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FALL MIGRATION, Continued 



Athabaska Landing, Alberta . . . 



Aweme, Man 



Lanesboro, Minn ... 



Chicago, 111 



Central Iowa 



Waterloo, Ind. (near) 



Ottawa, Ont 



Southwestern Ontario 



Oberlin, Ohio . 



North River, Prince Edward Island 



Montreal, Can 



Scotch Lake, N. B 



St. John, N. B. 



Southwestern Maine 



Providence, R. I 



Southeastern New York 



Germantown, Pa. 



Washington, D. C 



Average date of 

 last one seen 



September 17 

 October 12 

 October 12 

 October 15 

 October 22 

 October 14 

 October 18 

 October 27 

 October 10 

 October 16 

 October 22 

 October 24 

 October 27 

 October 30 

 November 2 

 November 3 

 November 10 



Latest date of last 

 one seen 



September 14, 1903 

 October 17, 1906 

 October 26, 1890 

 October 20, 1897 

 November 9, 1889 

 October 25, 1889 

 November 24, 1895. 

 November 11, 1898 

 December 4, 1903, 

 October 19, 1887 

 October 20, 1888 

 November 3, 1905; 

 October 26, 1893 

 November 14, 1903 

 November 11, 1900 

 November 13, 1903 

 November 11, 1889 

 A few in winter 



Correspondence 



Editor of BiRD-LoRE: 



Dear Sir: If there is one thing that is more aggravating to me than 

 another it is to be misquoted, and, as Mr. Taverner has systematically mis- 

 quoted me throughout his article in the last number of Bird -Lore, I hope 

 the Editor will give me a little of his valuable space for a reply. 



In the first place, I did not intend to apologize for anything; the object 

 of my communication was, first, to show that even egg-shells might be 

 scientifically studied and, second, that the average egg-collector was as 

 scientific in his methods as the average collector of anything. I made no 

 comparison of the comparative value of the Old Squaw and Great Auk, but 

 said that from a strictly scientific standpoint the Labrador Duck was not a 

 whit more valuable than the Old Squaw. Neither did I say anything about 

 Professor Newton's opinion of oology as a science, but that he came for- 

 ward to defend the egg-collector. What he said may be found in the Report 

 from the Select Committee on Wild Birds' Protection, published in 1873. 

 I am not aware that he has changed his point of view since. 



In conclusion, let me remark that but for Major Bendire's interest in 

 collecting birds' eggs, we should not have had his charming and valuable 

 'Life Histories of North American Birds,' and while he might have taken 

 up various other branches of ornithological work, the fact remains he did 

 not. Very truly yours, 



Brooklyn, N. Y., April 24, 1907. F. A. LuCAS. 



