THB OOLOOI8T 



White Throated Sparrow, this is so 

 noticeable that many persons not ac- 

 customed to notice birds have noticed 

 it. This bird always breeds more or 

 less sparingly in the town, but in the 

 last three years, particularly in 1919, 

 it has become so abundant as to be 

 one of our most common breeding 

 birds. The same is also true of the 

 Junco. This species was always an 

 abundant breeder on the mountains or 

 higher hills, but it has gradually been 

 extending its breeding range to the 

 low lands as well. Another bird whose 

 abundance was a noticeable feature of 

 the 1919 season, was the Chestnut 

 Sided Warbler. In almost any suit- 

 able locality at least one family of 

 these birds could be found by means 

 of a little searching. 



On June 19th, I was searching a 

 marshy meadow in quest of a pair of 

 Short Billed Marsh Wrens that I had 

 reason to believe had bred there for a 

 number of years, when from a swampy 

 tangle at one end of the meadow 1 

 hear the song of the Water Thrush. 

 On following up the singer several 

 good views of him were obtained. On 

 later dates singing Water Thrushes 

 were observed in a number of differ- 

 ent swamps in the region, though all 

 attempts to locate their nests were in 

 vain. But as they remained all through 

 the summer the probability is that 

 they breed there. Until this season 

 the Water Thrush has always been 

 very rare or absent in the summer. 



Another species that bred in Jaf- 

 fery in somewhat unusual abundance 

 in 1919, though it was always more or 

 less common, was the Nashville War- 

 bler. This bird is found most com- 

 monly in the higher parts of the town, 

 and is particularly abundant in the 

 region of spruce timber, near the sum- 

 mit of Mount Monadnock, which is 

 3166 feet in altitude. A common 

 breeder at elevations below 2400 feet 



on the mountain, and in parts of the 

 lowlands was the Black Throated Blue 

 Warbler. This is one of the first 

 species to leave in the fall. It is not 

 seen in its breeding ground after the 

 middle of August and the latest date 

 on which I have seen it in the low- 

 lands is the 30th of August. 



A few pairs of the Golden Crowned 

 Kinglets were also breeding on Monad- 

 nock in 1919 as usual. 



The season was also marked by the 

 absence of breeding Loons, Grebs, and 

 Ducks, which were usually found in 

 the ponds and marshes, but there was 

 enough increase in land forms to make 

 up for any loss in that way. 



Stuart T. Danforth, 

 New Brunswick, N. Y. 



The Starling In N. H. 



I know of three different times 

 where the Starling has driven the 

 Flicker from her nesting site. No. 1, 

 the Flicker had her nest completed 

 in an apple tree when the Starling 

 took possession and made her nest, 

 and laid five eggs. No. 2, the Flicker 

 had her three eggs robbed by some- 

 thing, probably the Starling in another 

 apple tree. Later on a Starling made 

 her nest and hatched her eggs in the 

 same cavity. No. 3, a Flicker had a 

 nest and laid seven eggs in the cavity 

 of another apple tree and just as the 

 eggs were taken by a boy, Mrs. Star- 

 ling took and invaded a nest just as 

 I left for home. 



This is what happened in only three 

 seasons. I think the Starling must be 

 a great pest to the Flicker. 



E. S. Coombs. 



Long Eared Owls. 



On December the 28th, 1919, while 

 walking up a small ravine close to 

 my camps here on the lake, my atten- 

 tion was attracted by a large Owl fly- 

 ing up, seemingly from the bare 



