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does not nest near the house. Per- 

 haps the house-loving pair died ana 

 their kindred prefer more isolated 

 places. R. F. Miller, 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



Wisconsin Hash. 



In THE OOLOGIST, page 92, vol. 

 26, is an article on Swifts roosting in 

 chimneys, in which the editor seems 

 to thing it strange that the Swift 

 chose the chimney coated with soot 

 in preference to the clean one. I 

 think it was because the Swift in 

 rccsting could not cling to a clean 

 chimney, and would necessarily have 

 to have the soot, which is porous, for 

 a foot hold. 



We understand that at the last ses- 

 sion of the Rock Co. board of Wiscon- 

 sin, that they decided to discontinue 

 the bounty on Crows and Hawks. 



Forty years ago January 27, 1871, a 

 Robin was reported in a yard in Janes- 

 ville, Wis. 



On Christmas Day we tramped for 

 over three hours in the country and 

 the only bird we saw was a single 

 Downy Woodpecker. 



A Robin was seen, so it is reported, 

 by a Rock County farmer this week 

 — February, 1911, probably about the 

 18th, which was a pleasant spring-like 

 day. 



A young sportsman in the town of 

 Milton, Wis., was fined $25 for shoot- 

 ing quail out of season. Quail are pro- 

 tected for a term of years. 



The Board of Education at Glen 

 Ridge, N. J., has offered a series of 

 prizes to the student who first saw a 

 Robin this spring. 



George W. H. vos Burgh. 



phona verpertina vespestina) at his 

 home, February 22d. This is a record 

 for Luzerne County, Pennsylvania so 

 far as we know. 



He also reports in his collection, a 

 Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata) in 

 full summer breeding plumage. It 

 was killed by a laborer out of season, 

 and was one of the pair that remain- 

 ed to breed, building its nest on 

 Thompson's Island, and the female 

 succeeded in raising the two young 

 alter the death of the male. The nest 

 was found under driftwood on the 

 edge of the island. 



The Holboell's Grebe (Colymbus 

 holboelli) occurs at Pittston nearly 

 every winter. 



February 28th he reports a Saw- 

 whet Owl (Cryptoglaux acadica acadi- 

 ca) brought to him by a boy who 

 found it dead in the woods near his 

 home. 



In conclusion, Campbell laments as 

 follows — and we join him to the full 

 extent — "There is not much woods 

 left here any more; everything is go- 

 ing to H ". 



"Campbellites." 



Mr. E. W. Campbell, of Pittston, 

 Pennsylvania, reports seeing a flock 

 of nine Evening Grosbeaks (Hesperi- 



The Plume Hunters. 

 By R. Ross Riley. 



One of the most vital questions 

 which confronts the world today is 

 the preservation of the feathered 

 tribes. There is no question that 

 birds are the best friends of mankind, 

 and if, by any unforseen disaster, ca- 

 lamity should overtake and destroy 

 these denizens of the air, in an incredi- 

 bly short time the earth would be in- 

 fested with insects of every descrip- 

 tion. 



These lowly creatures, in spite of 

 all the scientific appliances that man 

 could bring to bear upon them, would 

 soon destroy all the vegetation, and 

 man, deprived of this, would turn to 

 the animal world for his sole subsis- 



