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collector, he represents three insur- 

 ance companies, is a director of the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, is ornithologist of the State 

 Board of Agriculture in Delaware, 

 president of the Lake Makomer Re- 

 sort Company, near Williamsport, is 

 prominent in Masonic circles, a natur- 

 alist of well-known ability, brother of 

 the member of the State legislature, 

 Theodore Pennock, and an uncle of 

 Herbert Pennock, pitcher of the Ath- 

 letic base ball team, of Philadelphia. 



He is 5 feet 10 1/^ inches tall and 

 weighs 165 pounds. He had on when 

 he went away a dark suit with grey 

 stripes, straw hat with card bearing 

 his name inside, wore a stand up col- 

 lar, dark necktie; he has closely crop- 

 ped whiskers, which, like his hair, are 

 mixed with gray. He has been twice 

 married and has three children. 



A country-wide search has been go- 

 ing on ever since his disappearance, 

 but up to this writing his whereabouts 

 remains a deep mystery. 



death, and to the bereaved ones we ex- 

 tend our sincere sympathy. 



Enoch J. Dietrich. 



A communication from H. F. Diet- 

 rich brings the sad news of the death 

 of Enoch J. Dietrich of Canby, O., re- 

 gon, his brother, at the family home, 

 Sunday, May 4th of pneumonia. 



Mr. Dietrich was well known to the 

 the readers of THE OOLOGIST as an 

 occasional contributor to these col- 

 ums. During the last number of years 

 he has been a more or less regular cor- 

 respondent of Ye Editor, and we have 

 quite a number of specimens furnish- 

 ed by him in our collection. 



It is a pleasure to testify that in all 

 his dealings, uprightness and straight- 

 forwardness have been his absolute 

 rule. His powers of observation and 

 his ability to disclose what he saw 

 were of the first order. 



The family and the oologists of the 

 country have sustained a loss in his 



Sorrow. 

 James C. Cannon, formerly of Lake- 

 wood, Ohio, now of Cleveland, is be- 

 reaved by the loss of his wife, which 

 estimable lady died a short time ago 

 at his home in Lakewood. Mr. Can- 

 non is an oologist of note, and to him 

 we extend our sincere sympathy. 



HAROLD H. BAILEY wishes to an- 

 nounce that the J. P. Bell Publishing 

 Co. of Lynchburg, Va., have started 

 work on the publication of his book 

 "The Breeding Birds of Virginia, 

 which they hope to have before the 

 public on or about June 1st, 1913. 

 There will be fourteen original full 

 page colored plates of the birds, which 

 with the one hundred and eight half 

 tones, represent the greater part of 

 the species of birds figuring in the 

 text of over three hundred pages. Vir- 

 ginia being the overlapping boundary 

 of many of the northern and southern 

 forms, the field covered should be of 

 special interest to the ornithologist. 

 As this will be a limited edition, those 

 desiring to secure copies should noti- 

 fy the author at Newport News, Va., 

 as early as possible. The publishers 

 are noted for their high class work 

 and both they and Mr. Bailey guar- 

 antee the whole work will be above 

 the ordinary. The price will be ($3.00) 

 three dollars. — (Adv.) 



A Strange Egg. 



On May 3, 1913, I was out after 

 eggs with Mr. E. J. Darlington, near 

 Hope Farm, Del. Seeing a Purple 

 Grackle flush from a nest not more 

 than six feet above the ground, I 

 thought I would investigate. The nest 

 was composed of dried grass and con- 

 tained five little birds and one egg, 

 which I took on account of its strange 



