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THE OOLOQI8T 



Their songs could be heard at ahnost 

 any hour of the day. 



Robin. Several Robins built their 

 nests on the beams of the Long House. 



Bluebird. Common. Observed nest- 

 ing in hollow limb of an old tree. 



MORE HONECKER FRAUD! 



We have recently examined at the 

 request of Ward's Natural Science Es- 

 tablishment, Rochester, New York, two 

 eggs. One an alleged Ivory Billed 

 Woodpecker, with a data reciting it 

 was collected by Louis Honecker, near 

 Memphis, Tennessee, May 1st, 1874, 

 being one of a set of five eggs taken 

 from a nest from ati elm tree, 31 feet 

 from the ground to which is added this 

 very sufficient statement, "I sold 4 

 eggs and the male skin for $25.00, 12 

 years ago. Jos. F. Honecker, 811 W. 

 3rd Ave., Spokane, Wash." 



The other being an alleged egg of 

 the Carolina Paroquet purporting to 

 have been "Collected by Louis Hon- 

 ecker, near Memphis, Tennessee, be- 

 ing one of a set (the data is blurred 

 having been changed from 4 to 3) but 

 all were broken except this one in 

 'decenting' the sycamore tree 32 feet 

 from the ground" to which is added 

 this significant statement "no descrip- 

 tion of nests given. I sold the skin of 

 the female paroquet 12 years ago at 

 $15.00. Jos. F. Honecker, 811 W. 3rd 

 Ave., Spokane, Wash." 



It is needless to say that an inspec- 

 tion of these specimens, sliows that 

 neither of them are what they purport 

 to be. 



Just how this fraudulent gentleman 

 manages to keep out of the peni- 

 tentiary as the result of prosecution 

 for using the United States' mails to 

 carry on his fraudulent practice passes 

 all understanding. 



R M. Barnes. 



WILD DUCK SPEED 



The Mallard jog along at the rate of 

 120 miles per hour. Black Ducks hit 

 it up to 70 miles. Eiders 80 miles, and 

 the Golden Eye hustles about at the 

 rate of 90 miles per hour. 



Who can tell me how a' Woodpecker 

 gets out of the hole he is making in a 

 tree for a nest? Does he back out be- 

 fore he gets it large enough to turn 

 around in, especially when it extends 

 down ten or fifteen inches before the 

 enlargement at the bottom, besides 

 the hallway, before it turns down. 

 Does he cling to the sides and work 

 head down? 



How do ducks breathe wh^n they 

 dive and feed deep under water? 



How does the sentinel make himself 

 heard immediately in a' fiock of thous- 

 ands of birds, when most of ihem are 

 calling and feeding and making a 

 deafening noise? 



Who can tell me wliy the }nost 

 plentiful birds, everything cons'dered, 

 are usually the ones who lay only one 

 or two or three eggs at a setting? 

 Geo. W. H. vos Burgh. 



SOME SUMMER BIRDS OF THE 

 WISCONSIN WOODS 



During the summer of 1920 a friend 

 and I spent six weeks, from August 

 20th to October 1st, in a small lumber 

 camp in Langlade CountJ^ Wisconsin, 

 about 286 miles northwest of Chicago 

 I was working during the week and it 

 rained five out of the seven Sundays 

 I was there so my observations were 

 not as extensive as I had hoped for; 

 however, I made a list of some 46 

 birds, a few of which were new to 

 me. 



The country there was hilly and 

 most of it covered with second growth 

 timber of maple, poplar, beech, bass- 



