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were seen, also two pine woods spar- 

 rows and three buzzards. 



We stopped at the grove of an old 

 cracker, with whom we became ac- 

 quainted on a j)revious trip. He is 

 a bird lover and knows a lot about 

 the feathered tribe. Even birds come 

 up to his door and eat crumbs. Pine 

 warblers, phoebes and ground doves 

 were about in his front yard. 



Starting on we saw two wrens. I 

 may say here that these wrens are un- 

 doubtedly Florida Wrens, a sub-spe- 

 cies of the Carolina, but of this I am 

 not positive. We were riding back to 

 the northwest of town and before we 

 crossed the Miami river we counted 

 twenty-one buzzards, four pine woods 

 sparrows, one ground dove, one red 

 shouldered hawk, six pine warblers, 

 one shrike, one mockingbird, one spar 

 row hawk, and two phoebes. We rod 3 

 about two miles northwest of the town 

 then circled around coming home 

 along the bay On the way one mock 

 ing bird, three phoebes, two pine warb 

 lers, two sparrow hawks, and tv.o 

 Florida ja.vs were seen. The last bird, 

 as well as the first seen was the tur- 

 key buzzard. 



The day turned out fine and always 

 that cool breeze from the ocean which 

 makes a trip like this enjoyable. In 

 all we saw twenty-one s])ecies and two 

 hundred and sixteen Individuals. 



Miller T. Mercer. 



Birds Scarce. 



The birds began leaving this sec- 

 tion very early, last Fall the Swallows 

 and Swifts leaving by the middle of 

 August. From that time on there was 

 a noticeable decrease in the number 

 of all species of birds. Although the 

 winter has not been so very severe 

 and the usual s-u])i)ly of food seems 

 abundant, very few birds cf any kind 

 have been about. I have been in the 

 fields and woods every day and many 



days I have not seen a single bird, 

 even the Barred Owl that has been so 

 abundant seems to have left this sec- 

 tion. A few Golden Crowned Kinglets 

 have been here all winter. 



S. V. Wharram. 



Birds Observed Around Marshall, 

 Texas, February 1, 1914. 



Chii)ping Sparrow 59 



Blue .Jay 11 



Turkey Vulture 9 



Loggerhead Shrike 2 



Slate colored Junco 27 



Mocking Bird 7 



Cedar Wax Wing 18 



Blue Bird 30 



Red-Tailed Hawk 3 



Meadow Lark 24 



American Flicker 15 



Sparrow Hawk 3 



Tufted Titmouse 6 



Ruby-Crowned Kinglet 22 



Tohee 1 



Crow 5 



B C. Chickadee 20 



Cardinal 4 



Cow Bird 17 



R. W. Blk. Bird ' 10 



Brewer Blk. Bird 13 



Purple Crackle 29 



Bohemian Wax Wing 6 



Total 281 



DeLoach .Martin. 



An Answer. 

 The February number of THE 

 OOLOGIST contained an article from 

 Mr. R. B. Simpson, of Warren, Pa., in 

 which he woiiders if the English Spar- 

 rows often use the nests of Clift Spar- 

 rows. I regret to say that this con- 

 dition prevails in this section to a 

 great extent. Formerly the Clift Spar- 

 rows were numerous here and I have 

 seen as many as sixty Swallows' nests 

 under the eaves of a single barn, with 

 from fifteen to twenty of them occu- 



