 11. Crow, (Corvus brachyrhyn- chos). Not common. X 12. Purple Finch, (Carpodacus purpureus). A female seen in Sharon •July 15. 13. Vesper Sparrow (Pooecetes gramineus). Uncommon. 14. White-throated Sparrow (Zon- otrichia albicollis). Not common. First heard singing on July 14. 15. Chipping Sparrow (Spizella passerina). Uncommon. 16. Field Sparrow (Spizella pusil- la). Fairly common. X 17. Junco (Junco hyemalis). Not common; first seen (two) on July 14, in Sharon. THE OOLOGIST 99 18. Song Si)arrow (Melospiza melo- .: , "^*»mv A. O. U. No. 7, 10, 27, 30, (56), 86, (185), 192, 195, 210, 211, 217, 264, 267, 280, 285, 302, (336), 348, 355, 367, 376, 457, 482, 486, 490, 498d, Bts, 593c, 610, 641, 659. 713, 746 756. I want 5 sets of each of the following: 5, 43, 52, (90), 108.1, 120a, 120b, 123a, 186, 188, 196, 200, 204, 206, 207, 218, 227, 252, 278, 286, 287, 289a, 289b, 292, 293a, 300c, 301, 334, 339a, 347a, 349, (351), 352, 375c, 375d, 421, 423, 461, 477, 480, 488a, 499, 513, 529b, 631, 657, 721b, 726, 733, 744,. I want 6 sets of each of the following: 5, 8, 13a, 21, 28, 37, 38, 59, 60, 72, 128, 205, 223, (260), 275, 281, 329, 373a. 373b, 397, 474e, 621, 673. 702, 706, 710, 729, 751a. For these I offer in exchange a very large list of the more common North American species, in original sets with full data. If you have none of the fore- going on hand now, but expect to take any this season, resei've what you take and write me. R. M. BARNES, Lacon, III. The Oologist BIRDS-NESTS-EGGS TAXIDERMY Vol. XXVII. No. 9. ALBION, N. Y., Sept. 15, 1910. Whole No. 278 BRIEK SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Wanted. Exchange, For Sale, Etc. inserted in this department at 25 cents for each 25 words for one issue ; each additional word 1 cent. No notice inserted for less than 25 cents. TAKE NOTICE. SUBSCRIPTION, 50 CENTS PEK YEAR Examine the number on the wrapper of your Oolo&ist. It denotes the time your subscription expirej. Remember we must be notified if you wish it discontinued and all arrearages must be paid. 27tj your sub- scription expires with this issue. 281 your subscription expires with December issue 1910. Other expirations can be computed by intermediate numbers at the rate of one number per month. Entered as second-class matter De- cember 21, 1903, at the post office, at Albion, N. Y., under the Act of Con- gress of March 3, 1879. In answering advertisements in these columns mention "The Oologist," and thereby help us, as well as the ad- vertiser and yourself. BIROS WANTED.— One first set each of Sandhill and Whooping Crane, one pair of skins of Whooping Crane. Will exchange specimens from Northwest Canada. MACKAY & DIPPIE. Calgary. Alberta. WANTED.-Skins of birds of the Rocky Mountain and Gulf states, also a few rare Eastern. Can offer material from Baja Cali- fornia (Mexico) and good exchange in well made Western skins. Please send complete lists. PINGREE I. OSBURNE, Pasadena, Cal. TO EXCHANGE. -Finely mounted birds and deer heads, several hundred Natural History and Sportsman's magazines, for bird and mammal skins. GEO. F. GUELF, Taxidermist. Brockpurt. N. Y. Any collectors having a few good labeled specimens of foreign birds, send list. I will give A 1 skins of Illinois and California birds. Also offer skins of common specimens from Illinois for nests and sets of small species. HENRY K. COALE, Highland Park, Lake Co., 111. WANTED. -A few good skins of the Aleu- tian Tern (Sterna aleutica) Thayer Museum, Lancaster, Mass, WANTED. - Prothonotary Warbler 1-5, Parula Warbler 1-5. If you have these send for my list. D. I. SHEPAKDSON, 1128 Hobard Blvd., Los Ang«les, Cal. FOR EXCHANGE.