THE OOLOGIST 



Red-legged Thrushes and Southern 

 Turkey Buzzards. 



In the dense tropical tangles can be 

 found the following (Cuban) Green 

 Woodpeckers, Pewees, Todies, Orioles; 

 Little Green Herons, Yellow-faced 

 Grassquits, "Chillina" Warblers, Amer- 

 ican Redstarts; Cuban and Pigmy 

 Owls; also (Isle of Pines) Lizard Cuc- 

 koos and Tanagers. A. C. Read. 



Nesting Records, McKinley, Isle of 

 Pines, Cuba, for 1910. 



The scarcity of records is due to me 

 being so busy that I could not look 

 especially for nests and all those re- 

 corded were found purely by accident 

 while working or looking up and pho- 

 tographing tracts. 



Feb. 24 — Cuban Ground Dove; nest 

 on ground. 2 eggs. 



Feb. 28 — Cuban Ground Dove; nest 

 on ground. 2 eggs. 



Mar. 16 — Cuban Ground Dove; nest 

 on ground. 2 young about 48 hours 

 old. 



Apr. 17 — Cuban Kingbird. Nest just 

 begun in Jucaro tree about 12 feet 

 from ground. Sticks and string. La- 

 ter deserted. X 



Apr. 29 — Pigeon, Columbia inornata. 

 Nest in a blown over tree about 20 

 feet from ground, composed of a few 

 loose sticks after the fashion of that 

 of Mourning Dove. May 4, upon flush- 

 ing one of the birds from the nest 2 

 white eggs showed through the bot- 

 tom. 



May 7 — Red-legged Thrush. Nest 

 on a rafter supporting a water tank 

 10 feet from ground; composed of 

 straws, sticks, string, etc. Similar to 

 that of American Robin but lacking 

 the mud. 



May 11 — Saw one of the parents 

 feed the young worms several times. 

 May 25, young left the nest. Saw 3 of 



them, fully feathered. One was fed 

 a chameleon. 



June 2 — Cuban Martin. Nest in stub 

 of "Bottle Palm" 20 feet from ground. 

 June 15 and 21 flushed one of the par- 

 ents from the nest while driving past. 

 June 6 — Cuban Martin. Nest in 

 abandoned woodpecker's hole in stub 

 of "Bottle Palm" 25 feet from ground. 

 Nest hole 214 feet deep, lined with a 

 few grasses and feathers. 2 eggs and 

 2 young. 



June 15 — Cuban Red-bellied wood- 

 pecker. Nest in a hollow "Bottle 

 Palm," 10 feet from ground. Young. 

 June 25 — Cuban Red-bellied Wood 

 pecker. 4 nests in "Bottle Palm" 

 about 15 feet from ground. Young in 

 all of them. 



June 25— Isle of Pines Trogon. Nest 

 in abandoned Woodpecker's hole in 

 "Bottle Palm" 15 feet from ground. 

 Flushed one of the birds from the 

 nest but it contained nothing. 



June 27— Cuban Red-bellied Wood- 

 pecker. 2 nests. One in Royal Palm 

 40 feet from ground; one in "Bottle 

 Palm" 15 feet from ground. Young 

 in both. 



June 27— Cuban Parrot. Nest in 

 "Bottle Palm" 15 feet from ground. 

 Young. June 29, young gone. 



Jvme 29— Cuban Red-bellied Wood- 

 pecker. Nest in stub of dead pine 20 

 feet from ground. Young. 



June 21 — Saw a full fledged young 

 Cuban Martin. 



Aug. 1 — Found a family of Cuban 

 Quail. Caught 3 young fully feathered 

 and just able to fly but let them go 



again. 



A. C. READ. 



Sundry Trips. 



Aug. 16, we left McKinley to 



take a trip to the sea. It was a warm, 



sunny day and could not have been 



better for the observation of birds. 



