The Audubon Societies i8i 



Barrow's Golden-eye Duck. Mr. James Kennedy, one of the best authorities on birds 

 and wild life in this section, and also a Director of the "Wild Life League," was always 

 with us when we saw these rare birds, else we could not have identified them ourselves. 

 This year I have succeeded in getting a Junior Audubon Society in our room at school. 

 I think it will be successful as our teacher is quite interested in the birds." Having studied 

 birds from the age of seven in his home township, "an area of i8 square miles," the above 

 record of 173 species is all the more interesting and valuable. If each observer would keep 

 accurate yearly records about his own premises even, or in his own town or county, 

 much information, at present not verified with sufiicient accuracy to be strictly reliable, 

 might be sifted and made useful for purposes of comparison in other sections. In many 

 ways a concentrated, limited-area study has the advantage over unlimited wandering. — 

 A. H. W.] 



A THREE-TOED WOODPECKER 



Three years ago I saw an Arctic Three- toed Woodpecker and made a de- 

 scription of it. I did not find out its name till the other day. According to 

 Reed's "Wild Birds of New England" this species is not very common in Maine. 



I am fourteen years old and enjoy bird-study very much. Bird-Lore is a 

 great help. — Norman Lewis, Hampden, Maine. 



MIGRATING BOBOLINKS IN ATLANTA 



In April we were daily watching eagerly for spring migrants. On the 20th 

 a watchman reported that on the previous night he had heard the loud call 

 ("hollering") of migrating birds at intervals, and morning showed that we had 

 a visit from a flock of Bobohnks. They took for headquarters a field of red 

 clover, which had been planted in winter grain the previous year. Several 

 males at one time would sway each on top of stalks of grain, thus being above 

 the level of the field, and each would joyfully sing his heart out. The Bobo- 

 links were with us until May 11, but evidently the personnel of the flock 

 changed. At first, among fifty birds, only a few females were seen; later, when 

 the flock numbered one or two hundred, about one in ten was a female; still 

 later there was one female to five males while just before their disappearance, 

 when not many birds were left, there were five or ten females to every male. 

 During this period of time there were Bobolinks in widely separated parts of the 

 city. — ^LucY H. Upton, Providence, R. I. 



[Readers of Bird-Lore will be glad of this record from the pen of Miss Upton, 

 especially since it gives data on the confusing point of the order of migration among 

 species. In Dr. Arthur Allen's monograph on the Red-winged Blackbird, it is said with 

 regard to that species that "the normal migration (at Ithaca, N. Y.) can be divided into 

 seven periods according to sex, age, and nature of the birds (whether resideikt or migrant), 

 as follows: 



1. Arrival of "vagrants." 



2. Arrival of migrant adult males. 



3. Arrival of resident adult males. 



4. Arrival of migrant females and immature males. 



5. Arrival of resident adult females. 



