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of the city. 



LfOoking out for Monarchs on the 

 days following this great wave I saw 

 but few, though the weather was as 

 favorable as on the 23rd, which means 

 that the majority had passed South. 



That Monarchs fly South in fall is 

 well known and many are seen here 

 every year though in varying num- 

 bers, but I have never seen or heard 

 of anything like this migration and 

 I would have hardly believed it that 

 such a congregation were possible. 



It has never been found out what 

 becomes of the large number of Mon- 

 archs that go South in the fall, as 

 comparatively few are seen in Spring. 

 It must be that -most of them succumb 

 to cold, but the mildness of last win- 

 ter may account for a larger return 

 of them in Spring and the favorable 

 summer for an unusually large crop of 

 children. 



The early oold spell of September 

 14, when frost occurred in the north- 

 ern states, may have set the move- 

 ment in motion and passing steadily 

 southward the accumulation was per- 

 fected by continuous additions of 

 those who were ready to join. 



O. Widmann, 

 St. Louis, Mo. 

 September 29, 1923. 



AN INTERESTING EXPERIENCE 



For several years last past the 

 Editor of The Oologist, has become 

 increasingly interested in the Butter- 

 flies and Moths. Recently we started 

 in to build up a representative collec- 

 tion of species local to the County in 

 which our home is, and this may pos- 

 sibly later expand to include the more 

 representative species found in North 

 America. In the pursuit of this newly 

 acquired hobby, we have of course 

 had to lay a foundation with books 

 devoted to that subject. 



At the sale of the Child's Library in 



New York, we sat by and saw Ed- 

 ward's "Butterflies of America," and 

 Denton's "Butterflies and Moths," 

 sell without any effort to acquire 

 them. 



Later we place an order for these 

 two works with a dealer in books 

 whom we have patronized for many 

 years. He finally located Denton's 

 for us, and reported at last that he 

 had located a set of Edward's in Lon- 

 don, and that it would reach us short- 

 ly. 



After waiting several months word 

 came that the copy of Edward's had 

 been sold in London before his 

 second communication had reached 

 there. Ever since that this book 

 dealer and ourselves have been on the 

 look out for this work. 



About the 1st of November we lo- 

 cated a perfect copy of the three vol- 

 umes of Edward's stored away in an 

 old dusty barn in a nearby village, 

 aparently having been unused and un- 

 packed for many a year; with the re- 

 sult that they are now the property 

 of the writer, in addition to a copy of 

 Strecker's Butterflies, which were 

 thrown in by the seller without charge 

 for good measure. 



R. M. B. 



QUITTING 



John D. Sherman, Jr., of 132 Prim- 

 rose Avenue, Mount Vernon, N. Y., 

 writes us that he is going out of the 

 bird book business and will confine 

 himself hereafter strictly to Insect 

 Books. Now is a good time to buy 

 Bird Books, of this dealer, at reduced 

 prices. 



R. M. Barnes. 



