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THE OOLOGIST 


for the 


STUDENT 
OF BIRDS 


THEIR NESTS AND EGGS 


VOLUME XXXIX 


ALBION, N. Y. and LACON, ILL. 
R. MAGOON BARNES, Publisher 


1922 


of Comp .eSs 
cP aosie ay ay 
JUN 8.1948 


LIBRARY 


L403 Y- 


ILLUSTRATIONS 


NEST AND EGGS 


Sharp-shinned Hawk .......... 1) 
Coomer’s Isles ccoccnsguncnb0s alt 
American Goshawk ........... 26 
Broad-winged Hawk .......... 3 
Avocet and Nest and Eggs..... pl 
ATMerIC@AIN COO’ csooscoscceouccud G 
Great Blue Heron.............. 77 
Mountain Quail ............%.. ~ 94 
Sooty Grouse .......... ey epedene eke 95 
Farallone Cormorant ........ 129 
Cimmamone yeas 2.6 Sake oc ae wes Oe 
Cyanocitta Stelleri stelleri .... 160 
Western Marsh Wren ......... aT 
EGGS 
Set of Raptores eggs.......... 84 
PORTRAITS 
A. D. Henderson .............. 46 
Veil VOTINCTS (os citae  sccecalens coins SII-5 
WR HE OWerRner ss... 0602200 SII-72, 21 
Audobon Society at the Home 
Oit dio do ANWGONOIN Soscccuuus $11-24 
LANDSCAPES 


Typical Scene on Malheur Lake, 


ORSON schodsnnsoee ee eee 133 
Reger Museum, Morristown, Pa. 
SII-22 
Home of J. J. Audobon, Norris- 
GOs man Pee aati Cae, Sup ce og SII-23 
Exhibit of Bird Houses, Contest, 
Reger Museum ............ SII-25 


Home of A. J. Prill, Scio, Ore... 161 


BIRDS 
Pelican and Gull Colony........ 6 
Three Young Pelican, Nest and 
DEA EAS eee esl nets pLeea cal to a aceen meno eee 7 
A Young Half-grown Pelican... 34 
Pelican Colony with Gulls and 
Farallone Cormorant ....... 35 
Whooping Crane in Confine- 
TUNED oer es Acces cenonenedeie lan ees se 58, 59 
Archaeopteryx macrura ....... 69 
Little Blue Penguin ........... 103 
Pair of Adult Little Penguin on 
ING Sib Sick Teh eek cimich satan cee chase 106 
SmOwaye OWA seh oo usnctess eee ateesesnes 118 
Partial View of Kunstman- 
Werner Exhibit at Philadel- 
DEG a A TSH Glee sac enter nee a ea S1-9 
Bald Eagle Group; Parents, 
Nest and Young............ SIi-it 
Black Vuiture Group ........ SII-13 
Swallow-tailed Kite Group....SII-15 
Band-tailed Hawk Group ..... SII-17 
Whistling Swan, Nesting Group 
SII-19 


Robin Snowball, an Albino, Dec. 167 
Robin Snowball and His Nurse 169 


Dr. S. W. Williston’s Restora- 
tion of Cretaceous Sea...... 179 
Skeleton of Hesperornis regalis 180 
Restoration of Skeleton of Ich- 
(anyones, CUISOBIE cacacnsoc0ac0es 181 


CONTRIBUTORS 


Abbott, G. A. 
As the Calendar Changes ...... 3 
AN, OG NGSNR G5 ies eee rene 24 
“Faithful Unto Death’ ........ 2 
DIS CHOSUMT C'S e cst tiadeteual eis, 2 aie eens ov 114 
The August Robin ............ 114 


What Changes Will Do for a 
Naturalist 


Alexander, G. 


Miscellaneous Notes .......... 13 
Black, J. D. 

INOAMSAS IBIS Gcoooccoccupe oe in 

The Fall Migration of 1920..... 157 
Brooks, C. M. 


A Night Heron Rookery ...... 8 


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THE OOLOGIST 


Blincoe, B. J. 


The Red-tailed Hawk .......... 116 

Bloucher, A. 
1B SHORWEKONY oooccecou0e0500K00 3 
Birds in Northern Illinois ...... 90 
Rough-wing Swallows ......... 107 
IAS SUSZEStION. Kia See oa ances 108 

Barlow, G. R. 

Albino Kingbird’s Hggs ........ 46 

Bailey, H. H. 

An Addition to A. O. U. List..... 91 
Mba, Olt BRIS. soccocaccv0og000 157 
@WilseHlOO Cie eos cleiere a sees Sheree 164 

Baynard, O. EH. 

Old Timers Attention .......... 2 

Boulton, R. 

Camp In a Coal Mine .......... 70 


Barnes, R. M. 


Mould and Bacteria on Eggs 


Collections#-peeeeee ooo 10 
Nee NIRS DOVE \iginalarceatatone mectereneiey Sioa Gee 14 
NIG Seucecwtn sian cus elas eespnis Meno renaere 18 
4WMn® IPemeolwloyn cosocoacncc0a9000 23 
A GoodeeBhine 42 cscems evecare 24 
OUARICHES! ain chos Ses cle sees 2Y 
Stilts Ws ae ores iw eeeeseicurtnene 29 
The New Catalog........ 30, 42, 112 
Would You Like To Go ....... 38 
“The: MuUnrelet?. aioe d eos ee wien 42 
Books Received ....43, 138, 166, 174 
An (Old! Rimmer e202 & age acue es ctame c 47 
WiYo IMS INC AOISGN sooosccc0g0006 50 
INO EITC ete ee reer Ie nines 81 
AA COLTECtHONE see oe oe 28 
A Wanderling Oologist ........ 48 
A Welcome Visitor ............ 89 
More Dope on Brown Thrasher. 97 
Old Prices and New........... 97 
JAS SUSLESHOM) Sloce so aieleaee es 104 
MOOK AO Mba ee ate arin oe cdeene ny enetors 13: 
Owslaye WO 1S IEE. sooocconone$ 132 
{YAVAri(6 Kev olyh Of sae hon Re ABRERERE era @crcRemONaee sc 136 
| DEC ROD Pesca Me cncne ee Re es elke BIStae 136 
Complete Files ............... 137 
HX CHANEESS Gatioe seienescsine akon 155 
SS ANGER DCC eats a cantante momen Se 166 
The History of Robin Snowball, 

ain AUDoM@, IDG, soccacoccoace 168 
A Good Appointment .......... 173 
Albino Bluebird .............. 173 
An Albino Passer Domesticans. 178 

Bowles, J. H. 
New Price List Value ......... 137 


Bingham, H. P. 


List of Sets with Cowbird Eggs, 
Nov. 


Cole, J. L. 


The Barn Owl in Central Iowa.. 
The Magpie in Story Co., Iowa. 
A Field of Dickcissels......... 


Many Slate-colored Juncoes 
d SGU REY; Raat Rene Sore Al atthe Ws 
Case, C. M. 
Bird Notes from Hartford Conn. 
Dean, A. W. 


Another Collector Reports 
Du Bois, A. D. 


Ground Nesting of Brown 
TPHTaAShehy ses a ae eee 
Cowbird and Yellow-throat .... 
Dear, L. S. 
Marsh Hawks, Nov. ........... 
Danforth, S. T. 
Some Impressions of Porto 


IRAN IEHORCL ILE) gosccccesces 
North American Migrants Seen 
During a Winter in Porto 
RUCO? aessha he RR eee 


Davis, W. B. 


OuttoreltssRances eee 
A Day With the Birds 


Donahue, R. B. 


Leaves From My Note Book ... 
The Snowy Egret Obesrved in 
Kansas 


Edwards, H. A. 


Some Notes on the Light-footed 
13062 1 DA eeeee Bene cometer Mane tne a amen ene Rei 


Fitzpatrick, M. F. L. 
The Flicker and Titmouse .... 


Fuller, R. 
Nesting of the Acadian Owl .... 


Graham, R. 


Blue Grosbeak in Terrant Co., 

Texas 
What the Auto Kills 
EKagle and the Fox Terrier Dog. 
Note Book Notes 
Hagle Tricks 
An Haster Hgg Hunt 
Back-yard Birds 
Egg Hunting In July, 1922..... 
Texas Bird Notes, 1922........ 


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Ce Ce et et rer ry 


Ce ee D 


167 


10 


176 


14 
78 


21 


132 


60 


124 


THE OOLOGIST 


Canada Goose Migration, Nov.. 167 
Carolina Wren Building Ma- 


(E@IPIEW |) Sco aesanot AiGnd CeCe RIG heen noncear ores 175 
Graham, Mrs. R. 
Glossy Ibis Observed and Killed 
Fort Worth, Texas .......... 110 
A Devoted Father ............ 155 
Greenwood, O. M. 
Winter Residents ............. 22 
The Story of a Robin ........ 3 BW) 
Grasper, F.. H. 
A Traveling Wren’s Nest ...... 11 
Hatch, Delos 
DEOSMEAtCh soci ess ce he ean es 47 
Hutchinson, M. K. 
AN WSiNeGE TEMG ooscaccccucpeun0E 121 
Henderson, A. D. 
Blue Laws and Young Orni- 
PHOTO SISESH ices. okie sas oor 44 
An Eagle on the Woodpile .... 61 
Legand of the Three Crows .... 116 
Harrison, H. M. 
A Mocking Bird Talk .......... 139 
Short-billed Marsh Wren ...... 163 
Jacobs, W. F. 
My First Offense .............. 64 
Sequel to the Death of Wander- 
ing Snowy Owl ............. 118 
On the Occurrence of Snowy 
Owl in Southwestern Penn... 123 
Johnson, W. D. 
The Harliest Bird Known ...... 68 
Two Cretaceous Birds ........ 174 
Johnson, H. H. 
PAWNIEC GUC Tuereiata vires a culisce ws: Sete cena habe 104 
Jipson, N. W. 
Bird Lore and Bird Songs of the 
North American Indians ..... SI-3 
Knox Jane 
PAMIBO EE CIR Ca eines fulenes S00 ic save eh ete ae, dug ees 11 
Lamb, C. C. 
How Long Will They Last ... 
Lee, R. M. 
A California Outing ........... 53 
LESTTIUG XSI Siena OnE Sr a On a er re ne 156 


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LaParde, W. H., Jr. 
Nesting of the Swainson’s War- 
bler in Atlanta ............. 88 
Laurent, P. 
Amateur or Professional ...... 158 
Lunsford, I. C. 
Cobb’s Island Bird Life ........ 9 
Miller, R. F. 
Large Set of Birds Eggs ...... 27 
Early Nesting of the Caloptes 
auratus, lutens in Philadei- 
JO) aly sell 2 VAI see the eve eer eee ee EEG 176 
Late Nesting of the Yellow- 
billed Cuckoo, Phila., Pa. .... 176 
Mathes, K. B. 
SAG IBS tTETE ER. aot rletanoemeta eeAtteneneaesn ete 39 
Maxon, G. HE. 
“An Egg Hoarder’s Nightmare” 115 
Moffatt, E. EK. 
Evening Grosbeak ............ 93 
More, R. L. 
BIMC TR VaAV Se x5) aetecceetir Woes etoeueesrete 99 
McLeod, J. R. 
Birds in London, Ont. ......... 107 
Norman, E. S. 


Societas Pro Fauna Et Flora 
Fennica 


Nice, Margaret 
Goldfinch Building Nest in Sept. 48 


Behavior of Swinson Hawk .... 158 
Neff, J. 

Ground Nesting of the Brown 

TH RAS WCE Ayer cache ecr. 111 

Over, W. H. 

Notes From South Dakota ..... 81 
Peabody, P. B. 

Artificial Melanism ........... 47 

Millimeter Races ............. 52 


Brushland Nest Photograph of 


Pinnated Grouse ........... 57 
Haunts of the Poor-wilber ..... 73 
Comment on the Exchange 

Price List of N. A. Bird’s 

) Daf <a ntte ieurt a eaies Beta ecli 8c 98 
Suggestion for the Treatment of 

Much Incubated Eggs ....... 131 


Yellow Rail’s Eggs ............ 131 

Destruction of Lapland Long 
SUITS ae neck ec rahe ees ORR me 34 

INi@iwee Tnd@xs sos. eisus a scgee ss cctteverene ors 158 

COWS) eects otek tien aay eee 164 

Birds Among the Buttes ...... 170 

Paulson, M. C. 

List of Breeding Birds, Story 

County, Wowie secs eae a 20 


The Great Horned Owl, Story 
COUWMIAy, MOWEA cooccconccccode Ol 


The Hairy Woodpecker ....... 138 
Pember, K. A. 

Duck Hawks Hggs ............ 84 
Potter, A. J. 

The Passenger Pigeon ........ 87 
Pilquist, G. EH. 

INES INOUES acoscccvccog0cc 156 
Pidioccetis 

Altona Farm, Christmas Day, 

HRQL OW er ea sene eee tu ed icuskastct pteveuetcietemas 178 


Prill, Dr. A. G. 
Pelecanus erythrorhynchos .... 5% 
Band-tailed Pigeon 


Birds of Harney Valley and 
Lake Region, Oregon ....... 126 
Price, H. F. 
ANin@® IMS IeIWK sooccccncccce 61 
Notes on the Hungarian Part- 
TICES Aes aioe cade custeee ees aoe 154 
Reed, S. W. 
Horned Owl and _é “Red-tailed 
AVL We pa repeeciccevoney cre scroneen sass enencaete 87 
Redick, L. L. 
The Little Blue Penguin ...... LOY 
Reger, H. S. 
An Appreciation of W. H. 
WiCGINET) irene a ceecncramecicess: SIl-5 
Short, E. H. 
Salvage of Bones ya ses sees: D3 


THE OOLOGIST 


Strong, W. A. 
Bird Names 
The Geese and the Hagle ...... 96 


(COUmEIOe IBIS .o5c0cccs0cccones 110 
Wne® Cai, QUESHIOM sossccoccccs 111 
A Bird Market That is a ‘“‘Par- 
EO KS\ a) Mertens Geeta a Otaiare Blo Gtr ofa O'S 163 
Sikken, EH. A. 
Hacle DOpe® 6 oo. se sn soe eo oe 42 
Sutton, G. M. 


Speed An Asset In the Making 
of Bird Skins 


Thayer, J. EH. 
Ivory-billed Woodpecker’s Eggs 29 


Vosburgh, G. W. H. 


Tragedy; From Drift Week, 
WOT 9 nos dus Gitnco toe eat ae eR 117 
Bob Wihite snc onc one eee 139 
Marsioaiwskcs ais anes cetera 155 
Wisconsin Field Notes ........ 159 


Wilkowski, Wm. 
The Cardinal at Kalamazoo .... 18 


Wheeler, H. A. 
An Extraordinary Experience .. 


Williams, R. W. 


Birds Observed at East Leake, 
Goochland Co., Va., June, 1921 62 


Wolf, L. R., Lieut. 


139 


Summer Residents of Camp 
Meade, Maryland ........... 92 
Wood, James 
Winter Observations in Texas.. 20 


NOTH—The two supplements for 
the year 1922 are indexed in the fore- 
going index Sl- and Sl11- ete. 


THE OOLOGIST 7 


INDEX 


Auk 
IRAvorloNvIeGl 5 500m oo dos ob bom od 98 
Albinos 
IBMG: LETC 2 58 Ree cee a eecernoees ca 173 
IDOAlisin SiwewerOny osoocneoecccooc 173 
ohne IBCs’ IDES sbo65gcK00000c 46 
1X OIWEL. 3 oder skn ceoke ene eno E ee 167, 168, 16) 
Avocet 
AMERICAN) ale. Gs ee ose cn a 50, 128, 151 
TECE@TODY 5 6.6.6 declo cee ae Cee enone ec SI1-8 
AIDEIICAIN oocooocccee 5, 13, 14, 21, 128 
ILGQEE ooS ic coe ee eee 27, 91, 148 
Boboltinkwerancsasase6s. 73, 90, 130, 171 
Bobwhite ..11, 20, 64, 72, 90, 92, 139 
154, 157, 159 
Blackbird ......... 22, 23, 538, 157, SI-4 
BREWS MSweters sais iseosls sue a 57, 130, 149 
Montana Redwing ............ 171 
Redwing ..12, 20, 27, 63, 73, 90. 92, 130 
145, 149, 126 
IRISIENY. ~ od o'g 00 ce aOR ar aerate tie 12 
Yellow-headed ...... 12, 130, 131, 145 
Bluebird ....4, 13, 20, 72, 91, 92, 115 
149, 159, 178 
Chestnut-backed .............. 137 
VIO UTA ETI Wes ieee den Scie loco Hli eee are 131 
JBUNSIOBIG 6 \oto u-a.b OO eDR Rn oe eee eee SII-16 
Bunting 
MN OW es ae ee 12, 28, 63, 73, 159 
ILBITORS. ig ig Biocon ea a ne 180 
IPERUAUOG "4 acco Cena eee 25, 109 
SOWA eri ae Slane 13, 29 
Buzzard 
ABUSE CENY = ater a ZO, CA, G2, Sez 
Catbird ....12, 20, 28, 64, 73, 90, 92, 150 
159, 170 


Cardinal ....3, 12, 18, 20, 22, 25, 28, 63 
72, 73, 91, 92, 109, 150, 157, 159 


INGRENO, “Su cua Gloteedeoneeedoe te ne Lees 97, 109 
Cowbird ...... 2, AO, 2, 205 BO, ‘Wil, 733 
81, 90, 92, 93, 130, 158, 162, 168 
Cormorant 
ar ailOmer sess atten se siseedos ccees 33, 126 
Chat 
Yellowbreasted. .28, 63, 71, 73, 88, 162 
Chickadee..... 4, 12, 72, 73, 78, 90, 117 
149, 162, 175, SI-10 
Black-capped ................ 20, 46 
Carolina ey. 5) scree 28, 64, 92, 157 
IMIOUINGAIING Gsccoh selene See wre 78 
PM COWS wists s Sacssses cis le eked < 25 
Wun lewis eee osie tesa ule oon 131, SI-11 
ILOMEs| ONE soccccosscaooeuvode 128 
JeEDES)) ESIINTOYG)) = ease Cac ee a nae We cea en ieee SII-10 


CoOkaceccmioues 538, 107, 145, 148, 171 
IAMS TIC AMY seistak oedete  etsa evans te L285) LSil 
@heswariken sees slcesacotererens, ove er AOemuielemwites 
Chuck Will’s Widow .......... 63, 139 
Condor 
CalPORMIA WH econ ets snevay oraiocue 150 
(CTHANNGL 5S atate Goo aCe GIR EROS ee 110, SI-8 
Sandhill ....... 91, 123, 128, 131, 171 
WWNOO MNS 5 soc0cccacccb0 150, SII-18 
Creep eieeeratrc wee sees Goes 78 
IBMOW ME isa ctacensie ice a cuseee 12, SIl-1s6 
Rocky Mountain .............. 78 
Crow ....4, 12, 37, 45, 63, 79, 81, 90, 92 


98, 107, 116, SI-7, 162, 164, SII-12 


PAMIME TEC ATT Weavers ere eres tah wteon is ae 20 
LISI OW Ss, aareare oR aT Stabe nei te Re as 98 
Northwestern Fish ............ 98 
WIFE'S HEMT ant rks cics cinerea eras HaCR OS 130 
CueCKOONs cee eee 72, 91, 162 
Black-billed ....12, 20, 25, 64,.72, 90 
97, 176 
DICKGISSelseaa ence. 20, 25, 48, 91, 159 
Dove 
Mourning ....13, 20. 53, 64, 72, 75, 
87, 90, SI--11, 131, 150, 157 
TEIN Ere eee er a ct Sa ena eg hiats 109 
GOUING Bera a ces tuee oetes eons 11, 157 
Rinsedatuntley saa cei 91 
Duck, 4, 22, 107, 145, 157, 159, 170, SI-3 
IBaldparves, citrus oe cua eps cemeneasbea eee 171 
Ba CK arate se oer Cae eer 162 
IBUGEN AN nuueeupea ease eRR Oro ares il, OY, W557 
Canivais-backed!’ 5.555. 4500000. 53, 126 
Gardiwelly eee cree ae ce eee 126, 171 
PMMA ae eres tee See 11. 126, 171 
Riedeheade@d! 2.4. .ddenesscdacvcse 126 
UUIGIGiyatay aac eee enor 126, 128, 171 
Sineldraikiers ess wirte ue tenssd sone: 107 
Teal, Cinnamon ........... 126, 131 
Teal, Blue-winged ...... 29, 91, 171 
DEE liletetstieees oda aes tl a eben cee rien ee 107 
NVOO Check has tances oe il, BY, Oil, alee 
d EDGE =s SN csc sehr mente Baer err ena em Sea ae 42, SI-5 
SAN Gfsesesesceke ares 29, 39, SI-5, SII-10-14 
BUI eR eee eet oi ce rtnet Se nue aa 96, SI-5 
Golden ...... 20, 48, 61, 80, 84, SII-16 
[DEES E. oy aise a Bac eR RCRA T ark Doce one eRe eon 131, 163 
PACING TIGCAMPeee fe spsiaia 4 Gl se ten scehetone 128, 143 
STMOWAY wis elec oentoe a ae AO yee 132 
First Bird 
Archaeopteryx .............. 68, 184 
1 EBib ot(Gl dees poston aap aoe Gera neny eA Gunter e HN 107 
TOUS Shia cektek conteeevemia men ore Ong plod: 
JEAN O10) ne eereeean tn Alls ait aun biy cl ats 78, 162 
PurplesCassings seen secre 78 


8 THD OOLOGIST 


Falcon (See Hawks) 
Flicker (See Woodpecker) 


INA ORM KOSI. anterior atcta S.cincln aida 70, 78 
Acadian ........ 12, 56, 63, 72, SII-16 
INGEN Rie Reena nit oeae ae ion otonenoto a a oretc 170 
Crested .12, 20, 25, 63, 72, 91, 97, 139 

157, 16° 

CASH YH cites ost Sie oes 14, 72, 97 
Scissors-tailed ................ 155 
GeCSEl men ene nin ee eae 96, 157, SI-3-8 


.11, 22, 98, 128, 131, 159 
, 167, 170, 171, 172 
BIMC Ree le etic cece 3 ating canis ote Shee 89 


Canada ... 


eESSCRISNOWaN eC 89 
Gallinule 
EW ORIG ay Se ehck ee ccna cee ee 27, 163 
Godwit 
Ed Soniany ancien 150 
Marble duties cece oe Wl, Wyz 
Goldfinch ....11, 29, 48, 63. 73, 149, 168 
AMELICAME Bick orl. sleeeuce vues alan 20, 91 
Goshawk (See Hawks) 
Gnatcatcher 
Blue-eray- son. tose. cs 13. We Oil © 
Grackl ey cena seahe eee ott ee: 150, 157 
IBIROINWAD g60600000000 14, 20, 73, 90, 162 
Punpleya ete: cn. cise elles 12, 27, 63, 92 
GReWe Ms heed esterase Necoweayle 128, 145 
American Hared ........... 131, 126 
Pied-billed ................ 126, 145 
WWESCCTM cert ncns fea tic einen ote 126 
Grosbeak 
Black-headed ................. 98 
IBC eae sis antewaes sent ne 12, 25, 92 
JD\W/EIMINS Soccacvocccc 21, 29, 93, 150 
PRTG Sots eee Oe 29 
Rose-breasted ...... 12a le Oe AGS 
Western Evening ............. 149 
Grouse 
Pinnated = cncccac cme Ase 78, 171 
RiChardsOm ccdiucsaiew eee icici 78 
RUGS Ce ease ce ete cei pee eae 12 
Shanp-tailedm aan acoee ee 170, 171 
Gull 
BOMAD ATE. 245 cic vcucr yarn oes terete Ohh 126 
(OOD Der ic exGeednce ee co RGR ecee rare asanes 9, 28 
Calitorniageeeaaeneen 338, 78, 126, 131 
FORM IMGs Srey ae poten cases eee ee 29, 46 
ICM DIEA ab olfees se arene se nun Iw nmee Ive 
Ring-billed ........ 38, 126, 131, 172 
Hawks. .33, 46, 54, 63, 107, 115, 157, SI-5 
Broad-winged ................ 11, 36 
Band-tailed 2cs Sok os cadences SII-8 
Coopen’s! 0. ae 11, 20, 36, 78, 92 
IDOE) cannon te se nner etea:.. rua aie 55, 84 
Goshlawkwe ss. vasacecne 36, 56, 70, 97 
Goshawk, Western .......... 97, 98 
VOT SO teres aroha sits Bit meee ne 97 


POLST eee cace aes ieknyers 50rd, ei ree 97 
Marsh...... 14, 20, 61, 128, 154, 155 
163, 167, 170 

Red-shouldered...... 4, 11, 29, 36, 61 
91, 92, 97 

Red-tailed...... inl, 7U, BG, 37, Gil, 72 
81, 87, 91, 97, 116 
Sharp-shinned........ 14, 36, 91, 97 
Sparrow..... 3 dil, AY, 2, Xe, 7B, 07 
152, 157, 162, SI-6 

Sparrow, American....... 20, 65, 92 
SWainSOM. . cee 2 ce eee ey, 128). IS 7 
Rough-legged...... ee PM, Md, WS, Oe 
PealisiMallcon: acinus eo ee ee 46 
Red=belhicd) Seen acasso ese 97 
Western Red-tail ......... 22 Don Ot 


Humming Bird. .109, 149, SI-10, SII-12 
Blue-throated..12, 20, 63, 72, 90, 162 


RUby-chroatedanenee eee 150 
Tbisisce trie Sete ate ieoe Cone 110 
GIOSSY. naccton ce eee eee 110, 128 
IWINTter «ete eee os roe esi 142, 143 
DAVE A Ry as ee ee 157 
Cama Wah eirpecsn ccs ese ee ene 47 
Blue....12, 20, 21, 27, 63, 72, 90, 92 
99, 150, 159, 162, SI-9 
California. Sao tree noe 56 
PUTO Ts yah Re seo uay eis tere er ore Ree Pete eee 84 
Rocky Mountain .............. 78 
Hen 
PGA Oy plscuc oe eeaees mee 91, 159, SII-9 
FC ath nck exc ae eae 150, SII-18 
FIECRONE We sus Gunes On ee 107, 157 


Black-crowned Night..8, 27, 54, 128 
131, 148, 171 


Great Blue ...... DL, AG, (ei, IAs, 163} 
Greeniiss dances 4, 20, 64, 90, 132, 162 
Little Blue Louisiana.......... 143 
Ieittle “Greene. « saioals ascomieeere ene 11 
ING Es) ai eee len Steno Ota Gralma 6 bo SII-i 
SMO Wie sissies cease cee 132, 162 
JUN COM Sake hes ice ee ero ee 13, 91 
Oregon aca Oe 149 
IPAMKESTME C!s ee Seis insite ceanseene 78 
Slate-colored ........ 12, 29, 109, 168 
Killdeer (See Plover) 
Kingbird...... 12, 20, 27, 72, 73, 90, 92 
130, 162, 168, 170 
ALDINO!: % Gossett kis name bene 46 
ATRANS ASH ie ey Aa ie eto 130 
Grays aro aa ee res so 10) 
Kingfisher «4.26% otiee seen = 72, SII-16 
Belted ......... 10, 12, 20, 22, 906, 
ROK. 1a cece ee eeeeee ole eho oer otne ee SII-8 
Kinglet 
Golden-crowned .............. SII-12 


Ruby-crowned............ 13, 73, 78 


THE OOLOGIST 9 


TRS) 56 2 oS ee ee SIT-12 
Swallow-tailed ................ 150 
RGTNO ey scones coh ese canoes 107 
Lark 
VOM C UMetsyas croacies-aoiee 4, 57, SI-13 
Manitoba Horned ............. 170 
Prairie Horned .............. 20, 39 


Meadow... .4, 12, 20, 22, 27, 63, 73, 79 
90, 92, 157, 158, 168, 171, SI-3-11 


Western Meadow, ..... 39, 47, 57, 98 
130, 149 
Longspur 

Chestnut-colored .............. 170 
BETO WEN TNC ate ctesiisec Seas nals. oon dibs. Sate 134 
IVIRG GLOW Werte ach eoreveevete Sucre sha te 171 
ILOOIN, = 6 oo ob closchos eto ENOL ace Ee eee SI-8 
IMIABIOIE scosaogoonces 9, 39, 131, 172, 173 
Wien? © Ware IBiTRls ocscacusouooun 10 
IMIENTOLELIOY, “6.5. o duc erro ROOT RG eee 107, 162 
Purple ....12, 20, 64, 73, 90, 107, 162 
Mocking Bird...... 4, 12, 14, 20, 64, 92 
; 139, 150, 157 159 

Nutcracker 
(Nake Siero cut cco css Sob Se heen 47, 78 
INTEC ies oe aes k noe 4, 78, 149 
Brown-headed ................ 91 
Slender-billed ................. 78 
White-breasted..... 12, 28, 64, 72, 97 
Red-breasted ................. 78 


Nighthawk....12, 72, 73, 90, 92, 97, 134 


COUNOANO. 66.6610 I eee 97 
IVC SUC TM ecccie ras essa tececers wckatee oe 131 
Oven Bird....12, 46, 63, 70, 71, 73, 139 
(CO}SIOEAY  4 be 5 cle ee AIO ee 2, U8) 92 
OniOlepre nce isto se as RE SI-10 
Baltimore......... 12, 20, 73, 90, 168 
BUN O Clk Sieteyetns sete cues. steers ae 131 
Orchandeyjs.. oe. 12, 63, 73, 91, 162 
Oiwileeere eaten ce! fs SII-12, SI-6, 63, 185 
IS ANT Tle weer es eho ees ase eeosital wus suae y 
BAEC! eid selec cscs 36, 83, 92, 134, 175 
IBUURHON NES Sooo bdebooG ae BS, exo, aleal 
Burrowing Florida ............ 164 


Great Horned ...11, 20, 21, 36, 37, 39 
45, 70, 72, 75, 81, 87, 134 


Horned 

WOMPCANC. i ciscckus oes cok kes 46, 130 
VEO Ute MRP ses arrathe cis hreraicene eo reeaaay 97 
Sahwawi litem sees cauie an ocean cin cues 55,165 
Screech....11, 20, 65, 70, 72, 90, 149 

165, SII-6 
Screech, Florida .............. 164 
Screech, Rocky Mountain ....78, 97 
SCreechyaWesternys 5445555555. fi 
SHOWiaiermicie wee hee ones 118, 123 
Shonteared s.55. 65.5 es0cne.. 4, 170 
WVESVerininan scoot at ae ee 97 
Western Burrowing .......... 156 
Western Horned ............ 75, 164 


Pantnrideew se mite ce ceccuatcneecaee os 61, 107 
Qwaile sae ware ieee buses 4, 22, 162, SII-9 
Walley Qala aes ome svertion cain 155 

Bairro nn eee a esse. toy 3c rac 107 

Paraquet 
Carolina: S255 de eel: 39, 50, SII-18 

IEXSIDY GE AV tao ert ine 3 Cue aa ee eae ay, azal 
DBSECON YAOI Use eee Nic Bat cen sta a a 10 
NWA ODL ee APlope SL. eae mete 32, 126, 149 

IPS GC nye sie Re ll: i aceedce ai (he sure CA 75 

Pewee, Wilson’s ................ 10 
AWA XOXO leeseat ech one eRe cebe: 12, 72, 90, 159 

PHalaroperr ci corse mea eiera eee 108 
INGER ETM is it se Sans Slee es aU 128 
Will SOME teiarcel chase hore neice 181 

Phoebe ....... 125 205 27, 63, 725.90; 92 

1a SAEXON OAL aa ee GM CONE SMC OER EEE SIi-14 
Band-tawleds <.hiac obietesseoroees cle Sees 93 
Passenger ..... 39, 50, 87, 91, 98, 150 

SI-11, SII-14-18 
White-crowned ............... 91 

Pipit 
PNTMNETIGAMS fo. 069s ey cess @susicweena se 56, 155 

RrainienChicken a annaeorioee 22) Ort 

Plover 
Kildeer...... 4, 20, 53, 63, 72, 79, 90 

92, 131, 148, 155, 162 
Goldens a ccs cio. haeeto eas Sao ee 91 
1 All] Op 02a ateere cS un oe eer eee eee ie 172 
Semipalmated ................. 10 
Gio era lessee wes ran arcumustorstcrtoucvoton ae 171 

Quail (See Partridge) 

1 OEE UTE od eee re UP ene ne em 9, 145 
Clap DER Were as acces ae 27, 60, 61 
DG alfeaig hearer sameeren 11, 61 91, 162, 163 
Lisht-footed!\..scss sitet neeaens 61 
SORA ei eh eae eA 91, 145, 171 
Wairsinigies annem: 162, 163, 171, 172 
Yellow....52, 131, 170, 171, 172, 173 

VEVGTI picks ee ee eae ses atic SI-7 
AmeTiGane nase emo eee See 3 
INOGENEHI ge cate eee one 29 

RedES tata eer 11, 63, 71, 73, 88 

Robin...... 12, 22, 28, 39, 64, 73, 91, 97 

107, 114, 149, 150, 168, SI-4 
Alibiniom DCCs Uysccas chee ns 170, 168 
SOUtMERM fe hiihc bude e anvuend cuales A 92 
WiCStEEMI ae seem ace 57, 78, 130 

VAD COTE ees aaes occ coe Gael canta 4, 6 

Red Tail 
IWFES TET ea hs hia. 5 oe cheka ees 98 

Sand piperea del. eee coe eee 538, 157 
Spoon-pilled=seeneeeeeo ose 150 
Spotted ...... 10, 11, 72, 90, 131, 172 


10 THE OOLOGIST 


STIR Gi seer ecrn erst ae mer Gietesetouaors 53 
Loggerhead ............. 12, 91, 157 
IY N23 ees a Peau sea gin pee ec er meriee ay Meese Se 64 
SINOGEMEHNY [Sosa ee eee 29 

Snipe 
WLS OMe. ieee ans ial, 7A, 1.7383 

SAPDSUCKET hee sy cena eee eee 91 
Yellow-billed ................ IA, U2 

SPaEnowaes-sommercecnic eee es 83, 109 
BACH amy oie 3.5 Grateas aoa en sine os 139 
TEEN TG LS es eo aera aM Bae WAL 170 
Belding:s) Marsh) 2255... 500000- 61 
BNE WiGTISo: 55 tee neem icsaes chee eons 130 
Clay-colored .............. IA aka 


Chipping....11, 63, 91, 149, 151, 168 
English....11, 20, 45, 90, 92, 107, 149 


lowoetishn, JNNGNG) 5 500ccccconcoon 178 
IM@NGlscosovcc LZ O28 2 OO Seoao0 
157, 159 

TENOD eta Conn beeen AME ad ate ae 14, 82, OF 
MOnDusSht ye. tee Geeta Gone eee 2 
Gambelis acs ter see ye cage poe 56 
Golden-crowned ............... 56 
Grasshopperae sae se 204 Toons 
ETT STOW Satin 2s ea rae one. 3 
Gan kame sy eet ce ha wats ce 25 
Tim Olle eee wae Ge Ta awe © D2 
INeiialdiaerrs Bum denver tis ote een 171i 
IN UE GATE cree ars oe ae soe eaten eri ee 149 
IRIS, SOM. 6oscec0ce> avocese 1493 
SanVvica esas cae eR 91, 130, 168 
Sharp-tailed! jyss54 555 10 
SOM 5658, ILL, WB PS Wl, WL OM), TRI 
162, 168 

SIG Dirge gic rere ae 163, 168 
IMESDETa nce eee eee ee: 20, 73, 79, 0 
White-crowned ................ 73 
White-throated .............. 11, 70 
Western) (Grasshopper). os.) 170 
Western Vesper .............. 170 
SS CabTelinal ores eyes aes arn ap an eee 92 
Stilt Sandpiper ................. 53 
SUValLO Wier csr ners vost guins oe me eee SI-11 
Bamikety cece ene 20, 90, 92, 107, 130 
Barnes a5: 20, 28, 53, 73, 92, 103, 162 
(CATT reer Be a Ge per ne eee 91, 130 
Rough-winged..... 28, 73, 90, 92, 107 
UTE Cayenne ce arr os Ce Peet 11, 91 
WiOletiGreeme eis cnc oasoan ean 149 
RSV 0 7 BMatey Aber cee <0 Ln. ae pau a eelite aan 63, 107 
TEYIEH Ge io caer ane She eee an LE 150 
Chimney...12, 21, 72, 90, 92, 150, 159 
Siwiaiiite wet ee ers ee Pete ee ee aa 107 
hrumpPeters saa soe eae 128, 131, 150 
VV S Glare te Se ithe sways aces Fa SII-14 
FINA TASC Wy see oe es aroha eas 64, 86, SI-11 
SCarletatieramc ee. 12, 73, SII-12 
SHUUTMTDVEN Gon ooodgco00de 12, 25, 64, 162 
IWC SCOTTI Sak ire eee ene 78, 130 


Teal (See Duck) 


FIREMEN es eve sovessocorta dives even va eh she dens oR Menene 28 
ISAC Kietirn eae eae WAG, dail; W451 
CASPIAN Bice c-Moeevacee ete epee kerenete 131 
MOGEStEN ais vices cue eee 126, 131, 148 
UO Val i 246, er estatscsvie rae cuewsieencier ones ite 10 
SOOtVs oop ce tke oe ete eter 52 

Thrasher 
BOW 20, 28, 54, 64. 90, 92 

OR, Wa, Jie 
Cunved-pilledieneneooeoen oe: 199 

AUR TMTE US is, 8a sersees esi gapecar ae rrr oeeoe rate onet crete 70 
Oliiviesbacked? Wace cerse ee WO, 
Grav-chleekedeen ane ocee W3, 9 
RWSESUIOAOKE6 5cococcpncosa0a00e 149 
WABI KEYG lle 15 Gato eronato Se Chord 616’ G 016-005-060 149 
WIS OMe co arcane eee: eer WL, Wy We 
WOO! ooscco0000 18, G3, 72, 7, Oil, Ow 
A VTII ont eee cone tenos OLosacs cipresnro-0 <o'b 00 75 

“MUONOWSE sooncccc0cnsc oo 0DC00E 124, 157 
Plaine as hceioe oie e ee  eO 47 
Tufted, 13, 20, 26, 64, 73, 150, 162, 175 

Turkey E 
AWAD ole Meet oe tana ISIS crore. O.o'G, oro 3 

“MOMNRE ooconvconccp00000000006 UY, Bz 
INYO oan a pidtae oo co.cc DO oeeo 98 
(Gineriwke poooncoeon0bow0009 0000 98 
OMGBOM. osscovcsscoccnnadoonons 149 
JNO, coodouoconn0nsod00b0d0D 98 

WHA) soasoooagdoopoodgon000g 00 3 
Black-capped .....-.----++++++: SII-8 
IREUPS  soooncogouuson doo CgDOS 73 
Red-eyed...... 12, 20, 64, 73, 162, 168 
AWE POTN 6 oop 06000000 20, 75, 151, 162 
Vellowzthroavedarene acini nr 12, 7B 
\Wymmneaenyr X61 Goccosoooccngcado0e 12 

WAGUKEIE® coos eo000c noo DoDD DDO. 90, 134 
Bllaickeew jcc vaa seem 11, 64, 79, 90 
“UDMA EN a5 ob odo oud oC 25, 64, 90, 92, 131 

\WEIOIERS 5onsccodsodovoddbo00NeD 55, 70 
ATOIOIOOIMN'S sococcocccgnsaccc0000 78 
Bachman 6.25 5. sec eeenerne 12, 142 
Bay-breasted ........-.--..- 3 
Blackbunnianger ere eierncnneron 73, 68 
Blalckep Oller enerk tien ielen ere 73 
Black and White...11, 12, 73, 88, 91 
Black-throated Green........ 73, 86 
Black-throated Blue ...... WY, re, 3 
Brewster sis occ «neato a oecee: ale 
Blue-winged ....... PS, Wil, 7B, SS, Bal 
Canadiiante.c ..scrso ices 73 
Gaipe SMaiy alot lis wieoe ce epreneieeneens Ui, We 
Cerulean ie ohee 2 eee 12, 73, 88 
Chestnut-sided........ 12, 46, 73, 168 
Golden-checked .............. SII-8 
Golden-winged............ Wi, 7, U8 
JB LOyoXcleYol *orad-diciaisio oo oot 70, 71, 73, 88 
Kentucky...45, 46, 70, a1, 73, 88, 139 
Mia eOliaie nits sees are teteusee 28, 73, 86 
IVEY TEC ie oeaatee ieee (2, SII-16, 168 


THE OOLOGIST 11 


INialetinavillleteieractereisl is wiaw secs ersunee 70, 73 
MIMO me se east sencuey sien ees 63, 88, 93, 139 
PANU ete rarer ost ta stints sive etic 63, 70, 73 
INontherne anual secretin 11 
TDIPAUTENS. — oe ese cnn on Ono oe Mone s ore 11, 88 
IPROWNOMENEIAY Goocooccadoaodo0c 91 
SryainSOm. woe oo eclol Go- Goo. 00 88, 142 
TOWMSEMC soononccgocroonv00000 78 
MNEIMNMESSEG cootooosuudcuoes 1, 7D, 183 
WElllOwy scoocuc 12 7, Oil, Oa, weil, Ios 
Yellow-throat ............ 11, 88, 93 
WANES .conccopscdn0s0000N0G.e 142 
WW Oi ORNS 5 50ac0cgo0000000c 73, 88 
Water Thrush 
LOWMAN, coocooooodos 46, 63, 73, 88 
INO@MUNELM oo0000000000050000000 
Waxwing 
Wedare woewec nae 20, 73, 92, 162, 168 
VAVIUIEE, oS see Sep ths ecueeenenoeaeececeor irene 107, 172 
WORD «cocoon anbedonoo ane ddoD 171 


5 ol, BY, G8, U4 Tm Ou 


Whip-poor-will 
92, 139, 159, S11-9 


Oor-wall see sees. HB, Wa US 
Wood-cock 
ANTOEINCHN 55000000008 11, 91, 107, 150 
Woodpecker ..12, 36, 63, 72, 73, 90, 124 
149, 150, 159, 175, S11-12, S1-8-9 
Artic Three-toed............... 70 
American Three-toed........... 13 
Black-backed Three-toed ...... 97 
Downey ....... 3 12, BY, G8 TA, Oa 
Golden-winged ................. $1-8 
EVAL vet eney’seatacsitone: 12, 70, 72, 92, 138 
Ivory-billed ...... 29, 39, 150, S11-14 
IO@WHIS . 4 obicts aces aimee alec nieeeme seo ics 97 
Northern Downey ............ 91 
Northern Flicker ....20, 27, 92, 176 
Pile ave dar sess: 12, 36, 70, 97, 13 
Red-headed ...12, 20, 25, 72, 90, 92 
150 159 
Red-bellied ..... 3, 20, 25, 638, 72, 162 
Red-shafted Flicker ..56, 78, 131 149 
HIN CSXCED IO Meares ctiay twas jaca ose oinbeiee tice. ey SEONG 20 
AVANT ec rrayey esece teers naira he isvishauens 23, 109, 149 
Bewick ...... 12, 25, 73, 79, 150, 159 
Carolina ...... 4, 12, 28, 64, 150, 156 
159, 175 
House ........ 11, 20, 28, 64, 73, $0 
92, 131, 150 
Long-billed Marsh ......... 28, 162 


PAR) IMIEWASIN 5 o0000000n00000nc 171 
UO Cen retin, thas ioe eas oe ku 130 
SCA Clemence aes on. rey eti 137 
Short-billed Marsh .......... 162 
MexanwBe wickets seh as eels ae 20 
ENVELTA UO 128 Wee Cs Se co checttiee e tice eG 12 
Western Marsh ............... 171 
Westernmousemaaasse sean 149 
Wellowethroa tee en eee 23 


MIETAEING 65558), 14, BB. G8, Tl, 73, Sil 


88, 90, 97, 150, 159 


ANYVGISCSTT I: ie wea ver ata CU pea ate a te 130 
Foreign Birds 
ANID A COS Sigs acta AO rene AEN ath oat 52) 
Black ebirda Lortomkicansa ene 10 
IBOODICS) canoes mere ee omens 52 
Honey Creeper, Porto Rican...... 10 
Finch, 

IWC aBV.C Tegra niente anny ete oe 10 

Hooded Weaver ................ 10 
GOOME Shien ces atiecnn tien ey ode 52 
Glassquitye Calpine er er 10 
GuillshNortherne aye eee 10 
lelibwonwoauine? ISOS fo5a00ccccuconcuc 10 
Hungarian Partridge ......... 61, 107 
King Bird, 

Porto Rican Pitcharry.......... 10 
(OS HEC) THIEE oh eR eure eer ale 8 10 
lenin, ILEIE IBS dccccoccpcnce 102 

Re LRT Sie ery: cate eee or a sre ae ae 52 

WV siIS TANG Ses orca ras sin asec teen ee 10 
JP SITICAMS., IIGOWAN coooccooccvcccucd 10 
Pheasant Goldenue.sae seen 110 
Plovers, Semipalmated ........... 10 
PGT einla, isc. scycete uate dence: ch aCe Rete aE eee 10 

TRMO)AYAS HU gen Sere EeeeMeer en oy ole Aetiaie AN ae met is 10 

SOGGY iets sisatnousleaces anon eohaleiees 52 
WOGh 5 IPORGO IRICWNs cocccoccdcdb0nee 10 
Sparrow, Sharp-tailed ............ 10 
Sandpiper, Spotted .............. 10 
Siwallloiw, “HOuUSe! ance sone cc: 144 


BIRDS NESTS ECGS 
TAXIDERMY 


Vou. XXXIX. No.1. ALBION, N. Y., Jan. 1, 1922. WHOLE No. 417 


THE OOLOGIST 


BRIEF SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS 
Wanted, Exchange, For Sale, Etc., inserted in this department at 25 cent- 


for each 25 words for one issue; each ad 


serted for less than 25 cents. 


ditional word 1 cent. 


No notice in 


_ We will advertise the skins, nests, eggs, or mounted specimens of North Amer- 
ican Birds for sale for persons having a lawful authority under the law to deal 


in the same. 
exchanges of such specimens for 


These columns are for the use of those desiring to make bona fide 
scientific collecting purposes only.—EDITOR. 


EGGS 


I will purchase for cash entire col- 
lections of North American Bird Skins, 
mounted birds and birds eggs or odd 
lots of the same, which I still need to 
complete my series. Send list and 
prices. R. M. Barnes, Lacon, Ills. 


WANTED—Good data of 
Falco perregrinus anatum. Cash or 
exchange. H. Kirke Swann, Thorn- 
combe, Lyonsdown, New Barnet, Lon- 
don, Hngland. 

WANTHD—One large upright egg 
cabinet with large drawers, also want 
best Burr Drills, have stamps to trade 
for eggs. Arthur Blocher, Amboy, Ills. 

I have following species in good sets 
t© GxcClianses 295, B45, B27, BG, BH2, 
355, 419, 421, 482, 498d, 513a, 585b, 594a, 
602, 639, 641, 697, 759a. Thos H. Jack- 
son, 304 N. Franklin St., West Chester, 
Pennsylvania. 


EXCHANGE—Texas 


birds ‘egg in 


sets. Bird and animal Skins, Curios. 
Natural history specimens. Ramon 
Graham, 3722 Ave. J. Poly, Et. Worth, 
Texas. f 


In order to buy material for my 
Maynard Series, I will sell, at very low 
figures, many selected singles for this 
series; of some a large number; of 
rarer ones, just a few. (Details about 
the series later). P. B. Peabody, Blue 
Rapids, Kansas. 


WANTEHED—Egegs of Nos. 81, 82, 838, 
Sih, Bo, LO, WOO, WO, We, Wile, BH, 2rO, 
272. Wandering Albatross. Mazagucus 
conspicillatus. For exchange, 92.1, 96, 
96.1, 111. Puffinus Carniepes Oestra- 


lata Solandrik Phaethon rubicandus. 
Roland Archer, Ryecroft, Lyndhurst, 
Victoria. Australia. seat 
FOR SALE—My entire egg collec- 


tion at once. Sets 85, 185, 264, 330, 343, 


352a, 355, 356a, 357b, 416, 417, 478b, 568, 
717a, ete. Singles 55, 60, 254; Ducks, 
Geese, etc. Also few fine skins. Oolo- 
episie WOls 2 SG0ls (CYoiacloie WWo@ll XNO<s 
Nidologist, Vol. II, Nos. 4-8; Vol. III, 
Vol. IV, Nos. 1, 2, 9. Robert F. Backus, 
Florence, Colo. Box 362. 


WANTED—Sets of eggs containing 
abnormal specimens, such as_ runts, 
monstrocities, abnormally marked or 
unmarked, albinistic and malformed 
specimens. Those with good data only 
wanted to further my studies of oolog- 
ical abnormalities. Write me when 
you have anything of this nature. Best 
cash price given. J. Warren Jacobs, 
Waynesburg, Penna. 

FOR BEXCHANGH—Personally col- 
lected sets of the following species: A. 
0} 1, 8, 045 GS, Or, GO, TOY 74> 805° 18, 
UG, Sih, BAe, SAO, Be ayy, cal,  Ziey3, 
498g dildia, 563, 5738, 598° 604, 612) 622A, 
Bain (Re, Oe OR, OG, WO, Weil, eo, 
761 and 766. What have you? Many 


my collection. J. R. 


species desired in . 
I<ennedy Building, 


Pemberton, 729 
Tulsa, Oklahoma. 
SHINS 
BIRDS and ANIMALS mounted, Skins 
tanned. Write for price list. Ramon 
Graham, Taxidermist, 3722 Ave. J. 

Poly, Fort Worth, Texas. 

EXCHANGE—I can offer Western 
bird skins for first class skins that I 
need. Will also exchange A-1 Mam- 
mal skins. Send list. Alex. Walker, 
Blaine, Oregon. 

I will Exchange Mounted Birds for 
Bird Skins and Hggs or Sell Mounted 
Birds and Bird Skins for cash. D. V. 
Hembree, Roswell, Georgia. 

WANTED—Five perfect skins of all 
the Hawks. Cash only. Address K. B. 
Mathes, Batavia, N. Y. 5 

Isine pair of skins, Band Tailed 
Pigeon, Male and I*emale for best offer 
eggs in sets, or skins of Warbler’s 
family. Dr AL G. Pris Scio, Oregon: 

NOTICE—I am moving to Tuscon, 
Ariz., and will be glad to hear from all 
collectors who wish to write me, at my 
new address. James Wood, North- 
ville, Michigan. 

WANTED—Fine perfect skins of 
hawks and ducks, shoveller, and Blue 
wing teal especially; Cooper’s and Red 
tailed hawks. Make best cash offers. 
K. B. Mathes, Batavia, N. Y. 

WANTED—Birds’ Eggs and Skins. 
Can offer Shells, Minerals, Corals, Cur- 
ios, Butterflies, Biological Specimens, 
Stamps, Half-tones, Cuts, Scientific and 
Medical books. Ernest H. Short, Roch- 
ese, IN, MW, IBo@x 173. 

SKINS \y aNTED—A-No. 1 Skins of 
the following birds wanted: Golden- 
winged, Virginia’s, Nashville, Sennett’s, 
Olive, Black-fronted, Cerulean, Bay- 
breasted, Sycamore, Grace’s, Golden- 
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$2.50; Hooded Merganser $5; Wilson 
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Bryozoa, Canu and Bassler, 1920, 2 
parts. Text 870 pages, Plates 162 
pages; Paper covers new, pages uncut 
$10. INSECT CASES—8x104x24 Glass 
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2 THE OOLOGIST 


“SOCIETAS PRO FAUNA ET FLORA 
FENNICA.?” 

The oldest scientific society in Fin- 
land and probably one of the very old- 
est existing Natural History societies 
in the entire world is the Zoological 
and Botanical Society of Finland, or 
“Societas pro Fauna et Flora Fennica,” 
as it is officially and universally 
known. 

This society celebrated its 100th an- 
niversary on the first day of Nc- 
vember, 1921. One hundred years ago 
this association was founded by Pro- 
fessor K. R. Sahlberg, in Abo, which 
at that time was the University city of 
Finland. The centenary celebration 
was held at Helsingfors, which is the 
capital and where the old university 
of the country is situated, in connec- 
tion with one of the finest and largest 
Natural History Museums in the wor?d. 

A delegation elected by the board o£ 
directors of the society paid on the 
forenoon of the celebration day, a 
tribute to the cemetery, to the graves 
of the most nected members, who have 
at divers times passed away but whose 
memcry lives through ages On the 
afternoon the main festival took place 
in the large banquet hall of the uni- 
versity. Among those present were 
the President and Prime Minister of 
The Republic of Finland, also many 
other noted persons. 

Cengratulaticns were received from 
nearly all the civilized countries on 
the face of our globe. 

It is with a little touch of pride 
(which I trust I will be forgiven for) 
that I am announcing to the readers 
of The Oologist, the above related 
item. To think, that little Finland, 
this far-off northern country, which for 
centuries has struggled under the yoke 
of its mightier neighbors, first under 
Sweden and afterwards under Russia, 
but which finally, only four years ago, 
liberated from the shackles of its op- 


pressors, has had among its sons 
enough enthusiasm to found and to 
support for one hundred years a Nat- 
ural History Society, is enough to 
warm any naturalist’s heart towards 
the enterprises of this “Land of a 
Thousand Lakes.” 

To me it means more than to the 
casual reader, because Finiand is my 
Mother. In that north country I was 
born and brought up. And there I col- 
lected my first birds’ eggs, over forty 
years ago. 

H. S. Norman, 
Kalevala, Man., Canada.. 


OLD TIMERS, ATTENTION 

I wonder how many of your old Oolo- 
gists have noted the notice that has 
appeared several times during the past 
year or two in The Ooilogist by the 
editor in reference to sending Ths 
Ooclogist to some young boy for a year. 

I have been doing this thing for sev- 
eral years and believe it is doing good 
and this year have added two more 
boys to the list. It can do no harm and 
might be the means of gettines ons 
more real Oologist in the ranks of the 
Old Lodge. 

I have a suggestion that I want 
every real Oologist to think over and 
give a trial this coming year. Go to 
the Scoutmaster or Higher Scout 
officials in your vicinity and offer your 
services as Director of Bird Study for 
the Troops of Boy Scouts. They will 
be glad to have you. If you have nu 
Troop look around and see if you can- 
not organ ze a Tresp in your place 
It is a great thing for the boys and 
will be a greater thing fcr you. There 
is nothing like association with live 
boys, the kind you find in Scouting, to 
keep a fellow up on his toes, and you 
will hardly find a Troop of Scouts that 
do not have one or two and maybe 
more boys who are really interested 
in bird life and nature study of many 


THE OOLOGIST 3 


kinds. Go on hikes with them explain- 
ing the different kinds of birds found 
by the way, also nature study of all 
kinds. 

A Scout to get a Merit Badge in Bird 
Study must do all the following and 
then some. Produce a list of 50 species 
of birds personally observed and posi- 
tively identified. Produce a list show- 
ing the greatest number of species he 
has seen in the field in one week. 

Produce a list derived from personal 
chservation, of 20 species of birds 
particularly noted for their value to 
agriculture in the destruction of in- 
sects. These are the main ones. 

Now you will see to get a Scout to 
the point that he can answer correctly 
the three main questions is something 
worth while and while you are getting 
these boys to that place, you might 
start a future Ornithologist of reax 
note on his career. We must do some- 
thing to get the young ones interested 
in Oology or when we pass on there 
will be no real ones to carry on the 
good work and that is something that 
we cannot allow. 

It will be no great inconvenience toa 
take the boys with you on your ramble 
in the woods. Harly Sunday mornings 
are ideal for the purpose and will keep 
the boy from mischief. Then you will 
be surprised at the good time you will 
get from the association with the 
young ones. I have been Director of 
Scoutecraft for Scouts in South Florida 
for over six years, and the past yea 
was Scoutmaster of the best Troop in 
the country. I believe, and while it has 
taken a lot of time, it has done both the 
boys and myself a great deal of good, 
and believe I see three young fellows 
who have the makings of Oologists in 
them. Will take them in the field this 
season again and see. 

After you have allied yourself with 
the Scouts, pick out the most likely 
one or two, and send him The Oologist. 
It won’t break anyone and might be the 


means of securing a successor to your- 
self in the grand old school of Oology. 
Things don’t look any too good for 
Oology; the government making very 
strict regulations, the schools and so- 
cieties preaching against the disturb- 
ing of birds, it is time for us field stu- 
dents to start in educating the younger 
ones. 

I will be glad to furnish any infor- 
mation to any one who is interested 
and will give them all information 
necessary to start the good work, pro- 
vided there is no local Scout man to 
help you out. 

Oscar EH. Baynard, 
Plant City, Fla. 


AS THE CALENDAR CHANGES 

The last day of the year is now o2 
the reel. The plot of this 1921 produc- 
tion is a 300 acre farm adjoining my 
residence, formerly a typical Southern 
estate with its massive brick house on 
the hill 200 yards from the road. Tall 
pines and maples surround the dwell- 
ing. Along the pasture fence are large 
trees containing dozens of mistletoe 
shrubs, “bushes within trees.” 

No announcement of winter, except 
the date on the calendar. Turkey Buz- 
zards are soaring above the cattle pens 
and the Little Sparrow Hawks make 
a “nose dive” when he moves from a 
near telephone pole. The Red-bellied 
Woodpecker is a daily visitor to my 
front yard feeding station, but how 
much noisier he is than the more in- 
dustrious and unconcerned competitor, 
a Downy Woodpecker. 

In the rose bushes along the back 
yard fence several Song Sparrows 
leiter and occasionally burst forth in 
full tone a most delightful solo re- 
served apparently for moments of 
great ecstasy. Cardinals are in pairs 
and manifest no humiliation as they 
skirt the ground encircling the chicken 
yard looking for stray kernels of grain. 
Among brush piles and gray arbors, 


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with his keel perpendicular, a nervous 
little Carolina Wren steps as lively 
as though he were hunting for the New 
Year, His song is wonderful in vol- 
ume coming as it does from so smal 
a “system.” Every morning he calls 
at the pump near the side of our cot- 
tage and I believe he has designs up- 
on the same “emergency pipe” which 
last year was rendered inefficient by 
the introduction of a gallon of rye 
stems, corn husks, cherry stems and 
blue grass from which five juvenile 
Carolinas graduated. 

The sun is bright, tempera’ure only 
50 degrees, and we are exactly in the 
center of the State, geographically 
speaking. Approaching the pond ad- 
joining the pasture, Killdeers behave 
suspiciously as usual and seven of 
them are manifesting a keen delighu 
in teasing my little dog which regard- 
less of his out-stretched legs is no 
closer to them than when the chase be- 
gan ten minutes ago. Back and forth 
across the pond they hover. Winter 
wheat is six inches high and large 
flocks of Horned Larks wind their way 
through the furrows. Already I have 
picked from the ridge, by the spring, 
four flint arrow heads and how easy 
it is to reflect, meditate and recall the 
published achievements of Audubon, 
Daniel Boone and Henry Clay in this 
beautiful stretch of uneveness. 

Proceeding to the hemp fields we en- 
counter small groups of Meadow Larks 
that sail and flutter alternately and 
silently to some cover of dried blue 
grass. 

Thorny hedges enclose many to- 
bacco patches and corn stubbles, zig- 
zagging midst the prickly stems are 
the grateful Mockingbirds usually in 
twos. Almost anywhere from weed 
patches to big timber Chickadees utter 
their titles and readily convince you 
they are the founders of the optimists’ 
club. 

Touching only the high spets of a 


sod covered bottom land we “jumped 
a jack snipe fleetest of feathered resi- 
dents in this community. I can hear 
several Bluebirds above us. They are 
an asset to any farm landscape. Hun- 
dreds of corn ears lie about the 
stubbles and the Crows have about the 
easiest picking of any birds. About 
3 p.m. huge flocks of Crows are wing- 
ing their way to the Hast evidently 
headed for some old roost among the 
knobs. 

At intervals during the month Short 
Hared Owls, Red Shouldered Hawks, 
Marsh Harriers may be noticed about 
the timbered ravines and old meadow. 
Quail are seclusive at this season of 
the year, many have gained the con- 
fidence of the land owners who supply 
them with dainty morsels from the 
farmer’s larder 

Nuthatches are spasmodic in their 
habits and cannot be expected with 
any degree of regularity. 

Sentence will be suspended today at 
sundown, upon water fowl and most 
Ducks which sought refuge in old Ken- 
tucky will unquestionably enjoy 
another flight to our Northern tier of 
States and the provinces of Manitoba, 
Saskatchewan and Alberta. 

So absorbed have our local hunters 
been in seeking the fuzzy Cottontail, 
possum and both red and gray foxes, 
that our streams are well populated 
with both pond and deep water Ducks. 

Gerard Alan Abbott, 
Lancaster, Kentucky. 


A FROZEN HERON 

I have what I consider a rather re- 
markable occurrance :to relate. On 
Dec, 12, 1921 two young men came to 
me and told me about a bird they had 
observed the day previous while on 
their trap line and said that they had 
seen it several times. Their descrip- 
tion caused me to believe it must be a 
Green Heron but as these birds leave 
here between October 2nd and the 


THE OOLOGIST 5 


20th, I thought they were mistaken in 
the description. We had several nights 
which were below zero. 

On December 15th one of the boys 
brought me the bird alive, which they 
had caught sitting on a stump, nearly 
frozen, as it was 15 degres below zero. 
It was a Green Heron and perfectly 
all right when thawed out. I fed it for 
several days and then it managed in 
some way to escape. I think this is 
the record for fall migration of Butori 
des Virescens. 

On December 27 these same boys 
captured an American Bittern (Botaur- 
us lentiginosus). I never observed the 
birds later than November 15 before. 

: H. A. Wheeler, 
Hast Randolph, New York. 


SPEED AN ASSET IN THE MAKiNG 
OF BIRD SKINS 

One is led to believe at times that 
scientific work should always be pains- 
taking, thorough and slow. To a 
great extent this is true, but in the 
making of perfect bird skins it will be 
found that if great rapidity along with 
expert skill and accuracy be cultivat- 
ed, the results will be highly satis- 
factory, and possibly surprising. It 
seems that the skin of a bird, once off, 
has a tendency to shrink in some 
areas, and to stretch in others in such 
a way, that, unless the collector knows 
birds intimately he may easily shape 
his specimen in a manner never char- 
acteristic of the species. Of course, 
if speeding up means that there must 
be attendant inaccuracy, loss of feath- 
ers, increase of blood stains, or a kin- 
Gred error, it is far potter to go siow- 
ly; but the advice of the writer to the 
amateur is that he have great 
speed always as an aim in view, for 
reasons aside from the mere saving of 
time. 

All accessories—tools, plaster, corn 
meal, and preservatives should be im- 
mediately at hand; particularly corn 
meal, or some absorbent for taking up 


liquids. Many collectors do not poison 
any part of the skin until the whole is 
removed. They must have the entire 
skin inside out, and in order, before 
applying the poison. And this fre- 
quently means that the area of the 
head and neck must be moistened be- 
fore the skin may be adjusted. This 
I think, in the case of small birds, is a 
mistake. It is just as easy, and quite 
as thorough to apply poison to any 
part, such as leg, wing or head, separ- 
ately, and just after the work is done. 
For two reasons at least this suggest- 
ed method is better than the former: 
first, the freshly pulled-off skin takes 
up the poison much more rapidly and 
more permanently due to its moist, ad- 
hesive condition; and second, the 
feathers of the part skinned fall back 
into their normal position much more 
readily and correctly when the area is 
adjusted rapidly. 

Particularly in the region of the 
head is speed advantages. The more 
time taken, the harder it is to get the 
skull back through, due to the drying 
of the skin, and similarly, the less 
time taken, the more easily and 
naturally the feathers fall back into 
place. In skinning the legs, clean, 
poison and wrap the tibiae all at one 
cperation, and pull the leg bones into 
position permanently, In the wings, 
clean, poison, and tie both as rapidly 
as possible, pull back into place, and 
arrange the primaries, secondaries, and 
coverts immediately, either before or 
after skinning out the head (preferably 
after) but in either case, all in one 
operation. It is well known that a 
slight mistake about the eyes, ears or 
neck may work havoc with a skin, but 
with proper precaution such mistakes 
are out of the question, and with much 
practice the skinning out of the head 
becomes almost mechanical. When 
the skull has been rapidly cleaned, 
and the head muscles somewhat thor- 
cughly removed, poison bountifully 
and turn back immediately, before any 


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cotton has been inserted anywhere. 
The cotton merely makes the pulling 
back the harder. In cleaning the skull 
cut away the rear partitions of the eye- 
sockets so that the cotton may be in- 
serted from the rear through the neck. 
If the work has been done quickly and 
accurately so far the skin will now be 
fresh, limp, and in excellent natural 
order, neither shrunken nor unduly 
stretched in any part. Arsenic may 
now be applied to areas not before 
reached, and the stuffing of the skin 
carried on as usual. Speed means a 
uniformity of specimens too, which is 
desirable, It seems that all things be- 
ing considered, the most important 
factor in making perfect bird skins is 
speed coupled with accuracy. When a 
bird is rapidly skinned a large part of 
the arrangement of feathers, etc., 
simply takes care of itself. 

The above is offered merely with the 
hope that an added word now and 
then may urge the rising generation on 
to perfection. Anyone who sees daily 
hundreds of bird skins naturally comes 
to pass on them quickly. It is the be- 
lief of the writer that the best skins 
he has seen were rapidly made, and 
experience of late has certainly borne 
out the supposition. But let it not be 
thought that accuracy or thoroughness 
should ever be sacrifieced, merely for 
speed. 

George M. Sutton. 


A NIGHT HERON ROOKERY 
By Chandler M. Brooks 

The sand dunes near Ipswich, Mas- 
sachusetts have furnished material for 
many bird publications. I have visited 
these dunes and have found them very 
interesting. 

In the particular part of the sand 
dunes with which I am familiar there 
are two groves of pitch pine. In one 
of these groves many Black-crowned 
Night Herons build their nests each 


‘from their nests. 


year, My last visit to this grove was 
made on May 30, 1921. 

Near this rookery are many ponds 
and the Night Herons were fishing in 
them. These ponds are shallow and 
the birds wade along the edges gather- 
ing their food as they go. The Herons 
were so numerous that every time I 
looked I saw great numbers of them. 
There were many birds flying about, 
and as I came nearer the grove they 
were surprised because in every tree, 
there were several herons and on ac- 
count of the shortness of the trees and 
the long legs of the birds they were 
very conspicuous and caused the grove 
to have a peculiar appearance. These 
birds were making a clamorous noise 
and when I approached nearer it 
seemed that each bird redoubled his 
efforts and they made such a din that 
they could be heard for a long dis- 
tance. All about the grove I could see 
the egg-shells that the birds had cast 
Some of these shells 
were almost whole and I could hardly 
understand how young birds could get 
out through such small openings. 

When I went down into the grove 
there were many egg-shells there also. 
I wanted to see some of the young 
Night Herons so I climbed a small 
tree which had three nests in it. 
From my position in this tree I could 
see into eight nests. In two of these 
nests there were small birds covered 
with dark gray down, and I was very 
much interested in the fact that the 
lining of their mouths was very dark 
eray in color. In the other nests 
which I saw there were from three to 
four eggs each. 

The trees in the grove were dying, 
and I learned afterwards that after 
the Night Herons have nested in a 
grove for a few years the trees die. 
The grove was not large, but accord- 
ing to a very careful estimate, it con- 
tained nearly a thousand nests. There 


THE OOLOGIST 9 


was a very disagreeable odor about 
the rookery, so after I had looked at a 
few more nests I started to leave. 
When I reached the edge of the grove 
I saw that the Night Herons were not 
the only birds that inhabitated this 
location, because there was a little 
Maryland Yellow-throat doing his best 
to drown out the discordant notes of 
the Night Herons with his charming 
little song. 


THE BARN OWL 
IOWA 

On November 12, 1921 some boys 
captured a Barn Owl in a hay mow 
on a farm two miles east of town and 
brought it into town and had it on ex- 
hibition on the street and it caused 
quite an excitement as but very few 
had ever seen one before. They re- 
turned it to the barn from which they 
found it and it remained in the barn 
for several days. 

This is the first occurrence of this 
Owl which I have recorded in Story 
county in the past seventeen years. 

John L. Cole, 
Nevada, Iowa. 
THE MAGPIE IN STORY COUNTY, 
IOWA 

December 4, 1921, a male Magpie 
was shot in the sotuhwestern part of 
this county. It is the first record that 
I have of this species in this locality. 
There are reports of this bird migrat- 
ing farther east in Iowa this winter 
than ever before. I am having this 
speciman mounted which was shot in 
this county. 


IN) CENTRAL 


John L. Cole, 
Nevada, la. 


COBB’S ISLAND BIRD LIFE 
At Cobb’s Island, Virginia, there is 
abundant bird life. More, in fact, than 
any other place of its size I have ever 
seen. The island is only seven or 
eight miles long, probably less than 
that now as the sea is gradually cut- 


ting off one end, and about a quarter 
of a mile wide. There is practically 
no sand, the whole island being 
covered with sticky, black mud in 
which sea grass and fiddler crabs 
abound. Just across the bay the island 
there is another smaller island which 
is called the “Gull March.’ The place 
is well named. Never have J seen 
more gulls than I had the pleasure of 
seeing on a trip across the bay to this 
marsh one morning in early June. It 
was just after a “Nor’easter” and as 
the weather was unfit for fishing I 
went over to the marsh to kill time 

As soon as I landed on the island a 
cloud of gulls rose in the air and there 
was such a bedlam one could scarce 
hear ones self think as the saying is. I 
had not gone twenty yards from the 
boat when I found a Gull nest with two 
eggs. I had not been looking for eggs 
as I believed it was a little early but 
then I began to look. On standing up 
on a tiny hillock of grass, driftwood, 
etc., I could see nests and eggs in 
every direction. Some with only one 
egg and others with the full set. I 
collected about six or seven sets, sat 
marking them right there with my 
fountain pen to avoid mixing the sets 
up and then walked about cver the 
marsh to look it over. 

I found several eggs freshly broken 
and removed from the nest, done J suv- 
pose by Crows as there are no snakes 
on a salt marsh. 

Also found a Rail nest with eleven 
eggs which I took and one with 
thirteen which I was forced to leave 
as my hat was already full and no 
way handy to carry any more. 

These eggs were all Laughing Gull 
eggs. There did not appear to be any 
other kind of egg, except the Rail eggs 
on the entire island. 

I believe it would be possible to load 
a wagon with eggs on this island about 
the middle of June.Irving C. Lunsford. 


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MOULDS AND BACTERIA ON EGG 
COLLECTIONS - 

Many Oologists in times past have 
been seriously annoyed by moulds 
and bacteria attacking their collec- 
tions resulting in serious deterioration 
of the specimens. Mr. Frederick H. 
Kennard, one of the most thorough 
going scientists of our acquaintance 
undertook an investigation of the 
cause, result and protective measures 
if any with which these destructive 
agents might be overcome in 1916 and 
published the result of these investiga- 
tions and conclusions in an eleven 
page article under the above heading 
in The Auk, of July 1921. 

The Fraternity votes Mr Kennard 
a vote of thanks for his interest, 
efforts in this matter. 

We would advise all who are pos- 
sessed of egg collections to procure, 
read and act upon the suggestions 
contained in this valuable paper. 

R. M. Barnes. 
IMPRESSIONS OF PORTO 
RICAN BIRD LIFE 

The boat on which I sailed for Porto 
Rico left early in October. Wilson's 
Petrels followed the boat for a day. 
The first day out of port a Sharp-tailed 
Sparrow and a Blue-winged Warbler 
flew aboard and we had them as fel- 
low passengers during the greater part 
of the voyage of a week. They were 
later joined by another Blue-winged 
Warbler. When we were about east 
of Florida and Cuba a few Royal 
Terns flew around the ship. 

On arriving in Porto Rico the first 
bird I saw was a Cabir Glassquit. 
These small, dark colored birds are 
one of the commonest species on the 
island, especially where there is tall 
grass or sugar cane. The next bird I 
saw was a Belted Kingfisher, whicn, 
like myself, had just arrived from the 
North. 

I soon made the acquaintance of 


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numerous other birds. Two kinds of 
Kingbirds are abundant. One is the 
Gray Kingbird, with a uniform gray 
crown. The other is the Porto Rican 
Pitcharry, with a black crown. The 
two species are about equally common. 
One of the most conspicuous birds is 
the Mozambique, or Porto Rican 
Blackbird. It has a large tail, and a 
striking white ring around the eye. 
They are one of the birds with which 
the natives are most familiar. 
Perhaps the most abundant bird is 
the Porto Rican Honey Creeper, or 
Bananaquit. It is a warbler-like bird, 
with yellow breast and brilliant white 
lines on the head. It seems to nest at 
all seasons of the year, constructing its 
nests (which are covered with an 
opening at the side) near the outer 


ends of palm leaves and orange 
twigs. Their song is harsh and un- 
musical. 


Brown Pelicans abound in the Maya- 
guez harbor. Occasionally Man-of-war 
birds soar overhead. Various species 
of Northern Gulls and Terns are pres- 
ent in the fall and winter, and North- 
ern shore birds walk along the beach. 
Among the latter are Spotted Sand- 
pipers and Semipalmated Plovers, 
but not in very large numbers. 

Four species of Hummingbirds 
abound on the flowers, but I will wait 
to tell of them later. 

Two species of Weaver Finch, origi- 
nally introduced from Africa, are com- 
mon. One, the Hooded Weaver Finch, 
is especially common in the tall grass 
on the Experiment Station grounds. 

The Porto Rican Tody is a little 
jewel of a bird. It is not much 
larger than a Hummingbird, but 
Shaped more like a Kingfisher. It is 
brilliant green, with a _ scintillating 
red patch under its throat. It is es- 
pecially abundant in coffee fincas. 

A number of species of American 
Warblers come here for the winter. 
Perhaps the two commonest are the 


‘Northern Parula and the Redsiart 
|The former is especially abundant in 
the orange trees about the house I am 
‘living in at Mayagues. Black and 
| White Warblers are also common and 
so are Yellow-throated Warblers from 
'the Southern states. I often gee 
| Prairie Warblers, and occasionally a 
Water-thrush. 

