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THE OOLOGIST 



and as I went to collect them I saw 

 a Red-headed Woodpecker making a 

 meal off of them. 



I have a runt Red-headed Wood- 

 pecker's egg from a set of five, and a 

 runt Meadow Lark found on a bag in 

 a big marsh. I have a three or four 

 story nest of the Yellow Warbler. 1 

 once found a small nest of some bird 

 containing six eggs of the Cow Bird. 



I have a picture of a set of triplet 

 calves. I also have a photograph, and 

 also saw, a group of five babies, at 

 one birth. It was possible for these 

 latter to have all lived, but under cir- 

 cumstances existing at the time they 

 came into the world, they all died. 

 The mother was alone; all boys. 



I have a star fish with six arms. I 

 have seen many doubles and tribles 

 in fruit and nuts and of course in 

 flowers. A five fingered man lived 

 for years in our city of Columbus, 

 Wisconsin. 



George W. H. Vos Burgh. 



Warblers and a large Hawk not ident- 

 ified. 

 Dated Sept. 1918. 



Geo. W. H. Vos Burgh, 



56 Maple Ave., 

 Columbus, Wisconsin. 



A list of birds observed near Vin- 

 ton, Iowa, mainly along Cedar River: 

 Robin, Com. 



Blue Jay, Com. out of town. 

 Mourning Dove, abundant. 

 Bobwhite, one heard. 

 Black-billed Cuckoo, several. 

 Bluebird, Common. 

 Great Blue Heron, two or three. 

 Green Heron, Common. 

 American Crow, Common. 

 Pigeon Hawk, one. 

 Great Crested Flycatcher, one. 

 Downy Woodpecker, common. 

 Redheaded Woodpecker, common. 

 Purple Martin, common. 

 Baltimore Oriole, several. 

 Purple Grackle, common. 

 Northern Flicker, several. 

 Spotted Sandpipper, several. 

 Belted Kingfisher, two or three. 

 White brested Nuthatch, several. 

 Several varieties of Sparrows and 



Newspaper Ornithology 



The following is a sample of the 

 idiotic stuff which drifts through the 

 press of the country to the detriment 

 of the birds and which indirectly in- 

 creases the unnecessary extinction of 

 many birds. Not long since the press 

 was filled with telegrams about the 

 awful invasion of the Groshawks. Now 

 that seem to have worn out so keep 

 the columns filled, the Owls have be- 

 gun to eat up the hogs of the country. 

 All such silly slush should be kept out 

 of the columns of any self-respecting 

 publication. 



—Editor. 



11-Foot Owl Attacks Hunter, Who 

 May Die 



Chicago, Dec. 13. — A huge owl, when 

 shot and wounded by John O'Connor, 

 a summer resort keeper at Grassy 

 Lake, 111., attacked him with his beak 

 and talons, inflicting gashes which 

 may prove fatal. The bird, snow 

 white, was four feet in height, 

 weighed nearly seventy pounds and 

 measured eleven feet from tip to tip 

 of its wings. It finally was killed. 



Owls Devour Pigs 



Patriotic Chinaman Loses Ten of 



Them 



Chemanius, B. C, April 20. — Sam 

 Yikkee, Chinese patriot and pig raiser, 

 is distressed and the potential pork 

 production of Canada has been re- 

 duced by ten fine pigs as the result of 

 the depredations of horned owls. 



Sam Yik Kee had ten sturdy little 

 pigs. Then there were nine, and he 

 couldn't account for the shortage. 



