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THE OOLOGI8T 



the base of the six-foot stone dyke, 

 and it sought to escape into one or 

 the many holes in the walls. It was 

 quite aggressive and pecked savagely 

 at any one handling it. It had lived 

 through most of the winter in the ad- 

 jacent cat-tail marsh, subsisting upon 

 a meagre fare of food, probably de- 

 vouring anything eatable it could find. 

 This is my second record of the oc- 

 currence of the Florida Gallinule in 

 winter at this locality. A friend of 

 mine, George Patrick, found a frozen 

 bird on December 17, 1910, in the cat- 

 tail marsh. Richard F. Miller, 



Philadelphia, Pa. 



STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, 

 MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, 

 ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF 

 CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, 

 of The Oologist, published monthly 

 at Albion, N. Y., for April 1, 1923. 

 STATE OF ILLINOIS, 

 County of Marshall — ss. 

 Before me, a Notary Public, in and 

 for the State and county aforesaid, 

 personally appeared R. Magoon 

 Barnes, who, having been duly sworn 

 according to law, deposes and says 

 that he is the owner of The Oologist, 

 and that the following is, to the best 

 of his knowledge and belief, a true 

 statement of the ownership, manage- 

 ment, etc., of the aforesaid publica- 

 tion for the date shown in the above 

 caption, required by the Act of August 

 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Pos- 

 tal Laws and Regulations. 



Publisher, Editor, Managing Editor, 

 and Business Manager, R. Magoon 

 Barnes, Lacon, Illinois. Not a corpor- 

 ation. No stock has ever been issued. 

 The Oologist is owned exclusively by 

 R. Magoon Barnes. 



There are no bond holders, mort- 

 gagers or other security holder, none 

 have ever been issued. 



R. MAGOON BARNES. 

 Sworn to and subscribed before me 

 this 16th day of June, 1923. 



(Seal) FAY BALL. 



My commission expires Feb. 16, 1927. 



THE LOON IN PENNSYLVANIA AND 

 IN NEW JERSEY IN SUMMER. 



In my notes for October 1, 1912, I 

 find the following entry: "Mr. Axe 

 told me he mounted a big loon for 

 Harry Smith, the liquor dealer, of 

 Frankford, who shot it on July 5 of 

 this year, on the Neshaming Creek, 

 above Bridgewater, Buchs county, 

 Pennsylvania. Mr. Axe said it was 

 very lean and emaciated, and that the 

 two webbs of one foot were severed 

 at the toes, so that in swim.ming, he 

 thought, the bird swam lop-sided and 

 for that reason proved to be an easy 

 target." 



Mr. Edwin C. Axe was a well known 

 Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa., taxi- 

 dermist and an ardent sportsman. He 

 told me that this was the only Loon 

 he had ever seen in summer in Penn- 

 sylvania. It was probably a wounded 

 individual left behind in the migra- 

 tion. 



I have never seen the loon in sum- 

 mer in Pennsylvania, but during 1922 

 I observed two individuals at widely- 

 separated localities on the New Jersey 

 coast. One was seen on June 17th, on 

 Two-mile Beach, Cape May county, 

 swimming in the surf, a few yards 

 from shore, and the other on July 2, 

 on Island Beach, Ocean county. 



Richard F. Miller, 

 Philadelphia, Pa. 



NORTHERN NEW YORK WINTER 

 RESIDENTS 



Leo J. Provost, of Plattsburg, New 

 York, reports the American Robin, 

 American Merganser, Golden Crowned 

 Kinglet, Horned Lark, Pine Grosbeak, 

 Evening Grosbeak, Juncos, White and 

 Red-breasted Nuthatches, and a flock 

 of about forty Starlings as wintering 

 in his vicinity. R. M. Barnes. 



