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would frequently fly out of the trees uttering their peculiar twittering 

 note, which when once heard is well remembered. 



That has been my experience anyway. So it is an established fact 

 that Junco roosts in the thick foliage of Jiiviper Tii-ginica, at least in 

 Virginia. And how its western relatives spend their nights I regret 

 exceedingly I can't throic my search light of experience, having never 

 lit the candle upon them or in their neighborhood. 



Jno. W. Daniel, Jr., Lynchhnrg, Fa. 



ANSERES WHICH VISIT THE OBERLIN WATER- 

 WORKS RESERVOIR. 



Ever since the new reservoir, which contains about three acres of 

 surface, has been finished, the writer has endeavored to keep a com- 

 plete record of all ducks and geese which have ventured upon its waters. 

 Reference has so often been made to this small sheet of water in previous 

 numbers of the Bulletin, that it may be well to call special attention 

 to it now. The reader who is unfamiliar with the village of Oberlin will 

 do well to examine the map of Oberlin opposite page 41 in Bulletin 

 No. 15. 29, near the lower left-hand corner of the map, indicates the 

 position of the pumping station, but the spot intended to represent the 

 reservoir is for the old reservoir. The new one lies south and west of 

 the old one, occupying the bed of Plum Creek as represented on the 

 map, the course of the creek having been thrown to the south. Im- 

 mediately south and west of the new reservoir there is a small grove 

 of large trees, bounded on the east by an osage orange hedge fence. The 

 reservoir thus lies in a trough where the creek bed used to be, and can- 

 not be seen from the higher land on each side. Allow me to say that the 

 reservoir embankment is so high, and its bottom so built, that outside 

 water cannot enter. 



Morgan street is well built up with dwelling houses, and a dwelling 

 house at the end of Kinsman street overlooks the reservoir. The region 

 west and south of the reservoir is not built up, thus affording a means of 

 approach from these directions. However, the village boasts of so 

 many and such large shade and ornamental trees that the buildings are 

 well hidden from any direction. To an observer on the highest building 

 there are scarcely more evidences of a village than the steeples towering 

 above the mass of foliage. But to the keen eyed flyers, suspicious of 

 every least indication of human activities, the village is an object to be 



