THE OOLOGIST 



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Some Fulton County, (N. Y.) Birds. 



During the past two years a few 

 interesting birds have been added to 

 the Avi-fauna of Fulton County, New 

 Yoi-k. These are as follows: 

 Uria lomvia, Linn. Brunnich's Mur- 

 re. 



A single specimen was shot Decem- 

 ber 1^0, 1908, at Red Bunch, near Mun- 

 sonville. It was sitting on a snow 

 liank, and as the hunters approached, 

 Hew directly toward them, when they 

 shot it. 



Larus Philadelphia, Ord. Bonaparte's 

 Gull. 



A young mounted specimen of this 

 gull is in the Fulton House at Canada 

 Lake. It was shot on West Lake, in 

 the fall of 1900. 



Totanus melanoleucus, Gmel. Great- 

 er Yellow-legs. 



A mounted specimen is in the Ful- 

 ton House at Canada Lake. It was 

 shot in front of the hotel, in October, 

 1897. 



Bartramla longicauda, Bechst. Bartra- 

 mian Sandpiper. 



On May 6, 1909, and .June 23, 1909, 

 single specimens were observed. On 

 .lune 27, 1909, I noted four specimens 

 in a grassy field, one mile East of 

 .Johnston. Three were noted in the 

 air at one time. On .June 28, 1909. 

 I went over and secured a specimen. 

 There is scarcely a doubt but that the 

 bird was breeding, but careful search 



failed to reveal the nest 



Picoides arcticus. Swains. Artie three- 

 toed Woodpecker. 

 .\ male was secured in Cold Spring 

 Woods. Southeast of Gloversville, New 

 Ycrk, on October 30,1907. by Carver 

 Pruyn. 



Nuttalornis borealis, Swains. Olive 

 sided Flycatcher. 

 A specimen was taken in the Johns- 

 town Cemetery, May 30, 1909. This 



specimen and the next are in the Cor- 

 nell University collection. 

 Empidonax flaviventris, Baird. Yel- 

 low-bellied Flycatcher. 



A beautiful specimen was secured 

 May 22, 1909, in Mosher's Woods, 

 Northeast of Johnstown. It was sitt- 

 ing low down on a brush-pile, in com- 

 pany with male Indigo Buntings. The 

 only other record for the county that 

 I have is September 26, 1903, in the 

 chestnut woods, three miles west of 

 Gloversville, New York. 

 Dendroica tigrina, Gmelix. Cape May 

 Warbler. 



Two males in Johnstown on May 18, 



1909. The first record for the county. 



CHARLES P. ALEXANDER. 



increase. 



The year 1908 there was a pair of 

 Western House Wrens which built be- 

 hind a board so placed as to form a 

 miniature tunnel between the logs of 

 a log house, near Rathdrum, Idaho. 

 They raised two flocks and the next 

 year I placed three bird boxes up and 

 they were occupied during the summer 

 of 1909 and one pair still nested be- 

 hind the board. 



The results from the three boxes 

 were twenty-one offspring who lived 

 principally on plant lice and small 

 bugs, which is certainly a great item 

 to the orchardists. 



In all, four pairs produced twenty- 

 eight young, which required a great 

 many plant parasites. 



A Western Blue Bii'd nested in (Uie 

 of the boxes after the Wrens left it 

 to tend their young. 



PERCY J. JUDD. 



What do you think of the OOLO- 

 GIST this month? We are now hook 

 in the harness and will give you the 

 best OOLOGIST ever published dur- 

 ing 1910. Just see if we do not. 



