THE OOLOGIST 



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BIRD PICTURES. 



At the headquarters of the Massa- 

 chusetts Audubon Society a;t 66 New- 

 bury St., Boston, Mass., some very 

 nice pictures from Baton's "Birds of 

 New York" are on sale. 



They are from paintings by Mr. L. 

 A, Fuertes, and a set contains one 

 liundred and six separate pictures 

 illustrating in colors all the birds of 

 New York State. Each set is con- 

 tained in a neat cloth-bound portfolio. 

 The size of. the pictures is about six 

 by nine inches. No text accompanies 

 them except an index. I believe the 

 price was originally fifty cents a port- 

 folio but it has been gradually ad- 

 vanced because of the demand for 

 them and was recently one dollar and 

 fifty cents. 



As most of the birds found in New 

 York are also found in the neighbor- 

 ing states, these pictures are valuable 

 to bird students all over the north- 

 eastern part of the United States. 



Two or three different plumages of 

 a species are shown where there is a 

 difference due to age, sex or season, 

 and the pictures are remarkably good. 



In order to illustrate the birds of 

 the state within the space available it 

 was necessary to make the figures of 

 the species much smaller than is 

 really desirable, but nevertheless, it 

 is a note-worthy work, as the figures 

 are very true to life in form, color, 

 attitude and expression, and the gen- 

 eral effect is very artistic, as is al- 

 ways the case with Mr. Fuertes' paint- 

 ings. 1 understand that the supply of 

 these portfolios is rather limited but 

 I hope another edition will be forth- 

 coming after this one is exhausted. I 

 have not seen them on sale in any 

 book store and I doubt if it is com- 

 monly known that they are for sale 

 in this form. 



As an aid to the identification of our 

 birds this portfolio of pictures i^ one 



of the most valuable contributors to 

 ornithology ever published at a mod- 

 erate price. Mr. Fuertes deserves to 

 be congratulated for the well merited 

 success which has attended his efforts 

 to give us accurate bird pictures. 



Horace O. Green. 

 Wakefield, Mass. 



MAY 1916 ORANGE COUNTY, N. Y. 

 NOTES. 



On May 21, 1916— A number of 

 Blackburnian Warblers were noted in 

 Mr. Hill's apple orchard, all trees in 

 bloom. 



On May 24, 1916— Found Yellow 

 Warbler's nest just completed on small 

 bush on bank of pond. 



On May 24, 1916— Went to Fishers 

 Cove found common Wren's nest near- 

 ly completed in dead stub. 



On May 28, 1916 — Flushed a Marsh 

 Hawk from nest in cut grass in 

 swamp south of here. Nest contained 

 six eggs incubation half advanced. 



On May 30, 1916^0ut of seven nests 

 of Black Birds examined, five con- 

 tained punctured eggs. The Grackles 

 certainly were very thorough in this 

 section. 



On June 5, 1916 — Found nest of 

 Phoebe containing six fresh eggs, on 

 rafter in cellar of old mill. Eggs were 

 all speckled. 



On June 15, 1916— Purple Martins 

 nesting under eaves of three story 

 building on Main Street. About 

 twenty-five pair in this Colony. 



On June 18, 1916— Visited Bank 

 Swallow colony at sand pits. Found 

 about twenty pair nesting. Examined 

 nest and set of five eggs of Rough 

 Wing Swallow in same pit. Nest 

 composed of grass, weed stems and 

 feathers, about two and one half feet 

 in Burrow. 



Found nest and three eggs of Cat- 

 bird in thick brush about five feet 

 from ground. Bulky mass of twigs, 



