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scription and their almost lifesize col- 

 ored pictures. 



1 now have several well mounted 

 specimens in my collection. 



Ottoman Reinecke. 



Further Notes on the Summer Resi- 

 dents of Philadelphia County. 



For additional data on the Summer 

 Birds of Philadelphia County, Pennsyl- 

 vania, see Oologist, 1910, page 116 and 

 1912, page 208. These records are 

 enumerated so as to make the list 

 more complete. 



273. Killdeer. 1 found a nest on 

 May 8, 1913, at Frankford in rather an 

 exposed situ; it was in the center of 

 a cinder head upon the ground along 

 the unfinished Northeast Boulevard, 

 within several yards of a frequently 

 used dirt road and not two yards from 

 a narrow gauge railroad, then unused. 

 The nest, a depression in the cinder 

 two inches deep held four eggs con- 

 taining large embryos and was lined 

 with many white cinders. The pile 

 was not half a foot high but over a 

 yard in area and the eggs were hard- 

 ly discernable when 1 stood over them 

 so well did they harmonize with the 

 surroundings. 



343. B r o a d-w i n g e d H a w k. At 

 Holmesburg on May 20, 1912, I collect- 

 f^d my first set in this county, consist- 

 ing of two slightly incubated eggs 

 which is one of the very few clutches 

 ever taken in Philadelphia, where the 

 hawk is a very rare breeder. 



265. Barn Owl. In my last paper 

 .Oologist 1912, page 210) I inadvert- 

 ently stated that this species had been 

 bred in the Alexander Henry School 

 House, in Frankford, when it should 

 have been the Henry Herbert School 

 House in Frankford. I saw a Barn 

 Owl on August 7, 1912, at Olney, gaz- 

 ing out of a hole over seventy feet up 

 in a big red oak, but it never nested 

 in the cavity, nor has it been seen 



since in it, and I am still vainly trying 

 to find a nest in the county. I have 

 been told that Barn Owls nest and 

 have nested for years in the steeple of 

 a Catholic Churcli in Kensington, 

 which is built thickly up with houses 

 and mills, and close to the Deleware 

 River, but I have never verified it. 



393. Hairy Woodpecker. On May 1, 

 1912, I found two nests at Holmesburg 

 and Bustleton containing four eggs 

 each; fresh in the first set and slight- 

 ly advanced in the other, beside sev- 

 eral nests in 1913 with young. 



587. Chewink. My efforts to find a 

 nest of this rare breeder are still a 

 failure, but 1 observed a fledgling on 

 June 9, 1913, at Bustleton, thus estab- 

 lishing a breeding record although I 

 could not locate the nest. 



608. Scarlet Tanager. At Bustleton 

 on July 18, 1911, I found a nest con- 

 taining three well incubated eggs, and 

 June 18, 1912, within a hundred and 

 fifty feet of that nesting site found a 

 n-est holding three fresh eggs. Both 

 nests were in Buttonwoods. 



639. Worm-eating Warbler. For an 

 account of the nesting of this species 

 see Oologist 1912, page 375, wherein 

 there is described a nest with four 

 egsg which I found on June 4, 1912, at 

 Chestnut Hill. 



677. Kentucky Warbler. Have found 

 many nests containing eggs and young 

 in the County beside the one mention- 

 ed in Oologist 1912, page 210. This 

 species is extending its range in North- 

 eastern Philadelphia as a pair bred in 

 a woods at Frankford in which they 

 were never seen before in my experi- 

 ence. 



756. Veery. 1 reported in the Oolo- 

 gist, 1912, page 210, of having a hazy 

 recollection of having read somewhere 

 that this species had been found breed- 

 ing at Germantown. The account as 

 1 now recall it was published in a 

 nature article in the Philadelphia Rec- 