Tree Swallows are present in large 
numbers in December, flying in flocks, 
but not so compactly as when migrat- 
| ing. 

! We have many, many more birds, 

both as residents and as migrants or 

winter visitors, but I will tell you of 
them at a later date. 

| Stuart T. Danforth, 

| Mayaguez, Porto Rico. 


A LETTER 
Mr. R. M. Barnes, 

My Dear Sir—I wish to say I find a 
great difference between bird men and 
cthers in doing business. I am a 
widow and find there are so many 
ready to take advantage of that fact. 
On the other hand I have been very 
much encouraged and helped by men 
like yourself among the men of Bird 
lovers. No wonder my boy loved to 
help folks. The dear boy was collect- 
ing in the Shoal Lake Country in Can- 
ada and a sudden and severe storm 
capsized the boat and my dear son 
and another man were drowned. 

I have disposed of his collection of 
eggs to the St. Paul Institute. 

Appreciate your kind helpfulness. 

Mrs. Jane Knox, 
Jackson, Minn. 


A TRAVELLING WREN’S NEST 
Mr. F. H. Graeper, West Virginia, 
reports a pair of House Wrens as 
having built a nest in a grain food 
hopper, which gradually emptied 
from the bottom as the chickens ate 
the food from the food trough, the nest 


inside settled with it until it reached 


THE OOLOGI8T 11 


the bottom of the hopper, during all 
of which time the Wrens were caring 
for their nest and eggs in this moving 
house in the ordinary manner. How- 
ever, as the nest reached the bottom 
of the container the chickens had eaten 
up all of the young Wrens but one. 


ARKANSAS BIRDS 


The following list of birds I have 
seen in abundance since Jan. 1st 1920 
to Dec. 6th, 1921. 

A. O. U. 
132. Mallard. Migrant. 
144. Wood Duck. Migrant. 


143. Pintail. Migrant. 
172. Canada Goose. Migrant 
173. Brant. Migrant. 


194. Great Blue Heron. 
201. Little Green Heron. 


Migrant. 
Rare resi- 


dent. 
Z08. King Rail. One record. 
228. American Woodcock. Migrant. 
263 Spotted Sandpiper Common 


summer resident. 
289. Bob White. Commen resident. 
320. Ground Dove. Common roasident, 
Turkey Vulture. Resident, 
326. Black Vulture. Resident. 
333. Cooper’s Hawk. Resident. 
337. Red Tailed Hawk Resident. 


360. Sparrow Hawk. Common gsum- 
mer resident. 

339. Red Shouldered Hawk. Com- 
mon resident. 

343. Broad Winged Hawk. Cummer 
resident. 

375. Great Horned Owl Resident. 

373. Screech Owl. Resident. 
English Sparrow. 

529. Goldfinch. Very common resi- 
dent. 

558. White Throated Sparrow. Mi 
grant. 

560. Chipping Sparrow. Very com. 
mon resident. 

563. Field Sparrow. Resident. 

581. Song Sparrow. Summer resi 


dent. 


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Fox Sparrow. Fall migrant. 
Slate Colored Junco. Winter 
visitant. 

Towhee. Summer resident. 
Cardinal. Common resident. 
Rose Breasted Grosbeak. Spring 
migrant. 

Blue Grosbeak. One record. 
Indigo Bunting. Summer resti- 
dent. 

Scarlet Tanager. 
mer resident. 


Common sum- 


Summer Tanager. Common 
summer resident. 

Purple Martin. Common _ sum- 
mer resident. 

Loggerhead- Shrike. Accidental 
visitant. 

Red-eyed Vireo. Summer resi- 
dent. 

White-eyed Vireo. Summer resi- 
dent. 


Yellow-throated Vireo. Migrant, 
possible summer resident. 


Black and White Warbler. Sum- 
mer resident. 

Bachman’s Warbler. Spring mi- 
grant. 

Tennessee Warbler. Migrant. 


Yellow Warbler. 
dent. 

Myrtle Warbler. 
grant. 

Cerulean Warbler. 
grant. 
Chestnut-sided 
grant. 
Black-throated 
Migrant. 
Oven Bird. Summer resident. 
Maryland Yellow-throat. Sum- 
mer resident. 

Mockingbird. Summer resident. 
Yellow Billed Cuckoo. Regular 
summer resident. 
Belted Kingfisher. 
resident. 

Hairy Woodpecker. 
resident, 


Summer resi- 
Spring Mi- 
Spring Mi- 
Warbler. Mi- 


Blue Warbler. 


Rare summer 


Common 


394c. 


402. 


405. 
406. 
412, 
417. 


Downy Woodpecker. Common 


resident. 


Yellow Bellied Sapsucker, Fall 
Migrant. 

Pileated Woodpecker. Resident. 
Red Headed Woodpecker. Resi- 
Flicker. Resident. 
Whip-poor-will. Summer resi- 
dent. 

Nighthawk. Summer resident. 
Chimney Swift. Summer resi- 
dent. 


Ruby Throated Hummingbird. 
Common summer resident. 


Kingbird. Common summer 
resident. 

Crested Flycatcher. Summer 
resident 

Phoebe. Very common summer 
resident. 

Wood Pewee. Summer resident. 
Acadian Flycatcher. Summer 
resident. 

Blue Jay. Very common resi- 
dent. 

Crow, Very common resident. 
Cowbird. Summer resident. 
Yellow Headed Blackbird. Mi- 
grant. 

Red Winged Blackbird. Mi- 


grant. : 

Rusty Blackbird. Migrant. 
Meadowlark. Resident. 
Orchard Oriole. Summer resi- 
dent. 

Baltimore Oriole. One record. 
Purple Grackle. Winter visitant. 
House Finch. Five nests 1920. 


Catbird. Common summer. resi- 
dent. 
Carolina Wren. Summer resi- 
dent. 


Resident. 
Winter visitant. 
Accidental Visi- 


Bewick Wren. 
Winter Wren. 
Brown Creeper. 
tant. 

White Breasted Nuthatch. 
dent. 
Chickadee. 
dent. 


Resi- 


Very common resi- 


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749. Ruby Crowned Kinglet. Rare 
Migrant. 

751. Blue Gray Gnatcatcher. Summer 
resident. 

755. Wood Thrush. Summer resi- 
dent, 

761. Robin. Common resident. 

766. Bluebird. Common summer resi- 
dent. 

731. Tufted Titmouse. Resident. 

316. Mourning Dove. Resident. 
Snow Bunting. Resident. 
American Three-toed ‘W ood- 
pecker. i 

Je Dee Blacks 


Winslow, Arkansas. 


MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 

In looking over the December issue 
T noted in Mr. Graham’s ‘‘Texas Notes 
for 1921,” a description of some curi- 
ous animals that he encountered while 
collecting along the Mexican border. 
From his description, although the 
name of the animal is not given, I 
judge that he refers to the nine-band- 
ed armidillo, of frequent occurrence in 
southern Texas. It is perhaps much 
more common south of the Rio Grande. 
I have never seen the animal: in its 
native habitat, but have seen living 
specimens at the Bronx Zoo, New York 
City, and mounted specimens in sev- 
eral of the larger museums of Amer- 
ica.. The armidillo is the United 
States’ most primitive placental mam- 
mal, Only the opossum ranks lower in 
the scale of mammal life. The armi- 
dillo belongs to the order of Hdentates, 
and through it is related to the lazy 
tree sloths and the anteaters of South 
and Central America, and to the giant 
ground sloths of prehistoric times, 

The case of the naming of the 
horned frogs or toads illustrates an in- 
teresting fact in popular nomenclature. 
Whereas we call them frogs or toads, 
we should call them lizards—although 
few people do—because they are truly 
lizards and belong to the class of rep- 


tiles. This fact can be easily veri- 
fied by examining the skin which is 
not continuous as in the amphibians 
but is covered with true reptilian 
scales, just as in the case of snakes 
and turtles. 

Such facts are, I realize, only of in. 
cidental interest to ornithologists, 
but as scientific facts are certainly 
worth knowing But to get closer to 
ornithology. I regret that I have not 
my notes at hand at the time of this 
writing, but I have a few interesting 
winter records to record from memory. 
My field trips during the past six 
months have been few and far _ be- 
tween, and little of value can be re- 
corded. 

On December 13 last, I started out 
late in the afternoon on a collecting 
trip. It was a chilly day, the sun was 
hidden by a gray sky, and few -birds 
were stirring. Only Juncos, tree and 
song Sparrows seemed to be stirring 
and I had walked several miles be- 
fore seeing any of these. I did not 
want any of these, so finally struck 
the railroad right-of-way and started 
for town, ready to give up the idea of 
getting any birds that day. Hardly 
had I gone a hundred yards when a 
large bird flew up from a marshy 
meadow ahead and circled around me, 
settling in a creek-bed about a quarte: 
mile distant. I thought it was an 
American Bittern but could hardly be- 
lieve that one would stay so late in 
central Missouri. We had already 
had one cold spell and an accompan: 
ing snow storm, and for a bird accus- 
tomed to wintering in Guatemala, I 
thought it had long ago been time to 
move. I watched closely to see where 
the bird alighted, then slowly began 
stalking it. I wanted to get within 
good shooting distance before it flew 
up. Finally I flushed it from a little 
patch of marsh grass and dropped it 
at a shot. It proved to be what I had 


14 THE OOLOG:1ST 


thought, an American Bittern. This 
bird usually leaves Missouri in Oc- 
tober. It has seemed to me fairly 
common here for the last three sea- 
sons. 

Last winter was rather open and I 
made several interesting notes then. 
For example, I startled a Mockingbird 
from a brush pile on January 22, 1921, 
a very cold day. On the same day I 
saw a Marsh Hawk flying low over a 
creek bed. On January 13, previous 
to that, I had seen a Marsh Hawk— 
probably the same individual—and a 
flock of Bronzed Grackles. It is very 
unusual for any of these species to 
winter north of the Missouri River, or 
even to occur there in winter. Last 
winter was also unusual for the great 
number of rough-legged hawks. I 
made hardly a trip without seeing at 
least one of these. The past fall has 
shown me more Sharp-shinned Hawks 
than I have ever seen before. It is 
interesting how the relative abund- 
ance of species continually fluctuates. 
Like many other ornithologists I am 
looking forward eagerly to the spring 
season. 

Gordon Alexander, 
Fayette, Missouri. 


OUT OF ITS RANGE 

One day, while on a hunting trip 
in the Antelope Mountains, in the 
east central part of Idaho, during the 
latter part of August, I chanced upon 
a small bird in some willows close by 
a creek. It was on the top-most limb 
and from its posture I knew it was 
some kind of a flycatcher. 

It was too wary to be identified in 
life. I had no glasses, so I took the 
specimen. It proved, upon identifica- 
tion, to be a Least Flycatcher. 

There were several other birds of 
the same specie, in what was evi- 
dently a migrating flock as it was 
too late for them to be nesting. 


This surprised me as the bird was 
far out of its range. The westward 
boundary being eastern Wyoming, as 
far as I can find out with the material 
I have on hand. 

Can you tell me whether it has ever 
been observed this far west of its sup- 
posed range? (Yes, but very seldom. 


[Rt JME 183.) 
W. B. Davis, 
Rupert, Idaho. 
A. M. EDDY 
Mr. A. M. Eddy, who printed The 


Oologist, beginning with the first 
issue down to the time that he turned 
the business over to his son, under the 
name of The Eddy Printing Company, 
died at his home in Albion, New York, 
on the 11th day of September, 1921 

Our first acquaintance with Mr. 
Kddy was in 1909, at the time we pur- 
chased The Oologist, and we have 
known him long and well by corres- 
pondence since that time, though 
never having met him personally. 
During this long period of time it was 
a privilege and a pleasure to transact 
business with a gentleman of his kind. 
He impressed us as straight forward, 
sincere and in every respect, a real 
man. 

Mr. Eddy at all times had a personal 
interest in the well-fare of The 
Oologist. He seemed attached to the 
little publication, and more than once 
called our attention to the fact that he 
printed the first and every succeeding 
number, It is with regret that we 
have been compelled to cease business 
transactions with him. At the same 
time it is our hope and belief that his 
son will prove a worthy successor to 
the father. 

The lateness of this anncuncement 
is due to the fact that a similar note 
was prepared, printed and in some 
manner lost. 

R. M. Barnes. 


THE OOLOGIST 16 


BOOKS 


Bendire’s Life 


FOR SALE—Part 1, 
Alex. Walker, 


Histories N. A. Birds. 
Blaine, Oregon. 


WANTED—“‘The New Nature Li- 
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publications with no pages missing. 
State best price. Byron C. Marshall, 
Imboden, Ark. 


WANTED—Oologist IV,.6, and all 
numbers of 1919 and 1920; Check-list 
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Oklahoma. 


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Life History of N. A. Birds; also Chim- 
ney Swallows nest in good condition. 
Ofter Bendire’s V. I, newly bound, ete. 
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WANTED—A copy of lLawrence’s 
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Clyde Todd, Carnegie Museum, Pitts- 
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HXCHANGE—I have the following 
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condition. Make me an offer. B. S. 
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Mass. 


SALE—Mounted Texas Horned 
,65 cents each. Skinned ready 
Add one to your 


FOR 
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to mount, 40 cents. 
collection. Sent postpaid. Ramon 
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Box 215 Polytechnic, Ft. Worth, Texas. 


ted-backed, Gray, Dusx,. *1 wo-lined 
silamanders, finely mounte in solu- 
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any species, $1.50. Spotted salamander 
mounted as above, $4.50. Unopened 
copy “Insect Behavior,’ 114 illustra- 
tions, by Paul G. Howes, $4.00. Other 
books and mounted birds; see last May 
Oologist. Paul G. Howes Laboratory, 
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Lore. Vols. 11 to 22 inclusive. Oologist 
Wolk, 13, 10, 30, 35, 86, 872 Wo ad. Wo, 


Sp Oy UO WoL Wi, INO, 1, 2, 4 &, @, O, ids 
Vol. 34, No. 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12. Bor the 
entire lot $25. C. F. Carr, New Lon- 
don, Wisconsin. 


FOR SALE—“‘Tishes of North and 
Middle America,” vol. 4 only, paper, 392 
full page plates, $2. Bulletin United 
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illustrated, cloth, $1.25. Proceedings 
lowa Academy of Sciences, 1912, board 
covers, $1. Miscellaneous natural his- 
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California. 


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Turnbull, “Birds of East Pennsylvania 
and New Jersey,’ the rare Glascow 
Edition. Send for my list of Bird Books 
wanted. Harry S. Hathaway, Box 1466, 
Providence, R. I. 


FOR SALE—One Book Frog Culture 
for Profit. Copyrighted 1914, Aqua Life 
Co., Seymour, Conn. Price $1.46 post- 
paid. One Book Entomological and 
Ornithological Collector’s Hand-Book, 
by James Sinclair, Entomologist, Los 
Angeles, Calif. Price 35 cents postpaid. 
A. M. Nelson, Jr., Lake Providence, La. 
Box 296. 


FOR SALE by Mrs. Jane Knox, of 
Jackson, Minn.: 1, North American 
Birds (Binding worn but Vol. good), 
Baird, Bremer & Ridgeway, Vol. 1, 2 
& 3; 2, North American Birds, Baird, 
Bremer & Ridgeway. Vols. 1 & 2. (Good 
as new). 3 Birds of Kansas, by N. S. 
Goss (1886). 1 Vol. (Good as new). 4, 
History of the Birds of Kansas, by ‘N. 
S. Goss, in 1 Vol. Illustrating 529 Birds. 
(In good shape). 5, The Living World. 
Illustrated. Birds, Beasts, etc. (Some 
worn). 6, The Wild Beasts and Reptiles 
of the World. The story of their cap- 
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16 THE OO © GI's F 


MISCELLANEOUS 


FOR ~SALE—Conn Bantom  Jaxa- 
phone;. Conn Cornet Flute; Conn Pic- 
colo; Buescher Slide Trombone; E Flat 
Clarinets; B Flat Clarinets. All triple 
silver plated except clarinets, and in 
plush lined cases. Clarinets in_ solid 
leather cases. Dr. A. E. Payne, River- 
head, New York. 


FOR EXCHANGE—Photographs, size 
5x7; nests and eggs Nos. 194, 125, 221, 
325, 554a, T6la, 297a, 289, 761, 273, T21a, 
Oil, Oil, LOM, Bile, Ade, Gil, 4505 wel, 
725c¢, 225, 120c, 141, 132, 135, 542b, 554b, 
567a. Birds: Sea Gulls on the Pacific, 
West Horned Owl, Pelican Colony, 
Malheur Lake Res., Young Pelicans, 
Young Turkey Vultures. Will exchange 
for eggs in sets or Bird Skins. Must 
be first class with full data. A. G. 
Prill, Scio, Oregon. 


PHOTOS WANTED—A few striking 
pictures (glossy) for illustrative pul- 
poses, of a Gt. Horned Owl’s nest with 
young; Gt. Blue Heron colony; aiso 
Horned Owl and Herons separate. Seni 
descrintions or prints. State price. HK. 
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I have a‘ fine collection of Indian 
relics I wish to dispose of for cash the 
collection consists of about four hun- 
dred fine arrow and spear points, skin- 
ning stones, hatchets, pendants, 
knives, hammer stones, and a number 
of very fine other specimens, the en- 
tire collection numbers about five hun- 
dred pieces in all, have complete data 
with every piece, $100 will take the 
lot. Walter E. Hastings, South Lyon, 
Michigan. 


MAYNARD SERIES—To stimulate 
interest I offer of this series, Eggs at 
less than one-fourth list; 29 eggs for 
One Dollar; for Two Dollars, 27 addi- 
tional eggs of the series. The Fifth and 
Tenth Dollar orders will receive, each, 
additional eggs of Fifty Cents cash 
value. For a Three Dollar order I will 
add an egg, each, of Vulture, Hummer, 
White-necked Raven and Canada 
Goose. A list of the Student Series 
Maynard, with every Dollar order. Hach 
Dollar order contains 2 eggs of 50-cent 
value. P. B. Peabody, Blue Rapids, 
Kansas. 


I have just had placed with me a 
wonderful collection of 400 Indian Ar- 
row Heads and Tomahawks. These 
were collected among the hills of Ken- 
tucky, and I have been asked to dis- 
pose of them in either small or large 


lots and for most any fair offer. If 
you are interested and wish to make 
any proposition involving oological 
specimens, bird photographs, or other 


Natural History specimens I shall be 
glad to hear from you. G. A. Abbott, 
Laneaster, Ky. i 


FOR SALE—Skins and Mounted 
Specimen of Skunk, Civit Cat, Opossum, 
Horned Frogs, Jack Rabbitt, Swamp 
Rabbit, Armodillas and Squirrels. Ra- 
en Graham, Box 215 Poly, Ft. Worth, 
Texas. 


| WANTED — Baird’s 
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BUTTERELIES—Just received a new 
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in papers unnamed, consisting of Papi- 
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contains one Morpho cypres, one of the 
most brilliant of South American but- 
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for the specie alone. A. J. Potter, East 
Killingly, Conn. 1-3t 


FOR EXCHANGH—A-1 sets 261, 273, 
305, 308b, 331, 367 and others for well 
mounted specimens of 327, 331, 332, 333, 
337, 337a, 342, 343. _Also have finely 
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COLLECTORS—Desire to get in 
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FOr. SALE or Hxchange—Mounted 
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singles. Jesse T. Craven, 5315 Roose- 
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HOR SALE E1K head. Shoulder 
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in splendid condition. Mrs. EK. T. Flor- 
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IN@s Bo 1-2t 


WANTED—Two or 
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Ave., San Jose, California. 


three sets of 


EGGS 


WANN D—O6, 68, Wl, 72, 78, 70, Wes 
204 and 205. I will have fine sets to 
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WANTED for Cash—A-1 sets 10, 25, 


RR, BI BO Rae B77 GO, GOs, GB, We, wale, iols}. 
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THE OOLOGIST 
THE NEW PRICE LIST 


We are pleased to announce that the New Catalogue of Prices of North 
American Birds’ Eggs, will be ready for distribution January 1st, 1922. This 
catalogue will fill an acute necessity. It has been sixteen years since a catalogue 
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I will purchase for cash entire col- 
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mounted birds and birds eggs or odd 
lots of the same, which I still need to 
complete my series. Send list and 
prices. R. M. Barnes, Lacon, Ills. 


WANTED—Good set with data of 
Falco perregrinus anatum. Cash or 
exchange. H. Kirke Swann, Thorn- 
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WANTHD—One large upright egg 
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best Burr Drills, have stamps to trade 
for eggs. Arthur Blocher, Amboy, Ills. 


I have following species in good sets 
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355, 419, 421, 482, 498d, b1l3a, 585b, 594a, 
602, 639, 641, 697, 759a. Thos H. Jack- 
son, 304 N. Franklin St., West Chester, 
Pennsylvania. 


EXCHANGH—Texas birds ’eggs in 
sets. Bird and animal Skins, Curios. 
Natural history specimens. Ramon 
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Livesatss 

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series; of some a large number; of 
rarer ones, just a few. (Details about 
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WANTED—Egegs of Nos. 81, 82, 88, 
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96.1,°.111. Puffinus Carniepes Oestra- 
lata Solandrik Phaethon rubicandus. 
Roland Archer, Ryecroft, Lyndhurst, 
Victoria. Australia. 

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Ti7a, ete. “Singles 55, 60, 254; Ducks, 
Geese, etc. Also few fine skins. Oolo- 
Ease WO, SIb> Scns Comclow Wolk 25 
Nidologist, Vol. II, Nos. 4-8; Vol. III, 
Vol. IV, Nos. 1, 2, 9. Robert EF. Backus, 
Florence, Colo. Box 3862. 


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unmarked, albinistic and malformed 
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you have anything of this nature. Best 
cash price given. J. Warren Jacobs, 
Waynesburg, Penna. 


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collectors who wish to write me, at my 
new address. James Wood, North- 
ville, Michigan. 

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Olive, Black-fronted, Cerulean, Bay- 
breasted, Sycamore, Grace’s, Golden- 
cheeked, Palm, Connecticut, Mourning, 
and Wilson’s Warblers; also Water 
Thrush, for which I offer 


skins of 


Western Birds. Alex. Walker, Blaine, 
Oregon. 
FOR SALE ONLY—A-1 Mounted 


Birds. Group of 3 solitary sandpipers, 
$10. Rare hybrid of black duck and 
mallard $25; Scarlet tan. $3.50; Mourn- 
ing dove $8.50; Savanna Sparrow $2.50; 
Chest. Col. Longspur $3; Snow.. Bunt. 
$2.50: Hooded Merganser $5; Wilson 
Snipe $3. Books—N. A. Early Tertiary 
Bryozoa, Canu and Bassler, 1920, 2 
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18 THE OGOLOGIST 


NEXT! 

A bill has been introduced into Con- 
gress and is in a fair way to pass, re- 
quiring a Federal license of the five 
million American sportsmen at a dol- 
lar per annum for hunting migratory 
birds, not less than 45% of which is 
to be spent by the government in buy- 
ing or renting land which would serve 
as breeding and feeding places for 
birds during the period for their flight 
North during®the closed season and 
as public shooting grounds during 
the open season, and additional 45% 
to be used for the enforcement of the 
Migratory Bird Treaty Act and Lacy 
Act and remaining 10% to be expend: 
ed for expenses in administering the 
Act. Most of the provisions of the bill 
are very commendable and is to be 
hoped will be enacted in the law. 

However, a very serious defect of 
this bill is that it provides that the 
Attorney General, Post Master Gen- 
eral, and two members of each of the 
houses of Congress, shall be the com- 
mission in control of the matter. It is 
our judgment as the result of a good 
many years of both public and private 
experience, that the Attorney General, 
Post Master General, Members of the 
house of Representatives and Senate, 
have each enough to do, if they attend 
to their duties of their respective 
offices and make an honest, serious 
effort to earn the salaries paid them 
for so doing that their time will be 
fully occupied. The result of any 
such commission as that proposed in 
this bill will be to make this act a 
mere political football. 

The theory and idea of the act is 
good, its proper administration will be 
beneficial to the wild birds and to the 
public in general, However, it should 
be administered by a non-partisan or- 
ganization or an organization com- 
posed of members of parties, all of 
whom should be men of recognized 
ability and standing in Ornithology 


and Bird Protection. 

It is a disgrace to our system of Goy- 
ernment that substantially every good 
thing that we do must be besmirched 
with political partisan patronagisms 
almost without exception and regard- 
less of which party originates the idea, 

Another serious defect in this pill as _ 
we view it, is that it provided only for 
refuge of the birds during the closed 
season, i. e. the breeding and North- 
ern flight season. There must be ~ 
nesting places provided for the birds 
free frcm molestation and hunting in 
their Southern migration as well as 
during the Northern migration if they 
are to be preserved.—R. M. Barnes. 


THE CARDINAL (C. CARDINALS) 
AT KALAMAZOO 

Twenty years ago the Cardinal Gros: 
beak was a very rare bird in this VE 
cinity. During the severe winter of 
03-04 I.saw my first Cardinal. It was 
on December 25th, 1903. This was my 
cnly record for the next five years. 
Thereafter I occasionally came ac=osam 
a few members of this species, all 
males and recorded usually between 
November and April] ‘They seemed to 
disappear during the summer menth3 
and for several years none were seen. 


the present, time January, ’22, 
are about @ dozen wintering within; 
the city limits. Several pairs are fre@ 
quently noted the same day. Beyond} 
question they now breed in this sec) 


suitable localities, such as brushy low-: 
iands along the river. This species if} 
appears is gradually increasing iff 
range Northward. 
Wim. Wilkowski, — 

Jan. 22, 1922. Kalamazoo, Mich, 
Few birds have extended their range 
northerly in the past forty years more 
than the Cardinal has.—R. M. B. 


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LIST OF BREEDING BIRDS IN 
STORY COUNTY, IOWA 
The following list of birds were ob- 
served during the breeding season of 
1921, and were known to have nested 
in Story County, lowa. 
Red Tailed Hawk 
Cooper Hawk 
Marsh Hawk 
American Sparrow Hawk 
Great Horned Owl 
Screech Owl 
Northern Downy Woodpecker 
Hairy Woodpecker 
Red-Bellied Woodpecker 
Northern Flicker 
Red-Headed Woodpecker 
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 
Green Heron 
Crested Flycatcher 
Kingbird 
Phoebe 
Bank Swallow 
Barn Swallow 
Purple Martin 
Dickcissel 
Bob White 
Killdeer 
Blue Jay 
American Crow 
Meadow Lark 
Brown Thrasher 
House Wren 
Ruby Throated Hummingbird 
American Goldfinch 
Chimney Swift 
Black-capped Chickadee 
Catbird 
Baltimore Oriole 
Mourning Dove 
Belted Kingfisher 
Prairie Horned Lark 
Grasshopper Sparrow 
Field Sparrow 
Vesper Sparrow 
English Sparrow 
Red-eyed Vireo 
Warbling Vireo 
Bronzed Grackle 
Red-winged Blackbird 
Cow Bird 
Blue Bird 
Martin C. Paulson, 


WINTER OBSERVATIONS IN TEXAS 
James Wood, Brownwood, Texas 


Thinking that the following notes 
may be of some interest to the readers 
of The Oologist, I am sending a list 
of the species that I found here along 
the Pecan River, in the vicinity of 
Brownwood, Texas. 


The Cardinal, Tufted Titmouse and 
American Gold Finch are found in 
great numbers, are tame and can rea‘d- 
ily be approached. 


The Mockingbird, Blue Jay, and 
Texas Bewick Wren are also abundant. 
The Bewick Wren, if closely looked 
for, can be found in most any patch of 
underbrush, but could easily be passed 
unobserved, as he seems to be rather 
quiet and is seldom heard. 


Chewinks are common but keep 
close to the ground in the thickest 
brush and are not easily flushed un- 
less closely approached. 


While I was busily engaged in watch- 
ing a pair of Chewinks, my attention 
was drawn to a soft lisping note which 
was often repeated, and which seemed 
to come from high up in the air, and 
upon investigating I found a flock of 
about thirty Cedar Waxwings sitting 
in the uppermost branches of a large 
pecan tree, uttering their soft in- 
distinct notes and during the day I 
found four flocks of an average of 
about thirty to a’ flock. 


The Turkey Buzzard is seen oc- 
casionally circling high up and the 
Red-bellied and Texan Woodpeckers 
are fairly common. 


And I was greatly surprised to see a 
large Golden Eagle sitting in the top 
of a large tree to which I approached 
real close. 


This was a rare occasion and this 
bird had evidently been wounded as he 
allowed me to come quite close before 
taking to flight, when I observed that 
he had six or seven feathers out of 
his left wing which seemed to hinder 
his flying considerably. 


THE OOLOGI!IST 21 


Cooper’s Hawk. Photo taken May 10, 1921 by H. Grandquist and R. B. Simpson, 
40 feet up in a beech in deep woods, Warren Co., Pa. 


LEAVES FROM MY NOTE BOOK 

June 7, 1916. I was walking along a 
street here in town on the aiternoon 
of this date, and I saw a Blue Jay lay- 
ing flat on the ground, with wings and 
tail outspread, and its head to one side, 
and the eyes were open, J suppose 
it had met with some accident or 
other and thinking about my collection 
I stooped to pick the find up. To my 
surprise the Jay jumped up and flew 
off over the trees yelling at me. I 
never knew a Jay tc play dead before 
and I am inclined to believe it had a 
“stroke” if birds have such things. 

July 1917. A lad brought to me on 
this date a much bedraggled specimen 
ef American Bittern. He told me he 
had found the bird crippled near the 
Lake-of-the-Woods and killed it and 
took it to me. The familiar odor of 
skunk was plainly in evidence and I 


found the bird to be badly bruised, 
and with one wing broken. There is 
little doubt in my mind that a skunk 
had tried to drive on the Bittern, but 
the latter objected, and a fight was 
staged.._ I would like to see the skunk. 
January 1920. Dr. Condit came into 
the shop on this date with a dead 
Great-eared Owl, for me to mount. He 
told me he had found the owl dead in 
a ravine, near town. 
While skinning the head I discovered 
a shingle nail protruding through the 
lower mandible in the fleshy part. The 
nail was corroded and black and 
looked as though it had been there a 
long time. I think this was what 
caused the bird’s death, but how did 
it come by the shingle nail is beyond 
me. 
Ralph R. Donahue, 
Bonner Springs, Kansas. 


99 THE OOLOGIST 


WINTER RESIDENTS 

In December 1921 issue of The 
OOLOGIST Mr. Fred J. Pierce of Win- 
throp, Iowa, makes note of a Belted 
Kingfisher wintering there. Now I 
have found the Belted Kingfisher the 
year around at the United States Fish 
Hatchery just three and one-half miles 
east of Manchester. The Fish Hatch- 
ery is on a large stream of spring 
water that never freezes during the 
winter and the Belted Kingfisher can 
be found there most every winter. 
This is the joining county to the 
county Mr. Pierce resides in. 

Driving west to Masonville just 
seven miles from Manchester on Dec. 
22, 1921, a Meadowlark flew up from 
the road and went into a meadow. A 
party told me the Meadowlark had 
been there all winter. A report comes 
to me from New Hampton, Iowa, of 
five Meadowlarks wintering there. 
This is some farther north and here is 
a newspaper clipping which I do be- 
lieve is true. 

The Larks Remain 

Rolfe, Ia.—To the Editor: The 
writer has wintered in Iowa more than 
forty years, but never before this win- 
ter have I noticed Meadowlarks with- 
in the state limits in the middle of 
January. On Jan. 11, between this 
place and Havelock, I saw three Larks 
feeding just off the railroad right of 
way and on Jan. 10 saw one between 
Manson and Pocahontas. It is not an 
unusual thing for these birds to ap- 
pear in northern lowa by March 1, 
while the snow still covers the ground, 
and to remain until Dec. 1, in mild 
falls. Both Robins and Blackbirds can 
be found in sheltered nooks in many 
localities in the state all through the 
winter. Some winters flocks of Can- 
ada Geese and Wild Ducks stay 
through the winter along the Missouri 
river when considerable water spaces 
in the river fail to freeze over. Of 
late years Cardinals have appeared in 
many parts of the state where there 


is natural timber shelter and remain 
the year round. But who ever before 
heard of Meadowlarks in midwinter in 
northern Iowa?” 

A flock of nine Hvening Grosbeaks 
were near my home November 14th, 
1921. These are the only ones I have 
recorded in lowa. 

There is a flock of about fifty Prairie 
Chickens 14 miles north of Man- 
chester. They have been far from 
plenty for some time but the closed 
state law has done much for the 
Prairie Chicken and Quail, in Iowa, 
the past few years.—O. M. Greenwood, 
Manchester, lowa. 


SPARROW HAWKS VS. WESTERN 
RED-TAIL 

I had the opportunity of witnessing 
a Sparrow Hawk attack a Western 
Red-tailed Hawk this noon. When first 
seen both birds were in an eucalyptus 
tree with the Sparrow Hawk several 
feet above in some leafless branches 
in the top of the tree. 

The tree in which they were perched 
was one of a row of eucalyptus trees 
about fifty feet from a dwelling and a 
storehouse in the Benicia Arsenal 
grounds. My companion and I saw the 
Sparrow Hawk when about a block 
away and when we had gotten withina 
hundred feet the smaller bird flew up- 
wards uttering its ‘“‘killy-killy,”’ then 
swooped down towards the Red-tail 
and upwards again forming a half 
circle in its flight several times, but 
always missed the larger bird by a 
couple of feet. When the Red-tail 
sailed away the little Sparrow Hawk 
chased it until out of sight among the 
trees, still uttering its cry and swoop- 
ing down towards the other bird’s 
back during the flight. 

This Sparrow Hawk has a regular 
station in the neighborhood of my 
office, and no doubt considers the vi- 
cinity as his post and hence any other 
bird of prey as an intruder. 

BH. A. Stoner, Benicia, Cal, 


THE OOLOGIST 23 


THE PENDULUM 

We have always lived in hope of re- 
lief from the manufacturers of milli- 
meter races who have mussed up the 
ornithological literature for a genera- 
tion past to the distraction of the or- 
dinary bird students. Between the 
endless change of scientific names and 
the alleged discoverer (?) of imaginary 
iocal races of birds, the ordinary seek- 
er after knowledge through the orni- 
thological literature of the past ten 
years is driven well nigh to distrac- 
tion, The scentific names of many of 
our more common birds having been 
changed with a rapidity that was ab- 
solutely startling, then changed and 
re-changed some more until in many 
instances the only reliable safeguard 
was the common name. 

Our Wren, Yellow Throats, Song 
Sparrows, Blackbirds, Horned Larks, 
etc., have been split, re-split, sliced, di- 
vided and torn into bits by an appar- 
ently never ending series of ‘“Re- 
visions” until nearly every bird student 
might claim an original independent 
Ownership, in a sub-species, or geo- 
graphical race of some bird, the locus 
of which might possibly be his own 
pack yard. 

That even the most hardended of- 
fenders along these lines are not with- 
out the hope of ultimate redemption 
trom this senseless and useless habit 
| is evidenced by the fact that the pend- 
vlum has slowly commenced to move 
in the other direction. 

On page 32, Volume XXIV of The 
_ Condor, February 1922, our friend, 
Julius Grinnell takes a shot at An- 
thony’s Vireo, Vireo huttoni obscureus, 
| A. O. U. 732C and shoots it clear out 
of existence. And on page 27 of the 

same issue publishes a list of the num- 
ber of alleged different forms of birds 
described by nine ornithologists who 
_have each described or attempted to 
describe five or more distinct alleged 
species or sub-species or geographical 
race of birds, in which he shows that 
these millimeter hunters have been 


wrong 28% of the time. And by way 
of self-defense, Brother Grinnell an- 
nounces that he has been wrong only 
six out of thirty-eight times. Be that 
as it may, the result of these imagi- 
nary discoveries has been to litter up 
28% of our literature and to cause 
those engaged in research along these 
lines to waste approximately 28% of 
their time while studying these parti- 
cular forms. 


We have always held that most of 
these microscopic discoveries which 
when reduced to millimeters show that 
on bird or several may have a hind 
toe or a bill that is one or two hun- 
dredth of an inch longer than the same 
members of some other bird’s anat- 
omy, or that the fact that one or more 
birds found in a particular locality ata 
particular time and which might show 
the slightest difference in color phase 
on some of their features from some 
other birds, anatomically identical 
from those from some other part of 
the country, did not justify the herald- 
ing abroad to an expectant and waiting 
world, that a great ornithological dis- 
covery had been made! Nor justify 
the use of thousands of type and pages 
upon pages of printed matter to dis- 
cuss pro and con, this imaginary dis- 
covery which later is found to be noth- 
ing more than a mere hallucination, 
does not-and never would justify muss- 
ing up the literature of a great and 
splendid science until the searchers 
therein for the grain of knowledge is 
compelled before he finds it to winnow 
out untold pages and volumes of this 
sort of chaff. 


Keep it up Doctor, the more of these 
imaginary things that you shoot out of 
our Bird List, the nearer you will come 
to compensating we ordinary people 
for the misinformation with which 
you and many others have afflicted us 
along these lines in the past. We hope 
your score at the later character of 
shooting will stand at least 38 to 6. 


R. M. Barnes. 


24 THE OOLOGIST 


A GOOD THING 


Consolidation of Governmental Sci- 
ence under The Smithsonian Institu- 
tion. 

In order that the scientific activities 
of our Government may be developed 
to the highest possible efficiency it is 
now proposed to consolidate and place 
under the Smithsonian Institution the 
following Governmental Science ac- 
tivities. 

1. Geological Survey. 

2. Reclamation Service. 

3. Bureau of Mines. 

4, Patent Office. 

5-16. All scientific bureaus of the 
Agriculture Department (12 in num- 
ber) affording these bureaus still 
greater opportunity to develop and 
benefit still further the agriculture of 
our country. 

17. Vital and criminalogical and 
cther abnormal statistics of the Census 
Office. 

18. Bureau of Standards. 

19. Bureau of Fisheries. 

20. Hygienic Laboratory. 

21. Bureau of Public Health 
vice. 

22. Army Medical Museum and Li- 
brary. 

23. Government Hospital for the 
insane, 

24. Coast and Geodetic ‘Survey. 

25. Library of Congress (to be 
called Library of the United States.) 

26-32. Bureaus of the Smithsonian 
Institution itself (7 in all). 

Including the thirty-two Bureaus 
above referred to, together with all of 
the personal and activities intact. 

The purpose and advantages of this 
plan for the consolidation of govern- 
ment science under the Smithsonian 
Institution are summed up as follows: 

1. To develop government science 
to the highest possible efficiency. 

2. To correct illogical and hap- 
hazard arrangements of bureaus or de- 
partments, 


Ser- 


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3. To reduce political influence in 
scientific bureaus to a minimum. 

4. The efficient development of 
scientific bureaus under a _ scientific 
head is much more probable than un- 
der a political head. 

5. To unite pure and applied sci- 
ence into a happy medium, increasing 
the efficiency of both. 

6. To encourage scientific men in 


their work, which makes toward 
efficiency. 
7. To put Government scientific 


work upon the high university plane. 
8. To avoid duplication of scientific 
work, appropriations and duplication 


of library books. It also facilitates 
their proper distribution. 


9. To advance government medical 
science, which has been much neglect- 
ed. 

10. To give permanency of position 
and independence to experts, making 
it possible to get the best men of Ssci- 
ence to work for the government. 

11. To make very improbable inter- 
ference or meddling of the head in the 
work of the many bureaus under him. 

It is to be devoutly hoped that this 
consummation may be reached and I 
would not be a bad idea for those 
favoring this consolidation to so ad- 
vise their Members of Congress and 
Senators who represent them. 

R. M. Barnes. 


A LETTER 
Lancaster, Kentucky, 
January 7, 1922. 
Dear Mr. Barnes: 

There is no publication which can 
possibly merit greater support from 
some of us (and I am one) than The 
Oologist. It never grows old. Its con- 
tributors may advance in years but 
they speak to you today through the 
columns of this periodical in the same 
informal, frank and amateurish way 
which inspired their writings of years 
ago. 

No college degrees, or components 


THE OOLOGIST 25 


of Latin, or advancements in social or 
professional life have in any way 
stiffened the dispositions of these 
nature lovers who in spite of greater 
experiences still delight to relate their 
achievements in simple alturistic man- 
ner. 

Whenever The Oologist is short on 
manuscript I shall be glad indeed to 
come across. 

Gerard Alan Abbott. 

Thank you, G. A Your copy is al- 
ways good copy.—R. M. B. 


THE BLUE GROSBEAK IN TER- 
RANT COUNTY, TEXAS 

As I had never discovered this bird 
nesting in Tarrant County, Texas, I 
was more than surprised when I hap- 
pened upon a nest near my camp. This 
nest was found by accident. I was 
leaving camp on a bird census trip for 
the Government. I had got about one 
hundred feet down the fence from 
camp when some one yelled for me. i 
answered back, “Well, what do you 
want?” As I said this a female Blue 
Grosbeak flew from her well concealed 
nest right in front of me. It was in a 
low oak. I looked in and to my sur- 
prise there were 2 Grosbeak eggs and I 
Cowbird egg. I was tickled over my 
accidental discovery. This was May 21, 
1919 On May 26 there were no more 
eggs. I had disturbed the bird several 
times so she must have laid the other 
eggs some where else. When this bird 
was flushed she never would look 
back, but keep a straight course for 
some distant timber. It would be some 
time before she would return to her 
nest. 


nest. I went to the nest time 
and again, trying to see the male 
bird, but never did get a glance 


at him The female was on the 
nest at every observation both by day 
and night, and of all the disturbance I 
gave her she never deserted the nest. 
This nest was five feet up in a small 
oak tree near a fence by a truck farm. 


One hundred feet north of my camp 
and two hundred feet northeast from 
Williams Spring at Lake Worth, Tar- 
rant County, Texas. Nest composed of 
rags, leaves, paper and spider webs. 
Lots of newspaper formed the under- 
parts. Inside was made of small 
stringy rootlets and sparingly lined 
with horse hair. My next experience 
with Grosbeaks, the shy little bird, 
was on June the eighth. I was always 
watching birds and carry a note book 
in my pocket the year around. I take 
notes of everything in the bird line 
that I see, both winter and summer. 
So after a hard day’s work on Marine 
Motors I sat down out in front of my 
shop to take a few notes and observa- 
tions. First came a Yellow-billed 
Cuckoo, darting in the top of an elm 
tree catching a large worm, perching 
on a limb, he soon done away with his 
prey. Next a Bewick’s Wren flewtoa 
can that I had tacked up in a tree. 
She had a bug for one of her young. 
A Red-bellied Woodpecker was. ob- 
served in the act of walking the under- 
side of a limb. A Summer Tanager 
darted by on his way to see his wife, 
that was snugly covering four eggs 
not a hundred feet away. A family of 
Plumbeous Chickadees were enjoying 
themselves as the day was passing. 
The sun was nearly down but you 
could hear Cardinals in every direc- 
tion. A Tufted Titmouse was noticed 
in the utmost top of an elm tree. Now 
and then a Crested Flycatcher or Red- 
headed Woodpecker could be heard in 
the dead timber across the way. A 
Turkey Vulture came sailing by as if 
well contented. Just up the hill I 
could hear the Dickcissels and Lark 
Sparrows singing their last tune en- 
titled The Evening Twilight. A Paint- 
ed Bunting darted to her nest in some 
underbrush. All at once I heard a 
strange and lonesome note made by a 
shy little bird, Chee chee chee. She 
was hopping from one limb to another 
in the top of a tree near by. She 


26 THE OOLOGIST 


seemed to be worried, carrying aand the lake. 


big piece of newspaper in her bill. She 
was waiting for me to go away. This 
bird heard her mate not far away so 
she darted in his direction. A few 
notes were exchanged and like an 
Indian arrow she dropped to a large 
weed near a path between my shop 


She disappeared into 


the weeds and I said, “Old lady, I’ve 
got your number.” The nest was near- 
ly completed. It was three feet up in 
the forks of this large weed well con- 
cealed. Nest discovered June the 
eighth. On June the tenth one egg 
was laid. On June the fifteenth there 


Photo taken by Harry Grandquist and 


Nest and Eggs. 


American Goshawk. 


R. B. Simpson on April 5th, 1921 in Warren County, Penn., in large tract of 


Female very bold and 


Nest 30 feet up in a large hemlock. 


timber. 


virgin 


Male bird did not appear at all on this occasion. 


daring. 


THE OOLOGIST . Q7 


were four eggs. On June the seven- 
teenth, still four eggs. After taking 
several photos I left her well satisfied. 
I will have to give this bird credit for 
being a good bird to keep out of 
people’s sight and keeping from being 
observed. Also these birds are good 
on concealing their nest from the most 
careful observer. It’s an accident 
when a nest is found without you see 
the bird go to the nest. This nest 
was poorly tied to the weed stalk with 
spider webs and rootlets. The found- 
ation was formed of leaves, paper, 
strip bark, rootlets, horse hair and 
Indian needles. I am giving this bird 
a careful study so if any one wants 
notes on this bird I will cheerfully 
give them what I have. 

Ramon Graham, 

Ft. Worth, Texas. 

The half-tone illustrating this article 
appeared in Vol. XXXVII at page 106. 

—R. M. B. 

LARGE SETS OF BIRDS’ EGGS 

During the past twenty-five years 
the writer has seen the following large 
sets of birds’ eggs in the field: 

Wood Duck. Highteen eggs, May 16, 
1920. Sixteen eggs, April 17, 1921; 
both nests in Salem County, N. J. 

Least Bittern. Seven eggs, May 26, 
1907, Richmond, Philadelphia, Pa. (See 
Oologist, 1909, p. 27). Six eggs. I 
have examined thirty nests containing 
six eggs and many others holding six 
young, in New Jersey and Penn- 
sylvania, where clutches of this num- 
ber are common. 

Black-crowned Night Heron. Five 
eggs. I have examined only ten sets 


of fine eggs in several hundred nests 


containing full sets, in New Jersey 
heronries. 

Great Blue Heron. Six eggs. April 
10, 1921, Salem.County, N. J. 

Clapper Rail. Thirteen eggs. June 
9, 1907, Sea’ Isle City, Cape May Coun- 
ty, N. J., June 4, 1916, Stone Harbor, 


Cape May County, New Jersey. Twelve 
eggs. I have examined eight clutches 
of this number in nests in above coun- 
ty, also one in Ocean County, N. J. 

Florida Gallinule. Highteen eges. 
July 10, 1908. Richmond, Philadelphia, 
(See Oologist, 1908, p. 170). Fourteen 
eggs. May 29, 1907, at above locality. 
Thirteen eggs. I have found six nests 
containing this number of eggs in the 
Richmond - Bridesburg, Philadelphia, 
marshes, and many others with twelve 
and eleven eggs. 

Sparrow Hawk. Six eggs. 
1919. 
Pa. 

Osprey, Four eggs. May 30, 1919. 
Seven Mile Beach, Cape May County, 
N. J. 

N. Downy Woodpecker. Six eggs. 
May 13, 1909, Pensauhen, Camden 
County, N. J., May 21, Salem County, 
IN, dle 

Northern Flicker. Ten eggs. May 
10, 1906. Bustleton, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Nine eggs; I have examined seven 
clutches of this number in Pennsyl]- 
vania and New Jersey. 

Kingbird. Four eggs. June 17,1917, 
Wayne County, Pa., June 5, 1919, 
Gwynedd Valley, Montgomery County, 
Pa., June 8, 1920. Holmesburg, Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 


April 30, 
Glenside, Montgomery County, 


Phoebe. Six eggs. April 30, 1901. 
Holmesburg, Philadelphia, Pa. 
Blue Jay. Six eggs. May 2, 1915. 


Jordantown, Camden County, N. J. 
Red-winged Blackbird. Six eggs. 
June 20, 1909, Ocean View. Cape May 


County, N. J. (See Oologist, 1910, p. 
144). 
Cowbird. Three eggs in. Blue- 


winged Warbler’s nest containing four 
eggs of owner, May 31, 1919, Rock- 
ledge, Montgomery County, Pa. 

Meadowlark. Six eggs. May 24, 
1911. Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa. 

May 24, 1915. Same locality, May 
22, 1919, Gwynedd, Montgomery Coun- 
ty, Pa, 


28 


Purple Grackle. Six eggs. April 29, 
1906. Pensauhen, Camden County, 
N. J. (two sets); May 7, 1906, Frank- 
ford, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Chipping Sparrow. Five eggs. May 
19, 1906. Bustleton, Philadelphia, Pa. 
(See Oologist, 1914, p. 231). 

Field Sparrow. Five eggs. May 20, 
1909. Delair, Camden County, N J... 
June 3, 1912. Bustleton, Philadelphia, 
Pa. (See Oologist, 1914, p. 231). 

Indigo Bunting. Five eggs. June 8, 
1906. Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Cardinal. Four eggs. April 30,1908. 
Forresdale, Philadelphia, Pa. June 2, 
1912. Bustleton, Philadelphia, Pa., 
June 10, 1916, Germantown, Philadel- 
phia, May 25, 1915, Pensauhen, Cam- 
den County, N. J., April 11, 1920, 
Bustleton, Philadelphia 

Barn Swallow. Seven eggs. June 
16, 1921. Center Square, Montgomery 
County, Pa. I have seen but five sets 
of six in the many nests examined 
with sets. 

Rough-winged Swallow. Seven eggs 
Have ten records of nests containing 
this number of eggs in Pennsylvania 
and New Jersey. 

Blue-winged Warbler. Six eggs. 
May 29, 1912. Bethayres, Montgomery 
County, Pa., and June 6, 1910, same 
locality. 

Black-throated Blue Warbler. Five 
eggs, June 17, 1917, Monroe County, 
Pa. 

Magnolia Warbler. Five eggs. June 
5, 1918. Pike County, Pa. These two 
nests were found by my friend, R. C. 
Harlow, and constituted our first 
records of five eggs for these species. 

Yellow-breasted Chat. Five eggs. 
June 4, 1912. Chestnut Hill, Philadel- 
phia, Pa. June 14, 1915, Bustleton, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 

Cat bird. Five eggs. May 28, lyv/, 
Torresdale, June 1, 1913, Bustleton, 
May 19, 1906, Holmesburg, June 4, 
1915, Bustleton, all in Philadelphia, 
Pa., May 20, 1906, Pensauhen, Camden, 

N, J, 


THE OOLOGIST 


Brown Thrasher. Five eggs. May 
16, 1897. Westmont; May 16, 1914, 
Jordantown, May &8, 1915, Highland, all 
in Camden County, N. J.; May 19, 1906, 
Bustleton, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Carolina Wren. Six eggs. May 13, 
1909. Maple Shade, Burlington Coun- 
ty, N. J., Jume 3, 1916. Germantown, 
Philadelphia, Pa. 


House Wren. Hight eggs. May 22, 
1905. Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa. 

Lone-billed Marsh Wren. Seven 
eggs. June 19, 1913. Near Norwood, 
Delaware County, Pa The only Marsh 
Wren’s nest I have ever examined con- 
taining over six eggs or young out of 
an examination of about a thousand 
oecupied nests. 


White-breasted Nuthatch. Nine 
eggs. May 9, 1918, State College, Cen- 
ter County, Pa. 


Carolina Chickadee. Hight eggs. 


May 13, 1909, Jordantown, Camden 
County, N. J. 
Robin. Seven eggs. May 11, 1904, 


Holmesburg, Philadelphia, Pa. June 
26, 1918, Gwynedd Valley, Montgom- 
ery County, Pa. Five eggs, April, 17, 
1902, Holmesburg, Philadelphia, Pa., 
May 2, 1902, Wissinoming, Philadel- 
phia; May 22, 1915, Frankford, Phila- 
delphia, Pa., May 25, 1915. Pensau- 
hen, Camden County, N. J. 
Richard F. Miller 
2526 N. 2nd St., 
Philadelphia, Pa. 


A CORRECTION 


Paul G,. Howes advises us that the 
word “Gulls” should supplant the 
word “Terns” in his recent article on 
“Results,” in Volume XXXVIII, Page 
138, of The Oologist. 

He also advises us that he sails for 
three months in British Guiana, South 
America, with William Beebe, Mrs. 

Howes, and some others.—R. M. B 


THE OOLOGIST 29 


BIRD NOTES FROM HARTFORD, 
CONNECTICUT 


Oct. 8, 1921. Snow Bunting. 23 in 
the brown plumage rarely seen in 
Conn. that early in the season. 

Oct. 12, 1921. Four Northern Ravens 
extremely. rare in Central Conn, 

Nov. 12, 1921. Herring Gull 
on Nov. 16. 

Field Sparrows and Slate-colored 
Juncos seen all winter. 

Dee. 14, 1921. One Rough-legged 
Hawk, in black plumage, rare. 

Dec. 26, 1921. Six Pine Grosbeaks. 
Many years ago they were common 
every winter. 

Jan. 25, 1922. 26 Evening Gros- 
beaks. Rare visitors in Central Con- 
necticut. 

Jan, 26. One Red-shouldered Hawk. 

Jan. 30. 16 Goldfinches and one 
Northern Shrike. 


One 


Clifford M. Case, 
Hartford, Conn. 


STILL AT IT! 


We are in receipt of a letter signed 
by one Joseph F. Honecker, written on 
a letter head embellished with a cut 
of a Bald Hagle’s nest, shaped very 
much like a soup bowl and on which 
is emblazoned the fact that the pro- 
prietor has “the finest private Natural 
History Museum in the West” (though 
the return card on the envelope quali- 
fies it as) “‘The finest of its kind in 
the West,” in which we are advised 
that the proprietor of this institution 
desires certain specimens and applies 
to us for the same! This calls to mind 
a letter under date of Jan. 13th, 1922 
from Hdwin C. Davis, one of the most 
noted of the old time oologists in the 


South and formerly publisher of “The 


Sunny South Oologist,’ in which he 
Says: 

“I was very much interested in an 
article on page 119, Sept. 1921, The 
Oologist, entitled, ‘More Honecker 
Frauds.’ I was surprised this man 


was still defrauding the collectors with 
bogus Ivory Billed Woodpeckers’ eggs 
About thirty-five years ago he offered 
me a few of these eggs which he 
claimed to be taken from a tall pine 
tree on the edge of Harriet Beecher 
Stowe’s farm in Flordia, and he offered 
them so cheap (in exchange) that I 
induced him to send me nine eggs at 
$2.00 each, which afterwards proved: 
to be Pigeons’ eggs.” 
We hardly think we will send Hon- 
ecker the specimens he asgs us for! 
R. M. Barnes. 


IVORY BILLED WOODPECKERS’ 
EGGS 


I have bought a set of Ivory-billed 
Woodpeckers, with nesting stub, which 
formerly belonged to the late John 
Lewis Childs. 

A description of the taking of this 
nest was in The Warbler, Vol. I, 1905, 
Page 52, No. 2. 

I thought it might be of some in- 
terest to Ovlogists to know where this 
set is. 

Jonn H. Thayer, 
Lancaster, Mass. 


OIL-RICHES 


Our old friend, Dr. W. S. Strode, 0! 
Lewiston, Illinois, has recently struck 
oil, became rich, joined the leisure 
class, moved to Hollywood, California; 
upon all of which we congratulate 
him, and commend him to our Cali- 
fornia bird acquaintances, as a most 
desirable addition. 

R. M. Barnes. 


A Blue Winged Teal Duck that had 
been trapped and banded on Lake Hea- 
gog, Ontario, has been killed near Port 
of Spain, Trinidad Island, in the Carrib- 
bean Sea, two thousand five hundred 
miles distant. 


380 THE OOLOG18T 


Broad-winged Hawk. Photo taken May 30, 1921 by H. Grandquist and R. B. 


Simpson in Warren Co., Penn. 


Nest 35 feet up. 


THE NEW CATALOGUE 


It is a pleasure to announce that the 
new catalogue is now printed and that 
the paper bound copies are in process 
of distribution to those having sub- 
scribed therefor. 

The cloth bound copies are delayed 
slightly waiting for the binder to com- 
plete them, They will not, however, 


be long delayed and the Fraternity 
will shortly be in possession of a re- 
liable Exchange List, vouched for by 
twenty-five of the leading Oologists of 
the country, selected by ballot, and 
who have given its preparation sincere 
and careful attention. We have no 
doubt but that it will be received glad- 
ly by all who have waited so patiently 
for its appearance—R. M. Barnes. 


THE OOLOGIST 31 


BOOKS 


Bendire’s Life 
Alex. Walker, 


FOR SAL®H—Part 1, 
Histories N. A. Birds. 
Blaine, Oregon. 


WANTED—Oologist IV, 6, and all 
numbers of 1919 and 1920; Check-list 
of North American Birds, 1910; also 
Bent’s Diving Birds. M. Nice, Norman, 
Oklahoma. 


W ANTEHD—Cash or Exchange: Bent’s 
Life History of N. A. Birds; also Chim- 
ney Swallows nest in good condition. 
Offer Bendire’s V. I, newly bound, etc. 
Harold EK. Meyers, Medina, N. Y. 


WANTED—A copy of lLawrence’s 
“Catalogue of the Birds found in Costa 
Rica,’ (Annals New York Lyceum of 
Natural History, IX, pp. 86-149). W. E. 
Clyde Todd, Carnegie Museum, Pitts- 
burgh, Pa. 


WANTED—Vol. I, II, Ridgeway’s 
Birds of North and South America, and 
Auk I to VI. For disposal, Auk 33 to 
36 and odd numbers. Hoyes Lloyd, 406 
Gueen St., Ottawa, Ontario. 


WANTHD—Bird Lore, Vol. III, Num- 
bers 1 and 2; give cash or exchange. 
Desire for the Miami Beach Zoological 
Garden and Museum of Natural His- 
tory, rare specimens of Birds, mam- 
mals and eggs. Address the Director. 
Harold H. Bailey, Box 5, Miami Beach, 
il lorida. 


HGR SALE For Cash—Auk, Vols. Xi 
to xxl, complete; Vol.xxll, Nos. 1, 2, 4; 
Vci. xxlll to xxv complete, Vol. xxvii 
and xxix complete. Forestry and Irri- 
gation, Vol. xiv Nos. 4, 6 to 12; Conser- 
vation xv No. 1 to 9, 11 and 12, Blue- 
bird, Vol. ix No. 38. Louis S. Kohler, 
IR IPD. A, IBBbEeeSOiml, ING Ue 


EXCHANGE—I have the following 
magazines to exchange for best offer in 
1st class sets: “Auk,” Vols. XXXV, 


MXXVI, XXXVII. “Wilsons Bulletin,” 
WO eXeeOXe Bind) Worere Viole oXexenir 
“Clemélor;? Woll, sO:dnl, Oolosisi7? Wolk 
SOW “Bay State Oologist,’’ Vol. I, 
Nos. 1 to 6 (complete). ‘Birds,’ Vols. 
I, II. “American Ornithology,’ (C. K. 
ReECG), WS, I, I, INH ID FNL iba ibe 
condition. Make me an offer. B. S 


Griffin, 22 Currier Avenue, Haverhill, 
Mass. 


FOR 
Frogs 
to mount, 40 cents. 
collection. Sent postpaid. Ramon 
Graham ‘Taxidermy and Tanning Co. 
Box 215 Polytechnic, Ft. Worth, Texas. 


SALE—Mounted Texas Horned 
,65 cents each. Skinned ready 
Add one to your 


Red-backed, Gray, Dusxy, *l wo-lined 
salamanders, finely mountei in solu- 
tion by most approved museuin inethod; 
any species, $1.50. Spotted salamander 
mounted as above, $4.50. Unopened 
copy “Insect Behavior,” 114 illustra- 
tions, by Paul G. Howes, $4.00. Other 
books and mounted birds; see last May 
Oologist. Paul G. Howes Laboratory, 
Stamford, Conn. 


WANTED for Cash—Key to North 
American Birds by Elliot Coues. Latest 
edition if possible, two vols. E. EK. Mof- 
fatt, 146 Walnut St., Winsted, Conn. 


FOR SALE—Audubon Magazine. Vol. 
1 and 2 complete except covers on two 
issues. O. & O. Vols. 18, 14, 16, 17. Bird 
Lore. Vols. 11 to 22 inclusive. Oologist 
Wo, is, 19, 80, BH, BOs BS Woll WO, INC. 
So O Os Wolk iil, IN@, i, 2 4 BGs Os, 0s 
Vol. 34, No. 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12. For the 
entire lot $25. C. F. Carr, New Lon-: 
don, Wisconsin. 


FOR SALE—“Fishes of North and 
Middle America,” vol. 4 only, paper, 392 
full page plates, $2. Bulletin United 
States Fish Commission 1886, 495 pages, 
illustrated, cloth, $1.25. Proceedings 
lowa Academy of Sciences, 1912, board 
covers, $1. Miscellaneous natural his- 
tory papers 20c a pound, postpaid. 
Emerson A. Stoner, Box 444, Benicia, 
California. 


FOR SALE—Swainson & Richardson 
“Fanna Breali Americana,’ Part 2, 
Birds. Melluraith, “Birds of Ontario.” 
Turnbull, “Birds of East Pennsylvania 
and New Jersey,’ the rare Glascow 
Edition. Send for my list of Bird Books 
wanted. Harry S. Hathaway, Box 1466, 
Providence, R. I. 


KARL A. PEMBER, County Clerk, 
Woodstock, Vt., wants a number of 
books—also back numbers and volumes 
of Oologist. 


WANTED—Ridgeway’s Birds of 
North and Middle America. Any vol- 
umes other than IV and VII. Bent’s 
Diving Birds—offer Western Bird Skins 


in exchange. J. A. Munro, Okanagon 


“Landing, B. C. 


FOR SALEH—My collection of modern 
Indian relics at reasonable prices, rare 
iron tomahawks, eagle feather war 
bonnets, buckskin quivers, arrows, ete. 
Information for stamp. Robert HE. 
Backus, Florence, Colorado. 


I am located at Brownwood, Texas, 
having moved unexpectedly from Tuc- 
son, Arizona. And I will be glad to 
co-operate from this locality with 
other collectors. James Wood, Brown- 
wood, Texas. General delivery. 


BOOKS 
W ANTEHED—Will pay cash for the fol- 


lowing: Bent’s Life Histories, Vols. 1 
and 2. Baird, Brewer & Ridgeway’s 
Water Birds & Land Birds. Bendire, 


Vol. 2. W. D. Richardson, 4215 Prairie 
Ave., Chicago, Ill. 


WANTED—“Lower California and its 
Natural Resources,” by Edward W. Nel- 
son. “Bulletin National Academy of 
Science.” A. P. Low’s Report on Ex- 
plorations in Laborador, published by 
The Geological Survey of Canada. R, 
M. Barnes, Lacon, Illinois, 


382 THE OOLOGIS8ST 


MISCELLANEOUS 


FOR EXCHANGE—Photographs, size 
5x7; nests and eggs Nos. 194, 125, 221, 
325, 554a, (61a, 29a, 289, 761, 273, T2la, 
O01, 701, 292) b54a, 268, 619. 478; b8ile, 
1256, 225, 120e, 141, 132, 135, 542, 554b; 


'567a. Birds: Sea Gulls on the Pacific, 
West Horned Owl, Pelican Colony, 
Malheur Lake Res., Young Pelicans, 


,Young Turkey Vultures. Will exchange 

for eggs in sets or Bird Skins. Must 
be first class with full data. A. G. 
Prill, Scio, Oregon. 


PHOTOS WANTED—A few striking 
pictures (glossy) for illustrative pur- 
poses, of a Gt. Horned Owl’s nest with 
young; Gt.: Blue Heron colony; also 
Horned Owl and Herons separate. Sena 
desecrintions or prints. State price. R. 
huliiers RAED. Ae White: Plainis; Ne ws 


WANTEHD—The following Duck 
Skins, for which I will give good ex- 
change: Harlequin, M. F.; Barrows 
Golden Hye, M. F.; Gadwall, M.; Ring- 
neck, M.; Huropean Widgeon, M.; Red- 
head, M.; Hooded Merganser, M.; Cin- 
namon Teal, M. F.; Canvassback, M.; 
American Scoter, M. 

If you happen to have any of these 
to spare me I could offer you Old 
Squaw, M. M.; Bufflehead, M. F.; Hud- 
sonian Curlew, M.; Bohemian Wax- 
wing; American Golden Eve, F.; West 
Horned Owl; Red tailed Hawk; Desert 
Sparrow Hawk, M.; Merrill’s Horned 
Lark, M.; Bichnell’s Thrush, M.; Car- 
dinal, M. F.; Tufted Titmouse, M.; or 
have you any Male or Female Syca- 
more Warblers; F. or M.; Conn. Warb- 
lers; M. or F. Mournine Warblers; M. 
or F. Golden-winged Warblers; M. or 
_F. Nashville Warblers; M. or F. Sen- 
nett’s Warblers; M. or F. Olive Warb- 
lers; M. or F. Hermit Warblers; M. or 
I. Red-faced Warblers; M. or F. Man- 
grove Warblers; M. or F. Cerulean 
Warblers; M. Tennessee Warblers; F. 
Cape May Warblers. 

OLTDO: ‘C. HASTINGS: 
207 Denver Ave., Bridgeport, Conn. 


FOR SALH—Over 
Domestic reprints 
atomy; Nature Magazines; 
tiles; Birds; Mammals; Indians; Pho- 
tography; Art; Law; Medicine, ete. 
Some books. R. W. Shufeldt, 3356 18th 
St. N. W., Washington, D. C. 2-22t2 


8000 Foreign and 
and excerpts—An- 
Fish; Rep- 


I have just had pvlaced with me a 
wonderful collection of 400 Indian Ar- 
row Heads and Tomahawks. These 
were collected among the hills of Ken- 
tucky, and I have been asked to dis- 
pose of them in either small or large 
lots and for most any fair offer. If 


you are interested and wish to make 
any proposition involving oological 
specimens, bird photographs, or other 


Natural History specimens I shall be 
glad to hear from you. G. A. Abbott, 
Laneaster, Ky. 


FOR SALE—Skins and Mounted 
Specimen of Skunk, Civit Cat, Opossum, 
Horned Frogs, Jack Rabbitt, Swamp 
Rabbit, Armodillas and Squirrels. Ra- 
mon Graham, Box 215 Poly, Ft. Worth, 
Texas. 


_ WANTED — Baird’s and Bachman’s 
Sparrows and any of the Longspurs 


from original collectors in full A-1 
sets. Bonus in A-1 material given in 
exchange. H. W. Carriger, 5185 Trask 


Street, Oakland, Calif. 


WANTEHED—Old Stamps: Will pay 
cash. If you have any old Postage 
Stamps, that you wish to sell drop a 
note to P. O. Box 539, New Bedford, 
Massachusetts. 


BUTTERFLIHS—Just received a new 
shipment of South American butterflies 
in papers unnamed, consisting of Papi- 
lios Heliconias Catsopilias Calagram- 
mas, etc., which I will sell in lots of 25 
mixed for $5.00 post paid. Each lot 
contains one Morpho cypres, one of the 
most brilliant of South American but- 


terflies; dealers charge $2.50 to $3.50 
for the specie alone. A. J. Potter, Hast 
Killingly, Conn. 1-3t 


FOR HXCHANGH—A-1 sets 261, 273, 
305, 308b, 331, 367 and others for well 
mounted specimens of 327, 331, 332, 333, 
337, 337a, 342, 3843. Also have finely 
mounted 334 will exchange for some of 


the above. HElmer Langevin, Crooks- 
ton, Minnesota. 
COLLECTORS—Desire to get in 


touch with collectors of shells in all 
parts of the U. S.; also collectors of 
mammal skins. Have collection of both 
and specimens for exchange. Ralph W. 
Jackson, Route 1, Cambridge, Maryland. 


FORK SALE or Exchange—Mounted 
Birds, Skins, and Eggs in sets and 
singles. Jesse T. Craven, 5315 Roose- 
velt Ave., Detroit, Michigan. 1-2t 


ROS (SAtisj = |. Shoulder 


FOR SALH— Elk head. 
mount, Symmetrical five point beams; 
72-inch spread. A beautiful specimen 
in splendid condition. Mrs. E. T. Flor- 
ence Murray, Neponset, Illinois, Route 
No. 3. 1-2t 

WANTED—Two or three sets of 
three eggs each of No. 364 with small 
holes and full data. Will give cash or 
exchange. WwW. A. Strong) 41 Grand 
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Vol. IV, Nos. 1, 2, 9. Robert F. Backus, 
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498g, 513a, 563, 573, 593, 604, 612, 622a, 
G33, 70868, CO, TOR, TOG, VO7, WB, 136, 
761 and 766. What have you? Many 
species desired in my collection. J. R. 
Pemberton, 729 Kennedy Building, 
Tulsa, Oklahoma. 

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suitable for birds. Particulars 
A. C. Dyke, Bridge- 


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PELECANUS ERYTHRORHYNCHOS 
American White Pelican—A. O. U. 
No. 125 
Malheur Lake Bird Reservation, 
Oregon 

Malheur lake bird reservation is lo- 
cated in Hraney County, Oregon, about 
35 miles south of Berns. The area 
comprises some 35,000 acres of marsh 
lands and near the center portion is 
the lake proper. 

Surrounded on all sides of this body 
of water is, first, thousands of Tulie 
islands, and outside of this border are 
long distances of meadow lands grov- 
ing wild grass only. 

_Nearly all portions of the meadow 
are overflowed most of the spring sea- 
son in order to grow the wild gras:, 
upon which the stock is fed. 
The country is low and flat although 
the altitude is about 4000 feet. 

Malheur Lake receives its water sup 
p_y from two rivers, the Silver river 
from the north and the Blitzen river 
from the south, both streams originates 
in the mountains and are fed by snow. 
During such seasons when the snow 
fall has been heavy during the winter, 
the water supply at the lake is abund- 
ant, but at other seasons the water 
gets very low, and makes it very diffi 
cult to get out to the open water, o> 
reach the breeding grounds of the 
eclonies of birds which maKe this 
their summer home. 

The waters of the lake are very shal- 
low, and while they cover an immense 
wcrea, I found the deepest part not ove? 
four feet. 

The bottom of the lake is covered 
with from one to three feet of mud, 
from which grows the varieties of 
grassc3 and water vegetation, peculiar- 
ly adapted for food of ducks and 
geese and many other specie of water 
fowl 

The waters are always muddy, prob- 
ably due to the constant agitation of 
the thousands of birds feeding. 


The lake contains some fish and 
mussels upon which the birds feed. 

At the present time water right 
claims filed upon the two rivers mem- 
tioned, which furnish the only water 
supply to this vast area, if developed 
and diverted for irrigation purposes, 
would leave Malheur Lake a dry and 
barren desert in a short time, and the 
largest bird reservation in America 
would be destroyed 

Its natural location for birds migrat- 
ing North and South, its abundant 
food supply, for both old and young 
birds, makes it an ideal breeding 
grcunds, as well as feeding grounds 
for the thousands of birds going north 
to breed. 

My visit to the Pelican Colony was 
made on June 3, 1920, in company 
with the Warden of the Reservation. 

After walking two miles from my 
camp to the warden’s station, we stari- 
ed in the government gasoline launch, 
down the Blitzen river for over a mile, 
when we reached the open water. 
From this point it required three 
heurs’ travel to reach the colony which 
was located in the southeastern part 
of the reservation. 

The island was about 150 feet across 
and nearly round, and on all sides had 
water about a foot deep and was 
raised above the surface of the wat®1r 
about six feet. 

Having prepared my camera for an 
exposure of 1/400 of a second we 
slowly approached the island in our 
flat bottom row boat and when within 
20 feet of the shore took two piciures, 
then, going still closer, another picture 
was taken just as a portion of the 
birds were leaving the nesis. 

On landing the sight which greeted 
your eyes were eggs, young birds ». 
all ages, in every direction. 

The nests and eggs were so close to- 
gether that extreme care was required 
not to destroy them. 

Along the first herder of the island 


ap Jnl fe 
was the colony of American White 
Pelicans nesting. 

Their line of nest extended clear 
across the island and was about 30 
feet wide, here were hundred of eggs, 
young birds just hatched and some 
half-grown birds. 

Following and just back of this col- 
ony of Pelicans was a colony of some 
25 Ring Bill and 25 California Gulls’ 
nests with eggs. These birds had just 
begun to nest and no young birds 
were found. 

About 20 feet further back of the 
Gull Colony, was'a second colony of 
Pelicans about as large as the first, 
and where there were many young 
birds. 

All eggs were far advanced in in- 
cubation, and I judge that May 25 
would about begin the time of in- 
cubation of the Pelicans. 

Not much pretentions are made by 
this bird for nest building aithough 
generally the eggs are laid in a slight 
hollow of dried tules, but the nests 
were so close together that the birds 
must touch each other when sitting. 

The eggs are generally two in num- 
ber, although a few were found with 
three, and three young iii some nests. 

Many single eggs and birds were al- 
so observed, showing that some birds 
at least incubate only one egg. 

While the photos were being taken, 
and a few specimens collected, the 
large colony, and I judge there were at 
least 250 birds breeding there, sat 
quietly out on the water only a short 
distance from us. The young birds 
were very docile and posed readily 
for pictures at four feet. 

While the pelicans were quietly rest- 
ing, the Gulls kept up a constant 
flight over our heads until we left. 

The Pelican is a bird of very large 
size and appears very awkward, but 
is a bird of magnificent flight. 

Nearly every morning an inmense 
number of Pelicans may be seen grad- 


OOLOGIST 83 


ually rising into the air in a large cir- 
cular movement and going higher and 
higher, until they entirely disappear, 
and after a short interval again ap- 
pear, their wings set as if perfectly 
motionless, and again swinging in that 


circular movement, come back to 
earth. 

The eggs are of a chalky white 
color and generally much _ stained. 


These birds present a beautiful sight 
out upon the open waters of the lake 
and can be seen for miles away. 

Nesting in this colony were also 
some half dozen pair of the Farallone 
Cormorant which occupy raised nests 
some two feet above the ground, and 
may be observed in the photos pub- 
lished with this article. 

