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Some Bird-Notes from the Magdalens

By HERBERT K. JOB

Author of " Wild Wings " and " Among the Water-Fowl " With photographs from nature by the author

LTHOUGH Bird Rock is undeniably the star attraction on a bird-lover's trip to the rock-bound, spruce-girt, wind-swept Magdalen Islands, there are many other sights of bird-life there which are of absorbing interest. A constant spur to activity is the realization that those marshes, swamps, thickets and stretches of sand conceal many rarities, upon some of which one is liable to stumble at any moment. Putting my hand into an old Flicker's hole, one day, I pulled out a young Saw-whet Owl, which was just about as liable to have been a Richardson's. We pry about among the small spruces and start up Mourning and Magnolia Warblers,

Fox Sparrows, Juncos, Blackpolls, Winter Wrens, Crossbills, Siskins, and the like, and at any time we may chance upon a nest. Though I never happened to run across a Redpoll, my friend, Mr. Callendar, whom I directed there, in the season of 1905, was lucky enough to find a nest of this beautiful bird, and in the same tract of woods which in other years I had searched. The Pigeon