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If you wish to use 5 lines or less space it will cost you 25 cents; 100 lines, $5.00; 1000 lines, $50. ‘‘Trade’’ (other than cash) adver- tisements will be accepted by special arrange- ment only and at rates from double to five times cash rates. Due Bills and Cards payable in ad- vertising will be honored only at regular rates in force at the date of issuance of said bill or card. Remittances should be made by Draft, Ex- press or Postoffice Money Order, Registered Letter or Postal Note. Unused U. S. Postage Stamps of any denomination will be accepted for sums under one dollar. Make Money Or- ders and Drafts payable and address all sub- scriptions and communications to HRNEST H. SHORT, Editor and Manager, ili, Monroe Co.. N. Y. Some 1906 Notes. On May 5th, while up near May- field, northeast of Gloversville, I fougd a nest of ‘the Migrant Shrike, alhins ludovicianus migrans (Was . excubitorides?—Ed.) in a fo tree, 10 feet up. The nest contained six fine eggs, which imme- diately attracted my attention be- cause of their great size. Unfortun- ately the eggs were very far incubat- ed and I only took two of them. These are typical of the Migrant Shrike, except for size, measuring 1.03 x .72 and 1:01 x .71 in. respec- tively. - They are in the collection of the State Museum at Albany. On June 2, I found a nest of the Nashville Warbler, Helminthopila ru- bricapilla. The nest was in a piece of low woodland on the ground and partially roofed over like an Oven- bird’s. It was composed of pine needles, etc., lined with finer ones. The eggs were four in number, two of which were accidentally broken. On all sides of the nest except the front was a semi-circular row of small maple shoots. The old birds were very shy and it took an hour’s patient waiting to identify the species. The eggs were white in color, marked del- icately at the larger end with red- dish brown. They measured .60x.46 and .56x.44 in. respectively. On June 3, I found a nest of the Black-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus ery- throphtalmus and noticed that it eon- tained two eggs. While over there the next day, I happened to look in- to the nest and was amazed to find four eggs. I am certain as to the above statements and have come to the conclusion that two birds must have had but one nest, although the eggs were indistinguishable from one another. — CHAS. P. ALEXANDER. Gloversville, N. Y. 182 THE OOLOGIS1. HK. H. Short: — Dear Sir:—On Oct. 7th of this year I found a nest of three young Gold- finches nearly ready to fly. The nest was in a cypress about six feet up: Is not this an unusual date? AVAN ROSSEM. Ans.—It would be in the Hast. Let us hear from other Western collec- tors. Editor Oologist:— Dear Sir:—I was interested to note the comparative measurements’ of eges of the Great Blue Heron from different sections of the country, by Mr. Thompson in the September Oolo- gist. It seems to me that if those who possess eges of any of the wide- ly distributed species would submit the measurements to the Oologist for publication, whenever those measure- ments are unusual, that there might thus be brought to light much inter- esting and instructive data. I note in the measurements refer- red to above, that the eggs from Maine are much more elongated than any others. I have a set of two eggs of the Bald Hagle taken in Maine, which are very unusual in the same way, measuring: 3.20 x 2.27 and 3.04 x 2.21 in. If it is a general tendency for eggs of a species to more elongate in one section than in another, it would be of interest to know the fact and to search for the reason. B. G@. WILLARD, Millis, Mass. > —___ A Morning’s Egg Hunt. Sunday morning, June 16th, this past spring was just about the right time to look up the warblers and smaller breeders, as they were all a couple of weeks later than usual. I was up at dayight and was soon hust- ling up the river road for the mouth “ we of a large mountain stream. | Birds were Singing everywhere along the mountain side and among others I heard several mourning warblers, but. did not stop, and the only nests noted were several catbirds and robins. Ar- riving at the turning in point, I was. soon walking on an old log road and then I slowed up and began to look for nests. The valley of this stream and surrounding mountains is wild land and uninhabited. In the valley for about 5 miles is a heavy and al- most continuous growth of rhododen- dron or buck laurel. For several miles the timber is heavy and is made up in a great part of hemlock and some pine. ‘Many big boulders lie scat- tered about and the ground is car- peted with deep moss and beautiful ferns. In this region and similar places hereabouts when the condi- tions are so canadian, many of the more northern breeders find a sum- mer home and such northern mam- mals as the varyin&é ‘hare or white rabbit, porcupine, woodland jumping mouse still flourish. It was a beautiful day, clear and cool, and birds were singing every- where. I started in and went slow, and after the trip was ended I con- cluded it was one of the best trips. I ever had. Going but a short dis tance a pair of juncos became great-. ly excited. The cause I soon found was a nestful of five eggs under the edge of the bank along the road. Very soon I spotted a Magnolia warbler’s nest in the top of a little bunch of hemlock about five feet up. It held three eggs, which I left for a full set. Stopping to drink from a clear, cold. spring, I noticed another Magnolia’s nest situated about the same and con- taining one egg. Farther up where the timber was heavy and the ground damp and shady I noticed way out on. the edge of a long drooping" ~ limb and directly oveg THE OOLOGIST 183 vireo sitting on her nest. It was about 20 feet from the ground ‘so I shinned up a birch that grew _ just within about 10 feet of the nest and as soon as I got a little above the nest I found as I expected a solitary vireo at home. Descending, I cut a pole, fastened a fork stick on the end for a hook, and again ascending, I pulled the limb over and safely land- ed the nest. In a laurel Swamp where the timber was open I heard a yel- low-bellied flycatcher, but it was a nasty place, so I wasted no time. The yellow-belly is very rare in summer, but probably breeds. For a mile fur- ther I tramped up an old tramway finding another Magnolia nest with an incomplete set, and then I arrived at a slashing well studded with scat- tering hemlocks and thuge dead stubs. Here on the 10th I had heard the loud call of an olive-sided flycatcher. I heard both birds this time, and soon found them perched on big stubs. I watched for over an hour but they showed no signs of nest building, so I concluded the nest must already be finished, and that I might as well wait a week until the old bird. com- menced to set. In June, 1904, I locat- ed a pair and after lots of watching I found and secured the nest and 3 eggs, which as near as I can find is the only record for Western Pennsyl- vania. The bird is rare, but I have probobly seen more of this bird and more specimens in Pennsylvania than any collector in the state. While watching the flycatchers, I saw plen- ty of birds. I noticed two birds ma- king regular trips to a small beech among the hemlocks. Going over, I found a nest of solitary vireos build- ing. For some reason this nest was never finished. Saw a yellow-bellied woodpecker feeding its young high up in an old stub and quite low in another was a also full of young. i Mourning and chestnut-sided warb- lers also yellow-throats were very much in evidence, but after thrash- ing about for a short time amongst the briars and brush I quit them. Also noticed red-tail and red-shouldered hawks, besides many commoner ‘birds. Starting to cross the stream I saw a good big trout, possibly a foot long, and while sizing him up I noticed a winter wren’s nest under the end of a rottem moss-covered log that stuck out over the ‘bank. It was, of course, too late for this, as the young had al- ready left. Starting up the mountain, I found a Magnolia’s nest just finished. In a heavy patch of mountain laurel I found a beautiful nest of the black- throated ‘blue warbler, containing 38 egs, which I left. Coming out on a point on the opposite side of the mountain I found a Magnolia at home on four fresh eggs. There was quite a bed of low thick laurel on this point and I ‘hunted it over thoroughly with the result that I found two hand- some sets of four each of b.