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THE OOLOGIST. 



749 Ruiby-crowned Kinglet. 



755 Wood Thrush. 



756 Wilson's Thrush. 

 758a Olive-backed Thrush. 

 759'b Hermit Thrush. 



761 Roibin. 

 766 Bluebird. 



K. B. SQUIRES, 



Greenport, Long Island, N. Y. 



From Nebraska. 



North Loup, Valley Co., Neh. 



Jan. 27, 1907.— A flock of about 80 

 Bohemian Waxwing, (Amphelis gar- 

 rulus), appeared in the village, feed- 

 ing on seed of the hackberry. The 

 flock became ^broken up in a few days, 

 a part remaining until the 11th of 

 March. 



Feb. 8, 1907. — A male Robin was 

 singing as lustily as though it was 

 spring. 



Jan. 2, 1908. — With three inches of 

 snow on ground saw a Roibin that 

 seemed to enjoy life. 



There have been N. Flickers, (Col- 

 aptes auratus luteus), around every 

 winter except one of the four winters 

 I have lived here. 



A Cardinal, (Cardinalis cardinalis), 

 came into my garden Dec. 30, 1907, 

 and remained about the village until 

 March 24th. It was a male. He began 

 whistling about the first of March and 

 could be heard nearly every morning 

 until the date last seen. 



G. M. BURDICK. 



213 College Ave., Ithaca, N. Y., 



Feb. 27, 1909. 

 Mr. Ernest H. Short, 



Editor, The Oologist, 



Rochester, N. Y. 

 Dear Sir: — I am sending you in- 

 closed, a list of birds of a city yard, 

 which I thought might possibly be of 

 interest to the readers of Tihe Oolo- 

 gist. Springfield is a city of some 

 60,000 inhabitants, and the residence 

 district referred to, is about midway 



between the business center and the 

 western limit of the town. The dis- 

 trict is almost entirely ibuilt up, the 

 lots being about the same size, in 

 general, as the one referred to. There 

 is a park six or eight blocks away. 



If you find the list of sufficient inter- 

 est, you are welcome indeed to pub- 

 lish it. 



Yours very truly, 



A. D. DU BOIS. 



Three of Our Old Friends Go to 

 Africa. 



Among the corps of naturalists who 

 will accompany ex-President Roose- 

 velt to Africa will be, according to 

 present advices, three of the Oolo- 

 gist's friends, iMaj. E. A. Mearns; J. 

 Alden Loring, and Edmund Heller. 



A glance at our books for past 

 years demonstrates Major Mearns' 

 experience as a traveller as well as 

 our efforts to keep the Oologist with 

 him. — Editor. 



Denver, Colo., Feb. 10, 1909. 

 Mr. E. H. Sihort, Rochester, N. Y. 



Dear Sir: — Mr. Abbott's remarks 

 regarding- large sets of eggs of the 

 Florida Gallinule in the January Oolo- 

 gist, calls to mind a set of seventeen 

 eggs of the coot which I found May 

 26th, 190G, at Barr, Adams County, 

 Colo. This set of eggs lay in two dis- 

 tinct layers in the nest and even in 

 this arrangement was much larger 

 than the parent could cover, and 

 while I cannot detect enough differ- 

 ence in the ground color or markings 

 of the eggs to base an opinion upon, 

 I am satisfied that this set was the 

 product of more than one bird. 



I think the habit of more than one 

 Inrd laying in a nest is of rather com- 

 mon occurrence among several spe- 

 cies of birds that nest in communities. 

 In a small colony of about 50 pairs of 

 breeding Forster's Terns 'at Barr, 



