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THE OOLOGIST. 



NEST AND EGGS OF OVEN-BIRD IN SITU. 



From photo by L. S. Horton. 



York City. Mr. Chapman illustrate,! 

 his paper by a beautiful series of 

 views of the home life of these inter- 

 esting birds on their own exclusive 

 island in the Indian River region of 

 Florida. This island is now a govern- 

 ment reservation, set apart especially 

 for these birds, and is the only place 

 on our coasts where they breed. The 

 slides showed old birds and young, of 

 varying sizes, nests, eggs, and method 

 of feeding, in which the young bird 

 puts its head well into the throat of 

 the parent. 



The first paper on the afternoon pro- 

 gram was "Some Breeding Warblers 

 of Demarest, N. J.," by B. S. Bowdish, 

 Demarest, N. J., illustrated by lantern 



slides. Ten species were enumerated 

 as known to breed, as follows: Black 

 and \Yhite, Blue-winged, Yellow, Chest- 

 nut-sided, Black-throated Green, Oven- 

 bird, Northern Yellow-throat, Yellow- 

 breasted Chat, Hooded, Redstart, and 

 the Louisiana Water Thrush, and sev- 

 eral others were spoken of as proba- 

 bly breeding, though the nests had not 

 been found by the author. Thirty 

 slides of the birds, nests, eggs, young,, 

 and nesting sites illustrated the paper. 

 The second paper was "Notes on Wing 

 Movements in Bird Flight," illustrated 

 by lantern slides, by William L. Fin- 

 lay, Portland. Oregon. Mr. Finlay has 

 accomplished the most wonderful re- 

 sults in certain branches of bird pho- 