— Bird skins. Hooker's Natural History, Davies' 4th Edition, com- mon tameiPigeons. Desire books on birds, bird skins, or mounted birds. O. M. GREEN- WOOD, Manchester, Iowa, (le) I want 1 perfect skin in full breeding plum- age of each of the following species: A. O. U, No, 396, 154, lot), im, im. 170a, 171, 177, 1^^, 195a. 198, oOH, 515, 511b, 528, 530b, 531, 512c, 557, 558. 581d. 5Ki, 585, 593c. 591, 611, 643, 611, 616, 651, 655, 657, 659, 660, 675, 679, 6.S0, 681, 683, 685, 715, 757. 758a, 761, 725, I have duplicates for exchange of A. O. U. No. 373. 195, 498, 507, 529, 558, 559, 601, 608, 636, 618, 662, 591, 666. R. M. BARNES, Lacon, 111. WANTED.— First class skins of Murrelets, Gulls. Shearwaters, Rails, Shore Birds, Grouse, Hawks, Owls, particularly Snowy and Great Gray, and certain small land birds. Offer representative Southern California species, also fine sets of personally taken Heermann's Gulls and Blue-footed Boobies. All reliable collectors send lists. PINGREY I. OSBURN, Pasadena, Calif, THE CELEBRATED HUNGARIAN AND ENGLISH PARTRIDGES AND PHEAS- ANTS, capercailzies, black game, wild turkeys, quails, rabbits, deer, etc. for stock purposes. Fancy pheasants, peafowl, swans, cranes, storks, ornamental geese and ducks, foxes, squirrels, ferrets, and all kinds of birds and animals. WENZ & M ACKENSEN, Dept. H, Pheasantry A- Game Park, Yardley, Pa. Is your subscription paid up ? li THE OOLOGIST EGGS FOK EXCHANGE- First class Eggs in sets. C. S. RUTHEKFORD, Revere, Mo. Send exchange lists of first class sets for mine.-J. W PRESTON, 1411 l.Jth Ave.. Spokane, Wash. : I offer 1-3. 2-4 Fish Crow. 1-5 201. 1-5 1H4: all for a set of Bartman's Sandpiper 4 or 5 eggs. W. B. CRISPIN, Salem. N. J. WANTED.— Good eggs. Indian relics, and Catocala. I have California butterflies, sea curiosities and stamps. R. E. DODGE, 552 Hay street, Santa Cruz, Cal. EXCHANGE. -A tine series of ten of the Pallas Murre from Cape Hope. Alaska. I want 188. 332, 343, .348. 362, .364 and many others. D. E. BROWN. 6044 1st Ave.. No. W. Sta. F. Seattle. Wa^b. FOR EX^ANGE.-Fine set cf 2. 3. 4 and 5 Ferruginous Rough-leg Hawk, on the basis of 75 cents cash value per egg. Only extra fine or rare material wanted. CHILDS MU- SEUM. Floral Park. N. Y. I3) WANTED.-Setsof .351, 352, 352a. 206. and many common sets; have to offer choice sets 679 1-4, 417 1-2. 419 1-2, 337, 339. 375, 26:3, 261, 273 and many other choice sets; send list and re- ceive mine. RAY DINSMORE, Perry, Ohio FOR EXCHANGE.-Fine sets of Least Tern, Black Skimmer. Louisiana Heron. Wayne's Clapper Rail. Florida Burrowing Owl. and others. For parliculars address W. W. WORTHINGTON. Shelter Island Heights, New York. FOR EXCHANGE. - Eggs in fine sets, beautiful minerals, butterflies and moths in dust and insectproof cases, and other natural history specimens. Want all the above. Send lists and receive mine. LEWIS C. SNYDER, Lacona, New York. FOR EXCHAN(iE.-A few choice sets of glaucous-winged gull, black oyster catcher, ring-necked plover, Kodiak fox sparrow. Pacific murre. All collected by myself. G. W. STEVENS. Alva. Okla. FOR SALE.— Some rare single eggs from Iceland, Loons, Sjua, Glaucous Gull, Old- squaw. Northern Eider, Bean Goose. Whoop- ing Swan, Golden Plover, Dunlin. Godwit. Ruff. Snowflake, Iceland Falcon, and others. Send for full list to H. WARREN. Room 215 St. James Chambers. Adelaide St.. E., Toronto. Ont. WANTED.— Eggs in sets with original data. Send list of everything vou have. rAS H. JACKSON. West Che.ster. Pa. (4) FOR EXCHANGE.-One set of Eleven Wood Duck, taken in 1904 by Verdi Burtch in New York for a good set of threeof Golden Eagle. This duck is rapidly becoming extinct and these eggs are now rarely offered. R. M. BARNES, Lacon. 