THE OOLOGIST 



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Orchard Oriole. 



Savanna Sparrow. 



Cardinal. 



Loggerhead Shrike. 



B^ue Gray Gnatcatcher. 



American Robin. 



NDi'Lhern Downy Woodpecker. 



Crested Flycatcher. 



Rose Breasted Grosbeak. 



The birds here decreasing are: 

 Mallard Duck. 

 Blue Wing Teal. 

 Least Bittern 

 King Rail (fast). 

 Sora. 



American Woodcock. 

 Golden Plover. 



Prairie Hen (Very, Very Fast). 

 Red Shouldered Hawk, 

 Red Tailed Hawk. 

 Sharp Shinned Hawk. 

 Great Horned Owl. 

 Whip-poor-will. 

 American Goldfinch. 

 Chipping Sparrow. 

 Dickcissel. 

 Tree Swallow. 

 Cliff Swallow. 

 Prothnotary Warbler. 

 Blue Winged Warbler. 

 Yellow Warbler 

 Brown Headed Nuthatch. 

 Wood Thrush. 



This list is as near accurate as I can 

 get it as it is the study of a few years. 

 Of course, there is probably a few mis- 

 takes. Take the Woodcock, last year 

 I only saw two different birds. Take 

 the Prairie Hen. Dad says when he 

 was a boy there were flocks of almost 

 thousands, and when I was a boy I 

 could usually see a flock of a score or 

 two, but now a flock of three or four 

 is a sight . Lots of birds that used to 

 breed here are extinct. Now take the 

 Passenger Pigeon; when Dad was a 

 boy he said he used to shoot them by 

 the score, now there are none, and he 

 said it was nothing unusual to st>e a 



score or two of Sandhill Cranes. Hunt- 

 ers are responsible for our birds de- 

 creasing here like the King Rail. 

 Prairie Hen, Mallard. Many birds are 

 shot here as they migrate. Take one 

 man this year who shot four Wood 

 Ducks and then thrsw them away. It 

 would make anybody's blood boil. I 

 have also seen lots of birds here but 

 have not located their nests like Black 

 and White Warbler, also lots of birds 

 stop here on their way north like 

 Juncos, Sapsuckers, Geese, Ducks. 

 Some years birds stay here more than 

 they do others and I cannot account 

 for it; one year here both Cuckoos and 

 Dickcissels were very thick and next 

 year there were hardly any. I have 

 probably missed a few birds I recall 

 now that Bluebirds are increasing here 

 and after I read it again I may think 

 of others I forgot. 



Arthur Blocher, 



Amboy. 111. 

 Dec. 30, 1921. 



NEW ADDITION TO A. O. U. CHECK 

 LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS 



The following important item was 

 received by us from H. H. Bailey, May 

 26th, 1922. 



"On March 6th, 1922, I secured a 

 live specimen of Streptopelia risoria, 

 Ringed Turtle Dove. This bird I 

 judge to be a male, and was captured 

 a few days previous in Dade County, 

 Florida, near the city limits of Miami. 

 It came to an enclosed pigeon yard 

 during a storm, and was very hungry, 

 no doubt having been blown over from 

 Cuba. 



Specimens of the White Crowned 

 Pigeon were also seen at Miami Beach, 

 after the same blow." 



Harold H. Bailey, 

 Miami Beach, Florida. 



