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NATURAL HISTORY
THE OOLOGIST,
FOR THE STUDENT OF
BIRDS, THEIR NESTS AND EGGS.
VOLUME XVIII
ALBION. N. Y.:
FRANK H. L ATT IN, M. D., PUBLISHEB.
1901.
A. M. EDDY.
PRINTER AND BINDER.
INDEX TO VOL. XVIII.
Alaska Notes, -172
Albino Eggs of Sialia sialis 121
Albinoes, More- 43
Bird Life of a Virginia Island, 118
Bird Music, 8, 24
Bird Notes from California, Winter 10
Birds Capture Their Prey, How Some. .101, 122,
137, 153
Birds of Michigan and Their Protection, The
21
Birds of South Jersey, Notes on Two 106
Bittern, American 103
Bittern Observed in Pennsylvania, Least 44
Blackbird, Red-winged. 38, 43
Bluebird, _ 38, 181
Bobolink, - ..9
Bob-white, 44, 106
Books, New 107, 141
Bush-tit, California 11
California, Winter Bird Notes from 10
California, Western Red-tailed Hawk in Orange
County, _ 69
"Canadian Birds" By J. Macoun: A Review,- .44
Catbird, The Food Supply of the 149
Caustic Potash 90, 122, 151
Concerning Data, _ 140
Consideration, A 88
Cowbird, 39
Chickadee, Black-capped 39, 43
Crane, Little Brown 139
Crow, American 54
Crow, Fish 106
Creeper, Brown ■. 42, 154
Cuckoo, Black-billed 122.153
Cuckoo's 24
Data, Concerning 140
Dove, Mourning 39
Duck, Wood 21, 39
Eggs, Packing for Shipment 40
Eggs, Use of Caustic Potash for Incubated
- 90, 122, 151
Eggs, Use of Pancreation on Incubated... 122, 151
Finch, Purple 38
Flicker, .123
Flycatcher, Great Crested 138
Food Supply, Baltimore Oriole 134
Food Supply, Brown Thrasher i86
Food Supply, Catbird 149
Food Supply Mockingbird i87
Food Supply, House Wren. 170
Gleanings from My Notebook, 37, 59, 71
Goldfinch, American- 42
Grackle, Bronzed 39
Grosbeak, Evening 106
Grosbeak, Pine- 42
Grouse. Oregon Ruffed 63
Grouse, Pinnated _ 106
Grouse, Ruffed 42
Grouse, Sooty 63
Gull, American Herring. 37
Gull, Laughing ng
Hawk, Cooper's 12, 184
Hawk, Duck- 139
Hawk, European Sparrow 26
Hawk, Harlan's 71
Hawk in Central Illinois, The Red-tailed .61
Hawk, Krider's 27 41
Hawk, Nesting of the Broad-winged 5
Hawk, Red-shouldered, _ 12. 40, 59, 71
Hawk, Red-tailed 26, 40, 59, 71, 153
Hawk, Swainson's 42
Hawk, Western Red-tailed 69
Heron, Great Blue 104, 153
How Some Birds Capture their Prey,. .101, 1S2,
137,153
Hummingbird, Broad-tailed Nesting Habits of
tbe _ 133
Hummingbird, Calliope igg
Hummingbird, Ruby-throated 73, 138
Illinois, The Red-tailed Hawk in Central 61
Iowa Notes _ 73
Incubated Eggs, Preparing for Cabinet 90,122,151
Jottings,. 139
Junco, Slate colored _ 39
Junior World's Exposition, 140, 143
Kildeer,- 33
Kingbird 138, 139
Kingfisher, Belted 123
Lark, Homed 38
Loxgilla portoricensis , _ 74
Maine, Warblers found Breeding in Liver-
more _i8i
Index.
THE OOLOGIST.
Mallard 39
Manitoba, Field Notes from...... 26,41
Maternal Solicitude. An Example of 18S
Merlin, 26
Michigan, The Aceipter Cooperii in Wayne and
Oakland counties, 184
Michigan, The Birds o<— and Their Protection
21
Mockingbird, -11
Music, Bird 8, 24
Nests, The Use of Old 12
Nests, Some Twice Occupied- 120, 136
Nesting Habits of the Broad-tailed Humming-
bird, - 133
Nesting of the Broad-winged Hawk, 5
Nesting Sites of ilfe;o»pi2;a/ascia^a,unusual.l22
Nesting, Queer 62
New Jersey, Notes on Two Birds of South 106
Nighthawk 138
Notes, Iowa 73
Notes on Two Birds of South Jersey, 106
Nuthatch, Red-breasted _ 43
Nuthatch, White-breasted 43
Oologlat? Who is an 53
Oriole, The Food Supply of The Baltimore.. 134
Osprey, American 102, 107
Oven-bird, 8, 73, 183
Owl, Barred 12
Owl, A Handsome Little 85
Owl, Great Horned 122
Owl, The Spotted 165
Owl, Western Horned 27, 86, 155, 167
Oystercatcher, American 119
Pan-American Notes 75, 90, 125, 142
Pancreatin on Incubated Eggs, Use of--122, 151
Partridge, Mountain 62
Pelican, Brown 102
Pennsylvania, Least Bittern Observed in 44
Pheasant, Ring 62
Phoebe, 39
Pigeon, Passenger 117
Pipit, American 11
Plover, Wilscm's 119
Rail, Clapper 118
Redstart, American 153, 184
Robin, American 38, 44, 154
Robin, Western 10
Sapsucker. Yellow-bellied 123
Sets, Two Odd 54
Shrike, Great Northern 37,42, 154
Shrike White-rumped 8
Skimmer, Black 119
Snowfiake, 42
Surprises. Some 153
Sparrow, Chipping .84
Sparrow, English. 43
Sparrow, Golden-crowned II
Sparrow, Intermediate II
Sparrow, Seaside 119
Sparrow, Song 37, 42, 132
Sparrow, Vesper 9
Sparrow, White-crowned 11
Swallow, Rough-wing 153
Swallow Tree 39
Swift, Chimney 138
Tern, Common 119
Tern, Forster's 118,
Tern, Gull-billed 130
Thrush, Dwarf Hermit 10
Thrush, Varied ..10
Timely and to the Point .40
Trogon, Coppery-tailed .171
Twice Occupied Nests and Other Notes, Some
120, 136
Unusual Nesting Sites of Melospiza fasciata 122
Vireo, Warbling .35
Virginia Island, Bird Life of a ..118
Vulture, The Turkey 87
Warbler. Audubon's 10
Warbler, Black and White 181
Warbler, Blackburnian 182 183
Warbler, Black-throated Green 183
Warbler, Cape May 139
Warbler, Chestnut-sided 183
Warbler, Canadian 184
Warbler, Hoover's -10
Warbler, Magnolia 182
Warbler, Myrtle 182
Warbler, Nashville 181
Warbler, Northern Parula 181
Warbler, Pine 183
Warbler, Yellow 182
Warblers Found Breeding in Livermore,
Maine 181
Waxwing, Cedar 11, 154
Wisconsin Hash .105
Whip-poor-will, 72, 138
Woodpecker, Golden- winged (Flicker), 123
Woodpecker, Yellow-bellied (Sapsucker) 123
Wren, House 105
Wren, The Food Supply of the House .170
Yellow-legs 43
Yellow-throat, Maryland 72, 184
The Oologist.
A MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO
OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY.
VOL. XVIII. NO. 1.
ALBION, N. Y., JAN., 1901.
Whole No. 172
Wants, Exchanges, and For Sales.
Brief special announcements, "Wants,' "Exchanges" "For Sales," lnsert;ed In tills departmect
f oj 25c per 25 words. Notices over 25 words, charged at the rate of one-half cent per each additional
word. No notice Inserted for less than 25c. Terms, cash with order.
Strictly First-class specimens will be accepted In payment at one-third list rates.
W^hat's Your Number?
Examine the number following your name
on the wrapper of this month's Oologist. It
denotes when your subscription expired or
will expire.
No. 172 your subscription expires with this issue
175 " " " " Apr., 1901
180 " " " " Sept., '•
184 " '• " " Dec, "
Intermediate numbers can easily be deter-
mined. If we have you credited wrong we
wish to rectify.
A RARE BARGAIN!— One fine buffalo over-
coat, price SlOO.Oa J. W. PRESTON, Baxter,
Iowa.
1 WILL PAY CASH for heavy marked sets
of Red-shouldered and Red-tailPd Hawks. If
you have such send description and state price
wanted. H. C. HIGGINS, Cincinnatus, N. Y.
FOR SALE.— Ginseng Seed, the coming
money maker, also for exchange Al sets 194,
197, 326. 339, 428, 491 and many others. Send for
list. J B. HINE, East Onondaga, N. Y.
WANTED.— Fisher's Hawks and Owls of N.
A. (illustrated) for cash, also some back Nos.
of Osprey and Nidologist. What have you'^
J. MERTON SWAIN, Waterville, Maine.
FOR EXCHANGE.— Complete file Natural
Science News, 66 copies; 2 Columbian half
dollars; 12 back Nos. Osprey; Vols. I, II, III,
Museum; 1 Bristol Steel Trolling Rod, never
used but twice. Wanted birds eggs In sets
with complete data. ERNEST L HALEY,
Rangeley Maine.
WANTED AT ONCE.— Osprey Vol. I, Nos.
2, 4; Nidologist Vol. I, Nos. 2, 4. 6; Ornitholo-
gist Vol. I, No. 6; Oregon Natvu-alist Vol. I,
Nos S, 3, 4; Museum, all Vol. VI; Iowa Orni-
thologist, Vol. I, Nos. 1 and 4: Vol. II, No. 1;
Vol. IV, Nos. 1, 3 and 4; Popular Science News
Vol. 32, Nos. 1, 2 and U; Midland Monthly, June
and August, '97, and many others. Will give
cash or good exchange in sets and singles or
books such as "Tenney's Zoology," "Dana's
Geology," etc. ALBERT F. GANIER, Bow-
mar Ave., Vlcksburg, Miss.
CHOICE SETS of 499, 581c, 591b and 519 to ex-
change for common Eastern sets. Want five
or six sets of each species. Lattin's list used.
J. S. APPLETON, Simi, Ventura Co., Cal.
SNAP!— High scoring, pedigreed, Belgian
Hare, doe, to exchange for best offer of eggs,
skins, mounted birds or curios. South Dakota
sets for sets and singles. H. E. Lee. Bryant,
S. D.
MANY FINE EGGS of this locality, such as
Hawks, Owls, Vireos, Flycatchers, Wrens and
others to exchange for eggs not in my collec-
tion. I will have on hand a great many eggs,
both sets and singles, this coming season. All
egg.s collected by my.'^elf are strictly first class
and sets are originals accompanied with full
datas. If you wish to make a good exchange
here is your chance. Send list and receive
mine. Fair dealing. In exchanging I use
Taylor's Standard Catalogue as a basis.
ADOLF SCHUTZE, 1611 Sabine Street, Austin,
Travis Co., Texas.
TO EXCHANGE.— Over 1000 different stamps
including complete set of unused Omaha issue,
in large album; some copies of Osprey and
about 100 arrow points. For southern or east-
em land shells, beetles, gciod mountable bird
skins or Al sets. PAUL B. SMITH, Box 2, E.
Cleveland, Ohio.
COLUMBIA, HARTFORD and Wolf-Ameri-
can Bicycles, new and second-hand; fishing
rods and tackle, guns, rifles, cameras, most
any article for out door sport and nature
study. Prices right. I want strictly first class
sets of eggs in part or full payment. Write
me stating wants and send list of eggs. Will
quote low cash prices. Can save you money.
BENJAMIN HOAG, Stephentown, N. Y.
TO EXCHANGE.— Sets of 487. 187, 367, 36 for
common sets. Have you my last price lists?
If not you should drop me a postal at once. I
have everything you need. ERNEST H.
SHORT, Rochester, N. Y.
EXCHANGE —Field or marine glass, cost
$16, extension hoods, shoulder straps, leather
case, "Leflls, Paris,'' for sets, O. & O. books or
cash. Sets preferred. E. R. FORREST,
Washington, Pa.
THE OOLOGIST.
"Would say my ad. in Oologist for un-
mounted sea mosses has brought me specimens
enough to cover a surface 12 ft. square. I
think the Oologist is the best advertising
medium for collectors in America." WM.
CUDNEY, Gait, Ont.
BELGIAN HARES.— Employed persons may
make money raising them. Pleasant, profit-
able and requires but little time, money or
space. Let me start you. R. A. POWELL, 135
E. 5th St , St. Paul, Minn.
MIDWINTER BARGAINS in sets of flrst-
class eggs:— Holboell's Grebe, 1-3, 15c; St. Do-
mingo Grebe, 1-5, 12c; Pigeon GuUemot. 1-2,
15c; Razor-billed Auk, 1-1. 12c; Ring-billed Gull,
12, 8c; Caspian Tern. 1-2, 12c; Black Tern, 1-2,
5-3, 4c; Black Skimmer, 13 2, 6c; Ashy Petrel,
4-1, $1; Booby, 1-2, 40c; Faralone Cormorant,
1-3, 15c; Brandt's Cormorant, 1-2, 8c; Baldpate,
1-9, 25c; Am. Elder, 1-4, 15c; Canada Goose, 1-5,
50c; White-faced Glossy Ibis, 3.4, 12c; American
Bittern, 3-5, 20c; Least Bittern, 1-4, 1-5, 5c;
Great Blue Heron, 3, 4, 5 10c; Little Blue
Heron, 1-4, 4c; Black-crovraed Nightheron, 5-3,
T-4, 5c; Limpkin, 1-5, 25c; King Rail, 1-7, 9c;
Clapper Rail, 18, 4c; Fla. Gallinule, 1-9, 4c;
European Coot, 1-7 6c; Am. Coot, 1-6, 3c; Red
Phalarope, 1-4, 35c; Northern Phalarope, 1-4,
25c; Am. Avocet, 1-3, 15c; Black-necked Stilt,
3, 4, 12c; Killdeer, 2-3, &-4, 6c; Belted Piping
Plover, 1-3, 1-4; Scaled Quail, 9, 19, 11, 12, 15c;
Ring Pheasant, 1-11, 10c; Willow Ptarmigan,
1-7, 25c; Rock Ptarmigan, 110, 'SSc; Prairie
Hen, 1-11 6c; Turkey Vulture. 2-8, 2!ic; Black
Vulture, 2 2, 35c; Cooper's Hawk, 1-3, 10c; Har-
ris' Hawk, 2-2, lOc: Swainson's Hawk, 7-2, 12c;
Golden Eagle, 1-1, f3..50; Am. Sparrow Hawk,
1-3, lOc; Audubon's Caracara, 2-3 5 2, 30c;
Western Horned Owl, 1-2, 35c; Roadrunner, 9-4,
5c; Yellow-bill-- d Cuckoo, 1-3, 5c; Belted King-
fisher, 1-5, 8c; Chimney Swift, 1-3, 1-5, 5c; Scis-
sor-tail Flycatcher, 3, 4, 5, 4c; Alder Flycatch-
er, 1-3, 3c; Least Flycatcher, 1-4, 5; White-
necked Raven, 3, 4, 5, 6, 12c ; Am. Crow, 4-4- 3-5,
2c; Starling, 2-4, 5c; Bobolink, 1-5, 15c; Yellow-
headed Blackbird, 1-3. 2c; Bicolored Blackbird,
1-3, 1-4, 3c; Orchard Oriole, 4. 5, 2c; Baltimore
Oriole, 14, 3c; Bullock's Oriole, 1-4, 3c; Bronzed
Grackle, 1-3, 2-5, l 6, 2c; Purple Grackle, 1-3,
1-4, 3c; Great-tailed Grackle, 3, 4, 5, 3c. Am.
Goldfinch, 1-4, 3c; Lark Sparrow, 3, 4, 5. 3c;
Black-throated Sparrow, 1-4, 10c; Cassin's
Sparrow, 1-3, 30c; Song Sparrow, 2 4, 5-5, Ic;
Samuel's Song Sparrow, 1-4, 3c; Abert's Tow-
hee, 2-3, 20c; Lark hunting, 1-4, 9c; Cliff Swal-
low, 2-4, Ic; Barn Swallow, 1-4, 2c; White-
rumped Shrike, 1-5, 1-6, 4c; White eyed Vlreo,
1-3, 4c; Bell's Vireo, 3, 4, 5, 3c; Yellow Warbler,
2-3,1-4, Ic; Redstart, 1-4, 4c ; Meadow Plppit,
1-4, 5c; Catbird. 3, 4, 5, Ic; Rock Wren, 1-4, 35c;
Long-billed Marsh Wren, 4, 5, 3c; Chickadee,
1-3, 1-4, 5c; California Bushtit, 1-4, 5; Wood
Thrush, 2 3, 3c; Bluebird, 2-5, 3c; Plain Tit-
mouse. 1-6, 10c; Red-shafted Flicker, 2 5, 5c;
Black Phoebe. 1-4, 5c; Parkman's Wren, 1-7, 4c:
Pileated Woodpecker, 1-2, $1.50; Russet-backed
Thrush, 1-4, 5o; Bald Eagle, 11, (cracked at
blowhole) 76c; Kidder's Hawk, 1.3, (large
holes) 15c; Caracara, 1-3, (large holes) 15c;
Black Vulture, 1-2, (large holes) 10c.
The above prices are per egg, post-paid, but
smaller orders than $3 are not desired.
Special! a first class set of four eggs each
of White-faced Glossy Ibis and Black necked
Stilt will be sent prepaid on receipt of II. J.
M. & JAMES J. CARROLL, Waco, Texas.
WANTED.— Sets of eggs containing abnor-
mal specimens, such as runts, albinos, mon-
strocities, abnormally colored or shaped eggs.
Will give cash or good exchange. J. WARREN
.JACOBS, Waynesburg, Pa. 101
CHOICE southern sets of Royal Tern, Brown
Pelican, Willet, Wilson's Plover, Laughing
Gull. Clapper Rail, Black Skinner for sale very
cheap or exchange sets or singles. DR. M. T.
CLECKLEY, 457 Greene St., Augusta, Ga. 3t
I send you today some ads for your excellent
paper. I must say that ads in your paper al-
ways pay.— CHRIS P. FORGE, Carman, Mani-
toba.
HEAR YE ! Hear Ye ! Hear Ye 1 This is to
certify that my advertisements in the Oolo-
gist have paid me better than have the com-
bined ads. in most of the amateur and natural
science papers. Ads. in the Oologist always
bring returns, and it is safe to say that there is
no paper having three times the circulation of
this widespread periodical which can give
equal satisfaction. MORRIS GIBBS, M. D.,
Kalamazoo, Mich
MAKE MONEY.— By securing a county
agency for our New Edition of the Reversible
U. S. and World Map. This map is 66x46 in.
in size, being the largest one-sheet map pub-
lished; mounted on sticks ready to^hang; elev-
en beautiful colors. One side shows a grand
map of our great country and inset maps of its
new possessions. The other side shows an
equally good map of the world. On receipt of
$1.25 we will send a sample copy by prepaid
express, and will inform you how to obtain a
trial agency. Our men clear from $15.00 to
$35.00 weekly after a month's work. Maps can
be returned if not satisfactory. Yours truly,
RAND, McNALLY & COMPANY, 160-174
Adams St., Chicago, Ills. 172
PLATE HOLDER— Double, by,xb%, Blair
Camera Co., ($1.00), prepaid 34c. FRANK H.
LATTIN, Albion N. Y.
CODDINGTON MAGNIFIER(Miners' glass),
diameter ^In, cost $1.50, prepaid 95cts. FRANK
H. LATTIN,Albion, N. Y.
"SNAPS"fortaxidermist3.7in.Stuffers, spring
handle (1.25), 80c ; Scissor-handle Stuffers, i2in.
($1.75), $1.05; Scissor-handle Stuffer, 15in, ($2.50)
$1.60; Bone Cutters, extra fine and heavy, ($2.50)
' $1.60; Forceps for Insects ($1.25) 78c; Botanical
Collecting Can with shoulder strap, size 12x754
x3)i in. ($1.50) $1.10; Tenaculum or Dissecting
Hook, folding in handle ($1) 28c. All prepaid at
prices quoted, regular prices in ( ). FRANK
H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y.
