276 N I April 



anew record for central Not York and a number of Oow 

 birds U s - ^ s ten being seen at one time. These 



are strange bu\ls for mid winter in this locality. The winter bad been 

 mild up to this date and there was very little snow at the tin, 



\ 1 



i Winter DM! Steubenviile. Ohio While taking an all 

 day walk on December 26 1 was surpiised to find a flock of from fifteen to 



rhere were both males and 



females in the flock. There ral inches of sno* on t ho ground 



with the thermometer at about 60" F., and a strong sun. As this is a 



late - 1 thought it worth reporting. Phe birds were 



three or four miles south of this city on the West Virginia she- 



a XI >>\ ROPKK, v 



Barn Swallow in South Carolina in Winter The Barn Swallow 



is an abundant migrant in the © South 



k Jina, occur ring regularly through the middle of October. Mr. Arthur 



I' Wayn< S h Carolina, p. 1 " a belated specimen was 



'->. 1906." On Dec 17. 1912, while passing through 



tin- \ V'ard at Charleston, S. C, 1 had a glimpse of a Swallow which 



I recognited at once as belonging to this species. Hoping to get a closer 



view, 1 waited. The bin! soon reappeared and passed low over my head 



several times, showing distinctly its color and its deeply forked tail. The 



the identi is, therefore, beyond question. As the 



use of firearms is prohibited within the limits of the \ 5 ... 1 was 



not prepared to secure the specimea \- s M Weston, Jb 



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Notes on the Loggerhead Shrike at Barachias. Montgomery Co.. 



Ala On Jan 10, 1912, the men felled a tree in the grove and in sawing 



it into three foot lengths turned out quite a number of large, white, blue- 



holliod grubs. Mos se were placed upon one of the 'cuts' but a 



were left upon the ground and soon aitraeted the attention of a Sluiko 



[ seated myself beside the stump only 

 - \ rom the grubs on the ground, but the Shrike came and fearlessly 



removed them, one by one. paying little attention to my presence, SO I 



Se< .-.ring my camera I focused it at six feel 

 upon the grubs on one of the ' cuts,' while I sat upon another, but soon 

 I had worked the instrument up within eighteen inches of them and still 

 Shrike came with very little hesitation and removed the very last one. 

 regardless of the eliek of the shutter, while I still sat there. The grubs were 

 impaled upon the thorn- - .1 different trees \ ter hastily snatch- 

 ing one the Shrike nearly always alighted upon some nearby branch t* 

 a tinner grip upon the grub before flying away to impale it. 

 Jan. 16, 1912, everything - en hard and the bright sun did not 