-t. blues, also four or five old nests showing this to be a favorite place. A couple of male Blackburnians were singing at this place but I could find no nest. However, on my trip the following Sunday I did find a nest from which a couple of days later I secured a heavily marked set of four. I visited the nest from which on May 26th I got the handsome set of sharp- shin hawks. As there was no signs of the old birds about I took ithe nest along to go with the eggs. Besides the warblers mentioned I saw several water thrusheg and black and whites, a few redstarts, quite a number of Canadians and black-throated green and a few hooded; Oven-birds, and parulas were common. {HE OOLOGIST. 184 ‘JSISIOAO UB AQ ONSST ISB WOAJ P9zJTUIO SBA TOIYA ,.SUTFUN]] Jo[QIv AA UUUNYNY,, JO UOLZBNUTZWOD B ST 9B} SIGL JAVJapsy UBOLIOULy: WU poysvoiq-MOT[IA JBOIYY-MOTJTOX UY J1O N parquaagd IOTQIVM PepIs-jnuyseq yO IaTGivA UvETNAID IOTQIVAA MOT[OA IaTqIv A, paduLM-Ueploy sjUepIsey JeuruoNng Io[qivA\ UBIpvUuBy IoTQIV AA JHOTO9UMOD Yysniy ], 1098 A IO[QIVA Weg TdT GIB AV. Uday poyvoIyy-YOVvl LI[GIVAA UVIUINGAOVl IapqivA\ [Tod-yorltg TdT qre A, poysvorq-Avq IOTGIV A BILOUSBIA, IOTQIBAA O[JAATA Id[GIVAA ANT poyvosyy-yovypg_ Iayqiv A Avy advo IOTGIVAA BINABT UlI}89 AA LdTGIBAA VESSouaT, I9[GIV AA O[[IAYSBN * 9,06 T ll Tx 6x T Tx lt I Ik Wyte ToT QIv A 9FIY MM pus xovl| Ves 9g JSnsny Zael T Bx gydag Bx Py. gydag Ge ii Tx L°~O Tx} GT» gz “dag i. ACranGe| ie. Py| 93 ysnsny Tx Px QL g ‘ydog Tx| T | Px! Sx Glx Gy, eT ‘ydag (y ie Ly eT “3deg (Se Tice Gly. L°?O lf i GT 0G%|06 |SLx Ble STx 6 °VO Tx Plx|8lx|Sl Gx Cle 0g “ydag Cle Gx Tx! Te! Tx GLix 6 “dag Gx| Sx} Gx Gx | Lx Lx Tx Z| supumay |SiSiPiSiSiSiSiSi Fi SiS Se Pe Flee ; Nested peers [ Sara | ssotat [ex Sates [eee arctan |e ea a Hel Miser e ke) st oS gq | 0g | 99 a @ a SON ro] po} no] no] eH] | co] NT] * Tae Nee ey | ee ee @ | oo] co] }] oOo] & W] BO |e] O] or) ow Oy |) Dae) ama eS bo —_ mW (oF) Ve) ~J | | ’ e a Ln gen J 2 THE OOLOGIST. 185 THE QUAIL TRAP. From Connecticut. The Quail Trap, Oct. 23, 1907—No, we were not awheel during ithe spring migration, or in the early summer, nor is the tonneau of a motor car at any season an ideal place to observe the movements of birds. And night flyers rarely flew into the forward glare of our acetylene. ‘Moving lights so slose to bushless unturfed road- way do not appear to attract jour- neying birds like the tall mariner’s lanterns along the coast in direct lines of migration. But as ithe cars run more at night and go further afield, now and then a deer may be fascinated or charmed by the head- lights. But this novel firelighting is not likely to become a fad at present. Several times we have seen rabbits and skunks run under the car on moonlight nights. In running at half speed from York Beach, Maine, along most of the beaches in New Hampshire, Massa- ‘ chusetts, Rhode Island and Connecti- cut and all along the south shore of Long Island, we saw about the usual number of small beach-birds, gulls, surf ducks and common waders. Black-crowned nights and great blues were commonly noted, but no white herons. But this season six snowies stayed over night in the brackish pools on Groton Long Point in our own county. Two eagleS were seen fishing for flotsam and jetsam at Hampton Beach. TFHarlier in the sea- son, motoring to the war office, we narrowly missed surprising a fine whitebeak in the Boothbay ‘barn lot —once the Dr. Sweet place—on Le- banon Green. Eagles of both species are so rare on Connecticut farms that they figure largely in the village chronicles. Their visits are too of- ten welcomed with a charge of squir- rel shot. No sparrowhawks were seen during the last week’s run and goshawks have not yet come down. But both goshawks and snowy owls will be seen by the sharp-eyed motorists along shore next month. Passing through Narragansett Pier twice, we were lucky enough to see part of the stray flight of hawks, all highfliers and not easily determined. The three buteos and one accipiter were among the few we saw on trees by the roadside.. The southbound worb- lers did not seem to be partial to the asphalt and macadam, and we de- termined but six species from the machine. We saw the famous Ipswich spar- row near Swampscott—or felt sure we did. In a fisherman’s doorway was a large maple stump with twen- ty big and little holes drilled in it. Two of the flickers’ holes could be reached from the ground, and in some of the upper holes I presume resident downies wer in winter quar- ters. I would have given a tidy sum if I could transport that stump in sec- tions to a place of honor in my cab- inet. In Hast Woodstock I had per- mission to remove just such an apart- ment house of the carpenters (as the Cubans ‘call them), but a high wind blew down and splintered my prize. Nowhere on the south shore of Long Island did we see one of the great assemblies of swallows such as I have repeatedly seen on the north side be- yond Orient. While the Road Run- ner was rapidly skimming through Larchmont and New Rochelle, we saw two birds near at hand and a bunch a little way from the car which by the law of exclusion must have been startlings. These intro- duced birds are increasings along the Bay shore, not uncommon in New Haven, and have now appeared in Mystic and New London in our own 186 THE OOLOGIST. county. (See Bird Lore for Septem- ber.) The licensed gunners of the state would now form a grand army corps of 12,000 men. This may be a good school in case of war with Japan, but it means present death to bobwhite, this year’s chicken hatch, and many an old “Biddy.” Suppose all the Nor- wich noble 500 should “go” at once. But just suppose two-thirds, or only one-half of this home guard of woods. Imagine the noisy scene! It would belittle the War in Flanders or the confusion attending the famous Bat- tle of the Frogs at Windham. The law does not prescribe or limit the battery to be taken afield by the licensees. So presumably anything can be carried from a toy pistol and duck gun up to a Gatling cannon. And some gunners are coming near to a Gatling in the auto or pump gun, which, when turned loose on a big bunch of ‘birds rising singly, does murderous work. As I write, eight reports in quick succession tell us that the auto-gun is at work in our woods, and I fear it means slaughter of the innocents. There is a family of grey squirrels feeding daily on the nuts of the famous hickory in the Boothby yard on Lebanon green, and the raiders are welcomed by the fam- fly. But who of the big Norwich con- tingent will be the first to shoot at the greys now living in the Little Plain on Broadway? We freed a pair there kindly given us by Mrs. .Thurs- ton Lillibridge. As I foretold, the country news-budgets weekly record the shooting of great horned and bar- red Owls by the licensed shooters. This is a pity, when these owls keep down the vermin and red squirrels. Several great blue herons have also been killed, and in only one instance has this illegal act been punished. A Woodcock came into the garden of B. P. Bishop on Broadway in Aug- ( ust. I can recall the time when the late S. T. C. Merwin—the crack local of his day—used to get two or three woodcock every season near Apple- ton Meech’s spring, now on the con- vent ground at the foot of Otis street. On Oct. 2 a Florida gaillinule was: killed by the wires on the Baltic road and brought in to me by Selectman Lillibridge. I have met this gallinule once on Fisher’s Island, twice at Say- brook and sparingly om Long Island. The waterbirds of this county are not well