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THE OOLOvJIST 



Ottomar Reinecke. 



We are pleased to present to our 

 readers with this issue, a likeness of 

 one of the best known of America's 

 naturalists, Ottomar Reinecke, of Buf- 

 falo, New York, who has been engag- 

 ed in collecting natural history speci- 

 mens since 1858, beginning in Ger- 

 many before he came to this country. 



Mr. Reinecke was recently elected 

 Vice-President of the Buffalo Society 

 of Natural Science. Our readers know 

 of him and well of him. His contribu- 

 tions to The Oologist are standard on 

 every subject of which they treat. 

 The Buffalo Society is to be congratu- 

 lated in having so active and capable 

 a member. He has perhaps done more 

 than any other member of that Socie- 

 ty to build up the collection of the 

 Society relating to ornithology and 

 oology as well as to arouse interest on 



these subjects in that territory. 



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June. 



This month is largely given over to 

 the Warblers. May is the typical 

 Warbler month; June belongs ordinar- 

 ily to the Flycatcher. But for some 

 reason or other our observing friends 

 seem to have overlooked the Flycatch- 

 ers, and we have never had copy 

 enough to get out a Flycatcher num- 

 ber as has been our intention ever 

 since taking over The Oologist. We 

 wish our contributors would pay spe- 

 cial attention to the Flycatchers and 

 send us the results of their observa- 

 tions. Then one of these days we 

 may surprise you with a Flycatcher 



"Oologist." 



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Notes. 

 Richard C. Harlow of the State Col- 

 lege of Pennsylvania, well known to 

 the readers of The Oologist, was a 

 caller on our friend, E. W. Campbell of 

 Pittston, Pennsylvania, April 25th, 

 where he went to look up matters re- 

 lating to Duck hawks. 



Campbell reports taking an adult 

 male and an adult female and a 1911 

 young female of the Canvasback, com- 

 pleting his series of this interesting- 

 bird. 



Some Curious Finds for 1307. 



While walking over a bank near the 

 roadside on May 15th, a Song sparrow 

 fluttered out of the weeds at my foot, 

 and after running along the ground 

 for a few feet, flew into a small bush. 

 From the birds actions I knew that 

 there must be a nest close by, but a 

 search over ten or twelve feet on 

 every side failed to reveal the home of 

 Mrs. Melospiza. This aroused my in- 

 terest sufficiently to want that nest 

 whether unusual or not, so the search 

 was repeated, this time with success. 

 The nest had been constructed in a 

 tomato can, the one place that I had 

 failed to look through my own lack 

 of brain power! The top of the can 

 had been cut half way round and then 

 bent up, thus forming a convenient 

 roof over the front door. I left the 

 eggs and nest, however, as the former, 

 four in number, were far advanced in 

 incubation. 



On the 16th of May, I flushed a 

 Robin from her nest and two eggs on 

 the ground, close to a stone wall. The 

 eggs were just hatching, and were ly- 

 ing upon the grass which had been 

 slightly rounded into a poor excuse 

 for a nest. Several days later, a 

 Garter snake had a good square meal. 



On August seventh I removed a 

 bird box, which had been occupied 

 by House wrens, from the porch. Up- 

 on opening it, what was my surprise to 

 find that it contained ten eggs, slight- 

 ly nest stained, but otherwise in good 

 condition. The birds were constantly 

 at the box during the spring and sum- 

 mer, and why they did not hatch this 

 set is more than I can say. Incuba- 

 tion had not commenced in any of the 



