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My best August hunt was made yesterday, (Aug. 3d) 44 species in 

 eight hours and fifty minutes. My whole summer's list from this lo- 

 cality is seventy-one, including Mourning Warbler, Black Duck and 

 Summer Yellowlegs. Charles H. Rogers, Crosswicks, N. J. 



We all prize our Bird Magazine very highly. This is our second 

 year, and we cannot get along without American Ornithology. 



A. L. Marshall. 



As a magazine it is the best of its kind. I take Bird-Lore, The 

 Condor, Bird & Nature, and one or two others. But of them all I 

 think there is no match for the Bird Magazine. 



Bromell H. Stone, Oxford, Pa. 



We have fifteen nests of Barn Swallows in our buildings, so there 

 are swallows skimming through the air catching insects almost incess- 

 antly during the day. Marietta Washburn, Goodwin, S. D. 



In 1902 and in May, 1903, I found nests of the Bluebird containing 

 pure white eggs. Clayton White, Leadbury, Ont. 



I have found nests of 33 different kinds of birds this year. I was in 

 the woods the other day and all of a sudden a large brownish form 

 melted into a nearby tree. I followed and found it to be a Barred 

 Owl. It was a large bird, about twenty inches long, and had no ear- 

 tufts. This last distinguished it from all other owls, most unmistak- 

 ably, together with its superior size to most of them. The same day I 

 saw a Yellowlegs on a small inland pond. 



Lewis Stiles Gannett, Bennington Center, Vt. 



One of my friends has a big barn and in it are over forty swallows' 

 nests. Before the rainy weather they were flying all around the barn 

 but near the end of the month of rainy weather there were hardly a 

 dozen left. I went up in the top of the barn and found up there on 

 the floor five or six old swallows and lots of young ones lying dead. 

 In almost every nest there were either rotten eggs or dead young ones. 

 The floor was covered with dead swallows. In a bird house on the 

 side of the barn were four dead white bellied swallows. 



Stafford Francis, Exeter, N. H. 



In the letter I wrote you before I told you about a pair of Blue Gros- 

 beaks that nested here last year. They came back this year, but they 

 had to build four nests before they could raise any young ones, for the 

 Blue Jays destroyed their eggs every time. We drove the Blue Jays 

 away and now the Grosbeaks have raised two litters of young ones. 

 All together the Grosbeaks have built five nests this year. There is a 

 pair of Yellow Warblers around here this year. 



Marjory Lester, Kinsley, Kan. 