written up and a chapter in their life histories could be added by Nor- wich observers. It would ‘surprise many to know that last June both rail and marsh wrens were breeding within 10 minutes’ walk of Franklin Square. Mr. ’Renno Blackstone found a full set of incubated eges of Grebe right here at home. My own horned owls are faring finely in their roomy home near the Quail Trap. They rel- ish their eight ounces of raw ‘beef nightly and are lively and in full plumage. The heavy winter furring on their feet is like that of the Arc- tic owls whose advance guard is com- ing to us soon. Of destroyers of bird life other than the self-styled sportsmen, there has been no lack at the Quail Trap this summer. I surprised two black snakes fighting over a nest of -young redwings and Cyril Paine killed a five-foot racer with a female robin in its mouth. In our meadow full of redwings, few nests escaped rifling. Huge snapping turtles have been abundant this year and they get some birds. One foggy morning in August from the first car for Worcester out of Southbridge, I saw the motorman get several huge tortoises from the tracks, and he made an honest penny by selling the turtles to restaurants. Since my warning about the Italian aliens these gentry have not only been shooting on So y, 7.0 eae died mt! ae ‘brown, mottled with white.” THE OOLOGIST. 187 without license and bagging ‘small birds, but in Mystic Lyme, and other towns ‘have been trying to kill the game wardens sent in the woods to arrest them. C. L. RAWSON. 23. A eee The Great Grey Owl in Eastern New York. The Great Grey Owl, Scotiaptex cinerea, is a rare and somewhat irregular visitor in Hastern New York. E. H. Short does not include the species in his “Birds of Western New York,’ nor does R. Hoffman make mention of it in “Birds of New England and Hastern New York.” There are two specimens on exhibi- tion in the State Museum at Albany. I have two records of the occur- renec of this bird in Fulton county, New York. The first specimen was probably ‘brought into the county by the heavy winds and severe snow-fall of Noy. 11, 1906. The bird was found dead along the car track near Broad- albin, on Nov. 15, ’06, and was sup- posed to have been killed ‘by contact with the train. I examined the bird the next day and made the following observations: “LL. 29.25 in.; extent, 59 in.; tail, 12.65 in.; bill, upper mandible, bright soap-yellow, except along tomia where it is ashy-white; lower mandible, greyish. Facial disc, light grey, with concentric, rather indistinct marks of blackish-brown, or black; a large dark mark at lower edge of disc on each side of bill. Under parts white heavily striped and streaked with dark blackish-brown; upper part of breast unmarked, whitish; above, Sex, male; stomach empty. A second specimen was brought in- to Hotaling’s Taxidermist office on Dec. 16, 1906. This specimen was cla* ~ 3en secured in the northern part of Fulton county, (pos- sibly over the line in Hamilton coun- ty), and is a female ‘bird, slightly larger than the other with shorter alar extent (30.12 in. and 56 in.) re- spectively. C. P. ALEXANDER. 1s)» Please Note. If your subscription has expired or expires with this number you will re- ceive no more copies of The Oologist until we receive your renewal. If you renew a month before your subscription runs out you will avoid the necessity of sending for back is- sues to keep your files complete. We are sending bills this month to all who are in arrears. If your sub- scription expires with this issue you will find your wrapper so stamped. BUS. MGR. ————* <> —________—_ In Review. “American Birds,’ by Wm. L. Fin- ley. Studies from life with the aid of the camera. 247 pages, 127 half- tones from photos, cloth. Chas. Scrib- ners’ Sons. This work seems typographically perfect and the contents are interest- ing from cover to cover. Mr. Finley mentions his indebtedness tto Mr. Bohlman in the introduction and from the copyright marks on many plates, we judge that this was quite considerable. Mr. Finley states in his introduc- tion that “to the ordinary bird lover a robin, flicker, chickadee, ete. is the same,” irrespective of whether east- ern or western species. While almost all the contents of the book treat of western (Pacific coast) observations, he writes for the whole country on the above assumption. Assuming this statement to be true, it is apparently another case where “the ordinary bird lover’ has something to learn. 188 We read the first study in the book through carefully (Hummingbird Studies). The editor of the Oologist has no field acquaintance with West- ern Hummers, but he has had several opportunities to make pleasant and- profitable visits to Mrs. Rubythroat of the Eastern U. S., while she was home-building and housekeeping, and in some respects his observations did not point to the same conclusions as Mr. Finley arrived at. We have not found the Eastern bird selecting nesting sites with ref- erence to protection from storms, as a rule, In other respects their hab- its appear to differ. Again, on page 46, he speaks of it being a very rare occurrence for a bird to sing on the nest, and quotes Mr. Burroughs in support. Did either Mr. Finley or Mr. Burroughs ever make a close study of a pair of nest- ing warbling vireos? As far as our observations go, every sitting bird of this species sings: from its nest in early morn, to its mate, al- Ways in the near vicinity. On page 11 he advances a theory in explanation of the apparent exile of the father Hummer during the rearing of the annual family that may be correct. I might say much more. It is full of interest. Read it. HRNEST H. SHORT. <= _.— To the Editor Oologist, Dear Sir:— Will you kindly tell me if possi what kind of bird makes a nest grasses wrapped nicely with leaves with a very little hair inside, very deep about 5 or 6 inches, and very rough on the top, no pretention what- ever to forming an edge as mostbirds do. The grasses stand straight up not formed around. Nest situated near stream in the ground. The eggs are pure white and about about size of Phoebe’s and spotted with reddish brown near the larger end. I found the nest but could not see the bird at all waited a long time. I Yo > THE OOLOGIST. think it must be some kind of a warb- ler. Can you tell from my rather vague description. Hoping you can assist me and thanking you in advance for any in- formation I remain, Yours sincerely, lege: Je Mass. Would have to see the eggs. [Ed.] Toledo, O., Oct. 14. SSS SS Mr. Ernest H. Short, Dear Sir:— I wish to record the capture of a Willet (symphemia semipalmata) py Mr. A. K. Secor and Mr. Wm. A. Ketcham, both well known business as welll as sportsmen, at Cedar Point, Oct. 10, 1907. This is an extremely rare bird here; there is no record that I can find since 1880, although this is the third specimen that these gentlemen have taken; the others have not been preserved. Your truly, A. C. Read. Hd. Oologist:— Oct. 27, 1907, while out hunting, I. saw an albino crow, which was feed- ing in a corn field in company with a common black fellow. 'The plum- mage was entirely white, with the exception of the tail feathers, which were marked with black. It was very shy and could sot be approach- ed. W. W. ZJr., Oct, 1 407: Kalamazoo, Mich. as ~—~
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Choice Western Sets for Sale.
I have the following sets, perfectly
A. 1. Costas, Annas and Black-chinned
Hummers 2-2 of each, Broad-tailed
Hummer 2-2, Sharp-shinned Hawk 3-5,
5-4, Massena Partridge 1-12, Prairie
Falchon 2-4, Aplomado Falcon 1-3, Elf
Owl 1-3, Arizona Woodpecker 1-2,
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shouldered Hawk 9-4, 12-3, Swainson’s
Hawk 8-3, 9-2, 3-1, Kestrel 3-4, 2-5, 1-6,
Desert Sparrow Hawk 1-7, 5-6, 16-5,
18-4, 2-3; also the following choice
series of Hummers, Ruby-throated
Hummer 18-2, Costas 11-2, Annas 23-2,
Broad-tailed n-2, Black-chinned 21-2.
I will be glad to correspond with
anyone meaning business. These are
a part of my private collection.