111. TO EXCHANGE — Sets with data, North American and Foreign. Can use many com- mon kinds of both. Dr. T. W. RICHARDS U. S. Navy, 1911 N. St., N. W.. Washington D. C. ■'I have perfect sets of Mourning. Cerulean Black throated. Blue and Black throated (ireen Warbler, American Woodcock, Bar- tramian Sandpiper. King Rail, Canadian Spruce, Grouse and Sharp Shinned Hawk for exchange. I desire sets of American Flam- ingo, Long-billed Curlew, Semipalmated Plover, Franklin's Grouse, Bonaparte's Gull, Williamson's Sapsucker, White-headed and Red Cockaded Woodpecker, Pink-sided Junco, Hutton's and Black Capped Vireo, Sennett's Orange-crowned and Connecticut Warbler and Canada Jay. GERARD ALAN ABBOTT. 945 Marauette Bldg., Chicago. In sending in your exchange notices for nests, skins and eggs, we would appreciate it if you would arrange the numerals in your exchange notice in their numerical order, and not tumble them together hit and miss, as some of our readers are complaining, and we think justly so. I HAVE 273 3-4. 360a 2-4, 365 2-5, 375d 2-2. 476 1-6. 715 4-4, etc. U WABT2-3-5-12-30-32-6.3-67-70- (76) -90- 92 -106 -108 r20a-120c-128-258-318-319-320a- 412-421 with nests; 428-4:32-433-434-436-439-466- 466a- 467-506-507. FRED TRUESDALE. Shan- don. Cal. FOR EXCHANGE.-Eggs in sets with full data. A. O. U. No. No. 1 1-3. 6 1-5. 13 1-1. 16 1-1. 27 1-2, 29 1-2, .30a 1-1, :32 1-1, 40 1-3, 43 J-1, 49 1-2, 51 1-3, 53 1-3, 56 1-2, 54 1-3, 58 1-3, 64 1-3, 67 1-1, 701-:3, 721-3, 751-1, 77 1-2, 79 1-1, 801-4. 86 1-1. 1061-1, 1171-1, 1201-.3, 184 1-3, 191 1-5, 194 1-4, 200 1-3, 201 1-5, 202 1-4, 226 1-2, 271 1-1, :320a 1-1. 325 1-2. .326 1-2, .3:33 1-4, 337 1-2, 339 l-;3, ;348 1-2, :364 1-2, 378 1-1, 431 1-2 with nest; 506 1-2 519b 1-1, also blow pipe, embryo shears and hook and set of cut the lining egg drills. Will exchange all of the above for best offer of Indian bird spear points and other flint and bead relics . Write me and send outlines. HENRY J. HUST, Box 683, Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. I want sets of following North American birds' eggs: A. O. U. Nos. 4, 5. 7, 40, 49. 51. 53, 70,77,125.132.140,190,196,208,224, 2.58, 261, 269, 280. :305. 325, 326, 332, 337, 343, 349 352, 360. 362, 364, 368, :?73. :375, 393, .3940. 402, 4«6, 416. 423. 428, 429. 452, 461, 464, 466, 466a, 477. 490, 494, 497. 506, 507, 517. 540, 546, 549, 550, 554, 558, 595, 604, 608, 611, 622, 627, 628, 631, 637, 648, 681. 702. 727. 735, 7.36, 746. 751, 758a, 759b. For any of these I will give full even rates in exchange, using the Lattin- Short 1905 Catalogue. I can offer \. O. U. Nos. 30a 6-1. :32 6-1. 79 1-1, 184 2-3 2-4. 187 2-3 2-4, 199 2-5.313 1-2, .t78a 2-5. 447 2-4. 448 2-4. 505a l-.S. 513 2-3,5281-4. 5.311-5. 542c 1-4. 552a 2-4. 5781-2. 580a 1-2, 59:3a 1-4, 710 1-3. in sets. Also some desirable singles: a large list of Shells. Minerals. Fossils, and curios and a few good books. If you have others to offer than those 1 mention above write me. I may he able to make you an offer. ERNEST H. SHORT. Box 173, Rochester, N. Y. Is your Subscription paid up ? THE OOI.OGIST 111 FOR EXCHAN(;p:.-Persona!ly taken re- cently in Lower California. F'iiie sets of Xanthus Mnrrelet, Black Petrel. Socorro Petrel; also Heerniaiin's (iuU and Blue- footed Booby. Want only absolutely per- fect sets and skins. Water birds preferred. PIX(iKEE I. OSBl'RX, Pasadena, Cal. FOR SALE.— Some sets and single eggs of Arctic Sea Birds such as Pacific Loon, Pacific Kittiwake, Pacific Eider, Ancient Murrelet. Parasitic Jaeger, Iceland (JuU, Glaucous Winged Gull, Short-billed (iull. Red-faced Cormorant, Harlequin Duck, American Scoter. Willow Ptarmigan. Send for full list to H. WARREX, Wilton Ave., Toronto. Can. BOOKS WANTED.-The Auk, Vol. II. Xos. 2. 3, 4, Vol. IV, Nos. 2. 4, Vol. V. Nos. 2, d. 4, Vol. VI, Xos. 1, 3. For cash or exchange. LOUISA. FUERTES, Ithaca, N. Y. WANTED.