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THE OOLOGIST 



Pennsylvania and New Jersey Nest- 

 ing Dates for 1915. 



190. Bittern, Woodbury, N. J., June 

 5; three nestlings and one rotten egg 

 with dead embyro. 



191. Least Bittern, Bridesburg, Phila- 

 delphia, Pa., May 20; six fresh eggs. 



194. Great Blue Heron, near Woods- 

 town, N. J., April 18; deserted heronry 

 of about thirty nests. 



201. Green Heron, Haddonfield, N. 

 J., May 2; two fresh eggs. 



202. Black-crowned Night Heron, 

 Peermont, N. J., May 30; four fresh 

 eggs. 



208. King Rail, Bridesburg, Pa., 

 June 25; empty nest. 



211. Clapper Rail, Stone Harbor, N. 

 J., May 30; ten fresh eggs. 



212. Virginia Rail, Bridesburg, Pa., 

 June 7; ten highly incubated eggs. 



214. Sora, Bridesburg, Pa., May 24, 

 seven fresh eggs. 



216. Black Rail, Stone Harbor, N. J., 

 May 30; completed nest, bird flushed 

 from it. 



219. Florida Gallinule, Bridesburg, 

 Pa,, May 31; twelve fresh eggs. 



263. Spotted Sandpiper, Camden, N. 

 J., May 22; four highly incubated 

 eggs. 



273. Killdeer, Camden, N. J., May 

 23; empty nest, from which a friend 

 took four eggs on the seventeenth. 



316. Mourning Dove, Jordantown, 

 N. J.,' April 24; two eggs two-thirds in- 

 cubated. 



325. Turkey Vulture, near Woods- 

 town, N. J., April 18; completed nest- 

 ing site. 



339. Red-Shouldered Hawk, near Al- 

 loway, N. J., April 18; completed nest. 



343. Broad-winged Hawk, Haddon- 

 field, N. J., May 15, two fresh eggs. 



360. Sparrow Hawk, National Park, 

 N. J., April 25; five fresh eggs. 



364. Osprey, Cape May Point, N. J., 



May 15; three slightly incubated eggs. 



373. Screech Owl, Jordantown, N. 

 J„ April 24, four highly incubated 

 eggs. 



375. Great Horned Owl, near Woods- 

 town, N. J., April 18; nest (a great 

 Blue Heron's) from which a friend 

 collected a set of eggs in February. 



387. Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Frank- 

 ford, Pa. Several nests in which 

 young were raised, after the breeding 

 season was over. 



388. Black-billed Cuckoo, Chelten- 

 ham, Pa., July 22; one fresh egg. 



390. Belted Kingfisher, Fish House, 

 N. J., May 22; seven nestlings several 

 days old. 



393. Hairy Woodpecker, Holmes- 

 burg, Pa., May 11; young birds heard 

 in an inaccessible nest. 



394c. Northern Downy Woodpecker, 

 Jordantown, N. J., May 2; five fresh 

 eggs. 



406. Red-headed Woodpecker, 

 Frankford, Pa., June 3; new nest 

 stolen by pair of Starlings. 



412a. Northern Flicker, Frankford, 

 Pa., May 23 ; eight half incubated eggs. 



423. Chimney Swift, near Lenola, N. 

 J., June 20; three fresh eggs. 



444. Kingbird, Holmesburg, Pa., 

 June 8, three fresh eggs. 



452. Crested Flycatcher, Woodbury, 

 N. J., June 5; nest started, contained 

 a snake skin. 



456. Phoebe, Bustleton, Pa., April 

 30; five slightly incubated eggs. 



461. Wood Pewee, Bustleton, Juns 

 26; one fresh egg. 



465. Acadian Flycatcher, near Fox 

 Chase, Pa., June 14; three fresh eggs. 



477. Blue Jay, Jordantown, N. J., 

 May 2; six fresh eggs. 



488. Crow, Frankford, Pa., April 20; 

 five fresh eggs. 



490. Fish Crow, Cold Spring, N. J., 

 May 15; five slightly incubated eggs. 



493. Starling, Fox Chase, Pa., April 

 22; five fresh eggs. 