The California and Ring Billed Gulls’ 
nest contained two eggs each, and 
only one nest was found containing 
three eggs. 

Their date of beginning incubation is 
about June Ist, while 75 per cent of 
the Pelicans are hatched by this date. 

Dr. A. G. Prill, 
Scio, Oregon, 

1. Young half grown Pelicans, see 
page 34. 

2. View Pelicans leaving nests, see 
page 6. 

3. View young Pelicans in nest, see 
page 7. 

4. Pelicans, Gulls and Cormorants, 
see page 35. 

AONE Se Se ey ee 
HUNTING HAWKS’ NESTS 

This past season a friend of mine, 
Harry Grandquist, and myself spent 
considerable of our spare time and off 
days in looking up the Hawks. 

The object of this persecution was 
to get a few photos of nests of the 
different species. Hawks are far 
from being as common as they were 
a few years ago, and seem to be get- 
ting scarcer each year. 

We made a number of trips into a 
wild region nearby in the heart of 


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which there is a large stream about 
nine miles long. This stream has sev- 
eral large branches and a number of 
smaller ones. There is no main road 
and but few old log roads. This region 
is all woods which includes a large 
amount of virgin timber, mostly hem- 
lock, but with many tracts of beech 
and considerable other hardwoods. 


We made a trip over there on Wash- 
ington’s birthday; took a large circle 
through the country and secured a 
number of photos of winter scenes in 
the woods. We found great numbers 
of trails of the varying hare or snow- 
shoe rabbit and spent some time trail- 
ing them, Although we started sev- 
eral of the big white fellows we 
couldn’t snap them on the jump and 
failed to spy one sitting where we 
could get a good: photo. 

Off the main stream on a little 
spring run we fixed up a little camp 
where we could stop and cook our din- 
ners on future trips. In an out of the 
way basin at the head of a small run 
where the big timber stood thick and 
heavy we heard a Goshawk calling. 
This was the only sign of a Hawk on 
this trip. 


Along in March we were over again 
and this time we went at once to this 
basin which we searched. We soon 
heard Mrs. Goshawk and were not long 
in finding the nest in a big hemlock. 
On April 5th the old lady was at home 
and sitting on a fine set of four eggs. 


This nest was 60 feet up in a large 
hemlock and was more like a big plat- 
form than a nest. The female was 
very noisy and ugly but the male did 
not appear at all on this trip. On May 
9th we again paid them a visit and 
found four husky white youngsters. 
This time both old birds were on the 
job and were very noisy and daring, 
the female being the bolder of the 
two, sometimes swooping within three 
feet of our heads while we were at 
the nest getting the photo. 


One day while trouting fish we lo- 
cated a pair of Sharp-shinned Hawks 
and on our next trip hunted up the 
nest. On May 17th we photographed 
this outfit. This nest was 50 reer up 2 
hemlock and held four eggs. 

During these trips we found several 
Cooper’s Hawks’ nests in beech trees. 
One of these which held five eggs was 
a good one to get at and we got sev- 
eral good photos. This cleaned up the 
Accipiter family in good shape. Red- 
shouldered Hawks were about but we 
did not look for them as we have 
photos. We flushed one from a nest 
in a beech but as there was no chance 
for a good picture we did not go up. 

Red-tails were also about but we did 
not happen to come across a nest so 
left them for next season. 

One Broad-wing’s nest was found 
and photoed. Near home we found a 
Sparrow Hawk at home in an old 
Flicker’s nest in a large stub, but we 
passed it up as the stub was very rot- 
ten and the nest up about 40 feet. 

Both the Barred and Horned Owls 
were seen on these trips but no nests 
found. There is so much woods and 
so many hollow trees that finding an 
owl’s nest in that region is some job. 

Working of the Pileated Wood- 
pecker were to be seen everywhere 
and the birds were seen and heard on 
every trip. 

Among the mammals red squirrels 
were abundant, also a good many 
black and gray squirrels. Porcupines 
were common and there were many 
trails and signs of coon, fox and mink, 
with frequently deer and bear. We 
had much trouble getting several of 
our photos because of the lack of suit- 
able limbs to fasten our camera onto 
at the nest. We wanted time ex- 
posures as snap shots are too  un-: 
certain among the hemlocks because 
of shadows. Although we had con- 
siderable trouble we thoroughly en- 
joyed our trips after the Hawks. 

R. B. Simpson, Warren, Pa. 


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THE GREAT HORNED OWL IN 
STORY COUNTY, IOWA 

A number of years ago the Great 
Horned Owl was a common bird in 
Story County, Iowa, but it is now 
rather a scarce bird because of its 
persecution, and as nearly ali the 
heavy timber is cut away the Great 
Horned Owl can not find very good 
nesting sites. 

Although they are rather scarce 
here, three sets of two eggs each were 
taken in Story County last season. 

To Mr. Ralph Handsaker, of Colo, 
Iowa, belongs the credit of collecting 
two sets, a third set was taken by Mr. 
John L. Cole, of Nevada, Iowa. 

The following is the data which Mr. 
Handsaker sent to me: “I collected 
both sets on March 8, 1921, along 
East Indian Creek, both sets being 
fresh, with birds on each nest. The 
first set being in an oak tree about 130 
feet from creek, the nest was 27 feet 
from the ground and was an old crow’s 
nest; I observed it very closely and 
decided it had been used by the Owls 
for the past few years, as the nest was 
nothing but a platform of decayed 
vegetation, all the lining it contained 
was a few feathers from the bird. 

The second Owls nest was found 
about five miles down the creek. It 
was about 20 feet from the bank in a 
large maple 30 feet from the ground. 
It also was in an old Crow’s nest 
practically the same as the first one, 
lined with the soft downy feathers 
from the bird’s breast.” 

The following is the data which Mr. 
Cole gave me on the set which he col- 
lected. “I collected my set of the 
Great Horned Owl, March i, 1921. It 
was situated in a white elm 47 feet 
from the ground and was, I think, a 
nest of the Red-tail Hawk, as it was 
too large to be a nest of the Crow. 
There was no lining in the nest except 
the rotten lining which was used by 
the former occupant. There were a 
few feathers scattered all over the top 


OOLOGIST 37 


of the nest which was nearly flat, there 
being a slight depression. The tree 
in which the nest was situated was 
in a fairly heavy timber and was about 
forty feet from the bank of West 
Indian Creek, about five miles south 
of Nevada. I have frequently ob- 
served these Owls in this vicinity for 
several years, but I have been unable 
to secure a set of their eggs before 
the che mentioned above. These birds 
have been observed several times sinza 
the set of eggs were taken, This set 
exhibits the following measurements, 
Zo 2s 80) 12 29x 

I have just received my Federal 
Permit for collecting eggs, also my 
State Certificate. This will be my 
first season of collecting eggs, and I 
hope it will be a most successful one, 
and hope to be able to send in some 
notes to “The Oologist” later. If this 
is read by any beginner in the oologi- 
cal hobby who wants to correspond 
with me, I would be glad to answer 
all letters which they want to write. 

I have called upon my two friends 
in this county for notes on the Great 
Horned Owl to help me in writing 
this short article, however, I hope that 
in the near future I may be able to 
send in some notes and observations 
taken by myself. 
Martin C. Paulson. 

Nevada, Iowa. 
BLUE SPARROWS 

One day last February I heard one 
fellow say to another as they were 
assembling for work, “Say fellows, I 
saw a Bluebird this morning.” Another 
fellow who didn’t like to see anybody 
get ahead of him answered, “Aw, that’s 
nothing, I saw a couple of them 
Christmas.” The first fellow then 
said, “Get out, all you saw was a 
couple of Blue Sparrows.” This is the 
first blue sparrows I know of. How 
about you? 


dan_14, 1922. 


Arthur Blocher, 
Amboy, Ill. 


38 THis Oboe i Si 


WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO? 
Some of our correspondents wonder 
how it is that we are able to secure 
so many of the rarer varieties of 
Northern eggs and skins. The follow- 
ing is a letter from one of our collect- 
ors received during the month of 
March, 1922. He is only one of a num- 
ber who are wandering through the far 
Northern Artic wastes, and with an 
eye continually on the lookout for 

specimens to add to our collection. 


We but recently received a lot of 
specimens taken by an Artic explorer, 
on one of the islands northwest of the 
Hudson Bay, who left Seattle in 1916 
and only got back in 1921. The ves- 
sel having been disabled and during 
all of that time he was a semi-prisoner, 
held in the grip of the pitiless North. 
The following is a part of the letter 
referred to we have just received. 

IR) Wit, 1B 


“Tt is now definitely decided I shall 
leave here June Ist with a 65 foot 


power-boat. JI shall take what is 
called the “inside passage,’ north 
along the coast of British Columbia 


and Alaska through Unimak Pass of 
the Aleutian Isles and thence to Nome, 
Alaska. From Nome I shall cross 
Behring’s Strait to Hast Cape, Siberia 
by way of Diomede Isle and then fol- 
low the Siberian coast N. W. as the 
ice permits and if the season is favor- 
able so that we are not stopped by 
ice I intend to winter on Kolyma 
River, the mouth of which is about 
400 miles west off Wranged Island or 
if we have a very open year, I will at- 
tempt to go as far as Indigirka, this 
is the next large river west from the 
Kolyma and has never been visited by 
any ship. If prevented by ice from 
going as planned I shall go as far 
west as possible and winter and con- 
tinue next year and shall in any event 


be gone for at least two years.” 


A LETTER 

I have just received the February 
number of the Oologist, which I con- 
sider one of the choicest numbers 
that has been published in a long time. 
There is nothing that comes to my 
desk that I am so glad to receive as I 
am the little old Oologist, and I have 
reasons for the feeling, which I will 
endeavor to explain. 


Over thirty years ago I secured my 
first job, and it is the only job I ever 
had, for since I left it I have paddled 
my own cance. I was interested in 
natural history, I guess, when I was 
born, and when a mere lad the famous 
“Lattin” establishment was in _ its 
most palmy days. Mr. Frank Lattin, 
recognizing my taste for such work 
was kind enough to give me a position 
in his establishment, and during the 
few years that I was with him I had 
the pleasure of handling an untold 
number of birds’ eggs, and have never 
lost my interest. 


Although I have not contributed 
much in the publicity line, yet I have 
all these years been just as thorough- 
ly interested as when I was a kid, and 
during these years I have been doing 
some collecting, but mostly by proxy. 

Scme months ago in the Oologist 
ycu asked your readers for informa- 
tion in reference to the larger collec- 
tions of North American birds’ eggs, 
and it might be of interest for me to 
say that my collection comprises 693 
complete sets of different species of 
North American birds’ eggs, in full 
sets with complete data, and over 275 
foreign species in complete sets. Of 
course many of the North American 
species I have in small series, I have 
recently completed a new cabinet for 
holding the collection, which com- 
prises 45 large drawers filled to ca- 
pacity. In addition to this I have a 
collection of nearly 1,000 mounted 
birds, and quite a large collection of 
mounted mammals. 


THE OOLOGIST 39 


Of course the collection of North 
American specimens, both in birds and 
eggs, has been my primary considera- 
tion, and I have such things as a per- 
fect pair of Ivory Billed Woodpeckers, 
Passenger Pigeons, Carolina Paroquet, 
and many of the other rare and choice 
North American birds. 


Aside from the North American col- 
lection, I set out to get together a col- 
lection of the most beautiful birds to 
be found in the world, and to this end 
I have searched the globe over for 
rare and beautiful birds, and I have 
them from almost every tropical clime 
on earth. To form any idea of the 
brilliancy and beauty of them they 
would have to be seen. 


In addition tothis, I naturally have 
been attracted by other fo-ms of nat- 
ural history that were beautiful; so I 
have gained the idee that my museum 
should be one designed mainly to show 
the most beautiful forms of animal 
life I have accumulated a collection 
of several hundred of the most beauti- 
ful and spectacular butterflies and 
beetles, as well as shells, corals, and a 
hundred and one other forms of nat- 
ural history, rejecting every specimen 
of every sort that is not absolutely 
perfect, and with the cne idea in mind 
not to be systematical in collecting all 
the forms of any particular species or 
family, but to pick out only those that 
are particularly beautiful in both form 
and color. 


I hope within th3 next twelve months 
to have a museum completed where 
all these specimens can be seen; then 
any of the readers of the Oologist 
will be more than welcome whenever 
headed this way if they will stop over 
and take a look. 


K. B. Mathes, 
Batavia, N. Y. 
We wish other collectors would 
write similar letters descriptive of 


their collections.—Kditor. 


GENERAL NOTES 

Mrs. Ramon Graham reports March 
ist the ground at Ft. Worth, Texas, 
with snow and ice, and Meadowlarks 
(Western) and Cow Birds plenty. 

M. W. Deutsch of Crystal, Minne- 
sota, reports Feb, 11th, a Magpie, A. 
O. U. 475, shot at Crystal Lake, Blue 
Earth County, Minn The first record 
for that locality. These birds seem to 
be moving eastward. 

J. Karl Harlow, of Texico, Illinois, 
reports Jan. 24th, Robins and a Bald 
Hagle, Jan. 8th, first one seen since 
1917. 

G. Raymond Barlow, of Danielson, 
Conn., reports Prairie Horned Larks, 
at that place July 6th, 1921, a trse 
record for Eastern Connecticut. 

Lawrence H. Allen, Albion, Iowa, re- 
ports Dec. 2nd an American Magpie 
found dead at that place in one of his 
traps, also a Whippoorwill, with two 
fresh eggs at that point June 22nd, 
1921. 

SEL a aS 
THE STORY OF A ROBIN 

Last spring, on April 15th, I drove 
about eight miles north of Manchester 
to collect a young pair of full grown 
Great Horned Owls, I had heard were 
in a certain woods up there. I took a 
fellow with me to climb the tree that 
was an expert telephone climber and 
lucky I did for I was fortunate enough 
(?) to step on a nail and it penetrated 
through my shoe into the ball of my 
foot just exactly three quarters of an 
inch by actual measurement. I ran a 
tooth pick into the hole where the nail 
went in and we measured the distance 
on the toothpick. Well, I was deter- 
mined to get the Owls, so kept on and 
finally located them in a burr oak 
tree. About sixty feet up was the 
nest and a hard climb, but up went 
my much needed friend, and as he got 
near, out flew the two Owls. I limp- 
ingly run them down and soon had 
them in a sack. Now this don’t sound 
much like a story of a Robin, does it, 


40 


Tne LO VOsEONGRIES aT 


A. D. Henderson, Belvidere, Alberta, Canada 


Pili @O@OLOEIl Swe 41 


'but I am coming to that soon. 


If this was newspaper ornithology 


‘instead of being written for our be- 


loved little magazine, The Oologist, it 


-would be up to me to state right here 
that I found a live Robin in one of the 
Owls crops and that it had been there 
two weeks. 
'with the Owls, and after a good tak- 


Well, we came home 
ing care of the nail wound, I retired 
for the night. The next morning when 
I tried to arise and that foot started 


to hang downward I simply went wild, 


but up I had to get so up it was. 1 
then discovered we were in the throes 
of a terrible blizzard, and I guess it 


was universal all over the United 


States from what I later learned. 1! 


never will forget that day ,April 16, 


1921, the worst blizzard we had had in 


years, with a cutting wind and bitterly 


cold. I put in that day soaking my 


foot in hot water and slapping in tur- 


Robin, floundering 


pentine. About 9 o’clock in the morn- 
ing I happened to glance out of the 
window and there was a dear little 
in the snow and 


nearly exhausted. I hastily got into 


my shoe and went out and opened the 


woodshed door and in Mrs’ Robin 
went. Then I got her some food and 
water and she wasn’t a bit afraid but 
ate and drank heartily. I said to her, 
“Now, Mrs. Robin, I shall lock you in 
here till morning and then I will let 
you out.” She chirped right back. 
She kept talking and so did J, till my 
foot got my attention again and then 
I had to leave her. The next morning 
was clear and warm and I found Mrs. 
Robin bright and active after a good 
breakfast, so I left the woodshed door 
open and she came out. About a half 
hour later, lo and behold, on my win- 
down sill was a fresh Robin’s egg. I 
will always think she came to my 
window and laid that egg in payment 
for the night’s lodging. I most forgot 
the incident, but a week later a pair 
of Robins built a nest near my back 


door in the eaves trough. Now, you 
see, like all bird men would naturally 
think, I said to myself, this is the 
same Robin I befriended, and she is 
so appreciative of my kindness that 
she is building her nest as close to 
me as she can. I knew it would be 
washed away in the first rain so I put 
up a shelf under the eaves and then I 
carefully removed the nest and tied it 
on the shelf. At first they resented 
the removal and didn’t take to it kind- 
ly, but after a day of leisure in look- 
ing it over they decided to accept it, 
but although the nest was completed 
and a very fine one they recupped it 
and built it up almost making a double 
nest. Soon four eggs were laid but 
only one hatched and the bird reached 
maturity. I took the three addled eggs 
and plus the one on the window sill 
made a complete set of four which is 
a good enough set of Robin’s eggs for 
an ornithologist that is no oologist. 


This last December 17, 1921 I was 
Surprised to see a female Robin enter 
my woodshed through the open door 
late one afternoon. She certainly has 
lingered late as the birds had been 
gone a long time. I went out to feed 
her but she flew out and disappeared 
and did not return. 


Of course I will never know if the 
spring, nesting and late Robin were 
one and the same little female I be- 
friended, but one loves to imagine so 
anyway. 


The Owls were alive and full grown 
the last I heard of them in late Oc- 
tober. I had collected them for a 
friend taxidermist in Sac City, Iowa, 
and shipped them to him and I think 
he intended to mount them as soon a3 
they reached maturity. My foot was 
very painful for a week, but healed up 
perfectly. 
O. M. Greenwood, 


Manchester, Iowa, 


42 phe @Q@OlOQC¢ | Sir 


THE NEW EGG PRICE LIST 


During the month of March we 
mailed “The American Oologist Ex- 
change Price List of North American 
Birds, Compiled by a Committee of 
Twenty-five Prominent American Oolo- 
gists,’ and published by ourselves. 
Being a volume of ninety-seven pages 
and one that will for years to come in 
our opinion to be the standard by 
which exchange of these specimens 
will be conducted. 

No Oologist or Scientific institution 
can afford to be without a copy of this 
work. It contains descriptions and 
directions of the proper manner to pre- 
pare, mark and authenticate specimens 
of this character, with illustrations 
showing the more advanced methods 
of the preservation and display. 

The List of North American Birds 
and the prices are printed on the left 
hand of only one side of each leaf in 
the book. The arrangements being 
adopted in order that the right hand 
side of each page might be used for 
records, memoranda, lists, etc. of 
each individual collector as their judg- 
ment and convenience might dictate 

The supply of this volume is limited. 
After it is exhausted, there is no ques- 
tion but that those having it may sell 
it at a premium. Those who have not 
already ordered should do so at once, 
lest their order come in after the 
Edition is exhausted.——R. M. Barnes. 


eae 


—-—— —. ~<a os 


“THE MURRELET” 


Vol. Ill, No. 1, January 1922. The 
Official Organ of The Pacific North- 
west Bird and Mammal Club. 

This mimeographed publication is 
filled with live, fresh bird and other 
natural history matter and is always 
welcome. It is a relief once in a 
while to receive a Bird publication 
which is not so ultra-scientific, as to 
be non-understandable and entirely un- 
interesting to the ordinary lay reader, 

R. M. Barnes, 


EAGLE DOPE 

For many years my collecting part- 
ner, Mr. HE. J. Court, of Washington, 
D C., an active enthusiastic field col 
lector, and one of the best known oolo- 
gists in the Hast, and myself have 
heard of four young Hagles being 
taken from one nest. Now Court who 
has taken as many sets of this bird as 
anyone in the country, always laughed 
at this story although I know the 
party who told the tale to be a re- 
liable truthful person. 

On February 22, 1922, Court and 
myself took from a Charles County, 
Maryland, nest a set of four egggs. 
The nest was in a dead chestnut 90 
feet up and were fresh. This set is as 
far as I can find the first authentic 
set of four ever collected. Now for the 
odd part of this news On March 5th, 
R. C. Harlow of Pennsylvania State 
College, this man’s name is enough, 
came down to go on an Hagle trip 
with Court and myself. We went to 
a Fairfax County, Virginia nest and 
took a set of four eggs one third in- 
cubated from it. This nest was 75 
feet up, in a live scrub-pine, and was 
the first Hagle nest we,ever found 
that had no dry grass in it, the lining 
being dirt and dead lea'ves. 

It is remarkable that after years of 
collecting, two such sets should be 
taken in one season, by the same col- 
lectors. Big sets this year but not 
many of them as the bird is becoming 
rarer and rarer each year. 

H. A. Sikken, 
Hyattsville, Maryland. 

EH. J. Darlington, of Wilmington, 
Delaware, in The Oologist, Vol. XXIX, 
Page 206, reports one set of four eggs 
of this species, brought to him by a 
boy in 1910 and also another set of 
four eggs taken in 1911. These sets 
are illustrated on pages 204 and 205 
of that Volume of The Oologist. 
Nevertheless, sets of four of the Bald 
Hagle are very rare—R. M. B. 


v lA 


“EAGLE TRICKS” 
The Golden Hagle at one time was 
plentiful in Young County, Texas. Mr. 
G. H. Leberman of 2105 5th Ave., Ft. 


Worth, Texas today related the fol- 
lowing to me: 
“Well, those mounted Hagles you 


have there remind me of days gone 
by but not forgotten In 1885 we load- 
ed up with lumber here at Ft. Worth 
and hauled it one hundred miles to 
Young County, Texas, where we had 
decided to settle down. 


While on this ranch we saw many in- 
teresting birds and animals, among 
which was the Golden Hagle and his 
tricks. 

One day we were herding cattle on 
a hillside; we saw a big Hagle fly 
down into the grass and make attacks 
on a three day old calf. He could not 
pick him up, but the calf began to run 
and bellow. The Hagle made three 
drops upon him and soon had the calf 
down, broken up in the hind quarters. 
He was fixing to finish up on the calf 
when we arrived and scared the Hagle 
away. 


Their trick is always to attack an 
animal that’s too large to carry and 
break them down in the back, then go 
on and make a meal of it. 

Another time I found an Hagle’s nest 
in a tree that overhung a’ high bluff 
There were two feathered young in it. 
We did not crawl out to the nest as 
we thought the tree would give away 
and we would land one hundred feet 
below. But we did hide and watch 
the old Hagle’s actions. She flew up 
and acted as if she was fighting the 
young; finally she pulled one from the 
nest and dropped it. As the young one 
tumbled downward the mother Hagle 
made a quick dash under the young 
and let the young land on her back. 
She flew back to the nest and tried 
the other one out and on several at- 
tempts she had the young flying. That 
was her trick on teaching the young 


OOLOGIST 43 


CO) lyg”” 


Mr. Leberman also said that while 
Luilding their house that rattlesnakes 
were plentiful and many times they 
would come into the house, One time 
a big rattler seven feet long came into 
the house and wrapped around the bed 
post of the bed that I was sleeping in 
and began to rattle. My brother said, 
“Well, he’s getting pretty close to 
you.” He lit the lantern and shot the 
rattler and then rolled over in bed and 
was soon fast asleep as if nothing had 
happened. We also found a large 
rattler wrapped around a post. There 
was a big-knot in the middle of him. 
We killed the snake and cut him open 
and found a full grown prairie dog in 
him. 


Ramon Graham, Texas Notes, 1922. 


oH = 
BOOKS RECEIVED 

COMPARATIVE BIRDS OF NEST- 
LING LIFE OF SOME NORTH AMER- 
ICAN NIDICOLAH, by Frank L Burns. 
This separate of twenty-six pages 
from The Wilson Bulletin, of Dec. 
1921, is but an evidence of the thor- 
oughness with which our friend Burns 
attacks any scientific subject. It is 
brimful of information on a subject 
which is of itself full of interest and 
concerning which too little is known 
by the average ornithologist. 

Would that we had more contribu- 
tions of this character ornithology lit- 
erature, and less space wasted upon 
attempts to describe imaginary sub- 
species, and geographical races based 
upon illusionary and fleeting tints, in 
plumage or in a few feathers hidden 
somewhere in the plumage of birds, 
which later investigation proves to be 
entirely hallucinatory; more particu- 
larly to the pen of Frank L. Burns, 
whom we know personally and whose 
scientific writings are a standard, and 
authority upon the subjects on which 
he treats, all of which is true. 

R. M. Barnes. 


44 Te inl 12 ©) @ Ik (ej i) Sa 


BLUE LAWS AND YOUNG ORNI- 
THOLOGISTS 

I note an article in the January Oolo- 
gist recommending old timers to en- 
courage study among the boys (and 
why not the girls). Many of my 
rarest birds were shown to me by a 
little girl, the daughter of a settler liv- 
ing back in the woods where bird life 
abounded. I agree with everything 
Mr. Baynard says and have more than 
once been tempted to send the Oolo- 
gist to some boy or girl interested in 
birds, but on second thought have re- 
frained. 

There is a fly in the ointment, a 
snake in the grass. What is the use 
of interesting boys and girls in a sub- 
ject which seems to be frowned on by 
all the powers that be. It would only 
lead to a natural desire to collect 
specimens and so bring them into con- 
flict with prejudiced and ignorant 
officials, whose only interest in life is 
to draw their salaries, and pretend to 
earn them by making themselves gen- 
erally obnoxious to anyone who takes 
an interest in birds and desires to col- 
lect a few specimens, 

I speak only of Alberta, the Do- 
minion officials seem much more lib- 
eral and better informed. In regard 
to my own permit, I had no trouble 
with the Dominion officials, but it was 
twice refused endorsement by the AI- 
berta Chief Game Warden. Having 
complied with the regulations, I was 
entitled to it strictly on my merits and 
the recommendation of my endorsers, 
two of the most prominent ornitholo- 
gists in Canada. In the end I was 
only able to secure his reluctant con- 
sent through the exercise of pull. 

As I seem to be a particularly des- 
perate criminal he abrogates’ the 
treaty between Great Britian and the 
United States to the extent that I am 
not allowed to export a specimen from 
the Province, though the permit as 
issued by the Dominion authorities al- 
low it. I continually receive letters 


from ornithologists and museum 
officials desiring me to secure them 
specimens of some of our northern 
species. I would like to accommodate 
those gentlemen but am compelled to 
refuse. 

I believe that an association of every 
ornithologist and oologist in the 
United States and Canada should hb2 
formed for the purpose of protecting 
our interest and having some of these 
severe restrictions modified. It is of 
very little use for any individual to 
protest against them. 

The weak point in the laws is that 
in practice they are only enforceable 
aaginst those who permanently pre- 
serve what they take, that is the 
scientific collector. If he breaks the 
law he preserves the evidence for his 
own conviction. 

The man or boy who kills wantonly 
simply throws the evidence away. The 
Indian or Halfbreed who takes eggs 
wholesale to eat also destroys the evi- 
dence, and what about cats, dogs, 
coyotes, crows, etc. The bird life des- 
troyed by the ornithologist is a mere 
drop in the bucket compared to that 
destroyed by the other agencies, to 
say nothing of the sportsman who kills 
more (and of the most valuable 
species) than all other a'gencies com- 
bined. Yet, the laws are very liberal 
to sportsmen while only a few crumbs 
are thrown in the direction of the or- 
nithologist and oologist. 

The ornithologist is not by any 
means the destroyer of bird life, that 
the severity of the enactments against 
him would lead the average person to 
believe. Personally, I am a poor nat- 
uralist because I hate to kill any non- 
game bird and many species remain 
unknown to me for that reason alone. 
Although entitled to do so I did not 
collect a single bird or eggs last sea- 
son contenting myself with a note- 
book and camera’ 

I regard oologiy as one of the most 
fascinating and healthy of pursuits. It 


MHNE OO 12 6 Gas 7 45 


takes one out into the woods and over 
the prairie and lakes at a time of year 
when everything is beautiful. It leads 
to an intimate knowledge of bird 
habits. Also it is one of the most in- 
nocent and harmless of outdoor pur- 
suits, as little or no damage is done 
the birds, as immediately a set of eggs 
is taken, the parents start in to raise 
another brood. 


This cannot be said of skin collect- 
ing, however, as a dead bird is a total 
loss, with all the progeny it might have 
produced. 


For the reason mentioned, though 
I agree with Mr. Baynard, I do not in- 
tend to follow his lead. It won’t do to 
interest the youngsters in any such 
criminal proceedings; better interest 
them in bugs, snakes, postage stamps, 
or soap wrappers, anything but birds 
under present conditions. 

A. D Henderson, 
Belvidere, Alberta. 


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SHAME! COLORADO 


George EH. Osterhout, of Windsor, 
Colorado, writes, “As far as bird work 
is concerned I am just about down and 
Out, = j Game laws of Colo- 
rado are so made that it is not safe 
for any one to work in ornithology 
unless he is connected with a State 
Museum.” All of which the editor 
thinks is an outrage. Little narrow 
smallness, in the making or adminis- 
trationship of game laws, certainly 
will be productive of less respect for 
them, more secret violation of them, 
and a decreasing public sympathy 
with them. 


We have always stood squarely for 
reasonable game laws and for intelli- 
gent enforcement of the same, and it 
is to be hoped that Colorado will see 
the error of any such system and will 
change in that respect.—R. M. Barnes, 


THOMAS H. JACKSON 


We have received information from 
two sources that this weil known oolo- 
gist, one of the best known in the 
United States, died at his home in 
West Chester, Pennsylvania, sometime 
during February, and I have en- 
deavored to get an obituary notice 
from some of those who knew him in- 
timitely, but so far have failed. 


Our own acquaintance with Jackson 
was limited to long years of corres- 
pondence and exchange of specimens 
and to one visit at his home in 1913, 
when we had the pleasure of viewing 
his limited though extremely choice 
collections of specimens. At that 
time we remember him as a man of 
medium size, spare built with bright 
black eyes and hair liberally tinged 
with gray, reserved and diffident in 
manner and bearing every evidence of 
having been born and lived the life of 
a gentleman. He was one of the most 
entertaining conversationalists on mat- 
ters oological that we remember havy- 
ing come in contact with, as to his 
scientific attainments along these lines 
and there was no question, he ranked 
with the best, and as a collector and 
student, another of the old guard has 
gone. What oologist of the rising gen- 
eration will take his place? 


The Oologist has had few better 
friends than Thomas H. Jackson. The 
following articles from his pen have 
appeared in this publication since we 
assumed its management. 


The Crow as a Raptore. Vol. XXVI, 


149. 


Notes of West Chester, Penn. 
XEXGVAE 50: 


Vol. 


The Kentucky Warbler. Vol. XXVilI, 


62. 


“Hair Play’—For the English Spar- 
row. Vol. XXX, 87. 


J. Hoops Mattock, Vol. XXXIII, 28, 


46 Tle OOL@OEG I Sw 


The Great Vol. 


XXXII, 32. 


Peal’s Falcon. Vol. XXXIV, 627 
Vo J, vam, WOll, OOOVIL ©, ; 
1, JD, Jelaty,  Woll, XOOrxC, IO, 


The Long Hared Owl. Vol. XXXVIII, 
ales 

And also the following illustrations 
trom photographs taken by Mr. Jack- 
son and likewise been enjoyed by our 
readers as he was an expert with the 
camera. 


Horned Owl. 


Series of Rare Raptore’s Hggs in 
His Collection. XXXIX, 397. 


Series of Hawk’s Hggs in His Col- 
lection XXX, 27. 


ests and Hggs of Chestnut Sided 
Warbler. XXX, 82. 


Nests and Hggs of Kentucky Warb- 
l@i, OO ILA 

Nest and Eggs of Louisiana Water 
“Mawrwgin XOSOX, Ae, 

Nests and Hggs of the Oven Bird. 
XXXII, 120. 

Young 
17. 

Nest and Eggs of Black-capped Chic- 
adee. XXXII, 174. 


Eggs of the Peal’s Falcon. XXXIV, 
63. 


Long Hared Owls. XXXII, 


Nest and Eggs of the Cedar Bird. 
XOCXITV, 66. 
Young of the Great Horned Owl. 
XXXVII, 102. 
—R. M. B. 


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ALBINO KINGBIRDS’ EGGS 


May 20th, 1920 I collected a set of 
four pure white eggs from a typical 
nest of Kingbird. This nest was built 
out ten feet on a horizontal limb of a 
white oak overhanging the river. Nest 
was same as any nest of this specie, 
female was sitting close, eggs slightly 
incubate, pure white and normal in 
size and shape. I have seen many 
sets of eggs of this specie but have 
never seen even one egg in a nest 
that was entirely without marking. 

G. Raymond Barlow, 
Danielson, Conn., R. I. 


“WHAT THE AUTO KILLS” 
By Ramon Graham, Ft. Worth, Texas. 

It is surprising to know and see 
what the auto and its bright lights 
kills, as it speeds along the paved 
pikes around Ft. Worth. 

I picked up a full grown skunk on 
a Pike road near here. It had been 
run over by an auto. 

A man brought a Civit cat to me to 


be mounted. He had run over it on 
the same pike. 

I picked up two full grown opossums 
on the Lake Worth Pike. 


them was smashed flat. 


One of 


I also observed snakes, jack and cot- 
ton tail rabbits, Owls, rats, Meadow 
Larks, etc., that had been killed by 
the auto at night. 

I picked up one Herring Gull which 
showed no signs of being shot on a 
paved pike just at sunrise. 

One man reports of running over a 
coyote near here. 

The good roads and auto are fast 
killing out the game birds and animals 
of Texas. And I suppose it’s going - 
on everywhere. 

A hunting party can leave Ft. Worth 
and in a day’s time be in the best of 
big game country. Good roads lead 
right into the best deer, bear, turkey, 
and quail country in Texas. 

Without good roads and the auto 
the game would have lasted many, 
many years. 

I have nothing against good roads 
and autos. I use the roads and my’ 
auto on my yearly hunts and collec 
ing trips and without good roads it 
would be impossible to collect and ob- 
tain specimens that are collected now 
days. Will be glad to hear other re 


ports on this subject. 


THE OOLOGIST 47 


DELOS HATCH 


This grand old man of Wisconsin 
ornithology, Known and beloved by 
thousands of American bird students, 
sends us a letter together with a 
sample of his handiwork which is 
truly remarkable for a man of his age, 
afflicted and color blinded. 


It is worked in several colors with 
precision and neatness equal to a 
trained Japanese embroidery worker. 


This little momento will have a 
place among the birds, nests and eggs, 
which its maker loved so well, in our 
museum, which contains hundreds of 
specimens of eggs taken and prepared 
by this splendid man. May he live 
many years to enjoy life and comfort 
his family, is the wish of The Oologist. 


“IT enclose money order for one dol- 
lar for the New Egg Catalogue. 


I don’t expect to make much use of 
it in exchange as I have not been able 
to climb trees for Hawks’ nests or wade 
in marsh for Bitterns, etc. I have 
taken up another hobby and I will en- 
close a sample. I picked up a piece 
of embroidery my graddaughter was 
working on and | thought I could do 
as well as it was done. I finished it 
and my daughter said I could do so 
well they hunted up work they had be- 
gun years ago and could not get time 
to finish and I have embroidered over 
seventy-five pieces in the last three 
years. Since I left the hospital (I am 
still in a rocking chair most of the 
time) I have worked from napkins to 
bed-spreads. Have worked five bed- 
Spreads, pillow cases, sofa pillows, 
and bureau scarfs or covers. 


IN my 80th year color blind, wear 
two pairs of glasses to read and write 
and embroider. I never could be idle 
or loaf on street corners. I have 
bought and collected several hundred 
beautiful butterflies last year.” 

Delos Hatch, 
Oakfield, Wisconsin, 


ARTIFICIAL MELANISM 


Some readers of the Oologist may 
recall that a suppositious new sub- 
species of the Plain Titmouse was 
differentiated some years ago on ac- 
count of its sooty plumage. (But the 
plumage proved to be actually sooty 
and the sub-species did not stand). In 
the same category, may be, will stand 
a “black” Western Meadow Lark 
which I chased all over the plains of 
Newcastle, Wyoming, before I got 
him; three decidedly melanistic “Can- 
ada” Jays, from Newcastle, Wyoming, 
the only Jays of this species ever 
taken there; and a strangely wander- 
ing Clarke Nutcracker which spent the 
winter at Blue Rapids, Kansas, loslng 
his life because he became too familiar 
with a neighbor’s chickens. This bird 
is very dark, very dark, indeed, al- 
though the well known collector to 
whom it now belongs has told me that 
he wrought wonders of cleansing, with 
that Nutcracker, by the use of strong 
soap solution and gasolene, This bird 
is notable as being the tenth, if I 
rightly recall, to have been taken or 
seen within the confines of Kansas. 

P. B. Peabody. 


—_____o@_o_f 


AN OLD TIMER 


L. C. Snyder, of Lacona, N. Y. sends 
us a leaflet announcing a Natural 
History Exhibit of his collection at the 
Salovay New York High School, the 
week of May 10th-15th, 1920, in which 
it is stated that this collection con- 
tains 600 specimens of butterflies and 
moths and 300 beetles, 50 mounted for- 
eign birds and 300 birds’ eggs, besides 
150 shells and miscellaneous  curi- 
osities. We well remember calling on 
Mr. Snyder at his home in 1913 and 
looking over his collection of eggs, 
which at that time though not large 
included some very rare varieties. 

R. M. Barnes, 


48 THE OOLOG!1S8ST 


A FIELD OF DICKCISSELS 


While walking through a clover field 
containing twenty-two acres, late in 
June, 1921, I found five nests of the 
Dickeissel. This field fairly swarmed 
with these birds. As I had about all 
of the sets of this species which I 
could use, I did not hunt for their 
nests very much, but within a few 
days following my neighbor began to 
cut the clover, and he promised me 
that he would mark all of the nests 
which he saw while mowing the hay, 
and each noon and evening I would go 
to the field and make a record of all of 
the nests which he had found while at 
work in the field. 

After the hay had been put up I 
took a walk around the fences of 
this hay field and counted all of the 
nests containing eggs and young birds 
which I could find, and in counting up 
I had a total of just fifty nests contain- 
ing eggs and young birds which were 
in the clover and along the fences 
around this field. 

I also found six nests that were 
empty, either new ones which had not 
been used yet or ones which had been 
abandoned. 

The nests and eggs which were in 
the clover were of course destroyed 
by the mower and hay loader as they 
passed over them. This is, I thing, 
an exceptional record, even for a4 
species which is so very common as 
the Dickcissel is in central lowa. 

During the hot days of June, July 
and August when the hot sun beats 
down upon the ground, the Dick- 
cissel’s ditty can be heard coming 
from all directions in a locality where 
they are as abundant as they are in 
central Iowa. 

After the middle of May fresh eggs 


may be found, but they are more 
abundant during June and early July.. 
During these months their nests may 


be found in almost any fence row be- 


tween the fields or in thistles grow- 
ing in fields or pastures. 

The materials most commonly used 
for the exterior of the nests in this lo- 
cality, are corn husks and weed stems. 
The former material predominating 
and lined with fine grass and a few 
horse hairs. 

Can any one beat this record for the 
Dickcissel, or any other species of the 
fringillidae family? If so, let us hear 
from them through The Oologist. 

John Cole, 
Nevada, Ia. 


GOLDFINCH BUILDING HER NEST 
IN SEPTEMBER 

On September 1, 1921, in Haston, 
Maryland, we saw a Goldfinch build- 
ing her nest in a maple twenty-five 
feet from the _ ground. She was 
gathering material from a tent cater- 
pillar nest in a neighboring tree and 
each trip she made was signalized by 
a happy “chicaree, chicaree.”’ There 
was no mate in sight. As we had to 
leave the next day we know nothing 
of the subsequent history of this late 
nest. 


Margaret M. Nice, 
Norman, Okla. 
We once took a set of fine fresh 
(slightly addled) eggs of this species 
at Lacon, Ill., October 10th. 
R. M. Barnes. 


—____—_+ > _-2—___ ————_ 


A WANDERING OOLOGIST 
A card from EH. Arnold, mailed on 
the Island of Jamaica, Feb. 27th, ad- 
vises us that this well known devotee 
of The Oological Game, left Montreal 
January 5th and has been in Cuba 
and in South and Central America, be- 
sides Jamaica We hope that he will 
not substitute interest in the birds’ 
eggs of those countries for his love 
for North American specimens of 
which Mr. Arnold has one of the most 

complete collections in existence. 

R, M. Barnes. 


BOOKS 


Bendire’s Life 
Alex. Walker, 


FOR SALE—Part 1, 
Histories N. A. Birds. 
. Blaine, Oregon. 


WANTED—Oologist IV, 6, 


and all 
numbers of 1919 and 1920; Check-list 
of North American Birds, 1910; also 


Bent’s Diving Birds. M. Nice, Norman, 


Oklahoma. 


WANTEHED—A copy of lLawrence’s 
“Catalogue of the Birds found in Costa 
Rica,’ (Annals New York Lyceum of 
Natural History, IX, pp. 86-149). W. EH. 
Clyde Todd, Carnegie Museum, Pitts- 
burgh, Pa. 


WANTHD—Vol. I, II, Ridgeway’s 
Birds of North and South America, and 
Auk I to VI. For disposal, Auk 33 to 
36 and odd numbers. Hoyes Lloyd, 406 
Queen St., Ottawa, Ontario. 


WANTED—Bird Lore, Vol. III, Num- 
bers 1 and 2; give cash or exchange. 
| Desire for the Miami Beach Zoological 
Garden and Museum of Natural His- 
' tory, rare specimens of Birds, mam- 
'mals and eggs. Address the Director. 
Harold H. Bailey, Box 5, Miami Beach, 
i lorida. 


GR SALH Kor Cash—Auk, Vols. Xi 
io xxl, complete; Vol.xxll, Nos. 1, 2, 4; 
Vcl. xxlll to xxv complete, Vol. xxvii 
'and xxix complete. Forestry and Irri- 
gation, Vol. xiv Nos. 4, 6 to 12; Conser- 
Vaiion xv No. 1 to 9, 11 and 12, Blue- 
bird, Vol. ix No. 3. Louis S. Kohler, 
Pike Ds 2) Patterson, N: Jp 


EXCHANGE—I have the following 
Magazines to exchange for best offer in 
‘ist class sets: “Auk,” Vols. XXXV, 
XXXVI, XXXVII. “Wilsons Bulletin,” 
| Vol. XXXII. “Bird Lore’, Vol. XXII. 
'“Condor,” Vol. XXII. ‘“Oologist,’ Vol. 
LH PROXcV. “Bay State Oologist,’’ Vol. I, 
|Nos. 1 to 6 (complete). ‘Birds,’ Vols. 
‘I, Il. “American Ornithology,” (C. K. 
|} Reed), Vols. I, II, Ill, IV. All in fine 
‘condition. Make me an offer. B. S. 
Griffin, 22 Currier Avenue, Haverhill, 
| Mass. 


FOR SALE—Mounted Texas Horned 
Frogs ,65 cents each. Skinned ready 
to mount, 40 cents. Add one to your 
collection. Sent postpaid. Ramon 
Graham Taxidermy and Tanning Co. 
Box 215 Polytechnic, Ft. Worth, Texas. 


ted-backed, Gray, Duss) -1wo-lined 
salamanders, finely mounte’ in solu- 
tion by most approved museum inethod; 
any species, $1.50.. Spotted salamander 
mounted as above, $4.50. Unopened 
copy “Insect Behavior,’ 114 illustra- 
tions, by Paul G. Howes, $4.00. Other 
books and mounted birds; see last May 
Oologist. Pav’ G. Howes Laboratory, 
Stamford, Conn. 


i HEY) OF 0) EXO) Gil Sj 49 


WANTED for Cash—Key to North 
American Birds by Elliot Coues. Latest 
edition if possible, two vols. E. BE. Mof- 
fatt, 146 Walnut St., Winsted, Conn. 


FOR SALH—Audubon Magazine. Vol. 
1 and 2 complete except covers on two 
issues. O. & O. Vols. 13, 14, 16, 17. Bird 
Lore. Vols. 11 to 22 inclusive. Oologist 
Wol, 18, 19, 80, 85, 86, 872 Wool, WO, Wo, 
SO, OR Wo iil, IN@, i, 8, 2 &) Gs ©, OF 
Vol. 34, No. 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 12. For the 
entire: lot $25, (©: EH.) Carr, New on= 
don, Wisconsin. 


FOR SALE—“‘Fishes of North and 
Middle America,” vol. 4 only, paper, 392 
full page plates, $2. Bulletin United 
States Fish Commission 1886, 495 pages, 
illustrated, cloth, $1.25. Proceedings 
lowa Academy of Sciences, 1912, board 
covers, $1. Miscellaneous natural his- 
tory papers 20c a pound, postpaid. 
Hmerson A. Stoner, Box 444, Benicia, 
California. 


FOR SALE—Swainson & Richardson 
“Kanna Breali Americana,’ Part 2, 
Birds. Melluraith, “Birds of Ontario.” 
Turnbull, “Birds of East Pennsylvania 


and New Jersey,’ the rare Glascow 
Hdition. Send for my list of Bird Books 
wanted. Harry S. Hathaway, Box 1466, 


Providence, R. I. 


KARL A. PEMBER, County Clerk, 
Woodstock, Vt., wants a number of 
books—also back numbers and volumes 
of Oologist. 


WANTED—Ridgeway’s Birds of ' 
North and Middle America. Any vol- 
umes other than IV and VII. Bent’s 


Diving Birds—offer Western Bird Skins 
in exchange. J. A. Munro, Okanagon 
Landing; B= C. 


FOR SALE—My collection of modern 
Indian relics at reasonable prices, rare 
iron tomahawks, eagle feather war 
bonnets, buckskin quivers, arrows, ete. 
Information for stamp. Robert HH. 
Backus, Florence, Colorado. 


IT am located at Brownwood, Texas, 
having moved unexpectedly from Tuc- 
son, Arizona. And I will be glad to 
co-operate from this locality with 
other collectors. James Wood, Brown- 
wood, Texas. General delivery. 


WANTHED—‘‘Lower California and its 
Natural Resources,” by Edward W. Nel- 
son. “Bulletin National Academy of 
Science.” A. P. Low’s Report on Ex: 
plorations in Laborador, published by 
The Geological Survey of Canada. F. 
M. Barnes, Lacon, Illinois. 


50 THE OOLOGIST 


MISCELLANEOUS 


FOR EXCHANGE—Photographs, size 
5x7; nests and eggs Nos. 194, 125, 221, 
325, b54a, T6la, 297a, 289, 761, 273, 7T21a, 
501.1, 701, 292, 554a, 263, 619, 478, 581le, 
725c, 225, 120c, 141, 132, 135, 542b, 554b, 


567a. Birds: Sea Gulls on the Pacific, 
West Horned Owl, Pelican Colony, 
Malheur Lake Res., Young Pelicans, 


Young Turkey Vultures. Will exchange 
for eggs in sets or Bird Skins. Must 
be first class with full data. A. G. 
Prill, Scio, Oregon. 


WANTHD—Will pay cash for the fol- 


lowing: Baird, Brewer & Ridgeway’s 
Water Birds & Land Birds. Bendire, 
Vol. 2. W. D. Richardson, 4215 Prairie 


Ave., Chicago, I11. 

WANTED—Bulletin No. 
Histories of North 
Birds, by A. C. Bent. 
consider exchange. 
vada, lowa. 

WANTHD-—Will pay Cash — “Life 
Histories of North American Birds.” 
Bendire, Vols. 1 and 2; “Life Histories 
of North American Diving Birds,” Bent. 
W. B. Samson, 1005 North San Joaquin 
St., Stockton, California. 

W ANTED—The following Duck 
Skins, for which I will give good ex- 
change: Harlequin, M. F.; Barrows 
Golden Eye, M. F.; Gadwall, M.; Ring- 
neck, M.; Huropean Widgeon, M.; Red- 
head, M.; Hooded Merganser, M.; Cin- 
namon Teal, M. F.; Canvassback, M.; 
American Scoter, M. 

If you happen to have any of these 
to spare me I could offer you _ Old 
Squaw, M. M.; Bufflehead, M. F.; Hud- 
sonian Curlew, M.; Bohemian Wax- 
wing; American Golden Hve, F.; West 
Horned Owl; Red tailed Hawk; Desert 
Sparrow Hawk, M.; Merrill's Horned 
Lark, M.; Bichnell’s Thrush, M.; Car- 
dinal, M. F.; Tufted Titmouse, M.; or 
have you any Male or Female Syca- 
more Warblers; F. or M.; Conn. Warb- 
lers; M. or F. Mourning Warblers; M. 
or F. Golden-winged Warblers; M. or 
KF. Nashville Warblers; M. or F. Sen- 
nett’s Warblers; M. or F. Olive Warb- 
lers; M. or F. Hermit Warblers; M. or 
F. Red-faced Warblers; M. or F. Man- 
grove Warblers; M. or F. Cerulean 
Warblers; M. Tennessee Warblers; F. 
Cape May Warblers. 

OTTO C. HASTINGS, 
207 Denver Ave., Bridgeport, Conn. 

FOR SALE—Over 8000 Foreign and 
Domestic reprints and excerpts—An- 
atomy; Nature Magazines; Fish; Rep- 
tiles; Birds; Mammals; Indians; Pho- 
tography; Art; Law; Medicine, ete. 
Some books. R. W. Shufeldt, 3356 18th 
St. N. W., Washington, D. C. 2-22t2 


I have just had vlaced with me a 
wonderful collection of 400 Indian Ar- 
row Heads and Tomahawks. These 
were collected among the hills of Ken- 
tucky, and I have been asked to dis- 
pose of them in either small or large 
lots and for most any fair offer. If 
you are interested and wish to make 
any proposition involving oological 
specimens, bird photographs, or other 
Natural History specimens I shall be 
glad to hear from you. G. A. Abbott, 
Lancaster, Ky. 


107, Life 
American Diving 
For cash or will 
John lL. Cole, Ne- 


FOR SALE—Skins and Mounted 
Specimen of Skunk, Civit Cat, Opossum, 
Horned Frogs, Jack Rabbitt, Swamp 
Rabbit, Armodillas and Squirrels. Ra- 
mon Graham, Box 215 Poly, Ft. Worth, 
Vexas. 


WANTED — Baird’s and Bachman’s 
Sparrows and any of the Longspurs 


from original collectors in full A-1 
sets. Bonus in A-1 material given in 
exchange. H. W. Carriger, 5185 Trask 


Street, Oakland, Calif. 

BUTTERELIEHS—Just received a new 
shipment of South American butterflies 
in papers unnamed, consisting of Papi- 
lios Heliconias Catsopilias Calagram- 
mas, etc., which I will sell in lots of 25 
mixed for $5.00 post paid. Each lot 
contains one Morpho cypres, one of the 
most brilliant of South American but- 
terflies; dealers charge $2.50 to $3.50 
for the specie alone. A. J. Potter, Hast 
Killingly, Conn. 1-3t 

FOR EXCHANGH—A-1 sets 261, 273, 
305, 308b, 331, 367 and others for well 
mounted specimens of 327, 331, 332, 333, 
337, 337a, 342, 343. Also have finely 
mounted 334 will exchange for some of 
the above. Elmer Langevin, Crooks- 
ton, Minnesota. 


FOkK SALE or Exchange—Mounted 
Birds, Skins, and Eggs in sets and 
singles. Jesse T. Craven, 5315 Roose- 
velt Ave., Detroit, Michigan. . 1-2t 

WANTED—Bent’s Diving Birds For 
Sale—Nelson’s Smaller Mammals of 
North America, bound in library buck- 
ram, 59 colored illustrations by Fuer- 
tes. Also bound 1916 Bird-Lore. [Fred 
J. Pierce, Winthrop, lowa. 

FOR SALE for Cash—Bulletin Coop- 
er Club & Condor, Volumes 1 to 6 in- 
clusive, complete, except No. 6, Vol. 1. 
Oologist, Vol. XI, (1894) complete; Vol. 
X (1893) complete, except April, July 
and November. W. B. Sampson, 1005 
North San Joaquin St., Stockton, Cal. 

FOR SALE—Ornithologist and Oolo- 
gist, Vol. VIII to XVIII inclusive; Bul- 
letin Cooper Club, Vol. I, 1-2-5; Condor, 
Vols. III and IV complete; Osprey com- 
plete file excepting 2 numbers, Vol. I, 
and 3 numbers of N. S. Bent’s Life His- 
tories of N. A. Gulls and Terns. Many 
odd numhbers of various Ornithologi- 
cal Magazines. H. H. Johnson, Pitts-> 
field, Maine. 

TO EXCHANGE—One King Trom- 
bone, Silver plated Gold bell, Highland 
low pitch, new in case. For first class 
sets. E. A. Wheeler, E. Randolph, N. Y. 

FOR SALE for Cash—New Jersey 
Minerals. Mica, Magnetic Iron Ore, 
Iris porphyry, feldspar, hematite, pec- 
tolite and many others. Also Paleozoic 


fossils. Excellent cabinet specimens, 
Louis S. Kohler, R. &. D! No.2, Pater= 
son, N. J. 
ice ed 
EGGS 
Will Exchange personally taken 


Florida sets for books. Want the last 


four volumes of AUK; good books on 
Butterflies, Moths and Insects; also 
good work on Southern Botany. Tell 


me what you have and price and will 
send you list. Oscar EH. Baynard, Plant 
City, Florida, 


THE NEW PRICE LIST 


We are pleased to announce that the New Catalogue of 
Prices of North American Birds’ Eggs, is now ready for dis- 
tribution. This catalogue fills an acute necessity. It has 
been sixteen years since a catalogue appeared that contained 
prices upon which the working Oologists of America as a 
whole were willing to base their exchanges. In 1919 an elec- 
tion was called to be participated in by the active Oologists 
in North America, who selected a committee of twenty-five 
well known Oologists to revise the prices. Then a committee 
of three to pass finally on the prices agreed upon by the larger 
committee. Two full years were occupied in this work and it 
is now ready. 


The catalogue is published by the undersigned and its gen- 
eral arrangement is as follows: 
1. An introduction. 
A history of Birds’ Egg Catalogue. 
A history of this catalogue. 
Prices in this Catalogue. 
Directions for collecting and preparing eggs. 
Copy of Standard Data. 
Illustration of proper way to mark eggs. 
Illustrations showing proper cabinet arrangements of 
collections. 
9. Report of the Committee of Twenty-five to revise prices. 
10. Names and prices adopted for each species. 
11. Advertisements. 


Co 1D Nw Oo bo 


The size of the catalogue is*the same size as The Oologist, 
which it in general respect as to make-up resembles. 

This will be, without doubt, the standard price list of 
North American Birds Eggs, for many years to come, and will 
be used by all museums throughout the world. The catalogue 
is printed on paper suitable to write on with pen and ink and 
will be used by many as a record on which to keep track of 
their own collection. 

The book retails at $1.00 per copy in paper covers, those de- 
siring a cloth bound copy can procure it for $2.00. he first 
edition is 500 copies. Send us your subscription on the blank 
published in this issue. 

R. M. BARNS, LACON, ILLIONIS. 


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Paying particular attention to Field 
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Now in its 28th year. 

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Wanted, Exchange, Fer Sale, Ktc., inserted in this department at 25 cents 


for each 25 words for one issue; eaeh additional word 1 cent. 


serted for less than 25 cents. 


No noticé in- 


We will advertise the skins, nests, eggs, or mounted specimens of North Amer- 
ican Birds for sale for persons having a lawful authority under the law to deal 


in the same. 


These columns are for the use of those desiring to make bona fide 


exchanges of such specimens for scientific collecting purposes only.—EDITOR. 


EGGS 


I will purchase for cash entire col- 
lections of North American Bird Skins, 
mounted birds and birds eggs or odd 
lots of the same, which I still need to 
complete my _ series. Send list and 
prices. R. M. Barnes, Lacon, IIIs. 


FOR EXCHANGE—Sets of eggs and 
skins of the birds of prey (Raptores) 
found in Florida; also 479 and 551. 


Only rare sets and skins desired for 
same. Harold H. Bailey, Miami Beach, 
Florida. Box 5. 


WANTEHED—One large upright egg 
eabinet with large d° wers, also want 
best Burr Drills, have stamps to trade 
for eggs. Arthur Blocher, Amboy, Ills. 


FOR EXCHANGE—Sets of No. 277- 
No. 364. Personally collected, season 
1922. Also sets of No. 300a-No. 305. 
Henry W. Davis, 10 South Baton Rouge 
Ave., Ventnor, Atlantic City, N. J. 

WAIN == 6G unos len V2 Sin TG. 0d, 
204 and 205. I will have fine sets to 
offer for these.. James R. Gillin, Am- 
bler, Pa. 

WANTED—To exchange with collec- 
tors in Paulding, Vom Wert, Defiance, 


Mercer or Putnam counties, Ohio; or 
Allen County, Ind. Homer F. Price, 
Payne, Ohio. 

PEXCHANGH—tTexas birds ’eggs in 


sets. Bird and animal Skins, Curios. 
Natural history specimens. Ramon 
Graham, 3722 Ave. J. Poly, Ft. Worth, 
Texas. 


WANT SETS numbers 1 to 426 only. 
Offer books and sets mostly sea birds. 
Send lists. F. M. Carryl, 1 Princeton 
St., Nutley, N. J. 


BIRDS, NESTS, EGGS collected in 
Maryland (other than game birds) for 
cash or exchange. Will collect for a 
week at a time, for wages and expen- 
ses, anywhere in Maryland. All cor- 
respondence answered. H. M. Harri- 
son, 16 Glasgow St., Cambridge, Md. 

FOR SALE—My entire egg collec- 
tion at once. Sets 85, 185, 264, 330, 343, 
352a, 355, 356a, 357b, 416, 417, 478b, 568, 
71i7a, ete. Singles 55, 60, 254; Ducks, 
Geese, etc. Also few fine skins. Oolo- 
gist Vols. XI, XII; Condor Vol. XX; 
Nidologist, Vol. II, Nos. 4-8; Vol. III, 
Vol. IV, Nos. 1, 2, 9. Robert F. Backus, 
Florence, Colo. Box 362. 


WANTED—Sets of eggs containing 
abnormal specimens, such as_ runts, 
monstrocities, abnormally marked or 
unmarked, albinistic and malformed 
specimens. Those with good data only 
wanted to further my studies of oolog- 
ical abnormalities. Write me when 
you have anything of this nature. Best 
cash price given. J. Warren Jacobs, 
Waynesburg, Penna. 


POR BHXCHANGE—Personally col- 
lected sets of the following species: A. 
O. U. 63, 64, 65, 67, 69, 70, 74, 80, 198, 
199, 319, 320a, 329, 342, 387, 421, 488, 
498g, 513a, 563, 573, 598, 604, 612, 622a, 
633, 708a, 704, 705, 706, 707, 731, 736, 
761 and 766. What have you? Many 
species desired in my collection. J. R. 
Pemberton, 729 Kennedy Building, 
Tulsa, OKlahoma. 

SKINS 

FOR SALE CHEAP—A few hundred 

sizes and 


artificial eyes of assorted 

colors, suitable for birds. Particulars 
upon application. A. C. Dyke, Bridge- 
water, Mass. 

Printed Instructions on Tanning 
Skins, Mounting birds, animals, game 
heads, fish, reptiles. Each subject 50 
cents. Satisfaction guaranteed. Ramon 


Graham, Taxidermist, Poly., Ft. Worth, 
Texas. 

FOR EXCHANGE — Two. beautiful 
skins of Knot in breeding plumage. 
Eges in sets desired. Gerard Alan Ab- 
bott, Lancaster, Kentucky. 


EPXCHANGH—I can offer Western 
bird skins for first class skins that I 
need. Will also exchange A-1 Mam- 
mal skins. Send list. Alex. Walker, 
Blaine, Oregon. 


I will Exchange Mounted Birds for 
Bird Skins and Eggs or Sell Mounted 
Birds and Bird Skins for cash. D. V. 
Hembree, Roswell, Georgia. 


WANTED—Five perfect skins of all 
the Hawks. Cash only. Address K. B. 
Mathes, Batavia, N. Y. 

Fine pair of skins, Band Tailed 
Pigeon, Male and Female for best offer 
eggs in sets, or skins of Warbler’s 
family. Dr. A. G. Prill, Scio, Oregon. 

NOTICE—I am moving to Tuscon, 
Ariz., and will be glad to hear from all 
zollectors who wish to write me, at my 
new address. James Wood, North- 
ville, Michigan. 

WANTED—Fine perfect skins. of 
hawks and ducks, shoveller, and Blue 
wing teal especially; Cooper’s and Red 
tailed hawks. Make best cash offers. 
K. B. Mathes, Batavia, N. Y. 


SKINS WANTED—A-No. 1 Skins of 
the following birds wanted: Golden- 
winged, Virginia’s, Nashville, Sennett’s, 
Olive, Black-fronted, Cerulean, Bay- 
breasted, Sycamore, Grace’s, Golden- 
cheeked, Palm, Connecticut, Mourning, 
and Wilson’s Warblers; also Water 
Thrush, for which I offer skins of 
Western Birds. Alex. Walker, Blaine, 
Oregon. 

WANTED—First class 
full data of the Anatidae, 
Gallinae, Limicolae, Rallidae. 
species especially desired. 
with prices. H. B. Conover, 
Street, Chicago, Illinois. 


skins with 
Columbae, 

Foreign 
Send list 
6 Scott 


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ANOTHER SCOOP 


With this issue of THr OoLocist we present to our 
readers two half tone illustrations, made from photo- 
graphs of the only pair of Whooping Crane in confine- 


ment, anywhere in the United States. 


This bird is rapidly nearing extinction, and it is a 
wonder that some of the great Zoological Gardens of the 
World do not acquire these exceedingly rare pair of 


birds. 


To be permitted to publish a photograph of them is 


of itself an honor as well as a pleasure.—The Editor. 


50 THE OOLOGIST 


NOTES ON THE NESTING OF THE 
AVOCET 


Malheur Lake Bird Reservation, 
Oregon 


Recurvirostra americana No. 225. 

This bird breeds in large colonies 
on and around “Alheur Lake” bird res- 
ervation, but much of its breeding 
grounds are outside the reservation 
proper. 

The marsh lands around the lake are 
from one to two miles wide, and con- 
sist of gullies mostly, outside of this 
border, however, are large tracts or 
fields of growing wild grass. 

The surface of these fields is cov- 
ered during the spring season with 
water at most times, to grow the grass, 
and along in July and August the water 
is allowed to recede from the meadows 
‘and the wild grass cut for cattle. 

In these meadows are raised poz- 
tions or hummocks, cver which the 
‘water does not flow, and on such 
places we find the Avocet has his sum- 
mer home. 

They are found nesting principally 
on these open grass fields. Its nest is 
generally a slight depression in the 
ground lined with fine grass and 
weeds. 

However, there are exceptions, and 
one beautiful nest was built up some: 
six inches above the ground and con- 
tained four eggs. On one small hum- 
mock probably 50 feet long by 25 feet 
wide I counted 25 nests of the Avocet 
and two nests of the Cinnamon Teal. 

The birds are a noisy set while in- 
cubating and resort to all forms of de- 
ception, to lead the intruder away from 
their nests. 

Several times I saw a bird fall over 
and lie flat on its back with the feet 
in the air to attract my attention. 

Simulating wounded or crippled birds 
_ were very common, and if not success- 
ful in this manner, would begin to 


show fright by flying at you in all di- 
rections. 

One actually took my hat off while 
I was taking a photo of its home, 

The Avocet is a beautiful bird with 
its rich colored plumage, its constant 
and noisy flight. The eggs are four in 
number and only one nest was seen 
with three in which incubation was ad- 
vanced. 

The nesting season is late in May 
and early in June. Fresh eggs may be 
secured from May 25th to June 10th, 
according to advancement of the sea- 
scn. 

Although much larger in size, the 
eges resemble those of the Kildeer. 


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WILLIAM F. NICHOLSON 

The sad news reaches us that Wil- 
liam Franklin Nicholson, aged 61 
years, 1 month and 22 days, passed 
away at his home near Toulon, in this 
State, April 7th, 1922, ending a useful 
life. 

Mr. Nicholson was for years a person: 
al friend of the editor, and at one time 
Superintendent of the Public Schools 
in Lacon. He was one of the most 
genial, companionable men that we 
have ever met. A careful observer, 
having good descriptive powers and an 
entertaining conversationalist, a lover 
of nature, science, and a true Christian 
gentleman. He was a strong support- 
er of The Oologist and in his death we 
have lost a good friend. 

R. M. Barnes. 


ANOTHER COLLECTOR REPORTS 


“My collection, like Bro. Mathes, is 
the accumulation of years and con- 
tains 3,000 sets with and without nest, 
1,200 mounted birds, mammals, fish 
and reptiles, also containing Passenger 
Pigeon, Carolina Paraquet, Hskimo 
Curlew, two-headed California pig and 


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THE OOLOGIST 


Prill, Scio, 


A. G 


—Photo by Dr. 


Avocet and Nest and Eggs 


. 


Oregon 


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kitten, four-legged chicken,  four- 
legged duck, etc; 4,000 Indian relics, 
800 gun and pistol, 10,000 land, fresh 
water and marine shells, 2,000 min- 
erals and fossils, 1,000 coins, medals 
and badges, 5,000 stamps. Pioneer 
and war relics galore, and are housed 
in a two-story building 18x36, used 
solely for same as a free public 
museum for the advancement of 
science as is also my scientific library, 
of over 400 volumes.” 

A. W. Dean, 

Alliance, Ohio. 


MILLIMETER RACES 


Dear Mr. Barnes: 

No criticism of yourself being ex- 
pressed or implied, in the accompany- 
ing copy, I trust you may see fit to 
give it place in the pages of The 
Oologist. In making this request, I 
wish to assure you that I heartily 
: agree with you in the matter of what 
Dr. Dwight has called ‘Millimeter 
Races.” No one, perhaps, has cause 
to feel more of aggravation than I in 
these matters; as also in that of the 
changes in scientific names. In the 
manuscript of my proposed Work on 
Nesting Habit I have changed certain 
scientific names as many as six times, 
during the past five years. I have al- 
so entered, and again elided, as many 
as a dozen alleged sub-species, that 
were not accepted by the A. O. U. 
Committee. 

A good example is that of the For- 
bush Sparrow. Mr. Forbush, himself, 
now doubts the sub-specific validity 
of his namesake; a position that seems 
amply justified by the reported find- 
ing of the Lincoln and the Forbush 
Sparrow in the same region at the 
same time! 

I am deeply enjoying the Price List; 
just dipping into it, here and there. I 
have also begun to insert the lacking 
accredited sub-species, but that is a 


grave task. I think you will realize, 
on reading over my manuscript, that 
I have written in perfect good humor, 
as, indeed, I have. 

I enclose P. M. O. for fifty cents, to 
cover cost of inserting a Notice of the 
Separates which it is planned to pro- 
vide of my Yellow Rail article, which 
is to contain six thousand words and 
at least a half-dozen half-tones. One 
of these will give a portrait of the 
only live Yellow Rail ever photo- 
graphed. 

Sincerely, 
P. B. Peabody. 


SALVAGE OF BONES 


On Layson Island in North Pacific 
is a huge heap to be used 

In the North Pacific Ocean, 700 
miles northwest of Hawaii, is a small 
speck of land called Layson Island. 
A few years ago it was regarded as 
one of the wonders of the bird world. 
Several species of sea birds recog- 
nized it has a secure harbor, and for 
ages Albatross, Sooty Tern, Petrel, 
Boobies and Goonies found homes and 
breeding places there. At one time 
it was thought to have a population 
of a million birds. The Albatross 
and Tern which once lived there were 
the largest of sea fowls, and in nest- 
ing season the island was literally 
white with the eggs. 

A tenacle of the feather or plume 
industry reached out to Layson in 
1909, and in a single season 300,000 
of the beautiful birds were killed to 
obtain wings which were marketed in 
Japan and China. Before poachers 
were driven off by a revenue cutter 
fully one-half of the birds were killed. 

Today on every side there are heaps 
of bones bleached white by the sun, 
showing where the poachers piled the 


birds as they stripped them of their — 


plumage. 


The high tides and storms have 


THE OOLOGIST 53 


washed a mighty windrow of bones on 
three sides of the island. It is esti- 
mated by revenue men who have re- 
turned from the vicinity this spring, 
that there are 40,000 measured tons of 
these remains of bird life, valuable for 
lime and fertilizer. 

For some unkown reason the birds 
have not nested on Layson since the 
slaughter of 1909, having found other 
uninhabited islands for the purpose.— 
Exchange.—Clipped from Rochester 
“Democrat and Chronicle” issue of 
Jan. 15, 1922. Do not know where it 


first started but it sure gathered 
weight. Ernest H. Short, Rochester, 
ING HY. 


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A CALIFORNIA OUTING 


On April 2, 1922 we made our first 
trip of the season which was more for 
the purpose of getting the birds locat- 
ed than with any expectation of tak- 
ing any oological specimens. 

Leaving Tulare at about ten o’clock 
in the morning we drove west along 
the county highway, and when about 
eight miles west of town discovered a 
Western Red Tail sitting alongside a 
nest, about forty feet up in an old 
dead cottonwood tree. As the limbs 
were all dead, I did not get all the way 
up, as an attack of cold feet crept over 
me when nearly to the nest. 

As we neared the town of Corcoran 
we came across an old reservoir, for- 
merly used for irrigation purposes and 
which was full of tules, and in these 
there swarmed a large number of 
Blackbirds, all busily chattering, and 
this will probably be a nesting ground 
in the near future. 

A few miles west of this town we 
crossed a large irrigation canal, and 
as this ccntained a little water and 
many tules, and small trees, it was a 
very likely looking nesting ground. On 
the telephone wires, along side of the 
road, were many Barn Swallows, busy 


with their visiting and nestbuilding. 
They had three nests near completion 
under the bridge, and in another week 
should have some eggs. Near here we 
also noted a few Great Blue Herons 
walking among the alfalfa, searching 
for their favorite pocket gophers. 

As we turned southward here, the 
road ran along the top of a levee, 
thrown up by large dredgers, to control 
the overflow which courses in the 
spring and threatens the va'st fields of 
grain which is annually sown on the 
old bed of Tulare Lake, now almost 
dry, except at flood season. In the 
water alongside this road were many 
Coots and one pair of Canvas Backs. 

Also it was here that the first egg 
of the season was taken, it being an 
egg of the Mourning Dove which did 
not hatch and was left in the nest 
from last year, and was found hanging 
to this remnant of a nest, being about 
ten or twelve twigs hanging to a wil- 
low limb. : : 

AS we were bowling along at a fair 
rate along the paved highway toward 
the town of Quernsey, we thought 
as We passed a nest in a willow tree 
near the road, that the aforesaid nest 
had one tail pointing skyward from 
its depths, and upon stopping and in- 
vestigating flushed therefrom a Shrike. 
This nest was in a willow tree about 
six feet from the pavement, over 
which many machines pass daily, and 
in a fence row around a milking cor- 
ral in which men are at work nearly 
all day, and contained six fresh eggs. 
This is the first set of the season and 
together with another set of six, one 
of which was lost in a ditch of water, 
constituted the day’s “take.” 

A little way further north, we came 
across a large pond, covering about 
three acres. Here we found many 
Coots, some Stilts and one pair of 
Sandpipers. There were also a few 
Killdeers and Blackbirds. There was 
one tree here, a large spreading wil- 


54 Pils © @ll @ (ej Sw 


low which contained two large nests, 
evidently Hawks, but there being a 
large ditch full of water between us 
and the tree, the idea of going up was 
postponed until a later date. 

On our way home from here we dis- 
covered a large colony of Black 
Crowned Night Herons nesting, but as 
the nests were in trees standing in the 
middle of the stream, we also post- 
poned this climb. The next time I 
write you I will enclose pictures of 
this colony, and give the result of our 
next expedition there. 

REN M. LEH, 
Tulare, Calif. 


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GROUND NESTING OF THE BROWN 
THRASHER 


In the Handbook of Birds of Hast- 
ern North America (Chapman) it is 
stated that the Brown Thrasher nests 
thickets, or on the 


B69 


in bushes, 
ground.” 

In a good many years of field obser- 
vations in Illinois, Indiana and New 
York, I have found only one nest of 
this species on the ground. My notes 
for 1913, June 17, in Logan County, 
Illinois, record the finding of a Brown 
Thrasher’s nest in a pasture, on the 
ground at the base of a large bush, 
the lower portion of which had been 
browsed by cattle. The nest was of 
the usual construction, and it con- 
tained one egg which, as I found by 
subsequent observation, had been 
abandoned. 

Are ground nest of this bird as rare 
as my experience would indicate or 
does it nest more commonly on the 
ground in certain localities? 

Oliver Davis, in his Nests and Hggs 
of North American Birds, states that 
the Brown Thrasher builds its nest in 
low bushes or on stumps, in clusters 
of wild vines and briars, in heaps of 
brush-wood and often on the ground. 


Continuing, he says: “When the nest 
is placed on the ground where the soil 
is wet and clayey the eggs become 
addled; three instances of this kind 
have come under my notice and the 
eggs have failed to hatch.” 

Such observations as these would 
seem to indicate that the few in- 
stances of ground nesting are due to 
perverted instinct. 

A. D. Du Bois, 
327 Sotuh Glenwood Ave., 
Springfield, Ill. 

In 45 years we have found but one 

nest of this species on the ground. 
——Re Me Be 


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UNEXPECTED TAKES 


During my experience afield when 
searching for nest, hunting, trapping 
and fishing I have several times been 
surprised by suddenly and most un- 
expectedly coming upon something 
that I had long been on the lookout for 
without success. 

In my mounted collection I have 
several rare specimens that I took in 
this way. 

After my collection contained most 
of the different animals, birds and 
eggs found in this region there were 
still a few rarities that I had failed to 
connect with. 

One of these was a specimen caf the 
Cross Fox, which although scarce is 
taken every year, but is just a chance, 
Up until the fall of 1909 my chance to 
get one had failed to arrive 

I went out occasionally after foxes 
and although on two occasions I saw 
at a distance what I am positive was a 
Cross, when we shot a fox it was al- 
ways a Red. The same thing happened 
when trapping, they were always red. 

