THE OOLOGIST 



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Late Nesting of the Bob White. 



Quail are very scarce in this section, 

 Armour, S. D., and the only nest that I 

 have ever seen, was found so late in 

 the season that I thought it worthy of 

 mention. 



September 11, 1911, while cutting 

 wild hay, a farmer found a nest con- 

 taining thirteen incubated eggs, situ- 

 ated in the long grass a few feet from 

 a small creek. The bird was very 

 tame, but when I came to see the nest 

 about a week later I found that she 

 had deserted it! probably because it 

 was no longer hidden. 



Alex Walker. 



A Question! 

 Editor Oologist: 



You would oblige me by publishing 

 the following question in the Oologist. 

 Can anyone of the readers tell me, if 

 he met either Pipilo Rutiiusor Guiraca 

 breeding in the nests of other birds? 



I collected during the last season 

 about twenty sets of Pipilo rutilus, 

 and with the exception of one, which 

 consisted of a single egg, there was in 

 every set at least one egg of the 

 Guiraca type. These eggs were all 

 larger than G. Caerulaea-eggs in my 

 collection, measuring 25x19 mM. 

 average. T could, however, never sur- 

 prise a Guiraca on the nest. At the 

 same time I never found a nest ot 

 Guiraca, although these birds are fair- 

 ly abundant here, and are always to 

 be seen one or more pairs at a time, 

 in the neighborhood of the Pipilo 

 nests. 



I have, however, found nothing 

 about the Guiraca as a parasite, in 

 literature and at the same time I have 

 only found eggs, larger than the N. A. 

 type. If any of the readers have had 

 similar experience and would be so 

 kind as to solve this problem I should 

 be much obliged to him. 



T. C. F. VanBalen, 



Apartado 10, 

 Oaxaca, Mexico. 



Girls Conduct Bird Hospital. 



Los Angeles, Calif. 



Crippled, sick and disconsolate birds 

 with happy and songful birds are wel- 

 comed at the bird hospital and rest 

 room conducted by girls of Junior 

 Cumnock School for Girls, Sixteenth 

 and Figueroa streets. Gentle and 

 clever little hands, guided by tender 

 hearts, care for the little wayfarers 

 of the air, who often meet with mis- 

 haps in the busy life of the city. 



Not only do the birds feel the direct 

 influence of the kindly treatment, but 

 indirectly too, for the entire neigh- 

 boorhood i^ interested in the work, 

 and small boys of the vicinity 

 are being drawn into the spirit of the 

 cause. Miss Eula D. Beans, principal 

 of the school, received sick and 

 crushed birds from the heretofore 

 rough hands of boys who live near the 

 school. Miss Beans says she believes 

 boys who will care for an injured 

 bird are not prone to throw stones at 

 them in their door yards. 



Mrs. Cora Deal Lewis, president 

 of the Senior Audubon Society, of 

 which the Cumnock girls form the 

 Junior Society, is much interested in 

 the work, and talked to the girls 

 on topics concerning the duties and 

 responsibilities of membership in an 

 organization of interantional import- 

 ance. Mrs. Lewis expressed herself 

 as pleased with the results, and pre- 

 dicted a busy and successful future 

 for the enthusiastic little nurses. 

 Common Enemy Mingle. 



Among the birds which have ac- 

 cepted hospitality are meadow larks, 

 canaries, humming birds, blackbirds 

 and the linnet, native son of Califor- 

 nia, which thrives there by the hun- 

 dred. The scolding mocking bird calls 

 from the umbrella tree, and the cedar 

 waxing, lost in California, finds a 

 haven of refuge in the green hedges 

 which border the grounds. The black 



