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A Tame Chickadee. 

 The lack of timidity in the Chicka- 

 dees is well known to all interested in 

 bird life and I have often enjoyed this 

 trait in these birds. During the latter 

 part of April this year (1915), how- 

 ever, I was out on a tramp in the 

 mountains near State College, Pa., and 

 had an unusually interesting experi- 

 ence wih one of them. I was walking 

 along when I noticed several of these 

 birds in the underbrush near me and 

 as I felt just then like resting, I stop- 

 ped to watch them for a few minutes. 

 This seemed to arouse their curiosity 

 in me for they at once began to ap- 

 proach closer and closer until finally 

 one of them actually flew to the sleeve 

 of my coat and clung there for a few 

 seconds. I had often read of their 

 alighting on people but this was my 

 first experience with one so tame as 

 that and although it almost at once 

 flew to a nearby bush, still I enjoyed 

 its brief visit very much. 



Thos. D. Burleigh. 



Screech Owl in Winnetka, III. 



(Otus Asio) 



First nest April 9th, 1914, thirty 

 feet up in Oak. Pulled mother off nest 

 and got scratched. One egg, fresh. 

 Came back in a week, still one egg, 

 also one in two weeks. Finally she 

 hatched out this one egg, not laying 

 any more. This is the first Owl's nest 

 I ever found. 



Same day. Second nest ten feet up 

 on Elm right above sidewalk, both 

 male and female birds in nest, three 

 fresh eggs. 



Same day. Third nest fifteen feet 

 up in Elm tree in park, about two 

 feet down. Mother on nest of five 

 pretty well incubated eggs. 



Dudley De Groot. 



J., about 75 Sturnella magna were to 

 be seen daily between September 15th 

 and November 1st. In these fields a 

 crop of Canada peas and alfalfa had 

 been raised and harvested and on the 

 ground considerable quantities of both 

 crops had been left after the harvest 

 and these birds fed upon this resi- 

 due during their entire stay with us. 



On October 7th during the afternoon 

 while strolling over these fields I came 

 upon a partly albino bird. This bird 

 was of normal plumage except the 

 tail and wings in which parts more 

 than half of the feathers were devoid 

 of color. This bird during its associa- 

 tions with the others of its kind was 

 continually being attacked and pre- 

 sented a very bedraggled appearance 

 from their frequent onslaughts and 

 was forced into solitude by them at 

 close intervals. But in spite of their 

 pugnacity it always returned to the vi- 

 cinity of its tormentors and was im- 

 mediately set upon and driven off. 

 This bird remained in the neighbor- 

 hood for about ten days during which 

 time I was afforded many opportuni- 

 ties to observe it and its peculiarities. 



This is the only specimen of the 

 Sturnella magna that I have ever 

 found in which albinism occurred. 



Louis S. Kohler. 

 April 27th, 1915. 



An Albino Meadowlark. 



During the fall of 1914 in the fields 

 adjacent to my home in Bloomfield, N. 



A White Robin at State College, Pa. 



On the 4th of June of this year, 1915, 



I came across my first full albino, a 



Robin. It was feeding on the ground 



at the edge of a field and was not 



very timid, allowing me to approach 



fairly close and giving me a fine view 



of its plumage. This was entirely a 



dirty white, there being no markings 



on it as far as I could see, and I found 



the appearance of the bird rather odd. 



Thos. D. Burleigh. 

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Thanks, Mr. Preston! 



Sometime since we arranged a deal 

 with J. W. Preston of Spokane, Wash- 



