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THE OOLOGIST 



494 1-7 Bobolink. May 20, 1900. A. 

 W. Plumb. Rankin, Mich. 



499 1-5 Bicolored Blackbird. May 

 10, 1891. W. A. Strong. Tulare, Cal. 



519 1-6 House Finch. April 17, 1913. 

 W. A. Strong. San Jose, Cal. 



Out of 100 sets of this species I 

 took one set of 6. 



1-7 English Sparrow. April 20, 1915. 

 W. A. Strong. San Jose, Cal. 



617 1-7 Rough-winged Swallow. May 

 30, 1901. J. Claire Wood, Detroit, 

 Mich. 



622 1-7 Loggerhead Shrike. June 

 13, 1893. Louis Whitfield. Tallahas- 

 see, Fla. 



687 1-6 American Redstart. June 6, 

 1889. Wellie Phillips. Red Wing, 

 Minn. 



Out of 65 sets of this species in my 

 possession this is the only set of 6. 



703 1-5 Mockingbird. April 16, 1899. 

 Chas. Harris. Bee Co., Texas. 



704 1-5 Catbird. May 21, 1899. J. 

 Claire Wood. Wayne Co., Mich. 



704 1-5.- Catbird. May 26, 1901. 

 Walter C. Wood. Wayne Co., Mich. 



705 1-5 Brown Thrasher. May 29, 

 1902. J. Claire Wood. Wayne Co., 

 Mich. 



705 1-5 Brown Thrasher. June 1, 

 1879. Raymond Stevens. Pawlet, Vt. 



706 1-5 Sennett's Thrasher. March 

 28, 1900. P. B. Armstrong. Browns- 

 ville, Texas. 



706 1-5 Sennett's Thrasher. April 

 21, 1900. Frank B. Armstrong, 

 Brownville, Texas. 



725 1-7 Long-billed Marsh Wren. 

 June 3, 1902. Walter C. Wood. Wayne 

 Co., Mich. 



761 1-5 American Robin. May 30, 

 1899. J. Claire Wood. Wayne Co., 

 Mich. 



761 1-7 American Robin. April 21, 

 1913. Ottomar Reinecke. Buffalo, N. 

 Y. 



766 1-6 Bluebird. April 21, 1900. 

 Ottomar Reinecke. Farnham, N. Y. 



766 1-6 Bluebird. April 28, 1901. 

 Bradshaw Swales. Rochester, Mich. 



766 1-6 Bluebird. May 1, 1901. H. 

 H. Spicer. Detroit, Mich. 



768 1-6 Mountain Bluebird. May 2, 

 1900. W. S. Hathaway. Silverton, 

 Colo. 



W. A. Strong, 

 San Jose, Cal. 



Delos Hatch 



Writes that he is confined to the 

 house most of the time and in a rock- 

 ing chair and he adds sorrowfully, 

 "do not expect to ever collect any 

 more." We extend to him our sincere 

 sympathy in his misfortune. 



The Trumpeter Swan 



As is well known this the most mag- 

 nificent of all North American birds 

 now on the point of extinction, and 

 the king of the wild fowl of the world 

 is still subject to the brutal persecu- 

 tion of the "fool with the shot gun." 



We recently received a clipping giv- 

 ing an account of the killing of one of 

 these birds in Kansas. Of course it 

 was the only one seen at the time or 

 there would have been more of them 

 killed. Whether the killer was hanged 

 to a tree by his neighbors, as he rich- 

 ly deserved to be, or how he escaped 

 the punishment he so justly deserved 

 for violating the Federal Bird Law, if 

 he did escape it, we are not informed. 



The following article from the New 

 Orleans Picayune of Jan. 18 of this 

 year will be of interest to all bird 

 lovers, though the statement relative 

 to the last birds being seen in 1907 

 and 1915 is not strictly accurate; there 

 still being at least one place known 

 to a few ornihtologists where this bird 

 has nested regularly in very limited 

 numbers for a number of years passed 

 and where it has been accorded strict 

 protection. 



"A pair of very rare trumpeter 



