. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . g Black Bird,reminds me of a similar incident thatoccured last spring. Two youngfriends of mine were driving along aroad that skirts the Brandywine mea-dows. They noticed a Crow flyingvery low and trying to rise with some-thing in its claws. A large rabbit wasfollowing and springing from theground trying to reach the Crow. Their near approach frightened theCrow and it dropped the young rabbit,which escaped in the grass, apparent-ly uninjured. Two years ago I noticed rather anunusual departure of the PurpleCrackle from its usual ha
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . g Black Bird,reminds me of a similar incident thatoccured last spring. Two youngfriends of mine were driving along aroad that skirts the Brandywine mea-dows. They noticed a Crow flyingvery low and trying to rise with some-thing in its claws. A large rabbit wasfollowing and springing from theground trying to reach the Crow. Their near approach frightened theCrow and it dropped the young rabbit,which escaped in the grass, apparent-ly uninjured. Two years ago I noticed rather anunusual departure of the PurpleCrackle from its usual habits. Alarge male that was feeding in themeadow beside the stream, attemptedto seize a good sized Green frog. Af-ter a strenuous tussel the frog escap-ed to the water and was safe. THOMAS. H. JACKSON, West Chester, Pa. BIRD NOTES. .As the season now is substantiallyover, we trust that our subscriberswill divide the pleasure of their sum-mer experience with our readers byfurnishing us many interesting notesfor the coming fall and winter. We 150 THE Wood Thrush above is a half tone of a very remarkable Wood Thrush nest photoed atWest Chester, Pennsylvania, by Thomas H. Jackson, in the Spring of; nest was decorated, as is seen, by strippings of rags and paper, making itnot only a very conspicuous object, but a very beautiful specimen. THE OOLOGIST. 151 have no doubt but that many, manyvery interesting things have beenlearned, and vakiable observationstaken tliis season, and it would be apleasure to publish them if forwardedto us. NOTES FROM WEST CHESTER, PA. Notwithstanding the continued abun-dance of the English Sparrow here, itis interesting to note that our nativebirds are holding their own, and in afew cases are on the increase. We have eight or ten fine coloniesof Martins that are welcomed eachspring, their landlords generally hav-ing their quarters cleaned out of Spar-row nests, and giving them an equalchange with the sparrows. Oftenthey settle
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