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EARLY ROOSTING FLIGHTS OF THE TREE SWALLOW 

 AT BLOOMFIELD, N. J. 



During the latter part of May and the first ten days of June, 

 1912, there occurred at this place daily flights of the Tree Swal- 

 low. These flights commenced on the 25th of May and lasted until 

 the 10th of June. The birds would appear from the west at about 

 five-thirty each evening in immense numbers and the flight would 

 continue until seven p. m. As the birds flew low, they could be 

 readily observed, and each flock, so far as could be seen, were 

 composed only of the adult birds of both sexes. Prior to this time 

 these flights have never been observed before July 25, at which 

 time they become a regular happening in the course of the day's 

 events. 



After the 10th of June, however, these flights discontinued and 

 only a few stragglers were observed wending their way towards 

 the meadows until the usual time for them to begin flying again 

 in late July. Louis S. Kohler. 



A RUNT CROW (Corviis brachyrhynchos) AT POJUPTON 

 LAKES, N. J. 

 While making investigations as to the summer food of the Cor- 

 pus brachyrhynclios at this place during the summer of 1912, among 

 a lot of twenty birds shot, was one which was very abnormal in 

 many ways. This bird measured in length 13.75"; wing (right) 

 9.90, (left) 9.95; tail, 5.85; exposed culmen, 1.60; depth of bill, 

 .70; tarsus (right) 2.00, (left) 2.15. The plumage was a dead 

 black totally devoid of gloss or sheen and the tarsi were deep 



