. Bird lore . n Street and 300 feet onWard Street. The third and last evening,15 men were used, placed about 100 feet apart in the middle of the street. The firstvolley cleared out the whole flock andonly a few scattering birds returned, sothat only a few candles were needed in thesecond volley. As a net final result, about eight dozencandles were used at a total expense ofabout $10 and, at the end of a week, onlya couple of dozen birds are to be foundwhere there were thousands. Some ideaof the number of the birds, and theannoyance caused, may be gathered fromthe fact that people living near o
. Bird lore . n Street and 300 feet onWard Street. The third and last evening,15 men were used, placed about 100 feet apart in the middle of the street. The firstvolley cleared out the whole flock andonly a few scattering birds returned, sothat only a few candles were needed in thesecond volley. As a net final result, about eight dozencandles were used at a total expense ofabout $10 and, at the end of a week, onlya couple of dozen birds are to be foundwhere there were thousands. Some ideaof the number of the birds, and theannoyance caused, may be gathered fromthe fact that people living near one of theworst spots on the street were unable tokeep their windows open on account ofthe filthy condition of the lawn and another lawn, the grass for severalyears, soon after the coming of the birds,looked as if a fire had passed over it. Oneresident says that for the first time inyears he had been saved the trouble ofhiring a man to wash off the walks in themorning.—Lewis W. Ripley, Hartford, A Call-note The Call-note Paid CHIPPING SPARROW AND COWBIRDPhotographed by Arthur A. Allen 25oofe ji^etMg antr Ctebietos; Birds or New York. By Elon HowardEaton. New York State Museum,Memoir 12, Part II. IntroductoryChapters: Birds of Prey to , University of the State of NewYork, 1914. 4to text, pages 1-543;plates. 43-106. With the appearance of the second andconcluding volume of Mr. Eatons mono-graph, the state of New York may justlyclaim to have produced the best and mostelaborate memoir of its kind which hasthus far been published. In a word, thisvolume is a worthy successor of the onewhich preceded it (see a review in Bird-Lore, 1910, p. 118). Higher praise thanthat cannot be asked. The biographical section begins withthe Birds of Prey, on page 61, and, fol-lowing the order of the American Ornithol-ogists Unions Check-List, ends withthe Thrushes, on page 541. The methodof treatments conforms with that ofVolume I and includes some synonyms, thederivatio
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