The Oologist. 



Vol. XXX. No. 10. 



Albion, N. Y. Oct. 15, 1918. 



Whoi^e No. 315 



Owned and Published Monthly, by R. M. Barnes, Albion, N. Y., and Lacon, III. 



Notes from Texas. 

 Bird life is certainly holding its 

 own down here. I tliink I found alto- 

 gether over 200 nests of the Mocking- 

 bird this summer. The following is 

 a list of birds taken from a buggy 

 that was driven on a rural mail route 

 and therefore I had several varieties 

 of road: 



Aug. 15. Lark Sparrow 100 



Kingbird 5 



Crow 5 



Quail ;] 



Mocking Bird 27 



Sissor-tailed Flycatcher... 26 



Orchard Oriole 17 



Turkey Vulture 9 



Red-headed Woodpecker. . 1 



Bluebird 3 



Mourning Dove, . . . .abundant 



Cowbird (Female) 11 



Cowbird (Male) 2 



Blue Jay 4 



Road Runner 7 



Cardinal 5 



Aug. 20. Orchard Oriole 11 



Turkey Vulture 5 



Red Headed Woodpecker. . 2 



Blue-bird 4 



Mourning Dove 35 



Chicadee 5 



Cowbird (Female) 6 



Cowbird (Male) 4 



Blue Jay 2 



Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 



Road Runner 5 



Downey Woodpecker 1 



Sissor-tailed Flycatcher... 20 



Mockingbird 23 



Quail 1 



Cardinal 3 



Crow 3 



Kingbird 3 



Aug. 23. Sparrow Hawk 11 



Red-tailed Hawk 1 



Cooper's Hawk 1 



Upland Plover 1 



Crow 7 



Quail 5 



Dove abundant 



Killdeer abundant 



Barn Swallows hundreds 



Mallard (range 2 miles) ... 6 



Teal 5 



I visited a Lake Club several times 

 and saw several Coots, Mallards and 

 a bunch of White Cranes. There were 

 about 25 in the bunch and they were 

 eating dead fish along the bank. There 

 were many small water birds, Kill- 

 deer, Plover, Blue Heron, etc. 



Taking it all around I saw more 

 birds this summer than ever before. 

 I think that the recent bill that was 

 passed by Congress is about the best 

 thing that could be done, if it is only 

 enforced. 1 wish THE OOLOGIST 

 could print the rules of that fine bill. 

 Cole Godsey. 



Dallas, Texas. 



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Bird Life on the National Pike. 



During the latter part of June and 

 the first of July, 1913, I had the pleas- 

 ure ci spending several weeks in the 

 Allegheny Mountains and the bird life 

 there differing so much from the local- 

 ity from which 1 had come, I had a 

 very interesting time. There was 

 hardly a place within five mlies of my 