Late in the fall of 1909 one morning 
I got on to a famous squirrel ridge a 
few miles from here at day light. I 
sat down on a log and had been there 


THE OOLOGIST 55 


but a few minutes when happening io 
look off up the ridge which had quite a 
zcod undergrowth of low laurel, I saw 
a large dark looking animai. I couldn’t 
make out the shape or exact size at 
the distance because of so much 
laurel, but at once thought of a bear 
as the leaves under many chestnut 
and beech trees were all pawed about 
where bear had been searching for 
nuts. 

I had started to slip in a couple of ball 
cartridges to welcome him with when 
I saw it was too small for a bear so 
turned my attention the other direction 
thinking someone was coming with a 
black dog. In a few moments i 
looked that way again and made the 
alarming discovery that the supposed 
dog was a large and very dark 
colored fox, that he was coming right 
past and that I was sitting in plain 
sight. There was just one thing to do 
and this I did. I sat perfectly still 
and never batted an eye. That fox 
passed just 25 paces from me. About 
50 feet from me was a large oak and 
this was my chance. The instant his 
head went out of sight as he passed 
the other side of this big tree, I 
leveled my gun and as soon as he was 
well past the tree and all was clear I 
smashed him in the shoulders with a 
charge of No. 6 shot. The little sixes 
had landed on him hard, some going 
almost through his body besides 
breaking the left fore leg in two places. 

This was an old dog fox and meas- 
ured up larger than an adult Red. His 
throat, underparts and legs were black. 
Tail very large and bushy and jet 
black with large white tip Upper 
parts very dark with the long hairs 211 
Silver-tipped. On each side of both 
shoulders was a very small red patch. 


Personally I have no use for a house 
cat but my mother had one for a num- 
ber of years that she was so fond of 
that I had to let it live. This cat 


wculd prowl about at night, bringing 
her catch in the house, play with it 
end bounce around until I got up. 
Many times I got up and found her 
playing with a mouse or bird. 

One night late in November, 1906, I 
heard puss making an unusual racket. 
Investigation showed the victim to be 
a flying squirrel, which I fixed up in a 
cage until morning as it seemed to be 
badly hurt. Next day it was dead and 
as 1 was about to throw it away I 
noticed that it had a peculiar-look, be- 
ing much larger and browner than the 
ordinary flyer. Comparison with a 
mounted flying squirrel showed a 
great difference in size and color. I 
soon had it placed as the Canadiian 
flying squirrel, and after it was 
mounted and dried I sent it for posi- 
tive identification to the Academy of 
Sciences of Philadelphia, to S. N. 
Rhoads, author of “Mammals of Penn- 
sylvania and N. J.” 

He pronounced it the first authenti: 
record for this state. The specimen 
was afterwards returned to me. 


In all my ramblings I never but 
once met a living Saw Whet Owl, in 
the young of the year plumage. I al- 
ways suspected this little Owl was a 
breeder and used to be on the watch 
for signs of nesting. Once, several 
years ago in June, I peered into a 
thick clump of low hemlock looking 
for a possible Warbler’s nest and 
there within a few feet of my face I 
saw what I least expected, a young 
Acadian. I succeeded in killing it 
with a stick and securing it. It was 
full grown and very pretty but ab- 
solutely different in color to the old 
birds. 

For a number of seasons I hunt: ¢ a 
great deal for waterfowl on the river, 
spring and fall, and was always on 
the watch for a Duck Hawk. As year 
after year passed I concluded this Rap-. 


56 THE ®O®OLOGIST 


tore was not to be found here. I had 
given up ever seeing one here, dead or 
alive. Several years ago in June, a 
time of the year when I never would 
have expected to see it here, I came 
across one suddenly. It was on old 
bird in full dress. The colors, marking 
and even the cry were all there. The 
bird was in very easy range but I had 
no artillery along. 

It was along the river near a steep 
hill with rocky and timbered side. I 
was down next day with a gun, also 
afterwards, but never saw it again. 

I wanted to get an extra large wild- 
cat (Bat Lynx) for my collection. The 
wildcat carries no load of fat as does 
the raccoon and many other mamma!s, 
but is always lean and lanky in a wiJd 
state and I soon found that 40 and 50 
pound cats, like many other birds and 
mammals whose weight we read about, 
existed only in newspaper accounis 
and stories told by people who had 
guessed not actually weighed tle 
game. I did know of a monster and 
with others tried to get him ahead of 
the dogs for several seasons but no 
success. He went too far and circied 
all over a couple townships throvgh 
all the worst jungles and slashings he 
could find. Another season I put cut 
a trap for cats near his haunts but 
hardly hoped to land this particuiar 
old fellow, yet the very first thing to 
get in was this big cat He took the 
trap and a heavy clog up into a neme- 
lock tree and when I looked up, there 
was the beast I had been after for the 
past two seasons. This was a very 
large old male, about as large as they 
get. He was in fine fur with fine rufra 
on the sides of his head. He measured 
45 inches from tip of nose to tip of 
tail. Tail 6 inches. His footpads left 
a track 3 x 2% inches. Nearly large 
enough for a Canada _ lynx. He 
weighed 3344 pounds on a grocer’s 
seale. 


The nests of the American Goshawk 
(same birds in each case), which I 
found here and accounts of which were 
given to “The Oologist” at the time 
was due entirely to the unexpected 
discovery of the first nest a month be- 
fore the eggs were laid and at a time 
when I was not looking for nests of 
any kind at all. 

R. B. Simpson. 
a 


BIRDS OF A CALIFORNIA SNOW 
STORM 


On January 29th, during a heavy 
snow storm I took a little walk into 
the hills back of town to see what the 
birds were doing. Never before, or at 
least not for very many years, had 
Benicia experienced such a fall of 
snow, for as old Si White says, he 
had “never seen the like of it” during 
the forty-three years he has spent in 
this town. During ordinary winters 
the only glimpse of snow we get in 
this section of California is once or 
twice a year when Mt. Diablo, some 
twenty miles away, wears a white cap 
of ephemeral existence. 

My first observation of bird life on 
this date is a scattered flock of Ameri 
can Pipit along the sidewalk on the 
paved highway. They are searching 
food in a few places free from snow 
beneath the trees and allow close ap- 
proach, sometimes walking or running 
to one side instead of making use of 
their wings. 

Among a few bushes along a fence, 
I find a flock of Gambel Sparrows 
with a few Golden-crowned among 
them. A number of Red-shafted Flick- 
ers are flying about between the trees. 
Some of our Flickers are prepared for 
weather such as this as certain indi- 
viduals have dug holes in the sides of 
some of our buildings in which they 
roost during the night. The smaller 
ground-roosting birds will have diffi- 
culty locating shelter when night falls 


THE OOLOGIST 57 


as there is six inches of snow on the 
level and it is knee-deep along the 
fences in the open stretches and still 
falling heavily in large flakes. 

Three California Jays sit in a pine 
tree apparently wondering what this 
blanket of whiteness is all about. A 
few Western Robins and Western 
Meadowlarks are also noted. 

I climb over a fence into a field cn 
the opposite side of which is another 
field, bordered on each side by rows 
of eucalyptus trees. From the ground 
at the base of one of these trees, ies 
a Burrowing Owl. He lights on a 
fence post not far away, stretches out 
both his neck and legs to observe me, 
and upon approach flies from the post 
and lights behind a big rock. Krom 
there I chase him over a hill out of 
sight. I have my “Game Getter” with 
me and I go after him with the result 
that he is soon my specimen. On skin- 
ning “he” proved to be a _ female. 
Though the stomach was empty vner3 
was a good layer of fat between tie 
flesh and the skin. 

While tramping over the hills I see 
a few Brewer Blackbirds and a flock 
of Horned Larks. In a lower part of 
another field the snow is black with 
small birds which prove to be a flock 
of some two thousand House Finches. 
I collect a male and they scatter into 
smaller flocks. The ground peinz 
covered with snow the birds are feed- 
ing on the seeds in the tops of some 
weeds and keep up a constant little 
chatter among themselves. A Sharp- 
shinned Hawk flies over a spot wner> 
a flock of the Finches had been feed- 
ing, surveying the ground closely ani 
apparently looking for a _ straggler 
which might have stayed behind, Later 
he flies into another flock of the Finch- 
es though he does not attack any of 
them and sails on by, and the smaller 
birds being much frightened fly to 
another part of the field 

A flock of a dozen geese fly low 
overhead as I wend my way home- 


ward. I have tramped in the snow for 
over two hours, and though it is com- 
fortable to be at home again by the 
fire, it has been a rare treat to ex- 
perience a bit of the weather to which 


our eastern friends are well ac- 
customed. 
Emerson A. Stoner, 
Jan. 30, 1922. Benicia, Cal. 
Je ee 


BRUSHLAND NEST PHOTOGRAPH 
OF PINNATED GROUSE 


In a recent issue of The Oologist 
was produced, presumably from Reed’s 
North American Birds’ Eggs, a half- 
tone bearing no legend as to either 
the subject or the photographer. Pre- 
suming that readers of The Oologist 
will wish to know what the half-tone 
represents, and possibly, also, to learn 
its origin, I venture to elucidate: 

The subject is, Brushland Nest and 
Eggs of Pinnated Grouse, Minnesota. 
This is the only brushland nest I ever 
found, out of at least twenty nests 
discovered of the ‘Prairie Chicken.” 
As such, it is a negative of unusual 
value. (It may interest readers to 
learn that I missed securing a _ por- 
trait of the sitting Grouse by only a 
few seconds). 

I would modestly suggest to the edi- 
tor of The Oologist that he be sure 
that the publishers of the magazine 
fail not hereafter to add to every half- 
tone a legend giving both the name of 
the photographer and of the subject. 
Some of us care to know both these 
items about re-produced photographs, 
and care to know very much. 

P. B. Peabody, 
Blue Rapids, Kansas, 

The half-tone referred to was on the 
outer cover of the January issue. 
These cover pictures are furnished us 
by our publishers free and we know 
nothing of these until we see them on 
the magazine. We appreciate the kind- 
ness of our publishers very much and 
see no need of making a mountain out 
of a molehill.—Kditor. 


58 


THE OOLOGIST 


Only Known Whopping Cranes in Confinement, 
of K. C. Beck & Co., Hutchison, Kansas. 


the Property 


THE OOLOGIST 59 


Close Up View of a Whooping Crane Objecting to Being Photo- 
graphed in the Park of K. C. Beck & Co., Hutchison, Kansas 


60 rile @O@QLoOCGI Sw 


SOME NOTES ON THE LIGHT- 
FOOTED RAIL 


(Rallus levipes. A. O. U. No. 210.1) 
The above species is one of the fast 
disappearing birds of California. Al- 
ways a very locally distributed 
species, It is, or rather was confined 
to the very few tidal marshes and la- 
goons of Southern California, The bird 
approximates in habits the eastern 
Clapper Rail, but unlike its eascern 
relative never to my own knowledge, 
nests in tall grass, aS we very oiten 
found the Clapper Rail doing. The 
salicornia or ‘pickle weed” seems to 
be essential to the Light-footed Rail 
for a place to build its home. I nave 
found its nest within two feet of the 
tidal marsh, to a good half mile away, 
but the later nest which was situated 
in the center of a very large tract cr 
dry marsh, occupied a place under the 
cnly clump of salicornia within sight. 
A favorite place for the nest is 1- 
der a thick growing clump or mat of 
salicornia, and quite often upon a little 
rise in the ground, but very many of 
the nests I have fcund personally were 
simply hollows scratched out under- 
neath the pickle-weed where it grew 
absolutely level, and there was noth- 
ing at all to differentiate the nesting 
site from the growth around it. The 
nest proper is usually a thick mat of 
sea-weed, saicornia, and plant stems, 
with a rather shallow depression on 
top for the eggs; excepting for the 
very top layer of sea-weed, the whole 
mass is more or less soaked and must 
be well dried in the oven before being 
fit for the cabinet if collected. In the 
majority of nests which have come 
under my observation, the space im- 
mediately surrounding the nest was 
covered with empty periwinkle shells. 
These must be carried by the birds 
from the water ways where they 
abound, to the nest and eaten there. 
In a few instances I have found well 


defined runways leading through the 
vegetation to the nests, but never 
covered over, as is often the case with 
some of our other Rails, for one in- 
stance there were three of these trails, 
each leading directly to the nest. My 
tape line gave the longest two hun- 
dred and eighty-seven feet. This was 
unusual though, as most nests could 
with difficulty be found only by poking 
around under the salicornia. The 
birds, as a rule, are very shy and slip 
away at the approach of danger; an 
exception to this was a female who 
stuck to her nest till I poked her with 
my stick. She half rose in her nest 
and faced me with a snapping beak, 
and when she finally decided it was no 
use, she scheeched loudly when she 
flew, being unfamiliar with the Ral- 
line language I don’t know just what 
kind of a tongue lashing I got, but I'll 
bet it was a “dandy.” 

On May 4, 1920 I found a female 
with seven newly hatched young. As 
I came closer the mother flew into the 
slough nearby and swam _ swiftly 
across. Five of the young followed 
her, but two of them seemed afraid 
to make the attempt. I finally succeed- 
ed in catching one of these and held 
it awhile to examine. It was jet black 
with brilliant yellow eyes, and kept up 
a constant “cheeping’’ but seemed in 
no wise greatly frightened, but cuddled 
down into my half-closed hand as if I 
was its mother sheltering it. During 
this time the other little fellow in the 
grass kept up the same “cheep, cheep, 
cheep” and the female swam back 
across the slough very excited and 
several times simulated a bird with a 
broken wing in the water. When I 
put the young one in the water it swam 
to the mother and soon after the other 
one also swam across and the whoie 
family disappeared under the thick 
growing salicornia of the opposite 
bank. 

The species nest from April till 


THE OOLOGIST 61 


June, and the complement of eggs 
varies from four to nine; five, six and 
seven are the usual number, however, 
they inclue more to the gray buffs for 
back ground than to the brownish or 
yellowish buffs, and are just as variable 
in patterns of spotting as the King 
and Clapper Rails. The spots average 
larger than the majority of the later, 
and the shell markings are quite 
lavender, warm browns, chestnut and 
purplish tones predominate. 

As many of the tide lands have with- 
in the last few years been reclaimed, 
the breeding grounds of the species 
has been sadly cut down The birds 
do not seem to be able to adapt them- 
selves to the changed conditions and 
as a result, to cite one particular in- 
stance, where I found close to a dozen 
nests one year; this last year there 
was absolutely no trace of the birds 
in the surrounding country, the old 
nesting grounds being under some 
three or four feet of mud and sand 
from the dredger operations. 

I still hope to find some of these in- 
teresting birds nesting along the coast 
of Lower California, but there, as in 
this section the coasts are mainly 
rocky with very few lagoons suitable 
for the requiremnts of this species. A 
close associate of the Light-footed Rail 
is the Belding’s Marsh Sparrow and 
they nest in the same situations, but 
as they are not so dependent on the 
close proximity of water they will un- 
doubtedly move farther back from the 
coast line and adapt themselves better 
to the changed conditions as it affects 
them. 

H. Arden Edwards, 
Box 284, R. R. 1, 
Los Angeles, Cal. 
aR a tite a nels, 


AN EAGLE ON THE WOODPILE 


On November 15, 1900 my partner 
and I went to cut out a piece of trail 
near our ranch on the Pembina River. 


It had been a very cold day, and on 
our return to the house at dusk our 
first thought was for a good fire, and 
I went to the woodpile for an armful 
of wood. As I took up a piece of fire- 
wood something flopped down beside 
me from the woodpile. I was rather 
startled and knocked it down with the 
piece of firewood. It got up and 
flopped past my partner who dropped 
it again with another stick. It proved 
to be a fine specimen of the Golden 
Eagle, spreading about seven feet. I 
cannot account for its presence on our 
woodpile, unless it was attracted by 
offal from ducks and geese we had 
cleaned a short distance away. Cer- 
tainly is was about the last place If 
would have thought of finding an 
Hagle. 

A. D. Henderson, 

Belvedere, Alberta 


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THE MARSH HAWK 


Until today, March 17th, 1922, I have 
never thought the Marsh Hawk was 
capable of capturing Quail or Part- 
ridge. These Hawks had always 
seemed too slow and dilatory to me to 
be able to take anything but mice, 
snakes or young birds. 

This morning about 8:30 a. m. I saw 
a Marsh Hawk kill and carry with the 
greatest ease a Hungarian Partridge, 
which was a full grown heavy bird. I 
ran to the spot where the Hawk alight- 
ed and fiushed her, leaving her prey 
behind. I then waited several minutes 
until she flew to a clover field nearby, 
when I ran to the house about 80 rods 
away to get three rat traps to trap her. 

Before I got back she had returned 
and carried the Partridge about 
thirty rods farther north in the corn 
field. 

As I did not know exactly where tc 
find the Partridge I went away for 
about half an hour and then proceeded 
for the spot where I thought I woula 


62 prihli= O@OLoOCGI Sw 


flush the Hawk. I soon flushed her 
again and upon arriving found she had 
almost entirely plucked her prey but 
had scarcely begun her feast. ‘This 
time I was not quite so foolish as to 
leave the Partridge but carried it 
along back where I had left the traps. 
After getting the traps I went back to 
the spot where the feathers were 
scattered, pushed a stick through the 
body of the Partridge and down in the 
ground so that it could not be carried 
away again and then set the three 
traps as close to the Partridge as pos- 
sible 

A few feathers were sprinkled over 
the traps, then I went away to work. 
An hour later I returned but apparent- 
ly Mrs. Hawk had not been back, At 
five o’clock in the evening I made 
another trip to the traps and foun!’ 
Mrs. Hawk with one foot in a trap 
She dragged the trap and horseshoe 
weight several feet before I picked her 
up. She proved to be an adult and 
was well marked. 

The Marsh Hawk is by far:the com- 
monest of the larger Hawks found 
here. The Red-tail and Red-shoulder 
are strangely lacking or very un- 
common. I have only taken three 
sets of eggs of the Marsh Hawk. One 
set of three well incubated eggs were 
considerably marked with brown, 
while another set of three fresh eggs 
were unmarked. One egg was of a 
handsome light blue color while the 
other two were of a dull pale color. 
Still another set of five fresh eggs 
were of a very pale blue and were 
very dirty. 

The Hungarian Partridge is a 
phenomenal success here in Paulding 
County and will probably equal or ex- 
ceed the Quail in numbers in this vi- 
cinity. Three farmers have reported 
to me that they have killed as many 
sitting birds by clipping their heads 
while mowing hay. 

Mr. Lester Sillen took me to a nest 


containing nine eggs of the usual 
brownish buff color but which were 
tinted very noticeably with blue. This 
nest was found by an oat shock while 
threshing oats in July 1921. 
Homer F., Price, 
Payne, Ohio. 
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BIRDS OBSERVED AT EAST LEAKE, 
GOOCHLAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA, 
IN JUNE 1921 


Goochland County lies almost exact- 
ly in the center of Virginia. The 
James River is its southern boundary. 
The topography of the County is roll- 
ing but not mountainous. 

I was the guest of Dr. and Mrs. L. 
H. Leake at their hospitable plantation 
home at Hast Leake in the extreme 
northwestern part of the County from 
June 11 to 15, 1921, and during this 
time observed fifty species of birds, all 
of which can safely be counted as sum- 
mer residents there. 

Hast Leake is merely the destina- 
tion of the post office for that region; 
it is not so much as a village. 


THE OOLOGIST 638 


In front of the Leake house there 
is a broad stretch of meadow and in 
the rear, a beautiful rolling woodland 
of pines, tulips, sycamores, beeches, 
hickories, oaks, dogwoods and lesser 
species. A pretty little stream winds 
its meandering way through the cen- 
ter of this woodland, at certain points 
on which the banks are several feet 
high and festooned with ferns and 
mosses. One would expect, therefore, 
in this latitude to find the Louisiana 
Water-Thrush and the Acadian Fly- 
catcher, and so I did. The former un- 
doubtedly nested there early in the 
spring and a nest of the latter with 
three incubated eggs, I found on the 
14th, situated as often is the case near 
the end of a slender horizontal dog- 
wood limb extending over the stream 
and about eight feet up. In the dis- 
tance were extensive woodlands where, 
I was told, Wild Turkeys are killed 
each fall. This section of the County 
is sparsely settled and I am not sur- 
prised that even such wild and wary 
birds as these are to be found there in 

comparative ahundance. 
/astonished and very much vexed to 
'see no Hawks or Owls of any species 
and to be told with something like 
fiendish satisfaction that the County 
Commissioners were paying bounties 
upon their dead bodies! Apparently 
the reports of the United States De- 
partment of Agriculture on the eco- 
nomic status of the Hawks and Owls 
are unknown to these commissioners 
or, if known, are discredited. In either 
/ event, the discredit 1s on the County 
Commissioners. 

Harly in the spring a pair of Kill- 
_deers had reared a brood in the 
meadow but they had left before I ar- 
rived. 

A pair of Swifts had lost their first 
hest in the chimney of the little office 
afew yards from the main house. But 
they had promptly begun reconstruc- 
| tion and had just completed the second 


But I was 


nest when. I left. 

Whippoorwills were abundant and 
their calls were almost incessant 
throughout the nights. I listened in 
vain for any evidence of the Chuck- 
wills-widow, the Whippoorswills’ big 
southern cousin, and am _ persuaded 
that it either does not occur in that lo- 
cality, or if it does, it is quite rare. 

The Flycatchers were very well rep- 
resented by five species—Kingbird, 
Crested Flycatcher, Phoebe, Wood 
Pewee, and Acadian Flycatcher. I 
have already spoken of the nest found 
of the last species. A pair of Phoebes 
had their nest under the eaves of the 
office shed early in the spring and the 
day I left I discovered a Pewee’s nest 
near the end of a horizontal limb of 
an oak close to the house and about 
twenty feet up, but I had no time to 
climb the tree for an examination, so 
do not know what the nest contained. 

The Warblers were also fairly well 
represented by sevea species—Parula, 
Pine, Oven-bird, Louisiana Water- 
Thrush, Maryland Yellow-throat, Yel- 
low-breasted Chat, and Redstart. The 
Pine Warblers were singing very 
Sweetly during the heat of the days 
in the woods back of the house 

Of the Sparrows, I saw only five 
Species—Goldfinch, Chipping Sparrow, 
Field Sparrow, Cardinal and Indigo 
Bunting. The Song Sparrow was con- 
spicuous by its absence. 

Three Woodpeckers fell under my 
observation, Downy, Red-bellied, and 
Flicker. 

Of course, the ubiquitous Blue Jay 
and Crow were there, and in fair 
abundance. 

Of the Oriole family there were the 
Red-winged Blackbird, Meadowlark, 
Orchard Oriole, and Purple Grackle. 
The Meadowlarks were in evidence 
throughout the days, calling from the 
meadow and field in their wonted way, 
and the Orchard Orioles sang their 
pretty little songs from the higher 


64 THE OOLOGIST. 


trees scattered around the plantation. 

Now and again during the days one 
or two Ruby-throated Hummingbirds 
would visit the flower beds around the 
house, stay a few moments and sudden- 
ly disappear in the deep woodland 
nearby, where I had no doubt they had 
a nest. 

Of the great raptorial tribe, of the 
Hawk and Owl contingent of which I 
have already spoken, there was but 
one representative seen, the ignoble, 
but none the less useful, Turkey Vul- 
ture and he was not abundant. I had 
hoped to find the Black Vulture but 
none was there. 

Only one of the family of Vireos 
was seen, the Red-eyed. In the woods 
close by the house I found a nest con- 
taining three eggs and saw evidences 
of the abundance of this species in 
this region. 

In a little dogwood tree standing in 
the open plot between the house and 
the office there was a Tanager’s nest 
holding one egg, punctured in the side, 
probably by a rascally Jay, and the 
contents emptied. As both the scarlet 
and Summer Tanagers were found 
around the plantation and as the eggs 
of the two species are often indis- 
tinguishable I did not determine the 
parentage of the nest. The birds had, 
of course, deserted when the nest was 
pillaged. 

I saw but one Migrant Shrike. His 
hunting ground lay around the apple 
orchard and on the edge of the woods 
nearby. 

Not much encouragement in the 
way of nest boxes seems to have been 
given the Purple Martins in this sec- 
tion of Goochland County, so I saw 


only an occasional bird straying 
through the plantation. 
Wood Thrushes were noticeably 


scarce and I was puzzled at this as 
the country was ideal for them. Robins 
were in evidence in fair abundance 
and bluebirds were not infrequently 


seen. My wife had examined a nest 
of the latter containing four eggs on 
June 5. 

Mockingbirds, Catbirds, and Brown 
Thrashers were always in sight in the 
vicinity of the house, each singing 
merrily throughout the days. 

I saw several Tufted Titmice and 
Carolina Chickadees and a pair of 
White breasted Nuthatches were busy 
in the nearby woods tutoring their al- 
most grown young in the ways of the 
avian world. 

The loud notes of the Carolina Wren 
were often heard out in the hedges 
and brush not far from the house, and 
the little House Wren, more sociable 
than the other, was always to be 
found close by the house. Two or 
three Yellow-billed Cuckoos, or Rain 
Crows as they are locally known, were 
heard and seen from time to time dur- 
ing each day. 

The cooing of the Mourning Doves 
was often heard in various parts of 
the plantation and Bobwhites were 
calling throughout the days from the 
fields nearby. J 

One Green Heron was seen in the 
marsh some miles south of East Leake. 

My visit was a complete success in 
every way. Ornithologically it was a 
treat as I had not before had an op- 
portunity to become familiar with the 
OOLOGIST—TEN 
birds of this section of Virginia and 
the loud incessant cries of the numer- 
ous Whippoorwills throughout the 
nights were magic music to my ears, 
long dull and sickened by the abomi- 
nable noises inflicted upon me by -the 
thousands of automobiles in Washing 
ton. ; i 

Robert W. Williams, 
Washington, D.-C. 
So Ue ane Oe REA I, 
MY FIRST OFFENSE | 

Several years ago I began reading 
The Oologist as I found it in bound 
volumes in my father’s library and fot 


THE OOLOGIST 65 


the past three years I have been a 
subscriber. Many tymes after reading 
some article that particularly interest- 
ed me I have been tempted to tell 
something from my own experiences. 
However, I have always lacked the 
courage to do so and it is only through 
the reading of a recent article by a 
youthful subscriber like myself, that I 
feel sufficiently prompted to commit 
my first offense. 

For several years I have been inter- 
ested in a pair of American Sparrow 
Hawks that have frequented the 
Waynesburg Commons and nested in 
the loft of a nearby school house. The 
Commons is a belt of land running al- 
most across the town and divided into 
several parks thickly wooded with 
maples, basswoods and other decidu- 
ous trees. Near one end of the Com- 
mons stand two brick school houses 
separated from the park only by a 
street and likewise from each other by 
an intersecting street. My interest in 
this particular pair of birds began 
when I was a tow-headed pupil in the 
smaller and older of these two build- 
ings, a three story structure known as 
Hanna Hall. Many years ago a pair 
of ambitious Flickers pounded three 
‘holes in its cornice, all of them at the 
rear of the building, that is at the end 
away from the park. One of these 
holes was in the angle of the gable 
and the others were in the two cor- 
ners. Sometime later the Hawks 
came, drove out the Flickers and be- 
gan nesting in the northwest corner. 
Their nest was made on the rough lath 
and plaster of the ceiling of the room 
below and in the angle made by two 
large timbers about a foot from the 
opening. It consisted only of a few 
sticks and their own excretions. They 
successfully raised broods here for 
three and possibly four seasons when 
their eggs were taken by a collector 
and they moved to the more inaccess- 
able hole in the gable. Here they 


nested two seasons and were still in 
evidence the following year. This 
was about the time I began to take a 
more active interest in ornithology 
and to collect occasional sets of eggs 
of the commoner species. I de 
termined to secure a set of Sparrow 
Hawks and that Spring (1917) on 
April the 17th paid my first visit to 
the loft. I surprised one of the old 
birds on the nest in the gable hole but 
was, of course, too early to find eggs. 
I did, however, find a pair of Screech 
Owls nesting in the northeast corner 
and took a set of three well incubated 
eggs. During the following weeks I 
paid the loft several visits and al- 
though I found a Flicker roosting in 
one of the holes the Hawks apparent- 
ly had been frightened out of nesting 
though they remained in the vicinity. 
The following two years I visited the 
loft occasionally and was puzzled by 
what I observed. The Hawks were al- 
ways in evidence but no eggs or young 
were ever found though the old pair 
were always to be found with a brood 
of three or four young in the dead 
locust back of the school house after 
the nesting season was over. In the 


spring of 1919, I was now a high school 


student, I was told that the Hawks 
were beginning to make a nuisance of 
themselves by preying on the birds in 
the park and I was asked one day by 
the supervisor of the schools to shoot 
them. Not wishing to do this as I felt 
that there was a brood of downy little 
fellows somewhere to starve to death 
I went to my father for advice and he 
suggested that I make another search, 
move the brood to another location 
and stop up the nest entrance, After 
some inquiry and observation I found 
that they were then using an old 
Flicker hole in the cornice at the rear 
of the second school building. The 
mystery of the broods of 1917 and ’18 
was now explainable and a visit to the 
loft cleared it up. It was a sunny 


66 THE OOLOG!18T 


day in late May when a friend and I 
explored our way across the rafters 
and electric light wires to the tiny 
gleam of light that marked the nest 
entrance. Feeling our way to a place 
where we could see and reach the 
nest we found four good sized young 
huddled in a nest site similar to the 
one first used in the old building. We 
took the young and not wishing to 
really drive the birds away placed 
against the entrance a light piece of 
shingle that we were confident they 
could push aside The following 
day we took the young birds in a 
Flicker nest box to a field that lay 
baick of the school house with the idea 
of attracting the old birds attention to 
the young and then placing them in 
the box and putting it on top of some 
telephone pole. Although we failed to 
get the attention of the old birds we 
nevertheless attempted to place the 
bird box in hopes that they would dis- 
cover the young. However, it is some 
stunt to hang at the top of a smooth 
pole, hold a bird box and pound nails 
all at the same time and neither of us 
was capable of doing it with the result 
that the box was allowed to fall and 
one of the young was injured. We 
carried them back home and attempt- 
ed to raise them by hand. Three of 
them attained their size and feather- 
ing but only one is living. One was 
killed by a rat and the other died from 
lack of proper care. This took place 
as I have already stated in the sum- 
mer of 1919. 

The following spring the birds were 
still in evidence and on April the 14th 
I visited the loft for the second time. 
When I had approached to within six 
feet of the nest site there was a sud- 
den scurrying noise and for an instant 
the entrance was darkened as the old 
bird made her escape. I cannot begin 
to describe the sensations I had when 
I first glimpsed those five beautiful 


eggs, clean, fesh and all well marked. 
While I packed 
them and noted the nest location and 


It was a rare sight. 


bits of feathers and the like laying 
about, the birds several times fluttered 
at the entrance within eight inches of 
my hand and their “killy, killy” was 
constantly heard. This was my last 
visit to the loft and of course the last 
but this 


spring, 1921, that birds were still using 


time I disturbed the birds, 


the Flicker hole and the janitor of the 
building began to shoot them. There 
must have been some of their young of 
former years with them as the janitor 
tells me that there were five of them 
about the place when he began shoot- 
ing them and that he succeeded in kill- 
ing two. He did not, however, suc- 
ceed in driving them away as I have 
noticed them several times during the 
fall flying about that locality. 


The ground color of the set I col- 
lected is white but entirely obscured. 
with blended marking pigments mak- 
ing the shells a uniform color of vary- 
ing shades of vinaceous pinkish with a 
tint of buff. The marking color is of 
chestnut but so thoroughly blended as 
to leave little tracings of deep chest- 
the 
shades 


nut spots, same -blending into 


lighter much as tawny vi- 


naceous-cinnamon and vinaceous rufus. 
William F. Jacobs, 
Waynesburgh, Pa. 


We are glad to welcome Wm. F. to 
our columns, and hope he will prove 
a worthy continuation of the Warren 
Jacobs, bird students.—Hditor. 


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edition if possible, two vols. E. E. Mof- 
fatt, 146 Walnut St., Winsted, Conn. 


WANTED—Vol. 8, 4, April 1891, No. 
66; Vol. 8, 5, May 1891, No. Gri Violen 9s 
Eyewpmily L925. Nol 78) aViol. 145 12) Gwe: 
1897, No. 139; Vol 16, 4, March 1899, No. 
153; Vol. 16, 9, Sept. 1899, No. 158; Vol. 
36, 5, May 1919, No. 382; Vol. 36, 7, July 
1919, No. 384. Karl Albrecht Pember, 
Woodstock, Vermont. 


FOR SALE—“Fishes of North and 
Middle America,” vol. 4 only, paper, 392 
full page plates, $2. Bulletin United 
States Fish Commission 1886, 495 pages, 
illustrated, cloth, $1.25. Proceedings 
lowa Academy of Sciences, 1912, board 
covers, $1. Miscellaneous natural his- 
tory papers 20c a pound, postpaid. 
Emerson A. Stoner, Box 444, Benicia, 
California. 


FOR SALE—Swainson & Richardson 
“Panna Breali Americana,’ Part 2, 
Birds. Mclluraith, “Birds of Ontario.” 
Turnbull, “Birds of East Pennsylvania 
and New Jersey,” the rare Glascow 
Hdition. Send for my list of Bird Books 
wanted. Harry S. Hathaway, Box 1466, 
Providence, R. T. 


WANTED — Copy, good condition, 
Bailey’s Birds Western United States. 
Name price first letter. Ren M. Lee, 
Tulare, Calif. 


“NESTINGS OF THE YELLOW 
RAIL’’—There is to be published soon, 
a Monograph on the Nestings of the 
Yellow Rail. It will be the only ac- 
count extant. Illustrated by uniqu2 
photographs: the only ones in exist- 
ence. Separates will be sold at a small 
advance over cost. Orders being booked. 
An advance of Thirty Cents, Silver, re- 
quired. P. B. Peabody, Blue Rapids, 
Kansas. 


FOR SALH—My collection of modern 
Indian relics at reasonable prices, rare 
Iron tomahawks, eagle feather war 
bonnets, buckskin quivers, arrows, ete. 
Information for stamp. Robert E. 
Backus, Florence, Colorado. 


FOR SALE—Three copies the Curio 
Bulletin, Nine copies the Collector‘s Blue 
Book 1914, Hight copies ‘the Collector’s 
Journal 1909, Twelve copies the Curio 
Collector 1911-12-13, and Four copies 
The Bluebird 1914-15. All postpaid for 
$2.50. EF. M. Dille, Valentine, Nebraska. 


FOR SALE Lidgway’s “Birds of 
Middle and North America.” Vol. 4 & 5 
(ogihe ikeehelacre), WoO @, 7 o&& & (Paper). 


Theodore R. Greer, Aledo, Illinois, 


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MISCELLANEOUS 


FOR EXCHANGE—Photographs, size 
5x7; nests and eggs Nos. 194, 125, 221, 
325, 554a, 76la, 297a, 289, 761, 273, 721a, 
501.1, 701, 292, 554a, 263, 619, 478, 581e, 
W2oe, 225, 120c, 141 132) 13b, 542b, 554b; 


567a. Birds: Sea Gulls on the Pacific, 
West Horned Owl, Pelican Colony, 
Malheur Lake Res., Young Pelicans, 


Young Turkey Vultures. Will exchange 
for eggs in sets or Bird Skins. Must 
be first class with full data. A. G. 
Prill, Scio, Oregon. 


WANTED—Will pay cash for the fol- 


lowing: Baird, Brewer & Ridgeway’s 
Water Birds & Land Birds. Bendire, 
Vol. 2. W. D. Richardson, 4215 Prairie 


Ave., Chicago, I11. 


WANTED—Bulletin No. 
Histories of North 
Birds, by A. C. Bent. 
consider exchange. 
vada, Iowa. 

WANTED--Will pay Cash — “Life 
Histories of North American Birds.” 
Bendire, Vols. 1 and 2; “Life Histories 
of North American Diving Birds,” Bent. 
W. B. Samson, 1005 North San Joaquin 
St., Stockton, California. 


UO, ILGhES 
American Diving 
For cash or will 
John L. Cole, Ne- 


WANTED—The following Duck 
Skins, for which I will give good ex- 
change: Harlequin, M. F.; Barrows 


Golden Eye, M. F.; Gadwall, M.; Ring- 
neck, M.; Huropean Widgeon, M.; Red- 
head, M.; Hooded Merganser, M.; Cin- 
namon Teal, M. F.; Canvassback, M.; 
American Scoter, M. 

If you happen to have any of these 
to spare me I could offer you Old 
Squaw, M. M.; Bufflehead, M. F.; Hud- 
sonian Curlew, M.; Bohemian Wax- 
wing; American Golden Eve, F.; West 
Horned Owl; Red tailed Hawk; Desert 
Sparrow Hawk, M.; Merrill’s Horned 
Lark, M.; Bichnell’s Thrush, M.; Car- 
dinal, M. F.; Tufted Titmouse, M.; or 
have you any Male or Female Syca- 
more Warblers; F. or M.; Conn. Warb- 
lers; M. or F. Mournine Warblers; M. 
or EF. Golden-winged Warblers; M. or 
F. Nashville Warblers; M. or F. Sen- 
nett’s Warblers; M. or F. Olive Warb- 
lers; M. or F. Hermit Warblers; M. or 
F. Red-faced Warblers; M. or F. Man- 
grove Warblers; M. or F. Cerulean 
Warblers; M. Tennessee Warblers; F. 
Cape May Warblers. 

OTTO C. HASTINGS, 
207 Denver Ave., Bridgeport, Conn. 


FOR SALE—Over 8000 Foreign and 
Domestic reprints and excerpts—An- 
atomy; Nature Magazines; Fish; Rep- 
tiles; Birds; Mammals; Indians; Pho- 
tography; Art; Law; Medicine, etc. 
Some books. R. W. Shufeldt, 3356 18th 
St. N. W., Washington, D. C. 2-22t2 


I have just had placed with me a 
wonderful collection of 400 Indian Ar- 
row Heads and Tomahawks. These 
were collected among the hills of Ken- 
tucky, and I have been asked to dis- 
pose of them in either small or large 
lots and for most any fair offer. If 
you are interested and wish to make 
any proposition involving oological 
specimens, bird photographs, or other 
Natural History specimens I shall be 
glad to hear from you. G. A. Abbott, 
Lancaster, Ky. 


FOR SALE—Skins and Mounted 
Specimen of Skunk, Civit Cat, Opossum, 
Horned Frogs, Jack Rabbitt, Swamp 
Rabbit, Armodillas and Squirrels. Ra- 
Hom Graham, Box 215 Poly, Ft. Worth, 

exas. 


_ WANTED — Baird’s and Bachman’s 
Sparrows and any of the Longspurs 


from original collectors in full A-1 
sets. Bonus in A-1 material given in 
exchange. H. W. Carriger, 5185 Trask 


Street, Oakland, Calif. 


BUTTERFLIES—Just received a new 
shipment of South American butterflies 
in papers unnamed, consisting of Papi- 
lios Heliconias Catsopilias Calagram- 
mas, etc., which I will sell in lots of 25 
mixed for $5.00 post paid. Each lot 
contains one Morpho cypres, one of the 
most brilliant of South American but- 


terflies; dealers charge $2.50 to $3.50 
for the specie alone. A. J.. Potter, Hast 
Killingly, Conn. 1-3t 


FOR EXCHANGE—A-1 sets 261, 273; 
305, 308b, 831, 367 and others for well 
mounted specimens of 327, 331, 332, 333, 
337, 337a, 342, 3438. Also have finely 
mounted 834 will exchange for some of 
the above. Elmer Langevin, Crooks- 
ton, Minnesota. 


FOk SALE or Exchange—Mounted 
Birds, Skins, and Hggs in sets and 
singles. Jesse T. Craven, 5315 Roose- 
velt Ave., Detroit, Michigan. 1-2t 

WANTED—Bent’s Diving Birds For 
Sale—Nelson’s Smaller Mammals of 
North America, bound in library buck- 
ram, 59 colored illustrations by Fuer- 
tes. Also bound 1916 Bird-Lore. Fred 
J. Pierce, Winthrop, Iowa. 

FOR SALE for Cash—Bulletin Coop- 
er Club & Condor, Volumes 1 to 6 in- 
clusive, complete, except No. 6, Vol. 1. 
Oologist, Vol. XI, (1894) complete; Vol. 
X (1893) complete, except April, July 
and November. W. B. Sampson, 1005 
North San Joaquin St., Stockton, Cal. 


FOR SALE—Ornithologist and Oolo- 
gist, Vol. VIII to XVIII inclusive; Bul- 
letin Cooper Club, Vol. I, 1-2-5; Condor, 
Vols. III and IV complete; Osprey com- 
plete file excepting 2 numbers, Vol. I, 
and 3 numbers of N. S. Bent’s Life His- 
tories of N. A. Gulls and Terns. Many 
odd numhbers of various Ornithologi- 
cal Magazines. H. H. Johnson, Pitts- 
field, Maine. 


TO EXCHANGH—One King Trom- 
bone, Silver plated Gold bell, Highland 
low pitch, new in case. For first class 
sets. HE. A. Wheeler, EH. Randolph, N. Y. 

FOR SALE for Cash—New Jersey 
Minerals. Mica, Magnetic Iron Ore, 
Iris porphyry, feldspar, hematite, pec- 
tolite and many others. Also Paleozoic 


fossils. Excellent cabinet specimens. 
Louis S. Kohler, R. HY D. No.2, Paters 
son, N. J 
EGGS 
Will Exchange personally taken 


Florida sets for books. Want the last 


four volumes of AUK; good books on 
Butterflies, Moths and Insects; also 
good work on Southern Botany. Tell 


me what you have and price and will 
send you list. Oscar E. Baynard, Plant 
City, Florida, 


THE NEW PRICE LIST 


We are pleased to announce that the New Catalogue of 
Prices of North American Birds’ Eggs, is now ready for dis- 
tribution. This catalogue fills an acute necessity. It has 
been sixteen years since a catalogue appeared that contained 
prices upon which the working Oologists of America as a 
whole were willing to base their exchanges. In 1919 an elec- 
tion was called to be participated in by the active Oologists 
in North America, who selected a committee of twenty-five 
well known Oologists to revise the prices. Then a committee 
of three to pass finally on the prices agreed upon by the larger 
committee. Two full years were occupied in this work and it 
is now ready. 


The catalogue is published by the undersigned and its gen- 
eral arrangement is as follows: 
1. An introduction. 
A history of Birds’ Egg Catalogue. 
A history of this catalogue. 
Prices in this Catalogue. 
Directions for collecting and preparing eggs. 
Copy of Standard Data. 
Illustration of proper way to mark eggs. 
Illustrations showing proper cabinet arrangements of 
collections. 
9. Report of the Committee of Twenty-five to revise prices. 
10. Names and prices adopted for each species. 
11. Advertisements. 


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The size of the catalogue is the same size as The Oologist, 
which it in general respect as to makeup resembles. 


This will be, without doubt, the standard price list of 
North American Birds Eggs, for many years to come, and will 
be used by all museums throughout the world. The catalogue 
is printed on paper suitable to write on with pen and ink and 
will be used by many as a record on which to keep track of 
their own collection. 

The book retails at $1.00 per copy in paper covers, those de- 
siring a cloth bound copy can procure it for $2.00. The first 
edition is 500 copies. Send us your subscription on the blank 
published in this issue. 

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EGGS 


I will purchase for cash entire col- 
lections of North American Bird Skins, 
mounted birds and birds eggs or odd 
lots of the same, which I still need to 
complete my series. Send list and 
prices. R. M. Barnes, Lacon, Ills. 


FOR EXCHANGE—Sets of eggs and 
skins of the birds of prey (Raptores) 
found in Florida; also 479 and 551. 
Only rare sets and skins desired for 
same. Harold H. Bailey, Miami Beach, 
Florida. Box 5. 

WANTHD—One large upright egg 
cabinet with large d-wers, also want 
best Burr Drills, have stamps to trade 
for eggs. Arthur Blocher, Amboy, Ills. 

FOR EXCHANGE—Sets of No. 277- 
No. 364. Personally collected, season 
1922. Also sets of No. 3800a-No. 305. 
Henry W. Davis, 10 South Baton Rouge 
Ave., Ventnor, Atlantic City, N. J. 


WANTED—66, 68, 71, 72, 73, 76, 


78, 


204 and 205. I will have fine sets to 
offer for these. James R. Gillin, Am- 
bler, Pa. 


WANTED—To exchange with collec- 
tors in Paulding, Vom Wert, Defiance, 
Mercer or Putnam counties, Ohio; or 
Allen County, Ind. Homer F. Price, 
Payne, Ohio. 


EXCHANGH—Texas 


birds ’eggs in 


sets. Bird and animal Skins, Curios. 
Natural history specimens. Ramon 
Graham, 8722 Ave. J. Poly, Ft. Worth, 
‘lexas. 


WANT SETS numbers 1 to 426 only. 
Offer books and sets mostly sea birds. 
Send lists. EF. M. Carryl, 1 Princeton 
St., Nutley, N. J. 


BIRDS, NESTS, EGGS collected in 
Maryland (other than game birds) for 
cash or exchange. Will collect for a 
week at a time, for wages and expen- 
ses, anywhere in Maryland. All cor- 
respondence answered. H. M. Harri- 


tion at once. Sets 85, 185, 264, 330, 343, 
352a, 355, 356a, 357b, 416, 417, 478b, 568, 
717a, ete. Singles 55, 60, 254; Ducks, 
Geese, etc. Also few fine skins. Oolo- 
gist Vols. XI, XII; Condor Vol. XX; 
Nidologist, Vol. II, Nos. 4-8; Vol. III, 
Vol. IV, Nos. 1, 2, 9. Robert F. Backus, 
Florence, Colo. Box 362. 


WANTED—Sets of eggs containing 
abnormal specimens, such as _ runts, 
monstrocities, abnormally marked or 
unmarked, albinistic and malformed 
specimens. Those with good data only 
wanted to further my studies of oolog- 
ical abnormalities. Write me when 
you have anything of this nature. Best 
cash price given. J. Warren Jacobs, 
Waynesburg, Penna. 


FOR EXCHANGEHE—Personally col- 
lected sets of the following species: A. 
©, UW, 63, 64, 65, By, GO, 10, 74, B80, U8, 
UDO, Bale) SHWE, BAO aw, sein, ebuly Ae. 
498g, 5138a, 5638, 573, 598, 604, 612, 622a, 
G33, Osa, 704, 705, WOG, tOW, UBL, 7G, 
761 and 766. What have you? Many 
species desired in my collection. J. R. 
Pemberton, 729 Kennedy Building, 
Tulsa, Oklahoma. 


SKINS 


FOR SALE CHEAP—A few hundred 
artificial eyes of assorted sizes and 
colors, suitable for birds. Particulars 
upon application. A. C. Dyke, Bridge- 
water, Mass. 


Printed Instructions on Tanning 
Skins, Mounting birds, animals, game 
heads, fish, reptiles. Each subject 50 
cents. Satisfaction guaranteed. Ramon 
Graham, Taxidermist, Poly., Ft. Worth, 
Texas. 


FOR EXCHANGE —Two § beautiful 
skins of Knot in breeding plumage. 
Eggs in sets desired. Gerard Alan Ab- 
bott, Lancaster, Kentucky. 


EXCHANGEHE—I can offer Western 
bird skins for first class skins that I 
need. Will also exchange A-1 Mam- 
mal skins. Send list. Alex. Walker, 
Blaine, Oregon. 


I will Exchange Mounted Birds for 
Bird Skins and Eggs or Sell Mounted 
Birds and Bird Skins for cash. D. VY. 
Hembree, Roswell, Georgia. 


WANTED—Fine perfect skins. of 
hawks and ducks, shoveller, and Blue 
wing teal especially; Cooper’s and Red 
tailed hawks. Make best cash offers. 
Kk. B. Mathes, Batavia, N. Y. 


WANTED— Books, pictures, notes, 
records or anything giving information 
about the nesting and eggs of the 
Duck Hawk—EFaleo peregrinus anatum. 
Will pay cash for anything I can use. 
Karl A. Pember, Woodstock, Vermont. 


ATTENTION Brother Collector —I 
wish to mail you Sample Sheets of my 
Standard Data Blank Book with Cou- 
pon attached; also Field Note books. 
Particularly of Interest to you. Drop 
me a card. George W. Morse, 318 East 
9th St., Tulsa, Oklahoma. 


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THE EARLIEST KNOWN BIRD 


(Archaeopteryx) 


The oldest bird of which there is a 
geologic records is represented by two 
well preserved individuals; one head- 
less in the collections of the British 
Museum, the other which is complete, 
in Berlin, Both were found in the 
lithographic limestone at Solenhofen, 
Bavaria, a treasure storehouse from 
which many of the most perfect Juras- 
sic fossils have come. 

The first suggestion of the existence 
of birds in the Jurassic was the find- 
ing of the imprint of a feather, in Aug- 
ust, 1861. A month later the bird it- 
self was found, and in 1877 a second 
specimen appeared. These birds dif- 
fer from those existing today in many 
ways; and while not of the same 
species, enough of their unique char- 
acteristics are common to both indi- 
viduals to warrant their assignment to 
a single genus. 

Archaeopteryx shows an advanced 
state of evolution, and at the same 
time unmistakable indicaticns of a rep- 
tilian ancestry. From this ancestry it 
retained teeth set in sockets, rep- 


tilian finger-like claws upon its fore. 


limbs, a long vertibrated tail, amph:- 
coelous vertibrae, and divided pelvic 
girdle. Its bird-like characteristics 
were equally distinct. Its head and 
brain were aviarian; its sternum, 
while not as well developed as in mod- 
ern forms, was unmistakably for fly- 
ing in bird fashion, and not in ptero- 
saurian fashion; its posterior limbs 
were adapted for bird-like walking; 
and it possessed feathers. The ree- 
trices were not arranged in the fan- 
like manner characteristic of modern 
birds, but were grouped in pairs upon 
either side of the vertibrated tail. In 
subsequent birds the tail is shortened, 
and the fan-like arrangement is gradu- 
ally assumed. The reptilian charac- 


teristics are so distinct that had the 
feathers not been found, the specimens 
would have doubtless been classified 
as reptiles. 

Various estimates of the time which 
has elapsed since the Jurassic perioa 
have been made. These estimates 
vary from that made in 1893, by Wil- 
liams, of 10,000,000 years, based upon 
the rate of erosion of the Cenozoic 
and Mesozoic sediments; to that of 
Barrell, in 1917, of 195,000,000 years, 
based upon the rate of disintegration 
of radioactive minerals, contained in 
the rocks, to lead. From these esti- 
mates, of which Barrell’s figure of 
195,000,000 years is more generally ac- 
cepted by geologists, some realization 
may be had of the time which has 
elapsed since the earliest known bird 
lived. The acquisition of the ability 
to fly was not an instantaneous ac- 
complishment. The evolutionary de- 
velopment of the bird-like characier- 
istics of Archaeopteryx were well ad- 
vanced, and so, to this estimate ot 
195,000,000 must be added at least 
half again as much time, in which the 
evolution from a true reptile took 
place. This estimate of 282,500,000 
years as the age of the birds may ap- 
pear far too great to those unfamiliar 
with the reckoning of geoiogic time. 
It is, nevertheless, as close an approx- 
imation of the time which has elapsed 
since the reptilian ancestor began to 
assume aviarian characteristics as 
the present state of the science of 
geology renders possible. 

William D. Johnston, 
The University of Chicago. 
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Bibliography 
1. J. Barrell: Rhythms and the Meas- 
urement of Geologic Time, Bulle- 
tin of the Geological Society of 
America, vol. 28, 1917. 
2. R. 8S. Lull: Organic Evolution, The 
Macmillan Co., 1917. 


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Archaeopteryx macrura (lithographica) 
V. Meyer, from Zittel. 


Heilman’s Restoration of Archaeopteryx macrura, 
from Lull. 


69 


70 THE OOLOGIST 


3. A. S. Woodward; Vertibrate Pa- 
laeontology, Cambridge University 
Press, 1898. 


4. Karl A. von Zittel: Text-book of 


Palaeontology, vol. II, Macmillan 
and Co., (London), 1902. 
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Past two years I have been game 
warden on the Adirondack League 
Club Preserve—a ‘bird sanctuary of 
100,000 acres in the Moose River and 
West Canada Creek Country. 

The private park is used to propa- 
gate and protect fish, birds, and quad- 
rupeds. My duties are such that I 
have ample opportunities to observe 
birds. I have within a mile of my 
camp “Ox-Bow,”’ on Moose River, four 
or five pairs of the magnificent Pileat- 
ed Woodpecker. They are very num- 
erous all along the river bottom coun- 
try. The Artic Three-toed Wood- 
pecker is a frequent visitor in camp. 
The American Three-toed Woodpeck- 
er is not so common, still I meet a 
pair every few days. 

Goshawks nest here—one nest had 
three young about a week old on May 
2nd . I hope to have something to say 
in a near number of The Oologist, 
about birds of ‘Little Moose” country. 

C. F. Stone, 
Branchport, New York. 


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CAMP IN A COAL MINE 


Along the south shore of the Ohio 
River, approximately across the center 
of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, lies 
a rarely frequented area, five miles 
long and from a half to two miles wide. 
For the most part, a precipitous bluff 
from two hundred and fifty to four 
hundred feet in height rises directly 
from the water, only a narrow flood 
plain separating its base from the 
river’s edge. Numerous ravines and 
gullies, carved out by the early spring 
freshets, run back from the river like 
teeth of a comb, and end far above in 


the meadows and plowed fields which 
characterize the country to the south, 
In spite of the fact that this bluff is 
practically continuous, the locality pre- 
sents varied ecological conditions in 
which several types of birds are to be 
found. From the river to the level } 
fields at the top, the bluff is very 
Leavily wooded. Hard-wood predomi- 
nates and in the steeper places, it is 
first growth. In general, the under- | 
brush is very thick. Around the 
mouth of Raccoon Creek at the west 
end of the tract, and also at the top of 
the cliff, the country is characterized 
by tilled fields and is open and rolling. 

On the afternoon of May 12th, 1921, 
George Sutton and the writer started 
for. this country, prepared to spend 
several days. We each carried a 
blanket, and our provisions consisted 
of four or five loaves of bread and a 
pound of bacon, to be augmented 
later by whatever luck brought us. 
Camp was made in the air shaft of an 
abandoned coal mine, and it is surpris- 
ing how conducive to a sound night’s 
rest, form-fitting hollows in a pile of 
shale can be, That night’ we were 
lulled to sleep by the querulous chant- 
ing of a Screech Owl, punctuated by 
the base notes of a Great Horned Owl, 
and colored by that song of songs, the 
flight ecstasy of an Oven-bird. The 
first night in the woods is always 
sleepless, so at about four o’clock the — 
next morning we were off, much too 
eager to eat anything. At about five 
o’clock the matinal chorus began—Fly- 
catchers, Thrushes, and Warbiers. 
The woods were literally flooded with 
Warblers. In three days twenty-six 
species had left their lasting impres- 
sions on us! The wheezy droning of 
the Parula was mingled with the stac- 
cato decisiveness of the Tennessee and 
Nashville, and with the breezy con- 
versation of the Hooded and Kentucky, 
and the bell-like wavering of the 
White-throated Sparrow was accom- 


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panied by the contralto progressions 
of the Olive-backed Thrush and the 
tenor mysteries of the Verry. 

At about haif past seven Clyde Todd 
hove in sight. He had known of the 
projected trip, and had professed to be 
too busy, but, as we had expected, he 
was not able to withstand the call of 
a May morning in the woods. Rose- 
breasted Grosbeaks were carrolling 
constantly, and on one occasion a 
very interesting flight song was ob- 
served. Suddenly, in the midst of an 
ordinary sequence of syllables, a gor- 
geous male burst into a rapturous cas- 
cade of double notes and flutings, and 
springing into the air, he fluttered and 
dangled his wings and legs much as a 
Yellow-breasted Chat would. Then, 
exhausted, he dove into the under- 
brush. The unusual song of the Blue- 
winged Warbler was heard and later 
the bird was seen. When I reported 
this to the others, I was met with 
stony tolerance and cold reproof, as it 
is very common in the region, but rep- 
utation was re-established, when later 
in the day “Sut” saw and heard it. 
Tne two-syllabled, sibilant, exhaled 
and inhaled song of this Warbler is 
one of the queerest of bird songs ana 
it always surprises me greatly when I 
realize that it comes from an avian 
throat. A Golden-wing was singing 
from the same locust from which a 
Brewster’s Warbler had been collected 
the week before. The Black and 
White Warblers were everywhere, 
and probably sesmed more numerous 
because they were very active in hunt- 
ing for nest meterial at the time. For 
an hour or more, “Sut”? watched a 
femelo building her nest A beautiful 
Cape May Warbler was discovered in 
a small elm tree, singing a song very 
Similar to that:of the Nashville, but 
shorter and not so loud. It was col: 
lected because spring records here are 
unusual, The side of the hill was in- 
habited by about six pairs of Kentucky 


Warblers and four or five pairs of 
Hooded Warblers, and we certainly 
had a wonderful opportunity to ob- 
serve their habits. The Hooded were 
mating at the time and the strikingly 
colored males were chasing each other 
and the famales everywhere. To me 
it seemed as if the song of the Hood- 
ed Warbler could be written as fol- 
lows: “Weet-peet, weet-peet, peet- 
weet,” with the accent on the “peet” 
syllables. The Kentucky seemed to 
say: ‘“Turdle, turdle, turdle.”. 

The song of the Kentucky reminded 
me very strongly of that of the Oven- 
bird, but it was not accented. The 
Hooded’s song had approximately the 
same tonal quality, but it was phased 
and accented differently. A Redstart 
in the gray and yellow plumage was 
observed singing and parading like a 
male, Having a theory that most or 
the female warblers sing as well as 
the males, we collected it and it 
turned out to be a female. A female 
Maryland Yellow-throat was also ob- 
served singing, although in this case 
it was not a typical song, but one 
somewhat abbreviated. 

A Chewink’s nest with three young 
about a week old, was stumbled on by 
accident. The nest was under a clump 
of spirea and the top was just level 
with the ground. It was set in a bed 
of old leaves, molded into a mat by 
ground-water, and when the young 
birds were at rest, with their heads 
all pointed in the same direction, it 
was impossible to distinguish them 
from their surroundings. The only 
way the nest was found was by seeing 
their three yellow cavernous maws 
waving around in the air on the end 
of three thread-like necks. On the 
edge of a grassy bank overhanging a 
little stream, a Song Sparrow’s nest 
with the surprisingly large family of 
six young was found. Unfortunately, 
I think one was a Cow-bird, because he 
was decidedly larger and was already 


72 rile O@OL@ Gl Sir 


dominating the rest when it came t9 
begging for food. 

A Hairy Woodpecker’s nest wa 
found in a dead stub about fifty feet 
from the ground. “Sut” shinned up 
in the hope of collecting a nice set of 
eggs, but was mightily disappointed 
when he heard the buzzing of the 
ycung birds when he was within a 
few feet of the nest. A Cardinal’s 
nest with three eggs was found in 2 
black raspberry. It was remarkably 
well hidden, and was discovered only 
by luck. Later the set was colletced. 
A Chickadee’s nest with seven per- 
fectly fresh eggs was found in a Nat- 
ural cavity in a dead stump about six 
feet from the ground. The cavity had 
been enlarged by the birds and then 
lined with rabbit fur, and a more 
beautiful and delicate nest could hard- 
ly be imagined. A Wood-thrush had 
begun a nest in a Virginia creeper 
which ran up the side of a huge elm. 
Evidently it nad become dissatisfied 
with it for it started another about two 
feet below it. The second nest had 
two eggs in it, 

At about eight o’clock that evening 
while going to the spring for a drink, 
I saw a Whip-poor-will hunting. It 
was perched lengthwise on a branch 
about fifteen feet from the ground, 
and regularly, about every thirty sec- 
onds it would very silently flutter up 
in the air and down again to the same 
perch, Undoubtedly, the night moths 
knew to their sorrow just exactly 
what it was doing. We had not been 
able to make skins of all the birds 
that we had secured because it got 
dark rather early, and so a Golden- 
winged Warbler and a Wilson’s Thrush 
were put on a little ledge in the cave 
to keep until morning. Never again! 
During that night, something, prob- 
ably a shrew of some kind dragged 
them into a hole in the rocks and all 
we found were a few feathers and 
bones, The shrew can hardly be 


blamed, however, for when wrapped in 
a strip of bacon and toasted for a few 
minutes over a smoky fire, we found 
Wocd Thrush and Cuckoo very savory. 
The next day it poured Of course 
that did nct keep us under cover, but 
it certainly did the birds. it weuld 
have been foolish to try to dry ouz 
clothes because they were soaked, so 
We suuzgled down tegether under the 
blankets and the next 
were néariy if not quite dry. There 
surely must be some special provi- 
dence which protects an ornithologist, 
for, needless to say, we suffered ab- 
solutely no ill affects from our wet- 
ting. 

A straggling flock of about tweniz 
large birds which were provisionally 
identified as Turkey Buzzards was 
seen, but they were flying so high, 
that absolute identification was impos- 
sible. It was rather surprising that in 
the three days we saw neither a Blue- 
bird, White-breasted Nuthatch, or a 
Night Hawk. It is to be supposed 
that they were busy incubating, al- 
though in the case of the Bluebirds, 
one would think that they would be 
leading their first brood around at 
that time. 

Following is the complete list of 
species seen from six p. m., May 12th, 
until two p. m. May 15th. Specimens 
of those species starred with an aster- 
isk were collected. 

Spotted Sandpiper, Killdeer, Bob- 
white, Ruffed Grouse, Mourning Dove, 
Turkey Buzzard (?), Red-tailed Hawk, 


morning we 


Sparrow Hawk, Screech Owl, Great 
Horned Owl, *Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 
*Black-billed Cuckoo, Kingfisher, 


Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Wood- 
pecker, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, 
Red-headed Woodpecker, Red-bellied 
Woodpecker, Flicker, Whip-poor-will, 
Chimney Swift, Ruby-throated Hum- 
mingbird, Kingbird, Crested Fly- 
catcher, Phoebe, Wood Pewee, Acadian 
Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher, Blue Jay, 


THE OOLOGIST 73 


Crow, Bobolink, Cowbird, Red-winged 
Blackbird, Meadowlark, Orchard 
Oriole, Baltimore Oriole, Bronzed 
Grackle, *Goldfinch, Vesper Sparrow, 
Grasshopper Sparrow, White-crowned 
Sparrow, White-throated Sparrow, 
Chipping Sparrow, Field Sparrow, 
Song Sparrow, Chewink, Cardinal, In- 
digo Bunting, Scarlet Tanager, Purple 
Martin, Barn Swallow, Rough-winged 
Swallow, Cedar Waxwing, Red-eyed 
Vireo, Warbling Vireo, *Yellow-throat- 
ed Vireo, Blue-headed Vireo, *Black 
and White Warbler, Worm-eating 
Warbler, Blue-winged Warbler, *Gol- 
den-winged Warbler, Nashville Warb- 
ler, Tennessee Warbler, Parula Warb- 
ler, “Cape May Warbler, Yellow Warb- 
ler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, 
“Magnolia Warbler, *Cerulean Warb- 
ler, *Chestnut-sided Warbler, *Bay- 
breasted Warbler, Black-poll Warbler, 
Blackburnian Warbler, *Black-throat- 
ed Green Warbler, Ovenbird, Northern 
Water-thrush, Louisiana Water-thrush, 
*Kentucky Warbler, Maryiand Yellow- 
throat, Yellow-breasted Chat, Hooded 
Warbler, Canadian Warbler, *Redstart, 
*Catbird, Brown Thrasher, Bewick’s 
Wren, House Wren, Tufted Titmouse, 
‘Chickadee, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, 
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, *Wood Thrush, 
Gray-cheeked Thrush, *Olive-packed 
Thrush, *Wilson’s Thrush, Robin. 
Total: ninety-seven species. 
Rudyerd Boulton, 
Beaver, Pa. 
ee 


THE HAUNTS OF POOR-WILBER 


Yes, I did find Poor Will eggs. I 
found them twice. And once did I 
find a pair of downy young; so strik- 
ingly, well-night startlingly, color-pro- 
tected and their gravelly, flint-pebbly 
environ. ; 


Shall I tell you about it? Here, in 
Northeastern Kansas is a condition 
paradisic for the Poor Will. There 


are wide, rather high hills, clad, even 


yet, with their primeval boskage. In 
late May and in June the slopes are 
say with thistles and night-shade and 
wonderful vetches and cone-flowers. 
And everywhere, on the crest and on 
downward slope, are sumacs, three- 
foot, four-foot, good covert for sitting 
Poor-Wills, Better, yet, for this ex- 
ceedingly primitive nester, are out- 
croppings of flint-rock; with sharp, 
and with rounded pebbles, without 
number. 

Deep below the hills are broad graz- 
ing valleys. At the lowest depth of 
these is an eroded dry creek bed. A 
cluster of cottonwood and soft maple 
trees, planted generations ago by man, 
shelters the nest homes of Mourning 
Dove, Kingbird and Flicker. On the 
slopes, near at hand, a few Sparrows 
are brooding This day, at the end of 
May, Grasshopper, Lark Finch, Hen- 
slow, and Meadow Larks mellowly 
pipe, (it is the Hastern form); and an 
occasional Night Hawk sweeps easily 
overhead, In the little “draws,” all 
bristling with killickinic, pium-bush 
and, (but ’m no botanist), one may 
hear, almost invariably, the fussy, 
fidgety call of the Bell: Vireo; (the 
while some pirate Cowbird is watch- 
ing for a likely Vireo nest). 

It is amid such environ as this that 
I search annually for Poor Will eggs. 
(And, mostly, I take it out in hunt- 
ing!) My Marshall County Poor Wills 
appear to be unlike other people’s Poor 
Wills, or else somebody indiscreetly 
lied! 

To prove it: One first-of-June morn- 
ing, before the heat of the day began, I 
set out from town, across a corn field, 
through a pear orchard, into a barbed- 
wire fence, then up & pasture slope, 
on I went, thrashing the weeds and the 
sumacs, aS I reached the “likely” 
areas. Just beyond the water reser- 
voir, and just at the crest of a high 
hill, at one stroke of my twelve-foot 
“wand,’ up there fluttered a female 


74 THE OOLOGIST 


Poor-Will. Undulatingly she winged 
her way down hillward, and with a 
single phlegmatic chirp she alighted. 
On a bit of bare ground, with flint chips 
near, there lay one egg. Fore-prepar- 
ed, I substituted for this a blown and 
water-filled egg * a Mourning Dove, 
(exactly the sort of thing that an as- 
piring oological genius from Central 
Kansas once tried to palm off upon me 
as a Poor Will egg!) Later, another 
Poor Will egg lay beside the dummy. 
It was when I, on the strength of 
printed assurance from other bird 
men, calmly set myself to work at the 
task of photographing my sitting 
Poor Will that I was handed the great 
surprise of my life. Quite still sat 
she, and with her eyes closed. (I 
found this to be a standard trick of 
hers). Nearer and nearer I moved 
the camera, six feet, five feet, four! 
Ah, very good! Mummy-like, the 
feathered lady sat. Focussing’ was 
done. Plate-holder was inserted, and 
slide, but, fairly without opening her 
eyes my bird just flopped from her 
eggs, and flopped down the hill, and 
flopped down among the sumacs. And 
this happened as many times as you 
please! 

Another year, in a half-bare space, 
quite paved with pebbles, and with a 
delicate, filmy plant overhanging, I 
found a pair of young Poor Wills. 
They were still in the down, and still 
unfearing. Daily they moved, run- 
ning, wings alift, but futile. And 
daily I found them, About the third 
day after my first finding the little 
fellows generated fear, Flopping, (I 
‘use the term advisedly), from where 
they were, they would undulate, some 
fifty feet, and then flop down among 
the vetches and the thistles. Then I 
would find them lying there “frozen,” 
eyes tight shut. Picking them up I 
would carry them to the spot whereon 
they were hatched, with photographic 
intent. They would lie, when thus 


taken in hand, still “freezing,” op 
their sides, eyes tight shut, and then, 
more likely than not they would, with- 
out opening an eye, just flop out of my 
hand, and so away, in quite the usual 
style. 

He who undertakes the study of 
birds without taking account of the 
elements of temperament will miss 
half the fun, and nine-tenths the 
value. My two baby Poor Wills were 
totally unlike in temperament. The 
more active one was pugnacious, his 
fellow, meek enough. (The battling 
one I afterward proved to be a male, 
his ‘mate,’ a femaie). But take it 
all-in-all, ’ve never had a more stub- 
born. intractible, impossible photo- 
graphic subject than this same young 
Poor Will. While still enough when 
he had flopped down among the her- 
bage and lay there, eyes closed, not 
a member quivering, he was never 
still for a half second when I had set 
him down, at camera-focus distance, 
for a “shot.” 

Two years later, in mid-June, quite 
in the same way in which my former 
Poor Will eggs had been found, did I 
flush another sitting bird. It was just 
at night fall. For many seconds 1 
could not find her eggs, although I 
had mentally marked the exact spot 
from which the bird had flown. The 
spot was entirely paved wtih sharp 
bits of flint and gypsum. Fairly egg- 
color they were, if not, indeed, of egg- 
shape. Ultimately, I managed to lo- 
cate the eggs, some two feet from the 
spot whence my bird had flown. One 
of the two eggs had a tiny nest-crack, 
caused by the dropping of the egg up- 
on the flints, in the ovi-positing. Those 
then may have been imposed upon, ere 
now, by the impudent substituting of 
Dove eggs for Poor Will eggs will do 
well to note what I have observed with 
the four eggs taken by me. The “pink- 
ish tinge” ascribed by some, to Pcor 
Will eggs, a tinge that is said, more- 


THE OOLOGIST 75 


over, not to fade with time, [ am 
rather inclined to discredit it. But, 
genuine Poor Will eggs are rougher, 
and are, I imagine, inclined to as- 
sume the normal shape of Petrel 
eggs. They have, moreover, decided- 
ly less of gloss than Mourning Dove 
eggs; and the white is a different tint 
of white. Moreover, my first set of 
eggs revealed, under electric lamp 
scrutiny, a feature that wonderfully 
shows the affinities, in oology, between 
the eggs of allied species. Hach egg, 
when held, in the tubed hand against 
an electric lamp, showed a most deli- 
cate circlet of palest lilac spots, near 
the apex. 

All this while I am hearing some of 
you whisper, “Well, what do you mean 
by “The Haunts of Poor-Wilber?’”’ Tl 
tell you: 

Three years ago, about the 25th of 
May I went out upon my favorite hills 
at sunset. I had, as yet, located no 
Poor Wills, for the season; having 
been quite too busy to go out to the 
nills, and the birds never being found 
anywhere else. The dusk began to 
creep down over the hill-tops. The 
day birds were all silent. Not a 
sound came on to take their places. It 
was not, then, until nearly dark that 
I heard, in a far gorge, a faint call of 
a Poor Will. For a while it sounded 
there, wanly, faintly, all alone. But 
soon it gathered vigor. And soon it 
called forth response. One, two, three, 
six Poor Wills began their piping, and 
soon the hills were fairly resonant 
with their cries. It was then, as 


hardly ever before, that I had it imen 


pressed upon me, as it had been firm- 
ly fixed in my consciousness amid the 
narrow, resonant canyon-walls of Cam- 
bria, Wyoming, that the call of this 
Caprimulge is not “poor-will,” at all 
Here, again, there comes io iight a 
sort of biological affinity between the 
Poor Will and its near-kin, the Whip- 
poor-will, Now, almost every one 
knows that the latter has a sotto pre- 


lude note that is not ordinarily heard 
by the non-critical listener. Yet, in 
very truth, the actual song of this 
bird is ““(chuck) Whip-poor-will, 
(chuck) Whip-poor-will,’ ‘and _ so, 
wider.’”’ In like manner, the Poor Will. 
Its real call is, and you should hear it, 
in all its intense vibrance among the 
Wyoming canyons, ‘Poor-will (ber), 
poor-will (ber), poor-will (ber)” 

In closing, what think you all, about 
the “Frosted” Poor-will? What think 
you about the finding of “Common” 
Poor Wills and “Frosted” Poor Wills 
on the same hillside, at the same time, 
a thing which scientific ornitholo- 
gists claim can never be! Well, I 
know what you think: You think 
just what some of us think about the 


‘distinction between the Ferrugineous 


Rough-leg and the “American,” North- 
ern! Rough-leg, just what some of us 
think about the forty-eleven species 
and sub-species of Horned Owls, hob- 
nobbing with each other, and with one 
another, in the same habitat! 

Let me tell you a bit of a story: All 
one winter, in picturesque “Hden,” 
Wyoming, did I watch, sometimes the 
one and sometimes the other, of a 
pair of Horned Owls, in the same “‘tim- 
ber-claim.”’ (It was a cottonwood 
grove, through which a baby tornado 
had once passed, in summer, leaving 
dead branches, yet dead-leafy, hang- 
ing in the trees, fit roosts for day- 
snoozing Owls). But one tearingly- 
windy March day I passed through 
that grove, and, what think you I saw? 
In just such a dead-leaf-covered branch 
as I have described, sitting so close 
together that their bodies touched, was 
that pair of Owls, and one of them was 
a “Western” and the other a “Sub- 
Arctic” Horned Owl! 


P. B. Peabody, 


Blue Rapids, Kansas. 


HIE OO RE TORGR Sian 


alheur Lake, Oregon. 
—Phote by A. G. Prill, Scio, Oregon. 


THE OOLEOGIST 


Nest and Five Eggs, Great Blue Heron, Malheur Lake. 
—Photo by A. G. Prill, Scio, Oregon. 


77 


78 hon Ea OLOsEFOsGSitsety 


A DAY WITH THE BIRDS 


By good luck we borrowed a “‘fliv- 
ver’ roadster and the middle of Aug- 
ust found us far from our regular 
haunts. 

The evening of our second day out 
we camped at Redfish Lake, a beauti- 
ful body of water resting at the foot 
of one of the high peaks in the Saw- 
tooth range, almost entirely surround- 
ed by forest clad mountains. 

