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THE OOLOGIST 



Last winter there were several 

 flocks of Evening Grosbeaks around 

 our vicinity, this bird is very rare 

 here indeed, and is seldom seen. The 

 following are dates that I saw them 

 on last year: 



They arrived here on December 

 28, 1910, and on that date I saw one 

 on February 18, 1911 I saw one more, 

 March ISth, 6 female birds and on 

 April 19, I saw a flock of male and 

 female. I have not seen any since 

 the last date. 



On January 6, of this year, there 

 was a very heavy snow fall and the 

 mercury dropped to 32 below zero, 

 and I saw a flicker, he seemed to be 

 in fairly good condition, but it is a 

 mystery to me why he is here with 

 us at this time of the year. 



I attend the school here and we 

 are getting up a Nature Study Club 

 of which I have the honor of being 

 the president. About once a week 

 we hold meetings, and I discuss birds 

 with the rest of the pupils for about 

 an hour. I have been persuading 

 them to i)ut out food for the birds 

 and also to protect them and I think 

 that I will succeed in the end. 



Norman Hamilton. 



A Wood Thrush's Nest. 



A pair of wood thrushes built 

 their nest in a tall cherry tree by our 

 house in Tarrytown, N. .J., last 

 spring. These thrushes seemed to be 

 the happiest |)air of birds in the 

 country. The male thrush was al- 

 ways pouring forth its beautiful song. 

 When I first observed the nest. May 

 20, it was practically finished. The 

 nest was placed in a crotch a little 

 more than half way up the tree. It 

 was made mostly of. fine twigs, straw, 

 tissue paper, string and was lined 

 with grapevine twigs. It closely re- 

 sembled a robin's nest. I saw the 



first blue egg in the nest May 22. 

 Three eggs which were all they had 

 were laid three days later. All of the 

 eggs were hatched by June 6. Among 

 the things that the old birds fed the 

 young were small worms. The last 

 young bird left the nest on June 18. 

 Max Irwin Carruth. 



Late Nesting of the Bob-White. 



On August G, 190(;, 1 found a Bob- 

 white's nest, 30 feet from the door 

 and 2 feet from a well used i)ath. 

 The nest contained four eggs of the 

 parent bird and two eggs of the do- 

 mestic hen. The hen's eggs were re- 

 moved and Mrs. Bob completed her 

 clutch of 9 eggs Aug. 11, incubation 

 commenced the 12th and was com- 

 pleted Seiit. 6th. Incubation was re- 

 tarded owing to the frequency of the 

 parent bird being disturbed. All of 

 the eggs hatched, the young Bobs ran 

 away from their mother and hid at 

 my approach, not more than 30 min- 

 utes after they had hatched. These 

 youngsters survived the winter, it be- 

 ing a mild winter, very little snow 

 and plenty of warm days. 



Guy Love. 

 Oberlin, Kan. 



Partially Albino European House 

 Sparrow. 



Rayford A. Mann collected a male 

 English Sparrow in Stoneham, Mass., 

 December 21, which was a perfect al- 

 bino excepting the three outer wing 

 feathers — primaries. 



The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (Mus- 

 civora Forficata) in New Brunswick. 



Rayford A. Mann reports that 

 while visiting in New Brunswick in 

 the fall of 1911, a gentleman there 

 exhibited to him a male Scissor-tailed 

 Flycatcher that he had shot in a field 

 near Clarendon, New Brunswick, dur- 

 ing the summer of 1911 and had 