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WANTED.—Eggs in sets, large or small
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apes: ERNEST H. SHORT, Rochester,
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HAVE Ist class sets, some good ones. to
exchangefor same. Can use many common
species for series and selection. Would
especially like to hear from collectors in
Maine. Also New Hampshire, Vermont and
eal states. A. E. PRICE, Grant Park,
I desire to buy old fire-arms_ and fine
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Orange, N. J.
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EMEU EGGS.—The large dark green, near-
ly black. pebbly eggs of this species are
always desirable and a great curio and
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March Ist at $1.70 each, prepaid. FRANK
H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y.
ALLIGATOR EGGS.—Have become so
scarce that many dealers have in recent
years omitted them from their lists. _There
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singie selected specimens at 35c. each prepaid
be ee $1.00. FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion,
WANTED.—California Condor’s, Swallow-
tailed and Mississippi Kites’. Little Brown
Cranes’, Albatrosses, Hawks’, Owls’ and
Warblergs’ eggs in first class sets with data
for cash or will exchange extra fine sets with
bonus. $150.00 in sets from my Oological col-
lection for a Condor’s egg. DOCTOR M. T.
CLECKLEY, 487 Greene St., oun ee
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.—Coue’s Key
3ra@ edition. rebound, half patent leather.
Wilson’s Am. Ornithology, 3 vols., in one.
Bonaparte’s plates folio, covering the birds
not figured by Wilson, hand colored. Elliott’s
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Birds 3 vols... W. S. COLVIN; Box 121
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TAXIDERMISTS attention. Southern
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Hawks and Red-tail Hawks. Not over two
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THOS. H. JACKSON, 343 E. Biddle St.,
West Chester, Penn. Feb. 2. t.
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MOUNTED BIRDS at bargain prices. 1
Great Gray Owl, $7.50; 1 Arctic Horned Owl,
$5.00; 1 Saw Whet Owl; $1.50; 2 Belted King-
fishers, $1.00 each; 2 Snowflakes, 75c. each;
Oyen Bird, 75c.; 1 Striped Spermaphile, $1.00;
1-J0 Gray Ruffied Grouse, set, $3.50. Any of
By prepaid. CHRIS P. FORGE, Carman,
Man.
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ONE -PAIR live Snowy. Owls, $10.00.
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me between the 16th and 20th of April 1901, I
will give double or triple value for same in
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ae prades. E. S. ROLFE, Eugene, Oregon.
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EXCHANGE-—Insect killing bottles; phials
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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.—50 mounted
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Avenue., Detroit, Mich.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.—Ist class
sets of Great Horned Owl 1-3, 1-3 with full
data. Cornet, B flat in good condition. For
Indian relics or cash. GEORGE J. TILLS,
Albion, N. Y.
HAVE both common and rare sets for ex-
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own,
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FOR SALE.—During winter months strict-
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For Sale.
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THE CONDOR
A Bi-Monthly Magazine of
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Life of North American Birds, Ben-
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DeKay Ornithology of New York, 392
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EXCHANGE OR SALE
Fine Sets. In addition to the takes
of my own collectors in Raptores, etc.,
I have just added to my collection the
splendid collection of Rev. J. M. Car-
roll, of Waco, Texas, (1200 sets) to-
gether with cabinets, good will, etc.
—fine series.
I don’t go in for series of everything,
-and accordingly have a fine lot of sets
to exchange, including southern spe-
cies, Icelandic, etc. Want many com-
mon, if exceptionally well marked
and well prepared. A few I need:
Kites (any), Limpkin, Roseate Spoon-
bill,Cranes, Loons, Yellow-billed Trop-
ic Bird, fine Terns, 339, 337 and 339b
if well marked, fine Flycatchers or
Kingbirds, Gulls, Pigeon Guillemots,
Murrelets, Eagles, Albatrosses, Pro-
thonotary Warbler, Sage Thrasher,
Carolina Wren, Pine Grosbeak, Jays,
Am. Raven, Caprimulgidae, Pileated
Woodpecker, 379a, 380, 381, good
Grouse or Quail sets, Wild Turkey,
Waders, Purple Gallinule, White Ibis,
etc., some in series. Want especially:
Swallow-tailed and Everglade Kites,
Limpkin, Hooded Merganser, Wood
Duck, Am. Merganser, ete. I can offer
occasionally cash, and in exchange,
such as Golden Eagle, Duck Hawk,
Prairie Falcon, Ferrug, Rough-leg,
Pine Siskin, Red-throated Loon, Calif.
Murre, Ancient Murrelet, Dovekie,
Caracara, Verdin, Mex-Crested Fly-
eatcher, Sooty and Short-tailed Alba-
tross, Petrels, Whooping Swan, 187,
deb, 225, 226, Wilson’s Snipe, 210,
Ptarmigan, 342 325 and 326, 341,
probably California Vulture, Paraque,
and many common and rare. Oc-
casionally I buy, also sell duplicates.
H. R. TAYLOR,
Box 95. Alameda, Cal.
Old Bird Magazines Wanted.
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Unusual Nesting Site of Zenaidura
Macroura.
In the April number of the Oologist
I read with considerable interest, the
article by Mr. A. W. Blain, of Detroit,
Mich., regarding the nesting of the
Carolina Dove (zenaidura macroura)
upon the ground, and wish to record a
similar find from this locality, North
Philadelphia county.
On May 10, 1902, at Bustleton, while
walking through a field, a dove fiushed
from her nest several yards ahead of
me and ran with drooping wings, as
if she was crippled. It was a clever
ruse to entice me from the nest, but
it didn’t deceive me. After chasing the
bird to see what she would do, and
causing her to fly to a tree, on border
ot a wood, I came back and hunted for
the nest, which I soon found.
It was placed on a brick pile that
Was overgrown with tall grass and
weeds about a foot up, well hidden by
the thick foliage and only ten feet
from a railroad. It contained two
fresh eggs ,which I collected, and
would also have taken the nest but
it was such a poorly made affair that
it fell apart when removed from its
site. It was composed of weeds and
grass stems and was six inches in out-
side diameter, four inches inside;
depth outside, 1 1-4 inches; inside,
about 1 5-8 inches. These measure-
ments were taken before I removed
the nest. The eggs are clear white
in color, elliptical-ovate in shape, and
in size they measure 1.09 x .88, 1.04 x
.88 inches.
Both of the birds remained in a
group of young willows nearby, while
I was robbing the nest. One frequent-
ly cooed and flew from tree to tree.
There were woods of all descrip-
tion near for the birds to nest, and
why they chose this one is a mys-
tery best known to the birds.
RICHARD F. MILLER,
Philadelphia, Pa.
THE OOLOGIST.
Double Nest of Dickcissel. Photo by Hess.
See article
in this number.
THE OOLOGIST.
Few Notes About a Common Bird, Etc.
In the August number of the Oolo-
gist, Mr. Morris Gibbs, in his instruc-
tive article, “The Nesting of the
Birds,’ states that he does not know
of any species of birds in the Great
Lake region that annually rears three
broods of young in one season.
In Southeastern Pennsylvania, the
ubiquitous Sparrow annually rears
three broods of young in one season,
some times four, and frequently five
and more broods. The Song Sparrow
some times though rarely rears
three broods. Among the birds that
always rear two broods here are the
Indigo Bunting, Catbird ,Robin, Blue-
bird, Field Sparrow, House Wren, etc.
I have seen young Indigo Buntings in
early September that could hardly fly
and some only two-thirds fledged.
