. The oist . ned underField Notes, the great scarcity ofBluebirds in the Delaware then and in fact ever since thefirst of last year, on all of my trampsthrough woods and fields, along can-als and streams, both on the Pennsyl-vania and Jersey sides of the Dela-ware, my one thought has been,Where are the Bluebirds? Sunday morning, December Sthbeamed on us bright and clear with atemperature of about 40 degrees, andat 11 oclock as I had completed myusual morning tramp along the Riverroad and just as I was passing underthe new Philadelphia and ReadingRailroad bridge located just a litt
. The oist . ned underField Notes, the great scarcity ofBluebirds in the Delaware then and in fact ever since thefirst of last year, on all of my trampsthrough woods and fields, along can-als and streams, both on the Pennsyl-vania and Jersey sides of the Dela-ware, my one thought has been,Where are the Bluebirds? Sunday morning, December Sthbeamed on us bright and clear with atemperature of about 40 degrees, andat 11 oclock as I had completed myusual morning tramp along the Riverroad and just as I was passing underthe new Philadelphia and ReadingRailroad bridge located just a littleeast of the foot bridge that crossesthe Delaware at Yardley, Pa., mythoughts at the time lamenting thefact of not having seen a single birdall morning, my attention was sudden-ly attracted to a small flock of Blue-birds, roving about in the tops of twoor three trees along the side of theroad and bobbing in and out of theholes in the top part of the trunks. As my eyes feasted on this sight, a THE OOLOGIST 47. Series of Six Sets of Eggs of Escondido Golden Eagle 48 THE OOLOGIST sight which I liad long been wishingfor, it seemed to bespeal\: the truth ofthat old biblical saying Seek and yeshall find, and with a long stroke ofmy pencil I jotted down in my notebook these seven roving minstrelswith a feeling of great satisfaction. Sunday, December 22d, weatherclear and temperature about 28 de-grees, found me back at the samespot for it occurred to me that theymight be wintering in this locality. Mysupposition was correct, for on thismemorial morning, five of these littlestrangers of the year were carefullymarked down in note book. William M. , X. .J. Nesting of the Prairie Horned LarkIn Southern Pennsylvania.(Otocoris alpestris praticola)I wished very much to secure thenest and eggs of the Prairie HornedLark, so late in March, 1908, I set outon a tramp to a high ridge north oftown. Here I had frequently seen thelarks feeding, and had often flushedthem from the ground.
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