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THE OOLOGIST 



Fall Notes from Warren, Pa, 



This past Fall was dry. but not so 

 bad as last Fall. East of us they had 

 bad fires, but we got a little rain from 

 time to time when most needed and 

 escaped the dense pall .of smoke that 

 enveloped us last fall. 



September and November were un- 

 usually nice months, while October 

 was cold and stormy. At present win- 

 ter seems to be setting in in earnest. 

 The small bird migration was not ex- 

 tra good. Fox Sparrows were un- 

 usually plentiful but warblers rather 

 scarce. 



One Sunday I saw what I think was 

 an Orange-crowned, but as I didn't 

 have my gun I couldn't make sure. I 

 have taken several here however. 



There were a few shore birds and 

 I shot specimens of Kildeer and Semi- 

 palmated Plover Least and Semipal- 

 mated Sandpipers. Waterfowl were 

 very scarce. I more than made up for 

 the scarcity of interesting birds by 

 taking several good mammals for my 

 collection. , 



The first was an old dog Cross Fox 

 that has eluded the hunters for four or 

 five winters. It is a fine dark one and 

 just what I needed. The other was a 

 very large Wildcat (Bay Lynx) that 

 has ranged over a certain section for 

 seven or eight years, and was too 

 much for hounds and too cute for 

 traps. I had an idea of my own about 

 him so set a heavy trap and made 

 some dope to use instead of bait. It 

 worked, and a couple of weeks ago 

 on a Sunday morning, I found him 

 fast. He climbed forty feet up a hem- 

 lock tree carrying trap and a twenty- 

 five pound clog along up. I didn't 

 want an encounter up in the tree so 

 went three miles to a camp and bor- 

 rowed a rifle. It is one of the largest 

 I ever saw and in fine shape. It is 

 quite red. Legs, sides and head well 



spotted and mottled with black. Its 

 head is large as a man's with an un- 

 usualy luxuriant crop of sideburns. 



R. B. Simpson. 



A Golden Crowned Kinglet's Nest. 



While in New Brunswick, Canada, 

 during the nesting season I secured 

 a nest and eight eggs of the Golden- 

 crowned Kinglet. 



The spruce tree in which the nest 

 was placed was about one hun- 

 dred yards from a field on the edge of 

 a heavy wood. The chief varieties 

 of trees are spruce, hemlock and cedar. 



The nest was eight feet from the 

 ground, six feet out on a limb over- 

 hanging a small clear space in the 

 woods. It is cup shaped showing the 

 following measurements: Depth out- 

 side 4 1-2 inches; depth inside 3 3-4 

 inches; diameter outside 4 inches; di- 

 ameter inside 3 inches. Composed of 

 green moss externally and lined with 

 feathers of the Oven-bird, Canada Jay 

 and Ruffed Grouse, with the quills 

 pointing downward, almost forming an 

 arch over the eggs with the shafts. 



The nest contained eight nearly 

 round rich creamy eggs on June 10th, 

 1909. 



Other birds nesting in the same lo- 

 cality were Saw-whet, Owl, Pileated 

 Woodpecker, Canadian Spruce Grouse, 

 Bay-breasted and Blackburnian Warb- 

 ler and American Woodcock. 



Stanley G. Jewett. 



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