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shore amongst some brush and logs 

 and jumped up quite close. I dropped 

 the male and he was a beauty. Let 

 the female go. In a large field at the 

 lower end was a big overflow. All 

 along the edge was a bare strip about 

 twenty-five feet wide where the water 

 had receded. This little strip of 

 shore was free of snow and covered 

 with feeding birds. There was a great 

 racket going on when I got in hearing. 

 A flock of a dozen Mallard and Black 

 Duck were feeding, but were very 

 wild and left at once. There was a 

 large number of Crows but they soon 

 followed the ducks. 



I went along very carefully and 

 found large numbers of Robins. One 

 flock of twenty-five or thirty Killdeer. 

 A good lot of Purple Grackles and with 

 them a few Rustics in full dress. There 

 were a few Song and Tree Sparrows 

 and Juncos at places where the over- 

 flow was near brush. I noticed three 

 small birds along the waters edge and 

 on gathering them in found they were 

 titlarks. 



On my way back up along the over- 

 flow in the woods I saw a couple of 

 Muskrat but didn't shoot. Was also 

 entertained by a Pileated Woodpecker 

 that alighted close by but finally de- 

 tecting me, he left in a great hurry. 

 Just after this I noticed a ripple on 

 the water along shore and keeping 

 still, I soon saw amongst the brush 

 three Wood Ducks, a drake and two 

 ducks. When the drake got just where 

 I wanted him I took him in and let the 

 hens go. He was in beautiful plumage 

 and made a handsome specimen. 



The Wood Ducl^; is scarce of late 

 years and seems to be getting more so. 

 On the big hill I took in two nice Fox 

 Sparrows. 



Arrived home hungry but satisfied 

 with my trip. Noted 33 species on this 

 trip. Five of them new arrivals. 



R. B. Simpson. 

 Warren, Pa. 



Winter Notes, Salem, Oregon. 



We are having a snow here in West- 

 ern Oregon; we now have as much as 

 fourteen inches. This will kill the 

 pheasants by the hundreds. They are 

 a helpless bird in the snow with their 

 long tails and naked legs and feet; 

 while our Sooty Grouse sits in the tall 

 firs and has plenty of food the pheas- 

 ant is almost helpless. Our native 

 birds here perish by the hundred when 

 we have snow. I feed the small birds 

 when I can. 



This morning I noticed the follow- 

 ing birds near the door: Northwestern 

 Flicker, Western Bluebird, Oregon 

 Junco, Oregon Towhee, Vigor's Wren, 

 Oregon Chickadee. The Northwestern 

 Flicker is not a hardy bird here; they 

 die easily and then the Cooper and 

 Sharp-shinned Hawk have a feast. The 

 Western Meadowlark winters here. I 

 think this snow will thin them out. 

 The Golden-crowned Kinglet is com- 

 mon in wintfer. The Ruby-crowned 

 nearly all migrate. 



George D. Peck. 

 Salem, Ore. 



Large Set of Mourning Dove. 

 D. C. Westbrook, of Griffin, Georgia, 

 writes: "In notes of the January is- 

 sue of The Oologist, Mr. Ray Dens- 

 more of Painesville, Ohio, stated that 

 he found a nest of Mourning Doves 

 containing three eggs. I found a sim- 

 ilar occurrence in June, 1910." 



Bird IVIagazines. 



We have just had bound up and 

 added to our library complete files of 

 the following magazines, all in their 

 original covers, viz.: 



The Atlantic Slope Naturalist. 



The Avifauna. 



The Bay State Oologist. 



The Bittern (Cedar Rapids, la.) 



The Bittern (Damariscotta, Me.) 



The Hawkeye O. and O. 



The Naturalist and Collector. 



