. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . world. Learn it right athome by mail, in yourspare time. GET OUR Book FREE It tells all about our school and how we teach thisfine business by mail—and the book Is abso-lutely FREE, Make big profits in your spare your fine trophies. Decorate your iiome with beau-tiful specimens. You will be delighted with our beau-tiful book for it telis you all about taxidermy. Send forthe free *■— today. Northwestern School of Taxidermy ^^ Rex Omaha, Nebraska. Eack Nurrbers of the Oologist Wanted Vol 1,,,7, 8, 10, No. 1. 2
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . world. Learn it right athome by mail, in yourspare time. GET OUR Book FREE It tells all about our school and how we teach thisfine business by mail—and the book Is abso-lutely FREE, Make big profits in your spare your fine trophies. Decorate your iiome with beau-tiful specimens. You will be delighted with our beau-tiful book for it telis you all about taxidermy. Send forthe free *■— today. Northwestern School of Taxidermy ^^ Rex Omaha, Nebraska. Eack Nurrbers of the Oologist Wanted Vol 1,,,7, 8, 10, No. 1. 2. 4. 5, 6. 4. 3. 4, 5, 8. 2, 3, 4 I will buy a large number of each ofthe above back numbers for cash atthe rate they are listed at, as being forsale in this number of THE OOLO-GIST. Address, 12, 1. 13, , 3, 5,10, 11, , 1, , 4, 9. 26, 9. 30 Rowena St. Boston, Mass. R. M. BARNES Lacon, 111. The Oologist. Vol. XXIX. No. 11. Albion, N. Y. Nov. 15, 1912. Whole No. 304 Owned and Published Monthly, by R. M. Barnes, Albion, N. Y., and Lacon, III. Sr n,? I -i o • —• w 370 THE OOLOGIST Early Solitary Sandpipers in Philadel-phia County, Pa. It is well known that the SolitarySandpiper breeds in the mountains ofPennsylvania, and like certain otherbirds of the Canadian fauna of thisstate, it is one of our earliest (if notour first) migrant to appear in thefall—late summer, rather, I shouldsay. Until four years ago I gave theWater Thrush first place, as our firstFall migrant with August 1stas my earliest date of its ap-pearance, but now the Solitary Sand-piper ururps this species, and is theearliest bird of any species occurringhere, to come in the Pall. On July 10, 1908, while hunting fora Florida Gallinule nest in a cat-tailmarch at Port Richmond, PhiladelphiaCounty, Pennsylvania, I observed twoSolitary Sandpipers, which constitutemy earliest record. They were togeth-er on a small bar of mud in themarsh and as tame as all new arrivalsof this species, which is ou
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