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and in the boxes where the chickens 

 nested. Blue Birds and Purple Mar- 

 tins in the gourds, Chimney Swifts in 

 the chimney and Mocking Birds in the 

 vines. In the bank and along the 

 creek we had Carolina Wrens, Rough 

 Wing Swallow, White Eyed Towhee, 

 Green Heron, Parula Warbler, Cardi- 

 nal, Red Eye and White Eyed Vireo, 

 Painted Bunting and Osprey, all in 

 sight of the house. With the Crested 

 Flycatcher and Tuffted Tit in the 

 boxes near the house. Some distance 

 from the house were nests of all the 

 above, with the following. Summer 

 Tanger, Ruby Throated Hummer, Log- 

 gerhead King Bird, Chuck Wills 

 Widow and Turkey Vulture. Amongst 

 the pines were Florida Blue .Jays, Red 

 Cockadeds, Red Bellied, Red Headed 

 and Downy Woodpeckers, Carolina 

 Chickadees, Brown Headed Nuthatch 

 and Florida White Bellied Nuthatch, 

 Pine Wood Sparrows, Field Lark and 

 Florida Nighthawk. In the marsh, 

 Waynes Clapper Rail, Least Bittern, 

 Red Wing Black Birds, Worthington's 

 Marsh Wren. 



Some distance from the house is an 

 old Fort that must have been built 

 long years ago, for the oldest resident 

 says it was there when he was a boy, 

 and no one seems to know anything 

 about it. Trees of great size grew in 

 front of the entrance, which could not 

 have been there when it ^yas built, a 

 place on the edge of such a swamp. 

 In this swamp Yellow Crown Night 

 Heron, Little Blue and Louisiana 

 Heron were breeding and Arnow took 

 Prothonatory Warbler, Wild Turkey 

 and Woodcock and Florida Crackle in 

 the thick woods. A few Green Crest- 

 ed Flycatchers and Florida Screech 

 Owls bred during the migration. Lots 

 of good stuff is found and Arnow has 

 taken Bachman Warbler, Gray King 

 Bird and Arcet. And as an ideal col- 

 lecting ground it can't be beat and 



some of my happiest days have been 

 spent here. And this coming season 

 if I am on this side of the great divide, 

 I will spend a few more days with 

 liim. Troup D. Perry. 



Savannah, Ga. 



Collecting in Western Kansas. 



On .June 20th, ]9n, H. L. Heaton 

 and myself, ]>erhaps some of the read- 

 ers of the "Oologist" will remember 

 Heaton as one of the boys in the 

 eighties and nineties, started for 

 Dewey Lake in search of nests of the 

 illusive Antinae. The buggy was well 

 filled with boxes, cotton and grub, as 

 we expected to collect for several 

 days; our first stop was about four- 

 teen miles west of Oberlin, near the 

 forks of the Sapi)a creek. Here on the 

 south side of the creek was a rock 

 ledge about two miles long, which 

 looked good for sets of Western Night- 

 haws. We tied our horses about the 

 middle of the ledge, Heaton going one 

 way and myself the other. Where I 

 struck the ledge the rocks were about 

 tv.-enty feet high. As I came up a 

 pair of Am. Barn Owls flew from a 

 hole near the top. On reaching the 

 nest I was agreeably surprised to 

 find a set of six, nearly fresh eggs. 

 They were laid on the bare rock near 

 the back of the hole. On a few yards 

 farther were several good sized rocks 

 piled one against the other, forming 

 small caves underneath. A Turkey 

 Vulture had made her home there. 

 She was very gentle, having to be re- 

 moved from the nest by hand, which 

 operation revealed two handsome eggs 

 about one-half incubated. The rest of 

 the rocks were done but nothing more 

 found. On returning to the buggy 

 Heaton's report was, nothing doing, 

 we felt very good over our start, it be- 

 ing late for Owl and Vulture. The 

 first night was spent in a barn on the 

 fragrant new mown hay, our slumber 



