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trace of yellow about the head and 

 throat, and therefore are thought to 

 have been prairie horned larks, Oto- 

 coris alptstris praticola (Hensh); black- 



backed gulls were in company with 

 the flocks of American herring gulls 

 out on the sandbars. Crows are win- 

 ter residents all along the coast and 

 are seen every time I go out. Small 

 flocks of goldflnches have been seen 

 all winter. January 17th snow bunt- 

 ings were present at the Cape in good- 

 sized flocks. 



After the cold weather began to 

 close the bay with ice, a flock of per- 

 haps fifty whistlers lived for some 

 weeks in Back Cove, in full view from 

 Tukey's bridge. With them there 

 was a little bunch of buffleheads. 

 Black ducks in a flock of fifty or more 

 were also seen in Back Cove. 



After the bay was so solidly frozen 

 that there was no feeding-ground for 

 black ducks anywhere around the 

 islands these ducks gathered in great 

 numbers, fully 700 or 800, around 

 Martin's Point bridge, near the Marine 

 hospital, and for a month past and up 

 to the first half of March they re- 

 mained. At the coldest weather, 

 when there was only a small patch of 

 open water above and below the 

 bridge, they were right up under the 

 bridge, and at the approach of an 

 electric car they would fly up by the 

 hundred, circling out over the bay and 

 finally returning. There they became 

 so tame that persons from the city, 

 who went out to see them in large 

 numbers, could approach within easy 

 gunshot of them. It seemed during 

 the coldest weather that they were 

 suffering for food and from time to 

 time kind-hearted people threw to 

 them as much as twenty bushels of 

 corn. At the first thaw the flats 

 opened and early in March they had 

 abundance of feeding-ground They 

 constantly flew back and forth over 

 the bridge, some even hitting the tel- 

 egraph wires, and several being dis- 

 abled in this way. Warden Cushman, 

 hearing that early in the winter be- 

 fore the ducks became so poor that 

 they would not make good eating, 

 some gunners were shooting them, 

 watched them constantly and pro- 

 tected them from slaughter. He de- 

 serves much credit for his good work. 



publlcatione 1Rccetv)c^. 



The Birds of Ohio— By Lynds Jones 

 M. Sc, Oberlin College, Oberlin, 

 Ohio. A revision of Dr. J. M. Whea- 

 ton's catalogue issued in 1882. Pub- 

 lished by The Ohio State Academy of 

 Science, special paper No. 6, Oct. 15, 

 1903. 



As stated above, this is a revision 

 of Dr. Wheaton's "The Birds of 

 Ohio," in which Prof. Jones has 

 drawn comparisons between the con- 

 ditions prevailing then and now, es- 

 pecially as regards the bird life, and 

 to add such facts as further study has 

 brought to light. This catalogue is a 

 valuable contribution to the ornithol- 

 ogy of Ohio, and a credit to Prof. 

 Jones. 



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Amateur Naturalist, The, I, No. 1, 

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