Early the next morning, after break- 
fast of bacon, flapjacks and coffee, we, 
my two companions and J, took a lunch 
and decided to climb to the top of the 
peak. 

Skirting around the western side of 
the lake we flushed a flock of Richard- 
son Grouse that were feeding on some 
small berries. 

Here we separated planning. 

I took the ridge of a “hog’s back” 
that bordered the lake and was slowly 
walking, observing the beauty, when 
I noticed that a flock of Chickadees 
were following me and immediately 
decided to see if I could photograph 
them. 

I sat down on a log and waited. The 
little fellows commenced to chatter 
and chase eaich other about In this way 
they acted as decoys for several other 
birds who came to ascertain the 
trouble. Among these I noted nut- 
hatches, a creeper and a Rocky Moun- 
tain Jay. 

I failed to photograph them so 
moved off, the birds following as _ be- 
fore. 

I climbed to our mark and found no 
one there, so waited observing the fol- 
lowing: Rough-legged Hawk, Pink- 
sided Junco, Cassin, Purple Finch and 
a pair of flycatchers that I was un- 
able to identify (prob. traillii). 

My pals came up and after another 
rest we continued our climb. When 
almost up to the timber line the Clark 
Nutcracker made themselves known 


by their harsh ka-r-rs and scoldings. 
Flying to the top of a pine one would 
peck and pull at @ cone until it was 
loose and then it would fiy away, fol- 
lowed by others. 

We finally climbed to a place where 
further progress was stopped, so I 
took several photographs and then we 
began our descent. 

Bird life at this altitude wa'’s scarce, 
due to the absence of vegetation. 

We reached camp that night utter- 
ly exhausted, but glad that we had 
taken the hike. 

Following is a list of the birds we 
saw during the day: 


7-\oen @ Fan OF 
53 California Gull 
132 Mallard 


297b Richardson Grouse 
33 Cooper Hawk 

347a Rough-legged Hawk 
Osprey 

373e Rocky Mt. Screech Owl 
Red-shafted Flicker 
Flycatcher (sp?) 
484a Rocky Mountain Jay 
Clark Nutcracker 
Cassin Purple Finch 
567g Pink-sided Junco 


607 Western Tanager 
656 Audubon Warbler 
668 Townsend Warbler 


726b Rocky Mountain Creeper 
727a Slender-billed Nuthatch 


728 Red-breasted Nuthatch. 
738 Mt. Chickadee 
749 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 


756a Willow Thrush 

76la Western Robin 
N. B. Davis, 
Rupert, Idaha. 


peti eae eee een ee 
A NEW BUILDING 
We are in receipt of an invitation 
reading as follows: 
Mrs. Rowland Gibson Hazard 
requests the honor of your presence 
at the dedication of 


THE OOLOGIST 79 


The Hazard Memorial Museum 
of Comparative Oology 
on Monday, the seventeenth of April 
at half after three o’clock 
in Mission Canyon 

We congratulate Bro Dawson and 
his associates on the prospect of new 
room and ample quarters.—R, M. B. 


+ Seton 


a ee 


THE KILLDEER 


It was the 26th of March 1921. Clear 
and somewhat windy, it was a typical 
March day, a day that strongly im- 
bued me with that breath of the ad- 
vancing spring that stimulates a wild 
desire to roam fields and woods in 
quest of birds and let one’s duties go 
undone. However, I was on duty 
bent as I followed the path across the 
blue grass pasture where the cattle 
grazed the closely cropped grass. A 
keen eye and ear for all things or- 
nithological revealed a pair of Black 
Vultures circling in the clear sky, sev- 
eral singing Meadowlarks and cawing 
Crows, a Bewick’s Wren’s ditty com- 
ing from the orchard, and a flock of 
Vesper Sparrows which took wing at 
my approach. 

My thoughts were centered on the 
earliness of the Kentucky spring sea- 
son aS compared with the very late 
season of 1920. Already, at this early 
date, an apple tree in the orchard we's 
beginning to blossom and the vege- 
tation, generally, was ahead of the sea- 
son. Many of the migratory birds 
were earlier than usual; only today a 
grasshopper Sparrow was seen. Thus 
my thoughts drifted as I crossed the 
pasture and I became almost oblivious 
as to what was going on in the blue 
grass field when the sudden and un- 
expected outcry of a Killdeer brought 
me to an abrupt halt. About thirty 
yards away Killdeer wildly flopped un- 
der the very feet of one of the cows, 
her loud and excited cries clearly 
demonstrating that the name vocifer- 


ous was not an empty title. 

Killdeer had long led me astray as 
to her nestings, never once giving me 
the slightest hint and always my 
search for a nest was without result. 
But now Killdeer had “spilled the 
beans,” obviously unintentionally, but 
evidently her cries had the desired 
effect on Jersey as the cow moved a 
few yards to continue her grazing. 
Without giving the matter a second 
theught I turned back determined to 
find Killdeer’s nest or forever ac- 
knowledge my defeat. Approaching 
the spot where Killdeer was flopping 
under Jersey’s feet, only a few sec- 
onds previously, two killdeers ran 
swiftly over the ground ahead of me. 
I was not to be tricked by running 
Plovers, so with a vengence a thor- 
cugh search for the nest began. This 
time, however, it was not a _ vain 
search nor was it of long duration. 
In a depression about one inch deep 
and four or five feet wide, in the cen- 
ter of perhaps a shovel full of small 
spawls which laid on bare ground be- 
side a stone, were two eggs. A few 
scattered pieces of short grass, very 
small leaves, and some very small 
stones lined the excavation. The site 
was well chosen, being on a stony 
spot where some years’ previously 
some rocks had been broken and re- 
moved from the field. Consequently 
spawls and little piles of small stones 
lay all about, and the coloration of 
Killdeer’s eggs harmonized perfectly 
with such surroundings, After mak- 
ing a careful survey of the nesting site 
and the environs I left Killdeer and 
her mate to attend to their own affairs. 

On the following day at 8:30 a. m. 
there were still only two eggs in the 
nest, and Killdeer was nearby as I ap- 
proached, A third visit to the nest 
about 7:30 on the 29th found three 
eggs, and at 3 p. m. there was a com- 
plete set of four. It was cool nesting 
weather, the temperature at sunrise 


80 TARE (OVOREVOU GRITS ii 


on this date being 27 degrees F. My 
view of the nesting spot on approach 
was without obstruction and as I 
walked slowly toward the nest aciosa 
watch was kept to determine, if pos- 
sible, just how near I could get to Kill- 
deer before she left the nest. At this 
last visit both birds were seen several 
yards from the nest. One of them, pre- 
sumably the female, several times re- 
peated a deceptive maneuver of ly- 
ing rather still on her back and side, 
but did not feign lameness or make 
any outcry. Once she appeared to lie 
on her back with one foot stuck 
Straight in the air. 

About 4:30 p. m. the same day I 
sat at my window, three hundred 
yards from Killdeer’s nest, with a tele- 
scope focused on the nesting spot. I 
had just returned from the nest and 
as a result of careful study of the lo- 
cation was able to fix the telescope on 
the exact spot. However, this spot ap- 
peared little different from any other 


square yard of ground in the im- 
mediate vicinity. It was not long, 
however, before Killdeer appeared 


near the nest and quickly she ran to 
the eggs settling upon them. At the 
same time she disappeared from sight; 
there being no contrast whatever be- 
tween the sitting bird and her sur- 
roundings she was a fine example of 
the protective coloration common to 
many of our ground nesting birds. 
Half an hour later on returning to 
the nest, Killdeer was already twenty 
yards from her eggs before I saw her, 
though I kept my eyes on the nest 
from the time it came into view. AS 
I advanced toward the nest Killdeer 
ran a few yards further on, squatted 
on the ground, fluttering one wing, 
turned on her side and violently kick- 
ing with the uppermost foot she ap- 
peared to be in the midst of convulsive 
agonies. With a desperate cry, “kill- 
dee-dee-e,”’ she settled to the ground re- 
maining almost motionless for about 


One minute, But as this staged death- 
act did not move me from her nest she 
ran to a flat, rock several feet across, 
where she again rehearsed her act. A 
few steps toward her and her convu!- 
sions were at an end. With loud cries 


she took wing, circled over the field 


and finally alighted in a ploughed 


tract about fifty yards away. On thes 
following day, March 30th, the set 
was collected. 

Now, a few conclusive remarks. 


Killdeer never allowed me to see her 
in the act of leaving the nest but was 
always several to. many yards from 
her eggs before I saw her. Never did 
she feign lameness or a broken wing, 


== -e <> e = 


EAGLE AND FOX TERRIER DOG 


The following was told to me with 
proper affidavit. 

A man living south of Ft. Worth 
went out on the prairie to hunt rats 
with his two fox terrier dogs. The 
dogs were running after a rat when 
a large Golden Eagle dropped from 
the sky and picked the largest dog up 
and started to fly straight up in the 
sky. They got up several hundred 
feet and the dog caught the Hagle in 
the throat and down they came to the 
ground. After they landed both dogs ° 
pounced upon the Hagle and were 
having a free for all fight when the 
man ran up and tied the Hagle’s feet 
together after a wrestle, and took it 
home with him. He has the Hagle 
in a cage to show as prcof of his 
queer capture. 

Ramon Graham, 
Fort Worth, Texas. 


—_ + o_____—__ 


NOTES FROM SOUTH DAKOTA 


February 28, 1921 we started out to 
collect eggs of the Great Horned Owl. 
Our objective point was a _ heavily | 
wooded bend in the Missouri River 
five miles southwest of Verimllion, 
Clay County. From a_ Red-tailed 


THE OOLOGIST 81 


Hawk’s nest of the previous year we 
flushed an Owl. The nest was up 
about thirty feet in a large cottonwood 
tree and almost bare of limbs but with 
climbers we were soon able to reach 
it. We were rewarded by finding a 
set of two, slightly incubated. Think- 
ing perhaps that the pair would nest 
again we visited the locality on the 
19th of March or three weeks later. 
They had moved to another old nest 
in a cottonwood tree about 200 yards 
southeast of nest No. 1. Here we 
again flushed the female We should 
state that each time we were able to 
see the male by the aid of the crows 
which were continually harrassing 
him, This tree wa'’s larger than the 
other but nest up only about twenty- 
five feet. Here we found another set 
of two fresh eggs. We certainly ap- 
preciated the kindness of this pair of 
Owls for furnishing us two sets in one 
season, but were curious enough to 
visit the place again in three weeks, 
and not surprised to find them gone 
entirely from the woods. We arrived 
at this conclusion after a thorough 
search on our part and from the fact 
there were an abundance of crows and 
not fighting Owls. However, we were 
not discouraged and still wondered 
what would happen one year hence. 
On March 4th, 1922 we again visited 
the locality, going first to nest No. 1 
of 1921, which we found nearly blown 
to pieces by the storms of the past 
winter. We then started toward nest 
No. 2 and lo, and behold, we saw Mrs. 
Owl at home, and a few rods away the 
Crows were fighting the male. This 
_time we took a beautiful set of three, 
incubation advanced about one week. 
We wondered what to expect in the 
future as we were almost certain that 
they were the same pair that tried so 
hard to raise a brood here last year, 
but in visiting the place on March 27th 
we again found the female on the 
“game nest just starting in to hatch 


two more eggs. Yes, with just a little 
reluctance we took them. We have no 
positive proof that they were the same 
pair that tried to nest there last year, 
but think we have the right to assume 
that they were. Then from the fact of 
the strong instinct of Owls and other 
birds to return each year to their old 
nesting places, and, that in this region 
nesting places are not over abundant, 
leads us to form the above conclusion. 
Four sets from the same parents in 
two seasons. Shall we visit their 
haunts again this spring? Yes; but we 
hardly expect another set Then, too, 
we do not have the heart to look those 
old Owls in the face again. We are 
satisfied. 
W. H. Over, 
Vermillion, South Dakota. 
poe Na ot ae 
NOTICE 
Bent’s Life Histories of North Ameri- 
can Gulls and Terns, can now be pur- 
chased for $1.25 of the Superintendent 
of Public Documents, Government 
Printing Office, D. C., and the edition 
is now already nearly exhausted. We 
would advise our friends who desire 
to secure this spledid contribution to 
North American Bird Literature to at- 
tend to the matter at once.—R. M. B. 
—_———- > _____ 


COWBIRD AND YELLOWTHROAT 

My notebook for Logan County, IIli- 
nois, 1913, June 21, records a Mary- 
land Yellowthroat caring for a young 
Cowbird about twice her own size. It 
could fly very well and it flew to a 
bush near me while its foster-mother 
sat, not far away, with food in her 
bill. She was plainly agitated by my 
presence and showed her nervousness 
by flitting from place to place, chirp- 
ing. 

I caught the young Cowbird by sud- 
denly clapping my hand over it. It 
squawked lustily and both Yellow- 
throats, the male and the female, were 
immediately on the field of action, as 


82 W fri [= 


much concerned as though this young 
imposter’ were their own flesh and 
plocd. The male~ was. partieularly 
demonstrative. He spread.-his swings 
and fluttered them in great excitement, 
in a little bush on the other side. They 
did’ not flutter; along the’ ground -as 
many birds-do, but stayed in themeeds 
and “bushes: > I could* not.-be certain 
whether their behavior--was in’ the 
nature of pretended: injury or merety 
an emotional fluttering intended:to at- 
tract’ attention. It was probably the 
latter for the male held up his wings’ 
in a very pretty and beseeching man- 
ner. 


° << 


When I released the young Cowbird 
it flew perhaps a hundred feet and tn 
female Yellowthroat quickly followed 
after it. The Cowbird had received a 
slight injury about the mouth and to» 
of,.head which suggested that some 
cther bird may have attacked it. 

Soon afterward, by dint of a strenu- 
ous, chase, 1 caught a young Yellow- 
throat, a pretty little fellow with its 
tall. just sprouting, which was much 
like the adult female. This doubtless 


belongéd to other, parents, and they. 


made less fuss about it than the -fos, 
ter parents. had made for the young 
Cowbird. © 
A. D. Du Bois, 
327 South Glenwood Ave., 
ile Springfield, Il. 


Get a CATALOG 
Before they are 
' All Gone 


(They are going bery fast.) 


OOLOGIST 


WORLD’S RECORD 


_W. I. Lyon of Waukegan, Ill., who 
trapped and banded more than 1,000 
birds in 1921, writes that he is anxi- 
ous to secure more bird fans to take 
up this interesting and valuable work 
during 1922 So if you are a bird en- 
thusiast, here is your chance to get 
into a mighty fascinating game. 

Mr. Lyon’s idea is to have a string 
of bird banders on both sides of Lake 
Michigan, and eventually to get work- 
efs down the rivers to the southern 
bird homes, also the Mississippi valley 
and other Great Lakes flyways need 
to be covered. Any responsible per- 
son with some knowledge of birds can 
do this work and Mr. Lyon wants to 
hear from any such who are interest- 
ed. 

He has been telling us about a Fox 
Sparrow that broke the trap record 
this winter, when it should have been 
down south with the rest of its rela- 
tions. This Sparrow showed up and 
was: trapped in Waukegan on Noy. 12. 
It came back again on Nov. 13, 14, 15 
and 16’ Then he was trapped twice a 
day, and sometimes three times a day, 
until at the end of the month he had a 
score of 33, evidently liking the res- 
taurant of the bird banding station. 

The Sparrow stayed on, until by 
March 17 he had been trapped 150 
times—a record. 


OUTSIDE INSIDE 

| 54397, BIOL.SURV.| |WASH., D.C. | 

The above shows the marking on 
the Fox Sparrow’s band. Any person 
finding a similar band should report it 
at once with all information possible 
to Biological 
D. C. 


Survey, Washington, 


eee 


THE OOLOGIST 83 


NOTE BOOK NOTES 


We have long ago found out the 


value of carrying a note book with us 
on our collecting trips, so will give a 
few datas as they appear in my note 
book. 

In February of 1916, Mr. H. H. Mof- 
fat and myself went in search of the 
Barred Owl and its nesting hollows. 
We found a hollow tree and out came 
Mrs. Owl. We 
climbing this tree but would always 


tried several ways 


have to slide back down without reach- 
ing the top. We threw a rope and 
hook, hooking this in the hollow, and 
started to climb up the rope, Pop 
went the rope and down Mr. Moffat 
came, saying his Sunday School les- 
Mr. Moffat said we didn’t want 


any Owls’ eggs anyway. So after try- 


sons. 


ing again and again we left this pros- 
pective set of Owl eggs. 

But in March this nesting tree still 
haunted Mr. Moffat, so we went again 
to the tree and drove spikes in it and 

Out flew Mrs. 
“Young ones I[ 


climbed up to the hole. 
Owl. Moffat yelled, 


bet.” 


Looking in he said, ‘‘Guess.” 

I said, “My guess is a hook and rope 
that we lost in there last month.” 

He slowly drew his breath and said, 
“It’s sad, ole boy, but there is nothing 
in this hole but some rotten wood, a 
piece of rope, an iron hook, and, oh 
yes, a set of three Barred Owls!” 


' RAMON GRAHAM, 
Ft. Worth, Tex. 


oO <2 —_ _____- 


BIRD NAMES 


It recently occurred to the writer to 
make a new list of birds and after an 
extensive research we submit the fol- 
lowing: 


IE Bram ts Gs Weis ae, sss fos 3 rare 
4, (COowre, Chleywnol 18l.oscc060 1 very rare 
3. Crane, Alfred W........... 3 rare 
4. Crow, Walter W........ 7 notrare 
5a Hiniche anny. Haas ae 8 not rare 
6. Fulmar, David Iu........... 3 rare 
ite FLAW SWAG cri Mica Ades 1 very rare 
SuElerroms Jasine ences ec. 1 very rare 
Jo WileWeBin, MS Co odonsooe 78 very com- 
mon. 
HQ TR, TS WLS 3 bb blovo Blec a co 1 very rare 
Ho JaOlomal, IsIIMAR > oooces aoocse 2 rare 
4, IwvIt, CMA, Woocooasccccdboc 3 rare 
Ue, Sueilbboes, I, Onnoosveocovccds 2 rare 
14. Swan, Wm. E.......... 8 not rare 
PDS SS waht Vins ake wee ee Ne 3 rare 
16. Canary, Frank M...... 1 very rare 
17. Falcon, Amos S....... 1 very rare 
18. Goldfinch, Arthur...... 1 very rare 
19. Grebe, Mrs. S......... 1 very rare 
Do VEOREH, Io Rioccccesoccoccce 2 rare 
Die eye AU dia sok ies Malek 2 SME 1 very rare 
air LAW eNey ed [eyed BYERAIAI Suro Mae OR bao ae Vy 2 rare 
PRs AON Ld ies esas Alene ore 1 very rare 
24 Osprey, Thos.......... 1 very rare 
ADs Jeol, ING Ilo 55o000c0nne 2 rare 
20° Quail Geos Ons. eae eee 2 rare 
Mo (env, MSllbs ue oaaanopbos oe 2 rare 
28. Sparrow, Wm. J....... 1 very rare 
AM ANSEL ein [S(O we yeaa Meee 1 very rare 


All except the last fourteen of these 
birds are residents of San Jose. 


W. A. Strong, 
Shim diesa 7% 


84 


THE OOLOG!18T 


Plate Showing Arrangement of Raptore Sets in the Collection of J. H: Bowles, 
Tacoma, Washington 


DUCK HAWK EGGS 


Being considerably interested in 
Duck Hawks, about the first item I 
turned to in the new Exchange List 
was No. 356a. I rather expected the 
rating of the eggs of this bird would 
be higher, as I supposed that they 
were very hard to obtain and quite 
searce all over the country. I have 
never happened to hear of any large 
series of Duck Hawks’ eggs in collec- 
tions other than the National Museuin, 
where there are eighty-nine specimens 
I’m told. Golden Eagles’ eggs are 
rated much higher and are doubtless 
much more desirable, but a number of 
sizeable series of these eggs have been 
written about and pictured in The Oolo- 
gist and some other papers. The eggs 
of Falco peregrinus anatum are to my 
eye fully as beautiful as those of the 
Golden Hagle and a series of sets of the 
former ought to be in many ways as 
satisfactory as the latter. Who has a 
series of Duck Hawks’ eggs? How 
many sets in the series? What are 


the stories of their taking? 

I am very much interested in the 
nesting and eggs of Duck Hawks and 
hope to hear through these columns 
or by way of letters more about them. 
Will anyone help? ; 

Karl A. Pember, 
Woodstock, Vermont. 
We have 15 sets —R. M. B. 
ie Be ee 
PINON JAY 

During the winter of 1919-20 a large 
flock of Pinon Jays wintered at Rupert, 
Idaho. 

They came flocking in late in Aug- 
ust and remained with us until late 
the following spring. 

There were easily a thousand or 
two and where they found enough food 
was a mystery, because they were very 


seldom seen outside the town limits. 
Every backyard was visited some time 


during the day and around the feed 
barns they congregated by the hun- 
dreds. 

This is the first time they have ever 
visited us which goes to show that the 
least expected sometimes happens. 


THE OOLOGIST 


BOOIsS 


Bendire’s Life 
Alex. Walker, 


HOR SALE—Part 1, 
Histories N. A. Birds. 
Blaine, Oregon. 


WANTEHED—Oologist IV, 6, and all 
numbers of 1919 and 1920; Check-list 
of North American Birds, 1910; also 
Bent’s Diving Birds. M. Nice, Norman, 
Oklahoma. 


WANTED—A copy of lLawrence’s 
“Catalogue of the Birds found in Costa 
Rica,’ (Annals New York Lyceum of 
Natural History, IX, pp. 86-149). W. E. 
Clyde Todd, Carnegie Museum, Pitts- 
burgh, Pa. 


WANTHD—Vol. I, II, Ridgeway’s 
Birds of North and South America, and 
Auk I to VI. For disposal, Auk 33 to 
36 and odd numbers. Hoyes Lloyd, 406 
Queen St., Ottawa, Ontario. 


FOR SALE—100 properly and effec- 
tively colored stereopticon views, all 
from life of birds, their nests and eggs. 
Gerard Alan Abbott, Lancaster, Ky. 


.. WANTED—Good runs standard Orni- 
thological periodicals to complete files. 
Some duplicates for exchange. Hoyes 
Lloyd, 406 Queen st., Ottawa, Canada. 

EGR SALE For Cash—Auk, Vols. Xi 
to xxl, complete; Vol.xxll, Nos. 1, 2, 4; 
Vol. xxlll to xxv complete, Vol. xxvii 
and xxix complete. Forestry and Irri- 
gation, Vol. xiv Nos. 4, 6 to 12; Conser- 
Manone INO: ts tol 9. liv and 25 Bilue- 
bird, Vol. ix No. 3. Louis S. Kohler, 
R.E.D. 2, Patterson, N. J. 


FOR SALE—Am preparing to store 
my effects preparatory to some years 
Wanderings in remote regions, and 
wish to reduce material. Have some 
superb Museum or Den pieces. Coyote, 
open mouth mount, lined for floor or 
wall, rug, $20; Rocky Mt’n Goat hide, 
tanned and rug lined, $18. The real 
thing, Sioux Beaded Vest, $25. EF. M. 
Dille, Valentine, Nebraska. 


WANTEHD—February and June num- 
bers 1918, Volume XXXV; April and 
May Numbers 1919, Volume XXXVI of 
The Oologist. R. M. Barnes, Lacon, I11. 


WANTED for Cash—Bent’s ‘Life His- 
tories of North American Diving Birds,” 
Bulletin No. 107 U. S. National Museum, 
either paper covers as issued or bound. 
Dr. W. I. Mitchell, Paonia, Delta Co., 
Colorado. 


FOR EPXCHANGHE—Hawks and Owls- 
Fisher, Birds of Hgypt-Whymper, 
Birds of Arkansas, Birds of Wyoming, 
Many magazine articles and govern- 
ment reports by Henshaw, Chapman, 
Job, ete. About 1000 colored plates 
of birds. Will exchange the lot for 
$5.00 in sets of commoner eastern birds. 
; James K. Shallenberger, Morenci, Ariz. 
Box 206. 


WANTED for Cash—Key to North 
American Birds by Elliot Coues. Latest 
edition if possible, two vols. E. BE, Mof- 
fatt, 146 Walnut St., Winsted, Conn. 


WANTEHED—Vol. 8, 4, April 1891, No. 
66; Vol. 8, 5, May 1891, No. 67; Vol. 9, 
4, April 1892, No. 78; Vol. 14, 12; Dec. 
1897, No. 139; Vol 16, 4, Mareh 1899, No. 
153; Vol.-16, 9, Sept. 1899, No. 158; Vol. 
36, 5, May 1919; No. 382; Vol. 36, 7, July 
1919, No. 384. Karl Albrecht Pember, 
Woodstock, Vermont. 


FOR SALE—‘Fishes of North and 
Middle America,” vol. 4 only, paper, 392 
full page plates, $2. Bulletin United 
States Fish Commission 1886, 495 pages, 
illustrated, cloth, $1.25. Proceedings 
lowa Academy of Sciences, 1912, board 
covers, $1.° Miscellaneous natural his- 
tory papers 20c a pound, postpaid. 
Emerson A. Stoner, Box 444, Benicia, 
California. 


FOR SALE—Swainson & Richardson 
“Fanna’ Breali Americana,’ Part 2, 
Birds. Melluraith, “Birds of Ontario.” 
Turnbull, “Birds of East Pennsylvania 
and New Jersey,’ the rare Glascow 
Edition. Send for my list of Bird Books 
wanted. Harry S. Hathaway, Box 1466, 
Providence, R. I. 


WANTED — Copy, good condition, 
Bailey’s Birds Western United States. 
Name price first letter. Ren M. Lee, 
Tulare, Calif. 


“NESTINGS OF THE Y HLLOW 
RAIL”—There is to be published soon, 
a Monograph on the Nestings of the 
Yellow Rail. It will be the only ac- 
count extant. Illustrated by unique 
photographs: the only ones in exist- 
ence...Separates will be sold at a small 
advance over cost. Orders being booked. 
An advance of Thirty Cents, silver, re- 
quired. P. B. Peabody, Blue Rapids, 
Kansas. 


FOR SALE—My collection of modern 
Indian relics at reasonable prices, rare 
iron tomahawks, eagle feather war 
bonnets, buckskin quivers, arrows, ete. 
Information for stamp. Robert HE. 
Backus, Florence, Colorado. 


FOR SALE—Three copies the Curio 
Bulletin, Nine copies the Collector‘s Blue 
Book 1914, Hight copies the Collector’s 
Journal 1909, Twelve copies the Curio 
Collector 1911-12-13, and Four copies 
The Bluebird 1914-15. All postpaid for 
$2.50. KE. M. Dille, Valentine, Nebraska. 


FOR SALE—Ridgway’s “Birds of 
Middle and North America.” Vol. 4 & 5 
(half leather), Vol. 6, 7 & 8, (Paper). 
Theodore R. Greer, Aledo, Illinois. 


tile GOO LOGI Sw 


MISCELLANEOUS 


FOR EXCHANGE—Photographs, size 
5x7; nests and eggs Nos. 194, 125, 221, 
325, 554a, T61la, 297a, 289, 761, 273, 721a, 
501.1, 701, 292, 554a, 2638, 619, 478, 581e, 
725c, 225, 120c, 141, 132, 135, 542b, 554b, 
567a. Birds: Sea Gulls on the Pacific, 
West Horned Owl, Pelican Colony, 
Malheur Lake Res., Young Pelicans, 
Young Turkey Vultures. Will exchange 
for eggs in sets or Bird Skins. Must 
be first class with full data. A. G. 
Prill, Scio, Oregon. 


WANTED—Will pay cash for the fol- 
lowing: Baird, Brewer & Ridgeway’s 
Water Birds & Land Birds. Bendire, 
Vol. 2. W. D. Richardson, 4215 Prairie 
Ave., Chicago, Ill. 


WANTED—Bulletin No. 107, Life 
Histories of North American Diving 
Birds, by A. C. Bent. For cash or will 
consider exchange. John L. Cole, Ne- 
vada, Iowa. 5 


WANTED-—-Will pay Cash — “Life 
Histories of North American Birds.” 
Bendire, Vols. 1 and 2; ‘Life Histories 
of North American Diving Birds,” Bent. 
W. B. Samson, 1005 North San Joaquin 
St., Stockton, California. 


~ WANTED—The following Duck 
Skins, for which I will give good ex- 
change: Harlequin, M. F.; Barrows 


Golden Eye, M. F.; Gadwall, M.; Ring- 
neck, M.; European Widgeon, M.; Red- 
head, M.; Hooded Merganser, M.; Cin- 
namon Teal, M. F.; Canvassback, M.; 
American Scoter, M. 

If you happen to have any of these 
to spare me I could offer you Old 
Squaw, M. M.; Bufflehead, M. F.; Hud- 
sonian Curlew, M.; Bohemian Wax- 
wing; American Golden Eve, F.; West 
Horned Owl; Red tailed Hawk; Desert 
Sparrow Hawk, M.; Merrill’s Horned 
Lark, M.; Bichnell’s Thrush, M.; Car- 
dinal, M. F.; Tufted Titmouse, M.; or 
have you any Male or Female Syca- 
more Warblers; F. or M.; Conn. Warb- 
lers; M. or F. Mournins Warblers; M. 
or F. Golden-winged Warblers; M. or 
F. Nashville Warblers; M. or F. Sen- 
nett’s Warblers; M. or F. Olive Warb- 
lers; M. or F. Hermit Warblers; M. or 
F. Red-faced Warblers; M. or F. Man- 
grove Warblers; M. or F. Cerulean 
Warblers; M. Tennessee Warblers; F. 
Cape May Warblers. 

OTTO C. HASTINGS, 
207 Denver Ave., Bridgeport, Conn. 


FOR SALE—Over 8000 Foreign and 
Domestic reprints and excerpts—An- 
atomy; Nature Magazines; Fish; Rep- 
tiles; Birds; Mammals; Indians; Pho- 
tography; Art; Law; Medicine, ete. 
Some books. R. W. Shufeldt, 3356 18th 
St. N. W., Washington, D. C. 2-22t2 


I have just had placed with me a 
wonderful collection of 400 Indian Ar- 
row Heads and Tomahawks. These 
were collected among the hills of Ken- 
tucky, and I have been asked to dis- 
pose of them in either small or large 
lots and for most any fair offer. If 
you are interested and wish to make 
any proposition involving oological 
specimens, bird photographs, or other 
Natural History specimens I shall be 
glad to hear from you. G. A. Abbott, 
Lancaster, Ky. 


FOR SALE—Skins and Mounted 
Specimen of Skunk, Civit Cat, Opossum, 
Horned Frogs, Jack Rabbitt, Swamp 
Rabbit, Armodillas and Squirrels. Ra- 
mon Graham, Box 215 Poly, Ft. Worth, 
Texas. 

WANTED — Baird’s and Bachman’s 
Sparrows and any of the Longspurs 
from original collectors in full A-1 
sets. Bonus in A-1l material given in 
exchange. H. W. Carriger, 5185 Trask 
Street, Oakland, Calif. 

BUTTERFLIES—Just received a new 
shipment of South American butterflies 
in papers unnamed, consisting of Papi- 
lios Heliconias Catsopilias Calagram- 
mas, ete., which I will sell in lots of 25 
mixed for $5.00 post paid. Hach lot 
contains one Morpho cypres, one of the 
most brilliant of South American but- 


terflies; dealers charge $2.50 to $3.50 
for the specie alone. A. J. Potter, Hast 
Willingly, Conn. 1-3t 


FOR EXCHANGE—A-1 sets 261, 273, 
3805, 308b, 331, 367 and others for well 
mounted specimens of 327, 331, 332, 333, 
337, 337a, 342, 343. Also have finely 
mounted 334 will exchange for some of 
the above. Elmer Langevin, Crooks- 
ton, Minnesota. 


FOr SALE or Exchange—Mounted 
Birds, Skins, and Eggs in sets and 
singles. Jesse T. Craven, 5315 Roose- 
velt Ave., Detroit, Michigan. 1-2t 

WANTED—Bent’s Diving Birds For 
Sale—Nelson’s Smaller Mammals of 
North America, bound in library buck- 
ram, 59 colored illustrations by Fuer- 
tes. Also bound 1916 Bird-Lore. Fred 
J. Pierce, Winthrop, lowa. 

FOR SALE for Cash—Bulletin Coop- 
er Club & Condor, Volumes 1 to 6 in- 
clusive, complete, except No. 6, Vol. 1. 
Oologist, Vol. XI, (1894) complete; Vol. 
X (1893) complete, except April, July 
and November. W. B. Sampson, 1005 
North San Joaquin St., Stockton, Cal. 


FOR SALE—Ornithologist and Oolo- 
gist, Vol. VIII to XVIII inclusive; Bul- 
letin Cooper Club, Vol. I, 1-2-5; Condor, 
Vols. III and IV complete; Osprey com- 
plete file excepting 2 numbers, Vol. I, 
and 3 numbers of N. S. Bent’s Life His- 
tories of N. A. Gulls and Terns. Many 
odd numhbers of various Ornithologi- 
eal Magazines. H. H. Johnson, Pitts- 
field, Maine. 

TO BEXCHANGW—One King Trom- 
bone, Silver plated Gold bell, Highland 
low pitch, new in case. For first class 
sets. E. A. Wheeler, E. Randolph, N. Y. 

FOR SALE for Cash—New Jersey 
Minerals. Miea, Magnetic Iron Ore, 
Iris porphyry, feldspar, hematite, pec- 
tolite and many others. Also Paleozoic 


fossils. Excellent cabinet specimens. 
Louis S. Kohler, R. I. D. No.2, Paten= 
son, N. J. 
ae 
EGGS 
Will Exchange personally taken 


Florida sets for books. Want the last 


four volumes of AUK; good books on 
Butterflies, Moths and Insects; also 
good work on Southern Botany. Tell 


me what you have and price and will 
send you list. Oscar HE. Baynard, Plant 
City, Florida. 


THE NEW PRICE LIST ~ 


We are pleased to announce that the New Catalogue of 
Prices of North:American Birds’ Hggs, is now ready for dis- 
tribution. This catalogue: fills an acute necessity. It has 
been sixteen years sinee a catalogue appeared that contained 


prices upon which the working eee of: America® as’ ‘a. 


wh oie were willing to base their exchanges. ‘In 1919 an elec- 
bea) was called to be participated in by me acti ve Oologists 
in North America, who selected a committee of tweity-five 


well'known Oologists to revise the prices. Then a committee, ; 


of three to pass finally on the prices agreed upon by the larger 
committee. Two full years were occupied in this work and it 
is now ready... 
The catalogue is published by the undersigned and its gen- 
eral arrangement is as follows: 
1. An ‘introduction. 
A history of Birds’ Hgg Catalogue. 
Avhistory of this catalogue... 
Prices in this Catalogue. 
Directions for ccilecting and preparing eggs. 
Copy of Standard Data. 
Illustration of proper way to mark eggs. 
illustrations showing proper cabinet arrangements of 
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86 THE OOLOGIST 


SOME BLACKBURNIAN NESTS 


Of all the birds in our woods here 
the Warblers have always been the 
most interesting to me. Possibly this 
is because they are quite well repre- 
sented here, and because some of the 
more northern breeders that only nest 
in a small part of our state are found 
nere in summer. 

There are so many different ones, 
and so much difference in song, color 
and nesting habits that they have al- 
ways been great favorites of mine and 
I have spent much time looking them 
up. 

Altogether I have found 18 species 
breeding here and of these that nest 
regularly I have found the Black- 
burnian about the very hardest to lo- 
cate. 

I am convinced that the reason for 
this is that this Warbler as a rule is 
a high nester, and unless the birds 
are discovered in the act of nest build- 
ing, only those nests that happen to 
be built lower than usual are apt to 
be seen. 

i have spent many days looking for 
nests in woods where the Blackburnian 
could be heard singing, usually quite 
high up and could find numerous nests 
ef the Magnolia Warblers, also Tana- 
gers and frequently Black-throated 
Green but the Blackburnian has al- 
ways been a very hard proposition. 

The first nest I ever saw was found 
in early July by watching the old birds 
feeding the four young that it con- 
tained. This nest was 30 feet up and 
5 feet out on @ limb of a hemlock. The 
hest was saddled on the limb aza at 
that point the limb was 1% inches 
thick. 

The next nest was found in a large 
tract of mostly virgin timber. This 
nest was in a rather small hemlock 
and was 20 feet from the ground and 5 
feet from the trunk. Eggs 4. The 


third nest was 40 feet up in a large 
hemlock and way out on a long limb. 
Female at home on 3 eggs. 


Nest No. 4 was also in a hemlock, It 
was 20 feet up and 8 feet out. It held 
2 eggs when found but was robbed by 
a squirrel or Jay later on. No. 5 was 
25 feet up and 8 feet out, on a limb of 
a good sized hemlock. Limb 2 inches 
thick at place on which nest was 
saddled. Eggs 4. No. 6 was dis- 
covered by watching the female build- 
ing. She gathered most of her ma- 
terial from the ground, sometimes go- 
ing some distance. The male accom- 
panied her on many trips but did not 
help any. This nest was fully 60 feet 
from the ground in a large chestnut, 
although there was plenty of hemlock 
about 20 feet up and 8 feet from the 
trunk. Eggs 4. The last nest that I 
have seen of this Warbler was 40 feet 
up in a large hemlock and 10 feet from 
the trunk. Finding that nest was a 
piece of luck as it was well hidden by 
@ smaller hem!ock growing up under- 
neath and was hardly noticeable from 
the ground. This nest held a fine set 
of 5. The dates varied from May 26th 
to June 6th with the exception of the 
first nest found with large young and 
cne found june 25th But this last 
was during a late season when all 
birds were late in arriving and late 
nesting. These nests were saddled on 
limbs of hemlocks with the exception 
of the high one found in a chesinut. 
They were saddled on limbs on an 
average 2 inches thick and at a place 
where several little twigs or small 
branches grew out to which the nests 
were also fastened. 

The nests resembled Magnolias, if 
anything, a little looser and bulkier. 
They were built mostly of dead hem- 
lock twigs and more or less decorated, 
especially with cobwebs. 

The eggs though when fresh were al- 
together different from the Magnolias, 


Phi @OOL@OCGIS tr 87 


having a very decided greenish ground 
color. The sets I examined were all 
well marked. 

I have always considered the two 
sets of 5 about the two best sets of eggs 
I ever found. The male must roam 
about a great and at some distance 
from the nest, for at the different 
nests I have examined he failed to put 
in an appearance. 

In each case the female has been a 
very close sitter almost having to be 
driven off the nest and they always 
stay very close. I have had one stay 
within 5 or 6 feet of me for a minute 
at a time while I was up the tree at 
the nest. They stick the closest of any 
Warbler that I have any experience 
with. 

R. B. Simpson, 
Warren, Pa. 


——.<>__o—____——_—__ 
THE PASSENGER PIGEON 


I believe it has been partially, if not 
wholly, accepted by ornithologists that 
the Passenger Pigeon has become ex- 
tinct. Last May 5th I saw seven birds 
about one hundred yards ahead of me 
(where an old building had recently 
been torn down that was used for a 
sort of freight station and grain 
house) that looked very much like 
Passenger Pigeons. Just about the 
time I espied them an auto came 
around a turn in the road within a few 
yards of where they were and they 
flew away, so I did not get a good look 
at them I went there several times 
after that but saw them no more al- 
though it was reported to me by two 
other parties that had seen these birds 
there, but they could not identify the 
species. 

On May ist of this year I saw a 
fiock of twenty-four at a distance of 
about sixty or seventy yards and not 
more than forty feet high flying in a 
northeasterly direction. They looked 


‘birds 


much too large for Mourning Doves, 
also the breasts had to much of a 
reddish color. I could not positively 
identify them, but they certainly 
looked like Passenger Pigeons and I 
really believe they were. (What else 
could they have been)? I may be 
much mistaken but I surely hope not. 
I used to see quite a number of these 
in the early eighties around 
buck-wheat fields. 
A. J. Potter, 
East Killingly, Conn. 
We truly hope they were, but doubt 
it.—Editor. 


—_-——_—_—____—_o—<>_e_ 


THE HORNED OWL AND RED 
TAILED HAWK 


Nothing is more enjoyable to me 
than when a chance is had to make a 
trip to the woods to see what the birds 
are doing. On morning of March 15th, 
I and my son tarted to where I had 
been told wa's a strip of large timber, 
five miles northwest of town (Ottawa, 
Kansas), and knowing it was nesting 
time for Hawks and Owls we began 
watching for nests of that kind. 
We hadn’t walked more than a quate: 
of a mile along a small creek until 
right before our eyes was a large nest 
with three half grown Horned Owls 
sitting on edge of nest and staring 
straight at us with very large eyes in- 
deed, I climbed the tree, an elm, not 
over twenty-five feet from the ground 
and brought them down. I decided 
they were not suitable for mounting 
at that age so would bring them home 
and keep them until they were 
feathered out full. Still have them 
and are doing fine, are quite a curi- 
osity for the children, as they pass 
along the street. I intend to mount 
them when full grown. 

Just a week later I went five miles 
northwest again on Appenmoose Creek 


88 THE OOLOGIST 


and this time found a Red-tailed 
Hawk’s nest with three young, just 
hatched in a large oak tree 45 feet 
from the ground. 

The nest was large and had been 
used in previous years for the lower 
part of nest was badly decayed, while 
the top was new. The next thing to 
notice was how they were provided 
with food, I found headquarters of two 
squirrels, one rat, one ground mouse 
and five mice lying on edge of nest. 
Left Hawks at this time but went 
back two weeks later to get them and 
was surprised to find but one, which 
I got and mounted. 

S. Ward Reed, 


Ottawa, Kansas. 
<2 


NESTING OF SWAINSON’S WARB- 
LER IN ATLANTA 


On the outskirts of Atlanta is a sec- 
tion of the original forest containing 
more than 200 acres as rich in Warblers 
as any piece of woodland I ever explor- 
ed. While the nests of all the fourteen 
species listed here have not been 
found, it is reasonably certain that the 
following Warblers breed: Black and 
White, Swainson’s, Worm Hating, Blue 
Winged, Cerulean, Yellow Throat, 
Pine, Prairie, Kentucky, and Hooded 
Warblers; Maryland Yellow Throat, 
Yellow-breasted Chat, Louisiana Water- 
thrush, and Red Start. 

Several of these species are not gen- 
erally supposed to breed so far south, 
and deserve special notice. One nest 
and eggs of the Black and White Warb. 
ler has been found here and one pair, 
at least, of the Worm-eating Warbler 
was resident here through the breed- 
ing season of 1916, one female being 
taken June 1. 

While collecting some late migrants 
on May 3, 1916, I shot a female Blue- 
winged Warbler, and was surprised to 
find an egg nearly ready to lay in the 


oviduct. Later in the season Prof. D. 
C. Peacock saw a family of young Red- 
wings with one of the parent birds. 

The Ceruleans unquestionably breed 
in the big poplars and sycamores 
where they may be heard singing in 
the breeding season, but long search 
for a nest has produced nothing but a 
stiff neck. After the leaves fell, one 
fall, I located what I am sure was a 
Cerulean nest, saddled far out on a 
sycamore limb fully 70 feet up. 

Kentucky Warblers breed in large 
numbers in these woods, and I have 
found several nests with eggs or 
young. Only one nest of the Louisiana 
Waterthrush has been found but sev- 
eral pairs summer here So far as I 
have been able to learn, this is the 
most southern point in Georgia where 
the Red Start breeds, five nests with 
eggs or young being found in elm or 
birch trees by the three ornithologists 
who have done field work here. 

So far as my knowledge goes, only 
two records of Swainson’s Warblers 
around Atlanta have come to my 
notice. One shot May 4th, 1898 by 
Robert W. Smith, and a female taken 
by writer April 2, 1907, and these were 
supposed to be migrants. This species 
breeds regularly along the Georgia 
Coast, near Savannah and in the Sa- 
vannah river valley near Augusta, at 
an altitude of about 150 feet, and it 
always has been regarded, throughout 
its range, as a bird of the coastal 
plains or river valleys. Hence, as At- 
lanta, has an altitude of 1050 feet, the 
highest city of its size east of the 
Mississippi, it was a most agreeable 
surprise one May day while looking 
for Hooded Warblers’ nests in a 
thicket along a stream flowing through 
these woods, to find a Swainson’s 
Warbler in full song. The bird was 
very unsuspecting and walked to with- 


in ten feet of me as I crouched in the 


bushes, thrilling me with its rich and 
ringing song. I have since heard the 


THE 


same song several times in the breed- 
ing season, and searched in vain for a 
nest. 

On May 20, 1920, while trailing a 
Kentucky Warbler in an effort to lo- 
cate a nest, I heard an excited chip- 
ping in a nearby vine in a shriller note 
than that of the Kentucky, and re- 
maining perfectly still, a Swainson 
Warbler soon came in to plain view. 
Her actions plainly indicated a nest 
nearby, and after a few minutes 
search I was gazing into a nest ap- 
parently just completed, that fitted 
well the description of Mr. Wayne, Mr. 
Brewster, and others. 


On May 27, in company with Rev. 
Wallace, an enthusiastic bird photo- 
grapher, I returned to the nest, flush- 
ing the female from three pure white 
eggs. Carefully clipping away the 
honeysuckle vines on one side of the 
nest so as to get a clear view, and 
using a leafy screen to conceal the 
camera, Mr. Rogers lay behind a bush 
to await the bird’s return. After in- 
specting the camera, and looking care- 
fully over the prostrate photographer 
from a twig not more than fou: feet 
away, she finally settled on the nest, 
soon becoming brave enough to allow 
near approach. When finally a picture 
of the eggs in situ. was desired, she 
remained at her post until Mr. Rogers 
was at arms’ length. 


The nest was in thick damp wood, 
near a tiny stream, but only 50 yards 
from putting green of a much used 
golf course. Bamboo and honey suckle 
vines slung under a small elm, had 
pulled it down to a horizontal position, 
the nest being hung in the vines, six 
inches below the elm and three feet 
above the ground. The nest which 
was collected with the eggs for Emory 
University, Atlanta, was more roughly 
built than any Warbler nest I have 
found except those of some Kentucky 
Warblers, being composed chiefly of 


OOLOGIST 89 


dead leaves, lined with pine needles 
and a few rootlets, 
W. H. La Parde, IJr., 
Atlanta, Ga. 


A WELCOME VISITOR 


Frederic H. Kennard, of Dudley 
Road, Newton Center, Massachusetts, 
one of New HEngland’s distinguished or- 
nithologists, registered at our Museum 
on the 23rd of May, having dropped off 
on his return from a five months’ out- 
ing in Florida, Lousiana, Texas, Ari- 
zona and California. 

The particular object of his visit 
was to investigate the nesting of the 
Blue Goose on the home place of “Ye 
Editor.” And as luck would ha've it 
one of these rare birds hatched on the 
day of his arrival, and he took away 
with him the skin of a one day old 
bird, from a pair, the male of which 
is a Lesser Snow Goose, and the fe- 
male is a Blue Goose. The mother of 
this young bird is the first Blue G« ose 
so far as we know any record of as hav- 
ing been raised in confinement, and its 
first picture appears in Volume 
XXXVIII, Page 12 of The Oologist, 
though with a misleading statement 
that it is a picture of a Snow Goose, 
which error we regret very much. We 
expect other and future photographs of 
this rare bird. 

R. M. Barnes. 


SS 
AN EASTER EGG HUNT 


Mr. Zeitlin and I were camped in 
Vulture land on Hater day all set for 
an egg hunt. Clouds got together and 
rain threatened, so we decided to hit 
it for home as we were on roads that 
our Lizzie could not make it over. after 
a rain. 

We stopped on the road side near 
some rocky bluffs where Mr. Maxon 


90 rhe OO LOG IS tr 


and I had collected several sets of Vul- 
ture eggs. 

I took the lead and made my way 
through the rocks, first crawling and 
then walking, looking under every 
cliff and watching for Vultures to fly 
out. The air was alive with both 
Black and Turkey Vultures but none 
in the cliffs. I stepped down from one 
rock to another and as I did this a 
buzz, buzz, buzz greeted me. Then I 
jumped from this buzz over to a rock 
to safety. 

I looked back and there was a big 
six foot rattler coiled and ready to 
make a jump at me. I had stepped 
cn the snake. I quickly got some 
rocks and then the battle started, but 
my rocks did not take any effect on 
Mr. Snake. After he gave me good 
warning by rattling continuously for 
five minutes, he crawled into a hole. 
So I went on hunting eggs. Mr. Zeit- 
lin was a quarter of a mile behind 
hunting the cliffs below me. He saw 
a Vulture light in the cliffs above so 
he called up to where I had been hunt- 
ing. 

I stopped on the biuff sides to wait 
for him and soon he showed up. I 
ask him why he had not hunted the 
lower bluffs. He said he saw a Vul- 
ture light above him and went up to 
investigate. So we together went 
back to this place and Mr. Zeitlin 
showed me where he had crawled up 
into the cliff and right there lay an- 
other rattlesnake coiled up but was 
not buzzing. Right where Mr. Zeitlin 
had been looking for eggs. The rain 
came and we hit the road for home 
and on arriving at Mr. Zeitlin’s home 
we found out the bad news that his 
father had died during the night while 
we were camping. 

Ramon Graham, 
Texas. 


BIRDS IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS 


I am sending in this article in hopes 
it will be of interest to oologists and to 
help our paper along. I have seen 
this plan used before and I think it is 
a good one and very interesting. I 
will tell of all the birds that I know of 
around here that breed here. The 
birds here that are increasing are: 
Green Heron. 

Spotted Sandpiper. 

Killdeer 

Mourning Dove. 

Screech Owl. 

Flicker. 

Red Headed Woodpecker. 
Chimney Swift (fast). 

Ruby Throated Humming Bird (fast). 
Phoebe. 

Blue Jay 

American Crow. 

Cowbird (fast). 

Red Winged Blackbird (fast) 
Baltimore Oriole. 

Bronze Grackle. 

English Sparrow (very fast). 
Vesper Sparrow. 

Field Sparrow. 

Song Sparrow. 

Purple Martin. 

Bank Swallow. 

Rough Winged Swallow. 
Brown Thrasher. 

Maryland Yellow Throat. 
Catbird. 

House Wren (fast). 
Chickadee. 

The birds here holding their own 

are: 

Bob White. 

Marsh Hawk. 
Yellow Billed Cuckoo. 
Black Billed Cuckoo 
Belted Kingfisher. 
Nighthawk. 
Kingbird. 

Wood Pewee. 
Bobolink. 
Meadowlark. 


THE OOLOGIST 91 


Orchard Oriole. 

Savanna Sparrow. 

Cardinal. 

Loggerhead Shrike. 

Blue Gray Gnatcatcher. 
American Robin. 

Northern Downy Woodpecker. 
Crested Flycatcher. 

Rose Breasted Grosbeak. 

The birds here decreasing are: 
Mallard Duck. 

Blue Wing Teal. 

Least Bittern 

King Rail (fast). 
Sora. 

American Woodcock. 
Golden Plover. 

Prairie Hen (Very, Very Fast). 
Red Shouldered Hawk. 
Red Tailed Hawk. 
Sharp Shinned Hawk. 
Great Horned Owl. 
Whip-poor-will. 
American Goldfinch. 
Chipping Sparrow. 
Dickcissel. 

Tree Swallow. 

Cliff Swallow. 
Prothnotary Warbler. 
Blue Winged Warbler. 
Yellow Warbler 

Brown Headed Nuthatch. 
Wood Thrush. 

This list is as near accurate as I can 
get it as it is the study of a few years. 
Of course, there is probably a few mis- 
takes. Take the Woodcock, last year 
I only saw two different birds. Take 
the Prairie Hen, Dad says when he 
was a boy there were flocks of almost 
thousands, and when I was a boy I 
could usually see a flock of a score or 
two, but now a flock of three or four 
is a sight . Lots of birds that used to 
breed here are extinct. Now take the 
Passenger Pigeon; when Dad was a 
boy he said he used to shoot them by 
the score, now there are none, and he 
said it was nothing unusual'to see a 


score or two of Sandhill'Cranes. Hunt- 
ers are responsible for our birds de- 
creasing here like the King Rail, 
Prairie Hen, Mallard. Many birds are 
shot here as they migrate. Take one 
man this year who shot four Wood 
Ducks and then threw them away. It 
would make anybody’s blood boil. I 
have also seen lots of birds here but 
have not located their nests like Black 
and White Warbler, also lots of birds 
stop here on their way north likes 
Juncos, Sapsuckers, Geese, Ducks. 
Some years birds stay here more than 
they do others and I cannot account 
for it; one year here both Cuckoos and 
Dickcissels were very thick and next 
year there were hardly any. I have 
probably missed a few birds I recall 
now that Bluebirds are increasing here 
and after I read it again I may think 
of others I forgot. 
Arthur Blocher, 
Amboy, Ill. 
Dec, 30, 1921. 


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NEW ADDITION TO A. O. U. CHECK 
LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS 


The following important item was 
received by us from H, H. Bailey, May 
26th, 1922. 

“On March 6th, 1922, I secured a 
live specimen of Streptopelia risoria, 
Ringed Turtle Dove. This bird I 
judge to be a male, and was captured 
a. few days previous in Dade County, 
Florida, near the city limits of Miami. 
It came to an enclosed pigeon yard 
during a storm, and was very hungry, 
no doubt having been blown over from 
Cuba. 

Specimens of the White Crowned 
Pigeon were also seen at Miami Beach, 
after the same blow.” 


Harold H. Bailey, 
Miami Beach, Florida. 


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SUMMER RESIDENTS OF CAMP 
MEADE, MARYLAND 


I was stationed at Camp Meade, 
Maryland, from about January 20th, 
1921, to September 21, 1921, and dur- 
ing that time spent many pleasant 
hours in the observation of birds. The 
following is a list of the species that I 
found actually breeding on the reser- 
vation, finding either the egs or young 
of each species. This is not by any 
means a complete list as there were 
quite a few birds that I am sure nest- 
ed there but I was unable to find their 
nests. The only ones of special note 
is the nest of a Cardinal found on April 
24th, containing two eggs of the Cardi- 
nal and one Cowbird egg, the Cowbird 
being rare in that locality. And on 
June 17th the nest of a Blue Grosbeak 
containing three fresh eggs, this I be- 
lieve is one of the few records of the 
Blue Grosbeak nesting in Maryland. 

The Camp Meade Military Reserva- 
tion is about four miles wide by five 
miles long and lying just about mid- 
way between Washington, D. C. and 
the city of Baltimore, Md. The little 
Patuxant River forming the southern 
boundary. Bordering the stream there 
is quite a little oak, birch, elm, etc., 
many places with thick undergre-vth, 
bushes and vines, then rather open 
rolling country, very sandy with many 
patches of second growth pines, open 
sandy fields and meadows and aban- 
doned farm lands. Before the Govern- 
ment took over this section there were 
many truck farms and small orchards, 
as these have had no care for the past 
few years most of the fruit trees are 
partly dead and infected with many 
insects, making an ideal home for 
Crested Flycatchers, Wrens and Blue- 
birds, all of which are very abundant. 
Killdeer. 

Bob White. 
Turkey Vulture. 
Cooper Hawk. 


Red Shouldered Hawk. 

Am. Sparrow Hawk. 

Barred Owl. 

Belted Kingfisher. 

Hairy Woodpecker. 

Red Headed Woodpecker. 

Northern Flicker. 

Whip-poor-will. 

Nighthawk. 

Chimney Swift 

Kingbird. 

Crested Flycatcher. 

Phoebe. 

Wood Pewee. 

Blue Jay. 

Am. Crow. 

Starling. 

Cowbird. 

Redwinged Blackbird. 

Meadowlark. 

Purple Grackle. 

Grasshopper Sparrow. 

Chipping Sparrow. 

Song Sparrow. 

Towhee. 

Cardinal. 

Blue Grosbeak. 

Purple Martin. 

Bank Swallow. 

Rough-winged Swallow. 

Barn Swallow. 

Cedar Waxwing. 

Maryland Yellowthroat 

Mocking Bird. 

Catbird. 

Brown Thrasher. 

House Wren. 

Carolina Chickadee. 

Southern Robin. 

Bluebird. 

English Sparrow. 

Lieut. L. R. Wolfe, 

Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y. 


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“FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH.” 


I have just heard a remarkable in- 
stance demonstrating the fidelity of 
our magnificent Osprey. A few days 
ago, a dead gaunt pine wa’ a giant 


: torch, half way up its length, in a big 
woods fire which swept the out-skirts 
of Brielle, New Jersey, on May 14th. 

_ At the very top was a huge Fish 
|Hawks’ nest, and braving the in- 
_ferno of heat, fiame, and smoke a par- 
ent bird hovered over the nest with a 
fish in its beak for the three baby in- 
mates who craned their necks over the 
edge of their domicile. Wheeling in 
derision the parent conquered the 
terror and settled on the nest just as 
the tree toppled with a resounding 
erash carrying the four birds to dis- 
truction. 

“Faithful unto death,’ writes Theo. 
F. Everett, a Manasquin feed merchant 
who witnessed the ornithological trag- 
edy. 


Gerard Alan Abbott, 


Lancaster, Kentucky. 
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EVENING GROSBEAKS 


There has been a flock of about 20 
Evening Grosbeaks about the town 
Since the middle of the winter. This 
bird has been a very rare visitant to 
Connecticut in the past but has be- 
come more plentiful the past two or 
three years. The point of interest to 
us is that I saw this flock Sunday, May 
7th, and coming to work through the 
Main street this noon, May 11th, Il saw 
3 males, and a half mile further along 
4 females. This is a later date, by 
many weeks, than any record that I 
know of and some pairs of these 
birds show evidence that they mean 
to nest here. I have offered in the 
local papers, $5.00 for evidence of 
their breeding here. 

H. E. Moffatt, 


Winsted, Connecticut. 
ASS LE) ees 


BAND-TAILED PIGEON 


Ten or fifteen years ago this bird was 
very common in the Willasmette Val- 
ley, and then seemed almost to entire- 


THE OOLOGIST 98 


ly disappear. 

During July and August 1920, I saw 
some 25 birds feeding in cherry trees, 
back in the foot hills near Scio. 

On May 8-21 I saw several bands, I 
should judge 500 birds. 

On May 11th I saw two bands of 
probably 100 birds each. 

The birds are now feeding in the 
open grain fields where wheat, oats 
and corn have just been planted. 

Dr, A. G. Prill, 


Scio, Oregon. 
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YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER IN 
DORCHESTER CO., MARYLAND 
This record is based on a “set” of 

one egg taken on May 16, 1919. Per- 

haps if an unscrupulous Cowbird had 
not found the nest, I should have found 

a better set. As it was, the Cowbird 

had deposited three eggs beside the 

single Yellowthroat. 

I was looking for Blue-gray Gnat- 
catchers, through a piece of mired 
hardwood and pine, when I saw the 
edge of what appeared to be a Gnat- 
catcher’s nest, saddled on a limb of a 
big pine, about forty feet from the 
ground, and nearly concealed by a few 
sprigs of needles. When I investigat- 
ed a female Yellowthroated Warbler 
flew from her beautiful little nest and 
was a few minutes later joined by the 
male. They seemed quite tame and 
came almost within reach several 
times while I was wrapping the eggs 
and placing them in my basket. 

The nest reminded me very much of 
that of a Pine Warbler and wa's per- 
haps a little larger. The single egg 
and also those of the Cowbird were 
quite fresh. 

This is the only record I have. for 
Maryland and I do not know of any 
other. That is, the Hastern Shore of 
Maryland. Apparently it is not com- 
mon in Dorchester County as I have 
seen birds but three times since. 


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THE GEESE AND THE EAGLE 


Geese are not always silly, coward- 
ly creatures, as is illustrated by the 
following incident: 

A man in Sierra County, California, 
was on his way to a neighbor’s place 
several miles from his own, when he 
observed a large flock of geese coming 
south. They were flying in the usual 
V-shaped formation. 

While gazing at the geese the man 
descried a black eagle, an unusually 
large one, coming from the east. It 
was flying directly toward the geese, 
although its course would carry it a 
little below them The geese per- 
ceived the eagle about the same time 
that the man did. Before the bird had 
arrived opposite them they gave decid- 
ed signs of uneasiness. They began 
to break up their regular formation, a 
circumstance that caused the man te 
regard the scene with increased curi- 
osity. 

At once the geese formed two hollow 
squares. The Hagle was now opposite 
and ia little below the geese. One 
square hung perpendicular in the air 
with hardly a flutter of the wings. The 
other hung as motionless, but in an 
oblique position. If the Hagle saw 
them he gave no sign of attention, but 
kept straight on his course. Then 
just as he arrived directly underneath 
the geese something happened. 

With a concerted movement the 
geese that formed the lower or slant- 
ing square swooped down in the di- 
rection of the Eagle. The sudden rush 
caused the big bird to turn out of his 
course and to fly rapidly toward the 
north. The gese then wheeled and 
flew back, joining the birds that had 
remained almost motionless in the per- 
pendicular, hollow square. 

The two groups having joined the 
V formation was resumed, and the 
geese continued their flight toward the 
south. 


As a rule, it is said, Eagles do not 
attack geese. Besides, this Eagle was 
hardly in a position to do so. His evi- 
dent intention was to fly along on his 
Own business. The geese were the 
ones who made the attack, if such it 
could be callea—The Advocate—W. A. 
Strong, San Jose, Cal. 


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GROUND NESTING OF THE BROWN 
THRASHER 


In the April Oologist Mr, A. D. Du- 
Bois of Springfield, Illinois, states that 
he has found only one nest of the 
Brown Thrasher on the ground in 
many years of field observations; also 
by way of comment our editor advises 
that he has found but one nest in 
forty-five years on the ground. 

In my own experience I had not 
judged ground nesting with this 
species of such a rare occurrence, 
though reference to my notes made at 
Des Moines, Iowa, records but one in- 
stance in each of three consecutive 
years. These notes are as follows: 

May 27th, 1906: Nest well conceal- 
ed on ground and surrounded by a 
clump of tall weed stalks in a’ field 
near Waveland Park. Nest found by 
flushing the bird. Eggs four. On a 
visit to this same nest on June 7th 
found young Thrashers in this nest. 

May 31, 1907: Nest on ground at 
foot of some bushes along fence form- 
ing part of elk pasture in Greenwood 
Park. Nest found by flushing bird. 
Eggs, three, full set. In this ser the 
small reddish brown specks usually 
found sprinkled over the surface of 
Brown Thrasher’s eggs were so al- 
ranged as to form a ring about the 
larger end of the eggs. 

May 21, 1908: Nest on ground in 
some dead leaves which had gathered 
under a few small dead limbs which 
had fallen from a white oak, about 


THE OOLOGIST 97 


three feet from the trunk of the tree. 
Eggs, three. This nest was very con- 
spicuous as no vegetation served to 
conceal the nest. On May 26th I again 
visited this nest and found the eggs 
gone. 

In my experience the majority of 
Brown Thrasher’s nests are placed 
from four to six feet up, though prob- 
ably more nests would be found on the 
ground except for the fact that ground 
nests are of course less conspicuous 
and hence less easily discovered. 

Emerson A. Stoner, 


June 2, 1922. Benecia, Cal. 


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MORE DOPE ON THE BROWN 
THRASHER 


Until I read Mr. DuBois’ article in 
the April Oologist, it had never struck 
me as odd that I had never seen many 
Thrashers nesting on the ground. Still 
it seems as if I have been more than 
lucky in this regard. 

Our whole great acreage of orchard 
has been for some fifteen years care- 
fully watched and protected until it 
has become a bird haven. About eight 
years ago, just twenty yards from our 
house was a very thick clump of wild 
roses. Then one season I discovered 
the nest of a Brown Thrasher snuggled 
up next the thickest clump of roots 
and protected by the thick skins. The 
pair hatched and the young were ma- 
tured safely. For two years following 
there was a ground nest somewhere in 
that clump of bushes presumably built 
by the same pair of birds. 

Since that time there have grown up 
close by many other shrubs and the 
cedar trees. There is always a Thrash- 
er nesting close by the old brier patch. 
At present there are four husky young 
birds growing up in the cedar tree. 
The two old birds I have recently 
banded, and I expect both pleasure una 


information from the next spring’s mi- 
gration. Will they come back? 
—R. M. B. 


OLD PRICES AND NEW 


In view of the fact that we have re- 
cently issued an Exchange Price List 
of North American Birds’ Eggs, we 
thought it might interest the readers 
of The Oologist to peruse the follow- 
ing list of cash prices which came into 
our possession at the time we pur- 
chased the Christ collection a couple 
of years ago—R. M. B. 


Western Screech Owl........... $1.50 
Western Goshawk .............. 2.00 
American Goshawk ............. 1.50 
Sharp-Shinned Hawk ........... AUS 
EVARPISY Mla WiKe sone cutie Gc roer ees es 2.00 
Swainson’s Hawk ............... 1.50 
Red-tailed Hawk ............... 1.25 
Western Red Tailed Hawk....... 1.50 
Red Shouldered Hawk........... 1.00 
Red-bellied Hawk .............. 1.50 
Rough-legged Hawk ............ 1.25 
IMO EELS dO walt pe nee acs eee cor eeeeses ce .60 
Wiesterm (OW: ita coeiess-onies ances s 1.25 
Rocky Mountain Screech Owl.... 1.25 
Yellow Billed Cuckoo............ .20 
Lewis’s Woodpecker ............ 40 
Black-Backed Three-toed Wood- 

DE CRETAraitin ale ant iausee vetleneneneteraieciencas 150 
Black (Pileated) Woodpecker.... .90 
Cuban Nighthawk .............. 125 
Great Crested Flycatcher........ 20 
easitilycatcnereaeenoe aoe: 15 
Wood! Tinnush\ secre. c is ace a sees .20 
Gray Checked Thrush........... 15 
NEVO DTH es acre eo ence pee stomctes chloe useeliaicais .04 
Maryland Yellow Throat........ 20 
White Bellied Nuthatch......... .50 
Summer Yellow Bird............ 15 
Downy Woodpecker ............ .30 
Fox colored Sparrow............ .20 
Ween CeMrciinel coocooedagaacocd. 15 


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Black-headed Grosbeak ......... mle, 
Chewink wlowheemeareo. eae ae ac 30) 
Hloriday owheeeeneee ores ona: 40 
AMOS ADOWINEE ococccoogocuceds 150 
Western sialrke espa secre w ceeus aces ers eS 
Commmnom CrOWy cocaoccooav0sgc000 2 
Northwestern Fish Crow........... 69 
A itsloWeN ONEONe a vic-ct ows aloo Ban coer Ons DU 
Western Goshawk .............. 2.0% 
Westen IEG! Wal, ccocoonca0c00e 1 bu 
WG MPS CO Mies Grates secre ere sie nie ceeas ae 50 
CanadastG Oosennaaseiccueac see 7a 
Razor-billed Awk ............... AQ 
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COMMENT ON THE “EXCHANGE 
PRICE LIST OF NORTH AMERI- 
CAN BIRD’S EGGS” 

The undersigned enrolls himseli 


among those that feel no little satis- 
faction at the final appearance of this 
Work; which cost no less than five or 
six men a great deal of labor-ot-love. 
It is well that the publisher of the 
Price List has given due credit in the 
pages of the Work, to these men. 

The Price List contains one sad 
lacuna. It does not list a large num- 
ber of recently-described sub-species, 
at least a hundred and fifty. These 
having the most of them, at least been 
finally accredited by the A. O U. 
Nomenclature Committee, they are as 
validly entitled to recognition and tab- 
ulation as any of the sub-species that 
have accredited these many years. 
That these titles do not occur in the 
Price List is in no sense the fault of 
the publisher, but of the Committee of 
Twenty-five. The oversight is un- 
accountable. It was definitely agreed 
between Doctor Bales and myself, that 
I was to list these new subspecies 
through the numbers connected with 
the “Grouse Family,” suggesting Ex- 
change Prices, thereto. This was duly 
done, at cost of much labor; and mani- 


fold copies of the resulting List were 
sent out to leading members of the 
Committee of Twenty-five. 

That my own suggestions and my 
labors were not recognized, officially 
by the Committee does not ‘‘peeve” 
me, in the very least. The gravity of 
the matter lies much too deep for 
mere personalities, 

Believing it possible that the work 
of the Committee referred to may not 
yet be considered entirely ended, I 
beg to make suggestion, namely: that 
members of the committee that have, 
like myself, given constant and critical 
attention to the matter of new sub- 
species, send to the “Committee on 
Final Values” a carefully complied 
List of the sub-species not found in 
the Price List, as issued; with suggest- 
ed prices. Great care having been 
taken to see to it that no SUGGEST- 
ED sub-species, not officially accredit- 
ed by the A. O. U. Committee, remain 
on the finally accredited List, let this 
List be carefully edited by the Com- 
mittee on Final Values; and later is- 
sued as a Supplement: the cost there- 
of to be borne, cheerfully, by those 
that have bought the Price List. 

(Comment on certain details sug- 
gested by the Price List, which is so 
full of greatly-interesting matter, may 
possibly be allowed place in future 
issues of The Oologist). 

A final word as to the physical char- 
acter of the Price List, as issued: 

To some of us, books have souls. 
Hence, questions of format, type, mar- 
gins and paper are vital. And because 
they are vital to us, we stand ready to 
meet the resultant cost. Therefore,— 

The Publisher of the Price List hav- 
ing generously volunteered to issue the 
list at cost, it would be most ungener- 
ous and invidious to criticise the qual- 
ity of the paper-stock used. But for 
a book that is to be so literally USED | 
as this Price List will be, no paper 
could be too good: (although good 


THE OOLOGIST 


paper costs today, THERRIFICALIY 
COSTS! 

Therefore, again, should &@ second 
Edition of the Price list be called for, 
as it certainly should, one would like 
to enroll himself among a poss:ble 
number that would guarantee to take 
a copy, or two copies, printed on high- 
grade paper. One feels quite sure that 
the publisher would kindly take the 
pains involved to print as many copies 
de luxe as might thus be subscribed 
for. 

May I repeat, I have been animated 
by just one single motive, in what has 
been written above, namely, the de- 
velopment, by collaboration, and the 
final issuance of a Price List that shail 
be technically and scientifically near- 
perfect. 

P. B. Peabody, 
Blue Rapids, Kansas. 


“BLUE JAYS” 


For latter part of the last twenty- 
seven million years, ud to at least 
about five years ago, this part of the 
U. S. A. had been devoid of “Jay 
Birds,” but for the last four or five 
years they have steadily grown in pop- 
ulation, until now a fairly good sized 
family regularly makes for, at least, 
this immediate vicinity. 

1922 opened up just about like most 
years usually do, and as time passed 
on naturally the “Jay Bird,’ was 
looked for, and actually hoped for. Day 
after day we knew he would be here, 
but he failed, and after going blamed 
near blind, locking and deaf listening 
for sight or sound, the Jay Bird was 
passed as a has been and we won- 
dered why. 

It would not have mattered much, 


but sometimes you get interested and 


99 


you don’t know why but I did and am 
still interested in the old birds. Like to 
see him or her, like to hear them, live 
for them to wake me up “telling it” 
and believe me, can’t they tell it, like 
to watch them from the window, see 
them take the last seed of out of the 
last sun flower head, and they’ll do it 
too, but I had rather buy new seed 
than to deprive them of any in their 
reach. Any one who has watched a 
pair rear four or five ‘carbon copies” 
cannot help but like their nerve. He 
may have his bad qualities and doubt- 
less has, but show us something or 
someone who has not, so I am still in- 
terested and on this date about four 
pair blew in and I could hardly believe 
it, but after going out and loowing 
them over, satisfying myself by sight 
and sound, I am happy. 
R. L. More, 
Vernon, Texas. 


ANOTHER SUPPLEMENT 


We have another supplement in pro. 
cess, which will be a well deserved 
tribute. to a splendid, old time, old 
fashioned naturalist, and we are very 
sure that The Oologist family will be 
more than pleased with that forth- 
coming production. 


THE BLUE PENGUIN 


We may well.add here that we also 
have recently had the plates prepared 
to illustrate a most unusual article on 
the subject of The Little Blue Penguin, 
of Australia, and its adjacent Islands, 
Fauna 

We may be wrong, but we really be- 
lieve that we are furnishing our sub- 
scribers with an Oologist worth fifty 
cents annually.—R. M. B. 


100 Uhe @OOL@ GIS 1 


THE NEW PRICE LIST 


We are pleased to announce that the New Catalogue of 
Prices of North American Birds’ Eggs, is now ready for dis- 
tribution. This catalogue fills an acute necessity. It has 
been sixteen years since a catalogue appeared that contained 
prices upon which the working Oologists of America as a 
whole were willing to base their exchanges. In 1919 an elec- 
tion was called to be participated in by the active Oologists 
in North America, who selected a committee of twenty-five 
well known Oologists to revise the prices. Then a committee 
of three to pass finally on the prices agreed upon by the larger 
committee. Two full years were occupied in this work and it 
is now ready. 


The catalogue is published by the undersigned and its gen- 
eral arrangement is as follows: 

1. An introduction. 

2. A history of Birds’ Egg Catalogue. 

3. A history of this catalogue. 

4 Prices in this Catalogue. 

5. Directions for collecting and preparing eggs. 

6 

7 

8 


Copy of Standard Data. 
Illustration of proper way to mark eggs. 
Illustrations showing proper cabinet arrangements of 
collections. 
9. Report of the Committee of Twenty-five to revise prices. 
10. Names and prices adopted for each species. 
11. Advertisements. 


The size of the catalogue is the same size as The Oologist, 
which it in general respect as to make-up resembles. 


This will be, without doubt, the standard price list of 
North American Birds Eggs, for many years to come, and will 
be used by all museums throughout the world. The catalogue 
is printed on paper suitable to write on with pen and ink and 
will be used by many as a record on which to keep track of 
their own collection. 


The book retails at $1.00 per copy in paper covers, those de- 
siring a cloth bound copy can procure it for $2.00. The first 
edition is 500 copies. Send us your subscription on the blank 
published in this issue. 

R. M. BARNES, LACON, ILLIONIS. 


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During the long years of our editorship there has come 
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In the past these have been carefully preserved and laid 
away for future reference and it will not be long now 
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yourselves for the coming shock!—The Editor. 


