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THE OOLOGIST 



Since returning home Mr. Dean 

 writes us, "I have found the letters 

 from Richard Christ, of Nazareth, 

 Pennsylvania, showing that I sent 

 him the Warbling Flycatcher's (Vireo) 

 nest and eggs in 1870 and I am send- 

 ing some of his letters to read." .... 

 "I certainly appreciated your return- 

 ing this nest and eggs." 



Little touches of sentiment of this 

 kind that turn the minds of older bird 

 students back to their boyhood days 

 are some of the bright spots which dot 

 the career of old time collectors. We 

 have no doubt but that many of the 

 older collectors would love to have 

 restored to them some of their earliest 

 specimens which would link them 

 with their boyhood enthusiasm of 

 earlier years. — R. M. B. 



BOOKS RECEIVED 



One of the most interesting items 

 received in a long time, is "Roose- 

 velt's Wild Life Bulletin, Volume 1, 

 No. 2," issued August 1922, by the 

 Roosevelt Wild Life Experiment Sta- 

 tion, of New York State, College of 

 Forestry, of Syracuse. 



It is written by Charles Eugene 

 Johnson, and is devoted to the Beaver. 

 The bulletin contains three maps, 

 seventy figures and about one hundred 

 and twenty-five pages. 



This is a splendid contribution to 

 the life history of this interesting ani- 

 mal, and is a credit to the author. 

 Many of the photographers are highly 

 illustrative of the work of this indus- 

 trious fur bearer. 



One of them showing an aspen tree 

 seventeen and a half inches in di- 

 ameter that had been cut down, an- 

 other showing a dam of one hundred 

 and seventy-two feet long and nearly 

 four feet high, constructed by these 

 little animals, still another one show- 

 ing a dam built more than eleven feet 



high and still others of similar char- 

 acter scattered all through this paper. 

 The beaver is one of the most useful 

 as well as the most interesting of our 

 smaller animals, and is entitled to pro- 

 tection. 



R. M. Barnes. 



A CORRECTION 



In the September The Oologist, 

 Volume XXXIX, No. 9, Page 129 ap- 

 pears a half-tone showing The Nest 

 and Eggs of a Cinnamon Teal Duck, 

 and on page 135 of the same Volume, 

 appears another half-tone showing 

 The Nest and Four Eggs of Farallone 

 Cormorant. We regret that the de- 

 scriptions of each of these two plates 

 were transposed and the first above 

 described plate is referred to as The 

 Nest and Eggs of Farallone Cormor- 

 ant, and the second The Nest and 

 Eggs of the Cinnamon Teal, whereas 

 the reverse should be the description. 

 R. M. Barnes. 



SPARROW HAWK BANDING 



On April 24th, 1921, I took a set of 

 Sparrow Hawk from a hole in a large 

 live oak in front of an abandoned 

 schoolhouse on the highway near 

 Goodyear, Solano County. The male 

 was sitting and after looking him 

 over I set him free. Later in the sea- 

 son another set was laid in the same 

 hole and the young raised. 



On April 16th, 1922 I found in the 

 same cavity a male Hawk sitting on 

 five freshly laid eggs, possibly the 

 same bird as was sitting last year. 1 

 banded him (No. 10441) and set him 

 free. Am hoping that next year 1 will 

 find my banded l)ir(l on another set of 

 eggs in this hole. 



Emerson A. Stoner, 

 Benicia, (Solano County), Cal. 



