The Oologist. 



VOL. XVII. NO. 1. ALBION, N. Y., JANUARY, 1900. Whole No. 162 



The Oologist. 



A Monthly Publication Devoted to 



OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND 

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A Bird House. 



In the May and Juue, 1886 number of 

 the Oologist was an interesting article, 

 "The History of a Bird House," by H. 

 G. Parker. This article, with the fact 



that I have a particular liking for the 

 Purple Martin [Progne subis) helped to 

 influence the writer to erect a bird 

 house in the corner of the yard, in front 

 of my boyhood home in Farmington, 

 Me., for the purpose of having a better 

 chance to study these interesting birds 

 that were seen about the place for a few 

 days in the spring, but having no house 

 to go to, went to some other locality to 

 breed. 



So in the spring of '87, before the 

 birds arrived, I built a plain white house 

 of good size, with five apartments, and 

 spacious steps before each door for the 

 birds to alight on, and a place to sit on 

 before the door and sing This I mad& 

 fast to a long pole and placed in the 

 corner of the yard and facing my own 

 room that I might sit in the window 

 and look out upon this bouse. The 

 many quarrels I witnessed as well as 

 the cheerful songs I listened to from 

 my window more than repaid me for 

 erecting the house. 



About the middle of April the house 

 began to make history in the way of a 

 pair of White-bellied Swallows ( Tachy- 

 cineia bicolor) that had nested in a 

 hole in the limb of an apple tree in the 

 orchard near by for several years, be- 

 fore coming to this house. Here let me 

 mention that the locality was on the 

 top of large hills, high up, and about 

 one mile from any body of water. This 

 swallow usually nests near a body of 

 water. 



On the arrival of these swallows they 

 took it for granted that this house was 

 erected for their special benefit, and 

 took possession with very little cere- 

 mony. They began to carry dead gras- 

 ses to the upstairs rent, and later pro- 

 fusely lined the nest with feathers. 