TAXIDERMIST'S OUTFIT:— Contains one
heavy Cartilage Knife; 1 nickeled and engrav-
ed Scalpel with tip shaped for detaching skin,
muscles, &c; 1 pair Scissors; 1 pair Forceps;
1 Dissecting Hook; 1 Brain Spoon; 1 pocket
Wire Cutter. Instruments best, all packed in
polished Hard-wood Case. A better outfit than
the one always sold at $3. I have only two
outfits and will close them out at only $2.20
prepaid. FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y.
"I don't know whether my ad. has reached
its time limit yet or not, but stop it any way.
My supply of exchange material was exhaust-
ed some time ago and replies to the ad. still
come in. F. P. DRO WNE, 20 Benefit St.. Prov-
idence, R. I.
WANTED.— Buyer for case stuffed birds.
One (each) Hoot Owl, Screech Owl, Barn Owl,
Blue Jay, Pheasant and young. Snipe, two
Wild Pigeons, three Wild Ducks, Quail, Blue
Jay, Redbird, Hummingbird, Mink. Gray
Squirrel, Red Squirrel, Alligator and several
others, 30 in all ; elegantly mounted. Make an
offer. F. W. GATES, Chattanooga, Tenn. 172
THE OOLOGIST.
COLLiECTORS will do well to send early lists
of fresh taken eggs. Al in all respects. Will
pay cash or give good exchange. Give lowest
cash price. I have to exchange : Black-chinned
Humm r n-2, Bobwhite 1-11, Claycoloied Spar-
row 6-4. Franklin's Gull 1-2, White-neck Raven
1-4 1-5 1-6, Caracara 1-3, Louisiana Heron 1-4,
Black-necked Stilt 4-4. Great White Heron 1-4;
one good egg with data of the New Zealand
Spteryx, very rare, for cash er choice ex-
•change; and Vol. I Auk, best offer. J. W.
PRESTON, Baxter, la.
WILL EXCHANGE for Mounted Birds or
eggs in sets the following Mounted Birds:
Evening Grosbeak. Varied Thrush. Curve-
billed Thrasher, Am. Three-toed Woodpecker,
Young Owl in Down, Louisiana Tanager,
Stella's Jay. Eggs: 1-3 Chuck-wills-widow.
Skins: Phainopepla; Nashville, Blue-winged,
Kentucky, Magnolia, Black- throated. Blue
Warblers: Snowflake, Pine Siskin and Am.
Crossbill. Send in your liPts. Reply to all.
GEO. H. SWEZEY, 66-79 Jackson St., Newark,
N.J.
RARE WAR RELICS for sale:— Cuban Ma-
chete $2, American Machete, bone handle $2.85,
Spanish Bayonet 20-inch blade $1.50, Spanish
Cartridge Box $2. The following are Civil War
Relics: Haversack 50c, Knapsack $1 25, Bridle
with Bits Complete $2, Canteen $1, Navy Re-
volver 13, Navy Revoivfr Holsters 50c, Confed-
erate Powder Bag 75c, Enfield Sword Bayonet
■< Confederate) $1, Spade Bayonet (1776) $2,50,
Musket Flints 10c. Don't delay. Inclose
stamp for particulars. TEEL & CO. Williams-
port, Pa.
OOLOGISTS WANTED:— Will pay 50cts.
each cash for one of each June 1888, and April
1889, and will give an exchange notice, or cou-
pon good for one, for copies of the January
1895 and April 1899 issue, a notice for each copy.
FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y.
YOU ARE INTERESTED in Something?
Why not get all the best things printed about
it? We read and clip thousands of newspapers
and magazines every week, therefors we can
help you make up a scrap book on your favor-
ite hobby. Will take Natural History Speci-
mens in exchange. Send for our booklet,
which explains the scope of the clipping indus-
try. 20TH CENTURY PRESS CLIPPING
BUREAU, New York Life Building, Chicago.
■ WANTED:— Will pay casli or "swap" eggs
of American Osprey and Hummingbirds (any
species with nest). Two good skins of each
the Am. Barn and Long-eared Owls, Rattle-
snake Rattles, Eggs of Hammerhead Shark.
Write what you have and what you want.
FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y.
NOTICE:— I have retired from the farm
and expect to devote more time to collecting.
Hoping to hear from old correspoddents I am
yours DELOS HATCH, Oakfield, Wis.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE:— First class
sets of 1 1-3, 191 1-4, 142 1-11,146 1-16,228 1-4,
273 1-4, 308 1-11, 388 1-2. 387 1-2, 325 1-2, 501b 1-5,
676 15, 735 1-6, 751 n-4. , several large Bahama
Starfish; large collection of foreign stamps.
Write what you can offer. GEORGE J. TILLS,
Gaines, N. Y.
EGG EXCHANGE:— I offer nicely prepared,
authentic sets of the following in exchange for
sets I can use: 79a. 93, 107, 116, 286.1, 288. 408.
449, 450, 498b, 520, 549 550, 611.1, 615, 729, 708. In
sending list of duplicates it would be well to
mention how many of each species you have to
exchange as I can use series of most kinds.
JAMES P. BABBITT, Taunton, Mass.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE, price per set
prepaid: Whimbrel 5-4. 48c: Northern Phal-
arope 5-4, 60c; Red-throated Loon 5-2. 50c; Rich
Ptarmigan 5-1,0 $2.00; Dunlin 5-4, 48c; White-
faced Glossy Ibis 5-4, 80c: many others. Send
for list. D. WILBY, 27 Front Street West, To-
ronto, Ont.
FOR SALE:— U. S. large cents, two -cent
coppers, different dates, 5 cents each ; Indian
War Clubs $1.00; Moccasin, 40cts. to $1.50 ac-
cording to size. JNO. J. PRICE, 1382 7th St.,
res Moines, la.
EXCHANGE:— I have a mounted Hutchins's
Goose taken in Western New York which I
will exchange for mounted Snowy Owl or any
desirable showy mount. CORNELIUS F.
POSSON, Medina, N. Y.
WANTED FOR C ASH :— Ridgway's book,
'•Nomenclature of Colors." State lowest cash
price. Perfect your files, I have several copies
of Auks, Nids,,0. &. O., Oologists and Ospreys
to exchange. JAMES H. HILL, New London,
Conn.
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20th Century Bargains.
CURIOS. (LAND).
Aztec Pottery. Patzcuaro, Mex.
Bowl, irridescent ware, slightly cracked $ 25
Imitation Fruits, various forms colored... 20
Monnd Builders', Pottery.
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Tooth of Sperm Whale 5a
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SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF
BIRDS ECCS.
Specimens received since January list was
printed:
SETS
Am Osprey. 3 $90
Am. Osprey, 2 60
Cabot's Tern, 2 35
Long tailed Jaeger, 1 60
Western Gull, 2 28
Rufous Hummer, nest and 2 65
Black-throated Green Warbler 3 60
Pufiin, 1 (curious runt) 20
SINGLES (rare).
McFarlane's Screech Owl (partial data) $ 50
Wilson's Snipe, data 40
Gt. White Heron 75
Scaled Partridge 30
Gray Kingbird, data _ 20
Olive-sided Flycatcher, fine _ 60
Am. Raven. Rocky Mts _ 60
Red-eyed Cowbird 15
Black-whiskered Vireo 50
Canadian Warbler 45
Winter Wren 35
Leconte's Thrasher 65
Mountain Chickadee 15
Mockingbird, Costa Rica 40
Black Rail 1 00
Aleutian Leucosticte 80
Pacific Loon 70
Ring-neck Duck 40
White-tailed Hawk .35
Am. Goshawk 70
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Nesting of the Broad-wingfed Hawk.
On the 16th of May, 1895, while walk-
ing through a grove of oaks on the edge
of a marsh and within fifty yards of a
small stream, I frightened a hawk from
a nest twenty feet up in the crotch of an
oak tree.
I thought it was a Cooper's Hawk, al-
though the plaintive cry it made as it
perched amrng ihe branche.s of a tree,
one hundred feet away, was new tome.
It sounded like ''siggee,''"siggee," some-
thing like a Kil deer, a Rose-breasted
Grosbeak or the alarm cy of a Red-
wing Blackbird.
The cry was repeated constantly and
had a somewhat ventrilcquial effect, so
that it was hard to tell just where the
birds were, especially as they kept pret-
ty well out of sight and did not fly
around much.
When 1 reached the nest I found it to
be about the size of a crow's, and built
of sticks and twigs, rather c'umsily put
together, and lined with a few pieces of
bark and eight green oak leaves. It
only contained two eggs and still think-
ing the bird to be a Cooper's Hawk, I
left it and did not go ba?k until the 20th,
wben the hawk was again on thf^ nest.
As no more eggs had been laid. I took
the two, and on blowing found that in-
cubation was about one-third advanced.
The eggs are of a uniform dull white,
one blotched and spotted at the larger
end, and the other at the smaller end,
with faint lilac, which has a clouded
effect as if it was under the shell. They
are rather small, measuring 1.87 x 1 47
and 1 93 X 1.52. After looking up the
sut ject and getting the opinions of other
oologists, I came to the conclusion that
they were the eggs of Buteo latissimus.
The following year, on May 26th, as I
was passing through the same piece of
woods, I thought I would take a look at
the old nest, and as I drew near a hawk
flew from a new one in anothertree not
THE OOLOGIST.
more than 30 feet from the one of the
year before. This time I observed the
bird closely and saw that it appeared a
little smaller than a Cooper's Hawk and
had a shorter tsil, and was not so noisy
and aggressive. It flew into a poplar
tree near by, where il was joined by its
mate, and all the time I was near the
nest they kept up the cry which is dis-
tinctive of the species. The nest was
about 30 feet up, composed of sticks and
twigs, and lined with bark, green leaves
and the down of poplar buds. It con-
tained a very handsome set of three
eggs, incubation about half done, and
measuring 2.01 X 1.63, 2.01 x 1.63 and
1.99x1.60. They are spotted all over
with brick(:red spots and dots so thickly
that the ground color can not be seen,
but the coloring is heaviest at the larger
end on one egg, and at the smaller on
the others.
I was away during the next three
years, but on May 10th of last year,
while after a set of Long-oared Owls,
within about one-half mile from where
I found the nests in '95 and '96, I heard
the now familiar cry again. The bird
seemed to follow me wherever I went,
although I only saw it once, and I could
hear its cry for a long time. Taking the
hint from the bird's actions, I went to
the place where I had been successful
before, but though there were several
old nests in the vicinity, I saw nothing
of the hawk until I had reached the far
side of the wood about 300 yards 'away,
when I heard it again close at hand. I
looked around for a nest, and at first
saw none, but finally discovered what
appeared to be an old squirrel's habita-
tion about 15 feet up in the crotch of a
large black oak, growing on a narrow
neck between two sloughs and with
only a few other trees around. As the
birds were both on hand sitting among
the branches of trees near by, though
out of sight, I thought it best to investi-
gate, and with some difficulty on ac-
count of the size of the tree, I got up to
the nest. The crotch in which it was
placed was formed by the junction of
five branches with the main body of the
tree and formed a very secure position.
It was built on the remains of an old
squirrel's nest and was composed of
sticks and twigs, lined with pieces of
bark, a few feathers, and some green
twigs with the leaves on. It measured
14 X 18 inches in diameter on the out-
side, was 14 inches deep outside, 7
inches in diameter inside and the hollow
was 4 inches deep. It contained no eggs
so I left it for a future visit. On the
same day as I was pushing my way
through an extensive woodof voung oak
and poplar, which covered the sides of
a high hill and was so grown up with
underbrush as to be almost impenetra
ble, I heard "siggee,'" "siggee'^ near by,
but could see no bird. I soon found a
nest in a small red oak, and then another
and another, until I found five, all with-
in fifty yards of the first one, none of
them more than twenty feet up, but
they all proved on examination to be
old ones, so I gave it up for the time
being.
On the evening of the 17th, while out
far a ride back of Lake Harriet and
within the city limits of Minneapolis,
and on high ground, mostly under cul-
tivation, I saw a hawk fly from a small
grove of oaks, which is about an acre in
size and is within 500 yards of Minne-
haha Creek.
When returning about dusk, I stop-
ped at the grove and pushed my way
through the underbrush to the center of
the grove, where I soon found a nest
placed about 18 feet up in the forks of a
small oak. The outside of the nest was
rather loose and scraggy, and spread
out so that I could not see whether there
was a bird on or not, but a small stick
tossed up brought Mrs. Broad-wing off
the nest to alight on a tree near by and
scold as long as I was near.
The nest was rather wide and the de-
pression very shallow and was lined
THE OOLOGIST.
with pieces of bark and a few green
poplar twigs. Thie eggs, three in num-
ber, are perfect "Red tails" in minia-
ture, one being heavily marked with
blotches of red, brown and lilac, one
dotted closely all over wtth minute red
dots and the larger end solidly covered
with heavy reddish blotches; and the
other is encircled with a wreath of light
red and lilac around the middle, though
slightly nearer the small end. Incuba-
tion had just started. Measurements
1.88 X 1.49, 1.95 X 1.48, 1.90 x 1.48.
On the 20th I went to visit the nest
found on the 10th, and as I drew near
the bird left the nest and being joined
by its mate, they flew about making
more fuss than any of the other pairs
had done.
This time the nest contained three
handsome eggs, one of them is speckled
with red all over and looks like a Tur-
key's egg, one is marked with large
heavy blotches of red, principally at
the smaller end, and the other is marked
all over with smaller marks which are
thicker at the small end; measurements
2.05 X 1.59, 2.10 X 1.59, 2 04 x 1 60; incu-
bation very slight. This is a very large
set.
I next went to visit the locality where
I had found the five old nests on the
hill, and as I was approaching the spot
I came across another nest which look-
ed older and more dilapidated than any
of the others, and was mostly composed
of dead leaves, being evidently an old
squirrel's nest, but over the top of it
projected the tail of Mr. (or Mrs )
"Buteo." The hawk flew off as I start-
ed to ascend and lighting on a tree 30
yards away, commenced the usual sere-
nade. The nest was not more than 14
feet up in the forks of a very small oak
and was composed of a few sticks placed
on the foundation of dead leaves, lined
with a few pieces of bark, a few feathers
and some poplar twigs with the green
leaves and the fuzz from the Vuds still
on them, and measured 18 x 16 inches
in diameter outside, 8x7 inches in dia-
meter inside, 8 inches deep outside and
4 inches deep inside. It contained three
eggs, incubation begun, one covered all
over with brick-red dots so that the
ground color can not be seen, and with
an almost solid mass of red all over the
small end; one marked heavily with
brick-red blotches forming a wreath
ai'ound the small end, and the other
clouded and marbled all over with sub-
merged pale lilac; size, 1.84 x 1.47, 1.89
X 1.54, 1.80 X 1.50.
On May 28th while looking for a
Marsh Hawk's nest in a large marsh
about three miles from Minneapolis, I
was surprised to hear the cry of a Broad-
wing. There was only one tree near
and that was a small poplar that grew
on a dry piece of ground 35 yards away,
and I finally located Mr. Hawk in the
lower branches of this tree and on the
opposite side He seemed to be carry-
ing on an anima'ed conversation with a
Red-winged Blackbird, which, alarmed
by my proximity to its nest, was utter-
ing cries cf distress, which were quite
similar to the Broad wing's. Every
time the Blackbird would cry the hawk
would answer it, and I presume the
latter thought he was making quite an
impression. When I tried to get near
he flew straight away to a large wood
half a mile distant, and I made up my
mind that there was a set of eggs in that
wood, but as it was getting dark I had
to put off searching for them till a later
date.
On the 30th having a few hours spare
time, I went out to the wood, and after
a somewhat prolonged search, as the
wood was a large one and the trees
small and close together, I found the
nest and the ha,wk flew off. The nest
was about 25 feet up in the forks of an
oak tree, and was built on top of the
dead leaves of an old squirrel's nest and
composed of sticks, and thickly lined
with green oak leaves; it measured 14
inches in diameter outside, 6 inside, and
THE OOLOGIST.
12 inches deep outside and 4 inside. It
contained two eggs, incubation about
one-half done, and rieasuring 1.88 x
1.57,1.87x1.58. One marked with a
wreath of red around the smaller end,
and the other with a mass of smaller
red spots covering the larger end, and
a scattering of dots over the rest of its
surface.
On the 4ih of June I had occasion to
be in one of the railroad yards in the
suburbs, when I heard a Broad-wing in
a small grove along side of the track.
The grove is not above an acre and a
half in extent, and on one side is a busy
railroad yard and large grain elevator,
and on the other a we'l used street lead-
ing to the suburbs and Lake Minne-
tonka, while the street cars go by right
on the edge of the wood. The grove is
also a famous hunting ground for the
small boy with the air-gun and "Flob-
ert" rifle.
I thought the hawk must be on a hunt-
ing trip, for it did not seem like a place
in which thev would build, but fifteen
minutes' search was rewarded by see-
ing the hawk fly from what seemed to
be an old squirrel's nest of dead leaves
pla<^ed against the trunk of a small oak
tree and about 25 feet up. The nest
was a flimsy affair of a few sticks placed
on a foundation of dead leaves and was
lined with a few pieces of bark, a few
feathers, (from the bird's tail evidently)
some green leaves and fuzz of poplars
and a long green weed of some kind
(I think it was a "Solomon's Seal") cov-
ered with leaves.
The eggs were two in number and in-
cubation was begun. One was marked
all over with pale lilac, with a few dis-
tinct angular spots of light red, and the
other with a few large blotches of red
at the smaller end; this egg is irregular
in shape and has a distinct crack run-
ning clear around it, and a spot where
it has been shattered and bulged out,
but it has all been healed up again and
is as strong as ever. I suppose it must
have been broken inside of the bird and
before the shell was entirely formed.
Size of eggs, 1.92 x 1 50, 1 90 x 1.48.
This completes my series, altogether,
7 sets of 18 eggs, 4 sets of 3, and 3 sets
of 2.
I think I could have collected a good
many more this year if I had h^d time,
as I found theoa in every suitable wood
in which I searched, and every time I
heard their call I found their ne.st with-
out difficulty. 1 shall not disturb them
any more this season, but next year I
expect to take a set from each nest vis-
ited as here described.
These sets were all collected within a
radius of five miles from the center of
the city of Minneapolis and two were
within the city limits.
John D. Currie,
Minneapolis, Minn.
Bird Music.
LContinued from last issue.]
Another bird that sometimes sings on
the wing, is the White-rumped Shrike.
It is not generally known that this
Shrike, or for that matter any other,
has a song. I have heard the song sev-
eral times and can testify to a series of
very agreeable notes nicely modulated.
We cannot call the song really melodi-
ous, but it is still possessed of unique-
ness, as it is essentially unlike the notes
of any other bird of my acquaintance.
I once heard this Shrike sing as it flew
in the characteristic manner of flight-
singers, on fluttering wings.
The true love-song of the Golden-
crowned Thrush or Oven-bird has been
but rarely referred to by writers, in
fact, the best musical efforts of this
species have only been described in
comparatively recent times. The com-
mon loud clanking chirpings, so often
heard, have been listened to by aU ob-
servers, but a superior strain, only oc-
casionly uttered, has been listened to
by but few intelligently. I feel safe in
THE OOLOGIST.
9
saying that no bird among us which is
so well known, has eluded the observ-
ers of bird songs as this one has done.
I listened to the love song of the
Oven-bird for the first time in 18S0. A
burst of melody reached me in a dense
piece of low woods, well filled with
underbrush, and the delightful notes
were surprising and doubly pleasing to
me in this location. At first on hear-
ing the song the idea presented itself
that a species new to me was singing,
and my extreme care in reaching the
glade in hopes of secnring a note, pro-
cured me a chance of witnessing a most
singular porformance. Crawling
through the brush I came to a partial
clearing, over which a bird, evidently
in the highest transports of joy, was
fluttering in irregular flight. It is not
surprising that 1 failed to recognize the
performer in this, to me, unusual as-
pect, for there was not a feature in its
notes or movements in which it resem-
bled its ordinary and understood hab-
its.
