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NOTES 



In the July number of The Oologist, 

 page 105, General Lew Wallace speaks 

 of clapping his hands and hearing the 

 blackbirds flutter at night. We have 

 a number of evergreens in our front 

 yard and for more than a century they 

 have been a nesting place for the 

 blackbirds. I frequently amuse the 

 children by that stunt. The birds used 

 to bother us by pulling the corn up 

 but in recent years they have not 

 done so. 



Hiram, E. Deats, 

 Flemington, N. J. 



During the early part of the spring 

 I was walking through a field on Wal- 

 nut Hill, a suburb of Petersburg, when 

 I was attracted to a clump of grass. I 

 found a nest of a Grasshopper Spar- 

 row containing four young birds about, 

 I should say, a week old and resting 

 on top of the young sparrows was a 

 field lark egg, perfectly fresh. 



Irving C. Lunsford, 



Petersburg, Va. 



May 6th, 1916 I found a Bluebird 

 nesting in an odd place, which I con- 

 sider verp unusual. Down in a big 

 grassy pasture, there was an old 

 sweet gum tree about ten inches in 

 diameter at the foot, which had been 

 sawed down and was lying flat on the 

 ground. The exposed end had been 

 rotted and decayed back in, about six 

 or eight inches. There in this hollow 

 was a bluebird nest with three eggs, 

 with close measurements this nest was 

 only eight inches from the ground, 

 which is the lowest record I have of 

 this species. 



A Subscriber. 



Ornithologists some times tell us of 

 the migrations of various species of 

 hawks, but only once has been my 

 opportunity to observe such an occur- 

 ence. One fall some ten or twelve 

 years ago, on a day when a hazy 



cloudiness partly shaded the sun, I 

 happened to glance upward and noted 

 a flock of about a dozen red-tailed 

 hawks that circled high above Waynes- 

 burg as they apparently wended their 

 way southward. 



S. S. Dickey, 

 Washington, Pa. 



During the winter of 1916-17 I ob- 

 served Redpolls several times in 

 Philadelphia. 



On December 29, at Frankford, I 

 saw a flock of six birds in edge of an 

 alder thicket; a flock of ten (one adult 

 male) were seen on Feb. 14, at Brides- 

 burg in weeds on the dyke along the 

 Delaware River; on March 15, I was 

 surprised to see a bunch of seven at 

 the former locality, late stayers, prob- 

 ably lingered here this late in the 

 season on account of the late winter. 

 This is the latest I have ever seen the 

 Redpoll here. 



Richard F. Miller. 



April 26, 1918 about 300 white Peli- 

 cans were observed flying over Lake 

 Worth. Also I observed for the first 

 time in four years several Lesser 

 Snow Geese. They were away out in 

 the open waters. I saw them while 

 out motor boating. I was able to get 

 within 200 feet of them before they 

 flew. 



R. Graham, 

 Ft. Worth, Texas. 



On July 23, 1918, Mr. Verlain Damals 

 an egg collector, found the nest of a 

 summer Tanager, and a few remain- 

 ing egg shells. This is to my knowl- 

 edge the first one discovered breeding 

 in Tarrant Co., Texas. The birds 

 have been around camps for two 

 months. Jake Zeitlin a collector had 

 spent the summer trying to locate this 

 nest. The nest was on a over hanging 

 limb of an elm, about twelve feet up. 

 Built of twine string, weeds, seed 

 pods, few leaves, grass and fine straw, 



