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THE OOLOGIST. 



of the birds were carried over the 

 falls. There was a scramble for the 

 birds among the people who happened 

 to be along the river below the falls. 

 The birds were injured and helpless 

 and only a single one escaped alive-. 

 Mr. Davies and several friends man- 

 aged to secure a boat and captured 

 several of the swans. The one that 

 fell to the lot of Mr. Davies was an 

 exceptionally fine specimen, being as 

 white as snow and measuring 56 

 inches long, being somewhat above 

 the average size. Mr. Campbell has 

 mounted the bird in an artistic man- 

 ner. — Pittston, Pa. Gazette, April 

 2, 1908. 



Death Roll. 



Editor Oologist. 



Dear Sir:— In the Oologist of last 

 April, some writer makes the state- 

 ment that the Arkansas Kingbird nev- 

 er has been proven to nest in such a 

 manner as on the ridge-pole of a cab- 

 in or adobe bluff. He says that nests 

 of this bird, mentioned by Mr. E. R. 

 Warren in the Condor, for January, 

 1908, as being located in the above 

 situations, were "beyond the vestige 

 of a doubt, just Say's Phoebe." 



I cannot speak from experience as 

 to the nest in adobe bluff, but in Cen- 

 tral Washington I have many times 

 found the nest of the Arkansas King- 

 bird in almost any place on the out- 

 side of a house, where it could safely 

 be placed, and two nests were built 

 inside of barns on beams against the 

 wall of the building. I also found 

 a nest on the end of a roll of wire 

 fencing for hen yards that had been left 

 standing upright against the side of 

 a small cabin. Apart from this it 

 seems quite beyond belief that any or- 

 nithologist could mistake either nest 

 or birds of the Say's Phoebe for those 

 of the Arkansas Kingbird. 



.1. H. BOWLES, 



Taconia, Wash. 



Louis W. Hahn, Naturalist, Silver 

 Creek, N. Y. 



Dr. F. N. Damon. Shells and Ind. 

 Relics, Scituate, Mass. 



W. E. May, Oologist, Detroit, Mich. 



Isaac S. Kirk, Mineralogist, Notting- 

 ham, Pa. 



August Koch, Williamsport, Penn., 

 Oologist and Ornithologist. 



W. E. Shepherd,. Boston, Mass., 

 Veteran English Glass Eye Manufac- 

 turer. 



Messrs. Hahn, Damon, Kirk and 

 Koch were "old timers" on our sub- 

 scription books. 



A Corection 



In regard to Mr. Pea'body's crit- 

 icism in the "Oologist," for April, 

 1908, regarding what he dubs the sup- 

 positious finding of a Carolina Chick- 

 adee's (Penthres carolinensis) nest in 

 Philadelphia county, Pa., by the wri- 

 ter: 



There is nothing doubtful about it 

 or I would not have written it, for 

 I do not write merely to see my name 

 in print. 



To be sure the nest was discover- 

 ed before I began keeping a note- 

 book or verifying my observations. It 

 was found when I was 15 or 16 years 

 of age and when I had known the 

 Chickadee for about 5 years, for I 

 knew all the common birds years be- 

 fore I commenced keeping a note- 

 book. 



If Mr. Peabody thinks, as I infer he 

 does, that the nest I found was a 

 House Wren's, he is grievously mis- 

 taken, for even if the bird (which 

 flushed from the nest) was not seen, 

 the composition of the nest, size and 

 color of the eggs would hardly have 

 been confused by the casual novice 

 for Troglodytes aedon. 



One point which Mr. Peabody over- 

 looked is that I did not record the 