Observing another bird, evidently a
Golden-crowned Thrush, and its mate,
perched on the ground near, and which
appeared to be the center of attraction
to the delighted warbler overhead. I
quietly awaited the movements of the
pair. Never had I heard this song be-
fore and never had I witnessed such a
scene. This was indeed, making love
with a spirit not often witnessed among
our warblers.
This song was almost continuous,
that is, together with the interruptions
of the more subdued call or conversa-
tion notes, and the common chattering
notes, so well known and described by
Coues as a harsh crescendo, and was
largely of the most melodious strains.
The energetic, unconscious fellow
was in the meantime consistently flying
above his inamorata, describing nearly
every form of flight except sailing.
First dashing to the edge of the glade,
then rising to the tops of the bushes he
would flutter almost directly upward
as we have oftea seen the European
Sparrow or House Wren do, and reach-
ing a height of twenty feet or more,
would flutter toward his mate, or dash
about the clearing in varying evolutions
almost constantly singing. She, in the
meantime sat silent, and probably in-
terestpd in the performance. The ap-
pearance of a third party on the scene,
undoubtedly also a lover, caused the
ecstatic singer to dash into a bush.
This song ecstacy is rare, as it is also
the much simpler one of the Grass
Finch or Vesper Sparrow as it is called,
which also goes into a rapturous song-
flight occasionly. The Finch rises into
the air fifty feet or more but not as rap-
idly as the Bobolink, and generally set-
tles back near to the point from which
it took its flight. The Bobolink sings
as well when perched as in its flight,
though not so continued, but the Grass
Finch's song when on the surface is
very commonplace, while its flight-song
like that of the Oven bird, is superior.
A number of species of birds em-
braced in the systematic division of,
are known to utter their notes on the
wing, and from the Crow to the Martin,
which is the nearest to a musician
among the Swallows, there are many
which give their best efforts while fly-
ing. Among these is the Prairie Horn-
ed Lark, which comes very near to be-
ing a singer, and which has a flight of
special interest; still these efforts are
not sufficiently musiciai to entitle the
birds to rank in this list of musicians as
accepted by critics.
It will be observed that a tremulous
motion of the wings almost invariably
accompanies song flight. We may
maintain, then, that the quiverings of
the wings is an accompaniment to the
song is a strictly seasonal feature. All
have noticed the loss of the song syn-
chronously with the skyward flutter in
the case of the Bobolink, when he as-
sumes his summer dress and leaves for
10
THE OOLOGIST
the South to become the plebian rice-
bird. I have yet to hear a bird sing on
the wlDg in autumn.
Morris Gibbs, M. D.,
Kalamazoo, Mich.
{To Be Continued.)
Winter Bird Notes From California.
One of the most abundant winter res-
idents of SaataClara Co., Cal., is the
Western Robin (Merula migratoria pro-
pingua). He is rihgarded by the ranch-
ers of Santa Clara Co. as a good weather
prophet, although I could never confirm
their belief. When the Robins arrive in
force in the fall, the farmers prepare for
heavy winter rains, and when they are
scarce it is said to indicate a dry sea-
son.
Although we have a county game law
protecting this bird, they are neverthe-
less killed in considerable numbers by
the small boy .Italians and other foreign-
ers, but I think that in the last few
years the farmers are more and more
coming to realize the need of protecting
this and other beneficial birds. Just
recently I have heard of several parties
who intend to make an example of any
one they can find shooting Robins, and
1 hope that before long something will
be done to enforce the law. At any
rate, the Cooper Ornithological Club
will soon have a law pass, in the state
legislature, unless something ue expect-
ed happens, which will protect all the
song and other birds at all seasons of
the year, and which, if passed, we mem-
bers intend to see enforced.
The Robin arrives with us about the
first of October and remains until March.
They are more or less gregarious, a flock
usually contaicing about fifty birds, al-
though I have seen flocks which, no
doubt, held several hundred.
The Varied Thrush {Hesperocichla
naevia) arrives about the same time that
the Robin does, but is not nearly so
common. They are of a retiring dispos-
ition and favor a location for their win-
ter home, which contains a number of
thick cypress, pine or other thick trees
or shrubs, usually near some house,
where they are quite content to remain
in the seclusion thus afforded until it is
time for them to again journey to the
thick spruce woods of British America
or Alaska, to their summer home.
Another common winter resident is
Audubon's Warbler [Denclroica audu-
honi). Most of their time is spent in the
orchards vigorously searching, with
many a shai'p "chit" for insects and
other food. They arrive about the first
of October, and are abundant from this
time till the last of February. When
they first arrive they are changing from
the summer to winter plumage, and
some of the specimens taken at this time
are very interesting.
In this locality I have made an obser-
vation which may, perhaps, help to
prove that the sub-species of Audubon's
Warbler, described by Mr. Robert Mc-
Gregor, of Palo Alto, and named
Hoover's Warbler, {Dendroica coronata
hooveri) shows a constant variation. Mr.
Grinnell found Hoover's Warbler abun-
dant and nesting in the Kotzebue Sound
Region of Alaska, (see Pacific Coast
Avifauna No. 1, p. 55) but found no
Audubon's Warblers. Now, our Audu-
bon's Warbler, which nests in Califor-
nia, arrives here in the fall about the
middle of October, but I have never
noted Hoover's Warbler before late in
December. This would help to prove
that they are a distinct sub-species,
whose summer home is Alaska, and the
long distance they have to travel will
account for their delay in arriving in
the winter.
A very modest, though interesting
bird is the Dwarf Hermit Thrush, {Tur-
dus aonalaschkce) which is fairly com-
mon in our locality in the winter time.
He is generally not a very sociable fel-
low, always traveling by himself through
our gardens and feeding upon worms
THE OOLOGIST.
11
and other insects. I have often felt
sorry for him, he seems so lonely, but I
presume he does not mind it.
The Cedar Waxwing [Ampelis cedro-
rum) is an irregular winter visitor with
us, coming in flocks of from about
twenty to perhaps one hundred. They
feed on the seeds of the locust and pep-
per trees, which are quite extensively
grown for shade trees in Santa Clara.
Has the Mockingbird {Mimuspolyglot-
tus) ever been recorded in Santa Clara
Co.? I have never seen a record of it,
although I know they occur in winter
in Alameda Co , which is next to us on
the north. My tirst record was on the
23d of Jan. 1899, when I saw a male
Mockingbird near a residence in a large
garden near Santa Clara. I was told he
had been around the place for several
weeks. Since then I have recorded
them as follows; Feb. 9, 1900, female,
seen in a garden in Santa Clara; Feb.
13, 1900, male, bird noted in a garden
near a house two miles west of Santa
Clara; Oct. 12, a pair, male and female,
seen near the place I saw a bird Feb. 9,
1900, male t^i ging. From these records
I conclude that the Mockingbird is
rather a common straggler to our
county in the winter time.
Oar winter Sparrows, Gambel's
[Zonotrichia leucophrys gambeli) Inter-
mediate, [Zonotrichia I. intermedia) and
Golden Crowned (Zonotrichia coronaia)
all arrive about the first of October.
The Whited-crowned Sparrow {Zono-
trichia leucophrys) arrives several weeks
later. They all congregate in large
flocks in the hedge rows and brush piles
where they spend a very merry and soc-
iable winter. These birds are all very
much despised by the orchardists,for in
February and March when the fruit
blossoms are beginning to come out,
they form the chief article of diet for
these Sparrows. The destruction that
a flock of these birds can do in one day
is something enormous.
In the winter time our Finches all
congregate in flocks, it being no uncom-
mon sight to see a flock of House Finches
(Carpodacus mexicanus frontalis), Law-
rence's and Arkansas Goldfinches (As-
tragalinus lawrencei and psallria), which
will contain several hundred birds.
After the first of October we always
have with us the American Pipit {An-
thus pensilvanicus) in abundance. They
feed in large flocks in the grain fields
and orchards, delighting particularly to
run after a plow and pick up the worms
as fast as they are turned up. The ma-
jority of them leave about the first of
April, although I have one record for
four birds noted on the 24th of April,
which 1 consider a very late date for
them.
I think of all our resident birds in
winter the California Bush-tit {Psaltri-
parus minimus californicus) is, perhaps,
the most interesting. They congregate
in small flocks and will search a garden
so thoroughly, investigating all the trees
and shrubs, that it has to be a very
smart spider who can escape with his
life. They are such dainty little birds
and are so fearless that they always
draw my attention, and I consider it a
great privilege to watch a flock of them
"do" a peach tree in our back yard.
This is a very incomplete account of
some of our winter birds in their chosen
homes, but as time is pressing I must
desist. Would time permit, I might
enumerate the Chickadees, the dainty
Kinglet, both species of which are com-
mon winter residents, the Woodpeck-
ers, Jays and many others, not omitting
the infernal, and ever obnoxious English
Sparrow.
This paper is merely intended to show
our eastern brethren something of our
abundant bird life in winter, as well as
in summer, for we can study birds al-
most a'' diligently in winter as in nest-
ing season, and it is but a poor ornithol-
ogist who cannot enjoy the birds unless
he is despoiling them of their most prec-
ious treasure — their eggs.
William N. Atkinson,
Santa Clara, Cal.
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THE OOLOGIST
The Use of Old Nests.
It is a strange economy of Nature,
which impels Hawks and Owls, to use
old and unattractive nests, when but
little energy need be expendert, in the
construction of new abodes, when each
would then build, and differentiate,
accordirg to his specific instinct.
April 18th 1^95, we saw an Accijnter
cooperi nearby a nest which was just
begun, and cor eluded that she was
constructing same. May 5th, the nest
was completed, and on May 19th, we
took therefrom a set of five slightly in-
cubated eggs. The nest was typical of
the species, very bulky, composed of
small sticks and lined with the outer
baik of chestnut in chunks from two
to five inches long, and from one-half
to one and one-half inches wide. It
was placed in the crotch of a tall, slen-
der chestnut tree, fifty-five feet from
the ground. In 1896 this nest was occu-
pied by a Barred Owl, which hatched
its clutch there. When we visited the
site April 12th, the shells, strewn about
the base of the tree, appeared as if the
young had been hatched a day or two
previously. The nest appeared, from
the ground, as if some inner bark and
leaves had been added since it was oc-
cupied by the Cooper's, but I think
this was probably done by squirrels,
during the preceding Fall, as I have
never known the Barred Owl to do
anything toward building a nest, or
fixing over an old one. They appear
to be satisfied with what they can find.
We again visited this site, in the Fall of
'98 and saw by the numerous tracks
about the tree, that the nest was occu-
pied, but, by what we could not
make out, as the tracks were strange to
us. A charge of shot into the nest
brought down a pair of old, and four
young, white-footed mice. This ended
the history of that nest, as it was blown
down the following winter.
April 21, 1896, and April 11th, 1897,
we collected sets of four Red-should-
ered Hawk's eggs from a nest in the
crotch of an oak tree, forty-one feet
nine inches from the ground. The nest
was a typical Buteo's, made of large
sticks and containing much inner bark.
In 98 the Red shouldered Hawk did
not appear but a pair of Cooper's added
to the top a few small branches, and
reared their young there. During the
winter of 1898-1899 this nest was blown
down Last spring the Cooper's Hawks
built a new nest, whose history we
spoiled by removing it entire, together
with its complement of three incubated
eggs, to our den.
In 18^7, on April 20th, we located
nests rf the Red -shouldered and Coop-
er's Hawks, which were not more than
two hundred foet distant from each
other. These were both of the build of
'&7 and were typical, each, of its spec-
ies. The Red-shouldered's nest con-
tained two slightly incubated eggs,
which we tock. The nest of the Coop,
er's was just completed. On April
oOth, we tock a set of four fresn eggs
from it. Visiting the locality after
Chickadee's eggs on May 12th, the
same year, we were surprised to start a
Cooper's Hawk from the Buteo's nest.
A climb to the nest showed that every
vestige of the inner bark had been re-
moved. A few small sticks had been
added, and the nest relined with outer
bark. The nest contained three eggs
of the Cooper's. One of the eggs look-
ed as if it might have been deposited
many days before the other two, as it
had lost all its bluish tint, and other-
wise appeared to be highly incubated,
while the remaining two had the ap-
pearance of being perfectly fresh. We
believed, and still do, that this faded
egg was part of the first set, which had
been taken before it was completed,
so we decided to take the set to see if
this would not be evidenced by the dif-
ferent stages of incubation. But, on
blowing, it proved no different from
THE 05L0GIST.
13
the others, all showing incubation had
just commenced. Neither of these
nests have since been occupied.
April 25th, 1891", we found a nest
which had every appearance of being
occupied by a Uedshouldered Hawk,
very large sticks, inner bark showing
prominently, and a pine branch here
and there, about the top sides. It was
situated in th-i fork of a large branch,
which sloped awiy from the trunk of
the tree, and was forty -two feet from
the jjrnuQd. The bird left the nest
when we were about fifty feet from the
tree, and almost the tame instant, a full
grown gray sq lirrel sprang from the
under part of the nest, ran over it. and
flattened itself against the tree, a few
inches above the nest, and there re-
mained uniil we began the climb. So
astonished were we at seeing a squirrel
jump from the very nest of a Hawk,
that we paid littlo nttention to the bird,
and were very much surprised upon
reaching the nest, to find that it's occu-
pant was an Acciperal cooper i, instead
of a Buteo lineatus. This rest contain-
ed both the inner and outer bark o' the
chestnut. It was plac d in such nn un-
fortunate position, that it was with
great diffi julty we succeeded in colitct-
ing the three fresh eggs which it con-
tained. The posi'ion of the nest was
so trying, that when the eggs were
taken, wc^ could not wait to examiae
the nest sufliciently to assert positively
that it was a combined nest of the sqir-
rel and the Cooper'd. I do not dare to
state the manner in wnich we got the
eggs down from this nest, for when we
told the story at home that evening, we
were immediately branded as worthy
disciples of Ananias, and since then,
whenever an impropable story is heard,
some one is sure to suggest that we can
tell a pretty good yarn about how we
procured a certain set of Cooper's
Hawk. But though the set is, we fear,
incomplete it is on recount of it's asso-
ciation, prized most highly. It was not
occupied in the spring of '99, t>ut last
fall my brother shot a gray sqirrel from
the tree which evidently made tin nest
his home. We hava no doubt but that
this nest was built and first occupied by
a Red-shouldered Hawk, then occupied
by a Cooper's Hawk, and during the
wiater and perhaps a pact of the
spring, was occupied by squirrels.
The fact that it contained much inner
bark when it was occupied by the
Cojper's suggests the idea that the
Co'iper'd Hawks may h ive drivon the
Buteo away from the nest, aft-r she
had prepared it for occupancy in the
spring of '97, fjr during the whole of
that spring the Buteos were in the
grove, but did not nest there. We
have no knowledge as to which of these
sptc.es is considered the stronger.
In 1898 we took a set of Red-should-
ered Hawk's from a pine tree. Typical
nest, forty-six feet, six laches from the
ground. In April, lt:99, we took from
this nest a set of three 'g^s of the
Barred Owl. The Owls used the nest
just as they found it, without the ad-
dition of a stick <r a bit of burk.
The lust ntst which my noto books
show w!is used by different species,
was a nest built aud occupied by a
Coopor'.s in '95. !"his nest was fifty
feet from the grouud, in the crotch of
a chestnut tree. A pair of Red-should-
ered Hawks appropiiated this nest in
1899.
John H. Flanigan,
Providence, R I.
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Audubon's Caracara sets of 2 75
Rare Owls, &c. Send for full list.
W. RAINE, Kew Beach, TORONTO, CAN.
The OoLOGiST.
A MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO
OOLOGY. ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY.
VOL. XVIII. NO. 2.
ALBION, N. Y., FEB., 1901.
Whole No. 178
Wants, Exchanges, and For Sales.
Brief special announcements, "Wants," "Exclianges" "For Sales," Inserted In tMs department
tor 25c per 25 words. Notices over 25 words, charged at the rate of one-half cent per each additional
word. No notice Inserted for less than 25c. Terms, cash with order.
Strictly First-class specimens will be accepted In pajTnent at one-third list rates.
What's Your Number?
Examine the number following your name
on the wrapper of this month's Oologist. It
denotes when your subscription expired or
will expire.
No. 173 your subscription expires with this issue
175 " " " " Apr., 1901
180 " " " " Sept., '•
184 •' '■ " " Dec, "
Intermediate numbers can easily be deter-
mined. If we have you credited wrong we
wish to rectify.
"I am sending you payment for the enclosed
adv. to be inserted in the next Issue of the best
advertising medium I knowof-THE Oologist."
W. LEE CHAMBERS, Santa Monica, Calif.
WANTED.-Copy of March, 1893, Oologist.
Will give 4 different back No.'s Oologist.
JOHN D. CURRIE, 1210 Yale Place, Minnea-
polis, Minn.
TO EXCHANGE.— With Twin City collectors
sets 343, my collecting JOHN D. CURRIE,
1210 Yale Place, Minneapolis, Minn.
WANTED FOR CASH.— Will give cash for
desirable sets. Send your lists at once, with
lowest cash price. Many common sets wanted.
W. LEE CHAMBERS, Santa Monica, Gal.
GIVEN.— A nest 20 ft. out on a limb. Prob-
lem: To get the eggs. Solution: Nowell's
Collectors" Tool. Drop him a card for circular.
WANTED FOR CASH.— First-class sets of
game birds, (particularly large sets) Ducks,
Geese, Grouse, Partridges, etc. Send list and
lowest cash prices : also quote fine sets of any
North American birds. J. L. CHILDS, Floral
Park, N. Y. 174
FOR SALE in the flesh during Feb., March
and April: Common Cormorats. 75c to $125;
Gt. Am. Sheldrake, 30c to 75c; Golden Eyes, 25c
to 40c. ALVAH G.DORR,Taxidermist and Fur
Dealer, Bucksport, Maine.
WANTED.— Ridgeway's Birds of Illinois,
Vol. II. Will pay cash. ISAAC E. HESS,
Philo, Ills.
WANTED.— Orders for choice sets of Califor-
nia birds' eggs. To be collected during the sea-
son of 1901. J. S. APPLETON, Simi, Ventura
Co., Cal.
PHEASANT EGGS FOR HATCHING.- On
and after May first I will be ready to supply
settings of Mongolian Ring Neck Pheasants.
Settings of 15, price $4. Orders booked now. A.
W. PERRIOR, 1409 So. Salina St., Syracuse,
N. Y. 174
FOX, MOUNTED.— To exchange for Nat.
History books, printing press, money, back
No.'s Auk, Taxidermist, etc. Write for photo,
describing what you have. Also have Hamil-
ton 22-cal. rifle for Hornaday's or Rowley's
Taxidermy. J. D. ANTHONY. Waubeek.Iowa.
NOTICE.— Send your catalogue of Insects,
Sea Curios, Reptiles, Birds, Minerals, etc., to
EDWIN H. REIBER, 160 Champlain St., Roch-
ester, N. Y.
WANTED.-Collectors throughout the United
States and Canada to collect for me scientifi-
cally birds' eggs in sets, with full data, at }i
Lattin's catalogue rates. DR. M. T. CLECK-
LEY, 457 Greene St., Augusta, Ga. 175
COMBINATION OFFER.— While they last I
will sell Cal. Br wn Pelican ^j, Cassins' Auklet
1-1. Western Gull ^j. Annas' Hummingbird n-2,
Costas' Hummingbird n-2, for $vi.40. Remem-
ber all extra fine sets, with complete data. If
you wish to buy them singly write me. W.
LEE CHAMBERS, Santa Monica, Cal.
EXCHANGE.— I have large lot of sets and
singles of Mounted Birds and Skins, Ornithol-
ogist and Stamp Magazines. I want Eggs,
Skins, Mounted B rds. etc. Send lists, all an-
swered. W.JENNINGS WIRT, Box 137,Gaines,
Orleans Co., N. Y.
ARIZONA SKINS FOR EXCHANGE —I have
just received a lot of Arizona skins, which I
will offer in exchange for any a-1 sets not in my
collection. Among the lot are Rivoli Hum-
mingbirds, Grades Warblers, Elf and Pigmey
Owl, Black-vented Shearwaters, Mt. Plover,
ect. W. LEE CHAMBERS, Santa Monica.