The ubiquitous Sparrow is a brave
and fearless bird, even if he is some-
what of a nuisance. During my col-
lecting experience I have found them
nesting in many strange and curious
places, but the strangest place, and
one nobody would have believed they
would select is beneath railroad
bridges of the P. R. R., the New York
division. I have found many of their
nests containing eggs and young. As
Many as sixty and more trains pass
daily over this road and you would
think that the noisy train as it rushes
past would frighten the bird, but it
doesn’t one mite. They sit composed-
ly on their eggs throughout incuba-
tion and do not seem to mind the noise
in the least. With all the jarring the
eges receive it is a wonder that they
hatch. Beneath other railroad and
wagon bridges I have found Phoebe’s
and Robin’s nests containing eggs.
Have never seen a Robin remain on
the nest when a train passed ,but un-
doubtedly do at night.
Mr. Gibbs, in the article, mentioned
above, speaks of birds dropping their
23(2) \ \ADG 39
eggs in other bird’s nests, etc. On
May 12, 1897 I found a Ubiquitous Do-
mesticus egg in a crack in a willow
branch. On the under side of the
braneh in a Downy Woodpecker’s cay-
ity was a half-built Sparrow’s nest. On
May 20, 1899, at Bustleton, picked up
a large Red-winged Blackbird’s egg
in a field. A search failed to reveal
any nest, so I concluded it was drop-
ped by the bird. At Pensauken,
Camden county, N. J., on May 25, 1902,
collected a fine set of two fresh eggs
of the Dove (zenaidura macroura)
from a Robin’s nest, which was placed
fifteen feet up in a maple tree. The
Dove flushed from the nest. She
probably constructed a nest but before
she could use it, by some accident it
was destroyed and she was forced to
lay in the Robin’s nest.
RICHARD F. MILLER,
Philadelphia, Pa.
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Solitary Sandpiper Breeding in Penn-
sylvania.
In August of the present year it has
been my good fortune to discover
that the Solitary Sandpiper breeds be-
yond a doubt in Pike county, Pa.
In one of my walks along a charac-
teristic mountain stream of this vicin-
ity I suddenly came upon an adult
Solitary Sandpiper. Following it up
the stream about twenty yards I ob-
served another adult and a young
bird. This was in an immature plum-
age. While it had some use of its
wings, yet on chasing it a little while
I soon caught it, and am sure it had
not been out of the nest but a short
time. The next day two more imma-
ture birds were seen.
My first thought was that they were
early migrants, but upon a second
thought I saw that it was clearly im-
possible for these young birds to
travel any considerable distance.
Of course this is unusually late nest-
40 THE OOLOGIST.
ing but my theory is that the first set
of eggs had been destroyed in some
manner and that these birds were the
result of a second effort.
Is it not uncommon for this bird
to be found nesting this far south?
RICHARD C. HARLOW.
Are you sure these were not the
Spotted Sandpiper? They were a late
brood in either case.—Kd.
Snowy Owls in November.
In the Oologist for January, Mr.
George L. Fordyce of Youngstown, O.,
relates the taking of a Snowy Owl
near Canfield, Ohio, on November 23,
last, by a farmer; and in commenting
upon it suggests that it is quite un-
usual for a Snowy Owl to be found
as far south so early in the winter, in-
asmuch as this bird is supposed to
come into the United States during
severe winter weather, or on account
of unfavorable food conditions in its
northern home.
That Mr. Fordyce is quite wrong in
his supposition, and that November is
the very month in which the Snowy
Owl is most often taken throughout
the northern states will be borne out,
I believe, by the testimony of any of
our ornithologists or collectors. wro
have had experience with this bird.
Being a bird in the colder regions
of the north,—a lover of ice and snow
—the supposition might be natural
that this owl would only condescend
to visit us during severe winter
weather, and there seems to be a gen-
erally accepted theory to this effect.
But theory and practice quite often
fail to agree.
In the New England states, where
the Snowy Owl is a more frequent
visitor, it is more often observed in
the late fall and early winter than la-
ter on. I recall some years ago being
in Worcester, Mass., on business in
the month of November, and having
a little time at my disposal, called up-
on Mr. Charles K. Reed, the widely-
taxidermist. He showed me
other things, a fine Snowy
Owl in the meat, which had just been
brought in. Upon asking him if he
did not get hold of as many of these
owls in November as at any time,
he stated that November was pre-
eminently the time for them,—that
more came to him in that month than
in all of the winter months combined.
Here in Southern Indiana, in a lat
itude which is less than 39 degrees, we
can hardly expect any visits from
the Snowy Owl, but back in New York
state, where I formerly resided (in
the same county in which the Oologist
is published) we were some times
favored with visits from this pretty
owl, and when we were, is was most
often in November or December.
Referring back today, to notes
which I made eight years ago on the
birds of Western New York, I find
that I have the following annotation
under the Snowy Owl.
“A not uncommon visitant. A bird
of the ice and snow of the far north,
a few individuals straying southward
to the Northern United States in late
fall and winter. Plentiful some win-
ters, and not observed at all, others.
Irregular. While it may be met with
any late fall or winter month, here No-
vember and December seem to be
the monthsof its. most frequent oc-
currences, particularly the former.”
Such seem to have been my im-
pressions at the time, and were I liy-
ing back along old Lake Ontario to-
day, and were I desirous of procuring
one of these beautiful white owls for
my collection, I should certainly look
for it with the largest measure of
hope in the month of November.
The taking of the Snowy Owl at
Canfield ,Ohio, on November 22nd,
seems quite regularly in line with the
usual habits of the bird, as observed
and read about by
Yours very truly,
CORNELIUS F. POSSON.
known
among
THE OOLOGIST. 41
About Those Red-tails.
Philo, Il., Jan. 28, 1906.
My dear Mr. Short:—
My experience with the Red-tailed
Hawk in Illinois has been so like that
o fGeorge L. Fordyce of Youngstown,
Ohio, that I should like to know more
about the set of five eggs found by
Mr. W. K. Hatler. The date in
May is possible if the the earlier nests
of the Red-tail has been disturbed, as
this bird is very persistent. My ex-
perience, however, has been thatsecond
and third sets of a season are invaria-
bly smaller with all birds, (if the same
number of eggs has not been deposit-
ed) never a larger number. With sev-
eral years notes on the Red-tail for
reference, I find the following facts.
Personally I have never looked into
a Red-tailed Hawk’s nest that con-
tained more than two eggs. My last
season’s list was seven sets of two. In
each case the Hawks rebuilt and de-
posited two eggs, which they hatched.
One exception, however, Hhecause of
the beautiful markings of the first
and second sets from one female, I
will. confess that she had to lay a
- third set, before I allowed her to
hatch her brood.
By May 20 she was faithfully incu-
bating her third set of two eggs and
the lusty young pair are probably as
happy as though they had been hatch-
ed in March. At any rate I did not
reduce the supply of Red-tails, for
only one brood is reared each season
under any circumstances.
Although my luck has never extend-
ed beyond sets of twos, Dr. Jesse has
collected at least three sets of three
each, in the same vicinity. Also, I
had the pleasure of seeing (and a
great temptation to steal) a fine set
of four eggs all beautifully marked.
They were collected by S. S. Stansell
in March, 1905, in Putnam county, Illi-
nois. along the Illinois River. I re-
gard sets of three Red-tailed Hawks
as rare, sets of four very rare and
sets of five so extremely rare that
if they were taken in May, I am
afraid they might turn out eggs of
the Red-shouldered Hawk.
ISAAC E. HESS.
Owing to the interest excited by
these Red-tail records, I reprint the
following from Sept., 1904, Oologist,
and would say that I would not hesi-
tate to guarantee this set of five eggs.
I have full faith in Mr. Price’s state-
ments and had the set in my pos-
session a fortnight.
The eggs were a plain colored, full
sized type of Red-tail and uniform
as to general shape.
I hope to give more on the sub-
ject later.
EK. H. SHORT.
Five Eggs of Red-tail.
