THE OOLOQIST 



183 



BIRD NESTS I FOUND IN 1922 

 AND 1923 



Mocking bird, 89; Brown Capped 

 Nuthatch, 19; Red Headed Wood- 

 pecker, 19; Loggerhead Shrike, 16; 

 Brown Thrasher, 15; Cardinal, 14; 

 Blue Bird, 10; Red Eyed Vireo, 9; 

 Yellow Billed Cuckoo, 8; Blue Gray 

 Gnatcatcher, 7; Orchard Oriole, 6; 

 Crested Flycatcher, 5; Carolina Chic- 

 adee, 4; Summer Tanager, 3; Flicker, 

 2; Screech Owl, 2; Carolina Wren, 2; 

 Night Hawk, 2; Florida Meadowlark, 

 2; Downy Woodpecker, 2; Ruby 

 Throated Hummingbird, 2; Wingbird, 

 2; White Eyed Vireo, 2; Painted Bunt- 

 ing, 2; Ground Dove, 1; Blue Jay, 1; 

 Bob White, 1; Pine Woods Sparrow, 

 1; Wood Pewee. 1; Chimney Swift, 

 1; Chuck-Wills-Widow, 1; Purple Mar- 

 tin and English Sparrow Nests were 

 also found. Total 153. 

 1923 



Mockingbird, 68; Loggerhead Shrike, 

 14; Brown Thrasher, 13; Red Headed 

 Woodpecker, 11; Red Eyed Vireo, 10; 

 Blue Jay, 7; Blue Bird, 6; Brown 

 Capped Nuthatch, 5; Cardinal, 5; 

 Ruby Throated Hummingbird, 3; 

 Crested Flycatcher, 2; Orchard Oriole, 

 2; Downy Woodpecker, 2; Summer 

 Tanager, 2; Night Hawk, 2; King- 

 bird, 2; Ground Dove, 1; with Parent 

 bird sitting on two egg, on ground, 

 on October 7th; Fish Crow, 1; Yellow 

 Billed Cuckoo, 1; Chuck-Wills-Widow, 

 1; Florida Grackle, 1; Carolina Chic- 

 adee, 1; Red Bellied Woodpecker, 1; 

 White Eyed Vireo, 1; Florida Mea- 

 dowlark, 1; Flicker, 1; Screech Owl, 

 1; Blue Gray Gnatcatcher, 1; also 

 quite a few Purple Martins and Eng- 

 lish Sparrew's nests were found. 

 Total, 167. 



S. A. Grimes, 

 Jacksonville, Fla. 



THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY 



A Great Migration of Monarch or 



Milkweed Butterflies, Anosia Plex- 



ippus, at St. Louis, Mo., on 



September 23rd, 1923. 



Looking through the window at 

 12:30 p. m., I saw a number of Mon- 

 archs headed southward. Going into 

 the garden I was very much sur- 

 prised to find the air filled with them, 

 all going South, most of them wing- 

 ing their way between 20 to 40 feet 

 above ground, but many higher up, 

 hundreds of feet in the air, some mere 

 specks in the sky or visible only 

 against white fleezy clouds drifting 

 slowly northwestward. Those higher 

 up than the trees and houses and es- 

 pecially those at a great height did 

 very little wing beating, but soared 

 majestically in curves and circles, 

 very much like a flock of migrating 

 hawks. While the great mass was 

 scattered without order, some passed 

 in bunches and others came chasing 

 each other as if in play. When those 

 that flew low reached the houses, 

 they rose almost straight up high 

 enough to skip the roofs, very few 

 flying around the houses. The great- 

 est number passed between 12 and 1 

 o'clock at the rate of 25 in a minute, 

 and between 1 and 1:30 at an average 

 of 10 in a minute, which means that 

 1050 passed over my neighbors' 

 houses within one hour. Stragglers 

 continued, some as late as 3:30. I 

 cannot tell when this grand spectacle 

 had commenced, as it was in full force 

 when I noticed it at 12.30. It may 

 have set in when at noon, the sky 

 cleared after an overcast morning. 



The temperature at the time was 

 70° and the wind a very light South- 

 west. 



On the next day, September 24, the 

 St. Louis Globe Democrat, said that 

 billions of butterflies flew over St. 

 I^ouis, reports coming from all parts 



