. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . ter fowl that pass-ed down the river; without doubt, aheavier migration than has been seenat any one time for a great manyyears in these parts. The number ofwild geese passing was out of all pro-portion to that of former years. Astray Notice. One of the very rarest birds that wehave, a male Blue Goose, decamped ashort time ago. He first rose up andflew about half a mile southeast of thepen in which we have them an assistant we went out andaround him, attempting to drive himback towards the pasture. By thistine he a
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . ter fowl that pass-ed down the river; without doubt, aheavier migration than has been seenat any one time for a great manyyears in these parts. The number ofwild geese passing was out of all pro-portion to that of former years. Astray Notice. One of the very rarest birds that wehave, a male Blue Goose, decamped ashort time ago. He first rose up andflew about half a mile southeast of thepen in which we have them an assistant we went out andaround him, attempting to drive himback towards the pasture. By thistine he appeared thoroughly could not approach closer than acouple of hundred yards of him whenhe rose up with a squawk and sailedoff south, and since we have not seenhim, although it is reported that hestayed along the river in front of La-con for several weeks, consorting withvarious flocks of wild ducks, and tameducks and geese. Through son:e oversight, we hadlailed to i inion him, and did not no-tice the fart until he was flying allaround. 172 THE OOLOGIST. No. 114—Accidental Death of a Starling —Photo by P. G. Howes THE OOLOGIBT 178 Accidental Death of a Starling. (Sturnus vulgaris) On the 4th of October of the presentyear, I was walking close to a smallpond near my home. A stone wallleads to its edge from the high pas-ture land on the south, and in the cen-ter of this wall there is a large woodengate. From one of the gate postshung a lifeless Starling with one ofits legs caught in a large deep unfortunate bird had evidentlyalighted on the rounded top of thepost and its foot had then slipped intothe crevice. Panic stricken, it hadmade vain efforts to free itself, suc-ceeding only in wedging its limb morefirmly into the crack and soon expir-ing from its internal injuries receivedwhile struggling. As I was about to remove the birdfrom its trap, a drop of opake-green-ish liquid oozed out between its man-dibles and dropped to the it landed on a
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