An unusual set of five eggs of Red-
tail Hawk, taken in Kankakee county,
Ill., Apr. 12, 1904, by E. A. Price. Mr.
Price says:
“This wood was examined on April
2d, except a small portion and I was
within 100 yards of this nest at that
time but I first saw it from another
grove on the opposite side, one-half
mile away, on April 12th. Had I found
it on the 2nd, it would probably have
contained 2 or 3 fresh eggs as the
set had been incubated about one
week on the 12th. And yet some peo-
ple don’t believe in luck.”
We took photo of this set through
kindness ot Mr. Price, but owing to
an unfortunate selection of back-
ground, the photo would not make a
half-tone.
We specially regret this as one egg
was cracked in transit back to Mr.
Price’s Collection, an accident we
greatly regret though he kindly re-
frains from a very hard kick.—Editor.
49 THE OOLOGIST.
Philo, Ill., Jan. 28, 1906.
My Dear Mr. Short:—
Your recent notes and Mr. Dietrich’s
find of the double nest of the Black-
throated Blue Warbler has called te
mind one of my interesting experiences
in nest study. For many years I have
been particularly interested in the
nesting habits of the Dickcissel (Spiza
americana).
not be an over-statement to say that
I had examined over a thousand nests
of little Dick in the last ten years.
Probably (because of his numbers and
the comparative ease with which his
nest is found) I have given him more
attention than any other of our IIli-
jnois birds. But with all of his ec-
centricities, I have never known him
“to depart from his regular habits and
construct a double nest, but once. I
regarded the find so rare that I walked
home, a distance of two miles, and
returned with my camera to record
it ‘in situ.”” The double-nest was two
feet above the ground in a thistle, a
very common situation for the second
nesting of this bird in early July. Four
eggs were in the nest when I flushed
the female and examination revealed
another complete nest below, which
also contained a fresh set of four
eggs. I have never been able to satis-
fy myself as to the cause for the de-
sertion ofthe lower nest as no reason
was evident to me. It did not show
‘Signs of being disturbed and contained
no egg of the Cow-bird, which is the
eause of the double nests of the Yel-
low Warbler. Indeed, it is seldom
that I have found the Dickcissel im-
posed upon by the Cowbird and never
have I found this parasite’s egg pres-
ent when the thistle site was chosen.
Perhaps Mrs. Cowbird has an_ un-
wholesome regard for the _ prickly
branches of this extensively used
Dickcissel retreat.
Has the editor of the Oologist a
theory that might explain the motive
I am sure that it would
for this strange departure in Dick-
cissel architecture? I am _ sending
you a photo of the two-story home.
Yours very. truly,
ISAAC E. HESS.
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Editorial.
Mr. Leiblesperger of Fleetwood, Pa.,
reports a nest of Baltimore Oriole oc-
cupied immediately after construction
by a House Wren ,who drove Madame
Oriole away and built her own nest
within. He reports sets of 3 Mourn-
ing Dove, (the Editor’s third record),
5 of Wood Thrush and 9 of Crested
Flycatcher.
We note from other sources that
Rev. Peabody, of ornithological fame,
is preparing an exhaustive work on
Nesting Habits of North American
Birds. It’s sure to be good.
Rey. E. C. Mitchell of St. Paul, has
donated his superb collection of In-
dian relics and coins to the Minnesota
Historical Society. We note that they
are duly grateful. Who wouldn’t be?
Our attention has been called dur-
ing the past few months to the death
of two taxidermists, frone what was
Said to be arsenical poisoning. Mr. G.
F. Breninger of Phoenix, Ariz, once
prominent as a California bird man,
and Louis F. Senso, of Laporte, Ind.,
an ambitious young naturalist. There
seems to be a great difference in the
susceptibility of people to this drug,
but perhaps the use of the dry pow-
dered arsenic is not advisable in any
ease. Always be careful about cuts
and sores and keep your finger nails
cleaned out.
VOY
We note the A. S. of C. C. is issu-
ing their Bulletin as a monthly in-
stead of irregularly, as before. Suc-
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In the last issue of Condor, Mr. Nel-
son Carpenter mentions a runt Hum-
mingbird egg of infinitesimal size. We
have seen a runt Canary’s egg of ap-
proximately same dimensions and
think it still in existence.
From current issue “Am. Ornithol-
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Circular of Inquiry with reference
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Mar. 5, 1906.
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for so many of these notes on entire-
ly insufficient ground have appeared
during the last thirty years or so of
published ornithological observations
that I have come to smile rather than
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from Iowa, Gray Sea EHagle’s eggs
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world moved on just as if Joshua had
not told the sun to stand still.
It still remains a fact that the Sol-
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Lewiston, Mont.
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EDITORIAL.
From editorial columns of “Bird
Lore,” May-June, 1906, F. M. Chap-
man, Editor:
“No bird-protective law should be
without a provision providing for the
eranting of permits to collect birds
for scientific purposes; and, be it
said to the credit of the Audubon So-
cieties, they have invariably advocat-
ed the inclusion of such a provision
when urging the passage of bird-pro-
tective measures
“These permits are usually issued
by the State Game Commission, and
the present tendency is not only to
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ber issued.
“The conditions under which a per-
mit may be secured may well be de-
termined by those who give it; but
we believe it to be unwise to so re-
strict the number of permits in force
that deserving applicants are denied
the privilege of securing specimens
legally.
With purposeless collecting we are
but in this country,
at least, truly scientific collecting
for a definite purpose has never, to
our knowledge, perceptibly diminish-
ed the numbers of any species of
bird, and it seems a poor policy to
turn a reputable ornithologist into
a law-breaker or law-hater by refus-
ing to accord him permission to pur-
sue his studies within the limits of
the law.”
This tendency Mr. Chapman refers
to was carried to an extreme in Cali-
fornia last year and the New York
State Commission is pursuing the
same policy this year, if our infor-
mation is correct.
We would join with “Bird Lore’
in protesting against the refusal of
permits to those who have used them
within the limits of the law and
whose researches have yearly added
original information of value to our
sum total of knowledge in regard to
our birds.
The editor of “The Oologist” has
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work in the most inaccessible loca-
tion, where none but the most enthus-
iastic bird lover, with a devotion to
his work that made the hardest of
work under manifold difficulties a
pleasure, would go; has placed the
breeding range of one of our warblers
many miles north of its recorded lim-
its, and that of another warbler as
much further south, and whose knowl-
edge so obtained has been sought by
the author of one of our coming bird
books as of admitted scientific value,
yet I understand that both of these
parties have been refused certificates
this year on the ground that the
State gained nothing by their work.
We know of two cats harbored in
our near vicinity which destroy four
times as many birds every year as
these two ornithologists did in- pur-
suing their studies last year; and
make practically no return for the
damage done, and these two cats are
only one hundredth of the cats in
this township alone engaged to a
greater or less extent in this slaugh-
ter.
All honor to the Audubon societies
for the good they have done. But
when the laws enacted to forward
their work are so interpreted that
those who are above all others best
situated to cooperate in securing an
effective enforcement, become law-
haters, if not, as Mr. Chapman sug-
gests, actual law-breakers, we think
the effectiveness if not the actual con-
tinuance of the law is threatened, for,
the effectiveness is not the actual con-
in no country is the eternal fitness of
things so recognized by the masses
as in this United States of America.
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The Quail Trap, June 7.—Northern
birds “en tour’ in southern Connect
cut returned at the usual time te
their summer homes, in spite of the
long lingering winter weather. Pine
grosbeaks in changing plumage went
first, followed by tree sparrows, whe
outnumbered all the other winter vis-
itors. Snow birds were the last te
go, many thcusand juncos from points
further south going through here as
late as April 21. Bluejays were never
so common before in the cold months
and not a family in the neighborhood
but had a dozen or more showy jays
at the daily backdoor “handout.”
