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to take a setting here. I have seen 

 the bird liere only twice in the sum- 

 mer that I can remember and wliile 

 I have searched carefully for their 

 nests I have about decided that they 

 do not nest here. They are fairly 

 common in the fall and even in the 

 winter I have at times seen numbers 

 of them but I am sure that those two 

 I saw in the summer were isolated 

 cases. I have looked their range up 

 in several books by various authors 

 and have found that they are supposed 

 to breed here, but neither myself nor 

 another collector, A. W. Eager, have 

 ever been able to find nests or rec- 

 ords of nests. I have tried in three 

 counties of the state, widely separat- 

 ed. Of these three counties Hinds Co. 

 is well adapted for the birds, but 

 brought no results. If anyone has a 

 record of their nesting, especially in 

 the central or southern part of the 

 state, I would like to hear of it. 



J. B. Lackey. 

 Clinton, Miss. 



Rare Bird Thought Extinct, Found by 

 Standfordite. 



Professor Harold Heath of the 

 zoology department of Stanford Uni- 

 versity, reports the discovery made 

 this summer of a colony of the rhi- 

 nocerous Auk, supposed extinct. 



The birds were found in large num- 

 bers on Forrest Island, off the south- 

 ern coast of Alaska. 



Heath also found that the King Sal- 

 mon were not being destroyed by 

 native birds, as has been thought. He 

 was sent to Alaska by the National 

 Audubon Society expressly to investi- 

 gate the report. 



The Auk Heath found to be a noc- 

 turnal bird, about the size of a large 

 pigeon. It makes its home in the 

 earth, burrowing about fifteen feet be- 

 low the surface. — San Francisco Bul- 

 letin. 



The articles published in this is- 

 sue of THE OOLOGIST entitled "Cape 

 Cod Notes," and "Birds on the Nation- 

 al Pike," are specially interesting to 

 the editor, as he passed over both of 

 these roads in last summer auto trip. 

 We propose giving our readers, in due 

 time, some news and notes gathered 

 while on this trip. 



Birds Seen on a Long Journey. 



As I made a business trip from the 

 Island last month to Winnipeg, Mani- 

 toba, and was constantly on the look- 

 out for my old friends the birds, I 

 thought that my observations might 

 be of interest to you. 



The start was made Thursday, July 

 3, at 2 p. m. for Nueva Gerona, where 

 we took the boat for Batabano, Cuba. 

 The following birds were seen from 

 the machine: 



1. Cuban Quail. 



2. W. I. Mourning Dove. 



3. I. of P. Lizard Cuckoo. 



4. Southern Turkey Buzzard. 



5. Limpkin. 



6. Red-legged Thrush. 



7. Florida Cormorant. 



8. White Ibis. 



9. Snowy Heron. 



10. Cuban Barn Owl. 



July 4, Batabano to Havana, Cuba, 

 30 miles. 



1. Southern Turkey Buzzard. 



2. Cuban Grackle. 



3. Red-legged Thrush. 



4. Cuban Red-winged Blackbird. 



5. Cuban Sparrow Hawk. 



6. Cuban Kingbird. 



7. Cuban Crow. 



8. W. I. Mourning Dove. 



9. W. I. Killdeer. 



10. Ani. 



11. English Sparrow. 



12. Cuban Meadowlark. 



13. Cuban Ground Dove. 



14. Cuban Green Heron. 



Havana, Cuba, to Key West, Fla., 



