The Oologist. 





\ t ol. XXXV. No. 6 Albion, N. Y., June 1, 1918. 



Whole No. &71 





Oumesl and Published Monthly, by R. M. Barnes, Album, N. Y. 



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JUNE 



June is pre-eminately the Warbler 

 month. It has been the desire of The 

 Oologist to publish annually a June 

 number devoted almost entirely to 

 this interesting family of birds. How- 

 ever, the supply of copy has not per- 

 mitted us to do so for several years. 

 At the same time we are enabled to 

 present with this issue a number of 

 splendid half-tones, illustrations of 

 the nests of several of these birds, as 

 the result of the liberality of Alfred 

 D. McGrew, a good friend of our little 

 publication. 



We trust that the older oologists 

 and ornithologists will realize that 

 there is now taking place a general 

 re-awakening of interest and enthu- 

 siasm along these lines and that one 

 way to further the same is to increase 

 the usefulness of The Oologist. This 

 can only be done by sending us in- 

 teresting observations which come 

 under their notice in the pursuit of 

 their favorite study. Our friends cer- 

 tainly have been loyal along these 

 lines in the past and we trust will 

 continue so. — Editor. 



NOTES ON BIRDS OBSERVED AT 

 AND NEAR ST. TERESA, JAMES 

 ISLAND. FLORIDA, IN THE 

 SUMMER OF 1901 

 By R. W. Williams 

 Nearly eighteen years have passed 

 since the observations were made up- 

 on which these notes are based. 

 Nevertheless, this fact cannot have 

 diminished whatever of interest there 

 might originally have been in them. 



Indeed, they now have the virtue of 

 antiquity, if nothing else. 



Roughly speaking, James island is 

 a body of land about twenty-five miles 

 in extent and eight miles in breadth, 

 lying at the point of divarication of 

 the Ocklockonee River, in Wakulla 

 County, Florida. Its shores are 

 washed by the Gulf of Mexico and are 

 typical of the Gulf coast region in 

 northern Florida. St. Teresa sits up- 

 on a respectable bluff overlooking the 

 Gulf, and flanks one of the most de- 

 lightful stretches of beach in the 

 northern Gulf coast region of the 

 state. It has long been a summer re- 

 sort for a few of the families of Tal- 

 lahassee, from which it is distant 

 about 30 miles and reached by rail as 

 far as Mclntyre, thence for about 8 

 miles by private conveyance. Its com- 

 parative inaccessibility by land has 

 kept it more or less isolated, and it is 

 still somewhat of a primitive place, 

 inhabited only during portions of the 

 summer. 



The island may be characterized as 

 a pine forest, everywhere interspersed 

 with clusters of saw palmettoes. There 

 are several fresh-water ponds on the 

 island, one very near St. Teresa, and 

 these abound in fish of both edible 

 and non-palatable varieties. Around 

 the edges of these ponds are several 

 kinds of thick, bushy trees, in which 

 I found Louisiana, Snowy and Greal 

 Blue Herons, a few American Egrets, 

 Anhingas, and Wood Ibises. Old nest; 

 indicated that some of the smaller 

 herons had nested there that season, 



I was at St. Teresa from July 20 to 



