THE OOLOGIST 



the nest. Mr. Coon placed it in an 

 old nest and fed it. It was able to fly 

 when one day he found it dead be- 

 neath a tree in his yard. 



Nesting of the Northern Raven in 



Pennsylvania. 



(Corvus Corvax Primcipalis.) 



It so happened that in the spring of 

 1912, a friend of M. R. C. Harlow's, 

 while trout fishing in the mountains of 

 Clinton County, Pa., discovered the 

 nest of the Northern Raven which held 

 young birds. Upon Harlow's hearing 

 of his friend's find, he decided to visit 

 the place later. 



On the morning of the 13th of 

 March, 1913, Harlow and I left the 

 State College by train and landed at 

 a small town nine miles from our des- 

 tination. From this place we tramped 

 Southward through a mountain gap 

 which finally led us into an open, level 

 space of country. In the distance we 

 could discern a deep valley formed by 

 two mountain ridges, and toward this 

 we made our way. From the report 

 of Harlow's friend we were to tramp 

 up this ravine for a couple of miles, 

 but when we had traversed that dist- 

 ance we could find no traces of a 

 rocky cliff where the nest was situat- 

 ed. However, after we had gone a 

 mile further up the ravine we came to 

 an abrupt turn in it, which revealed 

 two sandstone cliffs, containing many 

 indentations. The rocks were well cov- 

 ered with gray lichen. 



We decided to investigate the upper 

 cliff first. I walked up small logging 

 railroad, over which the log trains 

 passed frequently, and had a plain 

 view of the cliff. Some distance up 

 the side I could see a large indenta- 

 tion in the rocks ;upon our making a 

 noise a Raven flapped from this crev- 

 ice and sailed away over the hemlocks 

 which covered the mountain side. 



It was not long until I reached the 



above the base of the cliff, and peered 

 over the rim of the nest, upon five 

 large eggs of greenish color well 

 blotched with darker green. 



The nest was composed of large 

 sticks and inner strips of Hemlock 

 bark, and was well lined with dry 

 grass, a little green moss, and white 

 hair from the belly of a deer. It rest- 

 ed upon the bare, damp rocks. 



The Raven did not utter a note; she 

 was seen but once after she left the 

 nest, and then kept out of our sight. 



A few pairs of Ravens regularly in- 

 habit the wilder mountainous coun- 

 try of Pennsylvania and West Virgin- 

 ia. However, few nests have ever 

 been reported from either of these 

 states. 



It might be interesting to mention 

 here, that we found on old nest of the 

 Winter Wren built in a crack in the 

 rocks, three feet above the nest of 

 the Raven, 



S. S. Dickey. 

 Waynesburg, Pa. 



Wild Fowl Notes. 



G. T. Skarns of Minneapolis, Minn., 

 shot a Trumpeter Swan (Olor bucci- 

 nator) October 8, 1813, at Woodcock 

 Lake, near Spicer, Minn. There wa& 

 only this single bird. It was with a 

 flock of seven or eight Canada Geese. 

 We have seen the bird mounted. 



One of the three Trumpeter Swans 

 on our home grounds died the third 

 week in January and is now in the 

 Field Museum. It was a young bird 

 trapped in Montant and sold to the 

 Chicago Lincoln Park Zoo. This leaves 

 seven known specimens of this species 

 living in confinement. We have lost 

 three of these rare birds within the 

 past three years. They are much hard- 

 er to keep than Whistling Swans. 



We have recently added to our wild 

 Fowl a peculiar hybrid. Without 

 doubt Snow Goose (Chen hyperbor- 



