Wile0: Cycle 
                                                          T. Va. 
 
 
Extract from General Notes, Wilson Bulletin, December, 1934, p. 259. 
 
 
   --n e of the interesting 
features of Bir-Lre's Christ     BirdCensus for 1933 (Bird Lore, Jan.-Feb.,

1934) was the scarcit of observations of the  astern  osha*      ur 
al              i). In view of the fact that the seven-year cycle 
since the great g    w  flight of 1926-27 was completed during the 1933-34

season, this eemed nteorthy, and it m     be of interest to record that 
West Virginia did have an extended gosha* flight during the latter season.

     For TAuroses of comparlson, I quote from my 1926-27 notes on this species:

     "lirst observed on November 2, 1926, when a neighbor moman hot
a female 
gosha* vhile it was raidin her flock of chickens. Thing Novebr and 
December, 1926, een dead specins cmder my observation, all tn in 
Upsmr Coun, West Virginia. I observed the species almost every 4a, 
specimens being taken in Lewis, Harrison, Darbour, and Monongalia counties,

and seen in a ntber of others. Three were captured alive by state trappers

in pole traps at French Creek. One individual attaed a till-grown Wild 
Tarkey at the State Game Parm at French Creek. The species was comon 
the winter, and was last seen on March 20, 1927." 
     Notes for 1933-34 smiar-ize as follows: 
     g   st observed near top of Cranberry Mountain, Pocawhntas Count, October

15, 1933. Two individuals seen that da, one flying over Bit Glade (Wilson

Bllet in, Marc, 19314, page 65). One seen at French Creek, Upshur County,

October 17. A dead specimen brought in by one of my students on October 20.

Fairly comnn in Upihaw County during 'ovember and Deocember, Individuals

seen In Barbour and Harrison Counties. Species not seen duiring January and

February, but an individual observed .-far 7, at French Creek, Seen in 
Upihur County, March 9, 13, 14, 16. 20. 23, and 29, and April 2; the latter

being last one seen.* 
     From these notes it W be seen that during the normal winter of 1926-27

the birds wintered in Central West Virginia, but that dariAg the excessively

cold 1933-34 winter they moved out, presumably farther scuth, since the 
reappeared in March. Rot nearly so ma    inWividuals were seen daring the

latter flight as during the former, nor were so mua poultry depredations

reported. Thre was, however, a large 1933-34 flight in Central West Virginia,

more individuals being seez than in all the intervening years since 1926-27.-

Mauirice Brooks, French Creek, W. Va*