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you can't purchase them. Arsenic 

 and alum are pretty high priced. 

 Cartridges cost twelve to fourteen 

 centavos. (six to seven cents gold.) 

 The most common staple articles, 

 sugar, salt, peper, coffee, etc are high. 

 Butter is unknown, except you prefer 

 a white cheesy stuff native made or 

 an imported tin with some evil ran- 

 cidly smelling grease to call by that 

 name. The only thing cheap down 

 there seemed to be to me the tobacco, 

 which would taste a good deal better 

 than it does if it was properly cured. 



A Correction. 



In my paper on the "Summer Resi- 

 dents of Philadelphia County, Pa." in 

 the October OOLOGIST, there oc- 

 cured the following mistakes, which I 

 will thank you to correct: 



For "Jonesdale" reads Torresdale; 

 for "Verusville" and "Cercesville read 

 Vereesville, and for "Willahichon" 

 read Wissahichon. 



The printer in the make-up, cut out 

 part of the paragraph accompanying 

 the remarks about the White-eyed 

 Vireo and left out most of that of the 

 Black and White Warbler. To be 

 correct these should read: 



"631. White-eyed Vireo:— Three 

 eggs and a Cowbirds's. 



636. Black and White Warbler; rare. 

 Flushed one May 30, 1898, in a woods 

 at Prankford, but failed to find its 

 nest, etc., as printed. 



The bad mistake of Jonesdale for 

 Torresdale is entirely my fault due to 

 carelessness in writing the word, by 

 joining the loop-less T to the other 

 letters of the word, and by making 

 my r's look like an n. I do not 

 wonder, on this acount, that the 

 printer thought the word was "what 

 it wasn't". 



R. F. Miller. 



My First Acquaintance With The 

 Pine Grosbeak. 



I first saw a few of these birds in 

 the cemetery at Columbus, Wisconsin, 

 in the very tips of the evergreens. 

 They seemed to be feeding on the 

 buds. They were quite uneasy and 

 soon left. I don't remember the date 

 more than it was sometime late ia 

 the 90's. I saw a small flock, and 

 a larger flock at this place a seasoa 

 or so later, both times in the winter. 

 In 1896-7 during the winter, I spent 

 six weeks in central Minnesota, where 

 I saw large flocks of them, sometimes 

 several hundred in a flock . They 

 feeding a great deal on the red 

 berries on the tree commonly known 

 as Mountain Ash. 



I got to see a number of the old 

 red males; they were very tame and 

 I could walk right in among them. 

 Those in the largest flock kept near 

 the ground. There was more or less 

 twittering and chirping going on. 



Geo. W. H. vos Burgh. 



The Swallow Tailed Gull. 



(Creagrus furcatus) 

 Inadvertantly at page 108 of the 

 present volume of THE OOLOGIST, 

 the statement was made that the pair 

 of skins and egg of this species re- 

 ceived by the Editor with the Charles 

 K. Worthen collection came from 

 "Guadaloupe Islands" — it should have 

 read "Galapagos Islands." The error 

 being specially serious in that the first 

 named locality would bring this spe- 

 cies within the territory of the A. O. 

 U. list, while the latter locality ex- 

 cludes it therefrom. 



A Large Set of Red Winged Black- 

 bird's Eggs. 

 On June 20, 1909, at Ocean View, 

 Cape May County, New Jersey, I 

 collected the unusual number of six 

 eggs from a Red-winged Blackbird's 



