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which was visited and its eggs found. 

 The Large- billed Water Thrush often 

 wades about in the little woodland 

 pools where he steps as regularly as up- 

 on land. Some of the other warblers 

 have acrobatic terdencies and almost 

 rival that droll fellow, the Chickadee. 

 The Mourning and Prairie Warblers 

 often cling to the bark of the pii e trees 

 and hacg head down. 



The Vireos can hop, but they are 

 very deliberate in their movements and 

 generally step gingerly, and I have re- 

 peatedly seen them step sideways after 

 the manner of a pirrot on a perch. The 

 Cedarbird is much like the Vireos in its 

 foot movements. The Swallows and 

 Swifts are walkers in the little move- 

 ment they accomplish with their feet. 

 If there is a true creeper, in the proper 

 meaning of the term, it is the swift, in 

 truth it is the only one that I have been 

 able to discover. The Ssvift will creep 

 up the side of a chimney, which it is 

 able to do by the use of the sharp spines 

 in its tail; first one foot then the other. 

 The Brown (so-called) Creeper, also 

 uses its tail to assist its movements, 

 and so powerful is this prop that I have 

 known of this bird hanging after being 

 shot dead. The Hummer has been seen 

 to step sideways on its perch, but I 

 doubt if these little fellows ever need to 

 hop or walk. The Crossbills walk in a 

 clumsy way like a parrot when feeding, 

 but progress by hops when occasionally 

 on the ground where they sometimes 

 feed. Many of the Sparrows can run 

 with great swiftness. Who has not 

 seen the Grass Finch scuttle along in 

 the dust on a hot day in August? The 

 Cuckoos walk like the parrots, while 

 the Woodpeckers hop, so-to-speak, 

 progress, by little jumps, aided by the 

 tail. The Bronzed Grackle is a digni- 

 fied walker, the Cowbird and Rusty 

 Blackbird also. 



All the waders and shore birds walk 

 or run ; the smaller ones, as the Plovers 

 and Sandpipers moving with great 



swiftness, while the Herons move se- 

 dately, if not with true dignity. Hawks 

 and Owls move by walking when tempt- 

 ed to this form of locomotion, but I 

 have seen them hop in a most ludicrous 

 and undignified manner. Quails and 

 Grouse walk and never hop. The 

 Ruffed Grouse is the most dignified 

 walker in the woods. 



M. GiBBS, Kalamazoo. Mich. 



Summer Ornitholog'y in Southeastern 

 Massachusetts. 



By Dr. C.C.Purdum and F.P.Drowne. 



Lying at the "heel"' of Cape Cod and 

 at the point where Buzzards Bay and 

 Vineyard Sound join their waters, is the 

 interesting little village of Woods Hole. 

 Once a mere name on a map as far as its 

 importance went, now, thanks to the 

 scientific work of the United States Fish 

 Commission, a great biological center. 



Here are situated the headquarters of 

 the above institution for the hatching of 

 fish in the east, with its yearly output 

 of millions of young lobsters, codfish, 

 flat fish, tantog, etc., and during the 

 summer months the investigation de- 

 partment of the same institution . 



After the establishment of this enter- 

 prise, it was but a short time ere the 

 attention of scientists from all over the 

 world was called to this locality as a 

 point "par excellence" from which to 

 draw their material for investigation. 

 Men of action soon founded here the 

 Marine Biological Laboratory, an insti- 

 tution for the study of marine biology, 

 and since that time it has steadily grown, 

 from a small class in one branch of 

 study, to several hundreds of students 

 interested in all forms of marine life. 



But the article is not designated to set 

 forth the advantages of this little village 

 as a marine biological center, although 

 its surroundings of rapidly running 

 water, many islands and points, its 

 great rise and fall of tide, (facilitating 

 the collecting of many forms of marine 



