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THE OdLOQI^t 



acquaintance with the species is one 

 individual found dead in the woods 

 about five miles south of my home on 

 Nov. 15th, 1916. 



5'95. ;ft,ose Breasted Grosbeak. Have 

 seen only two specimens of this beauti- 

 ful bird. One was in 1909, the other 

 was on May 1st, 1917, a very clear and 

 distinct view. 



638. Swainson's Warbler. Have 

 seen two of these birds. One was at 

 Brown Spring Lake, Aug. 10th, 1917, 

 the day 1 found the Black Tern. The 

 other specimen was observed on the 

 James River near Galena, Mo., in the 

 » rank growth near the water's edge on 

 July 18, 1917. (Identity very doubtful. 

 —Ed.) 



648. Parula Warbler. Have seen 

 only two instances of this bird. One 

 Was an adult male April 15, 1917, at 

 Browhs Mill Pond, six miles southeast. 

 The other was a pair with nest of per- 

 haps from young about seventy feet 

 above James River, in a Sycamore tree, 

 July 1'6, 1917. The latter were very 

 tame and were closely examined. 



6^7. American Pipit. I saw one 

 specimen of this northern bird while 

 plowing, Feb. 19th, 1917. The bird 

 was not wild but remained for hours 

 following the plow. It was observed 

 from all distances and angles and can- 

 hot be mistaken. 



ADDENDA 



Since writing my list of Sw. Mo. 

 Warblers 1 have added two more 

 speci'es to my list. Both are common 

 birds according to Widmann, but I 

 have had much trouble in finding them 

 — Addenda. 



6'67. Black-throated Green Warbler. 

 Seemingly rather common here but 

 was first seen in the College Campus 

 oi Marionville College, by the Biology 

 Class which I had charge of for field 

 bird-study. On April 22, 1920 I found 



a pair with two full-grown young on 

 James River. 



686. Canadian Warbler. I just al- 

 most fell over one of these Aug. 22nd, 

 1920 as I went through a small group 

 of oak trees on the edge of my lawn. 

 This is the only one of the kind I have 

 seen here. 



Johnson Neff, 

 Marionville, Mo. 



The Sequel of the Death of a Wander- 

 ing Snowy Owl 

 J. Warren Jacobs 

 This little nine page publication is 

 a poem brought forth by the death of 

 a Snowy Owl, near the home of J. 

 Warren Jacobs, December 9, 1918, 

 and is credible to the author. It is 

 written in truly Jacobs style — R. M. B. 



"Economic Books Received" 



"Economic Value of The Starling in 

 the United States." United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Bull. No. 868 

 Professional Paper January 10, 1921, 

 by E. R. Kalmback and I. N. Gabriel- 

 son. 



This paper consisting of 66 pages 

 contains an exhaustive review of the 

 present status of the Starling in the 

 United States, and all its habits, food, 

 and the conclusion arrived at is that 

 most of the Starling food habits have 

 been demonstrated to be either bene- 

 ficial to man or of a neutral character. 

 Furthermore, it has been found that 

 the time the bird spends in destroying 

 crops, or in molesting other birds is 

 extremely short compared in the end- 

 less hours it spends searching for in- 

 sects or feeding on wild fruits. 



Nevertheless new policies would be 

 warranted which would give the birds 

 absolute protection and afford new re- 

 lief to the farmer, whose crops are 

 threatened by local abundance of 

 this species. — R. M. Barnes. 



