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mark for days at a time, and the snow 



fall has been the greatest in years, 



necessitating the use of snow shoes on 



nearly every trip. Last year with its 



mild winter and slight fall of snow 



(the least in years) the list was not 



nearly so great. 



Following is our list from Jan. 1st 



to Feb. 15th: 



Herring Gull 



American Merganser 



Black Duck 



American Golden Eye 



Ruffed Grouse 



Cooper's Hawk 



Red Shouldered Hawk 



Long-eared Owl 



Screech Owl 



Kingfisher 



Hairy Woodpecker 



Downy Woodpecker 



Yellow-bellied Sapsucker (first win- 

 ter record) 



Bluejay 



American Crow 



Red-winged Blackbird (second winter 

 record) 



Rusty Blackbird (first winter record) 



Bronzed Grackle 



Evening Grosbeak (very rare) 



Pine Grosbeak 



Purple Finch 



American Crossbill (rare) 



White-winged Crossbill (rare) 



Redpoll 



American Goldfinch 



Pine Siskin (rare) 



White-throated Sparrow (first winter 

 record) 



Snowfiake 



Tree Sparrow 



Slate-colored Junco 



Cardinal 



Northern Shrike (rare) 



Brown Creeper 



White-breasted Nuthatch 



Red-brr^sted Nuthatch (rare) 

 Chickadee 



Hudsonian Chickadee (a new record 



for here) 

 Golden-crowned Kinglet 

 Robin 

 Song Sparrow 



J. R. McLeod, 

 Feb. 16, 1920. London, Ontario. 



Albino English Sparrow. 



October the fourth G. E. Maxon and 

 myself was driving along the paved 

 pike between Lake Worth and Ft. 

 Worth, Texas, and we saw an English 

 Sparrow that was white all over ex- 

 cept his wings. 



This article should have followed its intro- 

 duction on page 26, second column, of last 

 issue of The Oologist. 



Banker Who Disappeared Found 

 In Florida. 



Wilmington, Del., Jan. 1. — Charles J. 

 Pennock, banker and former state or- 

 nithologist, who disappeared from his 

 home in Kennett Square, Pa., six years 

 ago, has been discovered through his 

 love for birds, which led him to write 

 an article for an ornithological jour- 

 nal under his own name. He was dis- 

 covered living in the forests of Flor- 

 ida, where his only solace in his self- 

 enforced exile was the companionship 

 of his beloved birds. 



He was laboring under the delusion 

 that he must bury himself. 



While he was in Florida he made 

 his home at St. Marks, Fla., and was 

 known as "John Williams." During all 

 this time he continued his intensive 

 study of the birds and this finally led 

 him to write an article on the birds 

 of that vicinity under his assumed 

 name. This led to his discovery. Little 

 did the editor know that his Florida 

 correspondent "John Williams" of the 

 past few years was in reality his old 

 friend, Charles J. Pennock. 



Let us all rejoice in his coming back 

 to us and hope he has entirely re- 

 covered his health and that we may 

 enjoy his contributions to these col- 

 umns in the future as in the past. 



