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PLATE X. 



Familiar Martin Scenes in and about Waynesburg, Pa., 1908. 



From Photos by the Author. 



Upper View, 7:25 p. m., August 8. Martins gathering on 

 cable messenger and other wires along north West street. Four 

 sections of lines were occupied by the birds — 800 in all. Soon 

 after taking this picture, some 400 more birds joined the ranks, 

 but all quickly departed in a body for their chosen night quarters 

 in the maple trees at the corner of Richhill and Franklin streets. 



Central View, 7:30 p. m., August 11. A part of a group 

 of about 400 birds on telephone wires crossing south West street. 

 The birds repaired to this place late in the evening, after leaving 

 their afternoon feeding grounds along Ten Mile Creek and shown 

 in part on Plate IX. 



Lower View, June, 1908. Looking west on First street, 

 near the intersection of Washington street, showing a part of the 

 First street frontage of the premises of J. Warren Jacobs . 



House No. 3 of the Jacobs Martin Colony is seen near the 

 left margin of the picture. Between this box and the street line 

 is where my father erected his martin-house in 1877, mention of 

 which is made in my first article written for the State Zoological 

 Bulletin. 



In the position of house No. 4, about forty feet south of No. 

 3, was erected in 1896, the Author's first martin-house, which has 

 probably been the saving of the Martins for Waynesburg, there 

 being at that time only about a dozen pairs at the three failing 

 bird houses in town. 



Some thirty good martin-houses are now situated in the town 

 and vicinity, from which hundreds of young are brought out every 

 year. 