— Back numbers of The Auk. Nuttal's Bulletin and other bird magazines, also on insects. Have numbers to exchange. G. W. HUMPHREY, Dedham, Mass. WANTED. -Books on birds. Will pay a reasonable cash price for those that I desire. State title aud author, conaition. etc. CHAS. F. CARR, (Personal), Xew London, Wis. Have your Oologists or other magazines, bound by a careful, painstaking hand pro- cess. Write what you have and get styles. Prices reasonable. Exchange considered. HOWARD W. McMILLEX. Ada, Ohio. c FOR SALE. -In perfect condition. 'The North American Birds" by Henry Nehrling, German text, cloth bound, gilt edge, 668 pages and 36 plates, showing 137 species in natural color. Original price 115. Sells for $7. ERICH DIETRICH. Canby. Oregon. BIRD MAGAZINES.-I have about 500 old bird magazines for exchange, including complete volumes of Auk, Condor, Xidiolo- gist, Osprey, Oregon Naturalist, and odd numbers of all of these. W. LEE CHAM- BERS, 1226 lllh St., Santa Monica. Cal. For sale or to exchange for books, maga- zines or bird skins .0 A- O vols. VI, VII, VIII. XVI, XVII. Nidologist vols. II. III. IV. Trans Wis. Acad. Odd vols.: Auk XI, 3 and 4; XII. 3; XX, 2; Capens Oology; Oologist, vols. VII to XVII inc. bound. Hardwlck's Science Gossip. F. B. McKECHNIE, Ponk- apog, Mass. FOR SALE.— The following books: Birds of North and Middle America by Ridgway, Parts I, II. Ill, and IV. Birds of Wyoming 1902, by Knight, Our Northern and Eastern Birds, by E. A. Samuels, Nuttall's Ornithol- ogy, two volumes. The Aok, Vols. 16, 21, 22, 23 and 24. All in excellent condition. Will sell cheap, F. C. HUBEL. Clarkston. Mich. I will give $1.00 for No. 6 of Vol. 5 of THE OOLO(tIST in the original covers and in good condition. R. M. BARNES. Lacon. 111. W'ANTED.— The following back numbers of THE OOLOGIST for the Department of Agriculture, Washington. D. C. Vol. 2. No. 2; Vol. 3. No. 4; Vol. r,. No. 6; Vol. 6, No. 4: Vol. 13. No. 5; Vol. 14, No. 3 and 10. Vol. 15. No. 7. R. M. BARNES. Lacon. 111. FOR SALE.— Taylor's Standard American Egg Catalogue, second edition. Published by H. R. Taylor. Alameda. Cal., IM04. 25c. per copy. 3 for 50c.. 7 copies fur $1.00. All prepaid for the price. F^very egg collector in America should have a copy. W. LEE CHAMBERS, 1226 llth St.. Santa Monica, Cal. (2) FOR SALE. -My entire Ornithological Library, either as a whole or by separate volumes. Address S. B. LADl). 215 Walnut St., Reading. Pa. WANTED FORCASH.-Bird Lore Vol. I- 2. 6: Vol. 11-2; Vol. III-l: VII-1. L( >UIS S. KOHLER. Bloomficld. N. J. WANTKD.-The Bulletin of the Cooper O. Club Vol. I complete: Wilson Bulletin Nos 4. 5. 6, 7. 8 and 24 for cash. LOUIS S. KOHLER. 98 Watsessing Ave.. Bloomfiekl. N. J. OLD MAGAZINES WANTED. - The Oologist by Lattin. Vol, V complete. The Oologist bv Willard. Vol. I. complete; Vol. II, Nos 1,2.3. Also some of older Wilson Club publications. 'DR. GlY C.RICH. Sioux. City Iowa. (1) WANTED.— Northern and southern raw furs. Highest market price paid. All goods held subject to approval of valuation. Price list free. GEORGE J. TILLS. Albion, N. Y. MISCELLANEOUS. FOR Sj^LE.- One Myer System. Cloas Flute. U keys, low pitch in case. Used three months. Will sell at very reasonable price. Will send on approval. L. V. .MEDICUS. 3002 Chestnut St.. Kansas City. Mo. Wanted. — Northern and southern raw furs. Highest market price paid. All goods held subject to approval of valuation. Price list free. GEORGE J. TILLS. Albion N. V FOR SALE.— One Myer System. Cloas Flute. 