THE OOLOGIST. 



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to be not only the means of genuine 

 pleasure, but health to mind and 

 body, and an open door to the spirit. 

 — Youth's Companion. 



Extracts from My Note Book. 



April 13, 1907, Saw a partially al- 

 bino Robin. It was a male in full 

 plumage but had white primaries in 

 each wing. 



July 14, 1907, Saw a partially al- 

 bino Robin. The neck and breast 

 were flecked with white, the primaries 

 were pure white, the secondaries 

 were edged with white and the back 

 was streaked with white. In the tail 

 next to the outer feathers were two 

 white ones. 



April. 1, 1907. Watched a Wood 

 Pewee bathing for about 5 minutes. 

 It would light on a weed stalk a few 

 feet from the water's edge, fly to the 

 water, hover over it just touching its 

 breast to the surface and then fly 

 back to its perch, preen its feathers 

 and repeat this performance 4 or 5 

 times. 



Apr. 20, 1907. Saw a Flicker woo- 

 ing his mate. Such bowing and scrap- 

 ing, such a display of plumage and 

 such notes I had never heard of be- 

 fore. 



Apr. 21. Saw a couple of Turkey 

 Buzzards flying low over the woods 

 at Rossford. 4 or 5 Crows were fly- 

 ing about them and finally one of the 

 Crows attacked one of the Buzzards 

 always keeping above it and then 

 dropping down on its back. The Buz- 

 zard tried to dodge but was unsuc- 

 cessful and finally got away by ris- 

 ing so high that the Crows either dar- 

 ed not or could not follow. 



Mar. 22. Observed a Blue Jay tear- 

 ing open cocoons and eating the con- 

 tents. 



Apr. 21. Nest of a Bluebird in a 

 deserted Woodpecker's hole 20 feet 



from the ground. Saw an English 

 Sparrow go into the nest, come out, 

 wipe his bill on a branch and then re- 

 turn to the nest. All the while the 

 pair of Bluebirds were hovering about 

 uttering cries of distress, but not dar- 

 ing to attack the intruder. 



April 1, 1907. Saw two Passenger 

 Pigeons. No specimens taken but 

 identified by the glass. 



May 22, 1907. Saw a Cory Least 

 cittern which was taken by Mr. We 

 P. Holton May 25. 



A. C. Reed. 

 Toledo, O. 



The Quail Trap, June 7. — Northers 

 birds "en tour" in southern Connecti- 

 cut returned at the usual time to 

 their summer homes, in spite of the 

 long lingering winter weather. Pine 

 grosbeaks in changing plumage went 

 first, followed by tree sparrows, who 

 outnumbered all the other winter vis- 

 itors. Snow birds were the last to 

 go, many thousand juncos from points 

 further south going through here as 

 late as April 21. Bluejays were never 

 so common before in the cold months 

 and not a family in the neighborhood 

 but had a dozen or more showy jays 

 at the daily backdoor "handout." 



The covey of seven quail on our 

 farm were seen by several people in 

 February and March. We saw their 

 tracks in the late snows many times, 

 and June 1 the males began calling 

 near the bungalow. A bunch of 9 

 quail wintered at Fairview reservoir, 

 and Mr. Al. Lillibridge heard these 

 bobwbites whistle for the first time 

 on the first day of June. Mr. L. E. 

 Rawson saw four females at once in 

 our woods last week, headed by old 

 Red Ruff himself, puffed up in angry 

 expostulation. In the spring Red 

 Ruff often disdains fight at a mere 

 human, and on this interruption with 

 his monstrous black collar stiffly 



