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THE OOLOQI8T 



LIST OF BREEDING BIRDS IN 

 STORY COUNTY, IOWA 



The following list of birds were ota 

 served during the breeding season of 

 1921, and were known to have nested 

 in Story County, Iowa. 

 Red Tailed Hawk 

 Cooper Hawk 

 Marsh Hawk 



American Sparrow Hawk 

 Great Horned Owl 

 Screech Owl . 



Northern Downy Woodpecker 

 Hairy Woodpecker 

 Red-Bellied Woodpecker 

 Northern Flicker . 

 Red-Headed Woodpecker 

 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 

 Green Heron 

 Crested Flycatcher 

 Kingbird 

 Phoebe 



Bank Swallow 

 Barn Swallow 

 Purple Martin 

 Dickcissel 

 Bob White 

 Killdeer 

 Blue Jay 

 American Crow 

 Meadow Lark 

 Brown Thrasher 

 House Wren 



Ruby Throated Hummingbird 

 American Goldfinch 

 Chimney Swift 

 Black-capped Chickadee 

 Catbird 



Baltimore Oriole 

 Mourning Dove 

 Belted Kingfisher 

 Prairie Horned Lark 

 Grasshopper Sparrow 

 Field Sparrow 

 Vesper Sparrow 

 English Sparrow ' 

 Red-eyed Vireo 

 Warbling Vireo 

 Bronzed Grackle 

 Red-winged Blackbird 

 Cow Bird 

 Blue Bird 



Martin C. Paulson. 



WINTER OBSERVATIONS IN TEXAS 



James Wood, Brownwood, Texas 



Thinking that the following notes 

 may be of some interest to the readers 

 of The Oologist, I am sending a list 

 of the species that I found here along 

 the Pecan River, in the vicinity of 

 Brownwood, Texas. 



The Cardinal, Tufted Titmouse and 

 American Gold Finch are found in 

 great numbers, are tame and can read- 

 ily be approached. 



The Mockingbird, Blue Jay, and 

 Texas Bev/ick Wren are also abundant. 

 The Bewick Wren, if closely looked 

 for, can be found in most any patch of 

 underbrush, but could easily be passed 

 unobserved, as he seems to be rather 

 quiet and is seldom heard. 



Chewinks are common but keep 

 close to the ground in the thickest 

 brush and are not easily flushed un- 

 less closely approached. 



While I was busily engaged in watch- 

 ing a pair of Chewinks, my attention 

 was drawn to a soft lisping note which 

 was often repeated, and which seemed 

 to come from high up in the air, and 

 upon investigating I found a flock of 

 about thirty Cedar Waxwings sitting 

 in the uppermost branches of a large 

 pecan tree, uttering their soft in- 

 distinct notes and during the day I 

 found four flocks of an average of 

 about thirty to a' flock. 



The Turkey Buzzard is seen oc- 

 casionally circling high up and the 

 Red-bellied and Texan Woodpeckers 

 are fairly common. 



And I was greatly surprised to see a 

 large Golden Eagle sitting in the top 

 of a large tree to which I approached 

 real close. 



This was a rare occasion and this 

 bird had evidently been wounded as he 

 allowed me to come quite close before 

 taking to flight, when I observed that 

 he had six or seven feathers out of 

 his left wing which seemed to hinder 

 his flying considerably. 