102 The, OO OG S 1 


THE LITTLE BLUE PENGUIN 
(Eudyptula minor) 
By L. L. Redick 


The Little Penguin is always at 
home on Mantague Island in New 
South Wales, Australia. A magnificent 
granite light house stands out promi- 
rently on the southern side and warns 
the coastal ships to have a care. The 
island is well suited for seals and sea 
birds and dangerous to man at sea. 

Steamers cannot come close and one 
must take his chances in an open boat 
when the sea is on its best behavior. 
The island is about two miles long, 
rocky and in many places even precipi- 
tcus. It is treeless but covered almost 
entirely above its rocky sides or slopes 
with tall wiry tussock grass. 

It was in October that 1 made my 
first visit and my expectations of fina- 
ing the penguins at home were more 
than realized. Almost every large tus- 
sock had ~ nest tucked away in its 
shadowy depths, or under the roots 
end dried grass, or in burrows hidden 
by the heavy growth,—burrows that 
had been made deeper or larger or 
more sinucus by the patient work of 
years. Under rocks, in clefts of the 
recky shore or gullies and even in bur- 
rows on the grassy slopes, where 
rothing hid the entrance from view, 
the penguins noisiiy claimed pos- 
session. 

One soon learns to be wary of the 
parent bird that is dcing the incuba- 
tion for the day. A cross old broody 
hen is the emblem of humility in con- 
t-cist. One successful grab of the 
powerful beak is enough. After thar 
one will pull out the eggs from under 
her with the crook of a cane, or, with 
the hand covered with a bag or a cap, 
get hold of this zealeus nome guard by 
the neck, and enforce temporary cap- 
tivity. 

It is always a case of no surrender 


and even in cases where the eggs have 
not been laid, this determination to 
hold the fort against all comers is most 
persistent. Pulled from the nest it 
will rush back on the instant, snarling 
or squalking, whatever mediey of fa- 
miliar sounds you wish to apply in 
description of the noise it makes 
against intrusion in its domestic 
affairs. 

The little Penguin is twelve to fif- 
teen inches high. Its back is a steel 
blue and its breast a Gowny white. The 
short powerful flippers and beak are 
both used in climbing the steep shore 
to its nest sometimes half a mile from 
the water’s edge or hundreds of feet 
up, a steep hillside, or both The skin 
is very thick with fat, which protects 
it from the results of the pounding it 
gets against the rocks as it lands from 
its daily excursion out to sea. 

One that we held captive for awhile 
became quite docile after a couple ot 
hours drilling before the camera. It 
posed and preened its feathers at cur 
feet and sitting straight up in its 
comical way. When it discovered that 
it was free to go, it put down its head, 
held out its flippers in the attitude of 
readiness for all emergencies, aimed 
for the sea and started straight toward 
a sheer precipice .peiow which the 
breakers were roaring ominously. We 
tried to head it off for we had not 
thought of suicide. It beat us to the 
edge, however, and over it went. It 
fell about 25 feet and struck a narrow 
ledge, bounded off to another rock and 
finally disappeared in the foaming 
waters. A few moments later we were 
pleased to see its head moving sea- 
ward, beyond the rough water and ap- 
parently none the worse for the fall. 

We had no difficulty of obtaining a 
photograph of an old bird on the nest, 
for no amount of disturbance would 
scare her away. We cut and pulled at 
the grass to expose a nesting site, 


: igi vO TORE IO NGileSiats 108 


Little Blue Penguin. In Natural Surroundings, Montague Island, New South 
Wales, Australia 
Photo by L L. Redrick. 


104 THE OOLOGIST 


raked the eggs out from under her, but 
there she sat ready and waiting her 
opportunity. 

On one occasion we dug out a couple 
ef these birds. They were probably 
young, fully fledged, but up to the 
moment still dependent on the rations 
brought in daily by the parent. We 
filled the burrow with grass so that 
they could not get back into it again. 
At first they were undecided what to 
do and we got a snap or two. Then 
they made a wild scramble for tne 
water, down a rocky slope, rolling and 
tumbling to the water some 600 feet or 
more away. 

At night they set up a weird melody, 
an incessant wail, late into the night. 
Their numbers are evident at once. 
The calls of the home-comers and the 
moaning sounds of the expectant ones 
and the parleys at the nests reach 
your ears from every side Some 
seem far away, some near at hand 
coming even from under the floor of 
the very porch at the door of the 
dwelling by the lighthouse. Individual- 
ly these calls are not musical; but the 
chorus of sounds, this combination of 
the many varied tones is a delightful 
sensation never to be forgotten. 

Only once have I heard a better 
chorus. That was on an island in New 
Zealand where the Prions nest literal- 
ly in millions; but that is another 
story and does not detract from the 
naturalists’s interest in what the Blue 
Penguin can perform in the way of an 
evening concert. 

In May, this year, I made my second 
visit to Montague and obtained the pic- 
ture of the birds at the burrow en- 
trance. The season was too early, 
however, Occupied nests there were 
in plenty but no eggs. Whether it was 
a moulting parent or young, reluctant 
to begin the arduous life of fishermen, 
or a case of merely holding possession 
of a home or of making repairs I 


couldn’t definitely determine. 

Surely this is one of nature’s most 
interesting birds. To see them just 
after sunset, standing in groups above 
their favorite landing places, resting 
after the struggle with the rough water 
in landing, preening their feathers and 
drying themselves prior to their climb 
along the dusty or rocky passages to 
their nests,—this is as much a feast 
to the eye as the later chorus is tothe 
ear. 

My thanks to the New South Wales 
government for permission to go to 
Montague Island and to Mr. Williams, 
the Head Light House Keeper, for his 
hospitality and many kindnesses. 

ee Seen 


A GOOD SUGGESTION 
One of our subscribers suggests that 
we publish a list of those having a 
complete file of The Oologists, These 
files are becoming more and more vai- 
uable every year and scarcer and 
harder to acquire as time advances. 
Many of them are drifting into the 
Libraries of the Universities and pub- 
lic authorities with the result that 
those can never be moved. If persons 
having a complete file will forward 
them to us with their names we will 
be glad to publish the list after hav- 
ing received sufficient names to justify 
it. 
R. M. Barnes. 


3 <= e—__ —— —_ 
A LETTER 


I have always valued The Oologist 


for what it contained. I have a full 
file (bound) and often have occasion 
to refer to them. It is readable and 
not ultra scientific, which appeals to 
some of us common bird men. To my 
mind the Life Histories of the Birds; 
their economic value, their pleasing 
ways, wes even their “vulgar” English 
names are much more interesting than 


THE OOLOGIST 105 


Pair of Adult Little Glue Penguins on Montague Island, New South Wales, 


Setting in Mouth of Nest Burrow 
By L. L. Redrick. 


106 pints OOLoOG! Sw 


Female Adult Little Blue Penguin on Nest (which has been dug out), Montague 
Island, New South Wales 
Photo by L. L. Redrick 


LY, DSH. 


the longest (and often changed) Latin 
name ever attached to a small bird. 
These things I find in The Oologist. I 
wonder which the most scientific of 
Ornithologist would tire of the quickest 
and tosses aside first, Cory’s List of 
West Indian Birds as published in 
some of the early numbers of the Auk; 
said article being strong on Latin 
names, and without the least item on 
the habits of the birds listed, even 
though new; or some of the readable 
articles that appear in The Oologist 
H. H. Johnson, 
Pittsfield, Maine. 


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BIRDS IN LONDON, ONTARIO 


In the May number of The Oologist 
a Western writer published a list of 
names of people in his locality whose 
hames were also the names of birds. 
As this article both amused and inter- 
ested me, I glanced over the London 
City directory, and discovered that we 
had quite a number of birds living 
here. As London has long been called 
the Forest City on account of the large 
number of trees it contains, it is quite 
natural that there should be a lot of 
birds here. Following is the list: 

Bird—fairly common. 

Brant—fairly common. 

Coote—fairly common. 

Crane—rare. 

Crow—fairly common 

Drake—common. 

Duck—rare. 

Finch—common. 

Hawke—rare. 

Heron—fairly common. 

Jaeger—rare. 

Martin—very common. 

Parrott—rare. 

Partridge—fairly common. 

Peacock—fairly common. 

Knott—rare. 5 

Robins—fairly common, 

Rooke—rare. 

Swan—rather rare. 


THE GQOLOGIST 


liBRar 


Sheldrake—rare. 
Swift—fairly common. 
Sparrowhawk—rare. 

Teale—rare. 

Willett—rare. 

Woodcock—rare. 

I think this is a pretty fair list for a 
city of only 65,000 inhabitants, particu- 
larly as we are 25 miles north of Lake 
Hrie, the nearest large body of water. 

J. R. McLeod, 


London, Ontario, Canada. 
a pees 


ROUGHWING SWALLOWS 


In looking over my notes of 1921 I 
found something which may be of in- 
terest. I was walking along the high 
banks of Green River, june 14, when I 
saw a large dark swallow dart into a 
hole in the bank. I sneaked up to the 
hole (it was about the size of a King- 
fisher’s) and turned my flashlight in 
and saw her sitting on the nest about 
three feet back. 1 reached in anda 
pulled her out (thanks to my long 
arms) and found her a Rough Wing 
Swallow. I next reached in and pulled 
the nest out and found it contained 
eight large white eggs almost twice as 
large as a Bank Swallow. But as they 
were badly incubated and the shells 
very thin I only saved four in mount- 
ing them. The nest which I still have 
is made of corn leaves, husks, etc., 
which they probably got from an ald 
cornfield across the river. The nest 
is very large, about four inches acrcss 
and the inside about an inch deep. 
This is the largest set of Rough Wing 
Swallow I know of. 

Bank Swallows are as thick as Ens- 
lish Sparrows here, You can find them 
almost any place along the river. Il 
know of one place on the bank of the 
river, take just this one place about 20 
feet long and 3 feet high contained 40 
holes and nests. But in amongst all 
these Bank Swallows, all along the 
river both ways for miles, I only founda 


108 


two sets of Rough Wing Swallow, the 

set I described and another I found 
June 1st which contained four eggs. 
Arthur Blocher, 

Amboy, Illinois. 


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A SUGGESTION 


Mr. Barnes, I have a suggestion to 
make and I wish you would read it 
and then print it in The Oologist as 
soon as possible and see what other 
ecologists think about it. 

Us “fellows” who have taken The 
Oologist for a number of years have 
accumulated quite a number of them 
and as we wish to save every copy, I 
suggested you make a loose tear note- 
book large enough to hold twenty-four 
numbers or a two years’ subscription 
Make a good cloth cover, colored black, 
and then across the top in large gold 
letters have “THE OOLOGIST” and 
underneath have the year or years 
1922-1923 also make them back for our 
back numbers like 1920-1921 and 1918&- 
1919 and so forth. Fix two snaps in- 
side so all we have to do will be to 
punch two small holes in the ~Uotvu 
gist” and fasten them in. 

Our Oologists will be held in there 
and will not get lost from lying around 
in a pile or heap, they will be kept 
neat and clean and any time we want 
to go back to look over our copies or 
for refernces or anything all we will 
have to do is to look at the year on 
the books, I also think a nice pile of 
these books will look good. Of course, 
we would want you to change enough 
to make a fair profit but they ought 
not to be expensive. I know I would 
buy for all my back copies and copies 
ahead. I think this is a splendid idea 
and would like to see it go through. 

Arthur Blocnher, 
Amboy, Illinois. 
Let some of our subscribers do this. 
R. M. B. 


THE oOo LJoleats + 


SUGGESTIONS FOR THE TREAT- 
MENT OF MUCH INCUBATED EGGS 


- Rare eggs coming to me much muti- 
lated, or reported as having been 
ruined in the attempt to prepare ihem 
well, I am led to offer a few sugges- 
tions: 

With caustic potash, the smaller the 
egg, the greater the dilution to be 
used; and the shorter the time in- 
volved in the use ae 

With eggs of swallow-size, I use an 
extreme dilution; changed in five 
minutes . This is usually effective in 
remcv.ns embryos of at least one-half 
development through holes of very 
small size. 4 

While afield in North Dakota, the 
past season, I prepared, while eating 
my luncheon, a beautiful set of Wilson 
Phalarope through small holes, though 
the tough embryos had been utterly 
obstinate. I used a moderate caustic 


dilution, changing it every five 
minutes. 
Where, however, maceration with 


caustic is impossible, there is a meth- 
od available with very rare or unusual- 
ly beautiful eggs that I have employed 
with success, finding specimens thus 
prepared quite intact and peryect, af- 
ter the lapse of years. ; 
With a fine needle pric out, by very 
small intervals, a section of egg-shell 
covering about one-half or more of one 
surface. With the embryo hook re- 
volve the embryo until the head ap- 
pears. Use the hook then, in gently 
wriggling the embryo out of the shell. 
The placenta is now the chief diifi- 
culty. With small eggs, one is quite 
sure to pierce the walls of the egg. I 
find that a strong jet of water, repeat- 
edly and patiently applied, will gen= 
erally loosen it so that it may, «be 
Grawn out. Rinse well, using prefer- 
ably, a strong solution of carbolic acid, 
for the final rinsing. Dry over blot- 


THE OOLOGIST 109 


ting paper. 

When dry cut out an oval of tissue, 
buff or white, as color may demand. 
Have it from several hundredths to an 
eighth of an inch larger than the open- 
ing. Dip a darning needle in fish glue, 
use nothing else, and apply to the 
opening. With the darning needle, 
carefully ‘“‘caress’’ the edges of the 
tissue into place. (With large eggs, 
the edges of the tissue should be 
slitted, to assist smooth applying.) It 
is well, with larger eggs, to appy two 
layers of the tissue. On the last 
might be imprinted, in common ink, 
the A, O. U. and set numbesr. The 
glue having well set, use the darning 
needle to apply a thin solution of col- 
ledion. (If your collodion thickens, 
use ether). 

One should be told here that the 
eggs of some species are too fragile 
for this sort of treatment; while other 
eggs, of perhaps equal size, come out 
of this treatment quite as strong as if 
they had been fresh. This treatment 
is quite effective in mending valuable 
cracked eggs. 

P. B. Peabody, 
Blue Rapids, Kansas. 


MANY SLATE-COLORED JUNCOES 
KILLED 


The sad faite of feathered visitors 
from the northland during the night 
of Oct. 31st. 

The lure of the bright lights caused 
the death of hundreds of Slate-colored 
Juncoes in the business district of the 
city last night. During the early part 
of the evening there was an immense 
filight of the Slate-colored Juncoes 
from the northwest over the city, and 
they were attracted down into Main 
street by the lights. Scores of them 
were killed as they struck against the 
electrolier lights of the plate glass 
fronts, attracted by the lights within. 


At the post office where the lights 
were burning within, and the door had 
been left open, hundred of them were 
found dead and as many more flying 
about the room this morning when the 
post office force came on duty. 

An examination showed that abcut 
two thirds of them were young birds 
There has been an unusually large mi- 
gration of the Juncoes this fall, also 
of several species of Sparrows. 

John L. Cole, 
Nevada, Iowa, 


Bg ged ee nd 
BACK YARD BIRDS 


While in San Antonio staying at Mr. 
Wilson’s at West End, San Antonio, I 
was surprised at the abundance of 
bird life right in the thickly settled 
part of town. A pair of Curve-billed 
Thrashers would come to the yard day 
aiter day and hop around and eat bird 
seeds thrown on the ground. They 
also would pick up bread or any scraps 
thrown into the yard. They were very 
tame and would not flush and fly away 
when we would go into the back yard. 
Every morning they would sing us a 
tune in answer to the faint tune sung 
by a pet Painted Bunting that Mr. Wil- 
son had in his house. 

Humming birds would come every 
evening and hum around the beauti- 
ful flowers that Mr. Wilson planted 
and taken the best care of. Flowers, 
birds and jewelry was Mr. Wilson’s 
hobby. The Hummingbirds were very 
tame as they knew they were well pro- 
tected. They would hum around the 
flowers within two feet of where Mr. 
Wilson would be in his rocking chair 
reading the evening paper. 

Inca Doves cooed away in the elms 
and mosqutes near by, and Wrens 
rustled around the fences and out 
houses. The Common Cardinal and 
Texas Cardinal would occasionally 
come around the house but not stay 


110 


long. These birds were observed in 
the front and back yard of Mr. Wil- 
son’s West Hnd home and to my sur- 
prise they were not a bit wild and 
weuld come to such a thickly settled 
ne.ghborhcod, happily feeding un- 

molested in the back and front yard. 
Ramon Graham. 

Texas Notes, 1920. 

a Bee : 
GLOSSY IBIS OBSERVED AND 
KILLED NEAR FT. WORTH, TEXAS 

After several years of migratory ob 
servations we have never had on our 
list the Glossy Ibis. 

Sept. 18, 1921, a man brought te our 
Taxidermy shop a Glossy Ibis to be 
mounted. The man was hunting doves 
and weiting for them to come for 
water around a lake. He at vonce 
noticed a flock of about fifteen birds 
flying down near him. They never 
paid any attention to him and went to 
feeding around the lake. They acted 
like they wece almost starved. He 
noticed that they were a strange look- 
ing bird and to ease his curiosity he 
shot into them with the intention of 
killing one, but instead he killed five. 

He asked several people if they 
could tell him what kind of birds they 
were, but no one knew. 

He then brought one home and in- 
quired of several neighbors, but they 
did not know. He carried it to work 
with him, and asked the opinion of 
several hunters there, but to no satis- 
faction He then met a friend who 
told him of us. He brought it here 
for us to identify. This is the first 
bird of the Ibis family we have ever 
heard of being killed in this locality. 

Mrs. Ramon Graham, 

Polytechnic, Ft. Worth, Texas. 

1921 Bird Notes. 


Our copy box is about empty. Get 
busy at once. This means you, reader! 
Hditor. 


THE OOLOGIST 


COURTING BIRDS 


Naturalists attribute the most beauti- 
ful bird songs to the effort of the male 
to win the affections of the female, as 
Darwin years ago attributed the more 
brilliant plumage of most male birds to 
the same design of Nature. Recent 
observers have collected many in- 
stances of birds that add terpsichorean 
efforts to their vccal and decorative at- 
tractions, to the same end. The state- 
ly Crane at wooing time hops about in 
droll postures, raising and lowering 
its wings and sometimes picking up 
twigs with his bill and throwing them 
over his shoulder in graceful gestures, 
as if to invite the female to join him 
in building a nest. The Ostrich whirls 
in a quick waltz, so rapid as to make 
the observer dizzy in following his 
gyrations with the eye. The black 
cock or moor cock of the Bavarian 
forests spreads his wings and his lyre- 
shaped tail and jumps about in circles 
with his head close to the ground. 
Golden pheasants executes a dance 
described as a stately minute. 

Oriental birds are often even more 
elaborate in their courting dances. 
The mirror peacock of Borneo and the 
Sumatran pheasant clears a space in 
the woods, several feet square, as a 
dancing floor, and keep the space 
clear of all leaves and twigs through- 
out the period of courtship The 
bower bird, a variety of the paradise 
bird of New Guinea and Australia, 
builds a roof-like daucing bower of 
twigs with an opening on each side. 
The walls are decorated with parrot 
feathers, red berries and moss and 
with bright little flowers, which it re- 
places with fresh ones when 
wither, according to a _ veracious 
naturalist. In front of this pavilion he 
places an attractive pile of mussle 
shells, glittering pebbles and bleached 
bones. Standing before this bower, 


they 


len EY OO LO Gils a 111 


the bird dances until the dazzled and 
susceptible female bird yields to the 
combined display of magnificence and 
agility.—Short Stories—W. A. Strong, 
San Jose, Cal. 

ae ae 2. Bi 


THE CAT QUESTION 


New Jersey already has an act to 
license the cat, and New York, Masga- 
chusetts, Maine, and other states are 
discussing the question. 

K. A. Forbush, the State ornitholo- 
gist of Massachusetts, has made a 
careful study of the cat’s depredations, 
and he says it is more dangerous to 
birds than any native animal that 
roams the woods. It is a nocturnal 
hunter, a splendid climber, a good 
stalker, and a strong leaper. More- 
Over, it is only half domesticated and 
reverts to the wild state more easily 
than the dog. Statistics show that the 
ordinary city cat destroys at least one 
bird a week. The semi-wild cat in the 
country lives entirely upon birds and 
small animals. 

If we would protect ourselves, we 
must protect the birds. There are 
birds that eat their weight in insects 
each day. If it were not for these 
birds the earth would become un- 
inhabitable in a few years. 

In the proposed bill, owners of pet 
cats will be required to pay only 
thirty-five cents for a license. Of this 
sum, twenty-five cents goes to the 
town or county, eight cents goes to 
the State Treasurer, and two cents to 
the clerk issuing the license. 

The aim of the bill is to reduce the 
number of the half-wild, roving, 
Ownerless cats, fifty thousand of which 
are taken in New York City, annually, 
and also to take from our parks and 
woods and bird sanctuaries, the well- 
fed cats that make their living by kill- 
ing birds—The Classmate—W. A. 
Strong, San Jose, Cal. 


GROUND NESTING OF THE BROWN 
THRASHER 

Some weeks ago I wrote a short note 
on ground nesting of the Brown 
Thrasher here. Since that date I have 
been very lucky again. On June 5th, 
1922, I was “following my profession,” 
fruit growing, and in the course of 
the day’s work, a's I drove the Fordson 
and disc by a certain row of peach 
trees I noted a Thrasher leave the 
spot. Soon I got curious, and investi- 
gated. I found a Brown Thrasher set- 
ting on five eggs. The bird was verv 
tame: I caught her in my hands and 
she now wears Biological Survey band 
No. 28767. I was very sorry to have to 
break up the nest, but because of its 
location I knew that it could not es- 
cape the many working crews who 
must go past, so I took both eggs and 
nest and have them in my possession 
now. The nest was of usual make ex- 
cept that the bottom layer was of 
course heavy twigs evidently dragged 
cn the ground instead of carried by 
wing. Nest was located in a small 
clump of new growth of sassafras. 
The enclosed picture shows a little of 
the situation but was the best I could 
do with the equipment at hand. Wish 
it showed how well situated the nest 
was’ It was really the most bona fide 
growing nest of the Thrasher that I 
have seen, as the base of the nest was 
squarely on the ground and very large 
compared to the size of the nest 
proper. Almost as curious as the 
ground nest was the tameness of the 
bird. They nest here in great num- 
bers and often I have laid a nand on 
the side of the nest before the female 
moved. But this was the first time I 
ever caught one in my hands by the 
simple process of lifting her off the 
nest. Hope she has better luck with 
her next attempt, and if anyone ever 
catches No. 28767 I surely want to 
know about it. Johnson Neff, 


THE OOLOGIST 


THE NEW PRICE LIST 


We are pleased to announce that the New Catalogue of 
Prices of North American Birds’ Eggs, is now ready for dis- 
tribution. This catalogue fills an acute necessity. It has 
been sixteen years since a catalogue appeared that contained 
prices upon which the working Oologists of America as a 
whole were willing to base their exchanges. In 1919 an elec- 
tion was called to be participated in by the active Oologists 
in North America, who selected a committee of twenty-five 
well known Oologists to revise the prices. Then a committee 
of three to pass finally on the prices agreed upon by the larger 
committee. Two full years were occupied in this work and it 
is now ready. 


The catalogue is published by the undersigned and its gen- 
eral arrangement is as follows: 

1. An introduction. 

2. A history of Birds’ Egg Catalogue. 

3. A history of this catalogue. 

4. Prices in this Catalogue. 

5. Directions for collecting and preparing eggs. 

6. Copy of Standard Data. 

7. Illustration of proper way to mark eggs. 

8. Illustrations showing proper cabinet arrangements of 

collections. : 

9. Report of the Committee of Twenty-five to revise prices. 

10. Names and prices adopted for each species. 

11. Advertisements. 


The size of the catalogue is the same size as The Oologist, 
which it in general respect as to makeup resembles. 


This will be, without doubt, the standard price list of 
North American Birds Eggs, for many years to come, and will 
be used by all museums throughout the world. The catalogue 
is printed on paper suitable to write on with pen and ink and 
will be used by many as a record on which to keep track of 
their own collection. 


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siring a cloth bound copy can procure it for $2.00. The first 
edition is 500 copies. Send us your subscription on the blank 
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1. An introduction. 2 A history of Birds’ Egg Catalogues. 3. A history of 
this Catalogue. 4. Prices in this Catalogue. What they mean. 5. Directions 
for collecting and preparing eggs. 6. Copy of Standard Data Blank. 7. Illus- 
trations of proper way to mark eggs. §&. Illustrations showing proper cabinet 
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prices. 10. Names both common and scientific of all North American Birds and 
Prices adopted for the exchange of specimens of eggs of each 11. Advertise 
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mounted birds and birds eggs or odd 
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complete my series. Send list and 
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skins of the birds of prey (Raptores) 
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FOR SALE—Egg cabinet, 49 inches 
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Having heretofore warned the readers of this magazine in 
ample time and believing that by this time they are sufficiently 
braced for the shock, we are in this issue unloading upon them 
divers and sundry spasms of the God of Muse with which some 
of our contributors have been afflicted, and which has accumu- 
lated in our copy box during many years last past—some good, 
some better, some bad, and some worse. 

You may read, judge for yourself, and take your choice. 
Really, we think that our contributors have done mighty well, and 


we thank you for these contributions.—The Editcr. 


114 ly Wee. OF ONE CIGHITSin 


A COLLECTOR 


All of the Oologists in North Amer- 
ica have heard of our friend, A. C. 
Abbott, and most of them have perused 
with pleasure his communications to 
The Oologist, on ornithological sub- 
jects. 

Abbott is one of the best collectors 
that we know of and no one can know 
him, but to like him. But few of his 
ornithological friends even suspicion 
that he is guilty of dividing his col- 
lectors love and abandoning oology, 
and run away after strange Gods or 
and running away after strange Gods 
cr possibly Goddesses The Muse. 

But we are able to prove him gu‘lty 
beyond the proverbial deubt so well 
known to the legal prcfession by the 
following clipped from The Tulsa, 
(Okla.) Tribune of February 24, 1921: 


= rs 


DISCLOSURES 


Gerard Alan Abbott 


Downstairs in my trunk is a lot of old 
junk, 
That I’ve got at odd times through 
the mail. 
Ive got Mexican rubber and Antarctic 
blubber, 
Preferred jack rabbit, that’s cotton 
tail. 


I’ve got oil stock in wells, 
prospectus tells, 
Are gushing great guns at each vent, 
And all it requires is a few more 
buyers 
To pay about seven hundred per cent. 


that the 


I’ve got pineapple shares, about which 
nobody cares, 
Guaranteed by a good ukelele. 
It’s as safe as the cash, and secured 
by the ash 
Of some Hawaiian isle, in the sea. 


I've timber that’ll stand on any land, 
And quartz that is really unique. 
And they’re sure to pay big return; 

some fine day, 
It’s just more investors we seek. 


I’ve got plain and preferred, I’ve got 
scrambled and shirred, 
Canadian thistle just ready to blow, 
Gold lettered designs of quick silver 
mines, 
And everything else except dough. 


There are wonderful veins in my Peace 
River claims, 
With branches at Hudson Bay 
And much of the fun round this mid- 
night sun, 
Will be capitalized some day. 


I’ve got stocks of all hues—-ved, gre:n, 
purples and blues, 


Assured ten per cent and scme 
twenty, 
And when I declare not to buy another 
share, 


Then I get promoted a plenty. 


I’m on the index of all the prosnects, 
The pledges are always renewed, 
Now here’s some new dops—-your 

really last hope, 
Come, come we’ve sot you lassooced. 


<> 2 
THE AUGUST ROBIN 


During icy March of chill and gale, 
Neked hedges and fields so bare, 
Our perky Robin jerked his tail 
And rustled for his bill of fare. 
Before the pond had entirely thawed 
The maple trees were tapped for 
syrup, 
From yonder bush an old crow called, 
How our Robin scolded and chirped. 


Eventually his mate appeared, 
His welcome and expected guest, 
Upon the windmill he sang and 
cheered, 
While she inspected last year’s nest. 


THE OOLOGIST 115 


What a vigorous life he leads, 
Digging worms at early dawn, 
Carrying grass and bits of leaves 
To the apple tree from our front 
lawn. 


But now that worms are everywhere, 
And days are long and hot, 

He seems entirely free from care 
As he loafs about the lot. 

At sun-up or twilight hour 
How prone he is to hide, 

No recital from the orchard bower, 
He’s completely satisfied. 


While tramping thru the elder copse 
With kodak in your arm, 

Reluctantly he flies or hops 

_ Indifferently to fear or harm. 

Our Robin’s wealth of food you see 
Has brought about content, 

He’s lost all individuality, 
Like some fat old lazy gent. 

Gerard Alan Abbott. 


— 2 >< = 
“AN EGG HOARDER’S NIGHTMARE” 


I lay in bed a dreaming, my eyes wide 
open stare, 

And notes of birds a-singing, come in 
with the midnight air. 

My cabinet starts amoving, 
trays all cpen wide, 

And my eggs begin to speaking, while 
my face I try to hide. 

Says one egg of the Blue Bird, as if 
speaking for the rest, 

“What do you want with all of us— 
why take us from our nest?” 

The Robins then came dancing thru 
and shoved the Blue Bird egg aside, 

“A hundred eggs you have of me, a 
hundred birdies have died.” 

Lt then beheld the worst of all, I saw 
my Hawk eggs rise, 

i knew quite well what they would 
say, and I tried to close my “eyes, 

‘ach year you take me from my nest 
end place me with the others, 

A dozen sets you have by now all 
taken from my mother. 


with 


You surely don’t need all of us, why 
not let one set live— 

You might—’” but here I heard no more, 
my eyes were closing tight. 

I turned my head away from them, 
and stared blankly out the hall, 

But out they came a tripping, thru the 
flowery papered wall. 

All dancing: in a circle, from the large 
down to the small, 

“Little Hummer,” said the Eagle, as 

they danced around my bed, 

“That dirty brute has hoarded us, let’s 
go climb on his head.” 

You worry him around the ears and 
pull his eye-brows out, 

But leave that ruffian’s face to me, you 
know my claws are stout.” 

The Hummer started buzzing, 
only a Hummer’s grace, 

And the Eagle sank his talons deep in 
my shameful face. 

Oh God, how my face was aching, as I 
recalled the Hagle’s nest, 

And me gloating o’er the prospects of 
hoarding them with the rest. 

The little Hummer unconcerned, still 
pulled my eye-brows out, 

By now I plainly saw her nest, which 
the summer winds switched about. 

The Eagle was still clawing me, as I 
prayed Gcd leave me rest, 

And alas, I was aweken, with the 
house-cat ch my breast. 


with 


Now friends and ornithologists, may 
my dream to you be clear, 
Don’t try to hoard them all at once, 
there’ll be another year. 
George E. Maxon, 
Ft. Worth, Texas. 


116 THE OOLOGIST 


LEGEND OF THE THREE CROWS 
or 
FOOLS FOR LUCK 


Three black crows sat on a rail fence, 
Pictures of ebony innocence. 

Said Sambo to Nigger, “I see a man, 
Let us beat it from here while we can.” 


“T see no man,’ laughed the saucy 
Nigger. 

“We can stay here yet quite a while I 
figger.” 

Said Sambo again with a note of alarm, 

“There’s the man with a gun, who 
owns this farm.” 


“Youre dippy,” said Darky, “‘there’s 
no one around; 


All is quiet with never a sound.” 


Bang! and wise Sambo fell from the 
rail, 

Dead as a herring or proverbial door 
nail. 


As they scurried away in great alarm, 
Though neither fool had suffered any 
harm. 


G: sped Nigger, “Oh, Lordy! That was 
a close call.” 
Quoth Darkey, “By Gawd! He was 


right after all.” 
A. D. Henderson, 
Belvidere, Alberta. 


coo —— 


THE RED-TAILED HAWK 
High o’er the valley the Red-tail soars, 
’Neath him the river eddies and roars, 
From the azure sky his loud whistled 

scream, 
Lends wild enchantment to the wood- 
land stream. 


In the valley below the song-birds sing, 

With their mingled voices the thickets 
ring, 

At the Hawk’s fierce cry they show 
alarm, 

For to the birds of the woods he means 
no harm. 


Of all the trees in his sylvan realm, 
A monarch of the forest—a veteran 
elm, 
He chose as a site for the coveted nest, 
The home of his mate where her 
treasures rest. 


Day by day he guards his mate, 

Patroling the sky early and late, 

With a devotion to her that knows no 
fear, 

He sails the sky as a gallant peer. 


If dangers threaten from sky or land, 

Or if he detects the approach of man, 

He observes the enemy with a watch- 
ful eye, 

And warns his mate with a piercing 
cry. 


Oh! mighty bird in thy graceful flight, 

In wide sweeping circles is a nobie 
sight, 

Thou tell’st the world with a piercing 
scream 

That thou art free and wild as a rag- 
ing stream. 

B. J. Blincoe. 


+o —___—__—_ 


ROTTEN! 
I wish I was an eagle’s egg, 
As stale as stale can be, 
All cuddled down in a big old nest, 
In the top of a white oak tree. 
Then when a greedy ’ologist 
Climbed up to me in glee, 
I’d bust my nasty rotten self 
And spatter him with me. 
Anon. 


THE OOLOGIST 117 


\fHAT CHANGE WILL DO FOR A 
NATURALIST 


In Colorado when the peaks looked 


blue, 

And leaves were floating crisp and 
sere— 

Thin curving coins, fast slipping 
through 


The clutches of the miser year— 
Oh, then, I felt so awfully bright, 
A million things I planned to write. 


In Portland when the nights were set 
With blazing Northern lights on high, 
The air was bracing keen, and wet, 

And chattering crowds went hurrying 


by; 

Oh, then, each play’s most brilliant 
line 

Made me think, “Wait till they see 
mine!” 


In Seattle, we anchored in the bay, 
Pacific waves and scenery sublime 
Filled me with lots of things to say, 
If I could only find the time, 

And then I said when I return, 

No midnight oil 111 ever burn. 


In St. Paul where our train waited, 

I traveled up and down the hilly walks, 
And still my mind worked unabated, 
Altho I participated in frequent talks, 
One arctic visitor’s romantic chat 

I tucked away beneath my hat. 


In thirty-six hours it came to pass, 

Brilliant, sparking, hidden still, 

Thru winding trails of blueish grass 

And buzzards soared o’er the hill, 

Such a diz.mond air, such radiant day, 

I haven’t one darned thing to say. 
Gerard Alan Abbott. 


From “The Central Record,’ Lan- 


caster, Ky. May 25, 1922. 


TRAGEDY: FROM DRIFT WEEK, 
1879 

“You queer little wonderful owlet! you 
stand so fluffy and small! 

Half a. handful of feathers and two 
great eyes— 

How came you to live at all? 

And why do you sit there blinking as 

blind as a bat in the light, 


With your pale eyes bigger than 
saucers? Now 
Whoever saw such a sight! 
What ails Chickadee, tell me! What 


makes him flutter and scream 
Round and over you where you sit, 
Like a tiny ghost in a dream? 
I thought him a sensible fellow, quite 
steady and calm and wise, 
But only see how he hops and flits, and 
hear. how wildly he cries! 


“What is the matter, you owlet? You 
will not be frightened away! 
Don’t you mean on that twig of a lilac 
bush, the whole night long to stay? 
Are you bewitching my Chickadee- 
dee? 
I really believe that you are! 
I wish you’d go off, you strange brown 
bird— 
Oh, ever and ever so far! 


“T fear you are weaving and winding 

some kind of a dreadful charm; 

If I leave poor Chickadee-dee with you, 
-I am sure he will come to harm. 

But what can I do? We can’t stay 

here forever together, we three— 

One enxious child, and an owlet weird, 
And a frightened Chickadee-dee! 


“I could not frighten the owl away, and 
Chickadee would not come, 
So I just ran off with a heavy heart, 
And told my mother at home; 
But when my brothers and sisters went 
the curious sight to see, 
The owl was gone, and there lay on 
the ground 
Two feathers of Chickadee-dee!” 
Thaxter. 
George W. H. vos Burgh. 


118 The OO LOGI Sst 


The Sequel to the Death of a 


GHandering Snowy Owl 


Bp J. Warren Facobs 
Waynesburg, Pa. 


SNOWY OWL 


Photo by the Autbor. Specimen killed six miles south of Wapnesburg, Pennsylvania, 
December 9, 1918, and mounted bp the Author of these lines. 


A Snowy Owl Beneath the sting 
Went forth one day Of gunner’s ball, 
From icy shoal Sped on to bring 
In Arctic Bay. A death to all 


He journeyed far, and journeyed well, His active, inward, vital life, 
But here in Pennsylvania fell And bring him to dissector’s knife! 


Vins @©O fF Oe | Sy 119 


Much was I pleased And as I dreamed, my owl of snow, 
When this fine bird, In silence from his perch let go, 
That Death had seized, Soared far away, 
Lay ‘cross my board, Was lost to view 
And soon I had him half in flight, For possibly 
A, mounted beauty—finest sight! An hour or two. 
He could not fly Then back he came to new made perch, 
Nor sound a note; hit silently without a lurch. 
y ™ 
y ; 


Hear from Northland the rise and fall; Aurora, grand, sends clarion call. 


Yet proud was I The moonbeams glide 
To own his coat, Across the floor; 
Snow-white and downy, passing fair, From ev’ry side 
It dazzled me and kept me there. And through the door, 
My steady glance Faint music strains of pigmy might 
Caused me to fall Ebb and flow with a passing night. 
Into a trance, Aurora, grand, 


Forgetting all; Sends clarion call;— 


120 THE OOLOGIST 


Hear from Northland 

The rise and fall!— 
She calls her elves and fairies, wee, 
To make a pilgrimage to me. 


Hark, sad souls moan 

Throughout the room; 
Soft shadows roam 

Within the gloom; 
Phantom beings flit ev rywhere, 
Appealing, bowing near my chair! 
So, here they are 

From icy shoal, 
From mountain far, 

And Northern Pole; 
From-Hudson’s great expansive bay, 
From lands where all is night or day. 


Say, have they come 
To claim the flow 
Which stained the loam 
When huntsman’s bow 
Sent death unto this bird of white, 
Angelic symbol, Aurora’s Light? 
Why are they here? 
What do they seek? 
I only fear 
That if I speak 
These sparkling, flashing gleams of 
light 
Will vanish quickly from my sight 


“Aurora, dear,” 
They say to me, 
“Has sent us here, 
This soul to free 
From wires, and cotton, thread and 
glass, 
And fade the blood-stains from the 
grass. 
She has not claimed 
This dress of white, 
Nor body maimed 
By huntsman’s might; 
She merely bids this soul to go 
Back to her Northern Fields of Snow!” 


I bow and say 
In shame and guilt, 
“Sad was the day 
This blood was spilt; 
Fair Nature mourns such loss as this; 


Without her beauty, life’s amiss; 
I'd rather see 
This bird in flight; 
But here it be 
A ray of light 
To lead the way to better things 
Which Nature’s lesson always brings! 


“Valkyrias, brave, 
Come take this soul 
Not to the grave 
But to its goal; 
For, though I love this pioneer, 
I know I must not keep him here. 
God gives to us 
In His great plan, 
No greater trust 
For evry man 
Than all of Nature’s laws to heed, 
Care for and save for ev’ry creed.” 


Elves and goblins 
Kneel in prayer, 
Fairies move in 
Silence there, 
And bring from out the case of show, 
A pigmy form of whitest snow, 
A song is heard 
Throughout the room, 
Soft, low, and wierd, 
In deepest gloom; 
A moment now, and hushed is all; 
Then far away comes clarion call. 


The moonbeams train 

Their silver light 
Through window pane, 

On left and right; 
The goblins, fairies, elves and all 
Depart for whence they heard the call. 
No muffled drum, 

Or weeping dirge; 
Just low, soft hum 

Amid the surge 
That wafts these elfish beings, white, 
Small pigmy ghosts, on pale moonlight. 


So, o’er the snow 
And ice and frost, 
Processions go, 
Aurora’s host, 
Back to the land of Northern Sea, 


THE OOLOGIST 121 


This white bird’s phanton soul to free! 
The hordes move on— 
Far—lost to sight; 
They now have won 
End of their flight; 
Auroras flash above the sea!— 
The White Owl’s soul is now set free! 


Clarion thrills 
Again the call; 


Winter chills; 
Snow curtains fall; 
Aurora, from her snowy-white throne, 
Proclaims that she gives up her own 
To all who love 
And honor Him 
Who reigns above 
Through ages dim, 
And Nature will her own uphold 
To all who live within her fold! 


VES SRE ES ESI TIE II EF BE EN OL. DRS 


A BIRD HUNT 
Mary K. Hutchinson 


I make the census takers glad; 

Without my help, no work they’d had. 
(Stork). 

My feathers make fair ladies smile, 

But make poor husbands sweat awhile. 
(Ostrich). 

You ought, I think, ashamed to be, 

For many times you’ve eaten me. 
(Chicken). 

There is just one fault to which [ll 

own: 

A summer I can’t make alone. 
(Swallow). 

In February—day fourteen, 

By thousands I am always seen. 
(Dove). 

Though in this land I’m born, I grow, 

Still I’m quite English, doncher know. 
(English Sparrow). 

A group of islands far at sea, 

Some people claim were named for me. 
(Canary). 

Do I like crackers? Yes, don’t you? 

I don’t mind telling folks I do. 
(Parrot). 

You may have heard or may have read 

How I a prophet one time fed. 
(Raven). 

I’m never thankful with the rest, 

I like in thankless nations best. 
(Turkey). 

I’ve traveled far as you may know, 

From a land to which you hope to go. 
(Bird of Paradise). 


Though in some foreign lands I fly, 
Hurrah! American am I! 
(Hagle) . 
‘Tis seldom I a party grace, 
For I belong in a fireplace. 
(Crane). 
Uriah Heap I’d hate to be, 
There’s nothing humble about me. 
(Peacock). 
To guess my name you'll have to think, 
My family is quite extinct. 
(Dodo). 
Some men I help to gather wealth, 
To others I bring food for health. 
(Hen). 
Some call me silly, more’s the pity, 
My bright remarks once saved a city. 
(Goose). 
Some college boys I oft make glad, 
But bring distress to many a dad. 
(Lark). 
Two babies lost, well known to fame, 
I covered them—now guess my name. 
(Robin). 
Though poets don’t put me in meter, 
You’ve heard how I once jeered at 
Peter. 
(Cock). 
G. W. H. v. B. 


THE PELICAN 
A funny old bird is the Pelican, 
His beak holds more than his belly 
can. 
He can eat for a week from the pouch 
on his beak 
And we wonder how in hellhecan, 


122 uit © @ 1b © & Il $1 


Armed with “Ingersoll’s Bird-nesting,” 
Fast in bird lore I did grow, 

Led along the way of knowledge, 
By “Birds of Ontario.” 


I have never been to college, 
It is a fact that I regret, 

For I would like to have the knowledge 
You from learned professors get. 


Now on path of true direction, 
Along which all oologists go, 

Soon I scrapped my old collection, 
Sad it was, a deed of woe. 


Since those days of happy roaming, 
Through that grand old eastern wocd, 

Far to westward I’ve been rav-n2, 
Seeking where the rainbow stood. 


I have taken many bird’s eggs, 
Rare to science, hard to get, 
And I have my eye on prizes, 
Which I hope to gather yet. 


But now my hair is tinged with silver, 
I do not have that youthful zest, 
With which a young and green oologist 
Once did take his first good nest. 


So now when good rare nests are found, 
While some little youngster climbs 
the trees, 
I like to sit upon the ground, 
And while he sweats, recline at ease. 


I like to hear him growl and grumbie, 
To tell how once I thought it fine, 
And hope and pray he will not tumble, 

Before those precious eggs are mine. 


And now my brothers, good oologists, 
I hope you'll all find Great Auks’ 
nests, 
Sometime on far enchanted islet, 
In the islands of the blest. 


A. D. Henderson, 
Belvedere, Alberta, Canada. 


REFLECTIONS AFTER A HARD 
CLIMB 


I’m not now the nimble climber, 
That I was in days of yore, 

When I did my first bird nesting, 
By Lake Simcoe’s beauteous shore. 


Then my limbs were lithe and limber, 
I was just a growing boy, 
And wandering through that fine old 
timber, 
Was my pleasure and my joy. 


Then I’d scale the highest tree-top, 
For a nest of common crow, 

in these days of happy memory, 
Back in old Ontario. 


Then I’d climb the loftiest branches, 
Of those stately hardwood trees, 

Cut now I dare not take such chances, 

‘"Twculd make me tremble at the knees. 


Ort I think with fond affection, 
Of those happy boyhood days, 
When I made my first collection, 
Named in ways that would amaze. 


End-blown eggs of great crow black- 
bird, 
Were a treasure in those days; 
Eggs of jenny-wren and graybird, 
Hell-divers from the reedy bays. 


I took eggs of the highholer, 
Beautiful with pink and pearl, 

Like lovely blooms of roses, fragrant, 
Seen on cheek of pretty girl. 


I remember my deep sorrow, 
As I watched that lustre fade, 
When each egg was slowly emptied, 
Through the ragged hole I made. 


Then one day a fellow showed me, 
How to blow them from the side, 

With the neat and perfect circle, 
That you can so easily hide. 


Told me of a nature dealer, 
Who would send a catalogue fine; 
Of drill and blowpipe, hook and 
tweezer, 
Books to make my knowledge shine 


THE OOLOGIST 


ON THE OCCURRENCE OF THE 
SNOWY OWL IN SOUTH- 
WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA 


By J. Warren Jacobs 


I do not know why it is so, but to 
me there always seemed something 
pathetic in the death of certain birds, 
the 
death, 


body, even though it had been turned 


circumstances surrounding the 


and the sight of the lifeless 


into my possession for mounting. 

While a sense of pride of ownership 
of such birds, always surrounded my 
thoughts, nevertheless I am thrilled to 
of such birds always surrounded my 
learn of them escexping into the open 
where they add completeness and har- 
mcny to the beauty and grandeur of 
nature. 

An occasional eagle wanders this 
it be a Golden Hagle, 
greater am I thrilled at its majestic 
flight. 

While they were not killed by me, 


way, and if 


nevertheless I have two of the four 
Golden Hagle records for the state of 
Pennsylvania during the past twenty- 
five years, both of which were killed 
in the southern part of Greene county 
and brought to me by friends. I have 
the only Sand Hill Crane taken in 
Pennsylvania, and this too, from south- 
ern Green county, and near the same 
section from whence the eagles came. 

But of all the large birds which 
wander to this section, the one which 
moves me to the utmost tension, and 
the sight of whose lifeless form meets 
a deep pathetic chord of my heart, 
casting something like a sadness into 


123 


my soul, even as I work over him, is 
the Great Snowy Owl, who so suddenly 
Swcops down upon us from the far 
North 
like a great white apparition in the 
gathering dusk at eventide. 

On November 24, 1894, a fine speci- 
men killed within six miles of this 


and majestically floats about 


town, was brought to me to mount; 
and as I worked over him my thoughts 
of the bird were as to why he wan- 
dered, why he was killed, and my own 
lamentations that I could not make 
him live again, and send him forth to 
{ll his place in the glorious World of 
Nature! Hence the following lines 
Which were penned at the time and 
published in a local paper, together 
with a short article on the bird’s life 


history: 
Oh, bird from Land of Ling’ring 
Snow,” 


Why did you wander to and fro; 
Why came you here to “Little Greene,”’ 
Where death awaited unforseen? 


Not for your depredations, wild,— 
We know your disposition, mild,— 
But for your dress, so pure and white, 
Is why you came to death’s sad plight! 


Angels, bear that form away, 
Silently, at dusk of day, 

To Arctic’s ice-bound Polar Sea,—- 
In Grinnell Land, there set it free! 


I was not privileged to keep this 
bird, and while the angels didn’t carry 
the form back to Grinnell Land, the 
bird’s skin, long since went the way 
many beautiful things do, in a manner 
which reverses the old maxim that “A 
thing of beauty is a joy forever.” 

Ever since that bird was taken away 
from my rooms, I have wished for one 
captured in our section; and while on 


124 UmhEe OOLOGIST 


two occasions since, I have letrned of 
the capture of Snowy Owls, I just 
missed receiving them. 

But to my great joy, a few days ago, 
my friend, Mr. Harry Kent, stepped 
into my office with the whitest and 
most beautiful big Snowy Owl] I ever 
saw and I have looked at many mount- 
ed specimens in my time. 

The weight of this bird was three 
and one-half pounds, which showed, as 
well as was proved upon dissection, 
tha* he had been going hungry. His 
measurements are as follows: (Feet 
and inches, of course! If any person 
who reads this is so far up the ladder 
of science that he has lost his concep- 
tion of measurements in feet and 
inches, just let him write Barnes, the 
editor; he can tell him something in 
meterisms). Length, 22.5 in.; wing, 
15.5 inches; expanse, 4 ft. 4 inches. 
The date of capture was December 9, 
1918, and strange to say, the location 
was within two miles of the place of 
capture of the one in 1894. 

A neighbor of Mr. Kent’s had shot 
at the bird when he saw it alight on 
the ground, presumably in the act of 
capturing a field mouse, but missed. 
The bird then flew past Mr. Kent’s 
house, and he, taking a gun, and 
mounting a horse, followed, overtaking 
it abcut a mile farther on and shooting 
it from the top of a hay stack pole. 
He flew away a distance of 200 yards, 
turned and retraced a part of the dis- 
tance, dropping gradually to the 
sround and expiring. Not a single 
blood stain on the beautiful white 
plumage. Death resulting from blood 
hemorrhage into the body cavities. 

Proud old boy, was I, in working 
over this bird, but still I half mourn 
the loss to nature, even though his 
nicely mounted skin graces my den. 

The death of this Great White Owl, 

however, has its sequel, and here it is: 


THE FLICKERS AND THE TITMICE 
(Observed May and June, 1914) 


Karly in the spring a Flicker pair 
Sought for a cozy nest; 

And in the hollow apple tree; 
Concluded they would rest. 


Here soon they laid six snowy eggs, 
To guard with jealous care; 

While chirping many a note of glee 
They were a happy pair. 


The loving parents soon rejoiced, 
Six birdlings bold to greet; 
And busily employed their time 

In finding food to eat. 


Day after day they fed the young, 
And gave each one his share; 
When came a pair of friends to aid 

Them in their loving care. 


Two Titmice trim and light of heart, 
Soon made themselves at home 
In the crown of the old apple tree, 

Nor from it far did roam, 


But filled with song and industry, 
They sought untiringly 

For all the little apple worms 
Through all the broad boughed tree. 


And fed the young till they were grown, 
Sweet childless feathered pair; 
Though robbed of children of their own, 
The Flickers’ joys must share. 
M. F. L. Fitzpatrick. 


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126 THE OOLOGIST 


BIRDS OF HARNEY VALLEY, AND 
MALHEUR LAKE REGION, OREGON 


The following list of birds were ob- 
served by me during my visit to this 
locality from May 25 to June 15, 1921, 
and being during the height of the 
breeding season, no doubt all of them 
nest in this locality. 

No. 1. Aechnophorus occidentalis, 
Western Grebe. A dozen pair of this 
beautiful Grebe seen during my stay, 
but breeding grounds not located. 

No. 4. Colymbus nigricallis cal, 
American Hared Grebe. Very com- 
mon, breeding in colonies on the 
small tulie islands out in the lake. 
Nest made of dried tulies, fastened to 
green tulies and floating on the water. 
Eggs 4 to 6 in number. 

No. 6. Podilymbus podiceps, Pied 
Billed Grebe. Quite common on all 
parts of the lake. 

No. 53. Larus californucus, Cali- 
fornia Gull. Very common, breeding 
far out in the lake on the tulie 
islands. Found nesting in the Peli- 
can colony. Nest a slight depression 
in ground lined with dried grass and 
tulies. Eggs two in number. 

No. 54. Larus delawarensis, Ring- 
billed Gull. About as common as the 
Cal. Guil, and nesting in colonies with 
them. 

No. 60. Larus philadelphia, Bona- 
parte’s Gull. 25 birds seen out on the 
lake on June 5, and too early for nests. 

No. 69. Sterna forsteri, Forster’s 
Tern. One of the most common and 
beautiful Terns found here, breeding 
out in the lake on the numerous 
islands, and nest contained four eggs. 

No. 77. Hydrochelidon nigra suri- 
namensis, Black Tern. Very common 
and breeding in colonies far out in the 
lake. 

No. 120c. Phalacrocorax a albocilia- 
tus, Farallone Cormorant. Quite com- 
mon. Found nesting in the Great 
Blue Heron coiony, Pelican and Hgret 


colony. The nests were usually 
elevated some 18 to 24 inches above 
the ground, and contained from 4 to 5 
eggs. 

No. 125. Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, 
American White Pelican. Large col- 
ony of some 250 birds nesting on 
island in the southeastern part of the 
lake. Eggs and young birds in all 
stages of growth up to half grown 
were found. Eggs, two in number, 
rareiy three. 

No. 132. Anas Platyrhynchor, Mal- 
lard. Not very common, but a number 
of pair seen, and one nest of 11 eggs 
found on the banks of the Blitzen 


River. Nest was a huge bulky affair 
made of dried tulies, and lined with 
feathers. 

135. Chaulelasmus streperus, Ga‘d- 


wall. Much more common than the 
Mallard and breeding in large num- 
bers in the grass fields and marshes 
around the lake. Nest made of dried 
grass lined with feathers and con- 
tained eight eggs. 

141. Querquedula cyanoptera, Cinna- 
mon Teal. The most abundant breed- 
er of the Duck family found in this 
region. Nesting in the open wild 
grass meadows and along the rivers in 
large numbers. Found over 50 nests 
in a 100-acre field. The clutch ranges 
from 6 to 10 eggs. Nest made of 
dried grass and lined with down, which 
covers the eggs when the bird leaves 
the nest. Nesting in June. 

No. 148. Dafila acuta, Pintail. 
Numerous pairs seen and appeared to 
be about as common as the Maliard. 


No. 146. Marila americana, Red- 
head Duck. Quite common. A dozen 
pairs seen but no nests located. 

No. 147. Marila valisineria, Can- 


vasback Duck. A number of pairs 
seen near the borders of the lake and 
no doubt breeding. 

No. 167. Hrismatura jamaicensis, 
Ruddy Duck. Quite numerous far out 
on the borders of the lake. 


\ THE OOLOGIST 127 


Western Marsh Wren. Malheur Lake—Photo by Dr. A. G. Prill, Scio, Oregon. 


128 THE OOLOGIST 


No. 172. Branta Canadensis can, 
Canada Goose.. Two females with two 
breeds of young, about one-third grown. 
Seen in the open fields. A band of 25 
adult birds seen out on the lake. Not 
common but breeds to some extent. 

No. 181. Olor buccinator, Trumpeter 


Swan. One pair seen on the Blitzen 
River. 
No. 187. Plegadis guarauna, White- 


faced Glossy Ibis. Breeds in colonies 
far out in the lake. Nests built in the 
tules, generally green ones, about 
three feet above the water. Birds 
quite common and probably 100 pair 
seen. 

No. 190. Botaurus' lentiginosus, 
American Bittern. Very common and 
could be heard in all directions in the 
open grass fields. 

No. 194. Ardea herodias herodias, 
Great Blue Heron. Several colonies 
cut in the lake; one colony nesting 
with the Hgrets, and another colony 
near the western end of the lake. 
Nests are raised structures about two 
feet high, and built up of dried tules. 
Eggs two to four in number. Incuba- 
tion far advanced and almost all nests 
had young birds June 3. 

No. 196. Herodias egretta, Ameri- 
can Egret. Observations made during 
a ten minute time allowance for visit- 
ing this colony, disclosing the follow- 
ing facts: Great Blue Herons and Hg- 
rets breeding on the same ground 
where without doubt, having a con- 
stant battle. First we saw one adult 
Heron and Egret dead near their 
nests from a fight among themselves. 
Fully half the young EHgrets and 
Herons were dead, several dead Grebes 
and Ruddy Ducks were also living on 
the island. The colony has about 35 
pairs Egrets and 10 pairs Herons. 
Nearly all nests had young, and I saw 
only two nests of Egret with eggs, and 
three nests of Heron with eggs. The 
eggs of the Heron were infertile and 
would not hatch. The entire destruc- 


tion which seemed to be going on, in 
my opinion was due to a constant 
fight between the Herons and Egrets. 
Nests of the Egrets were similar to 
the Herons. 

No. 202. Nycticorax nycticorax 
naevus, Black-crowned Night Heron. 
Nesting in colonies in several parts of 
the lake on small tulie islands. Nest 
built of dried tules, fastened to green 
and dry tules about two feet above 
the water. Hggs four in number and 
nesting June 1. 

No. 206. Grus mexicana, Sand-hill 
Crane. Half dozen pair seen near the 
western end of the lake and probably 
breed in other locations of the reserva- 
tion. 

No. 221. Fulica americana, Ameri- 
can Coot. One of the most common 
birds found. Breeding in large num- 
bers in all parts. Nests made of dried 
tules, and generally floating on the 
water. Hggs seven to twelve. One 
nest found containing 16 eggs. 

No. 223. Phalaropus lobatus, North- 
ern Phalarope. One pair of this bird 
seen on June 12, but nest not located. 

No. 224. Phalaropus tricolor, Wil- 
son’s Phalarope. Very common in 
many places, but not nesting on June 
12. Females had partially developed 
eggs. 

No. 225. Recurvirostra americana. 
American Avocet. Very common, 
breeding in large colonies of several 
hundred birds. Nest generally a 
slight depression in the ground lined 
with fine grass. Eggs four in number. 
Nesting about May 25 to June 10. 

No. 264. Numenius Americanus. 
Long-billed Curlew. Not common, but 
several pairs seen and known to breed, 

No. 331. Circus hudsonius, Marsh 
Hawk. Quite common. Two nests 
with young found in tule patches. 
Nests on the ground and built up of 
dried tules and grass. Young about 
half grown on May 25. 


No. 342, Buteo swainsoni, Swain- 


Ul OOl oe © ls ia 128 


Nest and Eggs of Farallone Cormorant. Malheur Lake, Oregon. 
—Photo by A. G. Prill, 


180 THE OOLOGIST 


son’s Hawk. Very common about 
Burns, and as far south as Wright’s 


Point. Nesting on the hills in the 
trees. 
No. 366. Asio wilsonianus, Ameri- 


can Long-eared Owl. 
in all sections. 
around the lake. 

No. 378. Spetoyto cunicularia hypog, 
Burrowing Owl. Common. Several 
pairs seen. Nests in burrows in the 
ground. 

No. 444. Tyrannus tyrannus, King 
Bird. Very common at Burns and Vol- 


Quite common 
Nesting in the tules 


tage. Nesting on telephone poles and 
buildings. 
No. 447. Tyrannus verticalis, Ar- 


kansas Kingbird. About as common as 
the preceding specie. Nesting in simi- 
lar places. 

No. 486. Corvus 
American Raven. 
noted for its 
Ducks and nests. 

No. 488b. Corvux, brach. hesp. West- 
ern Crow. Quite common. One pair 
nesting in a poplar tree near ranch 
house. 

No. 494. Dolichonyx oryzivorus, 
Bobolink. Quite common in the 
meadow lands around the lake. 

No. 495. Moluthrus ater, Cowbird. 
Quite common. Eggs of this bird 
found in the nests of Western Sa- 
vanna Sparrow and Yellow-headed 
Blackbirds. 

No. 497. Xanthocephalus, xan. Yel- 
low-headed Blackbird. The most com- 
mon of the specie and very abundant. 
Its nest suspended between dried 
tules over water and made of dried 
grass and tules containing from 4 to 6 
eggs June 12. 

No. 498. Agelaius phoeniceus, Red- 
winged Blackbird. Very common 
breeder in all parts. Nesting close to 
ground in a clump of grass or weeds. 

No. 501b. Sturnella M, Neglecta, 
Western Meadow Lark. Quite com- 
mon in all suitable localities, especial- 


corax sinuatus, 
Quite common and 
destruction of many 


ly near Burns. 

No. 510. Euphagus cyanoc, Brewer’s 
Blackbird. Quite common in the 
meadow lands around the lake. 

No. 542b. Passerculus sandwichen- 
sis alaudinus, Western Savanna Spar- 
row. Quite common, nesting on the 


- ground under a clump of grass or sage 


brush. A_ slight depression in the 
ground and nest made of dried grass 
and hair. Eggs 4 to 5, by June 1. 
No. 562. Spizella, breweri, Brew- 
er’s Sparrow. Quite common in all 
sections. Nest generally built in a 
sage bush some three feet from the 
ground, composed of sage twigs and 
dry grass, and well concealed. Eggs 
three in number in all nests examined. 


No, 607. Piranga ludoviciana, West- 
ern Tanager. 
No. 612. Petrochelidon linifrons lun, 


Cliff Swallow. Very common near the 
lake and nesting under the eaves of 
deserted building in large numbers. 
Nest made of mud, with a fine bed of 
feathers. 

No. 613. Hirundo' erythrogastra, 
Barn Swallow. Common in all sec- 
tions where suitable nesting places 
could be found. 

No. 616. Riparia riparia, Bank Swal- 
low. A number seen near the Narrows. 

No. 68la. Geothlypis trichas occi- 
dentalis, Western Yellow-throat. Very 
common and seen about the tules in 
many places in connection with the 
Western Marsh Wren. 

No. 715. Salpinctes obsoletus obs, 
Rock Wren. One pair seen on 
Wright’s Point and probably nesting. 

No. 725c. Telmatodytes palustris, 
plesius, Western Marsh Wren. Prob- 
ably the most numerous bird in the 
section. Dozens of nest in each tule 
patch, building an oblong nest with a 
small hole near the top for entrance. 
Eggs 4 to 6 in number. 

No. 76la. Planesticus migratoris, 
propenqua, Western Robin. Quite 
common in the valley. 


THE OOLOGIST 131 


To the foregoing list must be added 
the following species which are found 
more abundant in the upper sections 
of the valley near Burns. 

House Finches, Yellow Warblers, 
R,. S. Flicker, House Wrens, Magpies, 


Mourning Doves, Killdeer, Spotted 
Sandpiper, Bullock’s Oriole, Turkey 
Vulture, Mountain Bluebirds, West 
Night Hawks, and No. 64 Caspian 


Terns, the latter nesting far out in 
Malheur Lake. one 

The total number of species ob- 
served by me during my stay was 74. 
In my observation, probably the birds 
most abundant would be in about this 
order: 

Cinnamon Teal, . American — Coot, 
Western Marsh Wren, Avocet, Ring- 
billed and Cal. Gulls, American-eared 
Grebes, Black-crowned Night Herons, 
Forester’s and Black Terns, Yellow- 
headed Blackbirds. 

The least common species nesting: 
Canada Goose, Trumpeter Swan, Hg- 
rets, Sandhill Crane, Curlew. 

A comparative estimate of the num- 
ber of birds breeding on the Malheur 
Lake reservation and adjacent grounds 
is 52,700. 

A. G. Prill, 
Scio, Ore. 


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YELLOW RAIL’S EGGS 


“The Rev. P. B.. Peabody has been 
again successful in the taking ofa set 
of Yellow Rail, nine eggs, in North 
Dakota. They go to B. S, Bowdish. 
This set is undoubtedly by the same 
bird whose eggs were taken last year. 
The eggs are of the same type; save 
that two of the eggs are faintly 
specked, all over, with rather warm 
brown, The nest was of rare beauty 


and of small size. It measured four 


inches in lateral diameter; with a depth 
of two and a half inches. Horse 
tracks lay in every direction from the 
nest at a distance of two feet. The 
covering wisp of dead grass was very 
scanty. The water depth was four 
inches. The eggs were ten days in- 
cubated and required twelve hours for 
the blowing. Attenuations of caustic 
were used at very brief intervals.” 
(The above item which has been re- 
fused a place in the columns of one of 
the more pretentious Bird Magazines, 
is handed on to Editor Barnes in the 


‘hope that he, at least, may not say of 


it: “The matter submitted does not ap- 
pear to me to be of a sort meriting 
publication in The Oologist.”) 

Further items concerning this find 
are added here: The exquisitely 
rounded nest was unusually small. 
Though resting fairly in the water, 
only a bit of the nest bottom was damp. 
The eggs were thoroughly concealed 
by overhanging dead grass. Not a 
sound of Yellow Rails was heard dur- 
ing three days of search. This fact 
may have been due to the advance 
state of the egg-incubation. 

These eggs could not possibly have 
been saved without the use of caustic. 
It is a fair’ proof that attenuations of 
caustic potash, cautiously and briefly 
used, do not weaken the shells of 
eggs that when the vertebrae of the 
embryos and the eyes were forced out 
of the shells, after over ten hours, 
there followed neither shell-bursting 
nor shell-chipping. Two of the eggs 
of this set are of the very rare type 
which bears a. few spots over the en- 
tire surface, beside the wreath of the 
apical cap. 

P. B. Peabody. 


We welcome items of this sort, des- 
cribing: rare: finds, even though “The 
Oologist” is not pretentious.—R. M. B, 


182 
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Sometime since we withdrew from 
Dr. T. M. Cleckley, of Augusta, Georgia, 
any permission to use the columns of 
The Oologist, for any purpose, being 
compelled to take this step because of 
information that has lately come to 
our knowledge. Since that time we 
have recent complaint from another 
subscriber, of having sent Cleckley 
certain specimens at his request, 
which were to be paid for on delivery. 
The subscriber received a check in re- 
turn, which check was turned down 
by an Augusta Bank, apparently a 
bank that would not take up a five 
dollar check for a customer, even if 
there were not sufficient funds to meet 
it, must have a very unsavory opinion 
of such customer, all of which tends 
to show that we did right in excluding 
him from our columns. 

He has recently, after failing in one 
effort, finally secured a copy of The 
New Catalogue Price List, through 
some other source than our supply, as 
we flat-footedly refused to permit him 
to get one.—The Editor. 


OUGHT TO BE HUNG 


Carl Hyne, a subscriber to The 
Oologist, of Waverly, Louisiana, while 
engaged in collecting specimens for 
the Louisiana State Museum, was 
assassinated by some villian, who hid 
in a fallen tree top, and shot him to 
death with buck shot, February 22nd, 
1922. 

It is the hope of the Hditor, that he 
who performed this barbarous act, will 
pay the extreme penalty therefor, at 
the end of a hemp rope. 


R. M. Barnes. 


THE OOLOGIST 


THE SNOWY EGRET OBSERVED 
IN KANSAS 


On the afternoon of July 16, 1922, my 
brother Clyde and a friend, Chester 
Marshall, and myself, were following 
a lake’s edge here in Wyandotte Coun- 
ty, with the idea of getting notes on 
the bird life usually found in such 
places. At the farther end of the lake 
Wwe saw a Green Heron fighting with a 
white bird, somewhat larger than it- 
self and unmistakably a Heron also. 
We endeavored to approach close 
enough for a better view, but could not. 

Finding we could not come up close 
enough on land, we stripped off and 
diving in pushed a log before us, with 
nothing but our heads out of water, 
and thus were enabled to come within 
fifty feet of our mysterious stranger 
while it was wading about in the 
shallows and striking at something in 
the water. It became suspicious and 
finally flew up into the branches of a 
partly submerged tree. We came to 
within twenty feet this time and were 
rewarded by a clear examination of 
coloration and proportions. 

It was entirely white except the 
legs which were black and feet which 
were lighter. The bill was also black 
at the base. It had no plumes on 
back, head or breast, yet I believe it 
was a Snowy Egret; and it is a rare 
occasion for us for though N. 8S. Goss 
in “Birds of Kansas” (1886) states 
“The ‘Snowy Heron’ was not un- 
common. Arrived from the South in 
July and August returning in Setem- 
ber.” Harry Harris in his book “Birds 
of the Kansas City Region,” says, “The 
only record for this part of the country 
is a beautiful specimen in the Dan- 
ker’s collection taken in Holt County 
on April 14, 1904. 

Is the Snowy Egret coming back? 
We hope so. 

Ralph J. Donahue, 
Bonner Springs, Kansas. 


133 


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EGG HUNTING IN JULY, 1922 


We drove northwest of here about 
twenty miles. Plenty of bird life was 
observed along the road. We collected 
two sets of Night Hawks in a gravel 
bed beside the road, and a little 
further on we found some Killdeer eggs 
not a full set, so we left them. Ar- 
riving at the river we made camp and 
went in search of Owls. First hollow 
pounded out came a Barred Owl and 
we collected a nice set here and on 
up the river we took a branch and fol- 
lowed it to some old Hawks’ nests. At 
one nest we could see feathers and on 
close examination we could see a bird 
on the nest. I went up the tree and 
collected a set of three, not Hawk 
eggs, but Great Horned Owl’s. 

From this branch we hit it for the 
hills and went to looking the ledges 
over for Vultures. We flushed Vulture 
after Vulture. First a set of two, 
some young, and on down until we had 
a dozen sets and one set of three. 
About that time the baby woke up 
which was sleeping near by and I 
also woke up to find that it was alla 
dream. Shucks, I sure was having 
some time but it had to be a dream. 
Well, some dreams come true but I 
don’t expect this one ever will. After 
a hard day’s work in my taxidermy 
shop I went to bed that night with 
egg collecting on my mind and the 
above episode is what I dreamed 
about. 

Ramon Graham, 
Ft. Worth, Tex. 


DESTRUCTION OF LAPLAND LONG- 
SPURS 


Amid the absurd stories about birds 
that trickle through the columns of 
the unscientific press there now and 
then occurs one that makes bird-men 
take notice. Of such character was a 
sensational item’ in the Kansas Star 
for February 20, 1922. 


This “story” told of the death, in a 
sleet storm, of thousands of small 
birds, at Gordon, (northwestern) Ne- 
braska, Straightway I wrote to the 
postmaster of Gordon, asking the name 
of some one in his town interested in 
birds; and laying a train of publicity- 
securing data which would, I dared to 
hope, secure me specimens of the un- 
identified birds. Duly I received 
from a citizen of Gordon, the state- 
ment that parties from my own town 
had written with the same intent and, 
possibly I might secure the desired 
data from them. 


A day or two later there called upon 
me a fine bachelor Irishman, and his 
maiden housekeeper sister. They re- 
ported themselves as living two miles 
from my town, and a's being vastly in- 
terested in birds. As to information 
about the Gordon catastrophe, they 
just laughed. Their informant had 
told them he thought the birds were 
some species of Warbler! The three 
of us put our heads together and re- ~ 
newed our heroic efforts to secure at 
least a few feathers from the hapless 
Gordon birds. Vain hope, nothing 
happened! And now comes Miss 
Bessie Reed. in The Auk for July, pro- 
nouncing the Gordon birds to have 
been, exactly as I had supposed, Long- 
spurs. Miss Reed, being a woman, 
had shown herself more “cute” than I. 
She wrote to the mayor! And so, Miss 
Reed fell in with a real man, while I 
ran into a bag of nuts! 

P. B. Peabody. 


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WIDENING 


One of our contributors writes us 
“The gap between professional Orni- 
thologists and amateurs appears to be 
steadily and remorselessly widening. 
It looks as if the only outlet eventua!- 
ly open to some veterans that are 
strictly amateurs, by way of bird 
knowledge, will be through Y. W. & 
Y. M. Camps, local Audubon Societies, 
and occasional city Co-operative 
Clubs.” 

It is true, too true, we are sorry to 
say, that the so-called ‘“‘professional or- 
nithologists” most of whom live on 
taxes assessed and collected on other 
people’s property, amateur bird stu- 
dents, included, seem to have acquired 
a notion, that unless a person has 
been successful in pulling political 
wires, which will land a public job, 
that they have no right to study birds, 
to write or publish anything about any 
cbhservations they make, or have made; 
nor aS a matter of fact to even as- 
sume that any amateur knows the dif- 
ference between a Wild Turkey and a 
Chimney Swift, or between an Ostrich 
or a Hummingbird. 

Nearly all these so-called ‘“Profes- 
sional Ornithologists,” have built up 
whatever reputation they have, as out- 
door field men, during more or less 
amateur days; and they now seek to 
bolster that reputation by discovering 
or imagining they discover alleged 
geographic races of birds, the delinea- 
tion of which to the tax paying public 
off of whom they live is, and will al- 
ways be an unfathomable mystery. 

The practice of law for nigh unto 
forty years and very busy ones at that, 
has eliminated from the mind of the 
Editor any notion that he might have 
had early in life, that simply because 
one man gets more votes than some 
other man, and thereby has the title 
of “Judge” hitched on to the front of 
his name, necessarily makes the suc: 


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cessful candidate any better a lawyer 
than the unsuccessful candidate was. A 
mere plurality of votes or a successful 
wire pulling for an a»spointment in 
some public institution is not a cer- 
tain guide to superior knowledge. If 
you would take from the ornithological 
literature of this country the informa- 
ticnh contributed by the amateur ob- 
servers who have in times past re- 
corded what they have learned while 
engaged in a pleasant pastime, our 
bird literature would indeed be atten- 
uated. In fact it would be a greater 
loss to the bird knowledge of North 
America to lose the contribution made 
by the amateurs, than it would to 
strike all that the so-called ‘Profes- 
sional Ornithologist” have recorded. 
The Editor. 
Rev. P. B. Peabody advertises an 
Index to the New Egg Price List Cata- 
logue, and we, though not having seen 
Che would imagine it very beneficial 
and time saving. 


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Our attention is called to the fact 
that the contribution to The Oologist, 
“Osprey that Swallowed an Hagle,” 
Vol. XXXVIII, Page 131, is in the In- 
dex for that Volume credited to C. S. 
Sanborn, This we regret as it was con- 
tributed by C. S. Sharp, Escondido, 
Calif., 
cause of the fact that it is the second 


and especially regretable be- 


error of similar character in which Mr. 
Sharp is the sufferer. 
We frequently receive letters as 
well as copy for The Oologist, which 
are not signed by the contributor, 
and it would be well if more attention 
would be given to these matters. 


its Jie 133. 


