September, 1892.] 



AND OOLOGIST. 



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I collected these, but I found the yolks so 

 hardened that they could not be extracted. 



U\ L. Kclls. 

 Listowel, Ontario, Canada. 



Bird Notes from Hull, Iowa. 



Owing to lack of time I have not been 

 able to spend as much time in collecting 

 as I wished to have done, but for all that 

 have been able to add quite a number of 

 specimens to my collection. One point I 

 found, new to me at least, was yellow 

 spots on wing coverts, four on each wing, 

 of a male Scarlet Tanager. All the Tan- 

 agers I collected in Vermont did not have 

 any such markings. Has any one else 

 noticed such pomts.'' 



A lady asked me one day to come out 

 to her place and shoot a Flicker. It had 

 cut a hole through the side of their house 

 and was building a nest there. Of course 

 the bird had to be shot, but no nest was 

 found. I found one Flicker's nest in a 

 fence post close to the road on one of my 

 drives, just finished, but no eggs. I heard 

 from it one day through a friend of mine 

 who was working near that spot. He 

 said a little girl came to the house one 

 evening with her apron full of young birds 

 taken from that nest. She was told to 

 take them back, but can't say as she did. 



Had the good luck to kill an Arkansas 

 Kingbird, a male bird. Are they not rare 

 in this section of the country 1 This is 

 the first one I ever found here. 



I must relate a remark I heard. I was 

 carrying a Bittern I had mounted to the 

 room where I have my collection, and as 

 I was passing a certain house I chanced 

 to hear the following dialogue between 

 two ladies : 



First Lady — See that bird ; what is it? 



Second Lady — I don't know, but think 

 it is a species of Wren. 



Just think of that ! Perhaps I didn't 

 smile. But I find it generally the case 

 that people have no idea as to names of 



our most common birds. For instance, 

 last winter a man told me he had shot 

 some kind of a Hawk and had intended 

 to bring it to me, but had neglected to do 

 so. I asked him to look over my collec- 

 tion and see if he could find anything like 

 it. He did so and pretty soon he said, 

 "Here it is." I went to him and found 

 his Hawk was a Pine Grosbeak. I could 

 go on and name plenty more just such in- 

 stances. The Cuckoo here was and is 

 called by many Rain Crow. In what re- 

 spect it resembles a Crow I am unable to 

 say. .1. /. J. 



Some of my Best Finds to June 8, 

 1892. 



April 22. Took a set of three Red- 

 shouldered Hawk from a beech tree 49 

 feet from ground. 



April 26. Took a set of four Red- 

 shouldered Hawk from a birch tree 62 

 feet from ground, also a set of six Horned 

 Lark. 



April 27. Took a set of three Red- 

 shouldered Hawk from a beech tree 56 

 feet from the ground. 



May 2. Took a set of four Red-shoul- 

 dered Hawk from a beech tree 54 feet 

 from ground, also a set of five Horned 

 Lark. 



May 5. Set of four Killdeer. 



May 6. Set of two Red-tailed Hawk 

 from a hemlock tree 78 feet from ground. 



May 10. Set of four Killdeer, 



May II. Set of seven Kingfisher. 



May 16. Took a set of two Red-shoul- 

 dered Hawk from a beech tree 69 feet 

 from ground. 



May 18. Set of five Meadow Lark. 



May 23. Set of five Cooper's Hawk 

 from a beech tree 65 feet from ground. 



June I . Set of four Bobolink and a set of 

 three and one Cowbird of Purple Finch. 



June 3. Set of five Bobolink. 



June 7. Took three sets of Chestnut- 

 sided Warbler, four in each set, also two 



