THE OOLOQI8T 



29 



BIRD NOTES FROM HARTFORD, 

 CONNECTICUT 



Oct. 8, 1921. Snow Bunting. 23 in 

 the brown plumage rarely seen in 

 Conn, that early in the season. 



Oct. 12, 1921. Four Northern Ravens 

 extremely rare in Central Conn. 



Nov. 12, 1921. Herring Gull One 

 on Nov. 16. 



Field Sparrows and Slate-colored 

 Juncos seen all winter. 



Dec. 14, 1921. One Rough-legged 

 Hawk, in black plumage, rare. 



Dec. 26, 1921. Six Pine Grosbeaks. 

 Many years ago they were common 

 every winter. 



Jan 25, 1922. 26 Evening Gros- 

 beaks. Rare visitors in Central Con- 

 necticut. 



Jan. 26. One Red-shouldered Hawk. 



Jan. 30. 16 Goldfinches and one 

 Northern Shrike. 



Clifford M. Case, 

 Hartford, Conn. 



STILL AT IT! 



We are in receipt of a letter signed 

 by one Joseph F. Honecker, written on 

 a letter head embellished with a cut 

 of a Bald Eagle's nest, shaped very 

 much like a soup bowl and on which 

 is emblazoned the fact that the pro- 

 prietor has "the finest private Natural 

 History Museum in the West" (though 

 the return card on the envelope quali- 

 fies it as) "The finest of its kind in 

 the West," in which we are advised 

 that the proprietor of this institution 

 desires certain specimens and applies 

 to us for the same! This calls to mind 

 a letter under date of Jan. 13th, 1922 

 from Edwin C. Davis, one of the most 

 noted of the old time oologists in the 

 South and formerly publisher of "The 

 Sunny South Oologist," in which he 

 says : 



"I was very much interested in an 

 article on page 119, Sept. 1921, The 

 Oologist, entitled, 'More Honecker 

 Frauds.' I was surprised this man 



Vi^as still defrauding the collectors with 

 bogus Ivory Billed Woodpeckers' eggs 

 About thirty-five years ago he offered 

 me a few of these eggs which he 

 claimed to be taken from a tall pine 

 tree on the edge of Harriet Beecher 

 Stowe's farm in Flordia, and he offered 

 them so cheap (in exchange) thiat I 

 induced him to send me nine eggs at 

 $2.00 each, which afterwards proved 

 to be Pigeons' eggs." 



We hardly think we will send Hon- 

 ecker the specimens he asgs us for! 



R. M. Barnes. 



IVORY BILLED WOODPECKERS' 

 EGGS 



I have bought a set of Ivory-billed 

 Woodpeckers, with nesting stub, which 

 formerly belonged to the late John 

 Lewis CLilds. 



A description of the taking of this 

 nest was in The Warbler, Vol. I, 1905, 

 Page 52, No. 2. 



I thought it might be of some in- 

 terest to Oologists to know where tliia 

 set is. 



John E. Thayer, 

 Lancaster, Mass. 



OIL-RICHES 



Our old friend. Dr. W. S. Strode, ol 

 Lewlston, Illinois, has recently struck 

 oil, became rich, joined the leisure 

 class, moved to Hollywood, California; 

 upon all of which we congratulate 

 him, and commend him to our Cali- 

 fornia bird acquaintances, as a most 

 desirable addition. 



R. M. Barnes. 



A Blue Winged Teal Duck that had 

 been trapped and banded on Lake Eca- 

 gog, Ontario, has been killed near Port 

 of Spain, Trinidad Island, in the Carrib- 

 bean Sea, two thousand five hundred 

 miles distant. 



