THE OOLOGIST 



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From San Francisco. 



The following is a list of birds seen 

 on a day's trip to Lake Merced about 

 seven or eight miles out of San Fran- 

 cisco near the ocean, June 12, 1915: 



Barn Owl. 



Western Grebe 



Chimney Swift. 



Bush Tit. 



Pied Billed Grebe. 



Great Blue Heron. 



American Coot. 



Pacific Loon. 



Long-tailed Chat. 



Barn Swallow. 



Bank Swallow. 



Rough-winged Swallow. 



Say's Phoebe. 



House Finch. 



Rusty Song Sparrow. 



Samuel's Song Sparrow. 



Alamenda Song Sparrow. 



Olive Backed Thrush. 



Cicolored Blackbird. 



Pacific Yellow-throat. 



McGillvary's Warbler. 



Arkansas Goldfinch. 



California Goldfinch. 



Western Horned Lark. 



Western Black Meadowlark. 



Western Gull. 



Besides seeing these birds I found 

 nests of the following. (I was looking 

 for Goldfinches especially) : 



Three California Goldfinch, with 4, 

 3, 5 eggs respectively. 



Two Arkansas Goldfinch, with 4, 4 

 eggs respectively. 



One Alameda Song Sparrow with 3 

 eggs and another with young. 



Eight House Finches with sets vary- 

 ing from 3 to 5 eggs. 



1 Bush Tit with 9 eggs. 



About 200 Bank and Rough-winged 

 Swallows' nests with eggs and young. 



One Barn Owl, with 3 young. 



One Rusty Song Sparrow with 5 

 eggs. 



One Samuel's Song Sparrow, with 

 3 eggs. 



One Pacific Yellow-throat, with 

 young. 



One American Coot's nest with 6 

 eggs. 



Besides these I found several Hum- 

 mers' nests and caught one young Mc 

 Gillvary's Warbler and one Pacific Yel- 

 low-throat. 



Dudley De Groot. 



Shore Birds. 



The Year Book of the Department 

 of Agriculture for 1914 contains 

 (pages 275-294) a paper on "Our Shore 

 Birds and Their Future," by Wells W. 

 Cooke of the Biological Survey, which 

 is well worth the perusal of any per- 

 son interested in this family of birds, 

 one of the most wonderful families of 

 birds there is. 



This paper is illustrated by a num- 

 ber of half tones and various maps 

 showing the habitat in winter and 

 summer, and the migration routes 

 and breeding territory of these vari- 

 ous birds, and is in all a very credit- 

 able production, closing as it does as 

 an appeal for the protection of these 

 birds to prevent their complete extinc- 

 tion, in which recommendation THE 

 OOLOGIST is very glad to join. 



Notes From the Waukegan, III., Flats. 



On June 8, 1915, Colin C. Sanborn 

 and I went on a collecting trip to the 

 Waukegan Flats in the northern part 

 of Lake County, Illinois. The Flats 

 lay just north of the city of Wauke- 

 gan along Lake Michigan, covering 

 about 500 acres and are made up of 

 three regions. The greater part is 

 covered with alternate ridges of sand 

 and sloughs of from ten to forty feet in 

 width. Another part is covered with 

 pine trees and cedar brush, while the 

 third is simply a flat waste of sand 



