. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . what we call South Mount-ain Reservation, really the south endof Orange mountain, and a. park ofhundreds of acres. I really never sawbirds more plentiful and I have beena bird man since 1867 when I collect-ed my first sets. I never saw so manyRobins anywhere as here; sometimestwo nests in a tree, something I neverknew Robins to do before. In onlyabout ten minutes looking out of mywindow I saw about twenty Robins,twenty-five or more Starlings, twoBlue Jays, one Crow, twelve or moreChimney Swifts, four or five BarnSwallows, twelve o
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . what we call South Mount-ain Reservation, really the south endof Orange mountain, and a. park ofhundreds of acres. I really never sawbirds more plentiful and I have beena bird man since 1867 when I collect-ed my first sets. I never saw so manyRobins anywhere as here; sometimestwo nests in a tree, something I neverknew Robins to do before. In onlyabout ten minutes looking out of mywindow I saw about twenty Robins,twenty-five or more Starlings, twoBlue Jays, one Crow, twelve or moreChimney Swifts, four or five BarnSwallows, twelve or more Eave Swal-lows, one Kingfisher, three ChippingSparrows, two English Sparrows, twoBaltimore Orioles, one Brown Thrash-er, two Crown Blackbirds, one Indigobird, one Red-headed Woodpecker,one Bluebird, and a number of otherstoo far away to identify. The resultis all trees in perfect foliage. Noworm nests, our fruit unsprayed isas good as sprayed fruit twenty milesaway. Foreigners are very far the worstelement in bird slaughter. The small 190 THE OOLOOIST. View of Dead Barn Owl; the place where it fell after being shot —Photo bv C. F. Pahrman tttBJ OOLOGISf 191 boy is not so bad as lie is painted anda little talk with them in the rightway, and they are as keen againstbird killing. As far as I have seenpersonally, conditions are worse inNew England; There I have seenwhole sections and large sections, en-tirely bare of leaves. I have not killeda bird in many years, and not at anytime, except that many years agncovering a full year. I shot and care-fully examined the interior in eachcase of 1100 English Sparrows forProf. Baird then head of the Smith-sonian at Washington, D. C. I learneda lot as to their claims for a quiet know from dear experience what areal game hog is. Many of them willtear down the posting signs then ifcalled to account, swear they saw nosigns and ask you to show them. Tostop all bird shooting, for some yearswould be ideal, but can it be done?Can w
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