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THE OOLOGIST 



Notes. 

 While reading over my bird notes, 

 find the following out of the ordinary 

 notes. 



1909, April 17. Downy Woodpeck- 

 er, seven eggs, nest fourteen feet up 

 in locust tree on river bank in woods, 

 St. Marys, Kansas. 



1910, July 31, Blue Bird, four eggs 

 in top of three inch pipe of gas well 

 in prairie pasture, eggs partly incubat- 

 ed; June, found wasp case of mud in 

 pipe which had a Blue Bird egg incor- 

 porated in it, nest was probably de- 

 serted when wasp took possession. 

 Above from Bartlesville, Oklahoma. 



1911, May 14. King Rail, twelve 

 eggs, fresh nest of grass, well cupped 

 in bunch of grass in slough about 

 four inches of water. Found these 

 birds fairly common. St. Marys, Kan- 

 sas. 



1912, Vinita, Okla., April 27th, after 

 heavy hail and rain found three dead 

 Grass-hopper Saprrows. 



April 13, first Cow-bird's egg, in' 

 Red-bird's nest along roadside. 



August 8, Dickcissel, four eggs, nest 

 fourteen feet up in persimmon tree. 



August 25, Red-bird, three young 

 about a week old, nest in small tree 

 along creek. 



1913, Copan Okla., February 28, saw 

 a White Winged Junco in woods feed- 

 ing with other Juncos. 



April 24, Yellow Crowned Night 

 Heron building nest; April 30, four 

 eggs. 



July 22, Field Sparrow, three fresh 

 eggs, nest in bush in weedy field. 



1914, Copan, Okla., March 7, Crow, 

 three fresh eggs. 



March 23, Red Shouldered Hawk's 

 nest, four eggs laid on top of old 

 squirrel's nest, scarcely any nest 

 building, just sunken in a little on top, 

 would never have found it but Hawk 

 flew from tree when I passed it. The 

 nest was in fork of tree near main 



trunk partly built in grape vines; tree 

 was in woods near farm yard. 



May 15, two Chats nests, five eggs 

 each. 



May 18, Chat nest, five eggs. 



June 17, Meadowlark, six young. 



June 17, Redbird nest three eggs 

 and some of the Yellow-billed Cuco, 

 nest fourteen feet up on small branch 

 of elm tree on creek bank. Baltimore 

 Orioles were not seen in this part of 

 Oklahoma, (Salina, Kansas ) 



July 31, Dickcissel, seven eggs, fresh 

 nest in alfalfa field. 



Albert J. Kirn. 



The Copy Wail. 



As our readers will note elsewhere 

 in this issue, the Editor of this maga- 

 zine is lying in a Los Angeles, Cali- 

 fornia, hospital, . practically helpless, 

 as the result of following his hobby; 

 his injuries having been sustained 

 while in the act of examining the nest 

 of a Plain Titmouse in a huge Live 

 Oak tree. This magazine is therefore 

 being compiled by one unaccustomed 

 to doing such things, and one who is 

 totally unable to make up bird notes 

 of her own that would be fit to publish 

 in any magazine. 



It required 275 inches of typewritten 

 matter and six plates to make up this 

 issue. You will therefore see that it 

 takes no small amount of copy for 

 one issue. We need good, live, inter- 

 esting articles unaccompanied by illus- 

 trations to get up the next two issues, 

 which the Editor's condition will not 

 allow his attempting to do. 



PLEASE COME TO THE RESCUE. 



The Editor's Condition. 



At this writing (April 1st) Mr. 

 Barnes is still confined to the hospital 

 in Los Angeles, though he is slowly 

 getting better and his ultimate restor- 

 ation to health is confidently expected. 

 His injuries were very severe and his 

 escape from death almost a miracle. 