Cal.
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THE OOLOGIST.
OSPREY'S EGGS richly marked and a-1 da-
ta; 3-4 60c per egg, 10 3 45c per egg, 4S 40c per
egg, 3-1 30c per egg; 12 second-class singles 10c
per egg; Sharp Shinned Hawk, 3 heavily blotch-
ed singles $1 per egg; 14x5 Vive camera hold-
ing 12 plates 85. All postpaid. For sale or ex-
change. J. B. NEWTON, Unionville, Ct.
EXCHANGE. - The season for collecting is
now here. Are you supplied with data blanks?
I am furnishing a number of collectors with
these desirable books. 100 datas, with stub at-
tached, f'ize 3x6. stub 2)4 x 3, extra quality
paper, at 50c per 100. In exchange for desirable
sets. Write me and send list. Satisfaction
guaranteed. GEO. W. MORSE, Box 230, Ash-
ley, Indiana.
EXCHANGE.— I have a li!=t of over 200 sets
with full data to exchange for sets not in my
collection. These sets are from California, Ar-
izona and Texas, and I can supply most any
common sets from these localities along « ith a
great many rare ones. Send lists to W. LEE
CHAMBERS, Santa Monica, Cal.
FOR EXCHANGE— West Indian land shells,
also several cases and drawers suitable for
eggs or sht'Us, desiderata shells, curios^, etc. T.
Q PRIDDEY, 371 Carlton St., Toronto, Can-
ada.
EXCHANGE.— In exchange for desirable sets
with data, some back No.'s of Sports Afield,
Gameland Recreation, Art and Nature. Outing,
The Taxidermy, Collectors' Monthly,OoLOGiST,
Bird Loie, and Os rey Write me your wants
and send list. GEO. W. MORSE, Box 230, Ash-
ley, Indiana.
EXCHANGE.— I will exchange Cameras,
Kodaks, Rifles, Revolvers, Bicycles of any
make you may want that is a standard wheel,
or anything in the sporting goods line for rare
sets of N. A. birds' eggs not in my collection.
Or will sell the above for part cash and take
the balance in eggs. W. L.EE CHAMBERS,
Santa Monica. Cal.
TO EXCHANGE.— Indian Relics, Marlin
Rifle, 33 Cal. with tools. Stamps, 75 Stamp pa-
pers, Telescope, Eggs, Books, etc. Want Ban-
jo Music, Typewriter, Hammerless Shotgun,
Stevens Rifle, Pistol. Mounted Birds or tobac-
co tags. F. H. RICKER, Box 38, Lisbon. Me.
NEW TURNEY Coaster brake and hub Cen-
tury Gas Bicycle Lamp, used twice, Medical
Record for 1900, Phila. Medical Journal ■ for
1900. What offers in mounted birds, etc. DR.
A. E. PAYNE, Riverh-ad, N. Y.
TAXIDERMIST'S OUTFIT:— Contains one
heavy Cartilage Knife ; 1 nickeled and engrav-
ed Scalpel with tip shaped for detaching skin,
muscles, &c ; 1 pair Scissors; 1 pair Forceps;
1 Dissecting Hook; 1 Brain Spoon; 1 pocket
Wire Cutter. Instruments best, all packed in
polished Hard-wood Case. A better outfit than
the one always sold at $3. I have only two
outfits and will close them out at only $2.20
prepaid. FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y.
WANTED.— Osprey, Hummers. Hawks, War-
blers and all N. A. birds' eggs in choice sets,
large series evtn of common species. Pay cash
or good exchange in books, magazines, oolo-
glst tools and supplies, bicycles, guns, fish rods
and tackle, cameras, field glasses, in fact al-
most any article for outdoor sport or nature
study. Send lists, quote lowest prices if you
want cash or state what you want in exchange.
I can save you money if you want to pay cash
for any of above articles. BENJAMIN HOAG,
Stephentown, New York.
"Would say my ad. In Oologist for un-
mounted sea mosses has brought me specimens
enough to cover a surface 12 ft. square. I
think the Oologist Is the best advertising
medium for collectors in America." WM.
CUDNEY, Gait, Ont.
WANTED.— Sets of eggs containing abnor-
mal specimens, such as runts, albinos, mon-
strocities, abnormally colored or shaped eggs.
Will give cash or good exchange. J. W^ARREN
JACOBS, Waynesburg, Pa. lul
OOLOGiSTS WANTED:— Will pay 50cts.
each cash for one of each June 18'8, and April
1889, and will give an exchange notice, or cou-
pon good for one, for copies of the January
1895 and April 1899 issue, a notice for each copy.
FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y.
WANTED:— Will pay cash or "swap" eggs
of American Osprey and Hummingbirds (any
species with nest). Two good skins of each
the Am. Barn and Long-eared Owls, Rattle-
snake Rattles, Eggs of Hammerhead Shark.
Write what you have and what you want.
FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion. N. Y.
1 send you today some ads for your excellent
paper, I must say that ads in your paper al-
ways pay.— CHRIS P. FORGE, Carman, Mani-
toba.
HEAR YE I Hear Ye ! Hear Ye 1 This is to
certify that my advertisements in the Oolo-
gist have paid me better than have the com-
bined ads. in most of the amateur and natural
science papers. Ads. in the Oologist always
bring returns, and it is safe to say that there is
no paper having three times the circulation of
this widespread periodical which can give
equal satisfaction. MORRIS GIBBS, M. D.,
Kalamazoo, Mich
PLATE HOLDER-Double, 5V4x5>sr, Blair
Camera Co., ($1.00), prepaid 34c. FRANK H.
LATTIN, Albion N. Y.
CODDINGTON MAGNIFIER(Miners' glass),
diameter %in, cost $1.50, prepaid 95cts. FRANK
H. LATTIN,Albion, N. Y.
"SNAPS"for taxidermists.7in Stuffers, spring
handle (1.25), 80c; Scissor handle Stuffers, i2in.
($1.75), $1.05; Scissor-handle Stuffer, 15in, ($2.50)
$].60; Bone Cutters, extra fine and heavy, ($2.50)
$1.60; Forceps for Insects ($1.25) 78c: Botanical
Collecting Can with shoulder strap, size 12x754
x3>!J in. ($150) $1.10; Tenaculum or Dissecting .
Hook, folding in handle ($1) 28c. All prepaid at
prices quoted, regular prices in ( ). FRANK
H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y.
"I don't know whether my ad. has reached
its time limit yet or not, but stop it any way.
My supply of exchange material was exhaust-
ed some time ago and replies to the ad. still
come in. F. P. DROWNE, 20 Benefit St.. Prov-
idence, R. I.
MAYNARD'S "Birds of Eastern North Amer-
ica " This elaborate work was published about
25 years ago at $18 00 and contained 532 pages.
I have three parts of this valuable work, each
containing about 300 pages (over Vi of original)
bound in tag-board covers. The Thrushes.
Warblers, Starlings, Water Birds and Shore-
birds are complete, will st 11 at only $?.00 per copy
prepaid. I also have 3 copies each containing
about H of original work at $1.00 per copy pre-
paid I have 10 of original hand-colored plates
at $1.50 for lot. Samp e pages of work for
stamp. Style of text see article of 'Black
Duck" In Dec.OoiiOGiST. FRANK H. LATTIN
Albion, N. Y.
THE OOLOGIST.
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WANTED —Buyer for mounted specimens
In pairs of Peafowls, Pigeons, Pheasants, Loons,
Wild Ducks. Squirrels. Blue Jays, one Golden
Eagle, (fine) Owls. Hawks. All first-class.
Make an offer MISS LEAH BERKHEIMER.
Imler, Bedford Co., Pa.
COLLECTION 1,100 varieties foreign and
American stamps. $10 cash or half exchange.
Thousands Columbians and common Ameri-
cans. Approval sheets 25 per cent, discount
for cash. Several books— Travel. Story and
Historical. Eighty Oot.oGiSTS. Stylographic
Pen, Punch and Judy Whistles, Peachpit Mon-
keys. Want Scientific and Biblical Books or
cash. Let's exchange lists anyhow. ARTHUR
L. THORNE, Sonyea, Livingston Co., New
York.
FOR SALE —1 complete file of each Osprey
and Natural Sci<-nce News; 1 copy each Nov..
Dec. 189r, Jan^ 1898, Osprey; Nidologist, Vols. 2
and 3 complete. Vol. 4, 9 numbers, 1 copy each
Sept. 1894, May, Sept., Oct. 2, Dec. 1895; Museum
Vol. 2 complete, 1 copy Apr. 1895, 2 Dec. "95. 3
Mar. '96, 1 Nov. '96, 1 Aug. '97; Oregon Natural-
ist Vol. 2, Nos. 6 to 12 Inclusive, Vol. 3 com-
plete, 1 copy Feb. 1898; Oologist Vols 11, 12,13,
14, 15, 16 and 17 complete,! copy each Mar., Sep.,
Oct , Nov., Dec. '94. Aug.. Sept., Dec. '95, Feb.
'96 Nov., Dec. '97, Jan., Nov '98, Feb. 1900; Bul-
letin Michigan Ornithological Club Vol 2 com-
plete. Vol 3, Nos. 1 and 2, Vol. 1, No. 2; Bulletin
Cooper 0. Club Vol. 1. Nos. 1 and 2; Popular
Science Neivs Vol. 30, Nos. 6 to 12 inclusive. 1
copy each Feb. , Mar. 1897 ; Bird Lore Aug. 1899 ;
1 copy "Birds of Michigan." L. B. GILMORE,
Blooming Valley, Crawford Co., Pa.
NATURALISTS ATTENTION 1— Send postal
for rock bottom prices on all kinds of natural-
ists' and collectors' supplies. Can supply any
thing in the line at right prices. Naturalists'
Supplies, 2102 Arch St., Phila , Pa.
WANTED.— A Nn. 1 sets Of 27, 29, 63, 133, 225
and 226 from the original collector. I will give
exchange in sets or cash if reasonable. W. H.
BINGAMAN, Box 151, Algona, Iowa.
WANTED.— Am. sets with data. Have many
Brit, sets or will collect this season if wants
and prices are stated early. J.GORDON, Corse-
malzie, Whauphill, Wigtownshire, Scotland.
FOR SALE.— The following for sale cheap;
443 1-4, 1-3 at 5c, 506 1-4 at 4c, 316 1-2 at 2c, 552 1-3
at 2c, 593 1-3 at 3c, 633 1-3, 1-4 at 5C, 703 1-4 at 2c.
All eggs first-class, with datas. The above
g rices are per egg. ADOLF SHUTZE, 1611
abine St., Austin, Texas.
WANTED.— Back numbers of Osprey, Nid-
ologist, Avifauna Bird Lore Condor Vols. 1
and 2, and many others. Send full list and ex-
change price. I can offer in exchange eggs,
skins mounted birds and magazines and
stamps. W. JENNINGS WIRT, Gaines, Or-
leans Co., N. Y.
FOR SALE.— Whlppoorwlll 1-2 $1.20, Swain-
sons Hawk 3-3 55c, Gannet 1-1 80c, Fulmar 1-1
30c, Northern Phalarope 1-4 90c, Magnolia War-
bler 1-4 75c. Prices are per set, prepaid. I will
swap any of the above for sets of Am. Osprey
or raw furs. J AS. O. JOHNSON, Southing-
ton. Conn.
WANTED.— One hundred yearly subscrip-
tions to Recreation at 75 cents each. JAS. O.
JOHNSON, Southington, Conn.
FOR SALE.— The following first class singles
for sale cheap: 6 at 10c, 47 at 50c, 49 at 20c, 51 at
2 )c, 51a at 20c. 63 at 20c. 54 at 20c. 58 at 20c. 59 at
3.5c. 63 at 20c. 69 at 10c, 70 at 10c, 71 at 10. 72 at 15c,
74 at 10c, 77 at 10c, 80 at 10c 120a at 25c, 126 at 20c,
132 at 20c, 140 at 20c 142 at 30c, 146 at 35c, 160 at
20c, 188 at 35. 191 at 20c. 199 at 10c. 200 at 10c, 201
at 10c, 202 at 10c, 203 at 15c. 211 at 10c, 214 at 10c.
219 at 10c, 220 at 15c, 221 atSC, 261 at 35c, 263 at 15c.
289b at 10c, 294 at 10c, 300 at 15c. 305 at 20c, 316 at
3c, 325 at 50c, 326 at fiOc, 333 at 30c, 336 at 3,5c, 337
at 50c, 337b at SOf^, 341 at 50c, 360 at 20c, 368a at
$1, 373b at 40c, 378 at 15c, 385 at 25c, 387 at 10c, 390
at 20c, 394a at 50c, 412 at 5c, 413 at 10c, 406 at 8c,
443 at 10c, 444 at 3c, 447 at 5c, 4.52 at 10c, 458 at 15c.
461 at 10c, 477 at 5c, 481 at 20c, 493 at 10c, 495 at
3c, 495a at 10c. 497 at 3c, 498 at 3c, 506 at 6, 507 at
6c, 511 at 5c, 511b at 5c, 512 at 5c 513 at 10c, 560 at
30, 563 at 3c, 567b at 75c, .581 at 8c, 587 at 10c, 593 at
5c, 594 at 35c, 601 at 10c, 604 at 5c, 610 at 85c, 611 at
10c, 612 at 5c, 613 at 5c. 622 at 5c, 622a at 5c, 624 at
10c, 627 at 15c, 630 at $1, 633 at 10c, 653 at 5c. 683 at
5c, 713 at 10c, 705 at 3c, 703 at 5c, 704 at .3c, 719 at
25c, 78Ia at 10c, 725at .5c, 731a at 75. 735aat50c.761
at 3c, 761a at 10c. 766 at 5c, 767 at 10c. 768 at 10c.
The above mentioned prices are per egg. Any
party sending me $2. 50 may select to the amount
of $1.50 from the above list. I have only a few
eggs and of some only one of the above men-
tioned, as I am closing out my collections of
singles. All eggs are strictly first-class. Small
orders also accepted. ADOLF SCHUTZE, 1611
Sabine St., Austin, Texas.
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A NATIONAL SOCIETY for collectors of
shells, fossils, minerals, Indian relics, war rel-
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The Student's Shell Collection
This Collection contains Forty Small Shells
collected from all quarters of the Globe, all of
which are numbered to correspond with a cat-
alogue, which gives their proper, common and
scientific names, with the locality where found.
These shells when purchased individually and
properly labelled would cost from 2 to 25 cents
each. The following are the specimens found
in this collection :
Scorched Murex, Thorny-nosed Murex, Fish
Basket, Gem Shell, Inflated Olive, Lettered
Olive, Rice, Dove, Thunder Storm, Pelican's
Foot, Ringed Cowry, Snake-head Cowry, Money
Cowry, Rye, Porcelain Rump, Boat, Worm,
Brown Snail, Yellow Pea, Beaded Tower, Tow-
er, Bloody Tooth, White Tooth, Zebra, Wheel.
Venetian Snail, Key-hole Limpet, Many-lined
Bulimulus, Hunch backed Partula, Black-
mouthed Tree Snail. Banded Tree Snail, Littlfr
Agate, Silk Worm, Pea Nut, Banded Melam-
pus, Indian Wampum, A ngel Wing, Sun, Scal-
lop and Jingle- Price $1.00.
FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y.
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CLIMBERS? You need them now. Do yom
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as they should be for tree climbing? 82 50 with
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after using. "They Cut the Lining " I have
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you may desire.
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$50.00. "Trade" (other than cash) advertise-
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Remittances should be made by Draft, Express
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* The Birds of Michig-an and Their
Protection.
Members oj the Agassiz Ass'n: —
I am rf quested to address you on the
subject of bird protection, and gladly
accept your kind invitation. For the
purposes of the present discussion,
birds may be divided into two classes:
First, game birds; second, birds that
are not considered game. By game
birds I mean edible birds, the pursuit
and taking of which affords sport for
the gunner. There are several species
of birds, however, that are edible and
that never should be killed by sports,
men because of their beauty, or their
quality as songsters, or their value to
agriculture as insect eaters. The birds
which may be properly classed as game
birds, and which are found in your
state are: Web- footed wild fowl, the
Grouse family, the Sand pipers, the
Plover family, the Snipe family, the
Quail family, the Curlew family.
The Wood Duck is usually classed as
a game bird and is eagerly pursued by
sportsmen, but as a matter of fact, it
should never be killed. Within the
past few years it has become exceed-
ingly rare and is threat sued with early
extinction. Still it is one of the most
beautiful plumage birds on this conti-
nent. Its economic value as an article
of food is so small that it should never
be hunted or shot at by any true sports-
man. I hope to live to see the time
when all states will have laws protect-
ing the Wood Duck, for all time to
come.
In fact, all migratory water fowls are
threatened with extermination and un-
less all states and all Canadian prov-
inces speedily enact and enforce pro-
* A paper addressing Chapter 176 Detroit B.,
Agassiz Ass'n.
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tective laws, a dozen species of ducks
will disappear from the continent with-
in ten years. Under present conditions
the Indians in the far North hunt the
nests of the mother birds and destroy
the eggs by thousands. Almost as soon
as the young are hatched, and before
they are able to fly, these savages pur-
sue and kill them with clubs. A native
will eat at a single meal, a dozen young
wild geese, none of which are perhaps
larger than his dst; while if they weve
let alone any one of them would make
a good, square meal six months later.
As soon as the young water fowls are
able to fly they, with their parents
start on their southern migration.
When they cross the border into Mich-
igan, Minnesota, N. Dakota, Montana,
or Washington, an army of sportsmen
assa'l them. As the winter season ad-
vances, the birds move south and at
every stopping point they encounter a
new division of this army of shooters.
Even when they reach their winter
feeding grounds, about the Gulf of
Mexico, they are still pursued and
slaughtered
A still more savage enemy greets
them at the International boundry. I
refer now to the market hunters.
These men move south with the birds,
clear into the gulf states; camp with
them all winter and then follow them
north to the International boundry line
again on the spring flight.
A game dealer in Chicago, for in-
stance, receives a shipment of wild
geese and ducks from a market hunter
in Minnesota or N. Dakota in August.
In September he receives another
shipment from the same man 100
miles farther south. He keeps on re-
ceiving daily or weekly shipments
from this same man, clear down from
the Mississippi Valley into Louisiana or
Texas, all through the winter. Then
the shipments begin to come from a
point farther north and continue with
unceasing irregularity through March,
April and up into May, the last ship-
ment coming again from N. Dakota or
Minnesota
Is it a wonder therefore, that be-
tween the warfare kept up by these
sportsmen and their goril'a allies, the
water fowl should steadily decrease
from year to year? The wonder is that
they have been able to withstand these
terrific onslaughts so long. It is only
because they are such prolific breeders,
and in spite of this they are doomed,
under the existing circumstances. The
remedy is for shorter open seasors.
These should be limited to 30 days.
Second: The season should open on
the same day and close on the same
day in all states within given parallels
of latitude. For instance, in all states
north of the 40th parallel the season
should open Sept. 1st and close Sept.
30th. In all states south « f the 40th
degree, and north of the 35tb degree, it
should open Oct 1st, and close Oct.
31st. In all states on or south of the
35th parallel it should open Nov 1st
and close Dec. Slst. I wou'd accord
the extra 30 days of open season to the
Southern states because in some seasons
the water fowl would not reach these
states until late in November, or even
in December.
Third: All states should pass laws
limiting the bag for any one shooter to
ten ducks and three geese for any one
day, and to fifty ducks or fifteen geese
for any one year. ,
Fourth: The sale of game of all
kinds should be rigidly prohibited at
all times. The broad principle should
be established that game is and should
be the property of the man who can go
afield and kill it. He should be per-
mitted to give to his friends, to a
reasonable extent, but not to sell to any
one.
Fifth: A rigid and impartial enforce-
ment of game laws everywhere and at
all times.
Much that has been said as to the
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protectidn of water fowls applies with
equal force to all birds of the Grouse
fataily, to Woodcock, Qiail, and to the
Snipe and Plover families
Laws should be made to open on all
kinds of game on a given day and close
on all kinds 30 days later, and the man
found in the woods, in the fields, or on
the waters wiih a gun, at nny other
time of the year, that fact should be
considered prima facie evidence that
he has violated a game law or is trying
to do so, and he shouM be liable to a
fine of not less than $10 on conviction.
