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Title: The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lattin, Frank H
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
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s in be-tween. There must have been thousandsand thousands of Grebes in this flightas reports from places between hereand Pittsburgh, one hundred eightymiles south of us by rail and betweenhere and Olean, N. Y., sixty milesabove us all stated that great num-bers of hell divers were seen andmany were shot. Parties who came up from Pitts-burgh that day said that they couldlook out of the car windows any timeand see plenty of Grebes. Here at Warren the shooting sound-ed like a fourth of July celebrationand a large number were killed. AtOil City, Olean and other places agreat many were shot and altogetherthe flight must have suffered severeloss. Some gunners here killed as highas eight and ten at a single dischargeinto the huddled flocks along theshore. There did not seem to be anyflight or increase of land birds at all. Next day but very few were seenand probably most of those seen werewounded birds. Old timers and settlers along theriver tell me they never saw such num- THB OOLOQI8T 211
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Albino Robin at Philo, III., Sept. 7, 1913 —Photo by Isaac E. Hess 212 THB OOLOQI8T bers of hell divers before, althoughyears ago great flights of water-fowloften occurred in April. R. B. Simpson,warren, Pa. above photo, have enabled us to maketwo hitherto unattained records in or-nithology this year, and we have an-other of the same kind and fully asimportant for the January issue. An Albino Robin. I am sending you for THE OOLO-GIST a photograph of an Albino Robin,making its home in Philo this summer.His back and tail is alternate blackand white with an almost pure whitebreast. He chirps and digs earth-worms just as the ordinary Robin buthis relatives seem to regard him withsuspicion. I have had my camera plac-ed for him for three weeks and Sun-day morning after setting focus I wasengaged in entangling my string tosnap the shutter when he splashed infor his morning bath. Imagine myfeelings when I realized the opportun-ity missed because I was not ready.However I scared him out hopi

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