July, 1893.] 



AND OOLOGIST. 



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ial pertaining to protection of birds. The 

 typographical and press work is excellent 

 and cannot fail to be satisfactory. 



In addition to Michigan notes, many 

 observations refer to Ohio, Indiana and Wis- 

 consin. Space forbids my speaking more 

 fully, or I would enumerate the outsiders to 

 whom we are indebted. Suffice it to say 

 that the work is, properly speaking, a very 

 complete treatise on the birds of the Great 

 Lake Region and will interest all. L. 



Brief Notes, Correspondence and 

 Clippings. 



T. k. lames writes from Meriden, Conn., 

 that he has a young Chipmunk that is nearly 

 white and is about half grown. It has a 

 brown patch on one shoulder and a few spots 

 on the back. 



A word or two more about Pine Grosbeaks. 

 As they are strangers here, this winter they 

 created quite an amount of notice. E\ery 

 day or two some one would ask the question. 

 What new birds are these around here? On 

 February 5th, when I arrived home from 

 church, my 12-year-old girl ran to meet me 

 saying, " O, papa, I have caught one of those 

 Pine Grosbeaks ; he was so tame I put my 

 hand right on him while he was eating horse- 

 brier berries." I have kept him (I say hiui 

 for I think it is a male, as he sings very 

 sweetly, although it has not the red plumage) 

 in a cage since that time. Once a week I 

 bring in a small pine tree and let " Dick " 

 out for a nice time, which he seems to enjoy 

 very much. He is very tame ; will alight on 

 our heads and makes himself very much at 

 home in general. He feeds freely on oats, 

 pine buds, sand, apple and other seeds, and 

 has a very nice time bathing in a saucer of 

 water. 



On \\)X\\ 20, in answer to a rap on my 

 door, a friend says, " I have a bird here ; I 

 would like to know what it is." So we took 

 out the bird, which was stuffed into'a large 



paper bag with a lot of paper wound around 

 his head and throat filled with old rags. 

 Well, to tell the truth, I was stuck for a min- 

 ute, but told him I guessed it was a Turkey 

 Buzzard, which proved to be the fact when 

 I looked him up. This is the only one I 

 have ever heard of in eastern Massachusetts. 

 Have they been taken in this vicinity before ? 



C. C. Foster. 

 West Duxbury, Mass. 



A full plumaged Bald Eagle was seen by 

 E. G. Duncklee at Blue Hill on June 4. 



April 30 I found a Bluebird's nest in a 

 somewhat peculiar situation, k two quart 

 milk can, which had been used in a ceme- 

 tery to hold flowers, had been placed in the 

 fork of a l)ush right side up, and the bird at 

 this time had five eggs in it, entering and 

 leaving the can by the top. I was somewhat 

 curious to learn what effect a heavy rain 

 would have on the bird ; but one we had 

 soon after, apparently had no effect as the 

 can probably leaked, preventing the bird 

 from being drowned out. 



July 4, while roaming over the country, I 

 came across an old building which had been 

 used as a carpenter shop. Of course I had 

 to investigate. Up stairs on a projecting 

 board next to the ceiling, I found a Pewee's 

 nest with five eggs, while in the basement 

 among the floor timber I found a Robin's 

 nest containing four young birds. On an 

 offer of fifty cents apiece, I have the young 

 fellows of the neighborhood on the rampage 

 after Bat's eggs. Rufiis H. Carr. 



Brockton, Mass. 



Here are a few of my " finds " this year : 

 April 29, Crow 4, Cooper's Hawk 2 ; May 

 28, Sore Rail 10; June 11, Indigo Bunting 

 3 ; June 20, Phoebe 6 ; May 20, Phoebe 5 ; 

 May 21, Vesper Sparrow 4 ; May 24, Vesper 

 Sparrow 4 ; May 28, Yellow Warbler 2 ; 

 July 29, (loldfinch 5 ; July 30, Goldfinch 6. 



On April 29, 1893, I collected a set of 

 two fresh eggs of the Cooper's Hawk from 

 a nest 75 feet up in a beech in a thick piece 



