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little brown mate to come and relieve 

 him of his charge, but she did not 

 come near the nest and he very faith- 

 fully performed his share of the work 

 and only left for a few moments at 

 a time to get food and water. At 

 other times he remained in the neigh- 

 borhood and his melodic strains were 

 often heard at all times of the day. 



On the fourteenth day after the 

 last egg was laid the young emerged 

 from the shells and during the early 

 stages of their lives were covered 

 with a snow-white down. Immediate- 

 ly after the birth of the young both 

 jiarents began searching very indus- 

 triously for food for the offspring and 

 from their birth until they left the 

 nest, it was very rare when one or 

 the other was not at the nest side 

 with some morsel of food. As far as 

 I could record their visits, this food 

 was entirely insectivorous and con- 

 sisted of potato beetles, caterpillars, 

 small moths, an occasional angle 

 worm and other small lepidoptera. 



After leaving the nest this family 

 remained about the yard for several 

 weeks and at times would be found 

 on the doorsteps feeding with the ex- 

 otic sparrows and at a small bird 

 fruntain on the lawns in company 

 with the Robins, Wood Thrushes and 

 Catbirds. 



The last of the birds left that fall 

 for the south on the 20th of Septem- 

 her. This is the latest date I have on 

 record for these birds in this county. 

 They usually are very scarce after 

 September 10th locally. 



Louis S. Kohler. 



News. 



If you don't believe "The Oologist" 

 is a good advertising medium, com- 

 pare the exchange list of the editor 

 published in this month's issue with 

 that of last month's issue. The differ- 



ence is solely due to the advertise- 

 ment of last month. 



We are in receipt of a very lib- 

 eral(?) suggestion from one of our 

 subscribers to the effect that if we 

 will send him "The Oologist" for one 

 year he will furnish us thirty names 

 to whom we may send sample copies. 

 He must imagine we are publishing 

 this journal for profit, and not take in- 

 to consideration that we are not mak- 

 ing a dollar out of it, and are pub- 

 lishing it solely for the benefit of egg 

 collectors of the country, ourselves 

 included. 



We have just added very complete 

 series of the Prairie Falcon and Feru- 

 ginous Rough-legged Hawk to our col- 

 lection. There are not many egg col- 

 lectors in the country now that have 

 liner series of eggs of these two rare 

 birds than we have. 



Pingrey I. Osborn advises us that 

 he is just home from a trip into Low- 

 er California for the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, during which 

 he discovered the nesting place of the 

 rare Xanthus Screech Owl, securing 

 specimens and photos. The price that 

 he paid however, we are sorry to 

 hear, was very high, to-wit, a broken 

 state of health. 



We are sorry to announce that O. 

 E. Baynard, so well and favorably 

 known to bird students throughout 

 the country, has recently been ser- 

 iously ill. He was attacked with hem- 

 morages and has not yet recovered. 



Mr. C. F. Wolden, of Wallinford, 

 Iowa, reports a "White Heron" that 

 lived all summer on High Lake near 

 that place. It is our notion that this 

 bird is an American Egret, which for- 

 merly was very common through this 

 part of the country. 



Nesting Birds of Harmarvilie, Pa. 



The following is a list of birds that 

 T have found nesting at Harmarvilie, 



