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THE OOLOxJIST 



Ottomar Reinecke. 



We are pleased to present to our 

 readers with this issue, a likeness of 

 one of the best known of America's 

 naturalists, Ottomar Reinecke, of Buf- 

 falo, New York, who has been engag- 

 ed in collecting natural history speci- 

 mens since 1858, beginning in Ger- 

 many before he came to this country. 



Mr. Reinecke was recently elected 

 Vice-President of the Buffalo Society 

 of Natural Science. Our readers know 

 of him and well of him. His contribu- 

 tions to The Oologist av-e standard on 

 every subject of which they treat. 

 The Buffalo Society is to be congratu- 

 lated in having so active and capable 

 a member. He has perhaps done more 

 than any other member of that Socie- 

 ty to build up the collection of the 

 Society relating to ornithology and 

 oology as well as to arouse interest on 

 these subjects in that territory. 



Campbell reports taking an adult 

 male and an adult female and a 1911 

 young female of the Canvasback, com- 

 pleting his series of this interesting 

 bird. 



June. 

 This month is largely given over to 

 the Warblers. May is the typical 

 Warbler month; June belongs ordinar- 

 ily to the Flycatcher. But for some 

 reason or other our observing friends 

 seem to have overlooked the Flycatch- 

 ers, and we have never had copy 

 enough to get out a Flycatcher num- 

 ber as has been our intention ever 

 since taking over The Oologist. We 

 wish our contributors would pay spe- 

 cial attention to the Flycatchers and 

 send us the results of their observa- 

 tions. Then one of these days we 

 may surprise you with a Flycatcher 

 "Oologist." 



Notes. 

 Richard C. Harlow of .the State Col- 

 lege of Pennsylvania, well known to 

 the readers of The Oologist, was a 

 caller on our friend, E. W. Campbell of 

 Pittston, Pennsylvania, April 2.5th, 

 where he went to look up matters re- 

 lating to Duck hawks. 



Some Curious Finds for 1907. 



While walking over a bank near the 

 roadside on May 15th, a Song sparrow 

 lluttered out of the weeds at my foot, 

 and after running along the ground 

 for a few feet, flew into a small bush. 

 From the birds actions I knew that 

 there must be a nest close by, but a 

 search over ten or twelve feet on 

 every side failed to reveal the home of 

 Mrs. Melospiza. This aroused my in- 

 terest sufficiently to want that nest 

 whether unusual or not, so the search 

 was repeated, this time with success. 

 The nest had been constructed in a 

 tomato can, the one jdace that I had 

 failed to look through my own lack 

 of brain power! The top of the can 

 had been cut half way round and then 

 bent up, thus forming a convenient 

 roof over the front door. I left the 

 eggs and nest, however, as the former, 

 four in number, were far advanced in 

 incubation. 



On the 16th of May, 1 flushed a 

 Robin from her nest and two eggs on 

 the ground, close to a stone wall. The 

 eggs were just hatching, and were ly- 

 ing ujion the grass which had been 

 slightly rounded into a poor excuse 

 for a nest. Several days later, a 

 Garter snake had a good square meal. 



On August seventh I removed a 

 bird box, which had been occupied 

 by House wrens, from the porch. Up- 

 on opening it, what was my surprise to 

 find that it contained ten eggs, slight- 

 ly nest stained, but otherwise in good 

 condition. The birds were constantly 

 at the box during the spring and sum- 

 mer, and why they did not hatch this 

 set is more than I can say. Incuba- 

 tion had not commenced in any of the 