The following speci^-s are habitually
pursued by many sportsmen, but are
not game birds, and (with the exception
of two species of Hawk) should nfver
be killed: Hawk?, Owls, Blackbirds,
Gulls, Pelicans, Cranes, Loons, Ibises,
Egrols, rormi)raats, Bittoins, Herons,
Doves, Eagles, Wocdoeckers, Robins,
and Meadow larks.
Much that has been said as to the
protection of game birds applies with
equal force to song and insectivorous
birds Many of these are killed and
eatan — not, I am glad to say, by real
sportsmen, but in many cases by men
who pose as such. The greatest enem-
ies of song, insectivorous and plumage
birds are the Italians and other for-
eigners who live in the great cities
An army of these men go out of every
great city every Sundav morning during
at least eight months of the year with
cheap shotguns, and kill every bird
they can find, no matter of what kind.
Robins, Thrushes, Orioles, Tanagers,
Blue Jays, Pewees, Song Sparrows,
Bluebirds— all go into the Dago's bag;
then into the pot and from there into
his rapacious maw.
Many states have enacted laws pro-
hibiting the killing of song birds at any
time of year, but unfortunately such
laws are not enforced as they should be
The remedy for this lies in a greater
number of game wardens and of more
vigorous action on the part of all bird
lovers. There should be at least one in
every county of this state, and if one
could be provided to each township, so
much the better. The minimum fine
for killing a song bird or an in'^ectivor-
ous bird should be $25 Half of this
should goto the game w arden, and in ad-
dition he should be paid a salary which
wouM warrant him a comfoT table living.
Another great enemy of song birds,
and especially those classed as plumage
birds, is the market hunter. This man
kills and skins the small birds for mil-
linery purposes. He also kills thous-
ands of plumage birds, such as Egrets
and Ibis and plucks a few plums from
each and leaves the biid to rot In
many cases he kills the mother bird
and a brood of young are, left on the
nest to starve to death. All this in-
fatuous traOic should be suppressed, as
speedily as possible.
All statf s should prohibit the wearing
of skins or plumage of birds on hats.
A few of the slates have already passed
laws to prohibit the killing and selling
of such birds for such purposes, but this
does not cover the case. The way to
remedy an evil is to strike at the root
of it. Let us destroy the market for
bird ekins, and bird feathers, then the
vandals who are slaughtering these
birds finding their occupation gone,
will have to go at somethidg else. If
they are too lazy to work, let them go
to stealing horses and they will soon
land in the penitentiary, where they
should have been long ago.
Let it be considered the duty and the
privilege of every friend of bird pro-
tection to condemn and decry, at every
opportunity, the habit of certain wom-
en of wearing bird skins or plumage on
their hats. The only hope of saving
from total extinction the many species
of birds in this country, lies in the rap-
id creation of a strong public sentiment
against the millinery traffic in bird
skins.
This warning is not the result of im-
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aptination or of speculation. It is the
result of a careful and thorough study
of the subject extending over a period
of 30 years. I have travelled over
nearly every state and territory in the
Union, and have personally seen the
Praire Chi<^keQ and the Wild Turkey
swept almost entirely from the great
state of Illinois. I have seeu the Ruffed
Grouse and the Quail almost entirely
wiped out of the state of New York.
I have seen the Woodcock driven to
the verge of exterminatian throughout
all the New England States. I have
seen the Wild Pigeon s'vept from the
whole United States and I have seen
practically all species of birds reduced
in numbers from 25 to 50 per cent, all
over the continent.
It was principally and primarily for
the purpose of arresting this terrible
slaughter that the League of American
sportsmen was organized. Men, wom-
en and boys are eligible to membership
in this League and all such who are at
all desirous of seeing the beautiful
feathered creatures remain on earth,
should join the League at once and aid
us in saving ihem.
G O. Shields,
New York City.
Bird Music.
(Concluded).
We have no regular night singers in
the Great Liike Region, so far as lam
able to learn, and in this respect Amer-
ica does not equal England, which has
several nocturnal songsters, one of
which excels as a mu-ician. The fa-
mous English naturalist, Gilbert White,
records three species which sing at
night in the British Isles. They are the
Reed Sparrow, which sings among the
reeds and willows, the Woodlark, sing-
ing in mid-air, and the Nightingale, as
Milton describes it,—
"In shadiest covert hid."
There are several species of owls
which roll forth or screech out their
notes at night, and also numerous shore
birds and water- fowl that issue their
varied calls, and, especially these lat-
ter are partial to night travel, spring
and autumn. Then too our Whippoor-
will confines his singular but monot-
onous jargon to the hours of darkness,
while the scream of the Nighthawk
more often breaks on the ear between
the setting and rising of the sun. But
these birds are not strictly speaking,
songsters, although their notes un-
doubtedly fill their requirements as to
harmony and expression.
The plain, domestic little Chipping
Sparrow sometimes favors us with its
simple chatter in the darkest night.
The notes hardly deserve the name of
song, but heard issuing from the sur-
rounding gloom, the simple refrain
commands our attention from its oddity
at the unusual hour. The Wood Pewee
not rarely quavers forth its plaintive
offering, sounding in the depth of night
like a wail from a departed spirit.
This favorite songster is a remarkably
early riser, as he is also late in going
to rest, and I have sometimes thought,
that his musical efforts at night were
the result of an error on his part— an
idea strengthened by the fact that the
notes are rarely heard more than once
or twice during the night, and more-
over the song is only occasional, and
only in the nesting season.
Other species which are heard to
burst forth in ecstatic melody, are the
Swainson's and Hermit thrushes. If 1
could describe the socgs of birds, so
that other bird-lovers could understand
them as I do, I would feel that a partial
acknowledgement had been made to
the divine melody issuing from these
bird's throats.
The Cuckoo also sings at night, or at
Itast bubbles out its peculiar empha-
sised jargon, and which is called a song
out of courtesy rather than from any
real merit. Both species, the Black-
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billed and Yellow-billed cuckoos favor
ns, but the former is more abundant.
We often hear that the best singers
are the ones of plainest dress, but this
is assuredly not so in all instances. If
one is permitted to listen to the sweet
refrain of the Scarlet Tanager in the
night, it will be acknowledged that the
brilliant coat of the songster does not
compare in point of excellence to the
owner's divine song.
These birds are the only ones at the
north that I am acquainted with that
sing during the hours of darkness, and
not o' e of them is a regular singer
in the night. luformation has reached
me from no less an authority than Mr.
Robert Ridgway of Washington, to the
effect that the Yellow- breasted Cbat is
a performer in darkness.
Amoug birds, the females do not
sing, and although many species have
musical ca'Jnotes and agreeable tones
in conversation, which are shared in
by both sexes still the true song is only
rendered by the male bird I am sin-
cere in saying that the lady bird talks
more than her mate about the house,
but I will admit that when away from
home she is very discreet in this re-
spect, lu attending to her duties of
incubation she is very quiet, and it is
seldom that a note is heard from her
while on the nest. It has been said
that all birds are silent when incuba-
ting, so as to avoid observation, though
most species are quiet when setting,
there are a few which chirp loudly
when so engaged, and soaie even burst
into exuberant song.
Few observers are aware how assid-
ous are the attentions of the two birds
to one another during incubation, and
the credit which is due to the father-
bird in hi-t devotion in covering the
eggs in his mate's absence is not allow-
ed him.
Of course, when a bird is heard sing-
ing on the nest we know that the notes
come from the male, but many young
observers are inclined to aUribute it to
the female. Another source of error
in failing to identify the sex occurs
with those species in which the male
assumes the plumage of the female un-
til the second or third year-
The Chipping Sparrow sometimes
sings his chattering refrain while upon
the eggs. Yellow Warblers are not
rarely heard singing from the nest, but
one has to wait patiently in a neigh-
boring copse, at the proper season, in
order to see, hear and be convinced.
I have once heard the Maryland Yel-
low-throat's song from its concealed nest
in the grass ;in fact I found the nest, from
hearing the peculiar notes, almost at
my feet. Several times the song of the
House Wren has reached me, coming
from the cavity where the old bird was
setting solacing himself in his cavernous
nesting spot.
Once, each, I have heard the notes
of the Black-billed Cuckoo, Scarlet Tan-
ager, Orchard Oriole. Goldfinch, Ruse-
breasted Grosbeak, and the Hermit
Thrush, the latter the only thrush whose
song has positively reached me from
the nest. One would think that the
Brown Thrush, Catbird, and Robin,
as great singers, would burst forth on
the nest, but it must be borne in mind
that these thrushes prefer higher perch-
es for singing, while the Hermit is a
ground nester and often sings on the
ground.
But of all the species which are musi-
cal while setting, the Warbling Vireo
heads the list, both for persistence and
for beauty of song, according to my
note-book. Anyone can listen to the
song of the Warbling Vireo on the nest
if the trouble is taken to tind a nest
with eggs in May or June. For when
the mate takes his trick keeping the
eggs warTi, he cheers himself, and en-
livens the surroundings by pouring
forth his rippling, inspiring melodious
warble. I have heard him sing from
the nest in early morning; in the hot-
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test part of the day, and in the early
twilight, and I have heard him issue
as many as twenty bursts of soog
during one spell on the nest, and
have discovered the nest on more than
one occasion by the sweetly modu-
lated tell-tale song.
These species are all the birds I have
found to sing while on the nest.
Morris Gibbs,
Kalamazo, Mich.
Field Notes from Manitoba.
While reading the articles in the Jan.
1901 OoLOGiST I noticed an article on
the use of old nests, which suggested to
me, adding a few notes on my experi-
ence rt'garding the use of old nests by
Hawks and Owls.
Before I became a resident of this
glorious western continent, from my
early boyhood days, I could find no
greater enjoyment than a ramble in the
woods, lanes and fields of old England,
and I found many a set of Sparrow
Hawk, Kestrel and one each of the Mer-
lin, Hobby and Long-eared Owl. All
these gala days are as fresh in my mem-
ory as if they had happened but a week
or 80 ago, and I well remember with
what joy I returned home with my first
set of four beautiful Sparrow Hawk's
eggs taken from a nest in a larch (tam-
arac) wood. How long I watched that
nest. Five weeks elapsed from the
time I found it until I finally brought
home the set of four eggs. The nest
was built by the birds themt'elves and
was a large flat structure of larch twigs
in a shallow depression of which lay the
prettiest set of Sparrow Hawk's eggs I
ever was fortunate enough to find.
Many a set of Sparrow Hawk's eggs I
took after that but I never got another
set one-half so handsome.
Again, quite fresh in my memory is
the chalk quarry in Lincolnshire where
I flushed a Merlin from her nest on my
return home from a day's collecting,
and how on the following evening with
my brother and an oolo2ical friend and
a wagon rope I came back determined
to add to my collection a new species of
eggs. The rope made fast to a stake
well driven in the ground I (ippcended
and there in a slight depression on a
ledge in the chalk clifif resting on a bed
of a few blades of withered grass I es-
pied a lovely set of five Merlin eggs.
On another fine May day I visited a
larch w^nd at a distance from home,
and in a tall pine from »he very top I
took from a Crow's nest I had robbed
but two weeks previously a handsome
set of Hobby's eggs and in descending
unfortunately broke one of them.
But it it about the nests of our own
Manitoba that I intended to write so
must forget for the present these pleas
ant memories of boyhood days. It was
on the 15th day of June, 1887 that my
residence in the great West commenc-
ed, and I at once began to investigate,
although only in the last two yrars
have I been able to make a specialty of
oological rerearch.
The first nest of the Red-tail 1 found
was found that summer. It was the 1st
of July and three well fledged young
birds were its occupants. The nest
was in a small oak 25 ft. up in a main
fork of the tree but I could not tell if it
was new or old as it had been occupied
so long. The next nest of thi^ species
I examined was in a lone thorn tree
way out in the boundless prairie miles
from any bush on the side of a creek
where the birds lived royally on the
marsh birds that abounded on the creek
and in the neighboring swamp. This
nest also contained three well fledged
young, and was used year after year
for four years to my certain knowledge.
This was from 1890 to 1894, the last
time I was at the place. I intend to
visit this place the coming spring to see
if the Hawks are still breeding there.
In the spring of 1893 I went for a
ramble in the woods west of Carman.
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It was the Ist of May, and in an old
Red-tail's nest on an overhanging limb
of a large oak tree cear a shallow creek
I found a family of Western Great
Horned Owls. There were three of
them and I took them all. All were
different in size; I kept them for two
months and got some very interesting
notes regarding them. I then gave
them their liberty. On the 15th of May
the same year I took three Red-tail's
eggs from this nest. It had been slight-
ly repaired and a few green leaves add-
ed.
But I must pass on to the past season
and describe some of the takes noted
down during the months of April, May
and June.
My first find was on April 6th (this is
very early here) in heavy oak bush at
Salterville amongst scattered trees On
the outside of the bush I located a nest
of Krider's Hawk. This was an oid
nest and has been used for three suc-
cessive years. On April 2d I had taken
two Western Great Horned Owl's eggs
from this nest. The nes!; was repaired
and a lining of bark, grass and leaves
added. It was between 35 and 40 feet
up in oak tree on side branch on a large
flat fork.
On May 4th, in light oak and poplar
bush on side of Boyne river three and
one-half miles east of Carman, return-
ing from a collecting trip I found a
Red-tail's nest in a large oak. This
was on side branch, hard to reach, but
I got to it after some hard work and
took therefrom three handsome eggs
The nest was quite new, large, of sticks
and twigs, lined with bark, leaves and
grass, and was placed about 30 feet up.
On the same date I got another set of
three Red-tail's eggs. The nest was in
a small poplar tree in a poplar bluff
only 18 feet high. The nest was the
largest I have ever seen. It measured
3 feet in height and 2^ across, was a
mass of large and small sticks and
twigs of poplar and willow and was
built on top of an old Crow'd nest. The
depression was 9 in. in diameter and
quite shallow and srarsely lined with
bark, leaves and stubble. I could see
this nest from either north or south at a
distance of over two miles.
On May 6th I took another set of
three. Nest in a tall oak 30 ft. up in
main fork, medium size, built of sticks
and twigs and lined with bark and
grass. This nest was new and although
there were old nests in the immediate
vicinity of this new one the birds seem-
ed to prefer to construct their own.
Next date, May 7tb, west of Carman
I got another set of three. This nest
was in an oak, one of a clump of three
in poplar woods. Nest was about 30
feet up in a fork on trunk and was new,
was built like others of sticks and twigs
and lined with grass and bark shreds.
The eggs were nicely marked.
On May 12th a set of two eggs was
taken from a poplar 25 ft. up in heavy
poplar woods northwest of Carman.
This nest was situated 25 ft. up, close
to trunk, made of poplar and willow
sticks and lined with grass and bark,
was of medium size and new In this
case there were several old nests handy
but the birds seemed to prefer to make
a new structure.
I see I have m'ssed one nest, date
May 9th. This Red-tail's nest was in a
tall oak tree 40 ft. up, the tree being in
and oak grove and situated on bank of
ravine which seems to be a favorite lo-
cation, placed in a fork near top of tree
on trunk, was a large coarse structure
of sticks and twigs, lined with bark,
leaves and grass and contained three
eggs. This also was a new nest.
A second set of two eggs taken on
May 12th was taken trom a large and
conspicuous nest in a poplar tree 20 ft.
from ground, the nest composed of
sticks and twigs, was lined with poplar
bark and a little dried grass and was
of this season's construction like one
previously mentioned. There were a
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number of old nests in the immediate
Ticinity of this nest which the birds
might have used.
A third set of Krider's, two eggs, tak-
en May 13th was taken in the same lo-
cality, local'y known as "the poplars-,"
a large tract of wooded country, cover-
ed with willow scrub and poplar trees.
This nest was in a poplar tree 25 ft. up
in main fork, nest of medium size, of
sticks, lined with leaves and grass with
few strips of poplar bark and was a
nest of the year, evidently built by the
birds themselves. Old nests abound all
through this district, but I found none
of them occupied.
On the 14th of May I again visited
this district and took a set of two Red-
tail's eggs. This nest was placed in a
tall dead poplar about half burned
through at the bottom and I was afraid
to climb it at first. However I made
up my mind to try it when the female
left the nest at my near approach, as 1
knew there was something to get, and
succeeded in reaching the nest and re-
turned to terra firma without mishap.
The wind was strong and cold and from
the north and a cold rain made this a
very unpleasant task. This was the
second largest nest of the season and
was built on the top of an old one.
The nest projected so far out around
the fork in which it was placed that I
had trouble in reaching over it and was
30 ft. high. The nest was composed of
large and small poplar sticks, many of
them being chined by the fire that had
passed through in the fall. The nest
was lined with poplar bark, grass and
a few green leaves. The nest was quite
close to the railway track .
On this day I took another set of two
while going homo, from dead poplar,
28 ft. up This nest was also large but
not as large as the other, of sticks of
poplar, lined with bark shreds and
leaves. A few feathers also were used
but I think these are accidental. This
also was a nest of the season.
May 16th visited Jickling's marsh
which lies in the poplar belt. I took
from a large nest in a poplar tree 35 ft.
up in main fork, a set of two eggs.
These were small, the smallest measur-
ing 2.20x1.65 and were well marked.
This nest was new, although situated
quite close to nests built the previous
year, was like the rest, of sticks, mostly
poplar, and lined with bark shreds and
roots, grass and leaves.
On May 17th a set of two eggs re-
warded my search. These were Red-
tails, the nest in a poplar tree 25 ft. up,
of sticks and twigs, lined with grass
and fine roots, was of large size and
new. A second nest found the same
day contained a set of three eggs, was
in a tall and spreading Balm of Gilead
tree, 25 ft. up, in main fork, was large
and new, composed as were all the oth-
ers found in this bush, of poplar sticks,
lined with bark, grass and leaves. As
I watched the old Red-tails circling
above I glanced around the neighbor
ing treetops and counted five more
nests within my view. I took my set
to the buggy and visited each of the
five nests in turn. They all proved to
be old nests in different stages of dilap-
idation, from which I should judge that
this pair of birds had bred here for a
few years and had used all the nests in
turn.
Another set of three eggs taken the
same date from a nest in a poplar tree
20 ft. up, was also a new nest and built
of sticks and twigs, lined with roots,
stubble and leaves.
On May 19th I took two sets of Red-
tail of three eggs each, both from pop-
lar trees. These nests were both new
and were within a short distance of old
nests evidently used in previous years.
Just two more nests I will mention
and then I will end my paper.
(To be continued.)
Chris P. Foege,
Carman, Manitoba.
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Strickland. — Ornithological Synonyms, Accipitres, 1855 65
Montagu. — Ornithological Dictionary, 183 1 i 50
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Harting. — Hints on Shore Shooting, 1871 40
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Hartley. — Hunting Sports of the West, 1865 50
Gibson. — Complete American Trapper, 1879 i 00
Miller — Cats and Dogs, 1869 50
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Tenney. — Manual of Zoology, illus 25
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«3 WILL BUY 137 varieties of foreign and
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In my collection. LOUIS W. HAHN, Lake
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1901 VEDETT BIKE (made by Pope M'f'e
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HOAG, Stephentown, New York.
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210, 228. 258a, 261, 286, 301, 302, 310. 478, 486, 618,
701. Can offer good sets, Belgian Hares, Abys-
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J. B. NEWTON, Unlonville, Conn.
TO EXCHANGE:- A 15.00 Winchester rifle
almost new, and a 812.00 Mandolin, book of in-
structions, extja strings, etc., for a camera of
equal value. A. R. BEYMER, Omer, Colo.
COLLECTORS :— My Egg Powder will re-
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out injury H pound 50 cents; 1 pound for
12.50 worth of sets. Send list. ROY. H.
BULLIS, Winnebago City, Minn.
FOR SALE AND EXCHANGE :— Live birds
fine large Snowy Owls, Cooper's Hawk, all in
fine plumage. Make me an offer for them. Al-
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"I take numbers of ornithological and oolo-
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ROY H. BULLIS, Winnebago City, Minn.
