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you can’t purchase them. Arsenic 
and alum are pretty high priced. 
Cartridges cost twelve to fourteen 
centavos (six to seven cents gold.) 
The most common staple articles, 
sugar, salt, peper, coffee, etc are high. 
Butter is unknown, except you prefer 
a white cheesy stuff native made or 
an imported tin with some evil ran- 
cidly smelling grease to call by that 
name. The only thing cheap down 
there seemed to be to me the tobacco, 
which would taste a good deal better 
than it does if it was properly cured. 
+e eg > 2 
A Correction. 
In my paper on the “Summer Resi- 
dents of Philadelphia County, Pa.” in 
the October OOLOGIST, there oc 
cured the following mistakes, which I 
will thank you to correct: 
For “Jonesdale’” reads Torresdale; 
for ‘“Verusville’ and ‘“Cercesville read 
Vereesville, and for ‘“Willahichon” 
read Wissahichon. 
The printer in the make-up, cut out 
part of the paragraph accompanying 
the remarks about the White-eyed 
Vireo and left out most of that of the 
Black and White Warbler. To be 
correct these should read: 
“631. White-eyed Vireo: — Three 
eggs and a Cowbirds’s. 
636. Black and White Warbler; rare. 
Flushed one May 30, 1898, in a woods 
at Frankford, but failed to find its 
nest, etc., as printed. 
The bad mistake of Jonesdale for 
Torresdale is entirely my fault due to 
carelessness in writing the word, by 
joining the loop-less T to the other 
letters of the word, and by making 
my r’s look like an n. I do not 
wonder, on this acount, that the 
printer thought the word was “what 
it wasn’t’. 
R, F. Miller. 
My First Acquaintance With The 
Pine Grosbeak. 
I first saw a few of these birds in 
the cemetery at Columbus, Wisconsin, 
in the very tips of the evergreens. 
They seemed to be feeding on the 
buds, They were quite uneasy and 
soon left. I don’t remember the date 
more than it was sometime late in 
the 90’s. I saw a small flock, and 
a larger flock at this place a season 
or so later, both times in the winter. 
In 1896-7 during the winter, I spent 
six weeks in central Minnesota, where 
I saw large flocks of them, sometimes 
several hundred in a flock. They 
feeding a great deal on the red 
berries on the tree commonly known 
as Mountain Ash. 
I got to see a number of the old 
red males; they were very tame and 
I could walk right in among them. 
Those in the largest flock kept near 
the ground. There was more or less 
twittering and chirping going on. 
Geo. W. H. vos Burgh. 
Se ee ee 
The Swallow Tailed Gull. 
(Creagrus furcatus) 
Inadvertantly at page 108 of the 
present volume of THE OOLOGIST, 
the statement was made that the pair 
of skins and egg of this species re- 
ceived by the Editor with the Charles 
K. Worthen collection came from 
“Guadaloupe Islands’”—it should have 
read “Galapagos Islands.” The error 
being specially serious in that the first 
named locality would bring this spe- 
cies within the territory of the A. O- 
U. list, while the latter locality ex- 
cludes it therefrom. 
une ch Lae 2 see ene 
A Large Set of Red Winged Black- 
bird’s Eggs. 
On June 20, 1909, at Ocean View, 
Cape May County, New Jersey, I 
collected the unusual number of six 
eges from a Red-winged Blackbird’s 
