The OOlogist. 



VOL. XVIII. NO. 3. 



ALBION, N. Y., MARCH, 1901. 



Whole No. 174 



The Oologist. 



A Monthly Publication Devoted to 



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AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER. 



Gleanings from My Note Book. 



In looking over my note book I find 

 many short notes, or as it were, many 

 glimpses of bird life, which, singly. 



could not very well be expanded into 

 an article, so I have decided to write 

 them up collectively, and offer them 

 under the above gleanings. 



As the weather has a decided influ- 

 ence on bird movements, especially mi- 

 gration, I have usually prefaced my 

 notes with a sort of weather report 

 which I may use in connection with 

 these gleanings Its severity determines 

 to a great extent the character and 

 abundance of the winter visitors that 

 we may expect from the northland, 

 while its mildness leads us to look for 

 solitary individuals of our summer resi- 

 dents which usually leave us for the 

 sunny southland, hundreds of miles 

 away. 



January 1, 1900 -N. W. wind with 

 zero weather. As I glanced out of my 

 den window I paw for the first time this 

 winter a flock of about 100 Snowflakes 

 on the snow covered ice along the lake 

 shore. A Herring Gull was flying 

 around the sandbar, and some Ducks 

 were feeding along head of lake. A 

 "Lanius borealis'' flew about from one 

 tree top to another and teetered up and 

 down on the slender branches. Tree 

 Sparrows are numerous as usual and 

 make a tour of the town every day, eat- 

 ing the weedseeds in gardens. 



February— Heard the first gurglings 

 of Song Sparrows on the 13th, during 

 an hour cf sunshine in the morcing. 

 Next morning they climbed up in a brush 

 pile to rehearse, but seemingly became 

 disgusted -for they soon dove into the 

 cattails out of sight, and were not heard 

 again until the 22d when I heard one 

 bubbling over a little. 



March 1. — This month came in a 



