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A BI-MONTHLY MAGAZINE 

 DEVOTED TO THE STUDY AND PROTECTION OF BIRDS 



Official Organ of the Audubon Societies 



Vol. VIII 



March — April, 1906 



No. 2 



Some Bird-Notes from the Magdalens 



By HERBERT K. JOB 



Author of " Wild Wings '' and " Among the Water-Fowl " 

 With photographs from nature by the author 



ALTHOUGH Bird Rock is undeniably the star attraction on a bird - 

 lover's trip to the rock-bound, spruce-girt, wind-swept Magdalen 

 Islands, there are many other sights of bird-life there which are of 

 absorbing interest. A constant spur to activity is the realization that those 

 marshes, swamps, thickets and stretches of sand conceal many rarities, upon 

 some of which one is liable to stumble at anv moment. Putting my hand 

 into an old Flicker's hole, one day, I pulled out a young Saw-whet Owl, 

 which was just about as liable to have been a Richardson's. We pry about 

 among the small spruces and start up Mourning and Magnolia Warblers, 

 Fox Sparrows, Juncos, 

 Blackpolls, Winter 

 Wrens, Crossbills, Sis- 

 kins, and the like, and 

 at any time we may 

 chance upon a nest. 

 Though I never hap- 

 pened to run across 

 a Redpoll, my friend, 

 Mr. Callendar, whom 

 I directed there, in the 

 season of 1905, was 

 lucky enough to find 

 a nest of this beautiful 

 bird, and in the same 

 tract of woods which 

 in other years I had 

 searched. The Pigeon 



b LEAST SANDPIPER 



Hawk and the Short- "The anxious parent followed me" 