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NEW PRICE LIST VALUES 


My dear Mr. Barnes: 


In the June number of ‘‘The Oologist” 
is an article by the Rev. P. B. Peabody 
relating to a “lacuna” in the new Ex- 
change Price List of North American 
Birds’ Hggs. I am bound to admit that 
I do not know the exact technical 
meaning of “lacuna,” but Mr. Peabody 
in this case makes it clear that he 
means the omission of his list of new- 
ly described sub-species in the above 
mentioned price list . 

Before going any further I should 
like to make the statement that Mr. 
Peabody did, perhaps, more work on 
the catalog than any other one com- 
mitteeman. He prepared two price 
lists, as well as the list of sub-species 
that he thought would be added by the 
4. O. U. to the Check-list of North 
American Birds. This acknowledge- 
ment of his services may be a little 
late in coming, but it is none the less 
sincere, and too much credit cannot 
be given him. He also gave his views 
as to what prices should be fixed on 
these new sub-species. 

Now as to his list of new sub- 
species: I may be altogether wrong, 
but I believe that at the time and have 
Since had no reason to change my 
mind, that it would be a great mis- 
take to publish any such list before it 
appears in printed form as a supple- 
ment to the check-list. Many pro- 
posed changes in nomenclatures and 
suggested new sub-species are printed 
in “The Auk” from time to time. In 
fact, there has been such a veritable 
barrage in the past few years with 
counter attacks suggesting the elimina- 
tion of species and sub-species that 
have stood in the check-list for years, 
that it seemed and seems to me ex- 
ceedingly premature to publish any 
values on them at present. In my 
Opinion it is utterly impossible to 
foretell or prophesy what will appear 


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in the new supplement to the check- 
list until it is duly compiled and put 
before us in print. It is very much 
harder to undo mistakes of this nature 
than it is to do them. 
not put before all of the committeemen, 
not put before all of the commiteemen, 
although for several reasons I wished 
many times that this could be done. 
However, there were so many _ in- 
evitable heartbreaking delays in get- 
ting out the catalog that the above 
was not done. I am perfectly willing 
to accept all blame for this myself. 

Now for my idea of what should be 
done, for I fully agree with Mr. Pea: 
body that the work of the committee 
is unfinished. I suggest that when the 
A. O. U. issues the next supplement 
to the checklist, and not before, our 
committees, place values on these new 
additions and also follow the example 
of the A. O. U. as to the eliminations. 
To this should be added a correction 
of the very few mistakes in the new 
catalog as to prices. In comparing it 
with the original list made out by the 
Final Values Committee I have found 
only three such mistakes which are as 
follows: Wood Duck is priced at $3.00, 
but should be $5.00; Seattle Wren at 
50c, but should be 80c; Chestnut- 
backed Bluebird at 15c, should be 50c. 
To make only three mistakes out of a 
possible thousand is certainly a great 
tribute to everyone connected with 
the printing of the catalog. 

J. Hooper Bowles, 
Chairman of the Committee on 
Final Values. 

July 15, 1922. Tacoma, Wash. 


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COMPLETE FILES 


We wish more of the subscribers to 
The Oologist who complete files of 
this publication would advise us of 
that fact as we are trying to prepare 
as complete a list of those having 
such files as possible-—R. M. B, 


138 


THE HAIRY WOODPECKER 
Some Questions on the Hairy Wood- 
pecker 


Does the Hairy Woodpecker enlarge 
its hole just before the eggs are ready 
to hatch? 

April 3th I found a Hairy digging in 
a dead oak tree six feet from ground. 
A rap on the tree made the Hairy 
stick its head out, but it would not 
come out of hole for some time. Think- 
ing that it was just a new hole I left 
it until May 5th, when on opening the 
hole with a saw found four young 
birds, and the egg shells. 

By the size of the young birds it 
goes to prove that they were not 
hatched the first time I visited the 
tree. So, do all the Hairys enlarge 
their nesting sites before the eggs are 
hatched or was this an exception? 

Does the Hairy Woodpecker, when 
you approach its nesting site, leave 
before you get there or does it stick 
tight in the hole? 

April 28th I found a Hairy hole in a 
black cherry tree eleven feet from the 
ground. By use of a small limb I 
tried to feel if there were any eggs in 
the hole but I thought I couldn’t feel 
anything. Hither the limb wasn’t 
touching the bottom or one of the 
birds were on because on May 5th 
there were four young in the nest. 

About ten minutes later I saw a 
Hairy in the cherry tree but thinking 
that it was going to work on the hole, 
I left the territory. 

Was this bird the one that I flushed 
or was it a mate to the bird which may 
have been in the hole? 

May 5th I opened this hole and 
found one of the old birds sitting on 
four young which did not look over a 
day old. The egg shells were also in 
this nest. 

The old bird would not leave the 
nest until I lifted it out with the point 
of my saw. 


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In both cases I nailed the pieces of 
wood back that I had sawed out. 

If any one has made observations on 
the Hairy Woodpecker, let us hear 
from you through “The Oologist.” 

Martin C. Paulson, 
Nevada, Iowa. 


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BOOKS RECEIVED 


Birds and Mammals of the Stirkene 
Region of Northern British Columbia 
and Southeastern Alaska, by H. S. 
Swarth. 

This splendid paper is pp. 125-314 of 
The University of California. Publi- 
cation in Zoology, Vol. XXIV, No. 2 
and is a splendid contribution to the 
little known Zoology of this region. 

Ornithologists and Oologists will be 
specially interested in knowing that it 
describes the sixth known nesting 
place in North America of the Bo- 
hemian Waxwing, of which five or six 
nests were discovered, studied, photo- 
graphed, and some collected. Approxi- 
mately all the nests found were in 
comparatively isolated groups of 
smaller carnivorous trees and were 
saddled on branches close to the trunk. 

Another thing of interest is dis- 
closed in the fact that Eastern forms 
of A. O. U. Nos. 316-360-402-420-517-542- 
614 and 652 were found inhabiting 
this region. 

However, one thing is to be regretted 
in that this paper discloses an effort 
to foist a long suffering bird fraternity, 
additional localized races or _ sub- 
species of birds. 

R. M. Barnes. 


tf HES VO VOVE O Gils 139 


A MOCKING BIRD TALK 


Recently, a friend of mine, and a 
native of Georgetown, Del., dropped in 
to see me and found me unpacking 
some eggs. 

Now this friend has what may be 
called a rather vivid imagination. 
This causes him to tell some rather 
strange stories sometimes. 

Says he: “I remember once when I 
was a boy, I tried to get me a young 
Mocking Bird, They make grand 
singers, you know. I found a nest one 
day with three young ones, but they 
were too small to take, so I waited 
till they had time to grow and went 
back for them later. I was pretty 
foxy sneaking up on them, but it 
wasn’t any use. I’m blessed if the old 
mother bird didn’t spy me, and flew 
down, picked up the three young ones 
and flew off with them!” 

I told him that they often did that, 
and I had even seen them carry the 
nest along also! 

H. M. Harrison, 
Camden, N. J. 


Some talk?—Hditor. 


AN EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE 

I know that my reputation for truth- 
fulness is under fearful strain in the 
telling of this tale, nevertheless I am 
armed with all the proofs the most 
credulous might demand. 

It was my pleasure on the 18th and 
19th of May to visit my good friend, 
Mr. Charles Miller, who has for many 
years resided in the mountains that 
skirt Big Piney creek in Polk County, 
Arkansas. ’Tis a picturesque stream, 
and when my eyes first laid possession 
of this unvisited locality I prepared 
myself for surprises of any kind. It 
was a good harvest for a collector, 
with Ovenbird, Kentucky Warbler, 
Whip-poor-will, Chuck-wills-widow, and 


Pileated Woodpecker in hand, and 
many common species as well. Here 
is the Western limit, so far as known, 
of Bachman’s Sparrow, and the North- 
ern boundary of the Pine Warbler. 

Just the other day, however, Mr. Mil- 
ler took another set of Chuck-wills- 
widow eggs, and drilled an egg only to 
discover that it was too near hatching 
to hope to make anything like a pre- 
sentable specimen, What should he do 
but hurry back to the woods, reaching 
the nest within an hour after taking 
the eggs, and deliver the eggs to the 
bird who seemed to have an intuition 
of his coming remorse, and who re- 
ceived her treasures without comment. 
Both eggs hatched, in spite of the fact 
that one had been drilled! And both 
mother and babies were doing well at 
the last account. Mr. Miller has taken 
three sets of Pileated Woodpecker this 
season, two of four eggs and one of 
three. At Conway, I had the pleasure 
of taking sets of four and five, and 
securing a picture of the nesting sites 
at both Conway and Lancaster. 

While we are dealing with things un- 
canny we had just as well report the 
taking of a full set of Crested Fly- 
catcher from a rural mail box on the 
Arkansas River, in Faulkner County 
on June Ist, this year. 

H. HE. Wheeler. 


Oreo 
BOBWHITE 


Sir, Bob White! greets me on every 
side. How good it seems to hear 
the fine little fellows again. When I 
was a chap my folks often called my 
attention to a flock of little one sit- 
ting along on a fence, or dodging 
about in the grass or maybe an individ- 
ual running about, then for years they 
were scarce. I would never hear one 
call, but protection has done the work 
and we have them again and welcome 
little fellows they are. 

George W. H. Vos Burgh. 


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THE NEW PRICE LIST 


We are pleased to announce that the New Catalogue of 
Prices of North American Birds’ Eggs, is now ready for dis- 
tribution. This catalogue fills an acute necessity. It has 
been sixteen years since a catalogue appeared that contained 
prices upon which the working Oologists of America as a 
whole were willing to base their exchanges. In 1919 an elec- 
tion was called to be participated in by the active Oologists 
in North America, who selected a committee of twenty-five 
well known Oologists to revise the prices. Then a committee 
of three to pass finally on the prices agreed upon by the larger 
committee. Two full years were occupied in this work and it 
is now ready. 


The catalogue is published by the undersigned and its gen- 
eral arrangement is as follows: 

1. An introduction. 

2. A history of Birds’ Hgg Catalogue. 

3. <A history of this catalogue. 

4. Prices in this Catalogue. 

5. Directions for collecting and preparing eggs. 

6. Copy of Standard Data. 

7. Illustration of proper way to mark eggs. 

8. Illustrations showing proper cabinet arrangements of 

collections. 

9. Report of the Committee of Twenty-five to revise prices. 

10. Names and prices adopted for each species. 

11. Advertisements. 


The size of the catalogue is the same size as The Oologist, 
which it in general respect as to make-up resembles. 


This will be, without doubt, the standard price list of 
North American Birds Eggs, for many years to come, and will 
be used by all museums throughout the world. The catalogue 
is printed on paper suitable to write on with pen and ink and 
will be used by many as a record on which to keep track of 
their own collection. 


The book retails at $1.00 per copy in paper covers, those de- 
siring a cloth bound copy can procure it for $2.00. The first 
edition is 500 copies. Send us your subscription on the blank 
published in this issue. 

R. M. BARNES, LACON, ILLIONIS. 


W oInl {2 
BOOKS 
WANTEHED—Oologist JV, 6, and all 
numbers of 1919 and 1920; Check-list 
of North American Birds, 1910; also 


Bent’s Diving Birds. M. Nice, Norman, 
Oklahoma. 

WANTHD—A copy of lLawrence’s 
“Catalogue of the Birds found in Costa 
Rica,” (Annals New York Lyceum of 
Natural History, IX, pp. 86-149). W. E. 
Clyde Todd, Carnegie Museum, Pitts- 
burgh, Pa. 


lt want to purchase old books on Or- 
nithology and especially want Bulletin 
of the Cooper O. Club. Vol. I—odd Nos. 
W. Lee Chambers, Eagle Rock, Los 
Angeles, California. 


BIRD-LORE FOR SALE — Complete 
file, Vol. I, to date, mostly bound. Per- 
fect condition. Cash offers, only. Ad- 
dress, L. W. Robinson, Oradell, N. J. 


i, it, INL, 
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Can. 


WANTED for cash—Vols. 
Ridgeway Oologist 382, 383, 391. 
Munro, Okanagon Landing, B. C., 


WANTHD—February and June num- 
bers 1918, Volume XXXV; April and 
May Numbers 1919, Volume XXXVI of 
The Oologist. R. M. Barnes, Lacon, I11. 


FOR SALE—The Birds of Virginia, 
by H. H. Bailey; Birds of New Jersey, 
by Charles Shriner; Report of New Jer- 
sey, State Museum 1908; Birds of East- 
ern Pennsylvania and New Jersey by 
Wilmer Stone. Also as issued; A. C. 
Bent’s Life Histories of N. A. Diving 
Birds (Nat’l] Museum Bull. 113) and N. 
A. Gulls and Terns (Bull. 107). First 
satisfactory offer takes them. H. M. 
Harrison, 319 Penn St., Camden, N. J. 


SALE—Collection Butterflies— 
Moths—100 Different Specimens in 
reiker Mounts. At Bargain. Leo J. 
are VOst, 109 Cornelia St., Plattsburg, 


FoR 


W ANTE D—Will pay cash for the fol- 
lowing: Baird, Brewer & Ridgeway’s 
Water Birds & Land Birds. Bendire, 
Vol. 2. W. D. Richardson, 4215 Prairie 
Ave., Chicago, I11. 


WANTED—Bulletin No. 107, Life 


Histories of North American Diving 
Birds, by A. C. Bent. For cash or will 
consider exchange. John L. Cole, Ne- 


vada, Iowa. 


WANTED--Will pay Cash — “Life 
Histories of North American Birds.” 
Bendire, Vols. 1 and 2; “Life Histories 
of North American Diving Birds,’”’ Bent. 
W. B. Samson, 1005 North San Joaquin 
St., Stockton, California. 


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WANTED—Books, Pictures, Notes, 
Records or anything giving informa- 
tion about the nesting and eggs of the 

DUCK HAWK 
(Faleo peregrinus anatum). 
Will pay cash for anything I can use. 
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collection of North 
American birds. Common species par- 
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Belmont St., Washington, D. C 


WANT ED—A 


SALE—Nelson’s Smaller Mam- 
mals of North America. Bound in 
library buckram, 59 colored illustra- 
tions by Fuerles. Price postpaid $2.00. 
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biological, zoology, Law, Medicine, art, 
botany, ete. From all parts of the 
world, and many autographed copies. 
Rare opportunity for a general natur- 
alist or the library of any Scientific 
College, or other institution. Address, 
Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, 3356 18th St., Wash- 
ington, D.C: 


A FEW FINE SETS of Mourning 
Dove, Am. Coot, Mallard, Gadwall, 
Tulie Wren, Gt. B. Heron, Ring Bill 
Gull, Gaspian Tern, Forsters Tern and 
Avocet, in exchange for eggs in sets or 
skins. Dr. A. G. Prill, Scio, Oregon. 

INDEX TO EXCHANGE PRICE LIST 
—Why not paste a complete Species In- 
dex into your Price List? Immense 
time saver. Contact-typed, bond paper, 
Pifty Cents; manifold, onion-skin, 
Thivty -cents, silver. P. B. Peabody, 
Blue Rapids, Kansas. 


FOR SALE—21 Ege of American 
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Make cash offer for the 27 eggs. C. F. 
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Paying particular attention to Field 
Studies of Birds in Middle 
North America, 

Now in its 28th year. 


Trade Periodicals, devoted more or 


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EXCHANGE PRICE LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS’ EGGS 


We have just published this work which it took a Committee of well known 
Oologists, who were elected by The Oologists of North America for that purpose, 
nearly two years to complete. It is a Volume of two hundred pages, well illus- 
trated, by half tones, showing the advance methods that now obtain in Oology. 
It contains the following special matter. 

1. An introduction. 2 A history of Birds’ Egg Catalogues. 3. A history af 
this Catalogue. 4. Prices in this Catalogue. What they mean. 5. Directions 
for collecting and preparing eggs. 6. Copy of Standard Data Blank. 7. Illus- 
trations of proper way to mark eggs. 8. Illustrations showing proper cabinet 
arrangements of specimens. 9. Report of the Committee of Twenty-five on 
prices. 10. Names both common and scientific of all North American Birds and 
Prices adopted for the exchange of specimens of eggs of each 11. Advertise- 
ments. 

No Oologist can afford to be without this work in his Library. The issue is 
limited to 500 copies, all of which are rapidly being exhausted. 

Paper bound copies $1.00. Cloth bound copies $2.00. 


R. M. BARNES, LACON, ILLINOIS. 


THE QOLOGIST. 


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Wanted, Exchange, For Sale, Mtc., inserted in t 
for each 25 words for one issue; eveh additional word 1 


serted for less than 25 cents. 


s department at 25 cents 
ent. No notice in- 


We will advertise the skins, nests, eggs, or mounted specimens of North Amer- 
ican Birds for sale for persons having a lawful authority under the law to deal 


in the same. 


These columns are for the use of those desiring to make bona fide 


“xchanges of such specimens for scientific collecting purposes only.—EDITOR. 


EGGS 
> will purchase for cash entire col- 
lections of North American Bird Skins, 
‘mounted birds and birds eggs or odd 
tots of the same, which I still need to 
complete my series. Send list and 
prices. R. M. Barnes, Lacon, IIIs. 


FOR EXCHANGE—Sets of eggs and 
skins of the birds of prey (Raptores) 
found in Florida; also 479 and 561. 
Only rare sets and skins desired for 
same. Harold H. Bailey, Miami Beach, 
Florida. Box 5. 

EXCHANGE or Cash—n-5 Golden- 
winged Warbler, personally collected 
by myself. Edw. S. Coombs, 2838 Wash- 
ington St., Malden, Massachusetts. 

DATA BLANKS—I will print 500 
Standard Data Blanks with your name 
on them for $1.25 postpaid. Edward S. 
Coombs, 233 Washington St., Malden, 
Massachusetts. ° 

WANTED—A set of Golden Eagle 
Sac City, Iowa. 

Eggs, also a set of Roseate Spoonbill. 
Communicate with Alexander Sprunt, 
Jr., 92 So. Bay St., Charleston, S. C. 


FOR SALE—Egg cabinet, 49 inches 
high, 28 wide, 10 deep. Hight drawers 
3% deep. Another 45 inches high, 45 
wide, 28 deep, 18 drawers; 10 are 4%, 8 
are 2 deep. Both A.1. $10 and $50, 
erated here. Want both Bendires “Life 
Histories.” EF. M. Carryl, 1 Princeton 
St., Nutley, New Jersey. 

WANTED—To exchange with collec- 
tors.in Paulding, Vom Wert, Defiance, 
Mercer or Putnam counties, Ohio; or 
Allen County, Ind. Homer F. Price, 
Payne, Ohio. 

EXCHANGE—Texas 


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birds ’eggs in 


sets. Bird and animal Skins, Curios. 
Natural history specimens. Ramon 
Graham, 3722 Ave. J. Poly, Ft. Worth, 
Texas. 


EXCHANGE—Authentie sets, 337B, 
860A, 366, 373H, 378, 413, 447, 475, 488B, 
499, 498H, 510, 519, 560A, 581K, 596, 652, 
758A. J. A. Sinsel, 612 Pleasant Avenue, 
Yakima, Washington. 


BIRDS, NESTS, EGGS collected in 
Maryland (other than game birds) for 
cash or exchange. Will collect for a 
week at a time, for wages and expen- 
ses, anywhere in Maryland. All cor- 
respondence answered. H. M. Harri- 
son, 16 Glasgow St., Cambridge, Md. 


WANTED—Sets of eggs containing 
abnormal specimels, such as_ runts, 
monstrocities, abnormally marked or 
unmarked, albinistic and malformed 
specimens. Those with good data only 
wanted to further my studies of oolog- 
ical abnormalities. Write me when 
you have anything of this nature. Best 
cash price given. J. Warren Jacobs, 
Waynesburg, Penna. 


SKINS 


FOR SALE CHEAP—A few hundred 
artificial eyes of assorted sizes and 
colors, suitable for birds. Particulars 
upon application. A. C. Dyke, Bridge- 
water, Mass. 


A FEW FINE SKINS of Eared Grebe, 
Ring B. Gull, Caspian Tern, Forsters 
Tern, Mallard, Gadwall, Cinnamon Teal, 
Redhead, Bittern, Avocet Yellow H. BI. 
Bird, Bullocks Oriole, in exchange for 
skins or eggs in sets. Dr. A. G. Prill, 
Scio, Oregon. 


OWLS WANTED in the meat or 
freshly skinned. Snowy, Hawk, Great 
Gray and Great Horned. Write if in- 
terested. L. W. Speer, Taxidermist, 


WANTED—A collection of East 
American bird skKins. Paul Bartsch, 
1456 Belmont Street, Washington, D. C. 


FOR SALE—Collection of fifteen 
mounted specimens of Snowy Owl, very 
fine, $5 each; also lot of mounted Ducks, 
Grebes, Loons and Auks, twenty-five 
different kinds, $3 to $5 each. List on 
application. W. E. Clyde Todd, Beaver, 
Pennsylvania. 


WANTED — First class 


skins with 


full data of the Anatidae, Columbae, 
Gallinae, Limicolae, Rallidae. Foreign 
species especially desired. Send list 
with prices. H. B. Conover, 6 Scott 
Street, Chicago, Illinois. Jan.1’23 

EXCHANGE—I can offer Western 


bird skins for first class skins that I 
need. Will also exchange A-1 Mam- 
mal skins. Send list. Alex. Walker, 
Blaine, Oregon. 


FOR SALE—Costa Rican birds—skins 
in small or large collections. You will 
be pleased with the quality of my speci- 
mens; also find the prices very reason- 
able. Austin Smith, Apartado 412, San 
Jose, Costa Rica. 


W ANTED— Books, pictures, notes, 
records or anything giving information 
about the nesting and eggs of the 
Duck Hawk—F alco peregrinus anatum. 
Will pay cash for anything I can use. 
Karl A. Pember, Woodstock, Vermont. 


EXCHANGE—Australian Ostrich 
eggs. Correct Data. Side blown small 
hole. warge beautiful Specimens at 
$2.50 for sets that I can use. Satisfac- 
tion guaranteed. What have you? Geo. 
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142 


DISCOVERY OF THE BREEDING 
OF THE WHITE IBIS IN SOUTH 
CAROLINA 


The White Ibis (Guara alba) was 
made known to science in the year 
1731 by Mark Catesby, eminent Eng- 
lish ornithologist. It is an abundant 
summer resident on the coast of South 
Carolina, usually arriving from the 
South during the second week in April 
and remaining until the middle of 
August or later. It is to be met with 
in the large fresh-water swamps and 
in the rice plantations which are 
common to the coast region. They 
are very seldom seen on the salt 
marshes, although at times, scattered 
individuals or small flocks have been 
noted. 

That a bird so well known and so 
abundant has escaped discovery in its 
breeding haunts for so long a time 
may well be wondered at, and the 
fact that many have attempted to find 
a rookery and failed has made it 
seem ail the more curious, as it has 
been known that they musct breed 
nearby, from the larze flocks of adult 
and young birds that appear durinz 
late Ju'y and August on the feediazg 
grounds in the old rice fields. As was 
ment_oned above, many attemrts have 
bcen meade by various parties, but the 
| leader in the search has been that de- 
‘voted oraithologist, Mr. Arthur T. 
' Wayne. Mr. Wayne is the eminent 
authority on ornithology in South 
Carolina, and his researches and re- 
'markable work in this line is well 
known in scientific circles throughout 
the eastern United States. For the 
past thirty years he has been untiring 
in his efforts to further the study of 
this great branch of science, and his 
zeal has ben crowned with many not- 
able discoveries. He has added over 
thirty species of birds to the fauna of 
the State, and many of his most re- 
markable records have been made on 


IHS EOFOEESORGHIES a 


the plantation on which he lives near 
Charleston. Among others may be 
noted the following: He discovered 
the first nest and eggs of Swainson’s 
Warbler (Helinaia swainsoni) which 
were known to science in 1885, and in 
1901, he rediscovered Bachman’s 
Warbler (Vermivora bachmani) in 
South Carolina. See the “Auk” XVIII 
1901, 274, 275. ae 
I have had the privilege of being 
in company with Mr. Wayne on sev- 
eral trips during the spring, of the 
year (1922) and it was on one of these 
that the question of the White Ibis 
was brought up. We had been out 
in a Swamp where Mr. Wayne had 
found a nest of Wayne’s Warbler 
(Dendroica virens wayner) and were 
talking of the probable nesting 
grounds of the White Ibis. IJ told Mr. 
Wayne that if anyone ever found the 
birds breeding I hoped it would be him, 
as he certainly was the one who de- 
served to. About three days later I 
received a letter from him saying that 
he had shot two White Ibis and upon 
dissecting one which proved to be a fe- 
male, found that she had laid one egg 
end would have laid another that day. 
He secured the birds in an old rice 
field a few miles west of the swamp 
where he had been a few days previ- 
ous. After closely watching the flight 
of other birds he found that they in- 
variably flew in the: direction of the 
swamp, mentioned above, and as it 
was the only suitable place for miles 
around, he came to the conclusion that 
it was being used as a rookery this 
year, although many previous visits 
there in former years has proved 
fruitless as far as the White Ibis was 
concerned. 
In his letter he asked me to come 
over to his home as soon as possible 
and we would go out there to the 
swamp and see if the thing we hoped 
for was true. Needless to say, I was 
anxious to go and on May 20th, I 


THE OOLOGIST | +43 


went over to Mr. Wayne’s together 
with my brother James, who was 
home from college on a visit. We 
left by automobile from Charleston, 
crossed the Cooper River by ferry, and 
after landing at Mt. Pleasant, ran the 
nine miles from there to Mr. Wayne’s 
house in short order. After a few 
preparations for entering the swamp, 
we again set out by car for our ob- 
jective point. The swamp, which is 
known as Penny Dam Backwater lies 


on the plantation of Mr. B. B. Furman, 
in Christ Church Parish. Charleston 
County, and is about twenty-one miles 


Mt. Pleasant and twelve miles from 
Porcher’s Bluff, Mr. Wayne’s home. 

We arrived at the swamp at about 
11 a. m., but due to the fact that we 
had to haul a boat by wagon to the 
edge of the swamp from a point two 
miles distant, it was just a little after 
twelve o’clock when we finally pushed 
off into Penny Dam. 

The scene before us was one of 
great beauty. Our way was down an 
open lane on “lead” of dark wine- 
colored water, flanked on either side 
by age old cypress trees draped with 
the pendant plumes of the usnea moss. 
The silence was profound. We pad- 
dled on for about a quarter of a mile 
where the lead suddenly turned at 
right angles and opened out to the 
left. Turning into this we paddled on 
for a short distance when the swamp 
began to take on signs of life. Through 
the green of the cypress trees and but- 
ton woods were flashes of white and 
discordant squawks which betokened 
that we were disturbing some citizens 
of Penny Dam. Upon looking up ina 
small tree on the edge of the lead I 
suddenly saw a large platform of 
sticks and sitting around the rim were 
three American Egrets. The- others 
pointed out various nests and many 
young birds together with the adults 
were sitting in the trees near at hand. 
It was a most gratifying sight to see 


these lovely birds in such numbers 
engaged in domestic affairs. While this 
rookery was only a fraction of what 
once used to be the plume hunters all 
but exterminated this beautiful bird, 
it was nevertheless encouraging to 
know that the birds are regaining 
their foothold slowly but none the 
less surely. There were about twenty- 
five or thirty nests, some with eggs, 
but the majority held young birds, to 
the number of from three to five. 

Continuing on our way we came to 
a large open lagoon with small clumps 
of buttonwood bushes standing here 
and there. A veritable cloud of life 
greeted us here. Little Blue Louisiana 
and Black-crowned Night Herons 
circled about us, perching on the 
bushes once flying here and there 
while the air rang to call, squawks and 
other sounds of a Heron rookery. It 
was a wonderful sight and we rested 
on our paddles and enjoyed the scene 
to the full. 

Suddenly Mr. Wayne pointed over 
the water. We followed his gaze and 
saw a white bird flying over the trees 
on the far side of the lagoon. Its de- 
curved bill and black primaries which 
were plainly visible proclaimed it a 
White Ibis. All else was forgotten in 
a moment. We bent our energies in 
covering the open stretch of water and 
the boat fairly flew. We had just 
gained the edge where the cypress 
trees again rose in a high green wall 
ahead of us. Hardly had the bow 
entered the fringe when a long looked 
for sight burst upon us. Score upon 
score of beautiful White Ibis rose 
from the branches and circled about, 
their black tipped wings beating the 
air, and their cries almost deafening 
us. Looking up we saw what we had 
hoped, the trees were dotted with 
nests. In all directions and in almost 
every tree were nests upon nests. We 
hardly knew where to begin. In front 
of us was a small cypress about ten 
feet high; once in the tree were five 


144 THE OOLOGIST 


nests close together. We ran the 
nose of the boat against it and climb- 
ing up a few feet, Mr. Wayne looked 
over the edge of the lowest. We wait- 
ed a moment and “Three beautiful 
eggs,’ he said. He looked in the 
others. Two held three eggs and the 
other three held two each. Mr. 
Wayne reached into the nest and took 
the first set of eggs which had ever 
been taken in South Carolina. He 
dropped back into the boat and we 
looked upon the grayish eggs sprinkled 
and splashed with brownish, with 
varied feelings. It was hard to realize 
that we had really accomplished what 
had so long baffled the efforts of so 
many. 

“For thirty years I’ve tried this,” 
said Mr. Wayne, “and it has come ,at 
last.” Three happy people sat in 
the boat and looked around on the 
scene. Mr. Wayne had been in on 
former freat funas, but it was a new 
experience for my brother and me. To 
say that we were happy would be put- 
ting it mildly. At last we pushed on 
and came to another tree in which 
were three nests. I climbed up and 
took two sets of three eggs each, and 
after marking them carefully, Mr. 
Wayne put them in the box with the 
first set. We examined the nests care- 
fully. They were much more sub- 
stantially made than those of the 
Herons, composed of sticks and twigs, 
deeply capped and invariably lined 
with moss. It would be hard to give 
an idea of their number. Tree after 
tree came into view that held any- 
where from two to five nests. We 
took only a few sets of the hundreds 
that we saw. One nest held two per- 
fectly white eggs. We remained in 
the swamp for about two hours, and 
then headed the boat back to the 
bank. On a later visit in June, many 
of the eggs had hatched and the 
young birds were in many cases ready 
to fly. It is to be hoped that this place 


will again be used next year, but some 

evidences point to the fact that the 

birds change their breeding haunts 

very often. Certain it is that they 

never bred here before, and the ques- 

tion remains, will they return next 
spring. 

Alexander Sprunt, Jr., 
92 So. Bay St., 
Charleston, S. C. 


<< 


FLYING RECORDS OF BIRDS FROM 
LULL’S “ORGANIC EVOLUTION.” 


Excerpted by Wm. D. Johnston, 
Cincinnati, Ohio. 


Speed. A House Swallow (Chelidon 
urbica) which flew from Ghent to Ant- 
werp, a distance of 32 miles, in 12.5 
minutes, maintained an average speed 
of 158 miles per hour. 

Distance. The record is held by an 
Albatross in the Brown University 
Museum, which flew 3150 miles in 12 
days—probably more as it rarely flies 
in a straight line. The weight of this 
bird was 18 pounds, its wing spread 11 
feet 6 inches, and wing area 7 square 
feet. 

Altitude. The great Vulture rises 
from 700 feet to 15,000 feet, and Hum- 
boldt, a very accurate observer, saw a 
Condor hovering above Mt. Chim- 
borazo, whose summit is 20,498 feet. 


UNUSUAL 

William B. Purdy, Milford, Michi- 
gan, sends the unusual information 
that on three miles of highway along 
which was a 12,000 volt electric power 
line, carried on tripod steel towers, 
nineteen nests of the common King 
Bird, similar to the one shown in the 
half tone herewith, were found and 
one of the towers had three nests and 
three of them contained two nests 
each. It is unusual that the bird 
should select such a remarkable nest- 
ing site in a territory so well covered 
with trees and shrubbery. 


THE OOLOGIST 145 


A TRIP TO THE MARSHES OF 
NORTHWESTERN IOWA 


It had been my desire for a long 
time to take an outing to some of the 
lakes and swamps of northwestern 
Iowa during the nesting season of the 
Ducks, Rails, Coots and Grebes for 
the purpose of collecting a few sets, 
so on the morning of May 25th Mr. 
Martin C. Paulson and myself made a 
get away from the work on the farm 
and spent the following ten days at 
the lakes and marshes in Palo Alto 
and Clay counties. Seventeen years 
before the writer spent a week during 
the nesting season in this same lo- 
cality and the decrease was very 
noticeable in the number of nesting 
species upon my return this season. 
In 1905 I could have collected hun- 
dreds of sets of the Sora Rail if I had 
wished to do so, but this season we 
failed to locate a single nest of this 
rail, indeed we were unable to find 
but few of the birds, saying nothing 
of the eggs. 

During the period from 1905 to 1922 
there had been a great change brought 
about by the drainage of the ponds 
and sloughs and this accounts for 
the scarcity of these Rails as well as 
of some other water birds. 

The day following our arrival at 
Ruthven, we located a colony of Black 
Terns nesting in a small swamp in the 
western part of Palo Alto County. 
This marsh was long and narrow and 
contained perhaps twenty acres and 
there were at least one hundred pairs 
of these Terns nesting here. There 
were also hundreds of Yellowheaded 
and Red-winged Blackbirds nesting 
here in the rushes, and the constant 
din of their notes were ringing in our 
ears at all times. The most active of 
all of these birds were the little Terns. 

Of all of the water birds of the cen- 
tral west, I think the Black Tern is 
the most widely distributed, the most 


common and the most characteristic 
summer resident of the marshes of 
the plains and prairie regions. In 
this marsh most of the nests were 
built. on decayed rushes which were 
floating in great masses in water 
about 18 inches deep. Under this 
water was a layer of soft mud about 
the same depth which made it very 
laborious walking through it. 

It was in this swamp that Slim 
(that is my pard who is 6 feet tall by 
130 pounds), found his first Pied- 
billed Grebe’s nest. When some dis- 
tance from me he called out to me to 
come to him as he had found a won- 
der, but as walking was a burden, and 
I was investigating some Yellow-head- 
ed Blackbirds’ nests, I did not care to 
go at once to see what all the noise was 
about, but soon Slim called out again, 
“Come h-e-r-e,’”’ and soon I was stand- 
ing over his first Grebe’s nest. When 
I arrived upon the scene Slim pointed 
to his find and there I saw eight eggs 
slightly above the surface of the 
water. 

It is needless to say that he was a 
proud boy, as all of us older collectors 
know very well how much joy and 
satisfaction that a find like this will 
bring to a young collector in his first 
season of collecting. 

It was in this marsh that I found a 
set of Yellow-headed Blackbird con- 
taining four eggs which were very un- 
usual in their ground color, which was 
a light blue. This was the only one 
out of the hundreds of sets which I 
examined which had this shade of 
ground color. 

We explored the small ponds and 
sloughs in this same locality until 
May 30, when we drove about nine 
miles west to Swan Lake. The day 
was very cold for the time of year and 
a high wind was blowing from the 
north which made it very disagreeable. 
Most of the time, all the forenoon, 
there was a heavy mist falling which 


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Savanna Sparrow. 
—Photo by Dr. A. G. Prill, Scio, Oregon. 


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did not add to the pleasure of collect- 
ing. 

Swan Lake cannot properly be 
called a lake at all as it is a shallow 
body of water containing perhaps fif 
teen hundred acres, and is well grown 
up to rushes, wild rice, cat-tail and 
swamp grass. It is a very easy mat- 
ter to wade in this marsh as the bot- 
tom is solid which is very much dif- 
ferent from most of the marshes in 
the Middle West. 

This marsh is surely a paradise for 
the Yellow-headed and Red-wingea 
Blackbirds, as there were thousands 
nesting here. When wading through 
the rushes one is in sight of nests 
at all times. These birds are a men- 
ace to the crops within quite a dis- 
tance from their nesting ground, and 
most of the farmers are up in arms 
against them on this account. 

It was here at this swamp that I 
took my first set of Pied-billed Grebe, 
on this trip. It contained seven eggs. 
The nest was in water about knee 
deep. The nest extended to the bot- 
tom but did not rest very heavily on 
it. It was composed of mud and de- 


cayed rushes, and extended about 
three inches above the water. The 
nest was well concealed in thick 


rushes which were three or four feet 
above the water, and the nest was con- 
nected or anchored to growing rushes, 
although the nest which Mr. Paulson 
found a few days previous was not 
anchored to anything but rested se- 
curely. upon the mud bottom. 

At Rush Lake we found a great num- 
ber of Black Terns nesting. Practical- 
ly all of these nests were on aban- 
doned muskrat houses. Wherever we 
found these old muskrat houses we 
were sure to find the little Terns. It 
was easy to tell when we were ap- 
proaching their nesting site, and even 
before the eggs are laid they will in- 
dicate by their actions the exact place 


which they have selected for their 
home. 

It was at Swan Lake that Slim 
found a set of four eggs on June 1. 
This is, I think, quite rare. Fully two- 
thirds of the nests contained three 
eggs on the above date. There were 
a few which contained one and two 
eggs each on this date. 

There were a few pair of Least 
Bittern nesting here. Also a large 
number of Coot. There were several 
pair of Foster’s Terns nesting here, 
but we were compelled to leave for 
our homes before any of them had be- 
gan to lay, however, we found a num- 
ber of nests which were in course of 
construction. These were simply piles 
of rushes of the previous year’s growth 
collected together in a large mass, 
Some had a slight depression, but the 
most of them did not, as they had 
not reached that stage in their con- 
struction. 

It was on the evening of June 3, 
that we started for our homes in the 
central part of the state and arrived 


at our destination about 11:30 p. m. 


tired and sleepy but feeling fine. When 
we unpacked our eggs the next day 
which was Sunday, we found only 
three broken out of the lot of more 
than three hundred. The evenings of 
the next week or ten days were spent 
in blowing and preparing eggs. Some 
of these sets rests in our cabinets. 
Others have gone on to other collec- 
tors and some are still on our dupli- 
cate lists. 

This ends the story of a most de- 
lightful outing to the homes and breed- 
ing grounds of a most interesting fam- 


ily of birds. 
John L. Cole, 
Nevada, Iowa, 
Sept. 27, 1922. 


THE OOLOGIST 


MANY PELICANS KILLED AND 
WOUNDED 


Today as Mr. K. B. King, Mr. R. H. 
Larner and myself were discussing 
birds, migration, etc., Mr. Larner told 
me of a Pelican disaster. 

He said in the spring of 1919 he 
lived in Erath County, Texas, and one 
night a big hail storm killed and 
wounded many birds, among which 
were many White Pelicans. They 
were found scattered all over the town 
and surrounding country. When day- 
light came Pelicans were flopping up 
and down the streets and everybody 
did not know what had happened un- 
til someone -said these birds were 
wounded and killed during the hail 
storm last night. 

As it happened I figure that these 
birds, about two hundred, were flying 
over Hrath County just as the hail 
storm started and it downed the 
whole bunch of them. What it did 
not kill, it wounded so badly that most 
of them died. 

Ramon Graham, 
Ft. Worth, Texas. 


~ HO OS - 


HOW | KEEP THE BIRDS 


My bird refuge located near the cen- 
ter of the city, consists of about two 
acres of land and my residence. 

On this plat of ground we have 
thirty-eight large oak trees, three ash, 
five walnut and one cascara tree . 

On the west side there are some 
forty fruit trees, cherries, pears, 
grapes, plums, apple trees and English 
walnuts. 

On the east side we have berry 
bushes and a rose garden of about 
100 bushes. 

Scattered among these trees are 
about fifteen bird houses, Wrens, 
Blue Birds and Flickers. The houses 
are now being occupied by two pair 


149 


of West House Wrens, two pair Blue- 
Birds, six pair Violet Green Swallows, 
and a R. S. Flicker. 

The ground breeders are the Ore- 
gon Towhee, Nuttall Sparrow, Rusty 
Song Sparrow. The Goldfinches, Chip- 
ping Sparrow and Robins nest in the 
oak trees and orchard of which there 
are several pairs each. The Humming 
Birds nest in the oaks and spend most 
of their time in the rose garden. 

A self-automatic feeding box is used 
during the fall and winter and three 
large trays for water and bathing pur- 
poses are placed in different locations. 
During the summer these bath tubs 
are in constant use. 

The Wrens and Blue Birds are nest- 
ing within seventy feet of the door of 
my residence. The only contentions 
I have is to keep the English Sparrow 
out. 

From the list we find some thirteen 
specie of birds nesting. 

The two last seasons have seen a 
pair of Russet-backed Thrush on the 
premises, which undoubtedly had a 
nest. 

During the winter season we have 
constantly with us the Robins and 
Varied Thrush and West’s Evening 
Grosbeaks, Blue Birds, R. S. Flicker, 
Brewer’s Black Birds, Red-wing Black- 
birds, W. Meadow Larks, Oregon 
Junco, Oregon Towhee, Rusty Song 
Sparrow, Chickadee, Nuthatch, and 
several species of Woodpecker. 

In case of the unusual occurrence of 
snow and very cold weather, when 
the ground is covered, my two special 
feeding places are crowded with these 
birds. Sometimes as many as one hun- 
dred birds being present at one time 
and every morning I find the birds 
waiting for their usual supply of food. 

Nearly at all times of the year we 
have a pair of Screech Owls calling at 
night, but have not induced them to 
nest here yet. 

What is being done here can be 


150 vile @Q@OLoQg's-u 


done on every little home place, if 
only one or two houses are provided. 
Try it, and see how much pleasure 
you may derive from so little effort. 
AN, Ce Ire, IMI, IDs 
Scio, Oregon. 
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MATHEMATICS 


The new catalogue lists 807 species 
and 398 sub-species, 1205 in all. All 
but 73 are valued whereas in the oid 
list we find 168 unpriced. The 1132 
priced, range from 10c to $750.00. Let 
us assume we have a set of 4 for each 
specie—our collection would have a 
list value $2624.00. As we still have 
73 eggs unpriced let us assume that 
for a grand total we have $30,000.00— 
which will not be any too high vaiu- 
ation. A third of this or $10,000 
would be somewhere near the cash 
value. 

The average value of an egg in the 
new list is $5.00 as against an average 
value of $2.35 in the 1905 catalogue. 

Eggs have therefore advanced over 
100% in value (exchange value). Only 
27 remains at 10c, while 37 are priced 
above $25.00. 


Following is a list of the first 
twelve: 
Caulitionnia, Com? cossoossccde $750.00 
RasseneerseiseOneeer aa: 100.00 
IhYORPOMUNIEG, Wo cod occ0c0n00a0 100.00 
Spoon-billed Sandpiper ........ 60.00 
Bla ckee Siwalkts ceusmiaccs cree eke ae 75.00 
apeonaninewerr SWE coosococaoses 50.00 
IBIGAON, IEIGM cacacocovoogdoascade 50.00 
Blue-throated Hummer ........ 50.00 
Wwin@o ine Creamn® ssccascaco000 45.00 
Hudsonian Godwit ............ 35.00 
Swallow-tailed Kite ........... 35.00 
Evening Grosbeak ............ 35.00: 


How many have a set from this 
select group? 

Contributed by Lyle Miller, 122 Wil- 
low Avenue, Kent, Ohio, 


OLD KENTUCKY BIRDS 


The April issue of The Oologist is 
indeed a welcome and decidedly valu- 
able edition. With reference to the 
Brown Thrasher, I have a record of 
twelve occupied nests upon the 
ground. All but one of these was dis- 
covered while searching for Wood- 
cock during month of April in North- 
ern Illinois and Indiana. The excep- 
tion was a nest under an oak shrub 
on hillside at Long Lake, Hillsdale 
County, Michigan, July 1, 1896. 

I have one splendid photo of an in- 
cubating Thrasher on nest under haw 
bush. Most of these ground nests 
were built flush with the surface and 
the preferred sites consisted of hilly 
ground, dotted with patches of hazel, 
sumach and haw. 

At this writing I have four young 
Thrashers two weeks old, in a nest 
within eighteen feet of my dwelling. 
Last year’s nest (still intact) is in 
the same climbing rambler rose bush 
and just eleven inches from the 1922 
domicile. 

In our revolving chain pump just 
outside the door is a Bewick’s Wren 
which does not manifest any alarm 
when we “lift” water over her feather 
lined nest, on the ventilating screen. 
She is covering seven evenly dotted 
specimens, size between those of the 
House and Carolina Wrens. 

A Catbird is building in the trumpet 
creeper along the back fence and the 
Cardinal chose the grape arbor for a 
home. The latter is “sitting close.” 

Many people raise chickens on the:r 
premises and distribute poisoned meat 
for rats under rocks and plants about 
the coops. This practice has proved 
fatal to several inquisitive Blue Jays. 

Tufted Tits, Carolina Wrens, Mary- 
land Yellow-throats, Chimney Swifts, 
Mourning Doves, Flickers, Red-headed 
Woodpeckers, Robins, Grackles, Mock- 


THE OOLOGIST 151 


ing Birds, Song and Chipping Spar- 
rows are common about the yards and 
streets. 

Gerard Alan Abbott, 


Lancaster, Kentucky. 
(SS SSS eS SSS 


NEW PRICE VALUES, AGAIN 


Young Homer has really nodded, at 
last! In the September issue of The 
Oologist, Mr. Bowles has spoken very 
kindly about my services on the Com- 
mittee of Twenty-five. Perhaps I 
have deserved it; for not even Chair- 
man Bales and Judge Bowles actually 
know how many hours and hours | 
have devoted to the work. But then, 
I love it, no credit, therefore, I’m sure. 

Mr. Bowles modestly avers his is- 
norance of the meaning of the word, 
lacuna; while I, as modestly, must 
apologize for using the word. Now 
“lacuna” means a little lake, and, by 
transfer, a place where a hole is; 
therefore, a gap. (1 admit, rather 
shame-facedly, that the word is per- 
haps too strictly confined to philo- 
sophical and theological use _ for 
proper employment in a bird maga- 
zine). 

But again, I do aver that young 
Homer has nodded, really nodded! 
For, he is quite in error in supposing 
that I have incorporated in the list of 
omitted species and sub-species a 
single unit that has not been passed 
upon by the A. O. U. Committee on 
Classification. I should be chayrinned 
enough, could I be assured that I had 
been so careless as to include a single 
item that had neither been passed up- 
on, favorably; or any item that had 
been eliminated. As I remember, 
every single item was taken directly 
from an A. O. U. Supplement. 

Therefore, I invite the Committee of 
Twenty-five to get busy. And, since 
it was understood long ago, that I 
was to have the privilege of suggest- 


ing the values of all units through the 
Grouse Family, I shall take the lib- 
erty of holding my reserved list of 
such valuations, or a carbon paper of 
the same, at the disposition of the 
Officials of the Committee. Mean- 
while, I would call the attention of 
readers of The Oologist to the fact 
that the Manx Shearwater has been 
eliminated, displaced by the Bermuda 
Puffin. 
P. B. Peabody, 
Blue Rapids, Kansas. 


THE A. O. U. 


It was the privilege and pleasure of 
the Editor to attend the fortieth stat- 
ed meeting of the American Ornitho- 
logical Society, at The Field Museum 
of Natural History, of Chicago, the 
24th, 25th and 26th of this month. 

This was the most successful meet- 
ing of this Association since its or- 
ganization. One hundred and sixty 
members and twenty-three fellows be- 
ing in attendance, a record that has 
never been surpassed. The program 
was varied and exceedingly interest- 
ing. Many of the numbers being illus- 
trated by lantern slides and moving 
pictures of wild life. Some of the lat- 
ter were truly amazing. 

It was the privilege of the Editor to 
restore to the original taker, Ruthven 
Dean, one of the oldest members, a 
nest and eggs of the Warbling Vireo, 
taken by him at Cambridge, Mass., in 
1869, together with the original data 
slip made out at that time by the 
taker. This was done with a few re- 
marks at the banquet given by the As- 
sociation at the Auditorium Hotel, and 
truly took Bro. Dean by complete sur- 
prise. This set of eggs came to us 
with the collection of Richard Christ, 
which we described in The Oologist, 
under the caption “Dreams,” about 
two years ago. 


153 


Since returning home Mr. Dean 
writes us, “I have found the letters 
from Richard Christ, of Nazareth, 
Pennsylvania, showing that I sent 
him the Warbling Flycatcher’s (Vireo) 
nest and eggs in 1870 and I am send- 
ing some of his letters to read.” .... 
“T certainly appreciated your return- 
ing this nest and eggs.” 

Little touches of sentiment of this 
kind that turn the minds of older bird 
students back to their boyhood days 
are some of the bright spots which dot 
the career of old time collectors. We 
have no doubt but that many of the 
older collectors would love to have 
restored to them some of their earliest 
specimens which would link them 
with their boyhood enthusiasm of 
earlier years.—R. M. B. 

iol ade cs ice EL a 


BOOKS RECEIVED 


One of the most interesting items 
received in a long time, is “Roose- 
velt’s Wild Life Bulletin, Volume 1, 
No. 2,” issued August 1922, by the 
Roosevelt Wild Life Experiment Sta- 
tion, of New York State, College of 
Forestry, of Syracuse. 

It is written by Charles EHugene 
Johnson, and is devoted to the Beaver. 
The bulletin contains three maps, 
seventy figures and about one hundred 
and twenty-five pages. 

This is a splendid contribution to 
the life history of this interesting ani- 
mal, and is a credit to the author. 
Many of the photographers are highly 
illustrative of the work of this indus- 
trious fur bearer. 

One of them showing an aspen tree 
seventeen and a half inches in di- 
ameter that had been cut down, an- 
other showing a dam of one hundred 
and seventy-two feet long and nearly 
four feet high, constructed by these 
little animals, still another one show- 
ing a dam built more than eleven feet 


THE OO@LOGIST 


high and still others of similar char- 
acter scattered all through this paper. 
The beaver is one of the most useful 
as well as the most interesting of our 
smaller animals, and is entitled to pro- 
tection. 

R. M. Barnes. 


Se - 


A CORRECTION 


In the September The Oologist, 
Volume XXXIX, No. 9, Page 129 ap- 
pears a half-tone showing The Nest 
and Eggs of a Cinnamon Teal Duck, 
and on page 135 of the same Volume, 
appears another half-tone showing 
The Nest and Four Eggs of Farallone 
Cormorant. We regret that the de- 
scriptions of each of these two plates 
were transposed and the first above 
described plate is referred to as The 
Nest and Hggs of Farallone Cormor- 
ant, and the second The Nest and 
Eggs of the Cinnamon Teal, whereas 
the reverse should be the description. 

R. M. Barnes. 


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SPARROW HAWK BANDING 


On April 24th, 1921, I took a set of 
Sparrow Hawk from a hole in a large 
live oak in front of an abandoned 
schoolhouse on the highway near 
Goodyear, Solano County. The male 
was sitting and after looking him 
over I set him free. Later in the sea- 
son another set was laid in the same 
hole and the young raised. 

On April 16th, 1922 I found in the 
same cavity a male Hawk sitting on 
five freshly laid eggs, possibly the 
same bird as was sitting last year. I 
banded him (No. 10441) and set him 
free. Am hoping that next year I will 
find my banded bird on another set of 
eggs in this hole. 

Hmerson A. Stoner, 
Benicia, (Solano County), Cal. 


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W ANTED—Oologist JV, 6, and all 
numbers of 1919 and 1920; Check-list 
of North American Birds, 1910; also 
Bent’s Diving Birds. M. Nice, Norman, 
Oklahoma. 

WANTED—A copy of lLawrence’s 
“Catalogue of the Birds found in Costa 
Rica,’ (Annals New York Lyceum of 
Natural History, IX, pp. 86-149). W. E. 
Clyde Todd, Carnegie Museum, Pitts- 
burgh, Pa. 

I want to purchase old books on Or- 
nithology and especially want Bulletin 
of the Cooper O. Club. Vol. I—odd Nos. 
W. Lee Chambers, Eagle Rock, Los 
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WANTED—Sets, Nests, Indian Relics, 
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all kinds of Natural History specimens. 
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WANTEHED—The Oologist for March, 
1890, and March and September, 1899, 
fer which I will pay a liberal price. 
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WANTED—Copy of May 1913 Na- 
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WANTED— OOLOGIST Nos. 18, 21, 
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236, 256, 258, 259. THE OSPREY 1 No. 
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WANTED—February and June num- 
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May Numbers 1919, Volume XXXVI of 
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mounted at buyer’s risk. Agency for 
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No lists. Elesco Radio Crystals fifty 
cents each. Tested and guaranteed. 
Also New Jersey minerals. Louis 5S. 
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Reiker Mounts. At Bargain. Leo J. 
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dune Os 


EXCHANGE NOTICE—I am now at 
home in Northville, Michigan, and will 
be glad to hear from all Collectors, with 
a view of exchange. James Wood, Tax- 
idermist and Collector. Birds a Spe- 
cialty. Northville, Mich. 

WANTED—Bulletin No. 107, Life 
Histories of North American Diving 
Birds, by A. C. Bent. For cash or will 
consider exchange. John L. Cole, Ne- 
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WANTED-—-Will pay Cash — “Life 
Histories of North American Birds.” 
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of North American Diving Birds,” Bent. 
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St., Stockton, California. 


FOR SALE—Proceedings of the Iowa 
Academy of Sciences, 1912, bound, 70c. 
Preliminary Catalog of the Birds of 
Missouri, Widmann, 1907, 288 pgs., $1.50. 
Partial Catalog of the Animals of Iowa, 
Osborn, 39 pgs. 70c. Emerson Stoner, 
Box 444,°Benicia, California. 


FOR SALE—Natural History Books, 
Magazines, Souvenirs, Curios, Antiques, 
Minerals, Shells, Insects and _ other 
specimens from this locality. Lists free. 
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collection of North 
American birds. Common species par- 
ticularly desired. Paul Bartsch, 1456 
Belmont St., Washington, D. C. 


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botany, ete. From all parts of the 
world, and many autographed copies. 
Rare opportunity for a general natur- 
alist or the library of any Scientific 
College, or other institution. Address, 
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A FEW FINE SETS of Mourning 
Dove, Am. Coot, Mallard, Gadwall, 
Tulie Wren, Gt. B. Heron, Ring Bill 
Gull, Gaspian Tern, Forsters Tern and 
Avocet, in exchange for eggs in sets or 
skins. Dr. A. G. Prill, Scio, Oregon. 


INDEX TO EXCHANGE PRICE LIST 
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time saver. Contact-typed, bond paper, 
Fifty Cents; manifold, onion-skin, 
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Blue Rapids, Kansas. 


FOR SALH—21 Eggs of American 
White Pelican and 6 from broken sets. - 
Make cash offer for the 27 eggs. C. F. 
Carr, New London, Wis. 


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It contains the following special matter. 

1. An introduction. 2 A history of Birds’ Egg Catalogues. 3. A history cf 
this Catalogue. 4. Prices in this Catalogue. What they mean. 5. Directions 
for collecting and preparing eggs. 6. Copy of Standard Data Blank. 7. Ilius- 
trations of proper way to mark eggs. §&. Illustrations showing prcper cabinet 
arrangements of specimens. 9. Report of the Committee of Twenty-five cn 
prices. 10. Names both common and scientific of all North American Birds and 
Prices adopted for the exchange of specimens of eggs of each 11. Advertise 
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in the same. 


These columns are for the use of those desiring to make bona fide 


-xchanges of such specimens for scientific collecting purposes only.—EDITOR. 
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EGGS 
’. will purchase for cash entire col- 
lections of North American Bird Skins, 
‘mounted birds and birds eggs or odd 
tots of the same, which I still need to 
complete my series. Send list and 
prices. R. M. Barnes, Lacon, Ills. 


FOR EXCHANGE—Sets of eggs and 
skins of the birds of prey (Raptores) 
found in Florida; also 479 and 5651. 
Only rare sets and skins desired for 
same. Harold H. Bailey, Miami Beach, 
Florida. 5 


lorida. Box 6. Sh iohee 
EXCHANGE or Cash—n-5 Golden- 
winged Warbler, personally collected 
by myself. Edw. S. Coombs, 283 Wash- 
ington St., Malden, Massachusetts. 


DATA BLANKS—I will print 500 
Standard Data Blanks with your name 
on them for $1.25 postpaid. Edward S. 
Coombs, 233 Washington St., Malden, 
Massachusetts. 

WANTED—A set of Golden Eagle 
Sac City, Iowa. 

Eggs, also a set of Roseate Spoonbill. 
Communicate with Alexander Sprunt, 
Jr., 92 So. Bay St., Charleston, S. C. 


FOR SALE—Egg cabinet, 49 inches 
high, 28 wide, 10 deep. Hight drawers 
34 deep. Another 45 inches high, 45 
wide, 28 deep, 18 drawers; 10 are 48, 8 
are 2 deep. Both A.1. $10 and $50, 
crated here. Want both Bendires ‘Life 
Histories.” FE. M. Carryl, 1 Princeton 
St., Nutley, New Jersey. 


WANTED—To exchange with collec- 
tors in Paulding, Vom Wert, Defiance, 
Mercer or Putnam counties, Ohio; or 
Allen County, Ind. Homer F. Price, 
Payne, Ohio. 


EXCHANGEHE—Texas birds 
sets. Bird and animal Skins, Curios. 
Natural history specimens. Ramon 
Graham, 3722 Ave. J. Poly, Ft. Worth, 
Texas. 


EXCHANGE—Authentic sets, 3387B, 
360A, 366, 373H, 378, 413, 447, 475, 488B, 
499, 498K, 510, 519, 560A, 581K, 596, 652, 
758A. J. A. Sinsel, 612 Pleasant Avenue, 
Yakima, Washington. 


BIRDS, NESTS, EGGS collected in 
Maryland (other than game birds) for 
eash or exchange. Will collect for a 
week at a time, for wages and expen- 
ses, anywhere in Maryland. All cor- 
respondence answered. H. M. Harri- 
son, 16 Glasgow St., Cambridge, Md. 


WANTHD—Sets of eggs containing 
abnormal specimens, such as runts, 
monstrocities, abnormally marked or 
unmarked, albinistic and malformed 
specimens. Those with good data only 
wanted to further my studies of oolog- 
ical abnormalities. Write me when 
you have anything of this nature. Best 
cash price given. J. Warren Jacobs, 
Waynesburg, Penna. 


"eggs in 


SIXINS 


FOR SALE CHEAP—A few hundred 
artificial eyes of assorted sizes and 
colors, suitable for birds. Particulars 
upon application. A. C. Dyke, Bridge- 
water, Mass. 


_A FEW FINE SKINS of Eared Grebe, 
Ring B. Gull, Caspian Tern, Forsters 
Tern, Mallard, Gadwall, Cinnamon Teal, 
Redhead, Bittern, Avocet Yellow H. BI. 
Bird, Bullocks Oriole, in exchange for 
skins or eggs in sets. Dr. A. G. Prill, 
Scio, Oregon. 

OWLS WANTED in the meat or 
freshly skinned. Snowy, Hawk, Great 
Gray and Great Horned. Write if in- 
terested. L. W. Speer, Taxidermist, 

WANTED—A collection of East 
American bird skins. Paul Bartsch, 
1456 Belmont Street, Washington, D. C. 


FOR SALE—Collection of fifteen 
mounted specimens of Snowy Owl, very 
fine, $5 each; also lot of mounted Ducks, 
Grebes, Loons and Auks, twenty-five 
different kinds, $3 to $5 each. List on 
application. W. EH. Clyde Todd, Beaver, 
Pennsylvania. 


WANTED — First class skins with 
full data of the Anatidae, Columbae, 


Gallinae, Limicolae, Rallidae. EHoreign 
species especially desired. Send list 
with prices. H. B. Conover, 6 Scott 
Street, Chicago, Illinois. Jan.1’23 

EXCHANGE—I can offer Western 


bird skins for first class skins that I 
need. Will also exchange A-1 Mam- 
mal skins. Send list. Alex. Walker, 
Blaine, Oregon. 


FOR SALE—Costa Rican birds—skins 
in small or large collections. You will 
be pleased with the quality of my speci- 
mens; also find the prices very reason- 
able. Austin Smith, Apartado 412, San 
Jose, Costa Rica. 


WANTED— Books, pictures, notes, 
records or anything giving information 
about the nesting and eggs of the 
Duck HawkK—F alco peregrinus anatum. 
Will pay cash for anything I can use. 
Karl A. Pember, Woodstock, Vermont. 


EXCHANGE—Australian Ostrich 
eggs. Correct Data. Side blown small 
hole. warge beautiful Specimens at 
$2.50 for sets that I can use. Satisfac- 
tion guaranteed. What have you? Geo. 
W. Morse, 318 E. 9th St., Tulsa, Okla. 


WANTED—Sets 6, 70, 202, 214, 316, 
622, 708, 707. Edgar F. Porter, Athol, 
Mass., R.F.D. 2. 


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Ss Zoology “hs 
TUUN 8 1943 
LigRaky— 


In the September issue we notified our readers that in 
November we would treat them to another splendid supple- 
ment. This shows the danger of prognosticating the future. 

The supplement was mailed with the October issue, and we 
had not expected to be able to get it out that quick. However, 
it is better to be too early than too late. 

The December issve will be out shortly and with it closes 
the year. It is now a good time to begin to make up your 
list of periodicals to which you will subscribe next year. 

If you wish The Oologist to keep up to its former standard, 
you surely should take interest enough to send it to some 
friend as a Christmas remembrance. It is inexpensive and 
would remind them each month that you had thought of them. 

The December issue will contain a number of unusually in- 
teresting papers, including “An Annotated List of Birds from 
South Florida,” by Lieut. Wolfe. A descriptive article of 
“Birds among the Buttes,’ by Rev. Peabody. One on ‘Sys- 
tematic Bird Study,’ by Lawrence H. Snyder, and a very 
splendid paper on ‘“Black-billed Cuckoo, Robins and other 
Birds’ Nests,” by J. Warren Jacobs. These with the ordinary 
run of Bird News for the month, will make an exceptional 
issue, and we should be glad to mail extra copies to such of 
your friends as you may be interested enough in to send 
us their names and addresses. 

This will bring us close to the bottom of the copy box and 
we appeal to you, one and all, to send us some of your 1922 
experiences, even though they be of a few lines, but do not 
limit yourself to a few lines. Tell the whole story in each 
instance. R. M. BARNES. 


154 THE OOLOGIST 


NOTES ON THE 
PARTRIDGE 
(Perdix perdix of Hurope) 


HUNGARIAN 


The Hungarian Partridge were in- 
troduced in Paulding County, Ohio, 
a few years ago in Small numbers, but 
I am told that a great many were 
released during the winter of 1917-18. 
Since then I believe none have been 
imported and in fact it would seem 
unnecessary for they have multiplied 
wonderfully and seem able to with- 
stand severe winters just as well as 
the Bob-white. 

Due to the public sentiment against 
killing them they will very likely 
soon be more common than the Bob- 
white, whose numbers were so re- 
duced by hunters before the strict 
game laws were enforced. 

Marsh Hawks find them, especially 
the young, an easy prey as they seem 
to frequent the more exposed places 
in fields, roadsides and open woods. 
Young birds, although half grown, 
seem to rely nearly as much on pro- 
tective coloration as on hunting cover 
and I have seen them after being 
flushed, alight in a closely cropped 
pasture, squat low and remain there 
until one was ten feet away when 
they would again fly several hundred 
feet and alight where they could be 
plainly seen; consequently one often 
sees their feathers strewn about 
where a Marsh Hawk has had a feast. 

It seems remarkable to me that 
such heavy appearing birds can sail 
as far as they do. I have seen them 
sail a hundred feet farther than it 
seemed they possibly could before 
alighting. 

May 21, 1920—I first found a nest 
of these birds; it was a mere 
depression in the wet ground under 
a small bush by the roadside and 
contained two muddy  olive-brown 
eggs considerably larger than those 
of the Bob-white. Since that I have 


seen seven more nests containing 
eggs aside from perhaps a dozen 
nests where the eggs had hatched. In 
nearly every instance the nests were 
near the edge of clover, timothy or 
oat fields or on ditch banks. 

Nest No. 2 was found May ist, 
1921 in a tuft of clover near edge of 
a clover field. The single egg lay in 
a hollow in the ground. Neither bird 
was seen. A neighbor plowed the 
nest under the next day. 

Nest No. 3 was found May 27, 1921. 
It was a rather deep hollow in the 
sod beneath a wire fence at the edge 
of a corn field. The hollow was well 
lined with bits of corn-stalks and 
quite a few of the birds’ own feath- 
ers. This nest contained 18 eggs. 
The female was flushed. - 

Nest No. 4 was found July 27, 1921 
in an oat field by an oat shock. The 
hollow was well lined with young 
clover plants and oat leaves and con- 
tained 10 eggs. The female was 
flushed. 

Nest No. 5 was found June 20, 1922 
while mowing clover. The nest was 
a well lined hollow amongst a dense 
mass of clover near edge of field. 
This nest contained 15 badly stained 
eggs. The female (presumably) did 
not flush until the cutler-bar has 
passed over her. I cannot under- 
stand why she was not killed. I was 
was very glad to see her fly away ap- 
parently unhurt. 

Nest No. 6 was found June 20, 1922 
while mowing clover. It was in the 
same field near the edge. The fresh 
eggs lay on the bare wet ground and 
all but one were cracked or crushed 
by the mower wheel. I believe there 
were ten or eleven eggs. Neither 
bird was seen. 

Nest No. 7 and 8 were found by O. 
E. White and shown me by his 
brother. Both nests were in the same 
clover field but nearly one-half mile 
apart near extreme ends of the field. 


THE OOLOGIST 155 


Hach nest contained seventeen eggs 
and both were deep depressions lined 
with bits of old straws and Partridge 
feathers. Both birds miraculously es- 


caped after the cutler-bar of the 
mower had passed over or under 
them. 

Homer F. Price, 


Payne, Ohio. 


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HOW LONG WILL THEY LAST? 


I made a business trip fifty miles 
south of the border into Lower Cali- 
fornia and Mexico. 

It was a revelation to see the im- 
mense flocks of valley Quail. We had 
three shot guns and while hunting 
one could regularly flush from one to 


fifty Quail every three or four 
minutes. 
Chester C. Lamb, 
Los Angeles, Calif. 
bees ete Eh ee Ete 


EXCHANGES 


A correspondent asks us to advise 


the Oologist Fraternity through the 
columns of The Oologist, what we un- 
derstand the rule to be as to the re- 
sponsibility of breakage of eggs in 
transit. 

It has always been our understand- 
ing and policy, and so far as we know 
the uniform rule for the thirty years 
or more during which we have made 
exchanges, that the sender of the 
specimens is the guarantor of the de- 
livery, in useable condition and is re- 
sponsible for the breakage in transit. 
The broken or damaged specimens to 
be returned to him by the receiver. 

R. M. Barnes. 


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MARSH HAWK 


Today, June 18th, while taking a 
stroll, I succeeded in finding the nesv 
and four vigorous young of a Marsh 
Hawk, that has defied me for years. 
It was placed flat on the ground in 
an upland marsh, surrounded by tail 
grass and weeds. The old female 


kept flying about overhead, keeping 
up a continual alarm call, a sort of 
hitehy, clack, clack, clack, and oc- 
casionally diving down at my head. 

One day while operating the gang 
plow, about May 18th, I saw a pair 
of American Pipit. They were un- 
afraid and came very close, which 
made their identification easy. The 
female had her bill full of worms and 
I thought at first they must have 
young. They are the only pair I 
have seen. 

Geo. W. H. vos Burgh, 
Fall River, Wis. 
Se ees 
A DEVOTED FATHER 

I have been taking notes on a 
male and female Scissor-tail Fly- 
catcher that makes their home in a 
pear tree next door. 

For several summers the happy 
pair lived next door, and are very 
nice neighbors. The mother bird 
cares for her little ones while the 
father feeds them. 

This summer they started in as 
usual to begin their cares as a mother 
and father. The mother had been 
sitting on a nest of eggs, and only 
lacked a few days of having them 
hatched when she happened to mis- 
fortune. 

She was out looking for food one 
evening when an old black cat spied 
her, and being good on the jump, 
caught her. It didn’t take him long 
to devour her. 

What would become of the eggs? 
That was what worried the father 
bird. He did just what he thought 
was right. He sat on the nest for 
four days, and one noon, to my sur- 
prise, there were four little babies in 
the nest. The father was a _ busy 
man, catching bugs for his little, 
motherless babes. 

I don’t wish anyone bad luck but I 
do hope the black cat won’t live out 
her nine lives. 

Mrs. Ramon Graham, 
Ft. Worth, Texas. 


156 THE OOLOGIST 


KILLDEER 


Having read about the Killdeer in 
the last Oologist, I thought that per- 
haps some of our observations this 
year might be of interest. 

As our experience in the past had 
been all hunting and no finding, this 
season’s developments are exceed- 
ingly gratifying to us. In the past 
we had confined our searches to 
places near a pond of water, where 
the Killdeer would make a great fuss, 
and enact all kinds of “stage deaths,” 
and the like, but all the searching 
proved of no avail. 

In April, 1922, when one of our 
party was busy warming up a pick 
and shovel in an attempt to reach the 
nest of Western Burrowing Owl, the 
two children made a trip along the 
bank of a stream, about 100 yards dis- 
tant, and upon returning across the 
pasture lot to where the manual labor 
was being performed, a nest of the 
Killdeer was found, being nothing 
more than a depression in the ground, 
and lined with about a dozen small 
rootlets. In this rested two eggs, 
which were slightly incubated. This 
was about 100 yards from any water, 
in the open field where cattle might 
walk over it while grazing. 

On another trip we were driving 
along the road, which was a well 
traveled one, and Mrs. Lee discovered 
a Killdeer sitting out in the field in 
an open spot, which was covered with 
alkali, therefore bare, though  sur- 
rounded by salt grass, and upon stop- 
ping and returning to near the spot. 
Mrs. Killdeer walked away, and began 
fussing about. Approaching the place 
where she had been we found four 
eggs. This was in an open field, which 
was used for a cattle grazing ground, 
and was high and dry, being about a 
quarter mile from water. 

Then in May when we were on a 
business trip into the plains country 


east of Tulare, we were compelled to 
travel over a road that had been new- 
ly graded about a month before. 

This whole country is covered with 
wild grass and is dry, and about a 
mile to the nearest stream. As we 
were driving along slowly on account 
of the roads being full of ruts, and 
also because a Ford can go no other 
gait, we discovered a Killdeer partly 
standing and partly sitting along side 
the traveled part of the road in the 
loose dirt on the slope of the road, 
about six feet from the wheel tracks. 
Upon investigation, after we had 
stopped, and the bird calmly walked 
away, we found a rude nest and four 
eggs, which were nearly incubated, 
that function being completed by 
means of an electric warming pad at 
home. All four hatched. 

In a nearby field another nest was 
found in the bare ground in a salt 
grass pasture. 

After these experiences we have 
about concluded that the best place 
to search for Killdeer nests is not 
near the water, but out in some near- 
by field and on the bare ground. 

In most instances the birds have not 
seemed wild, and in the case of the 
one in the road, she did not leave the 
nest until we were almost to her and 
then did not raise any fuss, though 
the birds could be heard in the shell. 

Ren M. Lee, 
Tulare, Calif. 
Panes Nets ei Ce a 


ARKANSAS NOTES 


Will write a few lines for your 
little paper, since reading H. H. 
Wheeler’s article, as I was with him 
on the trip to Mr. Miller’s. At the 
ending of his article he writes of tak- 
ing a set of Crested Flycatcher’s from 
rural mail box. Now, I have one bet- 
ter. I have taken a set of n/5 Caro- 
lina Wren from lamp shelf on organ 
at Church house. 


THE OOLOGIST 157 


A question, how late do Field Spar- 
rows nest? 

Some people were picking cotton in 
front of my house Sept. 29th, 1922, 
when they found a nest with two eggs 
in it. They sent me word, and when 
I got there I flushed a Field Sparrow, 
thinking she would lay two more eggs. 
I waited three days longer and went to 
find the two eggs broken wtih ants on 
them. This is the latest I ever saw 
a Field Sparrow nesting... The nest 
was two inches above ground. 

I took eleven sets of Carolina Chick- 
adee this year, from n-3 to n-7. I 
took one set of n-5 Crested Flycatcher 
in a box I made and set on garden 
post, then she nested twenty steps in 
a hole in silver leaf poplar, where I 
had taken a set of Titmouse. 

G. E. Pilquist, 
Dardanelle, Arkansas. 
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THE FALL MIGRATION OF 1920 


The fall migration of 1920 was an 
unusual.one for this locality. Win- 
slow, being in the center of a small 
range of mountains and the highest 
point in the range seldom is in the 
path of the fall migrants. But the 
fall of 1920 was an exception to the 
rule, it being the largest ever known, 
even among the oldest settlers. 

It was late in the season and as yet 
nothing unusual had occurred, but up- 
on rising one morning I noticed that 
the sky was literally black with birds; 
all Blackbirds. North, south, east or 
west nothing could be seen but birds. 
There were layers and layers of them 
as close together as they could fly. 
This continued for four days and 
nights, but by noon the fifth day they 
had thinned out a bit. 

For the next week flocks of Black- 
birds were continually in sight among 
which were mixed Geese, Brants, 
Ducks, and several species of Hawks. 

The winter of 1920-21 was also the 


cnly winter in which Blackbirds and 
Grackles ever wintered in this lo- 
cality. 
J. D. Black, 
Winslow, Ark. 
Surely some flight.—R. M. B. 


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FLIGHT OF BIRDS 


Since the coming of the automobile 
there have been many tests made of 
the flight powers of birds, and many 
supposed speeds contradicted. 

Since moving to Florida, I have had 
numerous chances to test the flight of 
various birds while driving my high 
powered machine over long smooth 
oiled roads, often stretching before 
me ten to twenty miles or more. In 
most cases I have been disappointed 
and surprised, at the slow rate of 
flight of the birds when hard pressed, 
and when I know they have exerted 
every effort to out-distance the ma- 
chine. 

Mocking Birds, Jays, Cardinals, and 
Loggerhead Shrikes cannot attain the 
speed of fifteen miles an hour. Our 
Ground Doves’ best speed seems to be 
twenty miles, while Mourning Doves, 
Bob White and Sparrow Hawks aver- 
age about twenty-two miles per hour. 

