. The oist . enumbers in the rice-fields and marshes,and are trapped and cauglit in largequantities, to be sent to the Hotelsin Washington, where they are serv-ed as Rice- or Reed-Birds. If the Bob-olink would not be well protected inour Northern States, they would havebeen exterminated long ago. To myknowledge they have increased in thislocality. From the rice-fields they migrate toSouth America and have been observ-ed south of the Amazon River wherethey again drape themselves in bridal-dress for their return to the UnitedStates where the Bobolink has come, and like the soulof a sweet season,
. The oist . enumbers in the rice-fields and marshes,and are trapped and cauglit in largequantities, to be sent to the Hotelsin Washington, where they are serv-ed as Rice- or Reed-Birds. If the Bob-olink would not be well protected inour Northern States, they would havebeen exterminated long ago. To myknowledge they have increased in thislocality. From the rice-fields they migrate toSouth America and have been observ-ed south of the Amazon River wherethey again drape themselves in bridal-dress for their return to the UnitedStates where the Bobolink has come, and like the soulof a sweet season, vocal in a bird,gurgles in ecstacy we know not June! Dear June! Now God bepraised for June. Ottomar Reinecke. Nesting of the Northern PileatedWoodpecker. Of the various birds found in thePennsylvania forests, none possessesthe attraction for me that the PileatedWoodpecker does. He is at once soreserved, so lordly that his very pres-ence lends an air of nobility to his sur-roundings. THE OOLOGIST 83. Arroyo Largo, Typical Isle of Pines Stream — Photo by A. C. Read. 81 THE OOLOGIST When I arrived at State College,some six years since, I soon discover-ed that the surrounding mountain sideheld many good things but their dist-ance from College and the characterof the country made short trips almostan impossibility. The Woodpeckersseemed limited to the big slashings ofthe mountain country and the timber-ed swamps. Frequently I saw thebirds but the great distance whichthey travel made it exceedingly difRcult to trace them to their homes. Atlast in the spring of 1912, I located apair in March that were drilling a holein a big, dead sugar maple in a densewooded swamp some four miles fromthe College. All during March andApril the female bird could be foundworking at the hole/ while the malekept guard near by and warned herwith his flicker-like calls. About April 20, the female appear-ed to be sitting but I gave her tendays more and when I climbed the treeon April 30, the act
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