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Snowy Owls in surrounding territory ; so present indications 

 are that this winter will be a most interesting one from an or- 

 nithological standpoint, and it will be well to keep sharp eyes 

 open during the coming months for our rare winter visitors. 



BIRD NOTES FROM MIDDLE WESTERN OHIO. 



BY W. F. HENNINGER. 



Some of the observations made during 1908 at New Bremen, 

 Ohio, in the region between the Grand and the Loramie Reser- 

 voirs, also including some field work at these Reservoirs are 

 of more than local importance and as my pastoral work carries 

 me over approximately 50 square miles they are certainly typi- 

 cal of the entire region. 



On February 5th, after a funeral I met a flock of some 30 

 to 25 Lapland Longspurs (Calcarius lapponicus) in company 

 with some Prairie Horned Larks on small knolls in fields 

 covered entirely with slushy snow. 



Migration started in briskly on February 28 up till March 

 11th, then it seemed to be checked till March 24th, the Purple 

 Martin not showing up till April 1st. This continued till 

 April 2Glh. April 24th bringing the Wood Thrush, and the 

 Baltimore Oriole, April 25th the Scarlet Tanager, the 26th 

 the Yellow Warbler and the American Redstart. Two weeks 

 of rain and cold weather set in with the evening of April 26th. 

 Some of the earlier birds, however, were nesting by this time. 



April 27th a fine set of five eggs of Accipiter coopcri were 

 taken out of a nest 40 feet up in a pin oak, 3^ miles east of 

 New Bremen in Shelby County. At the same place a small 

 heronry of some 10 to 12 nests of the Great Blue Heron was 

 fo'Und with thv; old ones already on their nests. The same date 

 showed a Bluebird's nest with 2 young and a Killdeer's nest 

 with 4 young just out of the shells. A Blue Jay's nest with 

 six fresh eggs was found on the next day, but the little Field 

 Sparrow did not have its full complement of four eggs till May 

 12. In spite of the bad weather migrants continued to arrive, 

 the most interesting ones being the Savannah Sparrow on May 

 Gth, and the Cape May Warbler on May 11th. May 14th 



