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THE OOLOGIST 



4 eggs incubated about i. Nest placed 

 on a fork of a horizontal limb of a 

 spruce tree 20 ft. from the ground and 

 well out on the limb, nest made of 

 spruce twigs, strips of bark and grass 

 lined with hair and feathers, this nest 

 somewhat larger than the first. May 

 31, No 3, nest placed on a horizontal 

 limb of a spruce tree, 11 ft. up and 

 near the tip of the branch, nest made of 

 spruce twigs, weed stems, strips of 

 bark and grass lined with hair and 

 feathers and contained 4 fresh eggs 

 They migrate from here from the 1st 

 to the 15th of Oct. I visited their breed- 

 ing giounds after the breeding season 

 in July and was surprised to not see 

 any birds. Where they disappeared to 

 I am at a loss to know. 

 A. H. Mills, W. Rutland, Vermont. 



Bird Notes from Maine. 



Bii'ds have been quite abundant here 

 this winter, I have observed the follow- 

 ing species: 



Ruffed Grouse: that beautiful and val- 

 uable game bird is very abundant here; 

 nearly every coniferous growth is a 

 roosting place for several of these birds. 



Downy Woodpecker: nearly every 

 hard wood growth contains a pair of 

 those interesting birds. 



Blue Jay: more abundant near my 

 home than for several winters past. 



Amer. Goldfinch: have observed sev- 

 eral quite large flocks of this species 

 this winter. 



Pine Grosbeak: this species has been 

 very abundant; several pairs of these 

 birds have been in our orchard trees 

 nearly every day and are very tame. 



White-breasted Nuthatch: Very 

 abundant, several jJairs have been 

 observed in trees in our yard nearly 

 every day this winter. 



Chickadee: this interesting little bird 

 is an abundant resident throughout the 

 year. 



White-winged Crossbills, Redpolls, 



Pine Siskin and Song Sparrow have 

 been seen in different parts of the state 

 but have not observed any in this local- 

 ity. 



Guy H. Bkiggs, Livermore, Maine. 



A Saw-whet Owl. 



On Feb. 10, while I was walking 

 Ihroiign a small patch of bushy woods, 

 with a few white pine and cedar trpes 

 distributed over it, I found a Saw-whet 

 Owl asleep in a white pine tree, which 

 I was much surprised to see. 



As I was without a gun I could not 

 shoot him and so I chased him all 

 around among the evergreen trees. He 

 was vpry tame and would not move un- 

 til I threw something at him and when 

 flying he went in circles, and he had a 

 very wide wing expanse. 



In the afternoon when I came back I 

 found him still there and I shot him 

 and had him mounted. 



J. Stanley Howard, 

 West Med ford. Mass 



A Unusual Nesting- Site. 



In July 1898 I found a nest of the 

 Chimney Swift built on a perpendicular 

 wall inside a carriage house, the birds 

 going to and fro through a small hole 

 in the side of the building. The nest 

 was made of the usual material and 

 contained four fresh eggs. 



Gor H. Briggs. Livermore, Maine. 



Errata. 



Feb No. to hand I see thero are two 

 grevious errors in my note ''Blue Jays 

 at Play." "That is small for, etc," 

 should have been "Thaiis not small etc." 

 Whilst "ponderous branches" should 

 have been ''pendulous.'' 



J Alston Moffat, 



London, Ont. 



