THE OOLOGIST 27(%17) “© 
Jesse T. Craven, 
This name is well-known to all the 
older readers of this magazine. Mr. 
Craven for many years was active in 
the field, exchanged much and built 
up a large and well assorted collec- 
tion of the birds of North America. 
It is a pleasure to present to our 
readers with this issue, a plate (58) 
showing a section of the collection 
of Mounted Birds of Mr. Craven. 
Of late years, we have seen little 
from him in print, We trust that the 
old spirit will seize him, that some 
day he will “come back” and illumi- 
nate these pages with much informa- 
tion that we have no doubt is now 
his alone. 
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Yellow Warbler, 
Noticing your paragraph in THE 
OOLOGIST asking for notes of in- 
terest, I thought I would write and 
tell you about a peculiar discovery 
I made last summer, I was out hunt- 
ing for birds nests in Harmarville, 
Pennsylvania, June 4, 1910, when I 
found a Yellow Warbler’s nest in an 
elderberry bush about three feet from 
the ground. In it were three eggs 
almost hatched and on picking one of 
them up I saw what looked like an 
egg sticking a little above the bottom 
of the nest. On examining it I found 
a Yellow Warbler’s and a Cowbird’s 
ege burried almost completely with 
down. The bird had evidently done 
this to get rid of the Cowbirds’s egg. 
Did you ever hear of a case like that 
before? 
Thos. D. Burleigh. 
This is by no means uncommon. 
The Yellow Warbler is the only bird 
known which pursues this method of 
avoiding the consequences of being 
imposed on by the Cowbird. 
Occasionally Yellow Warbler’s nests 
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are found two, and even three stories 
high, showing the building of a new 
floor over one or two different layers 
of eggs. This Warbler will sometimes 
even sacrifice one or two of its own 
eggs in this manner in order to get rid 
of the unwelcome egg that has been 
deposited in its nest. 
Editor. 
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Three Crops. 
Last March a pair of Crows nested 
in a grove near town, the nest being 
placed about thirty feet from the 
ground in the top of a box elder. 
In May a pair of bronzed Grackles 
built their own nest inside of it and 
reared a family of four, 
September 12th I again climbed the 
tree and found it contained two young 
Mourning Doves a few days old. 
This is the highest I have ever 
found their nests; often they nest on 
the ground. The latest record I have 
for bird nesting in Dakota is Septem- 
ber 15, 1909, when I found a Mourn- 
ing Dove nest with two eggs. Many 
of the doves were flocking together 
at this time for migration. 
Alex Walker. 
SS Se eee 
The Northern Pileated Woodpecker. 
(Ceophloeus pileatus albieticola). 
The Pileated, the king of our north- 
ern woodpeckers, is a bird of the for- 
est. The larger the timber and more 
extensive the forests, the better he 
likes it. In fact the pileated does not 
seem to be found in settled or farming 
districts except as a straggler. In 
the mountains of Warren, Forest, Elk, 
McKean and _ several other of the 
counties of northwestern Pennsyl- 
vania, there are large areas of practi- 
cally uninhabited wild land. 
At the present time the greater 
part of these wild lands have been 
lumbered over. The deforested re- 
gions are a wilderness of briars, laurel 