11 keys, low pitch in t-asc. Used three months. Will sell at very reasonable price. Will send on approval. L. V. .MEDICUS 3002 Chestnut St., Kansas City. Mo. Wanted: A buyer for fine camera. Premo Supreme, 5x7, practically new; it has all attachments and adjustments found on a first class camera. G. W. Stevens, Alva, Okla. (2) TOEXCHAN(;Ea very fine Premo Su- peme camera, 5x7. for a niotoroyle in ( iOOD CONDITION. Write G. W. Stevens. Alva. Okla. (2.. KXCHANGE- Nearly new 24 guage.Janssen Sons and Co. double breech loading top snap hammer gun. marked Belgium Laminated Steel. $11 Would exchange for larger bore. (l; A. C. Dyke. Bridgewater Mass. FOR SALE- One number 3. folding camera. Has been used very little Will sell cheap. Write for price. I). Carey Westbrook' 412 West College St.. (le) (iriffin. (ia. The Oolog'st is growing every month. If you are interested in birds send it to some friend as a birthday gift. Help it along. iV THE OOLOGIST THE MAPLEWOOD Biological Laboratory Offers a New Preparation Showing the Anatomy of an Eighteen Day Old Em- bryo of the Common Chicken in Four Preparations No. 1, Cross sections through the head show= ing the head cavity containing brain, eye, etc. No. 2, The digestive organs entire. No. 3, The tongue. No. 4, The feet and legs. The specimens within the jar are attach- ed to a transparent glass plate, thus a rear as well as a front view is afforded. Mounted in i 3 inch glass cylinders with heavy base. Price per jar containing the four preparations as described above $8.50 Delivered P. G. HOWES The Maplewood Biological Labor, tory Stamford, Conn. ^■^v^^pi^tf^Hi The OoLOGiST. Vf)L. XXVII. No. y. Albion, N. Y. Sept. 15, 1910. Whole No. 278 Published Monthly, by R. M. Rarncs, Albion, X. Y., and Lacon, Illinois. No. 76. Black Buzard roosting on Cathedral tower, Vera Cruz, Mexico. • — Photo by George E. La Grange. 102 THE OOLOGIST MEXICAN BIRDS. A personal letter from George E. LaGrange, a nephew of the Editor at present a Senior in Stanford Universi- ty at Palo Alto, California, tells many interesting things of some of the birds of Vera Cruz, Mexico, where he spent most of the i)ast summer. It in part reads as follows: ■ "I think i)ractically all the birds are different, even the Buzzards. I know the Blackbirds are— they have tails, regular fans; while the birds are fully half again as large as our Purple Crackle. They are very plentiful and very tame — as in fact all wild game is in Mexico. Nothing of this sort is molested by the natives. In Vera Cruz the blackbirds seem to come, one, each and every egg-hatched nigger amongst them, to the central plaza of the city to roost in the trees to be found there. Every evening, as sure as the sun approaches the west- ern horizon, they begin to assemble. Singly, in families and tribes, almost in battalions, they flock in to begin their nightly squabble for a piece of green limb two inches long and free from branches and leaves — and other blackbiids — upon which they may pre- pare, to begin, to get ready, to com- mence, to roost for the night. For it is one thing to have and another to hold. And although the good little early bird who retires in proper sea- son, may select and stake out his claim for a roost, he must be prepared to defend it against every new comer and late comer until long after sun- down. .Jumping of claims is well known in the genera of blackbirds, nor is there any rule to the game ex- cei)t hold as hold can. In fact, and I don't speak jokingly, so furious and boisterous, numerous and continuous are the squabbles which take place for a comfortable bed that from an hour before sundown, till black dark, it is exceedingly difficult to carry on a conversation anywhere in the plaza. The trees are simply alive with squawking, flapping birds. Indeed the trees seem to have borne a crop of wings amidst their other foliage. Awn- ings are always put up evenings when the band plays to protect the seats and heads of the listeners. Nor are the blackbirds the only guests, welcome or unwelcome, who make their beds and sleep undisturbed by cops or night watchmen, on the streets of the main thoroughfare of the city. Cotimely with the