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■street and on going closer, to my sur- 

 prise, found them to be Bohemian 

 Waxwings, two hundred or more; but 

 being away from home and not know- 

 ing whei'e to borrow a gun handy I was 

 obliged to leave them. 



Again in M^rch I saw aflock of Cedar 

 Waxwings alight in a mountain ash 

 picking berries that remain on during 

 the winter. Upon coming close to 

 them I noticed four or five Bohemians 

 in company with them. 



Saturday, Dec. 16, '93. Again to-day 

 I saw five Bohemians in a mountain 

 ash feeding, but no chance to secure 

 one; also one Robin in their company. 

 Of the latter I have seen from one to a 

 dozen all winter. They feed on moun- 

 tain ash berries also and stay until 

 gone. W. E. Webster, 



Oskosh, Wis. 



Bald Eagles in Missouri- 



Nov. 15, 1803. I have just skinned a 

 very large specimen of the Bald Eagle 

 that was shot about seven miles north 

 of here. It measured seven feet from 

 tip to tip, was three feet long, weighed 

 fifteen and a half pounds and was very 

 fat. It was shot with No. nine shot 

 while flying. This bird makes the tifth 

 Eagle that has been captured around 

 here during the last summer and fall. I 

 cannot account for their being here be- 

 cause the country is mostly open. 

 Curtis Wright, Jr., 

 Carthage, Mo. 



Another Prolific Flicker- 

 Having recently read in Davie's 

 "Nests and Eggs of North American 

 Birds" concerning the layings of the 

 Flicker, I found that it in a measure 

 coincided with a similar experience of 

 my own. 



On the first of Jnne, '93, as I was out 

 •collecting eggs. I di.ecovered in an old 

 •oak tree about 20 feet from the ground. 



a hollow. I noticed near by a pair of 

 Flickers and thought that they were 

 seeking this spot for a nest. Stepping 

 behind a tree and carefully watching 

 their movements I presently found that 

 my thoughts were true. 



As I knew that the female Flicker 

 would soon begin laying I carefully 

 watched this nest. Upon going to the 

 nest one day I found that some small 

 boj'S had discovered it also- I knew at 

 once that I would have to watch the 

 nest very carefully. Every day I took 

 an egg from the nest until at last she 

 ceased laying. I found to my sui'pi'ise 

 that I had taken 40 eggs in 40 days. 



I am confident that these were the 

 layings of a single Flicker as no other 

 pair during this time was seen in the 

 immediate vicinity. 



R. A. SCHWEEK, 



Denton, Texas. 



American White Pelican in Illinois- 



Perhaps the largest water fowl and 

 certainly one of the rarest specimens 

 of ornithology ever seen in this vicinity 

 was killed at Brooklyn, Illinois, three 

 miles below here, by Mr. E. W. John- 

 son on the 29th of October, 1893. 



The bird in question is a large peli- 

 can, has plumage unstained by blem- 

 ishes of blood or dirt, is snowy white, 

 save on the back and shoulders where 

 a few dun-colored feathers are inter- 

 spersed. 



His kinsman, the Brown Pelican, is a 

 frequent visitor in these parts, but rare- 

 ly does the human eye see one of the 

 big snowy, baggy-pouched birds on 

 local water. 



The dimensions of the bird ai'e as 

 follows: From one extended wing 

 point to the other it measures eight 

 feet, five inches. From the end of the 

 long bill to the flabby feet is just sixty- 

 one inchas. The pouch beneath the four- 

 teen-inch bill is fifteen inches in length 



