THE OOLOGIST 



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The late Mr. Gentry collected a set 

 of five Acadian Owl's eggs in the early 

 '8-'s in Chew's Woods, Germantown, 

 but I have always doubted the authen- 

 ticity of this record, because no orni- 

 thologists have since found this bird 

 nesting in the Carolinian zone in 

 Pennsylvania. It is, I believe, a bird 

 distinctly of the Alleghanian or tran- 

 sition fauna. 



Richard F. Miller. 

 Philadeli)hia, Pa. 



Swan Note. 



At Senachwine Lake, eleven miles 

 North of Lacon, on a hunting preserve 

 owned by the Swan Gun Club, the last 

 of October, Frank Wood, one of the 

 hunters employed by said Swan Lake 

 Gun Club, killed two adult female 

 Whistling Swan, weighing 16% and 

 liy2 pounds, respectively. They are 

 perfect beautiful specimens, and are 

 now in the hands of Edward B. Mat- 

 tern, a taxidermist at Henry, for 

 mounting. 



This variety of Swan is now more 

 common along the Illinois River than 

 the Trumpeter Swan, though in years 

 gone by, the Trumpeter Swan was by 

 far the more numerous. Both varie- 

 ties may be described at this time as 

 exceedingly scarce. 



These two birds are the only Swan 

 known to us as having been killed on 

 this river anywhere in our neighbor- 

 hood at any time within the last ten 

 years. 



The killing of swan of all varieties 

 should be prohibited by law. The 

 Wood duck, the Woodcock and Swan 

 are rapidly fading into extinction, and 

 an effort should be made to preserve 

 these splendid birds. — Editor. 



Our Plunder. 



Thinking the readers of THE 

 OOLOGIST might be interested in our 

 accumulations of things Ornithologi- 

 cal and Oological, we will say; that 



on January 1st, 1912, we were the 

 proud possessor of an Ornithological 

 Library composed of 400 bound vol- 

 umes of books on birds, ninety-five per 

 cent, of which related to North Amer- 

 ican birds. Also 150 bound volumes of 

 American Bird Magazine and about 40 

 complete and partially complete but 

 unbound volumes of other American 

 bird magazines. Also approximately 

 2.50 pamphlets and separates relating 

 to North American birds and about 

 100 F. S. Government publications re- 

 lating to our birds. 



Our collection of North American 

 birds eggs on this date represented 

 S36 species, sub-species and geograi^h- 

 ical races, 235 of which were in com- 

 pleted series. 



On the same day our pens contained 

 11 of the 14 species of Geese, repre- 

 sented in the A. O. U. List, besides 17 

 species of the ducks and both the Na- 

 tive American Swan, in all 171 birds. 



More Yellow Heads. 



It seems that the Yellow-headed 

 Blackbird has visited various parts 

 of Wisconsin for the first time in a 

 number of years. The same is also 

 true of this locality. In fact I can find 

 no record of their ever having visited 

 this immediate vicinity before, but am 

 told that about fifteen years ago, a 

 number of them were seen in the mar- 

 shes at Rice Lake, twelve miles nortn 

 of here. 



During the spring and summer of 

 1911, a small colony made their home 

 in the rushes, bordering a pond, near 

 the city pumping station. 



C. W. Pelton. 

 Maishfield, Wisconsin. 



Bobolink Nest. 



V,'hile out for a walk one afternoon 

 last spring, I flushed a female "Bobo- 

 link from her nest of five eggs. 



Thinking the set was not complete. 



