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THE OOLOQI8T 



Lake where bird life is plentiful, 

 among which is the White Winged 

 Doves which have nests all around 

 Camp. We drove the Ford under a 

 large live oak moss covered tree, the 

 lower limbs touched the top of the 

 Ford. My partner, Harry Fuller, said 

 "Look at the Humming Bird fighting 

 the Carcara; and to our surprise the 

 Humming Bird's nest with one egg 

 was on an ^verhanginfr limb that 

 touched our Ford top. 



We go from here to Camp Christa', 

 Texas, and will take notes along the 

 way, so will let you hear from us 

 again, 



R. Graham. 



BUZZARDS 



Just a line in regard to "Cathartes 

 Aura." This grand Buzzard is holding 

 its own in this part I think, if any 

 thing gains in numbers a little but as 

 yet there are not very many records of 

 its eggs being taken. Mr. A. A. Wood 

 and myself took a set of one from a 

 large hollow log on the 18th of May 

 last year but it is far a'dvanced. There 



was another set down near , Ont., 



but in chopping open the log both were 

 broken. A pair of young birds were 

 taken in 1918 from the same wood that 

 we found the egg in. Dan McNeill is 

 now in Springbank Park near London, 

 Ont. There were three pairs around, 

 the place where we took the nest and 

 were very tame but this was the only 

 nest we could find, although there 

 were lots of good nesting logs in this 

 vicinity. 



Walter R. Campbell, 



Lobo, Ont. 



TEXAS DUCK MIGRATION NOTES 

 No. 1 



The Ducks arrived from the North 

 on their Southern migration tour and 

 settled on Lake Worth as follows: 



During the first part of October a 



few Wood Ducks was scattered 

 through the timbered part of the lake. 

 Next observed, singles of Scaup and 

 Pintail. In past seasons the first 

 Ducks to show up by the hundreds 

 were Ruddys, but as the little ignorant 

 brats have got shot to pieces, they are 

 not as plentiful as usual. You could 

 expect nothing else. Because they 

 never would fly. Just dive and be shot 

 at every time they come up. I think 

 the captains of what few bunches 

 come in this season must have given 

 flight orders instead of diving. Be- 

 cause mighty few were killed. Next 

 a few small bunches of Red-heads and 

 Canvas-backs. Several large bunches 

 of unidentified Ducks passed over, 

 bound for the Gulf. Canada Geese 

 stopped for short rests. But one bunch 

 that G. E. Maxon got into stopped to 

 rest quite a while as he got six and 

 now they rest in his camps with his 

 private collection of Water-birds. 

 Spoon Bills, mostly females, were ob- 

 served in small bunches. During the 

 la^st part of October, it was surprising 

 to see how pentiful the Ducks were 

 getting. They would come in just 

 ahead of a Norther and depart during 

 the Norther. Hundreds of Scaup 

 Ducks, bunch after bunch, would 

 settle and rest, then leave. Ruddys, 

 Canvas-backs, Red-heads, Teal Mal- 

 lards, Wedgeons and Spoon-bills were 

 well scattered over the lake. As these 

 Ducks peacefully settled on the lake 

 an unwelcome reception was given 

 them. Some went away as they came 

 in good health, but many went away 

 crippled, others stayed dead on the 

 water, never to return to the Norch 

 again, while others may be called 

 lucky and return back North in good 

 health and happy over their daring 

 adventures through the thousands of 

 bullets that they heard throngli the 

 South, 



Ramon Graham, 

 Ft. Worth, Texas, 



