THE OOLOGIST. 



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Ruby-throated Eummingbixd, May 9, L2. 



Kingbird, Apr. 27, May :s. 



Crested Flycatcher, May 9, L2. 



Phoebe, Mar. 19, Apr. 7. 



Wood Pewee, Apr. 14. 



I 'rairie Horned Lark, Feb. 7, 8, Mar. 13, 

 May 7, 8, 16, 19, 22, 23. 



American Crow, Feb. 18, 19. 



Bobolink, Apr. 30,- May 3., (all males). 



Cow Birds, A.pr. 6, 14. 



Red-winged Blackbird, Feb. 22, 23. 



Meadow Lark, Feb. 21, 23. 



Orchard Oriole, May 20. 



Baltimore Oriole, Apr. 26, 27. 



Bronzed Grackle, Feb. 29, Mar. 2. 



Purple Finch, Apr. 14, 21. 



American Crossbill, Mar. 13, 17. (flocks, 

 male and female). 



Chipping Sparrow. Mar. 17. 19. 



Song Sparrow, Mar. 9, 14. 



Fox Sparrow, Mar. 31. 



Towhee, Mar. 17, 19. 



Cardinal. Apr. 24, 28. 



Rose-breasted Grosbeak, May 2. 



Indigo Bunting, May 14, 15 



Scarlet Tanager, Apr. 28, 30. 



Purple Martin, Apr. 13. 



Cliff Swallow, Apr. 28. 



Barn Swallow, Apr. 14, 28. 



Tree Swallow, Apr. 28 



Bank Swallow, (Nesting May 6.) 



White-rumped Shrike, Mar. 27. 



Yellow Warbler, Apr. 28, 30. 



Myrtle Warbler, May 19. 



Chestnut-sided Warbler, May 19. 



Bay-breasted Warbler, May 12. 



Black-poll Warbler, May 12. 



Black-burnian Warbler, May 19. 



Maryland Yellow-throat, May 6, 7. 



American Redstart, May G, 7. 



American Fipit, Apr. 21. 



Catbird, Apr. 28, 29. 



Brown Thrasher, Apr. 11, 14. 



House Wren, May 4, 5. 



Brown Creeper, Mar. 31, Apr. 11. 



Golden-crowned Kinglet, Apr. 7, 8. 

 American Robin, Mar. 7, 8. 

 Bluebird, Feb. 18, 21. 

 The birds were somewhat later than 

 usiial this spring. Last spring the Robins 

 arrived, Feb. 14, Bluebirds, Feb. 16, Geese, 



Mar. 7, Crows, Feb. ">, House Wren, Apr. 

 30: and other birds about as much earlier 

 than this year. 



J. 0. S., 



Waterloo. Ind. 



The Bank Swallow. 



These graceful little creatures breed ex- 

 tensively in this locality. On a beautiful 

 June morning I started in company with 

 that indispensable article, the lunch basket, 

 for a number of large banks where I had 

 been informed that the "Sand Martin" 

 bred extensively. 



On reaching these banks I was not dis- 

 appointed. As I approached nearer to 

 them, I could see in some places in the 

 banks such large numbers of holes and 

 birds, that it resembled very much a huge 

 honeycomb alive with bees. 



I immediately went at work collecting 

 what sets I wanted, which was but 5 sets. 

 Although I could have collected a hundred 

 sets. The hole in which this bird nests 

 is excavated by the bird in the perpendicu- 

 lar face of a bank. Their burrows are 

 somewhat similar in construction to those 

 of the Belted Kingfisher, only smaller and 

 more curved; being about four inches in 

 diameter and ranging from one and one- 

 half to four feet deep. The termination 

 is somewhat enlarged, and at the bottom is 

 placed the nest of a few twigs, grasses and 

 feathers. In some cases there is no nest at 

 all, and the eggs are placed at the extrem- 

 ity of the burrow on the sand. The eggs 

 are of a delicate pink hue; three to six; 

 oval ; size about . 74 x . 78. 



These energetic little Swallows took pos- 

 session of these banks above referred to, a 

 few years after they were dug, which was 

 about ten years ago, and have made them 

 their summer residences ever since; and 

 neither do they seem at all disposed to 

 evacuate their homes, although hundreds of 

 their eggs are destroyed annually by the 

 rail road employees who constantly work 

 among them digging away their homes. 



H. E. B., Damariscotta, Me. 



