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Northern Parula and the Redstart 

 The former is especially abundant in 

 the orange trees about the house I am 

 living in at Mayagues. Black and 

 White Warblers are also common and 

 •so are Yellow-throated Warblers from 

 the Southern states. I often see 

 Prairie Warblers, and occasionally a 

 Water-thrush. 



Tree Swallows are present in large 

 numbers in December, flying in flocks, 

 but not so compactly as when migrat- 

 ing. 



We have many, many more birds, 

 both as residents and as migrants or 

 winter visitors, but I will tell you of 

 them at a later date. 



Stuart T. Danforth, 

 Mayaguez, Porto Rico. 



A LETTER 



Mr. R. M. Barnes, 



My Dear Sir — I wish to say I find a 

 great difference between bird men and 

 ethers in doing business. I am a 

 widow and find there are so many 

 ready to take advantage of that fact. 

 On the other hand I have been very 

 much encouraged and helped by men 

 like yourself among the men of Bird 

 lovers. No wonder my boy loved to 

 help folks. The dear boy was collect- 

 ing in the Shoal Lake Country in Can- 

 ada and a sudden and severe storm 

 capsized the boat and my dear son 

 and another man were drowned. 



I have disposed of his collection of 

 eggs to the St. Paul Institute. 



Appreciate your kind helpfulness. 

 Mrs. Jane Knox, 

 Jackson, Minn. 



A TRAVELLING WREN'S NEST 



Mr. F. H. Graeper, West Virginia, 

 reports a pair of House Wrens as 

 having built a nest in a grain food 

 hopper, which gradually emptied 

 from the bottom as the chickens ate 

 the food from the food trough, the nest 

 inside settled with it until it reached 



the bottom of the hopper, during all 

 of which time the Wrens were caring 

 for their nest and eggs in this moving 

 house in the ordinary manner. How- 

 ever, as tlie nest reached the bottom 

 of the container tlie chickens had eaten 

 up all of the young Wrens but one. 



ARKANSAS BIRDS 



The following list of birds I have 

 seen in abundance since Jan. 1st 1920 

 to Dec. 6th, 1921. 

 A. O. U. 



132. Mallard. Migrant. 

 144. Wood Duck. Migrant. 

 143. Pintail. Migrant. 



172. Canada Goose. Migrant 



173. Brant. Migrant. 



194. Great Blue Heron. Migrant. 



201. Little Green Heron. Rare resi- 

 dent. 



208. King Rail. One record. 



228. American Woodcock. Migrant. 



263. Spotted Sandpiper Common 

 summer resident. 



289. Bob White. Common resident. 



320. Ground Dove. Common resident. 



325. Turkey Vulture. Resident. 



326. Black Vulture. Resident 

 333. Cooper's Hawk. Resident. 

 337. Red Tailed Hawk Resident. 

 360. Sparrow Hawk. Commo:i sum- 

 mer resident. 



339. Red Shouldered Hawk. Com- 

 mon resident. 



343. Broad Winged Hawk. Cummer 

 resident. 



375. Great Horned Owl Resident. 



373. Screech Owl. Resident. 

 English Sparrow. 



529. Goldfinch. Very common resi- 

 dent. 



558. White Tliroated Sparrow. Ml 

 grant. 



560. Chipping Sparrow. Very com- 

 mon resident. 



563. Field Sparrow. Resident. 



581. Song Sparrow. Summer resi 

 dent. 