FOR SALE:— Combination Egg Set, consist-
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BURROUGHS, 401 C St., Brunswick, Qa.
COLUMBIA CHAINLESS BICYCLE, 1901
model, new, 22 or 24 frame, gear 82 or 74. $50
cash and 8.50 in eggs at list rates takes one.
BENJAMIN HOAG. Stephentown, New York.
"The one exchange notice I had in The Oolo-
GiST last year was so successful that it kept
me busy all the year with exchanges." J.
GORDON, Wigtownshire, Scotland.
SETS of Chestnut backed Chickadee 1-7, Ore-
gon Vesper Sparrow 1-6, Coopers Tanager 1-4,
Mangrove Cuckoo 1-4, Arizona Goldfinch 1-5,
Lawrence's Goldfinch 1-4, Western Goldfinch
1-4, Brewer's Sparrow 1-4, Audubon's Warbler
1-4, Mexican Goldfinch 15, Florida Grackle, 1 5,
Gild°d Flicker 1-5, Florida Blue Jay, 15, Flor-
ida Burrowing Owl 1-6, in exchange for books
in good condition or cheap for cash. H. S.
WARREN, 149 Gladstone Ave., Detroit Mich.
FOR SALE:— A fine one year old Bird Dog.
has been trained for Quails and Grouse and a
beauty too. Will sell for $5 00 cash. Freight
or express must be paid bv purchaser. Address
HANS ANDERSON, Box 13, Gushing, Howard
Co., Neb.
TO EXCHANGE:— Fine eggs in sets with
data for cash. Complete fllo of "The Osprey"
for $5.50. Will give cash or exchange for cer-
tain fossils. HARTLEY H. T. JACKSON, Box
87, Milton, Wis.
SOME OF THOSE rare sets of Pigmy Owls,
Pacific Horned Owls, Belding's Jay. P .sadena
Thrasher and Cassin's Kingbird'to exchange
for Coues" Key, Ridgway's Manual or other or-
nithological books. W' ill also sell a limited
number for cash or trade for sets of Rantores.
HARRY H. DUNN, Fullerton, Calif.
WANT ED:- Mounted specimens or skins of
smaller land birds. State condition and price
prepaid, W. P. PARKER, 8 Midland St.. Wor-
cester, Mass.
SPRING SNAPS!— One fine White Pelican
skin $4.00; choice tre.sh Snowy Owl skins $2.50,
$3.50: fresh Great Horned Owl skins, $1.75 each;
fine Wolf skins for rugs with heads, skulls,
legs and claws complete, $2.50 each. Mounted
birds: Sharp-tailed Grouse, $2..50; Ruffed
Grouse, $2.00; Prairie Hens, $2.25; Pine Gros-
beaks, 60c. ; pair N. Hairy Woodpeckers. $1.50,
on stump; Spruce Grouse. $2.25; A. Bittern,
$1.50; almost white Snowy Owl, $10.00; a quan-
tity of Elk teeth, $6.00 per dozen. All Al speci-
mens prepared at prices quoted. Scalps and
heads of Moose and Elk for sale. Buffalo horns
Solished at 50c. to $1 00 a pair, matched pairs,
rder from CHRIS. P. FORGE, Taxidermist
and Collector, Carman, Manitoba.
SPECIAL CLIPPER BIKE rode about 2
months, perfect shape. Palmer tires, gear 78,
frame 24 $15 cash and 115 in eggs takes it.
BENJAMIN HOAG, Stephentown, New York.
EGG TRAYS FOR SALE or exchange for
sets with data; Trays in six sizes, any desired
color. Prices on application, discount on large
orders. Samples 10 cents M. S. CONWAY ,
.584 6th Ave , Lansingburg, N. Y.
FOR SALE:— :Fancy and common Geodes,
ranging in price from 25c. to $5.00 ; halfs from
lOc to 50c. Special rates to colleges a cd mu-
seums. H. K. McLELLAN, Hamilton, Han-
cock Co., Illinois. 179
PRBLICATIONS WANTED:— Cash or ex-
change given for Bull. Cooper Club Vol. I com'
plete or in part; any volume of 0. and O. ; Ool-
OGIST Vols. VI to X inclusive; American Ex-
change and Mart any volume complete; Avi
fauna any number. R. C. McGREGOR, Box
158, Palo Alto, California.
BRISTOL STEEL KOO, No. 16RanglyFly
Rod. 4 joints and butt, new, $3.75 cash and $3.75
in eggs. Let me quote you cash or exchanse
on anythirg in Ime of sp^^rting goods. BEN-
JAMIN HOAG, Stephentown, Ne.v York.
WANTED :— Well marked sets of Red-tailed,
Red-shouldered and Sparrow Hawks, Great
Horned and S.reech Owls, Tufted Puffin, Pig-
eon Guillemot. White Pelican, Caspian and
Sooty Terns, Bridled Tern, Audubon's Shear-
water, Blue-winged Teal. American Bittern,
Osprey, Kildeer, Bartram's Sandpiper Califor-
nian Quail. Bald Eagle, Downy Woodpecker,
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds and nests. Cedar
Wax wing. Red-eyed vireos and others. I can
offer for these Saa Birds' eggs, Ducks, Plovers
and Hawks from Iceland, Lapland, Greenland,
Labrad' r and Northwest Canada. I have
thousands of eggs for exchange. W. RAINE,
Kew Beach, Toronto, Canada.
OCLOG.STS WANTED: — Will pay 50cts.
each cash for one of each June 18!!8, and April
1889, and will yive an exchange notice, or cou-
pon good for one, for copies of the January
1895 and April 1899 issue, a notice for each copy.
FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y.
PHEASANT EGGS FOR' HATCHING.- On
and after May first I will be ready to supply
settings of Mongolian Ring Neck Pheasants.
Settings of 15. price $4. Orders booked now. A.
W. PERRIOR, 1409 So. Salina St., Syracuse,
N^jy\ 174_
WANTED FOR CASH.— First-class sets of
game birds, (particularly large sets) Ducks,
Geese, Grouse, Partridges, etc. Send list and
lowest cash prices : also quote fine sets of any
North American birds. J. L. CHILDS, Floral
Park, N. Y. 174
WANTED.-Collectors throughout the United
States and Canada to collect for me scientifi-
cally birds' eggs in sets, with full data, at M
Lattin's catalogue rates. DR. M. T. CLECK-
LEY, 457 Greene St., Augusta, Ga. 175
WANTED.— Sets of eggs containing abnor-
mal specimens, such as runts, albinos, mon-
strocities, abnormally colored or shaped eggs.
Will give cash or good exchange. J. WARREN
JACOBS, Waynesburg, Pa. 101
WANTED.— Single eggs of all kinds in ab-
normal specimens. G. E. OILMAN, 27th Ave.,
Haverhill, Mass.
ATTENTION COLLECTORS —If you have
not seen Mr. W. J. Conway's (Lansingburg. N.
Y., 584 Sixth Ave.,) water blower, write him
concerning it. I would not bft without it.
GEO. W. MORSE, Ashley. Ind. 20 years ex-
perience collecting.
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WANTED. -Series of Yellow-headed Black-
bird % from original coUe'-tor, with complete
data Will pay cash. RICHARD D. MILLER,
3473 Amber St., Philadelphia, Penn.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.— KO coDies of
Happy Days cost $6 00, Hamilton 28 cal. rifle,
mounted quail $1.00, squirrel $1.00, Sparrow-
Hawk 75c.' Red-bellied Woodpecker .50c. Have
also mounted fox for best offer. J. D. ANTH-
ONY, Waubeek, Iowa.
BIG PROFITS-may be made in raising Bel"
gian Hares. It is interesting work and takes
but little space. Pedigreed stock for sale. All
letters answered. Also climbers for exchange.
R. A. POWELL, 135 E. 5th St., St. Paul, Minn.
INDIAN BASKETS, Indian
r. . Beaded Buckskin Sioux Relics
' ' Indian Photos, Indian Pottery
"* Indian Weapons. Elk Teeth, Mex-
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WELL. Deadwood S Dak.
PENIKESE.
A reminiscent sketch of Agassiz
famous Summer School.
A 96 page book of much interest to
students of Nature.
iread -wbat others say:
•'Have found it extremely interesting read-
ing,"—Henry Prime, Garden City, L. I,
"I enjoyed the book [Penikese] very much."
— W. W. Kinsley (Supt. of Schools) Grand
Ledge, Mich.
"It is both instructive and entertaining and
deserves a place in the library of every student
of nature."— W. D. Lynn, Canfleld, O.
"I have just finished reading 'Penikese' and
can say that I have enjoye^ it exceedingly.
Anything looking toward keeping green the
memory of the great Agassiz should be of in-
terest to the teacher of biology and no period
of his life is more interesting than the years
spent in building up the laboratory on Peni-
kese."—W. P. Hay (Prof. Biology, HighSchool)
Washington, D. C.
"I have read the book [Penikese] with great
interest and think it an admirable remini-
scence of one of the greatest naturalists of the
nineteenth century. The name of Agassiz is
assuredly treasured by all true lovers of na-
ture and his methods of study have left a strik-
ing impress on present-day workers."— (Rev.)
Robert Blight, Green Lane, Pa.
Price only 25c (reduced from 35c).
Prepaid.
FRANK H. LATTIN, Pub'r,
Albion, N. Y.
Boes.
fricea per set prepaid. 5 per cent, on $5, 10
per cent, on 810 and over. On an order figur-
ing $25 net will allow 25 per cent, discounts.
Holds good for 30 days only after appearance
of this ad.
Whip-poor-will 12 $i 00
California Woodpecker 2-4 60
Magnolia Warbler 2 3 60c; 1-4 80
Least Vireo 3 4 80
Bendire's Thrasher 1-3 75
Willow Goldfinch n-3 4&
Cassin's Purple Finch 1-4 1 00
Long-crested Jay 1-2 $1 00; 8-3 81.50; 2-4 2 00
Arizona Jay 2 6 82.40; 4-5 $2.00; 4-4 1 60
Vermillion Flycatcher n-3 n 3 n-3 1 20
Lead-colored Bush Tit n-6 83.60; n-5 83.00;
n-4 82.40; 1 4 81 80; 1-6 3 00
Mexican Horned Lark 3-3 50
Arizona Hooded Oriole 2-3 40
Western Horned Owl 12 l 00
White-tailed Hawk 1-2 75
Bell's Vireo 4-3 12
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher 5-4 10
Ru.sset-backed Thrush 4-3 15
California Thrasher 6 3 _ 80
Orchard Oriole 10-3 8c: 10-4 12c; 3-5 17
Blue Jay 5-4 lOc; 3 5 13
Sooty Tern 3-1 _ 14
Tufted PufQn 2-1 40
California Murre 3-1 fine 20
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Gleanings from My Note Book.
In looking over my note book I find
many short notes, or as it were, many
glimpses of bird life, which, singly.
could not very well be expanded into
an article, so I have decided to write
them up collectively, and offer them
under the above gleanings.
As the weather has a decided influ-
ence on bird movements, especially mi-
gration, I have usually prefaced my
notes with a sort of weather report
which I may use in connection with
these gleanings Its severity determines
to a great extent the character and
abundance of the winter visitors that
we may expect from the northland,
while its mildness leads us to look for
solitary individuals of our summer resi-
dents which usually leave us for the
sunny southland, hundreds of miles
away.
January 1, 1900 -N. W. wind with
zero weather. As I glanced out of my
den window I paw for the first time this
winter a flock of about 100 Snowflakes
on the snow covered ice along the lake
shore. A Herring Gull was flying
around the sandbar, and some Ducks
were feeding along head of lake. A
"Lanius borealis'' flew about from one
tree top to another and teetered up and
down on the slender branches. Tree
Sparrows are numerous as usual and
make a tour of the town every day, eat-
ing the weedseeds in gardens.
February— Heard the first gurglings
of Song Sparrows on the 13th, during
an hour cf sunshine in the morcing.
Next morning they climbed up in a brush
pile to rehearse, but seemingly became
disgusted -for they soon dove into the
cattails out of sight, and were not heard
again until the 22d when I heard one
bubbling over a little.
March 1. — This month came in a
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THE OOLOGIST.
"whooping." Last night the ground
was nearly bare, but this morning 24
inches of snow covered the ground. A
lot of Horned Larks came into my gar-
den to feed, but hardly a weed top was
to be seen.
March 2 —Just 26 inches of snow on
the level, and great drifts have been
formed hy the heavy winds Several
groups of Crows flew around our town,
anxiously scanning the snowy billows
for a morsel of food. I scattered wheat
on the snow for the Horned Larks and
three of them remained all the after-
noon. At first only one came, and
when others came he tried to drive
them away — seemingly afraid that there
wouldn't be enough grain for all.
March 6.— Snow increased to 33 in-
ches deep and the Horned Larks have
become abundant— increase in numbers
every day, and are so tamed by hunger
that they run about picking up the
buckwheat meats within 5 or 6 feet of
me.
March 13 — Robins arrived on the
9th— 4 of them— although the temperat-
ure was 6 degrees below zero. I saw
about 50 today in an orchard where
they were "yipping" and eating rotton
apples that s*ill hung on the trees.
March 23.— Saw the first Red-winged
Blackbird this morning at 7 o'clock.
He sat on the "Upmost branch of the
topmost" elm tree and poured forth his
happy "0 glee-ee-ee e." But he soon
flew on north and was lost to view.
The 40 or 50 other companions who
ought to have been with h^m are prob-
ably stuck upon the- barbarous bonnets
of our highly organized and civilized
"fearfully and wonderfully made'
maids, who seem to be trying to equal
their sisters in darker portions of the
earth, in the manner of personal adorn-
ment.
I heard the sweet warblings of B'ue-
birds for the first time. This morning
quite a sprinkling of Robins came into
town and for some time their homely
yet pleasant notes sounded the good
tidings of nearby balmy days "when
the Robins will nest again." Saw two
Meadowlarks flying north high in the
air.
March 25 — This was a beautiful day,
clear but an icy east wicd made it
rather frosty. Robins filled our streets
with music, while the valley fairly
swarmed with Bluebirds and I never
have seen — even years ago — such a flock
of Bluebirds. All day long they war-
bled, flitted and played around the old
willow stubs that fringe along the
swamp. During the morning hours
Song Sparrows were in full song for the
first time.
March 26 —At 5;30 p. m. about 75
Red-wings came from the fields and
flew out in the f^wamp where they
roosted in the cattails.
March 27. — Although the weather
was cold and cloudy at 6:15 a m., yet
the Song Sparrows were bubbling over,
as on a bright sunshiny morn. Kildeers
were seen on the 23cl, but I saw my first
one today over in a grassy boggy place.
March 30. — As I stood in my garden
this morning about 7 o'clock, I heard
among the medley of Robins, a sweet
warb'e, and closer listening revealed a
Purple Finch's jubilant strain, coming
from a lowly perch in a tree in my gar-
den, but as I approached he mounted
higher until the top of the tree was
reached, when after a few bursts of
melody, he arose high in the air flying
first one way and another, then flying
up the street. For the first time the
Red-wings remained around swamp and
sang their "Og'/ee-ee" and willow
trees and cat- tails, while the irrepress-
ible Song Sparrows mounted on dozens
of high places sang with joy and sweet-
ness— a song that is indeed of great
variation.
Robins are becoming enamoured of
each other and scenes of courtship are
an every day occurrence — males utter-
ing subdued twitterings and "showing
off"— flitting about the females from
THE OOLOGIST.
39
branch to branch and 1 think many are
already ma ed. The multitude of Blue-
birds that were here on tue 25th have
passed on north and spread out to the
hillsides. Considerable snow in woods
and piotected places. Lake is frozen
over with about 12 inches of ico.
March 31. — While strolling along the
street before breakfast I ran onto a lit-
tle troop of Chickedees. As I watched
them as they hung back down, or, in
other words, "bottom side up," one lit-
tle fellow caught sight of a branch of
the maple that was leaking sap, and
with every indication of having found a
"fountain of youth" the Chickadee flew
to where the sap was dripping and
drank and drank with an eagerness
equal to an old toper taking his morn-
ing "eye opener," then he "chick-a dee-
deed" and from across the street came
two more of these black-capped topers
who drank the sweet juice, and uttered
those low notes that aound so far away.
April 1. — Beautiful clear day, but icy
N. wind. I spent tie day around on
the lowlands, enjoying the hosts of
Song SpaTOvrs, Robins, Red-wings,
Purple Finches and a few Meadow-
larks. I heard a Pbcebe for first time,
and I wonder what such a bird can live
on now when it is so cold, with ice and
snow and no flying insects. Although
I've seen a Bronzed Grackle several
time?, today is the first time that I've
heard him tuning up the wires of his
"^E:>lean harp " Robins are mated and
looking for suitable nesticg places.
April 2 — Blackbirds are here in
abundance, especially at night, when
large flocks of Red-wings, Cowbirds and
Grackles come in from the fields, ali^^ht
ing in tree top around swamp and pour
forth their scugs and notes in rich pro-
fusion.
April 3.— For several days a small
flock of Ducks has been feedinar in the
creek and today I noted a pair of Wood
Ducks and several Mallards.
April 5.— The graceful Tree Swallows
came yesterday—about a dc zen of them
— and this morning they were skimming
over the thin paper ice along the edge
of swamp and lake
April 8.— It has been bright and clear
all day with a cold north wind, which
drove the ice out of this end of the lake.
A new flock of Grackles arrived from
the south at 7 a. m. Those that have
been here are building nests in almost
every evergreen tree in town. I have
never seen the town so full of them, in-
deed, the mischievous great glossy fel-
lows seem to really erjoy town life
more than any other bird I know.
A small band of Slate-colored Juncos
are staying in the evergreen trees that
adorn some yards. During a short
walk in the woods I saw several Crows
carrying nesting material. On my way
home noted first Mourning Doves.
Bird life hfre in the valley is abundant,
but the woods are silent as the tomb—
except for cawing Crows and the
lonesome notes of the White-breasted
Nuthatches.. About 75 Ducks passed on
north this p. m.
April 12.— This evening I took a walk
along swamp, listening to the full
chorus of peepers. They were heard
first on the 6th. As I stood on the
bridge 1 heard Snipe making a sort of
short, mewing noise,, as they flew by
me just overhead, arid I also heard the
whistle of many wicgs as a flock of
"Whistle-wings" went on north in the
gathering gloom.
This p. m. a few Tree Spar-
rows came into the willows along the
swamp road and one seemed to be in
nearly full song, at least he burst forth
in as sweet a strain as ever I heard
from a Sparrow's Ihroat. A pair of
Loons arrived last night, also a great
flock of American Herring Gulls, but
they passed on north at sunrise. A
Great Blue Heron sailed in from the
north and spent the day fishing around
the swamp. Yesterday a big Osprey
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THE OOLOGTST.
spent tho day here, as ;did a Marsh
Hawk.
April 15 —I made my first trip after
sets of Buteo borealis today. My route
was north, throt.gh the valley, except
when I turned to clioab the hillsides
to where the net-ts were. Weather
warm and clear u"til 5 p. m. Scarcely
had I left the town when I heard the
trilling of hundreds of Vesper Sparrows
but found them scarce half a mile back
on the hills. An occasional weak voic-
ed old Field Sparrow trilled from some
weed top— weak voiced but none the
less welcome. From the distant woods
came the drumming of a Raffed
Grouse. As I approached my first
Hawk woods I saw the male sitting on
a dead limb in a tall pine and near by
the female sat on her nest which con-
tained 2 plain eggs so I left them. The
nest was 65 feet up an al-^ost limbless
tree and was lined with a bed of pine
sprigs, corn husks, bark chips and few
feathers
Iq another woods about 3 miles far-
ther north I fouad the second nest with
the telltale sprigs of evergreen branches
waving over edge ef nest in a basswood
about 50 feet up, but it was never used.
While sitting on the sunny side of a big
tree eating lunch I heard for the first
time the melodious "chink" of a Louis-
iana Water Thrush. From here I
tramped over a mile to see an old nest
of Buteo lineatus —in a woods where I
have taken 6 sets in years gone by.
