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THE OOLOGIST 



billed and two of the Yellow-billed 

 Cuckoo. Nest as large as a Brown 

 Thrasher's. Black-billed was on. 

 Both sets fresh. 



On the 30th of April, after a snow 

 fall, nearly stepped on an American 

 Woodcock with three young and an 

 egg just breaking. In five minutes 

 time it opened its eyes and walked 

 away. 



Scarlet Tanagers have been very 

 plentiful this season, and are nesting 

 l-ere for the first time to my know- 

 ledge. 



Saw a Blue-winged Warbler sitting 

 on her nest. It was built in a tussock 

 as open as a Wilson's Thrush's nest 

 at the base of three Blackberry 

 Briers. I find they are partial to pop- 

 lar groves and so are the Golden- 

 winged Warblers in the breeding sea- 

 son. 



Here is a list of birds that breed in 

 a swamp about an eighth of a mile 

 square: 



Blue Jay, Wilson Thrush, Song 

 Sparrow, Yellow Warbler, Chestnut- 

 sided Warbler, Maryland-Yellow- 

 throat, Kentucky Warbler, Broad- 

 winged Hawk, Red-shouldered Hawk, 

 Chickadee, Bluebird, Blue-winged 

 Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler, Red- 

 eyed Vireo, Bridge Pewee, Ameircan 

 Redstart, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy 

 Woodpecker, Flicker, Yellow-breast- 

 ed Chat, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Black- 

 billed Cuckoo, Woodcock, Quail, 

 Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Black and 

 White Warbler, Swamp Sparrow, In- 

 diga Bunting, Crow, Ruffed Grouse, 

 Ground Robin, Robin. 



I don't know what else. Is this not 

 a record hunting ground? 



Edward S. Coombs, 



Boston, Mass. 



eggs, I am at sea trying to identify 

 a set of six eggs found in the suburbs 

 of Boston, Massachusetts, on May 31, 

 1909. At the first glance at this bird 

 on her nest I thought it was an Oven 

 Bird, but after seeing the eggs, (six 

 in number) found they were nothing 

 like the five sets I have found of this 

 bird. I let her get back on the nest 

 again and this time we had a good 

 look at her. 



She was uniform, olive green in 

 color and such faint stripes on her 

 head we could not make any color 

 out of it, three faint stripes on the 

 head running to the bill, and one 

 stripe running from each side of the 

 throat. We could not see enough of 

 her throat to identify spots or mark- 

 ings. 



Nest on the ground under a fallen 

 cedar tree in a swamp two rods from 

 a Wilson's Thrush's nest and very 

 close to two Black and White Warb- 

 lers' nests, and a mass of fallen white 

 birch. As she alighted on a tree 

 branch four feet from the ground, she 

 turned her back to us just like the 

 Wilson's and Hermit Thrushes do. 



The nest was partly roofed over, 

 embedded deeply in the ground, the 

 eggs were white with a heavy ring 

 around the larger end, marked with 

 chestnut and lilac, dimensions, .75 x 

 .62. Nest made of dead leaves, stalks 

 and grasses with a little horse hair 

 and all kinds of very fine material. 

 Nest about the size of a ground 

 Robin's. The nest half filled a two- 

 quart pail. But much to my sorrow, I 

 never went after the nest again. 

 Edward S. Coombs, 



Boston, Mass. 



What Is It? 



For the first time in twenty-six 

 years of my study of birds and their 



Yellow Headed Blackbirds. 



Some time ago while in the country, 



some twelve miles from this place I 



saw a large flock of Yellow headed 



Blackbirds, there were about twenty 



