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into grapevine tangles, at head- 

 height, beside the trunks of trees. 

 And, just once, did my juvenile eyes 

 fairly bulge out as I climbed an an- 

 cient white oak, to a hollow, in which 

 Orackles appeared to be nervously 

 interested, to find there a succession 

 of no less than four nests, one a'top 

 another. Of re-incursions that are 

 delighting my soul, these days, that 

 of the Lapland Longspur is quite the 

 most inspiring. For three years, and 

 more, they have been totally absent. 

 But, — a month, and more ago I 

 heard just one bird, high in air, in 

 a town fifteen miles from my home. 

 And, on Christmas Day, as a friend 

 was driving me home from the same 

 town, in his sedan, we ran into a 

 fiock of two hundred. Fine enough, 

 that, — for one Christmas Day! 



P. B. Peabody. 



KILLDEER IN NEW JERSEY 



At Richfield, N. J., one of the most 

 regular breeders is the Killdeer. In 

 1920 a family of four were reared in 

 the truck garden opposite my home, 

 ■they being first observed on Septem- 

 ber 1st when the parents and young 

 were seen flying low over and run- 

 ning about on the new plowed fields. 

 In 1921 a family of three were reared 

 and remained about the farm until 

 the middle of October. I searched 

 diligently for this nest but was de- 

 feated in my endeavors and when 

 the young appeared knew they must 

 have been hatched there. In the 

 spring of 1922, along a hedgerow 

 about two hundred feet from a highly 

 traveled highway, a nest was found 

 with five eggs, one of which had just 

 emerged from the shell. This is the 

 largest set I have ever found. These 

 five youngsters were successfully 

 reared here and remained until Octo- 

 iber 1st when they disappeared. I be- 



lieve the same parents nested here 

 for the three years as the foot-prints 

 of one of the adults in each year bore 

 an abnormally shaped mid toe on the 

 right foot. 



Louis S. Kohler. 



STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, 

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 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 

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 that he is the owner of The Oologist, 

 and that the following is, to the best 

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 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. 



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 and Business Manager, R. Magoon 

 Barnes, Lacon, Illinois. Not a corpor- 

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