This pair had always laid a beautiful
set for me by April 12, but at this time
only one egg had been laid. The nest
was an old one, which had not been
fixed up at all— she had merely dug a
hole in a mass of dead leaves that filled
the nest, so that the egg was half buried
but when I visited the nest on April
22d I found that she had added a few
pine branches, corn stalks, bark strips
and chunks of moss, on which lay 3
handsome egg3. The female left the
nest as I approached and did not utter
a single cry, which is characteristic of
this bird. I called on two other pairs
of Red-tails but they had not begun to
nest yet. After supper I spent an hour
around swamp. About dark a hundred
"Whistle wings" went on north in small
flocks of from 6 to 50.
C. F. Stone.
Branchport, N. Y.
{To be continued.)
Timely and to the Point.
[Dr. N. expresses our sentiments to a
T in the above valuable suggestions—
with the exception of his '3d" — we boy-
cott the wadding and thread" — prefer a
good grade of fluffy cotton and no
thread— tissue if anything for the outer
wrapper. We have lost many a valu-
able small egg by perhaps too hasty or
careless unwinding of the "thread." —
Ed.]
Mr. Editor: — If you will kindly al-
low me a small section of your valuable
paper I will endeavor to touch upon a
subject that has been sorely neglected
on the part of contribufors to oological
publications. Nothing is more aggra-
vating than to purchase or exchange
for fine specimens of eggs and upon te-
ceiving them to find a part of one or
more sets broken, thereby rendering
the set worthless. This catastrophe
some will say is the careless handling
of packages on the part of postal clerks,
etc. Very true, but to them we cannot
look for redress.
The fault lies in every instance with
the shipper, with only one exception,
and that is where packages containing
eggs are sent over the Canadian border.
In this case I have found that the over
zealous custom officers in searching for
dutiable gems, etc., put their fingers
through many a rare and costiy egg.
This has been my experience with a
choice set of Accipiter velox, as they
were carefully packed and in a rein-
forced box. The cover had literally
been pried oft", contents of box fatally
sounded and sent along. In this case I
THE OOLOGIST.
41
do not see that the shipper was at fault
and so one must bear with it.
But here in our own service, where
the box is never opened from the time
it leaves the shipper until it is received
by the consigoee, a broken egg should
rarely, if ever, be found. Collectors,
as a rule, iire uither too anxious to save
a few cents' postage or will not spare
the time to tack a few reinforcements
into their cigar box before packing the
eggs. This is the greatest fault.
Secondly corner the careless manner
in which the specimens are rolled in
cotton. As a matter of fact I have re-
ceived eggs from collectors packed in
cotton that had been used in the field
and over and over again until it was
but little better than excelsior.
Other collfcctors have the habit of
putting in a layer of cotton, then a lay-
er of eggs, and so on until the box is
filled. To such collectors my senti-
ments are perJ^aps beat unsaid. No
doubt others have received eggs from
these same collectors in this condition.
I may have spoken harshly in this ar-
ticle, but those to whom it applies I
trust will digest every word as meant
for them. And now a few instructions
on packing eggs.
1st. Ship by express instead of mail
whenever possible.
2d. Reioforce all cigar boxes by
tacking small cleats on the inside to
prevent cover from crushing in.
3d Wrap each egg carefully in a
8 rip of thin while wadding, which has
been previously separated down the
center, allowing the soft side to come
in contact with the egg. Wrap each
egg around the smaller diameter first,
then around the greater, and lastly use
a few turns of thread to keep the cotton
in place.
4th. Put a thick layer i.f cotton into
bottom and top of box.
5th Pack each egg in very carefully
and use great cauiion in closing lid of
box. (Many are broken this way.)
6th. Use heavy wrapping paper and
ptout twine, address plainly and don't
forget, if your conscience will allow of
it, the glass notice, where our careful
manipulator, thi' postal clerk, will see
it.
7th. Be ready to make all losses
good.
Yours for more care,
J. B. Newton.
Unionyille, Conn., Jan. 15, 1901.
Field Notes from Manitoba.
On May 4th I found two nests of
Krider's Hawk, one in a partly dead
elm 20 ft. from ground. To this nest I
climbed and found it contained nothing
but appeared to be ready for eggs. The
other was also in an elm about the
same height and was no: quite ready
for eggs. On May 9th 1 tried these
neslri again, but found them empty.
On both occasions the old birds circled
above the trees and scolded me for my
intrusion so I decided to call again So
on the 22d I called on my way home
from the swamp, still no eggs A little
further down in the woods I saw a very
small nest in an oak, not more than 15
ft. up and climbed to it. It contained
two eggs of Red-tail, both were incu-
bated. This then was the second nest
built by this pair, the first nest having
been deserted because I had climbed to
it on the 4th of May. The nest was
very small, no larger than my two
hands and quite loosely put together.
On May 31st while looking for Marsh
Hawk's nests I called for the third time
at the Krider's nest located May 4th,
and as it was still empty I knew there
must be another somewhere. A search
revealed a nest in top of a tall oak, but
the bird was absent so I did not climb
but toward evening I called round
again and at my approach the bird left
the nest. I quickly iLade the ascent
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and took a small set of two well mark-
ed eggs, slightly incubated. The nest
was small and loose and I conld see
through the bottom but not clearly
enough to discern the eggs. This is a
phase of character I have not before
noticed in the Hawks, but in these two
cases with Red-tails and in four cases
with Swainson's Hawk this season, I
found the birds deserted the nests I had
climbed that contained no eggs. In
the one case with the Swainson's Hawk
I found a nest complctfi but did not
climb. A few days after 1 called round
for this set and on climbing found one
egg. As the nest was where it could
be seen for over a mile in the top of a
dead willow 1 took this egg, but return-
ing next week found the nest deserted.
I then drove over the school section
and examined all the bluffs and in a
small willow bush found Mrs. Swain-
son trying to incubate two more eggs,
which I knew by their resemblance to
be the other eggs of the set, I having
already taken the first. On this oc-
casion sh3 hail se'zed upon a partly
built Crow's nost, flattened it out and
depo,sited the two eggs in it.
On the 18th of June I took my last
set of Krider'R for the season. This
was a second set and strongly resem-
bled the first one. The nest was small
in a tall oak baside a ravine about one
mile distant from where I took the first
set and contained two eggs nicely
marked. This nest was newly built
like most of the others by the birds and
was unusually deep, the cup being
nearly 6 inches in depth and 7 in diam-
eter. Both male and female birds were
quite bold and seemed to resent my
robbing their second nest. Whether
they built a third I don't know, but if
they did I did not find it as my horse
hurt his feet shortly after while away
after Loon's eggs, and I had to leave
the field for the season.
Chris. P. Forge,
Carman, Manitoba.
Some Winter Birds of a Country
Farm-yard.
Ruffed Grouse, Bonasa umbellus. A
few cf these beautiful game birds are
seen during the winter budding in ap-
ple trees near our yard.
Downy Woodpecker, Bryobates pub-
escens. Quite plenty in shade trees in
our yard on pleasant days during the
entire winter.
Blue Jay, Cyanociila crisiaia. Very
abundant. A quite large flock makes
daily visits to our yard in search of
food.
Pine Grosbeak, Pinicola emicleator.
Quite abundant but more so as spring
approa^-hes. They come in flocks to
the maples in our yard and feed on the
buds.
Amer'can Go'dfinch, Spinus iristis.
Flocks of this species alight in the trees
in our yard quite often during the win-
ter. In their winter plumage they are
very plain looking birds.
English Sparrow, Passer domesticus.
An occasional straggler finds his way
to our yard. I cau;f,ht one in my hands
that flew into our shed to get out of the
storm.
Snowflake, Plectrophenax nivalis.
Very largo flocks can be seen from our
yard skimming over the fields and pas-
ture and a few come to our yard occss-
ionly.
Song Sparrow, Mclospiza fasciata.
As spring approaches we are tilled with
gladness by the sweet song of this spar-
row returning to his summer home,
although a few remain here nearly the
whole year.
Northern Shrike, Lanius borealis.
One of these butchers is an cccasiooal
visitant to trees in our yard during the
winter.
Brown Creeper, Certhia familiaris
americana. These interesting little
birds are winter visitants to our farm
yard shade trees, searching for food
under the rough bark of the maples
and butternuts.
THE OOLOGIST.
43
White-breasted Nuthatch, Sitta car-
olinensis. Another interesting little
farm-yard visitant, tiying in open doors
and windows and making themselves
much at home and all of the time utter-
ing their curious quauk.
Red-breasted Nuthatch, Sitta canad-
eusis The above description of the
White-breasted species well describes
this species, although the Red-breasted
is not so abundant.
Chickadee, Parus atricapillius. Last
but not least on my list comes the little
Titmouse, the bird of .so friendly dispo-
sition and gentle manners, who thinks
no one his enemy. They are very
abundant here and help to make the
long winter pass more swiftly by their
happy, joyful nature. In closing this
paper I cannot refrain from writing
what Wilson says of this species which
I take from Davies "Nests and Eggs,"
fourth edition. It is as follows:
They traverse the wood in regular
procession from tree to tree, tumbling,
chattering and hanging from the ex-
tremities of the branches, examining
about the roots, the leaves, buds and
crevices of the bark for insects and
their larva. They also frequently visit
the orchards, particularly in the fall,
the sides of the barn and the barn-yard
in the same pursuit, trees in such situa-
tions being generally much infested
with insects. Therefore we rank this
little bird among the farmer's friends,
and trust our citizens will always rec-
ognize him and as such."
I consider the above description of
this little bird the best I have ever read
and would call particular attention to
the last few lines, and trust that all our
citizens throughout this broad land will
give more attention to the study and
protection of our feathered friends;
stop the wholesale destruction of our
native birds before it is too late; unite
in this great work, for unity means
strength. Guy L. Briggs,
Livermore, Maine.
A Red-headed Black-bird.
I saw a Red-winged Blackbird last
spring with a red head as well as
shoulders.
I was painting a fence near a swamp
and the bird was in sight at any time I
had a micd to look for him. My team
came to take me home and I called my
wife's attention to the bird.
We are both familiar with this spec-
ies ard have it mounted at home.
The bird was evidently mated be-
cause it was June and all of his actions
pointed to his being interested in a
family in the bnshes, near by.
R. S. Torre Y,
Wen ham Depot, Mass.
More Albinos.
In the December iss'^e of the Oologist
I saw an article written by G. G. Welsh
giving an account of an Albino English
Sparrow. A day or two after I read
this article a friend told me he had seen
a Sparrow which was nearly all wLite
in a large flock of the same species. I
told him to try an(l get it for me, so the
next day he brought it, having shot; it
that morning. I found it to be a female
English Sparrow vvith both wings pure
white and a few white feathers on its
head and neck. The rest of the feath-
ers were of the same color as other
English Sparrows. I now have it in
in my collection mounted with its
wings half spread.
I have three other Albinos in my col-
lections which were killed here. On
April 23, 1899, a friend of mine was
watching near a pond for some Ducks
when he saw a white bird flying alone,
coming toward the pond. He shot at
it and killed it, and as he had never
seen a bird like it he brought it to me.
I found it to be a pure white "Yellow-
legs ;" this is the only pure white albino
"Wader" I have heard of. (if there are
others I would like to hear of them.)
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The same person on March 16, 1899
brought me a male Robin which has
three white feathers in its right wing
and four in its left wing, four white
feathers in its tail, breast white, its
head, neck and back mottled with
white, several coverts white.
The other Albino which I have is a
female Bob-white. It was killed on
November 28, 1899. This bird is of a
very light color all over, but not pure
white, its bill white, feet and legs a
pale flesh color.
If these notes are of sufficient interest
you may publish them.
O. S. Biggs,
San Jose, III.
Review.
CANADIA.:: BIRDS BY JOHN MACOUN,
M. A., F. R. S. C , NATURALIST TO
THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF
CANADA.
In compiling this catalogue of the
birds of Canada the author has endeav-
ored to bring together facts on the
range and nesting habits of all birds
known to reside in, migrate to or visit
the northern part of the continent.
In addition to the Dominion of Can-
ada he has therefoie included New-
foundland, Greenland and Alaska.
Since the publication of Fauna Bor-
eali Americana by Swainson & Rich-
ardson in 1831 no attempt has been
made to produce a work dealing with
the ornithology of the region now em-
braced in the Dominion of Canada.
In 1857 Mr. Montagu Chamberlain
published a catalogue of Canadan birds
and previous to this Mr. T. Mcllwraith
published his Birds of Ontario, which
included the birds known to occur in
that province only.
The Birds of Manitoba by Mr. Ernest
Seton Thompson was published in 1891,
and, as the name implies covered little
more than that province.
In 1891 Bird Nesting in Northwest
Canada by Walter Raine was publish-
ed, which gave an account of the birds
found nesting in Assiniboia, a vast ter-
ritory that had previously been over-
looked by ornithologists.
Mr. C. E. Dionne of Quebec pub-
lished a catalogue of the birds of that
province and Mr. Ernest D. Winkle has
published a valuable little work en-
titled The Birds of Manitoba, while in
1898 Mr. John Fannin's Birds of British
Columbia appeared.
While the above ornithologists were
engaged gathering and publishing the
valuable information contained in these
works. Professor Macoun had constant-
ly before him the necessity of the pres-
ent work and has been collecting notes
and observations during all his journeys
since 1879. Consequently he has gath-
ered together a mass of valuable and
interesting matter and his work on
Canadian Birds is the most complete
and up-to-date work yet published.
Part I includes Water Birds, Gallin-
aceous Birds and Pigeons and Part II
will be printed this spring.
Least Bittern Observed in Penn-
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Having noticed in the April (1900)
Oologist the article by Mr E. R For-
rest, Washington, Pa , in rfgard to
Least Bittern being observed in Penn-
sylvania, it may not be out of place for
me to state that I have observed them
here in the mo'-ths of April. June,
July, August and September. It ap-
pears strange that I never observed any
in Mav- For two years I have observ-
a pair at Holmesburg, this rounty along
the Pennypaok creek, where they nest-
ed, although I never found their nest.
In August 1899 at this locality I flushed
four from along the creek; two I iden
tified as young Brids from their weak,
uneven flight In September several
years since, a boy offered me one for
half a dollar, which he shot at Bride-
burg, this county. It was a young one
and not quite full fledgfd.
Richard F. Miller.
Philadelphia, Pa.
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Who Is An Oologist?
That is a question often asked with-
out being properly answered. The ue-
ual reply is: "He is an egg collector."
In part such an answer is correct, but
only in part, and it is not a very just
description, for one may be an egg col-
lector without being an oologist, and
one may even, at this period of camera
perfection and enlightened methods of
bird study, be an oologist without being
an egg collector.
Hence, it is evident that for the sake
of classification, it is not untimely to ask
the question: Who is an oologist? And
it may be of advantage to consider the
subject carefully, with a view of finding
a comprehensive answer to the ques-
tion.
Firstly, then, let us inquire whether
an egg collector is an oologist and if
there is not some further requirement
than that of being an egg collector in
order that he may correctly be called an
"oologist."
Ornithology is a science and oology is
a branch of ornithology, and a science.
An oologist is a scientist, for his object
in pursuing the investigation of oology
is to increase the koowledge of the sub-
ject; to add to science, or to add to his
own knowledge. In ordei to do this,
that he may have specimens for use in
studying the various types and varia-
tions, colors and patterns, he collects
birds' eggs, and he is, perhaps, justified
in collecting, for his purpose is a good
one.
But there are persons who collect
birds' eggs merely for the whim of col-
lecting, after the manner of the small
boy who collects tobacco tags, without
any higher aim than just to possess a
big collection or as a paslime. Are such
persons "oologists?" Assuredly not,
but they are often times honored with
the name. They really belong in the
same category with the small boy. Then,
why should they be called oologists?
There is no reason why they should, for
they have no claim to the name.
Further, we will ask: Is an oologist
as3ienlisl? Most assuredly so, yet he
may not wish to add to science any fur-
ther than the increasing of his own in-
formation; but that does not wholly bar
him from being a scientist. Of course,
he would have a clearer title if he were
liberal with the facts he gleans in his
investigations and observations. Yet if
he is the right kind of oologist, the kind
that collects eggs for the purpose of
study, he may justly be called a scient-
ist. And if he is, shall he not have an
exclusive name? That is just the point.
The name "oologist" is too often mis-
applied. It is applied to shield the in-
discriminate collecting of the small boy,
the wanton collecting of the mere egg
collector, and those persons whose only
object is to own a collection.
So it see^ns well to separate and class-
ify 6gg collectors into three classes for
the convenience of reference:
Oologists, 1st. class. Such persons as
collect eggs for the purpose of study,
for the increase of knowledge as to the
contour, coloration, measurement, var-
iation of birds' eggs; the advancement
of information respecting the nesting
habits of birds, their manner of nest
building, the effect of food and special
environment upon the color of eggs; the
length of time between the depositing
of each egg of a set; the resemblance of
sets of eggs taken from same pairs of
birds in consecutive years; length of in-
cubation, and any other facts of value.
Oologists, 2d class. Such persons as
54
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investigate and observe along the lines
mentioned, but vpho do not believe in
flgg collecting; who, with aid of camera
and note book, observe facts and study
the coloration of eggs, manner of nest-
ing, etc., without disturbing nests or
eggs-
Egg collectors, 3d class. (Not oolo-
gists at all,) who collect eggs merely to
be collectmg; amass collections, merely
to be amassing; whose insatiate yearn-
ing is to add and add without any just
motive, without any beneficial end.
This class includes the small boy who,
ignorant of the harm he does, collects
indiscriminately; but not the small boy
with a real desire to study and who col-
lects sparingly and makes good use of
the little he collects.
With the present wave of bird protec-
tion sweeping the country and the war
justly waged by the Audubon society
being carried forcibly on, there is no
reason why this 3d class of so called
oologists{but who are really not oologists
at all, but simply egg collectors) should
not be harshly dealt with. It would
simply help real oology and tend to
draw the distinction which is needed
between the collecting for scientific rea-
sons by oologists, and the collecting for
the sake of collecting by mere egg col-
lectors.
John W. Daniel, Jr.,
Washington, D. C.
Two Odd Sets.
The American Crow in Knox County,
Illinois, is an abundant bird, as it is
throughout the Illinois corn belt. Ev-
ery available timber or grove has its
occupants during breeding spason in
accordance witb the favorable growth
of the trees and the location. I do not
think that these birds return to the
same timber or grove year after year,
although undoubtedly may be found in
the same neighborhood of former nest-
ing sites. From my observation, how-
ever, the second laying has invariably
been found to be close by the site of the
first nest, unless in very exceptional
cases. This peculiarity makes it possi-
ble, although not probable, that two
separate pairs of birds laid very excep-
tionally colored eggs in the same season
and only a few miles apart.
There were collected on March 31,
1894 a set of five eggs of the American
Crow which have a distinct ground
color of light brown, showing not a
sign of bluish greeo, spotted quite gen-
erally with small dots of black more
abundant around the large end, and an
occasional dot which might tinge on
purple. One egg is marked thickly
with around the small end, and all the
eggs are uciform and of the average
size. The bird flew off its nest on ap-
proach but remained nearby. The
nest was typical of the Crow and was
placed in a triple crotch of an oak tree
in thick timber forty feet fiom tie
ground.
Some two weeks later another col-
lector found a set of four in a timber
four miles to the south. The markings
on these eggs were more blotched and
decidedly more purple in color, dis-
tinctly brown in shade but lighter than
the former set and eggs average, a trifle
larger. Nest construction was almost
the same, but the second nest was situ-
ated nearer to the ground. A visit to
the site of the former nest indicated no
cause for a change. I looked thorough-
ly for a second nest but without result,
and I concluded both sets were from
the same birds. These two sets are the
only ones with the peculiar ground
color which have come to my notice in
that locality or elsewhere. Unmarked
eggs and eggs widely differing in size
and coloration are, however, frequently
found. H. M Holland,
San Diego, Cal.
THE OOLOGIST.
59
Gleanings from My Note Book.
{Continued from last issue.)
