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they were the Long-eared Owl (Asio 

 wilsonianus). 



Late last winter a man brought me 

 an Arctic or Snowy Owl to mount, 

 said he had found it in a fodder shock. 

 This is the first one I have ever heard 

 of in this county. 



Observed the first robin on the 

 morning of March 5, 1918. They are 

 always numerous here. As I am writ- 

 ing this, a Robin is building his nest 

 in an apple tree, not far from the 

 house. 



C. B. Hasenyager. 



course was neither so large nor so 

 deep as the home of that bird. 



S. S, Dickey. 



A Mountain Home of the Parula 

 Warbler 



At Stone Valley which lies in a 

 mountain fastness fourteen miles 

 south of State College, Pennsylvania, 

 I often met with the buzzing Parula 

 Warblers. They selected the dense 

 hemlocks and tall white pines as 

 places of refuge, so that search as one 

 pleased no nests were revealed. 



However, last June while studying 

 wild life in western Huntingdon coun- 

 ty I again was greeted by the queer 

 buzzing notes of these little Warblers. 

 A pair frequently sang in a cluster of 

 hemlocks that grew on a small island 

 out in a mountain stream. It seemed 

 that the birds made regular trips up 

 and down stream, visiting all the trees 

 in regular order. 



Fortunately, while I was wading in 

 the brook searching for salamanders, 

 one of the Warblers flew briskly to a 

 hemlock that leaned out over the 

 water. In this tree the bird dis- 

 appeared among the dense branches; 

 but soon it flew out again and lit in a 

 heap of brush along the streamside. 

 Here it gathered bark strips, then re- 

 visited the leaning hemlock. In a 

 drooping branch I saw the Warbler 

 weaving the material into its partly 

 completed nest. The structure re- 

 sembled an Oriole's abode, but of 



Congratulations, P. M. 



P. M. Silloway, well known to 

 Oologist readers is the father of the 

 young man named in the following 

 clipping. It shows what a bird man's 

 blood will do when given an opportun- 

 ity. 



Private (first class) Ralph Silloway, 

 Battery C, One Hundred and Twenty- 

 fourth Field Artillery (A. S. No. 

 1378997.) For extraordinary heroism 

 in action near Romagne, France, Nov. 

 13, 1918. During heavy enemy shell 

 fire, when the other members of his 

 section were all wounded or engaged 

 in first aid work, Private Silloway 

 alone served his piece and kept it fir- 

 ing. Two days later, when the chief 

 of his section was wounded, Private 

 Silloway took command of the section 

 and followed the barrage. Home ad- 

 dress, P. M. Silloway, father, 404 Fre- 

 donia avenue, Peoria, 111. — Peoria, 111. 

 Journal, 1-15-19. 



Wisconsin Notes, 1918. 

 Nov. 9th we saw near fifty Canada 

 Geese in two flocks, go over toward 

 the south. 



Six well fed cats on one farm did not 

 make the birds plentiful, 000000000. 



Because one Crow steals an exposed 

 egg, all Crows are necessarily bad, so 

 one farmer's wife thinks, and no 

 amount of arguing availed so the poor 

 old Crow, the butt of much abuse is 

 poisoned. 



Migration this season was so quiet 

 and gradual that it was hardly notice- 

 able. 



Many birds about here are chang- 

 ing their nesting places owing to des- 

 trustion of timber and clearing away 



