THE YOUNG OOLOGIST. 



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it. Ill case there is no regular place of 

 meeting the speeimens should be kept in 

 the most convenient and accessible situa- 

 tion. 



If possible everj' Legion should have one 

 place of meeting, as the officers or commit- 

 tee see best. Should this be an impossibil- 

 ity meetings at the different members' resi- 

 dences, in succession, will be in order. 



Legions sending subscriptions to The 

 YoDNG OoLOGiST must State at what time 

 it is to be commenced, and these remit- 

 tances must be made b}' postal M>te or m<mey 

 order, paj'able at Painted Post, N. Y. 



Address all communications for this de- 

 partment to .T. R. CnuTis, 

 Painted Post, 

 Steuben Co., N. Y. 



LEGION REPORTS. 



A report is expected monlhly from each 

 Legion for this column. 



ITOLYOKE, Mass,, March 24, 1NS5. 

 Our Legion has derided to publish an 

 eight-page monthly, devoted to the study 

 of " Birds, their Nests and Eggs." We 

 also decided to call it Our Birds. 



The colk'cling season is near and we are 

 all prepared for it. Last January, during 

 three weeks of spring weather, a pair of 

 House Sparrows remodeled an old nest that 

 was on oui' barn, and on the Kith ult. I 

 found six fresh eggs. ■ 



Yours, &c. , 



C. H. M.. Cor. Sec. 

 Reading, Pa., March 24, 1885. 

 We met last night, drew up our by-laws 

 and made a plan of work for the coming 

 spring and summer. Had quite an enthu- 

 siastic meeting. 



Yours, R. H. .1, Cor. Sec. 



Devil's Lake, Da,, March 15, '85. 

 We write to inform you that we have 

 organized a Legion here, and respectfully 

 request that we may be enrolled in the 

 " Grand Army" as the Devil's Lake Legion 

 of the Knights of Audubon. We have 

 four members, but what we lack in mem- 

 bers we hope to make up in enthusiasm 

 and in hard work. 

 Yours, &c., 



B. E. Cole, Cor. Sec. 

 TowAKDA, Pa., March 14, 1885. 

 Have formed a Legion here with five 

 charter memliers. Our topic for discus- 

 sion at the next meeting is " Catbirds." 

 Yours, 



F. Elmer Post, Cor. Sec. 



Buffalo, N. Y., March 28, 1885. 

 We have decided to form a Legion of 

 the Knights of Audubon, in response to a 

 call in The Young Oologist. We now 

 number four members, but soon expect to 

 enlarge our membership. 



\\^e record this morning the first Blue- 

 birds of 1885. My attention was first 

 drawn to them by their unmistakable call, 

 and, upon following, I soon found them. 

 I received a commimication to-day, stating 

 that in a part of this city near the suburbs 

 the Robins, Bluebirds and Song Sjaarrows 

 were quite plentiful. I recorded the first 

 Robin March 30th, but have heard that 

 they were quite abundant before that date. 

 This morning the Robins were quite abund- 

 ant, as were the Bluebirds, while yesterda)' 

 I couldn't find or even hear ohe. 



Yours, E. M. C, Cor. Sec. 



Cincinnati, C, March 23, 1885. 

 Reading in the March number of the 

 formation of the Knights of Audubon, and 

 being interested in birds, their nests and 

 eggs, we have formed a Legion with four 

 memliers. Hoping we may prove a faith- 

 ful and working Legion, we remain. 

 Yours, i&c, 



MissE. C, Cor. Sec. 

 Sharon, Wis., March 14, 1885. 

 We met on the 13th and organized a 

 Legion of three members, expecting to add 

 more soon. 



Yours, C. H. D., Cor. Sec. 



"A Novel Contest." 



I have read in The Young OOlogist of 

 fights between Hawks and Jays, Jays and 

 English Sparrows, etc., but never of any 

 between a Hawk and a Wild Duck. I 

 send j'ou an account of an exciting contest 

 between the two latter birds, which I cop- 

 ied from a Chester county daily paper, 

 thinking it might interest some of youi' 

 readers : 



"A Novel Contest. — A gentleman 

 driving into West Chester on Saturday last 

 witnessed a novel contest. It was a fight 

 between a Chicken Hawk and a Wild 

 Duck. The attack was made by the Hawk 

 on the Duck, at the Brandywine, in East 

 Bradford. After an exciting contest the 

 Duck proved victorious, and the Hawk 

 gave up the battle without making a meal 

 of the toothsome Duck." F. L. B., 

 Berwyn, Pa. 



