39 THE OOLOGIST 
Fall Notes from Warren, Pa. 
This past Fall was dry, but not so 
bad as last Fall. East of us they had 
bad fires, but we got a little rain from 
time to time when most needed and 
escaped the dense pall of smoke that 
enveloped us last fall. 
September and November were un- 
usually nice months, while October 
was cold and stormy. At present win- 
ter seems to be setting in in earnest. 
The small bird migration was not ex-. 
tra good. Fox Sparrows were un- 
usually plentiful but warblers rather 
scarce. 
One Sunday I saw what I think was 
an Orange-crowned, but as I didn’t 
have my gun I couldn’t make sure. I 
have taken several here however. 
There were a few shore birds and 
I shot specimens of Kildeer and Semi- 
palmated Plover Least and Semipal- 
mated Sandpipers. Waterfowl were 
very scarce. I more than made up for 
the searcity of interesting birds by 
taking several good mammals for my 
collection. 
The first was an old dog Cross Fox 
that has eluded the hunters for four or 
five winters. It is a fine dark one and 
just what I needed. The other was a 
very large Wildcat (Bay Lynx) that 
has ranged over a certain section for 
seven or eight years, and was too 
much for hounds and too cute for 
traps. I had an idea of my own about 
him so set a heavy trap and made 
some dope to use instead of bait. It 
worked, and a couple of weeks ago 
on a Sunday morning, I found him 
fast. He climbed forty feet up a hem- 
lock tree carrying trap and a twenty- 
five pound clog along up. I didn’t 
want an encounter up in the tree so 
went three miles to a camp and bor- 
rowed arifle. It is one of the largest 
I ever saw and in fine shape. It is 
quite red. Legs, sides and head well 
spotted and mottled with black. Its 
head is large as a man’s with an un- 
usualy luxuriant crop of sideburns. 
R. B. Simpson. 
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A Golden Crowned Kinglet’s Nest. 
While in New Brunswick, Canada, 
during the nesting season I secured 
a nest and eight eggs of the Golden- 
crowned Kinglet. 
The spruce tree in which the nest 
was placed was about one hun- 
dred yards from a field on the edge of 
a heavy wood. The chief varieties 
of trees are spruce, hemlock and cedar. 
The nest was eight feet from the 
ground, six feet out on a limb over- 
hanging a small clear space in the 
woods. It is cup shaped showing the | 
following measurements: Depth out- 
side 4 1-2 inches; depth inside 3 3-4 
inches; diameter outside 4 inches; di- 
ameter inside 3 inches. Composed of 
green moss externally and lined with 
feathers of the Oven-bird, Canada Jay 
and Ruffed Grouse, with the quills 
pointing downward, almost forming an 
arch over the eggs with the shafts. 
The nest contained eight nearly 
round rich creamy eggs on June 10th, 
1909, 
Other birds nesting in the same lo- 
cality were Saw-whet, Owl, Pileated 
Woodpecker, Canadian Spruce Grouse, 
Bay-breasted and Blackburnian Warb- 
ler and American Woodcock, 
Stanley G. Jewett. 
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