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88. Brown Thrasher, June 4; 4 eggs. 



89. Carolina Wren, May 13; 2 eggs. 



90. Winter Wren, May 16; completed 

 nest. 



91. House Wren, May 27; 7 eggs. 



92. Long-billed Marsh Wren, June 15; 



5 eggs. 



93. Short-billed Marsh Wren, July 10: 

 5 eggs. 



94. White-breasted Nuthatch, May 7; 7 



eggs. 



95. Chickadee, May 8; 7 eggs. 

 9C. Wood Thrush, June 4; 4 eggs. 



97. Wilson's Thrush, June 5; 4 eggs. 



98. Robin, May 6; 4 eggs. 



99. Bluebird, April 25; 4 eggs. 



All these nests were actually ex- 

 amined during the season of 1913 and 

 though there were many field trips 

 xiecessary to approach the century 

 mark, the writer feels a singular pride 

 in doing so and believes that as 

 a record of nesting species in 

 these two states it will stand 

 for years to come. Let us hear 

 Irom some of the noted Ornithologists 

 of Pennsylvania, such as Thomas H. 

 Jackson, J. Parker Norris, R. P. Sharp- 

 less, E. J. Darlington, Frank L. Burns, 

 G. B. Benners, Richard T. Miller, R. B. 

 Simpson, Witmer Stone, Samuel S. 

 Dickey, J. W. Jacobs and E. J. Camp- 

 tell. Richard C. Harlow. 



A Young Ornithologist. 

 Dear Editor: 



I am a twelve-year-old subscriber to 

 THE OOLOGIST and think it a fine 

 magazine. While strolling through the 

 woods Sunday, the 22d of February, 

 1914, I was surprised to see at my feet 

 a dead bird, with a broken leg, and 

 the prettiest little bird I ever saw. I 

 •do not know whether it was a male or 

 female, but I am sending you a pic- 

 ture of him and a complete descrip- 

 tion. It would oblige me very much if 

 you will tell me about this bird. I 

 drew this picture myself and it is life 

 size. 



Description: "Top-knot," brown; 

 tail, gray, blending into black with 

 the tips of golden yellow; wings, dove, 

 darker at tips; back, brownish dove 

 color; breast, lilac, underneath yellow; 

 feet, black; bill, black; mouth, pur- 

 ple inside. I am enclosing envelope 

 for reply and would like for you to re- 

 turn the picture. 



Yours truly, 



Boyd Taylor. 



Editor of The Oologist. 



Dear Sir: Your open letter to the 

 readers of THE OOLOGIST "to help 

 enforce the game laws" is a step in 

 the right direction. With few excep- 

 tions, there is no body of men more 

 fitted and willing to enforce these laws 

 than the active collectors who know 

 the conditions of game and birds in 

 general, in their counties and sur- 

 rounding territory better than the war- 

 dens .themselves. It seems a pity 

 therefore, to see such activity ex- 

 hibited against collectors, especially 

 by men who were collectors at one 

 time themselves and who have risen 

 to their present positions entirely 

 through their former activity in col- 

 lecting birds, mammals and eggs. 



Mr. Sharpless' article on page 56, is 

 only a mild form of complaint of what 

 is heard from one end of the country 

 to the other, the majority of whom, in- 

 stead of stopping collecting continue 

 to do so, and do not publish their data, 

 thus losing to each and every state 

 many fine records of various sorts. It 

 has become so bad in some states that 

 men who have contributed liberally 

 to past literature are now not putting 

 their names on skin labels or data 

 blanks until same are out of the state. 

 The time is close when the bird lov- 

 ers and collectors will break away 

 from such societies as countenance 

 such activity against the best protec- 

 tionests there are. Cannot such ener- 



