THE OOLOGIST 



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Clapper Rail. Photo by E. P. Willard, Wellington, N. C. 



railroad tracks which follow the Hous- 

 atome River and the following birds 

 were seen: Herring Gulls could be 

 seen at any time flying over the river; 

 also a flock of seven ducks too far 

 away to tell what kind. Then as we 

 left the track and was about to cross 

 a plowed field, we flushed a Solitary 

 Sandpiper. Now the birds of Connect- 

 icut gives the earliest record as April 

 27th, so this is five weeks earlier than 

 any previous record. A little later as 

 we were crossing a field that was 

 thick with weed stalks up flew four 



Mourning Doves. The birds of Con- 

 necticut gives March 18th, the same 

 as my record. We looked up and a 

 Red Shouldered Hawk was seen sail- 

 ing around and around; also a Sharp- 

 shinned was seen perched on the cross 

 arm of a telephone pole. Crows were 

 abundant at all times. Starlings were 

 quite plentiful and as they flew over 

 they looked like black diamonds. 

 Their tails being ratljer short and their 

 wings quite long gives them that ap- 

 pearance. 



We followed along the tracks and 



