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edge of a clearing in a thicket. On all 

 my visits not once did I see the male 

 although I suppose he was not far 

 distant. 



Observations were made in Musko- 

 ka, Ontario. 



George E. Gerald. 



Nesting of the Whip-poor-Will. 



While gathering Pink Lady Slippers 

 on the 3rd of June, 1912, that grew 

 plentiful in the spaghm moss on the 

 edge of a rocky piece of woods, I was 

 passing near a small hemlock when 

 up flew a brown bird on silent wings 

 which alighted on a log a few yards 

 away. A second glance at the bird 1 

 identified her being a whip-poor-will 

 and that she appeared anxious about 

 something as she hissed at me with 

 her feathers ruffled up. I examined 

 the ground very carefully and was 

 about to leave. I caught sight of the 

 two eggs lying on last year's leaves 

 under the lower branches of the hem- 

 lock tree. They were creamy white 

 with faint marking of brown and lav- 

 ender. The country about was mostly 

 covered with pine, hemlock and cedar 

 with a number of maple and birch 

 trees interspersed here and there. 



Observations were made in Musko- 

 ka, Ontario. 



George E. Gerald. 



Herons. 



In the town of Webb, Herkimer Co., 

 N. Y., I have discovered a healthy col- 

 ony of Great Blue Herons. I located 

 the colony last fall (1913) while deer 

 hunting and on April 25 this spring 

 again visited it. We then counted 20 

 nests that had been repaired, all in 

 the tops of beeches fifty to sixty-five 

 feet up, and over forty birds. Colony 

 on top of small hill in dense Adiron- 

 dack woods two miles from nearest 

 water. R. T. Fuller. 



Pulaski, N. Y. 



Observations of Bird Life in Los Ange- 

 les County, District A. 

 By Alfred Cookman, Deputy 



Fish and Game Warden for Los 



Angeles Co., Southern California. 



I was thinking that possibly a few 

 notes of our observations of bird life 

 in Los Angeles County, District A, 

 might interest the readers of THE 

 OOLOGIST, I write this: 



Last week, Prof. L. W. Welch and 

 the writer spent two days making ob- 

 servations of the bird life in the Sun- 

 set Beach, Bosca Chico and Lomita 

 Gun Club Reservations along the coast 

 in the south, southeast sections of Los 

 Angeles County in Southern Califor- 

 nia. We spent our nights on the cold 

 sand by the "Sad sea waves" and dur- 

 ing the day went hunting in the gun 

 reservations and securing notes on 

 the nesting habits of the marsh birds. 

 We watched the homeward flight of 

 the sea birds at evening tide and 

 again, their feeding in the neighbor- 

 ing sloughs very early in the morn- 

 ing. 



The writer is preparing a treatise 

 on the nesting habits of the birds of 

 Los Angeles County. Special atten- 

 tion is given to the nest building, man- 

 ner of general house-keeping and the 

 economic relations of the many kinds 

 of birds in this territory. The writer 

 has been working in the San Pedro 

 Harbor territory for nearly two years. 

 This territory covers about thirty- 

 three miles. During the nesting of 

 1913, we record sixty-three species 

 and over eight thousand individual 

 birds observed in nine districts in this 

 region. Fifteen miles east from Point 

 Fermin to Naples via Seal Beach to 

 Sunset Beach and sloughs north and 

 northeast was carefully surveyed dur- 

 ing the months of May, June, July and 

 December. During the latter part of 

 July to the 15th of August, the writ- 

 er covered over twenty-five miles of 



