114 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 79. 



(24) Spizella pusUJa — Field Sparrow. Common on both days 

 throughout the borough. 



(25) Jiinco hyemalis — Slate-colored Junco. Common on both 

 days in the more rural sections. 



(2G) Melospiza mcJodia — Song Sparrow. Common on both days 

 throughout the section. 



(27) Hirundo erytlirogmira — Barn Swallow. Two were observed 

 in company with the Tree Swallows over the lake on the 14th. 



(28) Iridoprocne McoJor — Tree Swallow. Six wei'e found on the 

 lake during the morning of the 13th. On the 14th they were com- 

 mon over the lake all day. 



(29) Antlius riiJjcscens- — Pipit. One was seen near the Pequan- 

 nock River on the 13th. 



(30) Sitta carolinensis — White-breasted Nuthatch. One found at 

 the Steel Works on the 14th. 



(31) Plancsticiis migratoriiis — Robin. Common on all sides on 

 both days. 



(32) Sidlla sialis. Common on both days throughout the bor- 

 ough. 



April IG, 1912. Louis S. Kohleb. 



BIRDS AND CATS. 



The Audubon Society of Massachusetts, a branch of the great 

 national association, of which there are tens of thousands of mem- 

 bers in this country, is appealing to the people to assist in the 

 protection of birds by not allowing their oats to roam during the 

 season when young birds are leaving their nests. 



In a fruit-growing section like North East, where thousands of 

 dollars worth of apples and other fruits are destroyed every year 

 by Inject pests, and where spraying and other measures are im- 

 peratively necsessary to hold these pests in check, we need every 

 available bird to pull with us in fighting the noxious insects. 



Here in town hundreds of young birds might be saved every 

 spring if those who own cats would not allow them to roam at 

 pleasure during the nesting season. 



This is looking at the matter from an economic point of view. 

 There is another view that appeals as strongly to the writer, and 

 that is the pleasure of seeing the wild birds and hearing their 

 cheerful songs. 



Many birds come from the woods to town for better protection 

 of themselve*. their eggs and their young from the owls, hawks, 

 crows, shrikes, squirrels, skunks, weasels, minks, and last, but not 



