THE OOLOQI8T 



6 Pied-billed Grebe (nesting 5 nests 

 found). 



7 Loon (one nest of two fresh eggs 

 found). 



51 Herring Gull 



77 Black Tern 



132 Mallard Duck 



148 American Scaup Duck 

 190 American Bittern 



194 Great Blue Heron 



201 Green Heron 



212 Virginia Rail 



214 Carolina Rail 



221 American Coot 



252 Least Sandpiper 



254 Greater Yellow Legs 



255 Lesser Yellow Legs 

 263 Spotted Sandpiper 

 273 Killdeer 



289 Bob White 



306 Ruffed Grouse 



316 Mourning Dove 



331 Marsh Ha'wk 



332 Sharp Shinned Hawk 

 337 Red-tailed Hawk 



339 Red Shouldered Hawk 



360 Sparrow Hawk 



390 Belted King Fisher 



406 Red-headed Woodpecker 



412 Flicker 



420 Night Hawk 



444 King Bird 



456 Phoebe 



474 Horned Lark 



488 Am. Crow 



494 Bobolink 



495 Cow Bird 



498 Red-winged Blackbird 



501 Meadow Lark 



511 Purple Grackle 



540 Vesper Sparrow 



542a Savanah Sparrow 



546 Grasshopper Sparrow 



547 Sparrow 



554 White Crowned Sparrow 



558 White Throated Sparrow 



560 Chipping Sparrow 



580 Song Sparrow 



514 Swamp Sparrow 



587 Towhee 



613 Barn Swallow 



614 Tree Swallow 

 652 Yellow Warbler 

 714 Catbird 



761 Long-billed Marsh Wren 

 761 Robin 

 766 Blue Bird 



Walter E. Hasting, 

 South Lyon, Mich. 



LOCAL RARITIES 



Birds which are quite common on 

 their main range are quite rare as the 

 limit of their range approaches and 

 in some sections where they were 

 once common are now seldom seen. 

 In a residence of twenty years off and 

 in the Pembina River District about 

 sixty miles north of Edmonton, I have 

 only recently seen a specimen of the 

 American Magpie, observing one fly- 

 ing over on the 15th of October 1919. 

 I have frequently seen them in South- 

 ern Alberta or about as far north as 

 Red Deer. Old timers tell me they 

 were once common around Edmonton 

 and on inquiring from one of my Half- 

 breed hunting partners he replied, 

 "Yes, lots of them around St. Albert 

 when I was a kid." This would be 

 about thirty years ago. Another Half- 

 breed informs me they were once com- 

 mon along the Pembina River. The 

 only way I can account for the ab- 

 sence at present of these birds is that 

 in settlement of the country they have 

 been exterminated by the poison and 

 steel traps of the white man. This 

 applies also to a lesser extent to the 

 Canada Jay and Northern Raven 

 which were both very numerous the 

 first few years I was in the country, 

 the first is a resident and the latter a 

 winter visitor but are not now plenti- 

 ful. The whole wooded country is 

 closely trapped and a considerable 

 amount of poison is used. Poison ex- 

 terminates both fur and feathers and 



