22 A Disastrous Trip. 



2. Trumpeter Swan 1877 and White-fronted Goose, shot 

 in the fall of 1868. 



3. White-winged Scoter, shot in fall of 1881. 



4. Peregrine Falcon, shot in fall of 1882, by Colonel E. A. 

 Scoville. 



5. A Hybrid, between Anas obscura and Anas boschas, 

 killed in the fall of 1878, by Judge E. B. Sadler. 



6. A pure Albino Redhead, killed in fall of 1880. 



7. A partial Albino Coot, and 



8. A partial Albino Wilson s Snipe, both killed in the fall 

 of 18S1, by C. J. Clark. 



The Coot has many white feathers on the head and neck, 

 also smaller white feathers on various parts of the body. The 

 Wilson's Snipe has the upper part of both wings almost en- 

 tirely white. 



9. A Snowy Owl, shot in fall of 1881. 



All of the Ohio Ducks were represented in this collection, 

 among them the rare Gadwall in several specimens. 



AN IMPROVIDENT KINGBIRD. 



LYNDS JONES. 



One of the Oberlin public school teachers has given me a 

 Kingbird's nest which a pupil of hers found and preserved. 

 The nest is normally made of strings, rags, weeds, hair, twigs 

 and rootlets. It was built in an apple tree in no usual man- 

 ner, except that the birds failed to notice that they had built 

 into one side of the nest a fertile apple bud. In the natural 

 course of growth the apple had to have room, and soon began 

 to disarrange the side of the nest When completely grown 

 the apple was fully two inches in diameter, and since the in- 

 side diameter of the nest is only a half inch larger, there was 

 little left of the nest cavity. No doubt the young had left the 

 nest before the apple had attained much size, but probably 

 not before it began to encroach upon the space intended for 

 the young birds. 1 have heard of growing apples in bottles 

 and other fanciful receptacles, but never heard of the use of a 

 bird's nest before. 



