Burns — On Passenger Pigeon in Penn. 47 



(47) Hylocichia (guttata pallasii. — Hermit Thrush. Rath- 

 er common. 



(48) Plaiicsficiis niigratoriiis. — Robin. \'ery common. 



(49) Siolia sialis. — Bhieliird. Common. 



THE STATUS OF THE PASSENGER PIGEON (Ecto- 

 pistcs iifigran)riiis} IN EASTERN PENNSYLX'ANIA. 



" In view of the fact that every good bird student will be 

 looking" out for Passenger Pigeons this summer, I write to 

 give you a little information which, however, may not be 

 much good, l)ut nevertheless will interest you. At Mt. Gret- 

 na. Lebanon County, Pa., where our military company often 

 goes on their summer camp, Mr. Vernon Wallace, of this 

 town, saw a pair of I^assenger Pig'eons in the trees about the 

 camp, between May 1 and 15 (favorable dates). Birds were 

 rather tame at first, but soon became wild, and, after three 

 days, did not return from the wooded mountain side (nearby), 

 to where they invariably flew when disturbed. Mr. Wallace 

 is an experienced hunter and could not be mistaken. I sub- 

 mit this bit of information because the location is not far from 

 your home. News twelve years old may be stale, but never- 

 theless it may be a case of ' staler the better.' " So writes Mr. 

 J. Warren Jacobs in a recent note, and recalls to my mind an 

 instance of a single egg taken from a frail nest in a cedar tree, 

 near Columbia. Lancaster County, in 1H89, by Mr. Lionel F. 

 Bowers — my companion in many a boyish collecting" trip. I 

 examined the egg, listened to his description of the bird, and 

 had no doubt of its identity. 



On the other hand, Mr. E. W. Can-ipbell's recent record in 

 Luzerne County, of a "resident pair, reared young" (Oolo- 

 gist. Vol. xxiii, 1906, p. 108), is open to question. He also 

 rcDorts the Least Sandpiper " pair with young." Mr. William 

 P). Crispin's set of two eggs " collected in Potter County for 

 F. T. Pember by A. Lyon, May 3, 1878"; (Oologist, xxiv, 

 1907. p. 155), are probably the eggs of some variety of the do- 