While motoring along the canal 
banks, I found that Herons flew 
around twelve miles, while the Sand- 
pipers attained the speed of twenty. 

Meadowlarks, Blackbirds, and many 
of the small birds cannot, at their 
best, attain the speed of fifteen miles 
per hour. 

As a whole IJ have been greatly dis- 
appointed in the speed of all birds 
that I have ‘paced,’ and I am in- 
clined to disbelieve the wonderful 
stories that have been told in the 
past, of the rapid flight of birds in 
general. 

Harold H. Bailey, 
Miami Beach, Fla. 
Oct. 15, 1922. 


158 THE OOLOGIST 


AMATEUR OR PROFESSIONAL 


Was very much interested in the 
article in the September number of 
The Oologist entitled “Widening.” 
Not so very long ago I attended a 
meeting of a well known entomologi- 
cal society, whose members for the 
most part are amateurs, with just a 
few professionals. The question arose 
as to what was the difference between 
a professional and amateur entomolo- 
gist? Various answers were submit- 
ted, but I think the best one was as 
follows: “A professional entomologist 
receives a salary for his work, while 
the amateur doesn’t.” It is nothing new 
for the professional entomologist to 
send specimens to the amateur for de- 
termination. The above does not only 
apply to the entomologist but to the 
student in any other branch of natural 
history. 

Yours truly, 
Philip Laurent. 
Philadelphia, Pa. 


BEHAVIOR OF SWAINSON HAWKS 


This summer we visited a Swain- 
son Hawk’s nest in this vicinity three 
times while there were young in the 
nest, June 11 and 25, and July 9. The 
first two times the parent Hawk flew 
away on our approach and was noi 
seen again while we stayed. The 
third time, however, when the young 
were nearly ready to fly, the conduct 
of the parents was radically different; 
one of them flew about continually, 
calling and calling, and swooping 
caown towards my husband and daugh- 
ter who were climbing the tree. After 
we left the vicinity of the nest we saw 
both parents flying about. Is_ this 
usual for parent birds to be more so- 
licitous of their young when they are 
nearly ready to leave the nest than 
when they are small? 

Margaret M. Nice, 
Norman, Okla. 


NEW INDEX 


Perhaps Editor Barnes will aliow 
me to boost myself a little (in the 
matter of my Index to the A. O. U. 
List). The other day I had need to 
look upon the item “Skylark,” in my 
Index. To my dismay, while the title 
was there, the page was not. By the 
watch it took me about five minutes 
to find the title on the pages of the 
Price List. 

I feel sure that few readers of The 
Oclogist can realize how much time 
such an index would save them, in the 
aggregate. Being myself an intensely 
busy person, I have heaved many a 
sigh of grateful relief to have an in- 
dex pasted into my Price List, en- 
abling me, in a few seconds, to find 
any titl2 out of the entire twelve hun- 
dred and—(just wait until all the 
“millimeter races” have crept in and 
found an accrediting! ) 

One might add: The trifle I ask for 
all the hours of work this Index has 
cost me, is quite as trifling as is my 
desire for mere money-making. But, 
photography comes high these days, 
and I am ever craving the added 
equipment that things sold will help 
to buy. If this be commercialism,— 
“make the best of it.” 

P. B. Peabody, 
Blue Rapids, Kansas. 


TEXAS BIRD NOTES 1922 


I saw an unusual sight for this local- 
ity on March 1, 1922. A number of 
birds came over. the house, going 
south, and on close observation I! 
found them to be a mixed bunch otf 
Cowbirds and Meadowlarks, 
along together. 

This may be regular occurrence 
but it’s our first time to observe it. 

Ramon Graham, 
Ft. Worth, Texas. 


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THE OOLOGIST 159 


WISCONSIN FIELD NOTES 


We are glad to note that the 
Prairie Hen is quite common this 
spring and summer. February 26th, 


a pleasant day, saw a large flock of 
Canada Geese going north. Saw more 
or less for several weeks; saw but 
few Ducks. West of here, especially, 
the Bobwhites are abundant, which 
seems good. 

I find few of the rarer birds, and 
more of the commoner birds’ nests, 
than usual. A Whippoorwill began 
calling May 9th, and kept it up for a 
week, and “poor Will,’ he always re- 
ceived, or was to, from sixty to one 
pauses. In other words this bird 
would begin to call as soon as tie 
moon came up and would repeat 
(chuck) whippoorwill, without a 
break, sixty or one hundred times, 
sometimes faster, sometimes slower, 
sometimes almost stopping and again 
almost running away with himself. 

Geo. W. H. vos Burgh, 
Fall River, Wis. 


BIRDS OF LANCASTER 


An Oologist regardless of his past 
journeys and anecdotes can usually 
boast of something new when the pres- 
ent season is on the wane. This year 
my enthusiasm rotates to the little 
town of Lancaster, Ky., and particu- 
larly the birds which nested on my 
own premises; a lot with 75 feet 
frontage on paved street, and a depth 
of 150 feet. Between April first and 
June 15th the following nests con- 
structed within the above’ space, 
Brown Thrasher 3, Catbird 1, Robin 1, 
Maryland Yellow-throat 1, Chimney 
Swift 1, Blue Jay 1, Bewick’s Wren 2. 

The Wrens used the pump at the 
side door and while the well was -be- 
ing emptied by the pailful the parent 
stuck to her incubation. The same 


site was used at least one year previ- 
ous. 

The Brown Thrasher .returns an- 
nually to the old rambler rose bush 
which straddles the fence at the wood 
shed just twenty feet from the back 
door. The Thrashers also nest in the 
grape arbor. I found the Maryland 
Yellowthroat’s nest in the upright 
erotch of a hugh burdock at the other 
side of the woodhouse. There were 
four fresh eggs on June 3rd. A maple 
crotch thirty-five feet up was selected 
by the Jays and Robin built in a sap- 
ling beside the walk. Thex Gatbirds 
are bringing up their family in the 
midst of a thicket formed by the un- 
restrained growth of ‘seedling fruit 
trees. 

The Wrens, Yellowthroats -and 
Robins sing and call off and_on all day 
long, from semi-exposed positions. 
The Thrasher gives two concerts of 
about one hour’s duration each, 6 4a. 
m. and 5 p. m. The Catbird warbles 
from the tree-top over the brooding 
mate or from the telephone pole, sing- 
ing for hours at a time in plain view. 
The Brown Thrasher sang only while 
his mate was attending to the first 
nest and setting. He was in full song 
for less than two weeks. 

The Swifts naturally used the big 
chimney connecting with the open fire 
place. The species listed below were 
ali found breeding within five hundred 
yards of home. Cardinal, Moeking- 
bird, Carolina Wren, Mourning Dove, 


Flicker, Red-headed Woodpecker, 
Bluebird, Wood Pewee and _ Field 
Sparrow. The latter variety and 


Grasshopper Sparrow, are very com- 
mon, Dickcissels fairly so and Indigo 
Buntings are numerous. 

June 11th I found an Indigo’s nest 
with three slightly incubated eggs, 
quite thickly speckled with light brick 
red. We watched both birds at the 
nest for half an hour. The site chosen 
for this unusually marked clutch was 


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the typical hillside blackberry patch. 
One day I counted four Indigo Bunt- 
ings’ nests, two were built away from 
the bushes, one in a clump of red 
clover, the other in a mixture of 
weeds and coarse grass. Another 
contained the only Cowbird egg found 
in over fifty small nests. This im- 
poster and the house cat are very 
scarce in this immediate vicinity, for 
which the birds should feel doubly 
grateful. 

Two Orchard Orioles’ nests were lo- 
cated, one in a little maple in a neigh- 
bor’s front yard. 

May. I found three nests of Yellow- 
winged (Grasshopper) Sparrow. 

An observing citizen called my at- 
tention to a Chickadee nesting in a 
door-yard fence-post. Goldfinches, 
Cedar birds, Martins, Cuckoos, and 
Warbling Vireo nest in the village. 
Bronze Grackles feed in colonies and 
are objectionable. Meadowlarks, Barn 
Swallows, Crested Flycatcher, King 
Bird, Red Wing, Towhee, Tufted-tit, 
Song Sparrow, Quail, Green Heron and 
Killdeer stay around the outskirts but 
often visit the town lots and trees 
while feeding. I found the first Kill- 
deer’s nest March 24th, in an unused 
pasture, incubation begun. Blue Jays 
were entirely absent from the town 
until April first when they arrived in 
numbers and proceeded to nest. 

Feeding stations, bird houses and 
baths have not been used to entice 
the birds. 

Only along the narrow creek bot- 
toms and neglected slopes can one 
find any timber or-bush near at hand. 
Here Crows and a few Turkey Buz- 
zards and Sparrow Hawks hold forth. 

June 11th I detected a Ruby-throat- 
ed Hummer’s nest attached to a 
beech bow, overhanging a shady ra- 


vine. In this same acreage a dozen 
yellow-breasted Chats were “acting 
up” and four nests found. In March 


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a beautiful flock of Purple Finches 
loitered here and Red-bellied Wood- 
peckers were not uncommon. This 
same grove harbors the Red-eyed 
Vireo and Summer Tanager, neither 
of which spend any time in town. 
Never before have I observed so 
many varieties breeding on a single 
town site. 
Gerard Alan Abbott, 
Lancaster, Ky. 


SHORT-BILLED MARSH WRENS 


On June 4th, 1922, the writer, in 
company with Mr. R. F. Miller and 
Mr. William Jay, both of Philadelphia, 
located a small, somewhat scattered 
colony of Short-billed Marsh Wrens 
near Salem, Salem County, N. J. 

We found about fifteen nests in all, 
the majority uncompleted, but birds 
found near each nest. Only one nest 
with eggs, a full set of five, which I 
judged to be about one-third incubat- 
ed. The nests were all placed low in 
clumps of “round-leafed sedge grass,” 
composed of dried grasses and lined 
with fine feathers, mostly from the 
breasts of King and Virginia Rails. 

Contrary to our belief the Short- 
bill’s nest is much smaller, and in my 
Opinion, much more attractive, than 
that of the Long-billed Marsh Wren. 
The bird itself is not as confiding, nor 
does it sing as often as its long-billed 
brother. This, of course, is my own 
short experience with them. Perhaps 
in other environments their breed- 
habits might be different. 

The marshes where this small col- 
ony was found are especially suited 
to those birds usually found in such 
places. Situated as they are, on the 
Delaware Bay and divided by Salem 
Creek, these marshes offer an excel- 
lent breeding place for many of our 
common water birds. 

Several pair of Black Duck were 
noted with young. One nest from 


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which the female flew with loud 
splashing wings, contained three new- 
ly hatched and two pipped eggs. 

Three EHgrets were seen flying 
toward a nearby swamp. As large as 
Great Blue Herons and Snow White, 
these beautiful birds held our atten- 
tion until the dark green of the 
swamp hid them from view. 

Splashing waist deep through sev- 
eral deep ditches, we entered a large 
piece of marsh covered with high 
marsh grass. Seeing a Marsh Hawk 
alight a fairly short distance away, I 
decided to investigate. Upon reach- 
ing the nest I was pleased to find a 
single egg and four young Hawks. 
These young puzzled me. Two of 
them were of about the same age ing 
quite large. The other two were of 
different sizes and each smaller than 
the first two. Now, I have never heard 
of this species incubating before a 
complete set had been laid. Can any- 
one give any further information on 
this subject? 

Nests of the Florida Gallinule, King 
and Virginia Rails and quite a few 
Swamp Sparrows were also found. 
This ended one of our most pleasant 
trips for the season. 

H. M. Harrison, 
Camden, N. J. 


A BIRD MARKET THAT ISA 
“PARADISE” 


To people who love birds and small 
animals, a visit to the ordinary bird 
store, where the little feathered 
creatures are prisoners in tiny six- 
inch boxes in semi-darkness, foul air 
and dirt, is a painful experience, al- 
together too suggestive of a peniten- 
tiary. But a.visit to a certain bird 
market or store in Los Angeles, owned 
by a lover of nature who has always 
had a passion for collecting rare and 
beautiful pets, though only recently 


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commercializing his hobby, leaves no 
such impression. 

It is said that there is no other such 
bird store in the world, and that even 
the finest public aviaries in the great 
metropolitan parks do not in many 
respects compare with it. It comprises 
about eighteen thousand square feet 
of ground, placed under wire netting, 
plentifully shaded by acacias and 
palms, provided with grass and fiow- 
ers, among which the birds fly or run 
seeking food, and supplied with foun- 
tains and ponds for the water fowl. 
It is all open to the public, and any 
one can walk along the gravel paths, 
with doves, quail, and other shy birds 
almost under foot. More than fifteen 
hundred birds, comprising about 
eighty varieties, some of them exceed- 
ingly rare, are at present accommodat- 
ed. Among them are “bleeding heart’”’ 
doves from the Philippines, so called 
because on the pearly gray breast of 
each is a dull red stain exactly like 
that caused by a shot wound; an Afri- 
can jungle fowl, said to be the pro- 
genitor of the ordinary barnyard fowl; 
a white pheasant of absolutely snowy 
plumage, and crested ducks from Hol- 
land. With the exception of the birds 
of prey, the small animals, including 
squirrels, monkeys, puppies, and rab- 
bits, run about like one big family.— 
Popular Mechanics.—W. A. Strong, 
San Jose, Cal. 


With this issue we close the splen- 
did series of half-tone plates. The 
original photographs of which were 
furnished by Dr. A. G. Prill, of Scio, 


Oregon. 
It is doubtful if a better series of 
photographic illustrations has _ ap- 


peared in any Natural History publi- 
cation of America this year, and our 
bird loving readers are certainly un- 
der obligations to the doctor for this 
contribution,—R. M. Barnes, 


164 THE OOKOGIST 


CROWS 


Somebody, of late, has written in 
the columns of The Oologist about the 
retaliation of Hawks against maraud- 
ing Crows. All this recalls vividly to 
my mind an occurrence that held, for 
me, a deal of pathos: 

A pair of Western Horned Owls, far 
north in the Valley of the Red River 
of the North, became objects of in- 
tense interest with me. Their eggs 
were always infertile. Their third 
set, one year, I had ieft hoping they 
might hatch. (1 having taken the 
former two sets after they had been 
sat upon about a month in each case.) 
This ran the nesting into June. The 
third nest was in a rotten topped lin- 
den tree, on the very brink of the 
South Fork. In order to make it cox- 
fortable, the female Owl had gnawed 
away a section of tough bark and 
wood at one side of the not over-large 
cavity. Approaching the place, one 
late day in early June, I found a 
mighty caw-cuss in progress. Creep- 
ing slowly to the immediate vicinity 
of the nesting spot, I watched a high- 
ly moving spectacle. 

The Crows, in relays, were darting 
in impotent wrath at the very head o: 
the mother Owl. Bracing herself, she 
snapped her beak at them, the very 
image of protective combativeness. 
When a Crow would come nearer than 
usual, the Owl repeatedly arose to the 
smiting, fairly leaving her perch there- 
for. Nearer and still more near | 
crept, until only a few feet away. Too 
near it proved, for suddenly the Owl 
swept outward and downward from 
her perch on a thick-leaved aspen. 
And the assembly dissolved to re- 
assemble in the distance. 

P. B. Peabody, 


Blue Rapids, Kans. 


OWL FOOD 


Along the ocean front from Miami 
Beach northward for a distance of 
about seven miles, is a fine rock and 
oil surfaced road. As a rule it is 
about fifteen feet back from the sandy 
beach and extreme high tide. Be- 
tween the road bed and the sandy 
beach is a heavy growth of rank 
grass, some bushes, cacti, and a rank 
growth of beautiful tall sea oat. On 
the west side of the roadway, and on 
over to the bay, we find overgrown 
with the sea grape, cacti, buttonwood 
and mangrove. 

This last named area is the home of 
several species of mice, marsh rabbit, 
cotton tail, and the wood and water 
rats. Often during the day time while 
traveling this stretch of road, I have 
seen all the above mentioned mam- 
mals cross the road toward the beach 

At night, however, there must be a 
regular migration of mammals across 
the road to feed on the wild oats. 

Traveling up this stretch of road- 
way during the warm summer nights, 
I have in one trip, seen with the aid 
of my spotlight, and by flashing on my 
bright headlights quickly, as many as 
twenty Florida Screech Owls (Otus 
asio floridanus) and Florida Burrow- 
ing Owls (Speotyto-c-floridanus)  sit- 
ting in the roadway catching these 
mammals that pass back and forth 
across this open stretch. 

These Owls have evidently soon 
learned of an easy place to capture 
their food. 

I now wonder why the larger Owls 
do not resort to the country highways 
for an easy living, for one always sees 
numerous rabbits when traveling 
nights. 


Harold H. Bailey, 


Miami Beach, Fla. 
Oct. 15, 1922. 


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MEETING THE ACADIAN OWL 


There is no bird whose acquaintance 
I was more pleased to make than the 
tiny Acadian or “Saw-whet” Owl. It 
was altogether fitting that this formal 
meeting should have been long de- 
ferred—it is no slight favor to know 
so distinguished an individual; to 
have had it happen so recently as 
March 19th, 1921, in southwestern 
Pennsylvania, is only a further tribute 
to the desirability of the acquaintance- 
ship. First of all, that is the second 
smallest Owl in America, the smallest 
east of the Mississippi. Then again, 
if the species be not lawfully classed 
as ‘very rare’ it is indeed seldom that 
they are seen. Their daylight habits 
are so retiring, their size so easily 
overlooked, that few ornithologists re- 
port personally encountering them. 

A few words as to the manner of in- 
troduction to my first Acadian Owl. It 
was a very hot morning (a March 
thunder storm later), I was sitting on 
the thick dry leafage that floored a 
small piece of open, thickety wood- 
land, watching two Mourning Cloak 
butterflies celebrating their natal day 
among the just-opening hepaticas. 
My interest was caught by a nearby 
Tufted Titmouse who seemed curious- 
ly and un-Titmousely fighty at every 
movement or noise. Something was 
not just right in the neighborhood, 
and he felt it. A moment later a 
sharp alarm note from a Chickadee 
made him bolt precipitously into a 
grapevine tangle. No sooner had he 
done so than he began chattering ex- 
citedly, adding his scolding to that of 
a brace of Chickadees, so in no time 
at least fifteen birds came tilting to 
the spot. There must be a Screech 
Owl in that grape tangle, thought I, 
and proceeded to investigate. What 
I found just over my head gave 
me a start also. What a small Screech 


Owl! And what an off-shade of 
rufous! No ear-tufts, either! Why, 
it is a Saw-whet Owl. The only little 
Owl in eastern U. S. who does not 
sport the expressive ear-tuft is the 
Saw-whet. He regarded me in a ludi- 
crously anxious manner, cocking his 
gaze doubtfully at every change in my 
position; he appeared hardly able to 
make me out at all, although his eyes 
were strained to their roundest in the 
effort. When a Screech Owl gazes at 
you, you feel that he sees you quite 
adequately; the brilliant yellow of his 
irises heightens the keen-eyed effect. 
But this raptorial pigmy above me 
lacked that intense yellow iris, his 
was almost a brown. The round, full 
pupils, and the odd pencilling radiat- 
ing around the eye-sockets like ‘“‘crows’ 
feet,” gave them a “hollow-eyed” tired 
out look. 

About three-quarters the size of dis- 
tant cousin ‘Screech Owl, he probably 
did not weight as much as a Robin; 
yet a certain raptorial dignity, as 
much as his round, owl-shaped head, 
gave the impression of adding ounces 
and inches to his frame. Five or six 
broad stripes of rich dull brown on a 
background of white varied his chest 
markings from the Screecher’s, whose 
frontage is mottled—mottled either 
black and gray or ferruginous, which- 
ever phase the latter favors. As I 
walked circles about him, he screwed 
his head round and round in that re- 
markable way an owl has; he let me 
note minutely the fawn-olive colora- 
tion of his back, permitted me to set 
him swaying gently up and down by 
pulling a branch, but did not offer 
flight. Finally, when I could nearly 
touch him, he flew out, silent as a 
moth, to a second vine twenty yards 
off, subjecting himself thereby to..a 
most insulting review by a corps of ‘in- 
dignant Chickadee. 

Three weeks will elapse before my 


166 


new ‘find’ starts spring housekeeping, 
and I took occasion to note several 
promising tree holes and cavities in 
the vicinity where I might later call 
to meet the other half of this elfin 
pair of Owls. Once, years ago, beside 
Lake Ontario, I had heard the Saw- 
whet Owl’s squeaky voice at midnight, 
rasping away at the saw that ever 
needs sharpening. It is an unmistak- 
able sound, and saw-whetting exactly 
describes it. 

All writers speak of the Acadian’s 
‘tameness,’ and of Mrs. Acadian’s total 
lack of resentment at man’s intrusion 
into the nesting precincts; but the 
most curious of all incidents concern- 
ing this bird I think is this related by 
the famous naturalist, Dr. Elliott 
Coues: “In the hollow of an oak, not 
far from Germantown, (Pa.), lives a 
common chickadee squirrel (Sciurus 
hudsonius), with a specimen of this 
little Owl as his sole companion. They 
occupy the same hole together in per- 
fect harmony and mutual goodwill. It 
is not an accidental, temporary asso: 
ciation for bird and squirrel have re- 
peatedly been observed to enter the 
same hole together, as if they had al- 
ways shared the apartment. But what 
benefit can either derive from the 
other?” 

R. Fuller, 
EK. Jeffreys, N. H. 


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BOOKS RECEIVED 


Report of Chief Game Guardian 
Province of Saskatchewan, Canada, 
1922. 


This very comprehensive review of 
the activities of this office is as usual 
well worth pursuing. Deductions as 
to conditions in that Province are as 
follows. Wild Ducks are increasing; 
Geese holding their own; Swan in- 
creasing; Cranes locally about station- 
ary. The good news is also given that 
at least one nest with two eggs of the 


Whopping Crane was discovered last 


season. Prairie Chickens, Ruffed 
Grouse, Hudsonian Partridge are re- 
ported as increasing. The report 


shows 142 convictions for violation of 
Game Laws and 223 confiscations. The 
distribution of 44,500 pieces of print- 
ed matter is reported. The giving of 
100 lectures with an aggregate attend- 
ance of 16,264 people is also referred 
to as well as activities in bird band- 
ing. 

And as to big game it reports last 
season as one of the busiest with 927 
big game animals killed. It refers to 
a red moose, which of course is a 
freak, and reports a marked scarcity 
of all kind of fur-bearing animals; 
and contains specialized reports of 
thirteen local Provincial Game Guard- 
ians, and the names and address of 
approximately 330 local voluntary 
game wardens; shows the issuance of 
four official collecting permits only 
for the entire Province. This latter 
item is truly a pitiful showing. All 
in all this publication is a splendid 
contribution, and far from the least in- 
teresting portion of which is the last 
couple of pages devoted to report of 
H. H. Mitchell, Provincial Naturalist. 

R. M. B, 


Wy tal 15 


MARSH HAWKS 


While in the vicinity of Regina, 
Sask., during the latter part of April, 
1921. I had under observation a pair 
of Marsh Hawks (Circus Hudsonius) 
and on May 5th located their nest con- 
taining two eggs. It was situated 
about seventy-five yards from a con- 
stantly used road and on unbroken 
prairie covered with small scrub about 
eighteen inches high. 

I visited the nest several times and 
as has always been my experience, 
the birds became very excited, keep- 
ing up a constant “kekking” and when 
close to the nest, swooping down with- 
in a few feet of my head. 

I was rather puzzled, however, by 
the actions of the male which was in 
the full adult blue plumage. As soon 
as I approached another patch of 
scrub a short distance away, he be- 
came very excited, swooping round my 
head as before. As this happened 
each time in the same place, I 
searched round and soon flushed an- 
other female from five eggs, the sec- 
ond nest being not more than 150 
yards from the first one. 

As this and the actions of the male 
seemed to me to be unusual, I com- 
menced a series of observations last- 
ing about two weeks. I would go from 
one nest to the other, sometimes one 
first and sometimes the other, but the 
same male, and the only one visible, 
followed me from one nest to the 
other seemingly equally concerned 
over both. At other times after visit- 
ing one nest I would wait for a snort 
time and without losing sight of the 
male who usually retired to a certain 
post a short distance away, work my 
way around and approach the other 
nest from the opposite direction. The 
result, however, was always the same. 
The bird would leave his post and go 
through the same tactics over the sec- 
ond nest as he had done over the first. 


OOLOGIST 167 


I was unfortunately unable to con- 
tinue my observations until the young 
were hatched, but for a period of over 
two weeks I had the nests frequently 
under observation at various times of 
the day, but at no time did I see more 
than three birds at one time on this 
particular piece of prairie and always 
the male and two females. 

It may, of course, have been that 
one male was always away hunting at 
the times I was there, but these 
Hawks are very plentiful round Re- 
gina and I have found a large number 
of nests during the two years I was 
there. I do not, however, remember a 
case when the absent bird did not re- 
spond immediately to the alarm notes 
of its mate, apart from which, goph- 
ers and field mice are extremely plent- 
iful close by, that it would not be 
necessary for the birds to go any dis- 
tance in search of food. The country 
is absolutely open and it would be 
quite impossible for the bird to be out 
of sight, if in the vicinity of the nest. 

While I would not like to say that 
this bird had mated with two females, 
I think the circumstances are of suffi- 
cient interest to record, and it may be 
that some of your readers may be 
able to offer some explanation. 

L. S. Dear, 
Fort William, Ont. 


“CANADA GOOSE MIGRATION” 


About 2 o’clock March 22, 1922, 
twenty-seven Canada Geese flew low 
over our house, headed North. 

Ramon Graham, 
Ft. Worth, Texas. 


168 THE OOLOGIST 


LIST OF SETS WITH COWBIRD 
EGGS 


Meadow Lark 1-3 and 1 Cowbird. 
Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1-3 and 1 
Cowbird. 
Kingbird 1-2 and 1 Cowbird, 1-2 and 
2 Cowbirds. 
Robin 1-2 and 1 Cowbird. 
Slate-colored Junco 1-1 and 2 Cow- 
birds. 
Baltimore Oriole 1-5 and 1 Cowbird. 
Red-eyed Vireo 1-2 and 1 Cowbird. 
Chipping Sparrow 1-4 and 1 Cow- 
bird. 
Yellow Warbler 1-4 and 1 Cowbird. 
A. Goldfinch 1-4 and 1 Cowbird, 1-6 
and 1 Cowbird. 
Cedar Waxwing 1-2 and 1 Cowbird. 
Swamp Sparrow 1-4 and 1 Cowbird. 
Savanna Sparrow 1-4 and 1 Cowbird. 
Song Sparrow 1-4 and 2 Cowbirds. 
Chestnut-sided Warbler 1-2 and 2 
Cowbirds. 
Myrtle Warbler 1-4 and 2 Cowbirds, 
1-4 and 1 Cowbird. 
H. P. Bingham, 
Barrie, Ontario, Canada. 


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166 


“SAN D” 


We have received Vol. 2, No. 3-4, of 
The Journal of the Museum of Com- 
parative Oology, and in it find a num- 
ber of things, of some interest to the 
average Oologist. Witness; (Page 
64.) 


“There can be no doubt in a display 
collection. a bedding of eggs in a 
smooth level layer of fine gray beach 
sand is ne plus ultra. -The eye hence- 
forth will- never accept any other 
artifice.” 


This pronouncement must of course 
be accepted as final, because it comes 
from one revelling in self appointed 
and self proclaimed and self published 
leadership. The result necessarily 
following will be that the great col- 
lections in the National Museum at 
Washington, and of John. M. Thayer, 
Lancaster, Mass., A. C. Bent, Taunton, 
Mass., and The New York Museum of 
Natural History; and our own modest 
accumulation of eggs; must either be 
not displayed, junked or great ship- 
ments of “fine gray beach sand” ac- 
quired; because,—“The eye hence- 
forth will never accept any other arti- 
fice.’ It takes a good deal of sand 
even when backed by such self ap- 
pointed leadership to require this to 
be done. 

It takes a good deal of sand to ac- 
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within less than a year after having 
signed, published and declared to the 
Oological World such prices in a Cata- 
logue, to go back on the work of the 
Committee, and publish a “Challenge” 
to exchange men wherein the prices of 
71 varieties are challenged! 

We have practiced law nigh onto 
forty years and have seen many juries 
in the trial of cases, and heard many 
verdicts rendered. Personally we have 
never thought very much of a juror, 
who after having taken a juror’s oath, 


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to try a case, and after trying the 
same and rendering a verdict therein, 
went out upon the street and sand- 
bagged the other jurors, by question- 
ing the correctness and accuracy of 
the verdict that he just signed and as- 
sisted in rendering. It takes “Sand” 
to do this. 

It takes sand to criticise the size of 
a brother Oologist’s collection as on 
page 61, of this Journal, and on the 
very next page advertise for “practi- 
cally unlimited quantities” of bird 
eggs. More sand than the owner of 
the largest private collection of North 
American Bird eggs possesses. 

It takes sand to announce “We are 
ready” (Page 65-6) to accept and re- 
ceive donations of bird eggs and nests 
to a museum apparently mongrel, half 
private and half public, if the donated 
articles are not shipped “Charges co!- 
lect” even if such museum is to be- 
come “A world repository of bird’s 
eggs available alike for the inspection 
by the humblest studeat and for re- 
search provided the Oological Scien- 
tist, and collectors of world, will sup- 
ply us with the material.” 

The writer’s collection is the result 
of his own individual effort, and in its 
accumulation we have not leaned in 
upon the generosity, nor sentiment Of 
any kindly disposed old ladies. 

It takes sand to descant upon crowd- 
ing, as the “general fault of most col- 
lections” after publishing in Vol. I 
March 1920 the illustration of 47 Hum- 
mingbird nests jammed into one small 
drawer. Another shinning example of 
how “not to do it” appears on page 11 
of the August 16th, 1921 issue of The 
Journal. Here are shown 17 Wrens’ 
nests, arranged to look as if they had 
fallen into a drawer from a passing 
cart—but no Sand seems to have ac- 
companied the upset. 

The unfortunate thing for the 
Museum of Comparative Oology, and 
its Journal is the extraordinary, 


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‘yJoyued Ydjopnoy Aq oJoYyq— 


‘oulgd|y Uy—tieq 


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168 


~volume of offensive ego which “leers” 
at us, in its self appointed leadership, 
through every act, movement, and pub- 
lication, of its director, whose ideally 
artistic temperment sees nothing but 
“TT.” That Mr. Dawson is so _ pre- 
occupied by self contemplation and 
self exploitation as to have neither 
time nor patience to proof read his 
own outstanding fault, is no reason 
why he should so continuously inflict 
it upon the other Oologists of the coun- 
try—not even on the “office boy.” 

R. M. Barnes. 


———_*@ o___ ——_ 


THE HISTORY OF ROBIN SNOW- 
BALL—AN ALBINO 


During the last week of May 1922, a 
lady living in Henry, seven miles from 
my home in Lacon, Illinois, hearing a 
commotion in her yard, glanced out of 
the window and saw a white baby 
Robin, on the lawn, fluttering its little 
wings and opening its mouth at every 
bird that went near it. 

The little fellow was too young to be 
able to fly, apparently very hungry, 
and seemingly deserted by its parents, 
for an observation extending over a 
considerable time disclosed, no bird 
paying any attention to this ghost-like 
Robin. 

Being of a kind heart, and fearing 
the conspicuous plumage of the help- 
less youngster would result in his 
destruction by boys or cats, she took 
him into the house and put him in a 
cage. The little fellow responded to 
kindness and feed, becoming very 
tame, taking most of his sustenance 
from her hand and when big enough, 
flying over the house in following her 
from room to room, perched on her 
shoulder frequently. Later he was 
moved into a larger out door cage and 
on July 22nd, was given to me and 
brought to my home in Lacon. Here, 
a cage three feet wide and four feet 


THE OOLOGIST 


long, and four feet high was built for 
him, and placed under a tree on the 
lawn. During the summer he was an 
object of much interest and curiosity 
to visitors and grew to be a normal 
Robin in every respect except color, 
though for some reason while out 
doors, he always maintained a dirty 
appearance. 

During my absence in August, the 
little rascal slipped out of the door of 
his cage as it was opened one day to 
put in the feed and, quick as a flash 
he was gone. He remained at large 
until the afternoon of the next day, 
about thirty-six hours, when he quiet- 
ly permitted one of the family to pick 
him up and transfer him again to his 
cage quarters in which he appeared 
thoroughly satisfied and glad to get 
back. 

About the first of October I moved 
the now adult bird into the house and 
turned him loose in a conservatory 
with glass sides and top 9 by 18 feet 
in which there are many dozen plants 
of all kind, and began feeding him 
prepared bird food such as is found 
in the bird stores for soft-billed birds, 
the result was magical. Robin Snow- 
ball immediately took to bathing once 
or twice a day, something he had de- 
clined to do while out in the yard ex- 
cept in very rare instances, which 
without doubt accounted for his dirty 
ill kept appearance. His feathers at 
once cleared up and the entire bird ex- 
cept the bill, legs and feet, is of ab- 
solutely snowy whiteness. The eyes 
are a perfect bright pink, rather large 
for a Robin. The bill, a very light 
ivory, and the feet and legs pinkish 
white with light yellow claws. Appar- 
ently this bird is perfectly normal in 
every way, and well satisfied with his 
quarters. It is very tame, eats from 
the hand, will come at call, and sel- 
dom, almost never ventured out of the 
conservatory, though large double 
doors continually open lead into the 


TRAE @@Ohoe 1 S34 169 


SOS ESE BL 


f.obin Snow-ball and His Nurse. Taken to Illustrate His Tameness 
—Photo by Roudolph Danhof. 


170 


dining room. He is very active in his 
movements, cheery in his disposition. 
The first thing in the morning he 
greets the first riser with a continuous 
and lengthy volume of Robin conver- 
sation. He does not appear to be quite 
as strong or vigorous as a normally 
colored bird, otherwise I can see no 
difference whatever except his color. 

I have referred to this bird as “he,” 
but am not certain whether Robin 
Snow-ball is he or she. 

R. M. Barnes. 

Lacon, Illinois, Nov. 27, 1922. 

The above was written for and pub- 
lished by the Illinois Audubon Society 
in its 1922 annual.—R. M. B. 


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BIRDS AMONG THE BUTTES 


P. B. Peabody, Blue Rapids, Kansas 

In The QOologist for December, 1921, 
I spoke, at some extent, of my many 
trips to North Dakota in quest of the 
nests of the Yellow Rail. It may in- 
terest readers of our indispensable 
little magazine to learn somewhat as 
to other birds of high interest with 
which, during all these years, I have 
become delightedly acquainted. 

One of the chief benefits derivable 
from repeated visits to a given locality 
lies in the learning thus made possible 
of sundry changes in the ornis of that 
region, during a lapse of years. 

In treating thus the fascinating 
country that I have come to know and 
to love so well, it will be wise first to 
give readers a fair idea of the topo- 
graphy and the plant-associations in- 
volved. 

West orf the flat Devil’s Lake Region 
of North Dakota, the contour of the 
land becomes greatly broken. This is 
particularly true of the Cheyenne 
Basin. Deep, winding valleys lie be- 
tween rounded buttes; and _ these 
buttes are seamed, in many cases, by 
sharp ravines that rise from the val- 


THE OOLOGIST 


leys to the crests of the sills. Natural- 
ly, morainic conditions: maintain, in 
some of these areas. Boulders, great- 
er and smaller, scattered or thickly 
strewn, lie everywhere. And these are 
the hosts of such lichens as I have 
never seen anywhere else, lichens 
gray and lichens brown and lichens 
sage-green, in tints of infinite varia- 
tion. The dominant vegetation of the 
higher levels is of a typically prairie 
character. Vetches abound; with puc- 
coons, pasque-flowers and other bril- 
liant blooms. The grass is of the pre- 
vailing type found on the western 
prairies, a fine-leaved succulent grass, 
growing hardly over a foot in height; 
and a very short grass that curls in 
its drying. This plant-association is 
the manifest delight of the Manitoba 
Horned Lark, the Western Vesper 
Sparrow, the Western Grasshopper 
Sparrow, the Baird Sparrow, the Lark 
Bunting, and most abundantly, the 
Chestnut-collared Longspur. 

In many of the “gorges,” or ravines, 
there grows the “buffalo berry,” a 
wonderful shrub, stunted, always; and 
often gnarled and writhed by the 
weight of winter snows. Associated 
with this is the “buck-bush,” a tiny 
shrub amidst the dense growths of 
which there love to nest the Short- 
eared Owl, the Marsh Hawk and su=- 
dry Ducks. (And one must not over- 
look, in the category, the Prairie 
Sharp-tailed Grouse, which is particu- 
larly associated with this environ). 
On the margin, also, of the buck-brush 
areas, nests, rather commonly, the 
Clay-colored Sparrow. In the choke- 
cherry brush, of higher lift, mostly in 
the neighborhood of lakes and lagoons, 
nest the Hastern Kingbird and the Cat 
Bird. (Rarely, also, the Alder Fly- 
catcher pipes, here, his laconic ‘‘Pip’’). 

Along the Cheyenne Basin once 
nested fairly innumerable Ducks, with 
now and then a pair of Canada Geese. 
Rarest of all, of course, was the Sand- 


THE OOLOGIST Nl 


hill Crane, which I found nesting but 
once, and that, long, long ago. Coots, 
of course, are found nesting, common- 
ly, amid the coarse grass or the cat- 
tail areas; along with Prairie Marsh 
Wrens and sundry semi-aquatic Spar- 


rows: Judd-Song, Nevada-Savanna (h), 
Nelson, and possibly, the Le Conte. 
(This species, however, rarely de- 


scends from the willowy meadows of 
the uplands). 


Of course, the Bobolink and the 


Meadow Lark, (neglecta), fail not, 
from such choice environ; and, oh, 
the Phalaropes, the giddy, gay, de- 


mure, mis-mated Wilson Phalaropes! 
A whole chapter of delightful comedy 
inheres in them! Among the rarer 
birds of the region are the Upland 
Plover, once common, now rare, 
thanks to the wholesale murderings to 
which they have been subjected, on 
the prairies of Texas, the Western Wil- 
let and the Marbled Godwit. (Both of 
the latter, some of you older “boys” 
may be surprised to learn, nest almost 
exclusively on the upland. 

Among the most numerous of the 
birds of the Cheyenne Region is the 
Montana Red-wing. Superb, as all its 
fraters are, this Red-wing has charms 
peculiarly his own. More mellow his 
call; more restiess his mien; more 
dainty his nest; more astonishingly, 
more bewilderingly beautiful the eggs 
of his mate! But oh, the changes of 
these seventeen years! No more call 
the Sandhills of an early morning. The 
gay “Her-le-e-e-r’” of the Upland Plov- 
er is heard no more. Of the dozen 
species of Ducks, the Mallard, the Pin- 
tail, the Blue-winged Teal and the 
Ruddy, alone remain, (although to be 
sure, further north I have recently 
found, to my delight, the Gadwall and 
the Baldpate nesting). 

The Black-crowned Night Heron has 
disappeared. The Canada Goose has 
discreetly vanished. The Pinnated 
Grouse is, I am inclined to believe, 


slowly receding from the area it had 
once begun to usurp from its second- 
cousin, the Sharp-tail. 

Some birds, just a few, are increas- 
ing in number. Chief among these will 
stand the Clay-colored Sparrow and 
the Nevada Sparrow. The McCown 
Longspur is quite as locally distribut- 
ed as of old, and perhaps a trifle less 
uncommon. (It seems to favor, for its 
nesting, the newly-sown fields 0° 
wheat in later May) . It is a delight 
to record the Chestnut-collared Long- 
spur, most exquisitely beautiful of all 
prairie birds, as well holding its 
own. And this, one believes, will con- 
tinue indefinitely, thanks to the untill- 
ableness of large areas of morainic 
hillside and plain. 

In speaking of the birds that largely 
were, I have quite over-looked the Bur 
rowing Owl, because, perhaps, one 
rarely runs across it. Yet quite as of 
old, in places where boulders lie thick 
and badger holes abound, one may 
come upon a male, during the early 
days in June, winging, in ghostly 
flight, from hillcock to hillcock, very 
clumsily betraying at the last, as do 
so many birds that worry, the little 
mound, so densely strewn with 
powdered horse-manure and _= grass- 
hopper legs, all margining an eight- 
inch hole that trends, slopingly, down- 
ward and onward, to where Madame 
is sitting on her eight white eggs, up- 
on a mat of binding-twine. 

In giving the census of the aquatic 
birds of the Cheyenne region I have 
ommitted reference to the two 
species that have, with the Phala- 
ropes, given me most of delights, the 
Wilson Snipe and the Yellow Rail. 
(One might also tell of the rather rare 
Sora and the still rarer Virginia; but 
that’s hardly worth the while). In 
truth, both Yellow-Rail and Wilson- 
Snipe lore should make up, Kipling- 
wise, “another story; quite as it is 
likewise true of the Phalaropes. Ex- 


17 THE OOLOGIST 


cept for an apparent shifting, on the 
part of the Yellow Rails, (due, I feel 
sure, to intensive grazing of the 
meadows), all three of these, Rail, 
Snipe, Phalarope, are quite as common 
as ever. And the nests of three will 
continue still to elude all save those 
that have learned how! 

Since this article has been intended 
more as a sort of survey of the bird- 
life of the Cheyenne Basin than as an 
excursus into the fascinating domain 
of nest hunting, it may, perhaps, suf- 
fice to speak rather briefly of the birds 
that haunt the alkaline lakes of that 
region; and then devote what space 
remains at our disposal to some obser- 
vations on the social ways, and the 
tricks of nest-concealing, with the Wil- 
son Snipe. 

All told, one might fairly say that 
the entire Cheyenne Basin, bed of a 
noble ancient river, is a rather well- 
linked succession of alkaline lakes. 
(Of course, there are scattered lakes 
and ponds of this character on the 
plains and even at the crests of some 
of the lower buttes). But the alkaline 
lake, par excellence, is that of the low- 
est portions of the basin. Such lakes 
are wonderfully picturesque. Picture 
to yourself, now, a broad, flat surface, 
well-strewn with boulders of no great 
size. These encircle a wide reach of 
black muck; and this, in turn, an area 
of slimy marl. Shallow, indeed, are 
the waters, rarely over six inches, 
often much less. Here, in late May 
swarms of sand peeps wheel and 
whirl. Here a whilom Willet flashes 
into the sun rays the glory of his 
white-barred wings. Meanwhile, his 
inspiriting ‘“Ter-whear-whear-it” rings 
out exultantly. And then, maybe, if 
you are in luck, your startled ear will 
tingle as a clear, loud, mellow ‘“Tur- 
rit! tur-rit!” rings out, just over your 
head; while a majestic Marbled God- 
wit deigns to circle about you, in de- 
liberate survey, before passing on to 


his feeding grounds. And here, too, 
one must not forget, wheel and dip the 
flocks of Black Terns, reminding you 
of how you loudly laughed, but yester- 
day when you were ploughing lustily 
through lush grass and muck, asearch 
for something that quite eluded you, 
and a shrilly shrieking Black Tern 
dove down at you, and white-washed 
you, all over, with excrement. (And 
then you sighted the four-inch nest of 
marsh-mass, resting on the surface of 
the yellow water, simple enough, yet 
neat enough, with its ever-variant 
crown of three mottled eggs). As you 
drag your feet wearily out of the marl, 
(for you are wading out to the tiny 
island to visit the Ring-billed Gulls 
and the Spotted Sandpipers and the 
spot where you found, twelve years 
ago, the deserted nest of a Canada 
Goose), a softly uttered whistle fairly 
startles you with its distinctness, for 
all it was so soft. And then, present- 
ly, aS you gain the shore and find just 
a bit of narrow pebble-margin beyond 
the muck, your eyes catch,—and what 
a wonder it is!—four speckled eggs, 
quite the color of the gravel stones, ly- 
ing in a scantily heaped up cairn of 
little pebbles. And so, you have found 
a “nest” of the Piping Plover! Next 
day you are back amid the fine grass 
area, amid the coarse grass environ, 
of your Yellow-Rail meadow. In mud, 
sometimes to your knees, you flounder, 
listening most intently, for that longed- 
for ‘‘Tick-tick, tick-tick-tick,” with its 
mere suggestion of the hollow throati- 
ness of the call of the Virginia Rail. 
Then, of a sudden, you hear a sound 
that is neither call nor cry, just a mel- 
low, far-sounding whistle, as of vi- 
brant wings. At intervals, quite 
strangely uniform, you heard it. And 
it was far in the air! 

Then, presently, you caught sight of 
the source of that exhilarating sound. 
On fitful wings, looping long, slow 
loops, there was a snipe. And, ever 


THE OOLOG:8T 


and again, he would rise a trifle on 
upward loop, without perceptible in- 
crease of speed in the wing-beats; 
and often with tail not spread. How 
utterly this vision blighted the bud- 
ding theory that the winnowing of the 
Snipe was caused by the friction of 
air, through the stiff outer feathers of 
the tail! You heard that sound often, 
and largely in afternoon. From two, 
three, and even four birds, in the air 
all at once, the sounding came. 

There came a day when an anxious 
male Snipe began to circle about you 
not many yards away. Now and then 
he would perch on a stack-fence post 
and eye you, piercingly, ten minutes 
at a time. Yet, search as you might, 
not a female could you flush; neither 
could you validate the dictum that de- 
clares the female Snipe to answer the 
sounding of her mate while sitting on 
her nest. 

But ah, the second day as you 
floundered among the bogs where a 
male Yellow Rail had been most per- 
sistently clicking, a thing happened. 
Back and forth you had gone explor- 
ing that rail ground, with rows of 
flags, rod by rod, yard by yard. Then 
suddenly, up there fluttered from a dry 
bog, high-crowned with dead grasses, 
a female Snipe, gasping, fluttering, 
moaning! 

Scanty, indeed, the nest, and rare of 
beauty, to be sure, the eggs! One of 
them splendid in its umber-olive coat, 
was capped with what I call, not ir- 
reverently, a crown-of-thorns, a circ- 
let of intertwined straight lines. 

All this, three times, has been my 
ecstatic experience, on the Cheyenne 
Basin, in three different areas, five 
and forty miles apart. Do any of you 
wonder that I long to go again, that I 
am boyishly flinging up my hat today 
at knowledge that the trip has already 
been financed for the June of 1922? 


178 


A GOOD APPOINTMENT 


R. W. Tufts, of Wolfville, Nova 
Scotia, than whom no better Oologist 
exists nor many that are more widely 
and more favorably known, is now 
Chief Federal Migratory Bird Officer 
of the Maritime Provinces, of Canada. 

We congratulate the Canadian au- 
thorities upon the securing of such a 
man for this position. Beyond any pos- 
sible question he will make a good 
officer in that position and will look 
at the subject in a broader and less 
technical light than one who had no 
experience as a collector or acquaint- 
ance with collectors. We are delight- 
ed to know that he could be induced 
to accept this position.—R. M. B. 

Pte eS eS, 


ALBINO BLUE BIRD 


A newspaper clipping forwarded to 
us giving information that Chester C. 
Gardner, a farmer living near Dallas, 
Oregon, reports “‘A. snow-white bird in 
a flock of Blue Birds, that gathered on 
his farm in early November this year.” 
Whether this is the Western or Moun- 
tain variety is not stated.—R. M. B. 

PS ae 


IN CUBA 

A letter from our friend, G. A. Ab- 
bott, dated at Habana, Cuba, contains 
a few words concerning the birds of 
that territory as follows: 

“I was surprised at the abundance 
of the Yellow Palm Warbler. They 
dart among the flower beds of the 
city parks. Sparrow Hawks perch 
about the tropical foliage. Kill-deer 
and Meadow lLarks stay about the 
suburbs. Black and Turkey Buzzards 
are aS tame as domestic Pigeons. A 
few Osprey have been observed on 
the Gulf of Mexico, also Man-o-War 
and tropical birds. Mocking Birds, 
Quail Dives, Grassquits and Parrots 
are plentiful.” 


174 


BOOKS RECEIVED 


“Check List of the Birds of Illinois, 
together with a Short List of Two 
Hundred Commoner Birds, and Allen’s 
Key to Bird’s Nests.” Illinois Audu- 
bon Society 1922. 


This valuable little volume of eighty 
pages was prepared by Benj. T. Gault, 
than whom no better could have been 
selected for this particular work. It 
contains a faunal map of the State, 
Preface, Foreword of the complier— 
List of two hundred commoner birds 
of Illonois, arranged according to 
families . Key to Bird’s Nests, by Dr. 
Arthur A. Allen, of Ithaca, N. Y. In- 
troduction to Comprehensive List and 
Families, and that List containing 
three hundred and ninety-three va- 
rities, with short notes as to most of 
them and somewhat extended notes as 
to a number of varieties. It is a 
credit to the association. 

—R. M. Barnes. 


In American Forestry, Volume 28, 
page 617, October 1922, appears an ar- 
ticle by Dr. R. W. Shufeldt, on “Wild 
Pigeons and Doves” illustrated by 
thirteen half-tone plates from photos 
made by the author. This is fully up 
to Dr. Shufeldt’s usual high standard 
and reviews these two families of 
North American Birds in full. 


“The Woodpecker” is the title of an- 
other splendid paper by Dr. R. W. 
Shufeldt in American Forestry, for No- 
vember 1922, pages 584-603. It is popu- 
lar in style, and illustrated by thir- 
teen half tones, some from photo- 
graphs of living specimens, mounted 
specimens and drawings by the author. 
It is fully up to the Shufeldt standard, 
which is mighty close to perfection. 
American Forestry is to be congratu- 
lated in having such a contributor. 


R. M. B. 


THE OOLOGIST 


TWO CRETACEOUS BIRDS 


Ichthyornis and Hesperornis 

In a previous article was described 
the first bird, Archaeoperyx, which 
lived during Jurassic times approxi- 
mately 195,000,000 years ago. 100,000,- 
000 years later the next birds of which 
we have fossil record appeared, and 
our ideas of intermediate types are 
necessarily based upon interpretations 
of the evolutional development of 
Archaeopteryx toward the later forms. 

In Cretaceous times birds reappear 
in comparative profusion, as speci- 
mens from Kansas, North Dakota, 
Montana, New Jersey, and England 
have been obtained. During this 
hiatus their habitat had changed from 
land to sea for all of the known Cre- 
taceous species are aquatic. The 
vertebrated tail had almost vanished, 
the tail feathers had assumed a fan- 
like arrangement, the claw-like fingers 
had become united, and in some forms 
the wings had almost vanished. The 
Cretaceous birds retain several of the 
reptilian characteristics which Arche- 
opteryx possessed. The bones of the 
skull instead of becoming fused early 
as in modern forms, remained dis- 
tinct throughout life, and the teeth 
had not yet been lost. It is not strange 
that the presence of teeth in the 
earlier of the specimens to be found 
should at first have remained un- 
noticed, especially since they were 
very small. It did not occur to those 
who first examined them that birds 
could be provided with teeth, and it 
was some time before they were recog- 
nized. 

It is hoped that the great gap in 
avarian history will eventually be 
filled, but bird fossils in comparison 
with those of other groups of organ- 
isms are very rare. The record is 
somewhere in the rocks, and lucky, in- 
deed, will be the paleontologist who 
unearths it. 


THE OOLOGIST 175 


The two groups of Cretaceous birds 
are represented by Hesperornis and 
Ichthyornis. Hesperornis was large 
and flightless, specialized for diving. 
The wings were abortive, a _ single 
bone remaining of a wing which once 
was suitable for flying, and necessarily 
implies that following their evolution- 
ary development the wings passed 
through a long period of degeneration. 
The legs were powerfully constructed, 
and were unique in that they extended 
at right angles from the body, much 
as oars protrude from a row boat. This 
arrangement together with the highly 
developed swimming feet denotes in- 
tense specialization. In accord with 
the limb development was the elongat- 
ed head and body. It seems impos- 
Sible that these birds could walk upon 
land, but it has been suggested that 
the vertebrae were so articulated that 
the bird could flounder over the 
ground much in the manner of a seal. 
The tail consisted of twelve vertebrae, 
the last four being joined together in 
a terminal mass. It was articulate in 
a vertical plane and was_ probably 
used as an elevating rudder or as a 
paddle in swimming. Hesperornis had 
sharp pointed teeth set in a continu- 
ous groove. The interior portion of 
the upper jaw was without teeth, and 
was likely provided with a _ horny 
covering as in modern birds. Hesper- 
ornis was truly a formidable creature, 
often attaining a length of six feet, 
and it doubtless wrought havoc among 
the fishes upon which it preyed. 

Ichthyornis contrasted greatly with 
Hesperornis. While both were aquatic, 
Ichthyornis was about equal in 
size to a rock pigeon. Its teeth were 
comparatively large, and set in dis- 
tinct sockets twenty to each jaw, and 
were directed obliquely backward. The 
rami of the mandibles were loosely 
united, and it is probable that the 
jaws were not sheathed in horn. This 
arrangement of the teeth in sockets, 


together with the amphoeoelus Verte- 
brae (similar to those in fishes, hence 
the name Ichthyornis—fish bird) are 
distinct reptilian characteristics, as 
primitive as those of Archaeopteryx. 
Unlike Hesperornis the sternum was 
well developed, and the wings adapted 
for flight. 

These two birds living 95,000,000 
years ago were further apart than any 


two species living today (Marsh), and): 


yet they had a common ancestor in 
Archaeopteryx 100,000,000 years  be- 
fore. 
William Drumm Johnston, Jr. 
The University of Cincinnati. 
Bibliography 
1. Stromer von Reichenbach: 
buch der Palaozoologie, II. 
zig, 1912. 
Alleyne Nicholson and _ Richard 
Lydekker, Manual of Palaeontol!- 
ogy, Vol. II, Edinburgh. 
3. Fredrick A. Lucas, Animals of the 
Past, American Museum of Natural 
History, Handbook. New York: 


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“CAROLINA WREN BUILDING MA- 
TERIAL” 


Rowing from tree to tree out in our 
Municipal lake. We covered lots of 
the over-flowered parts of the lake ob- 
serving nesting cavities of Wrens, 
Owls, Chickadee, Woodpeckers, and 
Tufted Titmouse. i 

Among our most noticed discovery 
for the day was a Carolina Wren’s nest 
with three eggs. Wren on nest, which 
was composed of several different 
kinds of grasses, half a dozen different 
kinds of leaves, several feathers 
among which was a Barred Owls 
feather. Some green moss, horse hair, 
a snake skin, a few sticks, and twigs. 
Lined with grass blades and hair from 
horse mane, In a dead elm, one- 
fourth mile from shore, 5 feet up, 
cavity facing the north, large en- 


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trance, overhanging, well protected 
from rain. We never collected these 
eggs but spent quite a while watching 
the Wren.—‘From Note Book Notes,” 
by Ramon Graham, Ft. Worth, Texas. 


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EARLY NESTING OF COLAPTES 
AURATUS LUTENS IN PHILA- 
DELPHIA, PA. 


The average nesting period for the 
Flicker in Philadelphia, is May 10, ac- 
cording to my data, and nests contain- 
ing full sets earlier are a rarity. My 
earliest records are May 10, 1906, 
Torresdale, Philadelphia, nine half in- 
cubated eggs, and May 16, 1917. Fish 
House, Camden, N. J., eight hatching 
eggs. However, on May 7, 1910, at 
Harrowgate, Philadelphia, my brother 
William examined a nest containing 
eight new-born young; it was a last 
year’s hole, 30 feet up in a big, soli- 
tary half-dead buttonwood stub, in a 
field. This set was complete about 
April 27, allowing eleven days for in- 
cubation, and the first egg was laid on 
April 20, as the Wocup lays an egg 
daily. 

Richard F. Miller, 
Philadelphia, Penn. 


—_$<____¢<_—___—_—__ 


LATE NESTING OF THE YELLOW- 
BILLED CUCKOO IN PHILA- 
DELPHIA, PA. 


On August 29, 1910, at Frankford, 
Philadelphia, I found a Yellow-billed 
Cuckoo’s nest containing three eggs in- 
cubation fresh and traces of blood (in 
two). It was an old last year’s nest 
repaired, and was situated five feet up 
in a greenbrier-covered red maple 
sprout seven feet high, in a bushy cor- 
ner of a large woods. The nest was 
typical. Allowing twelve days for in- 
cubation the eggs would have hatched 
on about September 10, the nestlings 


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would have lived seven or eight days 
in the nest and would require at least 
three or more days perental care he- 
fore being able for flight, not being 
able, probably, to care for themselves 
before September 20, a remarkably 
late date, as Cuckoo usually leave this 
region in late September and early Oc- 
tober. 

My next latest record is August 12, 
1910, a nest of two fresh eggs in the 
lower end of this woods and presumab- 
ly that of the alms bird, an earlier 
nest. 

Richard F. Miller, 
Philadelphia, Penn. 


NORTH AMERICAN MIGRANTS 
SEEN DURING A WINTER IN 
PORTO RICO 


By Stuart T. Danforth 


The following observations were 
made between Oct. 8, 1921 and June 
30, 1922, on the western end of Porto 
Rico, mostly around Mayaguez. Most 
of the Ducks were seen at some lIa- 
goons near Lajas, in the southwest 
corner of the island. All of the birds 
observed were listed by Wetmore* ex- 
cept the /Yellow-throated Warbler, 
though I have additional data on sev- 
eral species about which he had little 
date. My records are lacking chiefly in 
shore-birds, which in some cases I had 
difficulty in identifying, as I was do- 
ing no collecting. 

I have not included in this list such 
forms as the Gulls, Terns, Pelicans, 
Herons, Black-necked Stilt, etc., which 
are common to North America and to 
Porto Rico, but which do not migrate 
to Porto Rico in the winter. 

An annotated list follows: 

1. Blue-winged Teal. Abundant. Oc- 
curs in large flocks on the lagoons. 
Last seen April 8. Two hundred and 
fifty were seen on that date, 


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2. Shoveller. A rare winter resi- 
dent. Last seen April 1. 

3. Pintail. One record only, April 8. 

4. Lesser Scaup Duck. A'bundant on 
the lagoons in winter. Large flocks 
were seen on each winter visit to the 
lagoons. Last date, Mar. 4th. 

5. Ruddy Duck. Not seen during 
mid-winter, but became abundant in 
and late winter and spring, (after Feb. 
18). Wetmore does not record it as a 
breeder, but I am firmly convinced that 
the species remains to breed, as large 
numbers were still present on the la- 
goons on June 28. On that date it and 
the resident Bahama Duck were the 
only Ducks seen. 

6. Sora. Common winter visitor, 
and very tame. Last date, April 8. 

7. Florida Gallinule. An abundant 
resident, but some individuals appear 
to be migratory, as the species is less 
abundant in summer than in winter. 
Nests with eggs and young are fre: 
quently found at all times of the year. 

* Alex. Wetmore, “Birds of Porto 
Rico,” Bulletin 15 of the Insular Ex- 
periment Station, Rio Piedras, P. R. 
1916. 

8. Coot. The same remarks apply 
for this species as for the preceding, 
with the exception that nests are 
found principally in October. 

9. Wilson’s Snipe. Abundant wizter 
resident, seen near the edges of the 
lagoons. Last record, March 22. 

10. Pectoral Sandpiper. Common 
during winter at the edges of the la- 
goons. Last seen April 1. 

11. Least Sandpiper. 
sen near the lagoons in winter. 
date March 4. 

12. Greater Yellowlegs. Abundant 
winter resident on the lagoons, and 
very tame, often permitting one to ap- 
proach within 15 or 20 feet of them. 
Last seen April 22. 

13. Lesser Yellowlegs. Propably 
mixed with the preceding species to 


Occasionally 
Last 


177 


some extent, but dates not kept sep- 
arate. 

14. Solitary Sandpiper. Rare visitor 
at the lagoons. Last seen March 4th. 

15. Spotted Sandpiper. Common 
winter visitor. The most evenly dis- 
tributed shore-bird, seen alike at the 
seashore, lagoons and mangrove 
swamps, but really common nowhere. 
Last seen April 1. 

16. Semipalmated Plover. One 
flock seen along the seashore in No- 
vember. 

17. Ruddy Turnstone. The common- 
est shore bird along the salt water. 
Seen regularly all winter, singly or in 
pairs, never in _ flocks. Hach one 
picked out some particular vantage 
point on the beach, and could almost 
always be seen either there or in the 
immediate vicinity. Some _ picked 
fallen palm trees, others rocks, and 
one chose a small wooden wharf, used 
as a rowboat landing place. The birds 
began to change to summer plumage 
before they left in the spring. Last 
seen on May 4. 

18. Duck Hawk. A few seen regu- 
larly at the lagoons during the winter, 
feeding on ducks, gallinules and coots. 
Last seen April 1. 

19. Pigeon Hawk. One record only. 
One seen in limestone cliffs near Que- 
bradillas on the north shore, on April 
12. 

20. Osprey. One record 
Boqueron Bay, March 22. 


21. Belted Kingfisher. Common -win- 
ter resident, widely distributed. Dates, 
Oct. 14, April 11. 


22. Barn Swallow. Uncommon win- 
ter resident, seen only at the largest 
lagoons, skimming over the water in 
small flocks. Last date, May 14th. 


23. Bank Swallow. Uncommon win- 
ter resident, sen only at the largest 
lagoon, (La Plata), where it was fair- 
ly common. Last seen on April 8. 

24. Black and White Warbler. Com- 


only, 


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mon and widely distributed winter 
visitor, always seen singly. It stayed 
later in the spring than any other mi- 
gratory Warbler. Last date, April 29. 

25. Northern Parula Warbler. The 
most abundant wintering Warbler seen 
in all kinds of localities. Last record- 
ed, April 15. 

26. Cape May Warbler. Rare winter 
visitor. Last seen April 8. 

27. Black-throated Blue 
Locally common. 


Warbler. 
Seen only in the 
higher mountains, never near the 
coast. Hspecially abundant on Mon- 
tuoso Mountain, near Maricao. Last 
date, April 15. 

28. Myrtle Warbler. Locally com- 
mon winter resident, apparently much 
more abundant towards spring, es- 
‘pecially in low, shrubby places, or 
‘arid regions where cacti grow. Last 
seen April 3. 


29. Magnolia Warbler. Rare winter 


visitor. Last seen April 3. 
30. Yellow-throated Warbler. Rare 
winter visitor. Only two _ records, 


Nov. and Dec. 31. 

31. Prairie Warbler. Fairly com- 
mon, but locally distributed during 
winter. Usually seen in growths of 
shrubs and small trees near the sea- 
shore. Last date, April 12. 

32. Oven-bird. Fairly common win- 
ter resident. A pair lived the last 
part of the winter in the back door- 
yard of the house I lived in. They 
picked up scraps of food that were 
fed to the chickens, and became very 
tame. They suddenly left on April 
20. 

33. Water-thrush. Occasionally seen 
during the middle of the winter. 

34. Louisiana Water-thrush. Much 
commoner than the above, alike near 
fresh water and in salt water man- 
grove swamps. Last seen April 22. 

35. Redstart. The most abundant 
wintering Warbler next to the Parula. 
Many brilliant males appeared just 
before the birds left for the North. 
Last seen April 26. 


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AN ALBINO PASSER DOMESTI- 
CAUS 


October 12, 1922 business called us 
to a farm near Enos, Indiana, about 
twenty-three or twenty-four miles from 
Kentland, in the same State. There 
with a flock of its kind we observed 
a perfectly pure white English Spar- 
row, drinking out of one of the big 
drainage district ditches. We were 
within twenty-five feet of the speci- 
men and had an excellent opportunity 
for observation, watching it for quite 
a little while. The only reason it 
does not greet visitors from one of 
the cases of our museum is the fact 
that the people on whose farm we ob- 
served this rava avis had no gun. 

R. M. Barnes. 


ALTONA FARM, CHRISTMAS DAY 
1919 


My Dear Mr. Barnes: 


Has it never occurred to you that 
possibly your subscribers might ap- 
preciate a few pages of that hypothet- 
ical list, the Christmas Day Bird Cen- 
sus? Why do you not stir yourself 
out Christmas morning and tramp 
ten or twelve miles up and down the 
banks of the Swanee river and give 
us the results of your observations. 
Your lists of the varieties that you 
had a perfectly clear view of at thirty 
feet and without a shade of doubt, 
know them to be what you state? 
Don’t come back at me and ask if 1 
have, for I will anticipate and state 
that, heretofore I have not. How- 
ever, as I believe you should feature 
that stunt in The Oologist. I am will- 
ing to be the goat and lead the column 
and this morning I gave the plan a 
try out. 

As a result, this evening, I have be- 
fore me a “‘list.” Yet, hesitate to send 
it in for publication, for reasons which 
appear in said list. Want to submit 


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182 


the same to you for an opinion and 
will wait with interest your decision 
as to whether it is of sufficient value 
to justify publication. 


I did realize this morning, however, 
that although Christmas came but 
once a year as some bright poet in- 
formed us, yet it was not possible to 
start on the bird listing tramp par- 
ticularly early. The cows had ts be 
pailed and the barns cleaned on this 
morning, just the same as on a!l other 
mornings of the year. So I found 
that I had to putter off a few chores 
before I could make the start. 


To proceed with the idea: first I be- 
lieve that Chapman suggests making 
note of the wind and weather. I won- 
der if Chapman knows what weather 
is. Or how much carlessness of an 
employee can influence the weather 
for good or bad. For whoever went 
out through the north pasture last, 
must have forgot to shut the gate 
and this morning I found the whole 
back yard full of wind. All that the 
people down east know about weather 
is that it is something to be experi- 
enced but not seen. That is one ad- 
vantage, people living in Colorado 
have over you. When I was down in 
York State, looking at the John Lewis 
Child’s mail bag collection—you re- 
member the time—when you got sore 
because I did not stop off to see you? 
I recall that it rained some. The con- 
tinuous rain was interspersed with 
slight showers, but where it all came 
from I could not tell; neither could 
Childs or the policeman, over in the 
corner drug store. I could not see 
half a mile in any direction to obtain 
a line up on the indications. (Neither 
could the policeman). 


But on this particular morning (in 
Colorado) I did see great gobs of 
weather in various directions. Hang- 
ing up over old Long’s Peak is a bunch 
with some more trying to stay hidden 
back of the main range. To the east, 


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thirty miles or so there is plenty of 
weather in sight. So apparent at first 
sight, that a second sight, later in the 
day will be prudent. 


My point of view was, therefore, 
somewhat narrow this morning and 
the immediate vicinity of the house 
and buildings appeared the most like- 
ly looking locations for the beginning 
of the “list.” (Let me quote as fol- 
lows): “As I now stand, pencil and 
shingle poised in hand, the wind is 
coming from behind yon chicken 
house, around the buggy shed 
thence down my neck at the back and 
out my overalls at the shoe tops. Its 
effect is quite in evidence on the 
birds; for every chicken on the ranch 
is under this shed and the pigeons are 
in airy flight (nit). 

But the list! On the barn 1 see 
three magpies. Under the cow shed 
I observe and record nine living speci- 
mens of pica; two parent birds and 
seven juv. Back of the hay stack, 
where we throw the dead animals, are 
seventeen Pica pica. On the roof of 
the chicken house there are eleven 
Pica pica hudsonia. About the pit, 
where the dead cabbages are interred, 
are—but—perhaps we had best cut 
short our “list” for your printer won't 
have enough pica to print it. 

Our Christmas Greetings have been 
somewhat scant this year. Plenty of 
verbal greetings but no substantial 
evidence, like the old felt slippers 
that stay with you to the end of many 
Christmas days. And this lack of sub- 
stantial Christmas greetings is prin- 
cipally on account of these magpies 
we are listing. For thereby has gone 
all of Mrs. D’s promised Christmas 
fund. When we came to this ranch, 
we came with this understanding: 
She was to have the revenues from 
the sale of superfluous chickens and 
useless eggs. The suggestion was al- 
so volunteered that Christmas pre- 
sents could be obtained with revenues. 


THE OOLOGIST 


I thought that I knew magpies then, 
but 1 know them better now. I con- 
sole her the best; I can for the loss of 
many dozens of eggs and young chicks, 
with promises of some great killings 
among the magpies, followed by the 
make up process. A bargain sale of 
specimen and the turning over to 
her of the funds thus realized. 

I have seen a magpie come out 
through the door of the chicken house, 
with a hen’s egg speared on its Dill, 
like an apple on a fork. This egg 
was taken to the nest up the gulch. 
We have realized that magpies have 
taken newly hatched young, one and 
two days old, from under the hen. 
In attempts to play even I have blown 
part of the contents of an egg through 
a drilled hole, inserted some pow- 
dered arsenic, sealed up the hole with 
some colorless tissue and seen the 
bird drop the egg to the ground, about 
thirty yards from the hen house. In- 
stead of taking it to the nest and 
vociferous young, up the gulch. 

If you want to kill magpies, first 
kill a hog. Take the offal, about 
thirty yards west of a shed in which 
you can hide. Then with a hole 
through the boards, sit with gun in 
position, both hammers raised, and 
with not a noise of movement to make 
except to pull the trigger. It’s a good 
sport, mixed with revenge and no one 
hollers louder than Mrs. D. when the 
report of the gun is heard. 

On the square, however, the magpie 
and bull snake put more bird nests 
with eggs out of commission in this 
region ,than can readily be estimated. 
If Florence Merriam Bailey would but 
lead the fashion by wearing magpie 
plumage on her hat and our friend, 
T. Gilbert Pearson, stride out with 
the hide of a bull snake draped about 
his hat for a band, these chic sug- 
gestions might be taken up by the 
population at large with the resultant 


188 


collection of magpies and bull snakes 
in wholesale lots by the manufacturers 
of hat plumes and hat bands. 

The bull snake collects the eggs 
from all the nests on the ground and 
some not on the ground. The magpie 
takes the balance. It is to be re- 
gretted that neither of them make 
edible dishes; thereby bringing about 
them protective legislation. That 
would be a blow indeed, and might 
lead to their speedy extermination. 

Here in Colorado we regret the 
magpie every day of the year. Oc- 
casionally on a few days we regret 
the American Ornithologists Union. 
For instance, about that time of the 
year when we receive the little cir- 
cular letter from the head office, ask- 
ing us to hustle in some new mem- 
bers. What sort of talk do they ex- 
pect us to put up to a prospective new 
member? It was something ten or a 
dozen years ago, to be on the member- 
ship list. Without solicitation on our 
part, we used to have sent us, such 
good things as the Hawks and Owls 
of the U. S., The Birds of Minnesota, 
copies of North American Faunas. 
But all we get now are catalogves 
from second hand book stores and 
prospectusii of expensive books about 
to be printed at the author’s expense, 
subject—Birds I found in the Jungle. 
If Ridgeway is not grinding out his 
big bird work for the benefit and ap- 
preciation of a group of American 
Citizens such as make up the Asso- 
ciate Membership of the A. O. U. what 
class of men or women are going to 
appreciate and comprehend said books 
better? Certainly not the Honorable 
Members of Congress. Yet in order 
to obtain the first issue of the set and 
get our name placed on the mailing 
list for the successive issues, I had to 
call on the Colorado Senators for aid. 

The large list of Associate Mem- 
bers have not much to say about vital 


184 THE OOLOGIST 


matters pertaining to the Association. 
We have to stand by and see Ober- 
holser stick his knife through all our 
historical and time tried nomenclature 
and cannot do a thing about it. Yet 
it is our dues in the aggregate that 
keeps the organization alive. If it was 
possible for about three hundred of 
us to get together in meeting, there 
would certainly be something doing. 

Now Barnes, if you are going to es- 
tablish this Christmas Day Bird List 
Column, give me advance notice next 
year and I will get into a region where 
I can compile a “list” that will not be 
so streaked with black and white, or 
strain your pica type to the limit for 
publication. 

Can you inform me as to the re- 
‘quirements admitting to the A. O. U. 
Membership class? Burnett thinks it 
must be relation by marriage but I 
told him I thought it was more ac- 
cording to the size of wire used. — 

Say, Barnes! You know that with 
all those eggs in my valise, I could not 
have possibly stopped off to see you 
on my way back from the east. You 
recall that incident about the two 
burglars and their adventure in the 
House of the Lawyer? One man paced 
up and down the walk outside, while 
his pal went inside. When the latter 
emerged, first man went up to him 
eagerly and inquired, “Did youse get 
anything, Bill?” “Naw!” said Bill dis- 
gustedly, “This house belongs to one 
of those lawyer sharks.” First burg- 
lar comes back quick with anxiety in 
his voice, “Youse didn’t lose anything 
did you Bill?” : 

Write when you get the time to the 
old address and believe me 

Your best friend, 
Pedioecetes. 


STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, 
MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, 
ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF 
CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, 
of The Oologist, published monthly 
at Albion, N. Y., for October 1, 1922. 

STATE OF ILLINOIS, 

County of Marshall—ss. 

Before me, a Notary Public, in and 
for the State and county aforesaid, 
personally appeared R. Magoon 
Barnes, who, having been duly sworn 
according to law, deposes and says 
that he is the owner of The Oolozist, 
and that the following is, to the best of 
his knowledge and belief, a true sta‘e- 
ment of the ownership, management, 
etc., of the aforesaid publication for 
the date shown in the above cavtion, 
required by the Act of August 24, 1912, 
embodied in section 443, Postal Laws 
and Regulations. 

Publisher, Editor, Managing Editor, 
and Business Manager, R. Magvoon 
Barnes, Lacon, Illinois. Not a corpor- 
ation. No stock has ever been issued. 
The Oologist is owned exclusively by 
R. Magoon Barnes. 

There are no bond holders, mort- 
gagers or other security holder, none 
have ever been issued. 

R. MAGOON BARNES. 

Sworn to and subscribed before me 
this 7th day of October, 1922. 

(Seal) FAY BALL. 

My commission expires Jan. 30th, 
1922. 


This issue closes Volume XXXIX, of 
this magazine. All subscriptions num- 
bered 428 or less run out with this is- 
sue, and you should give immediate 
attention to renewing the same; in 
other words, do it now. It would like- 
wise be a splendid boost for your 
little friend, The Oologist, if each sub- 
scriber would send the magazine to 
some friend as a Christmas present. 
Let us see how much interest in The 
Oologist will be evidenced in this 
manner. 

R. M. Barnes. 


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