arrival of the blackbirds there ascend flocks and clouds of graceful, swift darting swal- lows, not chimney skiffs, of course, because there are no chimneys in Mexico. They skim the heavens in early dusk in silence, apparently very deeply mortified at the dreadful squab- ble going on beneath them. Gradually as the evening's dusk descends they too sink lower and lower and pass swifter and closer until the heavens look like an inverted magnified ant hill. Lower and lower they swoop, in gradually lessening circles until their twitterings can be caught mingled with the now somewhat subdued clam- or of the blackbirds. And finally after a few daring sweeps directly over the heads, even amongst the surging of the crowds below, they pass to their roost for the night, where however there has already begun a scramble for a "location" which bids fair to vie with the one described above. Their de- mands however are far less exacting than those of the blackbirds. No soft fresh green branch do they beseech, their only cry, and one which has now raised the total humdrum to its loud- est pitch — is for nothing more than one inch of bare, hard, cold copper wire. Only it must be an inch of a THE OOLOGIST 103 liartiniiar stri|) of coititel' ^irf^: .\«1i( this ideal, aristocrntif location con- sists in what — simply a trolley wire. No not "a"" trolley wire either, but one very particular one. viz: "the" one MsKink in trout of the two best hotels in the city. Aiiil there tllfeV fight, their twitterings now become cries, and then roost in the glare of the electric lights from the ■■i)ortales" where in .'-unnner are situated the dining rooms ef the hotels not fifteen feet distant in an air line. And there H-E* the "VPl-H OI'mzhho" lights his ■"cigarro" after his eight o'clock sup- per, if he looks up he can see. even at the tail of the filmy smoke trail which rises from the fnd of his own cigar- rette, the outlines of hunclre'dg of birds all strung along en the wire eii in- variable intervals of about an inch, and looking perhaps like .^o many clothes pins. Xeither the busy life in the hotel corridors, "portales" nor cafes immediately at their tails" ends, nor the bustle in the street beneath their feet, nor the passing of shari) gonged street cars along the adjacent Btreetg, which causes their wire to bob dizzily u]) ami down, nor even yet the strains of all varying music from the "kiosko" across the street: none of this serves even in the slightest, either to deter them from seeking their roost, from squabbling over a bed. or from sleei)ing serenely when darkness has made further conten- tions diflRcult and dangerous. But not yet have we noted all. One guest at the Plaza Hotel for Birds has been overlooked. He has been too stately, too lofty and dignified to de- scend into the streets and mix with the other noisy occupants below. Yes, too dignifiek huzzfirds, the early birds of the tJlght. niight ftdv^ been seen jjerched on the high^si pin- nacles of the tiled Cathedral toW'G)', either tired out early after a hard day, or ju.st back after some rousing car- Hbt) fe»st, At any rate there they are and froiil All dir**ctions come other stragglers. Still the.v cOhl#, each seek- ing out his accustomed lodging pidct* and if found occujued by a ''sooner'' ejecting him from the spot. In ihiii fashion with noiseless intermittent short scraps, the old Cathedral tower is- gradually ijeoplecf b.t theSe feuge" dusky sjiCetre.s, ufltij ^vevf inch Of 'standable" standing room has^ beert "stood" for, or on. And there, back to the old fi§6&t., they conip. every day and every e?''<^', to sit and ()i-een their feathers, or spread their wings to dry, or sit mo- tionless and in silence while they listen to or cooly eye their relatives in the trees below. All just as they have"