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sets of Turkey Vultures' eggs, but he 

 says this egg is different from any 

 other he has ever seen. And I think 

 so too, as I have collected a good 

 many of these eggs myself. 



Instead of the egg having a white- 

 grayish ground color, it is completely 

 obscure, by having thousands of 

 miniature dark brown specks all over 

 the whole egg, both large and small 

 ends. The egg is longer than the 

 usual size. 



PERSONAL 



James B. Carter, formerly of 

 Waynesburg, Pa., and one of the lead- 

 ing ornithologists of that vicinity is 

 now located at 400 8th Ave., Greeley, 

 Colo. 



Gerald A. Abbott, the well-known 

 oologist, has changed his post office 

 address from Grosse Pointe Shores, 

 Michigan, to Birmingham, Michigan. 



A card advise us that our old friend, 

 Delos Hatch, is in the hospital at 

 Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. We are un- 

 advised as to the cause thereof but 

 it must be something serious and we 

 are very sorry to learn it. 



B. S. Bowish writes us that in his 

 article "A Day on Decicheo Island," 

 published in the Oologist for 1900 

 (page 117) the reference there made 

 to the Sooted Tern should be the 

 Noddy Tern. 



S. V. Wharram sends us a printed 

 list of 120 migrating birds reported by 

 him to the Department of Agriculture 

 at Washington for the spring of 1918 

 and in which the comment is made, 

 "The list does not contain any of the 

 earlier residences." He must certainly 

 have been a careful and painstaking 

 observer. 



The Telegraphic News in the daily 

 press contains this statement. 



The Governor of Louisiana has 

 named Walter Guion of Napoleonville 

 to fill the unexpired term of the late 

 Senator Broussard in the U. S. Sen- 

 ate. 



We do not know but assume that 

 this honor has been bestowed upon 

 some relative of our friend, George 

 Seth Guion of Napoleonville, a staunch 

 friend and supporter of the Oologist 

 and an enthusiastic Ornithologist and 

 Oologist collector and hence hasten 

 to express to him our congratulations. 



A letter from Richard C. Harlow of 

 State College, Pa., advises us that his 

 collection now comprises 802 species, 

 sub-species and geographical races of 

 North American birds eggs, there- 

 by ranking among the greater col- 

 lections of the country. It is es- 

 pecially large in series of Raptors, and 

 Warblers. It contains the largest 

 number of personally collected species 

 in the country and also the largest 

 number of varieties of native Pennsyl- 

 vania Warblers personally taken in 

 the state of any collection — 26 species. 



The present year he has succeeded 

 in finding such rare nests as Wood 

 Duck, Woodcock, Northern Pileated 

 Warbler, Sharp-shinned Broad-wing, 

 Cooper and Sparrow Hawk, also Gol- 

 den Wing, Hooded, Canadian, Cerul- 

 ian, Blackburnian, Kentucky and Mag- 

 nolia Warblers. 



Truly a wonderful record for one 

 year ! 



A DAY AFIELD 



On the night of February the nine- 

 teenth, I decided to go on a collecting 

 trip for the eggs of the Barred and 

 Great Horned Owls which I knew 

 would be nesting as they are the first 

 birds in the spring that lay, and also 

 one of the hardest to find as they 



