THE OOLOGIST 



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Fall Migration 



For the last three days beginning 

 Sept. 27, 1918 there has been a con- 

 tinual flight of the Cliff Swallows, 

 from five hundred to a thousand in a 

 bunch. This looks like they have had a 

 prosperous season. I notice a new visi- 

 tor every day from the North, Wood- 

 peckers, Wren, Flickers, Swallows, 

 Ducks and Grebes continue to arrive 

 more and more each day. This ap- 

 pears to me as if we will have an 

 early winter. I also notice that the 

 Coots are late about arriving at the 

 lake. Their season must not have 

 been as prosperous as the Swallows. 

 The Scissor-tail Flycatchers are mak- 

 ing preparation for their southern 

 journey. I have noticed a good many 

 Flycatchers that seem to be strangers 

 from the North. The Herons, Egrets, 

 Gulls and Terns have been on the 

 lake in equal numbers. I have 

 noticed that scarcity of Curlews. I 

 have not observed but two birds this 

 month. 



Ramon Graham, 



1918 New Hampshire Notes 



Below are a few bird notes from 

 Jaffrey, N. H., made during a visit to 

 my old home in 1918. 



Colonies of Cliff Swallows seemed 

 larger and more numerous than in 

 previous years. 



On July 2nd, 1918 I observed a pair 

 of Chestnut-sided Warblers with a 

 family of five young fledgings just 

 outside of the nest. 



Black-throated Green Warblers were 

 observed with young several times. 

 They nest commonly on Monadnock 

 Mountain. 



Ruffed Grouse are getting scarcer 

 but one frequently runs across a 

 female with young. One female had 

 young able to fly on July 3rd. 



Northern Pileated Woodpeckers, 

 which had probably nested were ob- 



served in a certain locality at the 

 base of Monadnock. 



Red-breasted Nuthatches and White- 

 throated Sparrows are regular summer 

 residents on this mountain. 



The Sandpipers began to arrive 

 from the North in August. On Aug- 

 ust 19th, two Pectoral Sandpipers 

 were observed. This species was not 

 an ordinarily migrant at Jaffery. 



Stuart T. Danforth. 

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Whole Flock of Birds Register at 

 Palace Hotel 



When Harry Annan, assistant man- 

 ager of the Palace Hotel, San Fran- 

 cisc looked over the arrivals of the 

 last two days in the hotel office yester- 

 day he gasped and said: 



"Why, look at this! The whole 

 aviary has come to town." 



And so it proved, for there were 

 registered in close proximity the fol- 

 lowing: 



Max Crow, hotel owner of Seattle. 



W. S. Sparrow, of Chicago. 



C. H. Pigeon, Fort Wayne. 

 A. H. Swallow, Los Angeles. 



H. R. Eagle, New York. 



T. B. Crane. 



"I will instruct the catering depart- 

 ment to buy a carload of canary seed," 

 Annan remarked hurrying away. — San 

 Francisco Examiner; W. A. Strong, 

 San Jose, Cal. 



Seeing Birds From a Moving Auto- 

 Mobile In the Alleghany Mountains 

 Riding in a touing car does appeal 

 to but does not satisfy the bird lover 

 who passing over the scenic high- 

 ways catches glimpses of many birds 

 alluring to the real bird man who can- 

 not follow and identify. Certain species 

 can be distinguished by their promi- 

 nent marks, characteristic flight or 

 loud notes but stops and side foot 

 trips on foot are necessary if one is 

 to really see our native birds. Oc- 



