THE OOLOGIST 



147 



Jesse T. Craven, 



This iiaiiie is well-known to all the 

 older readers of this magazine. Mr. 

 Craven for many years was active in 

 the field, exchanged much and built 

 up a large and well assorted collec- 

 tion of the birds of North America. 



It is a pleasure to present to our 

 readers with this issue, a plate (58) 

 showing a section of the collection 

 of 2>Iounted Birds of Mr. Craven. 



Of late years, we have seen little 

 from him in print. We trust that the 

 old spirit will seize him, that some 

 day he will "come back" and illumi- 

 nate these pages with much informa- 

 tion that we have no doubt is now 

 his alone. 



Yellow Warbler. 

 Noticing your paragraph in THE 

 OOLOGIST asking for notes of in- 

 terest, I thought I would write and 

 tell you about a peculiar discovery 

 I made last summer. I was out hunt- 

 ing for birds nests in Harmarville, 

 Pennsylvania, June 4, 1910, when I 

 found a Yellow Warbler's nest in an 

 elderberry bush about three feet from 

 the ground. In it were three eggs 

 almost hatched antl on picking one of 

 them up I saw what looked like an 

 egg sticking a little above the bottom 

 of the nest. On examining it I found 

 a Yellow Warbler's and a Cowbird's 

 egg hurried almost completely with 

 down. The bird had evidently done 

 this to get rid of the Cowbirds's egg. 

 Did you ever hear of a case like that 

 before? 



Thos. D. Burleigh. 



This is by no means uncommon. 

 The Yellow Warbler is the only bird 

 known which pursues this method of 

 avoiding the consequences of being 

 imposed on by the Cowbird. 

 Occasionally Yellow Warbler's nests 



are found two, and even three stories 

 high, showing the building of a new 

 floor over one or two different layers 

 of eggs. This Warbler will sometimes 

 even sacrifice one or two of its own 

 eggs in this manner in order to get rid 

 of the unwelcome egg that has been 

 deposited in its nest. 



Editor. 



Three Crops. 



Last March a pair of Crows nested 

 in a grove near town, the nest being 

 placed about thirty feet from the 

 ground in the top of a box elder. 



In May a pair of bronzed Crackles 

 built their own nest inside of it and 

 reared a family of four. 



September 12th I again climbed the 

 tree and found it contained two young 

 Mourning Doves a few days old. 



This is the highest I have ever 

 found their nests; often they nest on 

 the ground. The latest record I have 

 for bird nesting in Dakota is Septem- 

 ber 15, 1909, when I found a Mourn- 

 ing Dove nest with two eggs. Many 

 of the doves were flocking together 

 at this time for migration. 



Alex Walker. 



The Northern Plleated Woodpecker. 



(Ceophloeus pileatus albieticola). 



The Pileated, the king of our north- 

 ern woodpeckers, is a bird of the for- 

 est. The larger the timber and more 

 extensive the forests, the better he 

 likes it. In fact the pileated does not 

 seem to be found in settled or farming 

 districts except as a straggler. In 

 the mountains of Warren, Forest, Elk, 

 IMcKean and several other of the 

 counties of northwestern Pennsyl- 

 vania, there are large areas of practi- 

 cally uninhabited wild land. 



At the present time the greater 

 part of these wild lands have been 

 lumbered over. The deforested re- 

 gions are a wilderness of briars, laurel 



