The Oologist. 



Vol. XXIII. No. 7. 



Albion, N. Y., July, 1906. 



Whole No. 228 



THE OOLOGIST, 



A Monthly Publication Devoted to 

 OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXI- 

 DERMY. 

 FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, 

 ALBION, N. Y. 

 ERNEST H. SHORT, Editor and Manager. 



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ERNEST H. SHORT, Editor and Manager, 

 Chili, Monroe Co.. N. Y. 



From Santa Rosa. 



No doubt you have heard of the ca- 

 lamity that befell Santa Rosa and San 

 Francisco, by this time, and would 

 say that I am one of the sufferers 

 from Santa Rosa, having lost my busi- 



ness and compelled to go back to my 

 trade, carpentering. One never 

 knows how the best laid plans will 

 terminate. The earthquake was on 

 April 18th, Wednesday, and on the 

 following Tuesday, I had planned to 

 go to Lake County, Cal., or to Cleai- 

 Lake, in Lake County, for a month's 

 collecting, but instead of a month's 

 collecting and camping trip I have 

 been hard at work ever since the 18th. 

 For the first week helping get out the 

 killed, and after that at my trade. 

 When the store burned, I lost besides 

 the store a quantity of stamps, one- 

 half dozen books of Natural History, 

 my collection being at home. As it 

 is, I have done very little collecting 

 this season. On May 20th, I made a 

 trip down Santa Rosa Creek; found 

 a nest of western flycatcher on the 

 trunk of a large willow that had part- 

 ly fallen over the water until it was 

 nearly horizontal. The nest was on 

 top side of the trunk, 5 feet above the 

 water, and contained 2 eg~s, so left 

 it intending to come back for it when 

 set was complete. 



Farther on I found a set of 4 of 

 Salt Marsh Yellcw-throat in vines 

 and weeds on bank of creek, the eggs 

 so far incubated that I left them. 

 Still farther down I found another set 

 of Western Flycatcher in creek bot- 

 tom. 8 feet up from ground set on 

 en 1 cf a willow stump that had been 

 broken square off and splintered on 

 south side for 12 inches higher. This 

 set was of 4 eggs, incubation slight. 

 About 40 feet from this place I found 

 a set of 4 Long-tailed Chat which I 

 took; next, another set of Western 



