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THE OOLOGIST. 



Additions. 



I wish to add the following to my 

 list of Isle of Pine Birds: 



West Indian Killdeer. 



Yellow Palm Warbler (1 individual 

 seen after a heavy storm.) 



Marsh Hawk (Seen on several oc- 

 casions.) 



Black-throated Green Warbler (2). 



Wilson's Snipe. 



Pigeon, Columba inornata. ^ 



Myrtle Warbler. 



Tennessee Warbler. 



Cuban Crested Flycatcher. 

 r - A. C. READ. 



Strange Nesting Sites. 



Sunday, May 9, 1909, about ten 

 o'clock a. m., a friend and I were walk- 

 ing along a road nine miles north of 

 Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. We came 

 to a school house yard, and while we 

 stopped to rest a few minutes, I went 

 into a small outhouse to look for 

 Wren's nests, and seeing some dry 

 grass protruding from the hollow in 

 the cave, I pulled myself up to look 

 down into it, and to my surprise there 

 sat an American Sparrow Hawk. I 

 put my hand down and lifted her up. 

 After securely fastening her in a cov- 

 ered basket, which I carried, I return- 

 ed to examined the eggs. There were 

 five of tliem, far advanced in incu- 

 bation. This must be of rare occur- 

 rence. 



In June, 1909, a man told me that 

 he had found a "Redbird's" nest in an 

 old shed about a half mile from town. 

 As I passed this shed some time later, 

 I happened to think of what the man 

 had told me, and went in the shed to 

 look for the nest, and sure enough I 

 found it. It was built in a space, be- 

 tween a large roll of fence wire, which 

 hung from a nail on the wall, and the 

 wall of hrough boards. The young had 



left the nest only a short time pre- 

 vious. 



Has any reader of THE OOLOGIST 

 ever heard of the Cardinal nesting in 

 a building? 



S. S. DICKEY. 



Unusual. 



Monday, April 12th, 1909, while I 

 was walking through an orchard three 

 miles West of Waynesburg, Pensyl- 

 vania, I passed by a good sized ap- 

 ple tree, on which were several large 

 dead limbs about eight feet from the 

 ground. From one of these dead 

 limbs, flew a Mourning Dove (Zenai- 

 dura macroura). I climbed up to the 

 limb and there resting in a hollow, 

 close to the trunk was the nest. It 

 contained two fresh eggs and to my 

 surprise, close to the eggs was a dead 

 Field Mouse, with its head partly eat- 

 en. It had likely been there for a 

 day or two, as its head, where the 

 blood had flown out was dry. 



I do not know whether the Dove had 

 been eating the mouse or not, but 

 this is surely a strange circumstance. 

 S. S. DICKEY. 



Additions to Our Cabinets for 1909. 



We have recently added to our cab- 

 inet, a little over three flfths of the 

 entire collection of birds eggs of P. T. 

 Corless ,of Portland, Oregon. 



In January, 1909, we came into pos- 

 session of the entire collection of 

 birds eggs, formerly belonging to W. 

 Lee Chambers of Santa Monica. Mr. 

 Chambers is one of Southern Califor- 

 nia's best known bird men; and is at 

 present Secretary of the Cooper Club 

 and business manager of The Condor. 

 His collection contained an unusual 

 percentage of rare and choice speci- 

 mens. Philo W. Smith, whose name 



