M onthly B ull etin 7 



APPRECIATION. That the Audubon Bird Charts are appreciated is 

 shown by many letters from various parts of the 

 country, of which the following is a fair sample: 



Dear Sir: 



Please find draft for $3.00 for which please send Bird Charts 

 No. 2 and No. 3. We have No. 1. 



There is nothing in our library that has given half the pleas- 

 ure the chart No, 1 has given to the little folks as well as the 

 grown-ups. 



Respectfully, 



Julia Andrae, Librarian. 

 Free Public Library, 

 Jefferson City, Mo. 



ODD ITEM! 



The following was clipped from a Boston paper under the heading of 

 "Odd Items from Everywhere": 



An owl was shot by Anthony Fisher during the services at 

 St. Ann's church at Fremont, 0. When the congregation assembled 

 the big bird was perched over the altar, but before the services 

 closed it flew to a rear window over the choir loft. Fisher, with a 

 shot gun, took aim and brought the bird down with the first shot. 

 Services then continued. 



In the name of goodness, what sort of a place is Fremont, Ohio? 



BIRD NOTES. 



Edward C. Porter of Arlington reports several red-headed woodpeckers 

 seen this spring in the Fells. 



Miss Viola Crittenden of Beverly reports a junco on June 9th, a record 

 for lateness for a migrating bird. It is of course possible that this is a 

 breeding bird, as j uncos have been known to breed in Essex County. Up 

 on Wachusett and the higher land of northern Worcester County j uncos 

 breed regularly. In the Berkshires last winter j uncos appeared in such 

 large flocks that some people were alarmed lest they become a pest, like 

 the starlings. 



The remarkable increase in the abundance of Tennessee and Cape May 

 warblers in the spring migration is affording observers in eastern Massa- 

 chusetts much satisfaction. This increase has been going on for several 

 years but first became marked in 1915. This year they have been moi^ 

 numerous than ever, and they can no longer be classed as rare birds. 

 Indeed the Tennessee warbler bids fair to become one of our commonest 

 spring warblers, while the Cape May, though less abundant, is by no means 

 uncommon. The latter is one of the most beautiful of its family. The 

 Tennessee is plain in color and rather difficult to observe, but when once 

 its insistent song has been learned its presence is easily detected. 



