. Bird-lore . en the lastone disappeared. A flock of about a dozen Redpolls fedon a row of tamarack trees in our drive-way from February 22 till March a heavy snowstorm one venture-some fellow appeared at the windowwhere some Chickadees were feeding. On March i, ten American Crossbills,came to a small spruce tree about twenty-five feet from our house, and industriouslyand systematically exhausted the seedsfrom a small crop of cones in the top ofthe tree. What we consider our most wonderful 278 Bird - Lore observation for Ihc year was a Mocking-bird which perched on a vine just beneath
. Bird-lore . en the lastone disappeared. A flock of about a dozen Redpolls fedon a row of tamarack trees in our drive-way from February 22 till March a heavy snowstorm one venture-some fellow appeared at the windowwhere some Chickadees were feeding. On March i, ten American Crossbills,came to a small spruce tree about twenty-five feet from our house, and industriouslyand systematically exhausted the seedsfrom a small crop of cones in the top ofthe tree. What we consider our most wonderful 278 Bird - Lore observation for Ihc year was a Mocking-bird which perched on a vine just beneathour window for some little time, giving usopportunity to make a positive identifi-cation. This was on December 14, March 3, during the big storm, itappeared again, but we have not seen itsince. We believe this is the first recordof a Mockingbird for Sussex County, al-though the members of our nature-studyclub have kept an accurate list for anumber of years.—F. Blanche Hill,Aiidovrr, Sussex Co., N. PARASITIC JAEGER Notes on the Autumn Migration of theParasitic Jaeger During an Atlantic cruise in the NewBedford whaling brig Daisy I made thefollowing notes concerning Jaegers {Stcr-corarius parasiticus), on their autumn mi-gration. September 23, 1912, latitude 12° 46 N.,longitude 25° 05 W. (about 100 milessouth of the Cape Verde Islands). TwoJaegers seen, of which one was collected. The specimen is a male of the dark phase,and in fresh plumage. September 27, 1912, latitude 10° 46 N.,longitude 24° 38 W. Calm, with heavyground-swell. One Jaeger seen and col-lected, a uniformly dark female, fullyadult, with slightly worn central rec-trices. October 3, 1912, latitude 6° 46 N.,longitude 24° 35 W. Two Jaegers of thedark phase seen together. October 20, 1912, latitude 10° 21 S.,longitude 34° 04 W. (off the coast of south-ern Pernambuco). Three Jaegers werenoted. A pair of them tagged after theDaisy from nine oclock in the morninguntil four in the afternoon. One was o
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