The covey of seven quail on our
farm were seen by several people in
February and March. We saw their
tracks in the late snows many times,
and June 1 the males began calling
near the bungalow. A bunch of 9
quail wintered at Fairview reservoir,
and Mr. Al. Lillibridge heard these
bobwhites whistle for the first time
cn the first day of June. Mr. L. E.
Rawson saw four females at once in
our woods last week, headed by old
Red Ruff himself, puffed up in angry
expostulation. In the spring Red
Ruff often disdains fight at’ a mere
human, and on this interruption with
his monstrous black eollar stiffly
136
erect, he stalked away after his fly-
ing harem as independent and fear-
less as a barnyard chanticleer. We
dave seen pheasants again in Thomp-
son’s woods. Woodcock returned Mar.
1 in fewer numbers than usual, and
Wilson’s snipe tarry but a day or
two in our meadows.
All the black-coated gentry—grack-
les, cowbirds and redwings—with
pheebes, robins, sparrows and_blue-
birds were here March 15; but it was
a long and lonesome month and a
half before the regular summer resi-
dents appeared. During the fierce
snowstcrm of April 15 I was afield
looking up these early arrivals shel-
tered in queer nooks and _ corners.
Thrashers and barn swallows did not
come till May-day. For many years
oricles have come back May 6 and 7
—never later than the 8th; but on
this backward season orioles, bobo-
links, tanagers, grosbeaks and repub-
lican (Cliff) swallows were ten days
late, in both counties. Hummers and
whip-porwills alone were on time. As
usual cuckoos and nighthawks were
the last to arrive. The stake-drivers
and marsh-hawks have not put in an
appearance in the meadow this year.
The unerring barndoor record from
Selectman Lillibridge has not yet
eome to hand for comparisons with
“Quaal Trap dates.”
Mr. Lillibridge picked up two tana-
gers killed by the extreme cold, and I
found and restored a chilled tanager
in the odd yearling half-dress. A sec-
ond visit to an incomplete clutch of
ruffed grouse showed that it had been
raided by foxes who had a burrow
near the nest. The robin that has
bred for three years in the punky hol-
low of our cld ash tree had three eggs
April 20, but the next morning a fe-
male sharp-shin tock off her head:
but the accipiter got entangled in wire
fencing and was in turn decapitated.
THE OOLOGIST.
A partridge with tiny chicks came
charging at my feet with dragging
wings and drove me out of the woods.
Crows took the eggs from the Bog-
gy Meadow marsh harrier the third
week in May, and I have noted crows
egging many times during the past
two weeks. At 4 a. m., before farm-
ers are out of doors, crows rob all the
robins’ nests they can find around the
nouses and orchards.
pretection there are still eight unhar-
ried rebins’ nests with eggs and
young on the Lillibridge place, but
the crows have left but three nests
untouched at our cottage. These
thieving corbies on June 5th dug out
two full sets of bay-winged bunting,
vesper sparrow; which I had been
trying to protect near the bungalow.
There were a dozen Humming
birds on a cold May merning with the
rmereury at 385 frolicking and mating
on a patch of flowering currant in a
neighbor’s yard. For an hour I
watched the vivid males and three
females woo, fight and feed. It was
an unusual sight to see six or seven
ruby throats at one time perched
among the yellcw bloom and when
the whole bunch were a-wing pur-
suing each other in anger and play
it was a maze of whirring wings, ex-
panded tails and amatory flashing of
gilded backs and blazing gorgets. In
the decrease of useful birds it is good
to note the general increase of bobo-
links. The farmers’ name of “skunk
blackbird,’ obtains here;
well kncewn is the southern darkey’s
sobriquet of “wild mares’ so cGall- —
ed from the supposed resemblance in
the ncte to the whinnying of a horse.
Mr. Richards has taken several sets
of buteos eggs in the town of Nor-
wich this seascn, and with great
nerve he went a second time to the
tree from which he had a frightful
fall and secured the set of barred
Under semi-
but not so’
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THE OOLOGIST. 24 ),'%#7 137
owls’ eggs. As late as June 6 I climb-
ed to a perfectly fresh set of red-
shouldered hawk in our woods. To
further emphasize the unusual late-
hess of the season I may add that pur-
ple cypripedium had not opened here
June 5, yellow whippoorwills’ shoes
were not budded, and white haw-
thorne only just coming into bloom.
But the painted ladies in the west
meadow were boldly flaunting their
freshly applied rouge.
I found a set of Bartram’s plover
at Lanman’s chair when a small lad.
I can remember surprising a gang of
little boys blowing with pins a set of
fourteen sora rails’ eggs which they
had taken from the summer reeds of
Rockwell's skating pond, while look-
ing for redwings’ nests. Good climb-
ing boys used to shin up the tall ev-
ergreens on the Slater property and
bring down hats full of grackles’
eggs, excusing the theft on the round
that “crow blackbirds sucked robins’
eges!”
In some old collection in town are
still shown faded end-blown eggs of
erested flycatcher, nuthatch, wood pe-
wee and titmouse from the Acaademy
lot, oven bird from General Ely’s
place, whippoorwill from Senator
Foster’s orchard, oriole from Bliss
place, quail, grouse, Woodcock and
mourning dove from the present golf
links, chats, Maryland yellowthroats
larks, bobolinks, prairie and chest-
nut-sided warbler, and white-eyed
vireos from the Cobb lot, with ruby-
throats, rose-breasts, cuckoos, red-
starts, warbling and yellow-throated
greenlets from Backus hospital and
adjoining estates.
Every boy was a self styled oolo-
gist in those olden days—“ool. crnith-
oletcoll’”—but in these days of school
bird-talks and Arbor day bird walks,
egg-collectors are few and far _ be-
tween. Let no timber be cut, and all
brush be allowed to grow, and with
preper protection in our new park,
Rockwell’s woods will continue to be
as of old the special haunts and fay-
orite breeding grounds for the big
raptores and every kind of song and
insectivorous bird found in southern
New England.
C. L. Rawson.
Norwich, Conn. “Bulletin.”
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first brood, built again and rearc|
brood of three. Circleville, whicr
lies in about the centre of Ohio is. *
think, rather far north for these bird >
to breed. I took a set of three
Black Rail this year, but I will repci ‘
this find in a later letter.
Respectfully Yours,
B. R. Bales,
140 ya
fiditer “Oclogist.”
Dear Sir:—Let me tell you my ex-
berience with the Black and White
Waerb er for the first time in my life.
Cn the 30th day of June, 1907, while
my litile girl, Hazel Hldridge, and I,
were climbing the ledge to go straw-
berrying, we discovered a little nest
wite 4 well incubated eggs and one
very freshly laid egg. about one-half
the size of the others, but of the same
tyre. “he nest was placed in a damp
crevice at the bottom of a ledge 4 feet
high, but half way up the larger ledge.
We did act touch the nest or eggs un-
til evr return from the strawberry
ficld. V men we returned we saw the
Black cad White Warbler sitting on
her 1 Had I only a camera to take
a vact®zraph of it I would have given
a grcet deal. The nest was by no
i eans a hard one to find, but the eggs
cost me three hours of my sleep, hav-
ing firished blowing them at 1:15
ocleci: in the morning. Took a set of
i nice 2g23 and the best made nest I
of the Black-billed Cuckoo,
Both sets went in my
Ever Saw
cre 2eur later.
EDWARD S. COOMBS.
Cis ext.—This was unusually late
for iic bird to be incubating. I have
~er feeding young on June 12th.
adventitious eggs, often of
Sra size and usually infertile are
euits citex found near the nest of in-
cubatiz 2 sirds —ED.
