36 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 94 



Some Notes on Ohio Birds, W. F. Henninger, New Bremen, Ohio. 



Greetings from the Audubon Societies, Eugene Swope, Cincin- 

 nati, Ohio. 

 Discussion of the other papers was omitted on account of lack 



of time. 



Four papers with titles on the printed programme were not 



read, owing to the lack of time or to the absence of the author. 



These are the following :^ — 



Ornithological Work at the Iowa Lakeside Laboratory (Illustrat- 

 ed), T. C. Stephens. 



Notes on the Red-tailed Hawk, B. H. Bailey, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 



Relative Abundance of Birds as Noted on an Overland Journey, 

 Lynds Jones. 



Completion of a Warbler Collection, Gerard Alan Abbott, Chicago, 

 Illinois. 



T. L. Hais'kinson, Secretary. 



FIELD NOTES 



THE BLACK RAIL {Creciscus jamaicensis) AT ST. MARKS, FLA. 

 During the severe hurricane and accompanying high water on 

 September 4, 1915, two of these birds were picked up exhausted 

 and soon died, and two or three others were seen on the borders 

 of an extensive river marsh at that time entirely submerged. One 

 of the captured birds had been drifted up onto the railroad em- 

 bankment in our village, where it borders the broad marsh. 



JoHJv' Williams. 



LAUGHING GULL (Larus cithcilla) NESTING NEAR 

 ST. MARKS, FLA. 

 In Bulletin No. 292 of Bureau of Biological Survey, published 

 October 25, 1915, pages 51-53, no breeding colony of this species is 

 given between Cape Sable and Passage Key and the coast of Lou- 

 isiana. For many years there has been a nesting colony of these 

 birds about eight miles west of St. Marks' lighthouse — usually on one 

 of two or three small islands about a half-mile off shore. On June 

 24, 1914, fifteen birds were seen flying near the island. No nests 

 seen. June 6, 1915, fifteen pairs were nesting and on that date 

 nests contained two and three eggs mostly. Two nests had each 

 two very small chicks. June 19, 1915, nests seen June 6 had all 

 been washed away by a high tide and other nests were found about 

 300 yards distant from former nests, the newly-made nests contain- 

 ing one, two and three eggs; one nest with a single very young bird. 



John Williams. 



