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THE OOLOGIST 



June 4, n-5, incubation commenced. 



June 1, n-4, incubation fresli. 



June 2, n-5, incubation advanced. 



May 24, n-5, incubation fresli. 



May 28, n-3, incubation advanced. 



June 7, n-3 and 1 Cowbird; incuba- 

 tion commenced. 



June 6, n-4, incubation commenced. 



The last extract, June 6, n-4, was 

 collected by Mr. Darlington in 1915 

 and is the last set he ever collected. 

 It rests in my cabinet. 



E. M. Kenworthy. 



Warblers in Northeast Ohio 



As a general thing the Yellow Warb- 

 ler is the first member of the family 

 to arrive in Ashtabula County, but this 

 season he was preceded several days 

 by both the Myrtle and Creeping 

 Warblers. 



They usually come about April 25th 

 but in 1915 did not come until May 

 2nd and in 1916 on May 1st. The Yel- 

 low Warbler usually begins nest build- 

 ing about May 20th making a very 

 neat nest of plant fiber and, down 

 which requires about eight days to 

 complete, and are placed from four to 

 twenty feet up. (At present time I 

 have one in the yard at that height.) 

 Other Warblers I have found nesting 

 in this county are Hooded Golden 

 Wing, (rare), Maryland Yellow 

 Throat, Tennessee (rare), and Blue 

 Winged; also Redstart, Yellow Breast- 

 Chat, Water Thrush, Louisiana Water 

 Thrush and Ovenbird. 



In June 1914 I found the nest of the 

 Blue Winged Warbler containing five 

 young, situated on the ground at the 

 foot of a small thornbush, nest com- 

 posed of dry leaves with the stems up. 

 Several species of Warblers pass 

 through here during migration. In 

 the Spring 1915, lidentified Blue Wing 

 Throated Blue, Black Throated Green, 

 Myrtle, Magnolia, Chestnut sided, Bay 

 Breasted, Black Poll, Blackburnian, 



Pine, Yellow Palm, Prairie, Kentucky, 

 Maryland, Yellow Throat, Yellow 

 Breasted, Chat, Hooded, Wilson, Red- 

 start and Canada. 



In 1916 I failed to see the Prothono- 

 tary but added Northern Parula, Ceru- 

 lean and Kirkland's Warbler which I 

 think is the rarest of the family to be 

 found in this part of Ohio. 



S. V. Wharram. 



Minnesota Binding 

 On July 2, 1916, following plans 

 long made and talked of, we left Red 

 Lake Falls, a small town in North 

 western Minnesota for a day in among 

 the sloughs to the Northwest, a dis- 

 tance of about twenty-five miles. Our 

 auto had all the necessary paraphern- 

 alia well packed in the night before, 

 including of course a couple of good 

 lunches and camping outfit, as we 

 didn't intend to leave the grounds un- 

 til dark. I will say that our town is 

 located on two rivers and amongst a 

 growth of deciduous timber. We are 

 not in the pines, but have a consider- 

 able prairie. But we are after the 

 aquatic fowl and reed birds. They do 

 not build along our streams as the 

 water is too swift to attract them. 



After arriving at our camping 

 grounds in a very unsettled commun- 

 ity where tlie prairie extends for a 

 few miles as level as a house floor, 

 we pitched camp and set out on a 

 section line due west; (there was no 

 roads for this point) where I knew 

 there was a good slough for water 

 birds some two miles distant. On our 

 way we tried to acquaint ourselves 

 with the many field sparrows which 

 kept up a constant flood of song, 

 leading us astray from where the 

 mate might be building its nest; for 

 it was just that time of year when all 

 birds of the fleld were busy. 



The Bob-o-links too, flew high in the 

 air, singing as they went, while the 



