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ORNITHOLOGIST 



[Vol. 18-N0. 7 



of timber in Highland Park. This is the 

 first nest of this species I ever found, al- 

 though the bird is sometimes seen. I shot 

 the male a short distance off. 



B. H. SzL'alcs. 

 Detroit, Mich. 



In Oliver Davie's book on birds, an ac- 

 count is given of the eggs, etc., of the Black 

 Swift taken at Yesler's wharf on salt water. 

 Would say that I have been here since 1888, 

 when they were claimed to have been taken. 

 I have never seen the Swift on salt water. 

 On Lake Washington (fresh water), a lew 

 miles distant, they are abundant, occasion- 

 ally flying within gunshot, .'\round Yesler's 

 wharf Purple Martins are plenty and were 

 during 18S8. The Swift seems to keep away 

 from habitation, and Yesler's wharf in 1888 

 was the scene of great bustle and activity. 

 I have watched the Swift and think they 

 breed in hollow trees inland. Mr. S. F. 

 Rathburn and the writer thinks, perhaps, 

 those eggs found in 1888, at Yesler's wharf, 

 were Purple Martins. I would be glad to 

 hear from the owner of the set of eggs. 



Frank H. Rciiick. 



Seattle, Wash. 



He was a happ\' naturalist, 



Well versed and of repute. 

 For with the learned Ph.D.'s 



lie would often dare dispute. 

 He worked on ornithology. 



For this his favorite was, 

 Also delved in entomology 



And conchology and its laws. 

 He could talk of cerripedes 



In language quite astute, 

 And when he spoke jaw-breaking names 



His friends all thought him cute. 

 But now no more he talks of birds, 



No more afield he's carried, 

 The trouble isn't that he's dead, 



But simply this — he's married. 



J B. H. Cayy. 



W. E. Mulliken, care of C. & W. M. R.R., 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., wishes the address of 

 all ornithologists. He proposes to get out a 

 directory. 



Carl Fritz-Henning is engaged in a work, 

 " Notes on the Birds of Boone County, 

 Iowa," which he expects will cover 420 

 pages, with 40 plates drawn and colored 

 from nature. He hopes to complete it dur- 

 ing the present year. 



We are constantly receiving letters from 

 entire strangers asking us to send small lots 

 of goods. They do not seem to entertain 

 the idea of enclosing cash for same, and get 

 indignant if their attention is called to it. 

 If, to accommodate, we send the goods, we 

 then have to whistle for our pay. We wish 

 it to be understood that we are now doing 

 a strictly cash business. 



It isn't every spring chicken which has 

 friends who swoop down upon the sufferer 

 in time of trouble, bringing a new suit of 

 clothes. Mrs, W. H. Pearson, who lives on 

 the east side of the river near Farmington 

 Fall village, has a freak of nature in the shape 

 of a spring chicken. The chicken was born 

 as other chicks are born, but it failed to grow 

 as the others did and the down upon it grad- 

 ually dropped off, so that now its skin is en- 

 tirely bare of feathers, and the little body on 

 tall legs, and with its head, presents a ludi- 

 crous sight. The other chickens peck its 

 bare skin and drive it away from the food, 

 so that it wanders off alone and picks up its 

 food when a chance to " snatch something 

 and run" presents itself. Mrs. Pearson has 

 made a "coat and vest" for the naked 

 chicken in which he struts about the yard 

 like the long-legged dude. 



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