THE OOLOGIST 



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November 19, 1911. A Catbird was 

 found in Branch Brook Park at noon 

 among the low shrubbery. This is an 

 unusually late record for this bird lo- 

 cally. The latest previous record was 

 made on October 23d, 1903, twenty- 

 seven days earlier than that of today. 

 The bird was feeding upon the few 

 bay-berries and other available food 

 which remained and appeared very 

 contented. 



Louis S. Kohler. 



From Texas. 



On two different occasions this 

 spring I have found American Crow 

 nests containing, respectively, seven 

 eggs and four young just hatched and 

 three eggs ready to hatch. This is 

 the only instances under my obser- 

 vation in twenty-five years where 

 there was more than six in a clutch. 

 Is it out of the ordinary? 



For the last two or three weeks I 

 have been watching a female English 

 Sparrow on the streets of Vernon. 

 This bird has a white head and about 

 half down the neck is white. A glance 

 at it reminds one of the head of a Scis 

 sortail flycatcher with a Sparrow body. 

 She has a nest in the cornice of a 

 brick building and I am watching for 

 harvest. R. L. Moore. 



Vernon, Texas. 



Some Rareties. 



Some time in the latter part of the 

 '80c one of our neighbors shot two 

 Swans on a large marsh four miles 

 south of Columbus, Wisconsin. Both 

 were fine specimens and were mount- 

 ed by a local taxidermist, and were 

 on exhibition in the window of a hard- 

 ware store for several years. 



In the early '90s a Bald Eagle in 

 second year plumage was shot by an- 

 other neighbor, and was also mounted 

 and kept in a market a number of 

 years. 



And in 1898 a Golden Eagle, a sup- 

 berb specimen when first taken was 

 kept for over a year in a cage by a 

 local saloon keeper. In 1904 or 5 a 

 Columbus party had two eagles con- 

 fined but I never got to see what spe- 

 cies they were, they were later mur- 

 dered and mounted. 



During the summer of 1891 or 2, I 

 cannot now say which, I saw my last 

 Passenger Pigeon, a lone bird, sit- 

 ting in the top of a dead tree near 

 Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. 



Late in the winter of 1903 I saw for 

 several days a large Snowy Owl, 



Also in the late '80s at about the 

 time the above mentioned swans 

 were shot, a number of White Herons 

 (American Egrets) (Editor) were shot 

 from a flock at Fall River Pond, near 

 here. 



George W. H. Vos Burgh. 



Nesting of the Black Throated Warbler 

 In East Berlin, Conn. 



This summer for the first time I be- 

 came acquainted with the nesting- 

 habits of the Black-throated green 

 warbler, a bird that is not commonly 

 met with on account of its haunts be- 

 ing located, chiefly in dense hemlock 

 or pine woods. 



It was in the early part of June 

 that I discovered a pair of these pret- 

 ty warblers, by hearing their scngs, 

 which is a harsh zee repeated four 

 or five times. Assuming that they 

 must be nesting in this locality I made 

 a thorough search of the immediate 

 surroundings but was unable to locate 

 their nest. 



A few days later, on the 11th of 

 June I made another visit to this place 

 and further on in the dense hemlock 

 woods I heard the song of several of 

 these birds and after carefully search- 

 ing the lower branches of the trees I 

 was rewarded by finding a nest con- 



