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a large mirror, and one of us took up the task of trying to keep 
a patch of sunlight reflected on the nest, while the other stayed 
by the camera. After a time the parent birds ceased to have 
much fear of the queer looking object set up so near to their 
home, and we finally succeeded in getting this picture of a very 
alert, rather suspicious parent bird just ready to enter with a 
fat green worm. 
After the nestlings had left the nest the twine ball was emp- 
tied, and we were much surprised at the coarseness of the lin- 
ing. The material had evidently been gathered from a nearby 
plum thicket and consisted mostly of stout knotty twigs. Even 
the lining was scarcely any finer and it seemed a very rude home 
for such tiny baby birds. 
July sixteenth an albino robin 
appeared in a bur oak grove 
remained for nearly a week 
feeding about. We saw it fre- 
quently, but saw no color ex- 
cepting the pink of the eyes, 
beak and feet. It had a queer 
habit of standing on one leg, 
altho the leg appeared to be 
normal. It seemed to be con- 
tinually tagging the other rob- 
bins about rather than being a 
member of any flock. We had 
difficulty at first in identifying 
it-as, a robin, altho we were 
sure it was a thrush from its 
shape. We identified it of a surety by its voice and later we saw 
it frequently with other robins. 
A neighbor found a gold-finch’s nest in a tall common 
thistle. The nest was exquisitely made of fibres and lined with 
thistle down. There were five eggs and later five baby birds. The 
thistle plant stood alone in an open pasture field, but the nest, 
built into the heart of the bushy plant was quite well hidden. 
EDGAR EISENSTADT 
BERTHA CRAMER 



Moline 
The fall migration brings to mind the interesting visit we 
had during the entire past winter with a red-headed wood- 
pecker, unusual, too, in that these birds are seldom seen in our 
parts.during the cold winter months. Early last fall this 
brightly colored fellow was busy about two wren houses I had 
placed over the rose trellis just outside the sun room windows 
and which had been without tenants, the echo of his tapping 
reverberating through the house. Thinking he was hammering 
at the house entrance to enlarge it that he might enter I went 
out one Sunday afternoon to investigate and found that not the 
