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THE OOLOGIST 



the longest (and often changed) Latin 

 name ever attached to a small bird. 

 These things I find in The Oologist. I 

 wonder which the most scientific o£ 

 Ornithologist would tire of tlie quickest 

 and tosses aside first, Cory's List of 

 West Indian Birds as published in 

 some of the early numbers of the Auk; 

 said article being strong on Latin 

 names, and without the least item on 

 the habits of the birds listed, even 

 though new; or some of the readable 

 articles that appear in The Oologist 

 H. H. Johnson, 

 Pittsfield, Maine. 



BIRDS IN LONDON, ONTARIO 



In the May number of The Oologist 

 a Western writer published a list of 

 names of people in his locality whose 

 names were also the names of birds. 

 As this article both amused and inter- 

 ested me, I glanced over the London 

 City directory, and discovered that we 

 had quite a number of birds living 

 here. As London has long been called 

 the Forest City on account of the large 

 number of trees it contains, it is quite 

 natural that there should be a lot of 

 birds here. Following is the list: 



Bird — fairly common. 



Brant — fairly common. 



Coote — fairly common. 



Crane — rare. 



Crow — fairly common 



Drake — common. 



Duck — rare. 



Finch — common. 



Hawke — rare. 



Heron — fairly common. 



Jaeger — rare. 



Martin — very common. 



Parrott — rare. 



Partridge — fairly common. 



Peacock — fairly common. 



Knott — rare. 



Robins — fairly common. 



Rooke — rare. 



Swan — rather rare. 



Sheldrake — rare. 



Swift — fairly common. 



Sparrowhawk — rare. 



Teale — rare. 



Willett — rare. 



Woodcock — rare. 



I think this is a pretty fair list for a 

 city of only 65,000 inhabitants, particu- 

 larly as we are 25 miles north of Lake 

 Erie, the nearest large body of water. 

 J. R. McLeod, 

 London, Ontario, Canada. 



ROUGHWING SWALLOWS 



In looking over my notes of 1921 I 

 found something which may be of in- 

 terest. I was walking along the high 

 banks of Green River, June 14, when 1 

 saw a large dark swallow dart into a 

 liole in the bank. I sneaked up to the 

 hole (it was about the size of a King- 

 fisher's) and turned my flashlight in 

 and saw her sitting on the nest about 

 three feet back. 1 reached in and 

 pulled her out (thanks to my long 

 arms) and found her a Rough Wing 

 Swallow. I next reached in and pulled 

 the nest out and found it contained 

 eight large white eggs almost twice as 

 large as a Bank Swallow. But as they 

 were badly incubated and tlie shells 

 very thin I only saved four in mjunt- 

 ing them. The nest which I still have 

 is made of corn leaves, husks, etc., 

 which they probably got from an old 

 cornfield across the river. The nest 

 is very large, about four inches across 

 and the inside about an inch deep. 

 This is the largest set of Rough Wing 

 Swallow I know of. 



Bank Swallows are as thick as En^;- 

 lish Sparrows here. You can find them 

 almost any place along the river. I 

 know of one place on the bank of tlie 

 river, take just this one place about 20 

 feet long and 3 feet high contained 40 

 holes and nests. But in amongst all 

 these Bank Swallows, all along the 

 river both ways for miles, I only found 



