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motion of the wings, almost invariably 

 accompanies efforts of song on the 

 wing. We may maintain, then, that 

 the quivering of the wings as an accom- 

 paniment to the song is a strictly sea- 

 sonal feature. All have noticed the 

 loss of the song synchronously with the 

 skyward flutter in the case of the Bob- 

 olink, when he assumes his summer 

 di'ess and becomes the plebian Ricebird. 

 I have never yet heard a bird sing on 

 the wing in the autumn. 

 Kalamazoo, Mich. 



Ornithological Potpourri. Hash. 



A sweet blueeycd warbler, daughter 

 of Major Puffins, sat singing in a ininor 

 key to attract the spruceMr. Bob 0' Lin- 

 coln who was shoveller on a vian o^uar, 

 but now on a vacation as he was aflBict- 

 ed with 2i pectoral trouble which threat- 

 ened to kill deer Bob. However, al- 

 though the trouble was due to too many 

 larks, and eating too many pies, still 

 the laughing , bronzed fellow was ]\x&tjay 

 enough to keep whooping her up, and 

 often got red-headed when in Baltimore 

 or Savanna, for it was one of his cardi- 

 nal virtues, the big goose, to fill up on 

 red-eye and then to gamb(e)l2indi thrash- 

 er 'round. Later this night hawk would 

 be mourning for his golden eyes and 

 wish that the last (h)owl had been bar- 

 red. Then he would get to raven with 

 notes like a caliope and continued rail- 

 ing against swijt living and consult a 

 prothonotary to get his long green back. 



Long before snow flakes fell Bob was 

 at logger-heads with everyone. He left 

 the sea side and visited a herinit, a soli- 

 tary fox, and also Dick Sissel, who lived 

 in a swamp) intermediate between or- 

 chard and meadow, among the myrtles. 

 Bob was a hu7nmer and soon fell in 

 with a squa (pronounced squaw) and 

 hitched to her although she was nearly 

 related to the gull family and he did 

 not owe them all a good tern. 



He was now sp)urred on by his squa, 



and rapidly felled ^recs and tilled /eWs- 

 though the soil was of clay and adjoined 

 a marsh, and he still hawked. There 

 was in a neighboring wood .a chippy 

 nami-d Fhoebe Ann Einga, who though 

 a pygmy was beautifully hooded and 

 attracted much attention from the 

 bald pates who seemed on stilts when 

 buzzing her. "Bay," said Bidgway,"It 

 Trail or Hammond were here they 

 would not get left. They are cuckoos, 

 and Yerjfly as catchers'' 



I savj tvhet owl eat grasshoppers in 

 Digo near Cape May and then as an ac- 

 centor he began to screech about brother- 

 ly love. Al Cyon belted himself and 

 said he could whip-poor- Will, but poor 

 Will and old Centrocercus the referee, 

 who looked sage, grabbed the green 

 backs and were p)assengers on a kite, 

 though you may not swallow the story. 

 Whisky Jack went west and married 

 Black BiWs daughter Mag Pie, who led 

 him an awful chase before he coopered: 

 her. 



A Crow sat upon a bust of Pallas and 

 had a royal time dwelling on roseate 

 projects but bridled up when called a 

 booby and replied that the accuser was- 

 an old squaw. Columbianus did some 

 fine whistling, while his near relative 

 acted as trumpeter and the piper joined 

 in Crex)itans was there with his clap- 

 per also, and a nut cracker added to the 

 entertainment, and when butcher 

 pounced upon an English Sparrow- 

 everyone chirped, "let her 



Flicker." 



Errata ■ 



In the article in November, OdLO- 

 GiST, under the heading of "The Ornith- 

 ology of a Church Yard," page 333, 2nd 

 line, last word read, ''nestling.''' Page 

 334, 11th line, 2nd word read, '■'and," 

 30th Ime, 6th word read "hold," 36th 

 line, 3rd word read "exultant.''' Second 

 column, 9th line, last word read "exul- 

 tard," 34th line, 4th word read "The." 



