Identifier: wilsonbulletin281916wils (find matches)
Title: The Wilson bulletin
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Wilson Ornithological Society Wilson Ornithological Club Nebraska Ornithologists' Union
Subjects: Ornithology Birds
Publisher: Columbus, OH : Wilson Ornithological Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e writer can find no reference any-where to their nesting inside a closed building, like the barn swal-lows. A letter received from Dr. Guy C. Rich of Hollywood, California,formerly of Sioux City, Iowa, states that he has found the cliffswallows nesting in the deserted burrows of the sand swallows onthe Big Sioux River at Sioux City. Mud pellets were plasteredabout the entrances and the eggs were observed in the burrows.No record can be found by the writer of any similar nesting. Evi-dently our knowledge of the nesting of the birds is far from com-plete. There is much to learn still. Even an amateur may stum-ble upon some unique or interesting fact. The swallows areparticularly interesting, most species having displayed surnrising General Notes 201 powers of change and adaptation. They are true avian progres-sives. Manley B. Townsend. COMPARATIVE MID-WINTER TEMPERATURES. The diagram shown herewith has been compiled by the U. S.Weather Bureau and represents the average morning tempera-
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r: ot-:<-< siCiH)-, <3: 202 The Wilson Bulletin—No. 97 tures throughout the country during the month of January. Theobservations are the average for a number of years and weretaken at 8 a. m. by the various local weather stations. This chart should prove of interest to students of bird life, inthat it shows what our various winter birds have to contend withand how the isothermal lines fail to follow the lines of latitude.Other conditions, of course, such as topography, wind and foodsupply, enter into the distribution of winter birds, but tempera-ture is the item which is most tangible and of the greatest in-terest. Nashville, Tenn. A. F. Ganiee. The King Eider (Somateria si^ectaMlis) in Summit county, Ohio.I have received from Mr. William Barber Haynes, Akron, the headand neck of an immense King Eider, with the statement from himthat fom- individuals were shot November 14, one of which waspreserved by Mr. Arch Kunzel, of Akron. The one, the head ofwhich was sent to me, was

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