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On former occasions I have noted, 

 on the same plantation, during the 

 spring of the year, in addition to these, 

 the White Crane, Screech Owl, (which, 

 for a number of years up to this cur- 

 rent one, nested under the eaves near 

 a room I have occupied during five or 

 six visits), Indigo Bunting, Chuck- 

 Wills-Widow, and occasionally a Whip- 

 poor-will, as well as several of the 

 Hawks, Crows, Kingfisher, Bob-white, 

 Mourning Dove, Killdeer, Barred Owl 

 and Bartramian Plover. 



Peter A. Brannon, 

 Montgomery, Ala. 



must be vicious in that territory or 

 the correspondent sending in the item 

 may have discovered some one who 

 was violating the 18th amendment. 



R. M. Barnes 



NEWSPAPER ORNITHOLOGY 



Isaac E. Hess sends us a clipping 

 giving an account of the nesting of a 

 Whip-poor-will in a tree in his home 

 town, all of which he dissents from 

 and merely forwards it as a fair 

 sample of the curious notions that 

 somehow breaks into the public press. 



W. E Unglish sends a clipping 

 from the Ventura California Post, giv- 

 ing very lurid and specific account of 

 the killing of an eleven year old Mexi- 

 can boy of that place. Its truthfulness, 

 I hope will be investigated by the Bird 

 Students of that vicinity. 



The Carnegie Museum at Pittsburgh 

 has a number of rare and unusual 

 single skins from Labrador to dispose 

 of. Anyone interested had better write 

 them at once. 



The Philadelphia Public Ledger re- 

 ports that work was stopped on repair- 

 ing a church steeple in Bloomsburg, in 

 that state, because the workmen were 

 so harassed by hundreds of Sparrows 

 which were nesting there, and that be- 

 fore the men could complete the re- 

 pairs they had to kill the birds off by 

 burning sulphur. Passer domesticatus 



HOT WEATHER ORNITHOLOGY 

 A New Specie of Hawk 



It may be of interest to some of the 

 bird students of The Oologist 'to know 

 that a new specie of Hawk has been 

 discovered here in Connecticut. It 

 surely is new to me for I never heard 

 of one by that name before. One sur- 

 prising thing about it is that it should 

 be discovered and named by a fellow 

 that perhaps never knew that such a 

 book as The Oologist or other bird 

 magazine ever existed. 



While in Danielson, Conn., not long 

 ago I saw a dead Hawk on exhibition 

 in a store window. It was lying on 

 its back and from where 1 was I could 

 not identify the specie. As I was to 

 meet a party for the theatre, and wiis 

 then late, I moved on, intending after 

 the theatre to go in the store and ex- 

 amine the bird, but when I returned 

 the bird was gone and the store was 

 closed. 



The next day I happened to meet a 

 friend ornithologist, Mr B., and asked 

 him if he had seen it, and he said he 

 ha'd not but would investigate. About 

 two days later I received a letter from 

 him stating he had stopped at the 

 store and inquired about the Hawk. 



"Oh, yes," says the clerk, "that wa -^ 

 my Hawk; I shot it myself while out 

 hunting." In answer to what he had 

 done with it he said he had given it 

 to a fellow that wanted to get it 

 stuffed up (mounted). "Well," says 

 Mr. B., "what kind of a Hawk was ii, 

 a broad wing or red shoulder?" "Oh, 

 no," says the clerk, "it was neither 

 one, it was just an old Buck Hen 

 Hawk." 



A. J. Potter, 

 East Killingby, Conn, 



