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PILEATED WOODPECKER 



The Pileated Woodpecker appears to 

 be breeding only in the lower part of 

 this county. 1 have seen birds in dif 

 f erent parts of the county, and in two 

 instances found cavities made by them. 

 Owing to the fact that the timber is 

 being cut so rapidly these birds will 

 soon be driven entirely out of the 

 county. 



They are known as "Woodcock" and 

 "log cock" in this locality. 



On May 2, 1919, I took a set of four 

 eggs, only slightly incubated. This 

 cavity was sixteen feet from the 

 ground in a dead pine. The entrance 

 was about five inches in diameter and 

 the cavity was about two feet deep. 

 The female bird was flushed from the 

 nest and kept up a continuous calling 

 v/hile I was getting the eggs. The 

 tree fell down, cause unknown unless 

 the base was rotten, a few days later. 



On the same date, and in the same 

 piece of timber, I took a set of three, 

 slightly incubated Red-bellied Wood- 

 pecker, which is rare in the county. 

 It was in the dead top of a twenty 

 foot oak, with a cavity ten inches deep 

 and an entrance two and one half 

 inches in diameter. Both birds were 

 assisting in incubating. 



H. M. Harrison, 

 Camden, N. J. 



MEMORIES 



I was pleased to see the bi-d lists 

 in The Oologist. I have been making 

 out a list of the birds that T have 

 taken personally in the last fifty years. 

 I trust to memory, and I think the list 

 should be longer. 



I shot my first Hawk in the Berk- 

 shire Hills, nearly seventy yeara ago. 

 I collected my first eggs at ulack 

 Hawk, Iowa. At that time there were 

 a thousand birds, where there is one 

 now. There were one hundred species 

 breeding on my egging ground. I 

 think there were four species that I 



did not get. There were seven species 

 of Hawks breeding within five minutes 

 walk of my house, and five sp^iciffS of 

 Owls. The species marked with a star 

 I have collected the eggs of. 



I wish the collector of today could 

 go back fifty years I think the most 

 beautiful Hawks, are the Swallow- 

 tailed Kite, one never tires of watch- 

 ing their flight. Once I saw 2 pair 

 building their nest. We found them 

 in Honduras, but doubt if there is one 

 now even in Iowa. 



Western Grebe* 



Pied-Billed Grebe* la. 



L.ccn la. 



Black Tern la. 



Double-crested Cormorant la. 



American Merganser la. 



Red-breasted Merganser la. 



Hooded Merganser* la. 



Mallard* la. 



Black Duck la. 



Gadwall la. 



Widgeon la. 



Baldpate la. 



Green-winged Teal la. 



Blue-winged Teal la. 



Cinnamon Teal Ore. 



Shoveller la. 



Pintail la. 



Wood Duck* la. 



Redhead la. 



Canvas-back la. 



American Scaup Duck la. 



Buff le-head la. 



Ruddy Duck la. 



Blue Goose la. 



American White-fronted Goose la. 



Canada Goose la. 



White-faced Glossy Ibis Cal. 



American Bittern* la 



Least Bittern* la. 



Great Blue Heron la. 



Green Heron* la. 



Black-crowned Night Heron la. 



King Rail* la. 



Sora* la. 



Yellow Rail I&:. 



Virginia Rail* la. 



Wilson's Phalarope Ore. 



American Avocete Ore. 



Black-necked 



American Woodcock* la. 



Wilson's Snipe la 



Pectoral Sandpiper la. 



Marbled Gotwit la. 



Greater Yellow-legs la. 



Yellow-legs Ja. 



Solitary Sandpiper la. 



