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be given. If in a tree, state where in 

 tree; if on a horizontal limb near the 

 top or near the ground and how far 

 from trunk or if at the trunk. We 

 want to learn all that is possible 

 concerning the habits and nesting of 

 birds and under this heading is a good 

 place to state them, but don't write on 

 back of data. Always write it as it 

 should be, your signature as to cor- 

 rectness of set. 



And right here I want to say that 

 some collectors make out duplicate 

 dates and send them with sets and re- 

 tain the original datas themselves, this 

 practice should be stopped as it is un- 

 fair to the one that collected the set 

 and also to the one the set is sent to. 



Keep eggs in boxes made square 

 with close fitting lids nearly filled 

 with cotton shaped like a nest. A hole 

 should be cut in the lid nearly the en- 

 tire size of same, allowing sufficient 

 space to fasten on the under side of 

 the lid; a piece of glass or transpar- 

 ent celluloid larger than the hole or 

 as large as the lid, allow a small space 

 on top of lid where the A. O. U. num- 

 ber, name, set mark and county, and 

 state procured, it may be written or 

 printed. These boxes, keep out dust 

 and insects and the fingers of those 

 who delight in picking up eggs while 

 looking over your collection and they 

 are less liable to be broken. Now ar- 

 range your eggs in cabinet so when 

 showing them to anyone you can start 

 with Grebes and keep right on through 

 to Bluebirds. Don't show your eggs 

 in a haphazzard way, use system and 

 keep a journal. 



Turner E. McMullen. 



Hawks' Eggs. 



The collecting season is now ap 

 proaching and we desire to advise our 

 friends engaging in collecting that in 

 our judgment there is no occasion to 

 gather more eggs of the Red-tailed or 

 Red-shouldered Hawk than the collec- 



tor wants for his own personal collec- 

 tion as there is now in existence hun- 

 dreds of eggs of these two species; 

 more than demand calls for. They 

 are a drug on the market and to fur- 

 ther uselessly sacrifice the birds is a 

 mistake. 



Silly. 



The following clipping from t he 

 daily press shows the need of the 

 State of Pennsylvania for a new State 

 Game Commissioner. A man that has 

 no more knowledge of wild life than is 

 disclosed by the following clipping, ap- 

 pearng from the daily press dispatches, 

 should be promptly removed, and 

 someone who had more knowledge ap- 

 pointed in his place. 



Everybody that knows anything, 

 knows that the Robins in the Spring, 

 of course are always plentiful in that 

 part of the country, and it is both use- 

 less and silly to endeavor to work up 

 a scare among the fruit growers over 

 that fact. But the following shows 

 what a lamentable lack of natural his- 

 tory knowledge the State Game Com- 

 missioner of the State of Pennsyl- 

 vania is afflicted with. 



Pittsburg, Pa., April 5. — Speaking to 

 a council of scoutmasters of the Boy 

 Scout movement here last night, John 

 H. Phillips, state game commissioner, 

 sounded a warning from what he 

 termed an invasion of robins. Mr. 

 Phillips said the woods and fields of 

 this entire section were filled with 

 more robins than he had ever seen at 

 this season before and unless mul- 

 berry and other trees were planted to 

 give them food they would attack fruit 

 trees and become an expensive nuis- 

 ance. 



Robins are protected by state law 

 and have rapidly increased, while the 

 trees upon whose fruit they formerly 

 fed, have gradually disappeared as the 

 forests were cut down. 