Se eee
Ms, EE . Short,
ClO NE
)
IDeReRe Sh
In The March Ooologist Mr. Wm
S. Pit:airn says “In my locality there
wes o marked increase in numbers
cf t2- Baltimore Oriole (icterus gal-
ue ila)” This is just the opposite in
SCRLILV. They have been growing
iss er cach year; and last year I only
saw 4 all summer, on the other hand
the Blue Jay (byanacitta cristata)
THE OOLOGIST.
were more numerous in 1906; one
pair breeding in a cherry tree in the
garden, they are also more numerous
this spring. Some of the migrants
such as pine warbler (D_ endroica
vigorsii) and pine siskin (spnius pin-
us) were very numerous, appearing
in flocks of from 5 to 50 about the
porch eating berries on the honey-
suckle vine. On February 11 I also
saw a flock of 6 red polls (acanthus
linoria) in a pine tree eating the lit-
tle buds from the twigs.
Very truly,
P. G. Howes, Stamford, Conn.
NS eee
Toledo, Apr. 2, 1907.
Mr. Ernest H. Short,
Dear Sir:—
I wish to bring to your notice the
observation of the Passenger Pigeon
here on Apr. 1, 1907. I watched the
two Passenger Pigeons for over half
an hour. I was hidden behand some
bushes not over 100: feet away and
saw them clearly through my field
glass. They were larger than mourn-
ing doves and longer tails, darker
heads and rusty-brown breasts. I al-
so saw several Mourning Doves while
watching them and thus they afford-
ed good objects for comparison, and
hence I think that I could not have
been mistaken.
Yours respectfully,
A. C. Read.
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within 60 days. All differing in minor
particulars but based on the old prin-
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which was not perfect. j
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contingencies of field work is unatain-
able at a reasonable price. [Ed.]
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With nest 1-2 exch! Wea. = eee 2 25
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2male Rufus Hummingbirds, each...... 1 25
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2: ORES co ss endanalotaahnretehaceasce eee eae 1 90
7 male Cal. Purple Finches, each opie satus
1 male Cedar Waxwing..................:+ 1 00
1 female Cal. Towhee ..................-.- 1 25
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SKINS.
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3 male Black-headed Grosbeak, each..... 40
2 Townsend’s Fox Sparrow, each......... 40
10 male and female Guatamala Hum-
mingbinds each? .c.) aaa eee ee 1 25
1 male Anna Hummingbird............... 65
3 male Calliope Hummingbird, each..... 75
1 male Allen’s Hummingbird............. 7
lmale Rufus Hummingbird .............. 75
2 male Icterus Pustulatus Mex.,each.... 65
2male Nanno chilus ], pacificus Mex.,
CAC ili, gare Nae hick es ae ear Ee 65
2 male Brachyspizac peruviensis C. A
CACH iva seer pareor at afa, aed ha eta erate eee 65
1 female Melozone Biarcuatum Cen
ASM OT 535% Sauls seeastoeie Set oat eee vere 65
1 male Amophila acuminata Mex......... 68
1 female Heleodytes, humiles, Mex....... 65
1 male Vireo sylvia flavovirides Mex.. 75
1 fee Ptalogomys C. ,molybdophanes
MO@xied . eee cen pets near EE eeee
1 male Cissilopha melanocyanea, C. A... 75
1 Botaurias pacciloptilius, Aust.......... 1 00
1 male Larus Dominicamis. Aust........ 1 00
leach male and female Willow Ptarmigan
Alaska each) oki aii. sah elements i
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I MacdwoNeS. Walesnt x cc. ceeeremen eee 2 50
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Allen’s Hummingbird, each ............
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Din Soe Se ihe en ees 1 00
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mingbird} each séts!o.sk. SSR ae ee 90
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each ot) ), Out g 1a ee ae ee een
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BRIEF NOTES ON THE SWAMP
SPARROW.
By Richard F. Miller.
The interesting notes of Thomas
Semmes, Jr., in the September Oolo-
gist regarding the Swamp Sparrow
ito the advanced oologist’
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attracted my attention, inaSmuch as'
.1 am collecting data pertaining to the
nidification and other habits of this
species, having made it a subject for
monographie study. His statement
of nests being lined with horse-
hair causes me to ask whether
he is positive such nests were not
the Song Sparrow and the Swamp
living species? The nests of both
these species of Melospiza are great-
ly similiar in constructive and com-
position but I have yet to’see a nest
of Swamp Sparrow lined with ‘hair or
any other sort of material ‘save grass
and I have found and have discrip-
tions in my note books of several
hundred nests. The eggs of both
‘species are often alike and the nov-
ice -is apt to confuse them, though
there is
different in shell texture, the shell
of the Swamp Sparrow being thin
and brittle.
Mr. Semmes, Jr., says he never
found a set of six eggs. I have never
heard of this species laying more
than five eggs. Has anybody col-
‘lected sets of six laid by the same
bird? I would be very glad to hear
of such sets. Some authorities credit
the Swamp Sparrow as laying three
or four eggs only. However sets of
five are not common I may say that
this number of eggs is found but
once cut of every ten or twelve sets
I have found. Four is the uniform
number of eggs laid, very seldom less.
Concerning Mr. Semmes’ re-
marks about the destruction of many
of their eggs and nests, which he
thinks would cause a decrease in the
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bird’s number annually. At a locali-
ty north of the city of Philadelphia
during the past four years I have
robbed the Swamp Sparow heavily,
collecting all the nests with sets in
them I could find (and I don’t exag-
gerate when I say I know how to
and do find them,) and can positively
say that this wholesale (7?) robbery
has not caused a decrease in the
birds numbers. Quite the contrary,
and the cause is obvious when I
mention that I have never molested
a second nest, which they build af-
ter the destruction or taking of their
first. Rob the birds of their first
and subsequent broods and in a year
or two will be seen a noticeable de-
crease in their numbers.
The Swamp Sparrow must nest
latter in Chesterfield, Va., than in the
vicinity of Philadelphia, for fresh
sets after June 5 here are quite dif
ficult to find, referring of course to
the first sets.
In conclusion to these brief remarks
I would say that I should be very
glad to receive any information sent
to me or contributed to the Oologist
regarding the nidification and other
habits of the Swamp Sparrow, such
material of any valuable will be us-
ed by me in my contemplated paper
on the monograph of the Swamp
Sparrow and due credit given to all
whose data I may use.
October 25, 1906.
TT OS
BEFRIEND SWALLOW;
KILL THE SPARROW.
This is the Only Salvation of the
United States Cotton Crop.
Washington, May 13.—The govern-
ment is asking people all over the
country to make war on the English
Sparrow and to put up bird houses
and bore holes under the eaves of
the barns to encourage the swallow.
This measure is made imperative
in order that the cotton industry of
the United States may not be destroy-
ed.
All insect-eating birds are of im-
mense value to the farmer and the
forester, but it has been discovered
by the government bug experts that
there is no bird equal to the swallow.
Particularly is this true in the mat-
ter of the insect which is destroying
the cotton plantations of the south.
The boll weevil, despite every ef-
fort to stay its march, is spreading
at the rate of about 50 miles a year
and sooner or later it is said that it
is certain to infest the entire cotton.
producing area—a fact which not
only seriously concerns the southern
planter, but in its ultimate conse-
quences affects the well being of the
whole country.
The aid cf the north is required,
as most of the swallows spend part
of the season in the northern states
and in many cases do their nesting
there. The bird is disappearing,
however, because the English spar-
row harries him and kills his young
by the thousands.
Various methods of exterminating
the English sparrow are recommend-
ed by the department. Most of them
consist in the use of poisoned grain.
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