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THE OOLOGIST 



We're impressed with the photo of 

 friend Ingersoll — he"s sure a candi- 

 date for our birdmen's Fame Hall. 



We note with delight the unquench- 

 able flame that burns in a soul with 

 "Ye Editor's" name; we owe much to 

 Barnes, conservator, protector, we al- 

 ways shall praise him as the "O's" 

 resurrector. 



Here is Henderson, Harlow and 

 Bailey and Bowles; lovers of nature 

 with Noblemen's souls. Here is Paul 

 Howes and Miller and Andros and 

 Price and as though for one issue 

 these would not suffice, we read of 

 Mcllleney, bird-saviour man and 

 princely Judge Clark of the Plymouth 

 Rock clan. 



Then follows D. Emerson; Ottomar 

 too; I recall friend Reinecke by that 

 name, so will you; and Thomas H. 

 Jackson of West Chester fame and 

 Harry G. Parker, short distance from 

 same; then the name of E. Perry re- 

 minds us you see, of a Perry of old 

 whom we knew as Troup D. 



Now, new names are flashing, re- 

 placing the old; we cordially welcome 

 them into the fold. To the youngsters 

 these musings may need a translator, 

 but they'll quite understand about 

 twenty years later. 



Isaac E. Hess, 



Philo, 111. 



voting our energies more to securing 

 the birds themselves. 



W. E. Clyde Todd, 

 Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa. 



TO BAD 



We have lately had given to us the 

 oological collection of the late Geo. W. 

 Morse. Unfortunately the cabinet 

 containing the same, was shipped to a 

 party here by freight, without proper 

 packing, and you may readily surmise 

 with what results. It made me sick 

 to look at it and see the damage, but 

 even at that there are lots of good 

 sets left, which we are very glad to 

 get for our collection, although, to be 

 sure, we are not doing much with our 

 egg collection at present, but are d,& 



AFTER THE EGGS OF THE 

 PILEATED WOODPECKER 



The Pileated Woodpecker, the larg- 

 est of the Woodpeckers in this coun- 

 try, is one of the most beautiful of the 

 woodpecker family. These birds are 

 permanent residents in East Texas, 

 never migrating except in extremely 

 cold weather and then only for a short 

 time. The principal food of this 

 woodpecker is borers, and other in- 

 sects harmful to forest trees; they 

 usually feed early in the morning and 

 at this time they are very noisy, and 

 their "hammering" can be heard from 

 a great distance. 



In February 1913 I saw my first 

 Pileated Woodpecker and during 

 March and April I saw eighteen of 

 them. About the last of March I 

 started out, determined to collect a 

 set of their eggs. Two days out of 

 every week I would spend in the 

 woods watching them and trying to 

 follow them in their nests. When one 

 would fly to a large dead tree and go 

 in a hole, I would sometimes spend 

 hours reaching it and would invariably 

 find it to be a false nest or. a "trap." 

 Again in 1914 I was out, early in 

 March, trying to find the nest of these 

 birds but met with the same failure 

 as in 1913. 



On April 9, 1915, I was out trying 

 to find the nests of the Red-shafted 

 Flicker which I knew was, nesting in 

 this vicinity, when, on "tapping" a 

 large dead pine tree in a newly cleared 

 field, a Pileated Woodpecker flew out 

 and lit in a near by tree and began to 

 call loudly. Her cries were soon 

 answered by those of her mate who 

 was soon with her and together they 

 made the woods ring with their loud 



