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FIGURE' 3 



Migrating Martins collecting on telephone wires and dead tree-tops 

 at Waynesburg, Pa. (From Photos by Jacobs.) 



>N presenting this, the Second Supplement to "Gleanings 

 No. 5, The Purple Martin and Houses for Its Summer 

 Home," I am pleased to state that the interest in these 

 fine birds is increasing. This is evidenced by an increas- 

 ing. demand for catalogues, larger volume of business by our factory, 

 and the growth of our correspondence relative to these birds and their 

 houses. This interest is also shown by the number of reports sent in 

 by many correspondents, accompanied by carefully taken photographs 

 of their bird-houses in position. 



From reports along the Gulf Coast, early in 1910, I learn that 

 adult birds were late in reaching our southern coast, and as a matter 

 of fact, correspondingly late in reaching their summer haunts in the 

 North. The earliest date I have for south-western Pennsylvania is 