April 18— Barn Swallows arrived
here today— 8 of them. Yesterday I
noted Flickers for the first time. About
50 Gulls arrived this morning.
April 22. — It rained last night so I
left my ''bike" at home and went over
my 15 miles of Hawk route afoot. An-
other climb to the Red-tail's nest re-
vealed but two eggs so I put them in
my pockets and came down jab by jab,
to the tune' of a pair of angry Hawks'
screams. While packing the eggs I
was surrounded by a band of Ruby-
crowned Kingkts, who were being en-
tertained by a lot of Chickadees. Just
as I left the woods I heard the llute-like
voice of the Wilson's Thrush. The
second Red tail was near the nest but it
was empty and in fact she did not use
it nor could I locate her nest anywhere
else. From here I crossed over the
hills to the valley of Potter Swamp,
where bird life differs from any other
valley because of so many Woodpeck-
ers. Here there are hundreds of old
stubs bordering the woods so that no
doubt this is the reason of their abund-
ance. Nine miles south in my valley,
or rather, the first one east of Potter
valley, I seldom see a Red-headed
Woodpecker, but in Potter valley they
are very common, as are the Red-
bellied, Yellow-bellied, Hairy and
Downy Woodpeckers. From here I
turn homeward, deciding to follow the
crest of the hills, but it was a long nine
mile tramp through birdless fields and
woods. In the valleys the air resounds
with noisy Flickers, sweet carolings of
Vesper Sparrows and other common
birds, all in abundance but the hills are
yet dreary and barren of bird life. As
I neared home I struck for the valleys,
crossing several ravines, in which I
heard Louisiana Water Thrushes in
nearly full song.
April 24. — After a short supper and a
still shorter cup of coffee, I pushed my
wheel up hill for 2 miles to visit a nest
of Red-shouldered Hawk. I found her
at home but she had laid but two eggs
so I left them. This is a late date for
this pair to be nesting as I have always
taken her full sets by April 12. Later
comparison with 5 sets that I had taken
out of these woods, which show the
same type, prove that this is a new fe-
male, which probably accounts for the
latef nesting. Spotted Sandpipers ar-
rived last night, and Towhees yester-
day.
April 26.— At 6:30 p. m. I rode my
wheel 2 miles and called on a pair of
Red-tailed Hawks and although the fe-
male looked strong and healthy, and
had a vociferous voice, yet she had
only exerted herself to lay one egg —
and that's all she did lay — so I left it,
65 feet up in a big onk, to tho tender
mercies of a group of Crows that were
amusing themselves with these Hawks.
On my way over I saw a Pied-billed
Grebe dabbling in the creek, while
overhead a solitary Duck was winging
his way northward. After dark I^heard
a Wilson's Snipe's "heavenly music" as
he zigzagged about over the swamp,
which was rudely interrupted by a
startled Green Heron who emptied the
contents of his voice upon the air.
April 28.— Four "Bluebills" (Lesser
Scaup Ducks) were shot on the lake
yesterday. This morning at 5 a. m. I
found a new pair of Red-shouldered
Hawks, nesting in a swampy woods
near town. The female left the nest as
I was passing by, and put up a "holler"
fur the male who "cackled" his delight
at seeing me take his 3 eggs, which
were slightly incubated. The nest was
an old one, 50 feet up in a big beech
tree, and was lined with the ever pres-
ent branches of evergreen, dead leaves,
pieces of bark, and all being beautifully
flecked with fluttering downy feathers
from breast of Hawk.
THE OOLOGIST.
This evening I visited a nest of Red-
shouldered Hawk about 2 miles away.
I had lost track of this pair for 3 or 4
years, but at last they had come back
to their old home, 50 feet up in a shag
bark hickory tree. She left the nest
slowly and without any fear, while I
also climbed to the nest slowly without
any fear, but judging by the amount of
bark at the base of the tree, when I got
down, there could not have been very
much left on it. However I felt repaid
for my lacerated trousers — and feelings
— for I brought down a set of 4 eggs.
About one mile away I called on an-
other old nest, but the Hawks were not
there so I crossed a field to another
swampy woods, where I found her sit-
ting on 3 eggs slightly incubated. The
nest was just 40 feet, 5 inches up in a
nearly dead birch tree, and was an old
nest relined with bark strips, pieces of
bark, and decorated with downy feath-
ers. As I coasted homeward I heard
many Wilson's Thrushes and I remark-
ed that it is noticeable how they seem
to be common on the hills but never
heard as yet in the valley woods.
April 29. — My trip today was over my
main Red-shouldered Hawk route. It
was a beautiful day— quite hot in the
sun, but rather chilly in the shade.
Leaving home at 6 a. m. I tramped
nearly 6 miles, visiting two orchards
before I found B. lineatus at home.
This nest was just 27 feet up in birch
tree, in woods on hillside. When the
sitting female saw me approaching she
put up a "boiler" and half standing
over the eggs she kept uttering cry
after cry, and I soon found the reason
for her fear for nestled in the lin-
ing of pine sprigs, bark strips, grass
and moss were 4 large beautiful eggs.
She only flew into near by trees— her
"cries" soon calling the male, but he
was very moderate. It is noticeable
that the males' cries are more of a.cackle
than the females'. He must have been
far away for it took him about three
minutes to respond to the female's cry
for assistance.
I next visited a small woods down in
the valley where 1 collected a set of 4
last year, but this time I did not get a
smell although a male's actions led me
to believe that he had a nest near by,
but I found a pair of Crows nesticg in
same tree — their nest being placed
about 10 feet under the Hawk's old
nest.
Continuing on up the west slope I
visited three old nests but found the
woods Hawkless. Returning to the
east slope I found that a pair of Red-
shouldered Hawks had fitted up an old
Crow's nest in a dry thin strip of
woods. The nest was about 50 feet up
in a big maple tree and was lined with
chunks of bark, pine sprigs, moss, and
stuccoed with white downy feathers
that fluttered like so many tiny flags.
The distribution of these Hawks in my
section varies every year. Some years
they are abundant, then other years
are not near so common. I visited in
all 10 nests in as many woods and only
found two sets of four eggs. Several
years I have taken as many as seven
sets over this route.
April 30. — This evening I took a walk
in near by woods jutt for pleasure, lit-
tle expecting to take anything. 1 was
therefore somewhat surprised to flush
a Red-tailed Hawk out of a piae tree
and a nest where I took a set of Crow's
eggs last year. She had fixed the nest
over with pine branches, bag strings,
bark strips, grass and hen feathers.
On the rim lay an old nest of Red-eyed
Vireo. I have been acquainted with
this pair of Red-tails for five years and
have found them very changeable in
regard to nesting. Some years they
take up their abode in woods border-
ing a big ravine across the valley where
they have two nests about one-half
mile apart. Again they come oyer to
the west slope where they also have
THE OOLOGIST.
61
two nesis that they jijenerally fix up be-
fore deciding which one to use.
Red-shouldered Hawks frequently
adorn two nests before using either,
and one pair that I know of fixed up
three nests and then left me to guess
where they finally nested.
C. F. Stone,
Branchport. N. Y,
( To he continued. \
The Red-tailed Hawk in
Illinois.
Central
By far the most common all-the-year-
round Hawk in this section of the coun-
try. Iq the early Spring and in the
Autumn this species may be seen by
anyone that is in the least observant of
nature and her doings, hovering in
varying numbers over stubble-fields
and meadows, and in the Winter sea-
son sailing across cornfields in search
of its "daily bread," which consists
principally of mice and rabbits with an
occasional small bird by way of a desert
and on comparatively rare occasions
the barnyard will be invaded and an
unlucky chicken or duck carried away
for a "Sunday dinner."
Or during these same seasons if he is
not out looking for a dinner he will be
seen sitting quietly in a cottonwood
tree by the roadside, where he is ever
on the alert and "scents danger afar"
as anyone carrying a gun who has tried
to get in shooting range of him can
testify.
Sometimes, however, if you are in a
buggy you can approach very near the
tree before he takes flight, and occas-
ionally he will even be so trustful (when
you do not happen to have a "conceal-
ed weapon") as to allow you to drive
by, within maybe 30 feet of the tree,
without appearing to notice vou.
^During the nesting season and the
time of rearing the young they con-
fine themselves more exclusively to the
timber.
More of this species are killed by the
farmers and hunters in this locality
than of all other species of Hawks com-
bined: because in the first place they
are probably as numerous as all other
resident species combined, and second-
ly and more important they are more
inclined to get away from the woods in
search of food, and this "coming out of
the woods" as it were makes them more
conspicuous and thus a target for the
shotgun.
Their nesting begins early in the
springtime, their first sets usually be-
ing completed between the 15th and
35th of March. Only one set is laid in
a season unless the first is destroyed,
when a second set will be laid and if
that too be destroyed a third and even
possibly a fourth may sometimes be
laid under similar circumstances.
However I have never taken more than
three sets from the same pair in one
season. When more than one set is
laid I have found the interval between
sets to average about 23 days. My ex-
perience has been that sets of two and
three are about equally numerous.
For their nesting site they almost in-
variably choose one of the tallest trees
if not the tallest tree in any particular
piece of timber, and usually the most
inaccessible possible position on the
upper and outer branches of the tree is
where the nest will be found, although
the position in the tree or rather the
distance from the trunk of the tree will,
vary more than the height of the nest in
the tree or the height of the tree. The
general height of the nests in this coun-
ty (Champaign) is from 69 to 110 feet,
with perhaps an average of 80 to 85
feet. Of course an occasional nest will
be found on either side of the above
limi s.
There sesms to to no preference
shown for at)y particular species or
variety of tree. The only question on
this subject that seems to interest them
is, "Is it aiaZZtree'?" And if this can
THE OOLOGIST.
be answered in the affirmative that tree
is as likely to be chosen for a nesting
site as any other tree of the same height
whatever the species.
Contrary to what seems to be the rule
in some sections of the country, they,
in this locality, rarely occupy the same
nest more than one season, an entirely
new one (usually not far from the old
one) being constructed each year, or
two, three or four in a year if that num-
ber of sets are laid.
After incubation has begun they are,,
as a rule, very close sitters, refusing to
leave the nest till you are under the tree
and sometimes not until you have rap-
ped repeatedly on the trunk of the tree
or thrown several clubs among the
limbs. I recall one instance in which
I failed to dislodge the female from her
nest by even these proceedings, al-
though I rapped heavily and repeated-
ly on the tree trunk and threw clubs
until my arms were tired, several of
the clubs going very close to her. She
stuck to her nest till my climber was
within 20 feet of her before she took
flight.
Almost without exception the sets
from a pair of birds show a marked in-
dividuality as to the number of eges in
a set, siz9, shape and ground color of
the individual eggs, and color or colors
and degree and intensity of the mark-
ings. My experience has suggested to
me that the plain or very slightly
marked sets are laid by young females,
^d that as the age of the female in-
creases the degree and intensity of the
shell markings increase till the limit
for that particular female is reached.
Have any of my readers made obser
vations upon this point? If so, did the
degree and intensity of the markings
increase with the age of the bird up to
a certain limit, or did it nof}
What is more exhilerating and enj 3y-
able than a drive to the country and a
tramp through the woods in the middle
of the Red-tailed Hawk season (April
1st to 15th) a time when all nature is
just beginning to put forth the buds of
a new life? What more interesting
than to watch a Red-tailed Hawk sail-
ing, floating back and forth across a
field, now moving swiftly for a few
paces as though borne by a brisk breeze
and again hovering for moments above
a spot as though caught in a dead calm
and all the while with scarcely a visible
movement of those majastic sails?
What will more tend to draw one's
thoughts from the things of earth and
to direct his mihd to that great home
above to which all mankind should as-
pire, to impress upon him the great
wisdom and goodness of his Creator,
than to watch a Red-tailed Hawk when
he takes upon himself the role of a Sky-
lark and soars, at first in broad and
sweeping circles, each one a little high-
er than the preceding, and then in
gradually narrowing zones, but ever
"onward and ujnvard" till he is a mere
speck outlined against the blue sky and
then at last the eye can follow him no
more and he disappears from view as
though the very gates of Heaven had
opened and allowed him to enter in?
R. L. Jessee, M. D.,
Philo, 111.
dueer Nesting-.
In the December Oologist I notice
that A. G. Prill of Scio, Oregon, men-
tions finding "a nest of the Mountain
Partridge containing 11 eggs of this bird
and 9 eggs of the Riag Pheasant."
He says that this is the first time that
such an occurrence has come under his
observation, and that the Partridge was
sitting on the eggs and the Ring Pheas-
ant was not about.
I do not wish to make any corrections
to Ur. Prill's notes, but simply wish to
add a few words, as I have had some
experience aloag the same line.
I have found the eggs of the Ring
Pheasant in other bird's nests at least a
THE OOLOGIST.
6S
score of times and ii every case the
Pheasant left and the other bird did
the incubating.
Have often found from one to eight
(usually three or four) of their eggs in
the nests of the Mountain Partridge,
Oregon Ruffed Grouse and the Sooty
Grouse and even ia the nests of domes-
tic hens. Have found nests which con-
tained eggs of the Ring Pheasant,
Sooty Grouse and Mountain Partridge.
Each time the Sooty Grouse was incu-
bating all the eggs. I have also found
nests containing eggs of the Ring Pheas-
ant, Mountain Partridge and Oregon
Ruffed Grouse, the latter doing the in-
cubating.
A friend of mine informs me that he
found a nest which contained 6 eggs of
the Ring Pheasant, 6 Sooty Grouse, 4
Oregon Ruffad Grouse and 3 Mountain
Partridge eggs and t ie Sooty Grouse
was sitting on the eggs.
As to what would become of the
young hatched from such a "mix up"
as this I can't say; but I know of one
case, two or three years since, o' a
Sooty Grouse hatchirg five young
Grouse and three youag Ring Pheas-
ants. She soon took them all to a
wheat-field where I oltea saw tham.
As soon as they were o'd enough to fly
the Grouse mother would, when dis-
turbed, fly up into an old dead fir tree
and call and the young would all fol-
low her, Grouse and Pheasants alike.
Two of tho Pheasants were male^ and
it was a rare sight to see them, with
their long tails, sitting up on the iimbs
of an old dead fir tree, with the Grouse.
Ellis P. Hadley,
Dayton, Oregon.
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At date of going to press, (April
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Jardine, Birds of Prey.
St. John, Life of Audubon.
Studer's Birds of North America.
And the titles by the following authors, viz:
Atkinson, Barrows. Bigland, Cooper, Elliott,
Murdock, Raine, Scott, Townseni, and White-
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Blackburniaa Warbler.
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96 Warbling Vireo.
97 Wood Pewee
98 Snow Bunting.
99 Junco.
100 Kingbird.
101 Summer Tanager.
102 White-fronted Goose.
103 Turnstone.
104 Belt d Piping Plover.
105 Wild Turkey.
106 Cerulean Warbler.
107 Yellow-billed Tropic Bird.
108 European Kingfisher.
109 Vermilion Flycatcher.
110 Lazuli Bunting.
1 1 1 Mountain Blue Bird.
112 English Sparrow.
113 Allen's Humming Bird.
114 Green-winged Teal.
11.5 Black Grouse.
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118 Bronzed Grrckle.
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120 Yellow-breasted Chat.
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Wants, Exchanges, and For Sales.
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for 25c per 25 words. Notices over 25 words, charged at the rate of one-half cent per each additional
word. No notice Inserted for less than 25c. Terms, cash with order.
Strictly First-class specimens will be accepted tn payment at one-third list rates.
What's Your Number?
Examine the number following your name
on the wrapper of this month's Oologist. It
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IMPART SIIT This May Oologist was is-
IJUruniAni. sued May Sd. The June is-
sue will be printed on May 25th. Copy intended
for that issue must be forwarded by return
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COLUMBIAN CHAINLESS. 1901 model. If
you waat a bargain, part cash Tand part eggs,
write me at once. Cheaper wheels too. BEN-
JAMIN HOAG, Stephentown, New York.
TO EXCHANGE.— Birds Eggs, Minerals,
Books, Magazines and Autographs for Thor-
oughbred Poultry or Eggs, Pet Birds, Auto-
graphs and Sea Curios. F. O. NELSON, Me-
ridian, Ada Co. , Idado.
FOR SALE CHEAP.— A 850.00 No 15 32 35
Maynard target rifle with case and reloading
tools, or exchange for desirable eggs in sets.
E. J. DARLINGTON, Wilmington, Del.
YOU WILL WISH for Nowell's Col-
lectors' Tool while In the woods this spring.
Don't reproach yourself after it Is too late-
order one now. J. R. NOWELL, Anderson, S.C.
TO EXCHANGE.— Al Skins of New York
birds for those of other localities. Any person
sending $1.00 for subscription to Recreation
will receive four prize bird photos (from life).
GEO. C. EMBODY, Hamilton, N. Y.
DON'T FAIL to try my new Egg Drills. You
want them now. Your money back if not O.
K. 4 selected sizes $1.00. Sample small size
25c. They cut the lining. Every mail brings
me letters speaking in highest praise of their
work. BENJAMIN HOAG, Stephentown, New
York.
FOR SALE.— Homing Pigeons, one dollar
per pair. The birds are all from .=500 mile a day
bird imported from New York. Parties should
address LENS FARM, Pioneer, Iowa.
WANTED.— Sets of Hummers with nests.
Loon, Osprey, Broad-wing, Sharp-shinned
Hawk, Great-crested Flycatcher and many oth-
ers. Lots of exchange in Books, Periodicals,
Tools. Supplies, anything I sell or cash. BEN-
JAMIN HOAG, Stephentown. New York.
WANTED to buy for cash.— Rare singles of
all birds eggs from No. 1 to 380 and fine,
perfect sets of eggs from 380 to 768, also rare
small skins. Must be cheap for spot cash. De-
sired only for private collection. K. B.
MATHES. 154 Ellicott St.. Buffalo. N. Y.
EXCHANGE.— Stevens 44 cal. "Premier"
Rifle. 50 everlasting shells, tools for smaller
cal. 25 or 32. Colt 41 cal. Pocket Revolver. Ban-
jo, tags for Colt or S. & W. Revolver 32 cal.
F. H. RICKER. Box 38. Lisbon. Me.
BOTANICAL SPECIMENS for sale; or ex-
change for southern, western or Canadian spe-
cies. Also a Yellow Rail skin to exchange for
best offer In birds eggs. THOS. A. BONSER,
Carey. Ohio.
COLLECTORS ATTENTION !— Have you
seen my water blower for 1901? The finest
thing for eggs to date. For sale or exchange
for sets at H list price. M. J. CONWAY, 584
6th Ave., Lanslngburg. N. Y.
TO EXCHANGE with western collectors, one
pair heavy climbers, to be shipped from near
Kansas City, with or without straps Can use
sets or singles of 29, 53. 74. 77. 125, 140. 212, 214,
819. 221. ;61. 278. 293a. S92. 294. S97a, 305, 325, 331,
339b, 342. 362, .S73c 397. 399. 408, 429, 430, 431, 452,
546, 552. 554b, 561, 601, 611. 612. 616. any Shrike,
VIreo, Warbler oj Chickadee. 758. 746. 742, 743a.
Address ERNEST H. SHORT, Box 173, Roch-
ester. N. Y.
FREE.— Wishing to get statistics regarding
my Collectors' Tool from different localities, I
make the following offer : 1st prize, set 428 n-2,
for the most noteworthy instance of collecting
with the tool; 2d prize, set 729 1-3, for securing
eggs furthest out on limb; 3d prize, a year's
subscription to Oologist, for securing eggs
highest above collector. Other special Instan-
ces rewarded. Artificially placed eggs not al-
lowed. Prizes awarded and result announced
in August. J. R. NOWELL, Anderson, S. C.
66
THE OOLOGIST.
WANTED.— Sets of eggs containing abnor-
mal specimens, such as runts, albinos, mon-
strocitles, abnormally colored or shaped eggs.
Will give cash or good exchange. J. WARREN
JACOBS, Waynesburg, Pa. 101
WANTED:— Sets of 58, 64, 76, 137, 139, 261, 273,
337, 339, 373, 387, 388, 390, 393, 394, 501- 611. 614 [and
others, especially 218, 230. 334, 364. Exchange
or cash. All answered. A. E. PRICE, Grant
Park, Ills. 177
FOR SALE:— Fancy and common Geodes,
ranging in price from 25c. to $5.00; halfs from
10c to 50c. Special rates to colleges and mu-
seums. H. K. McLELLAN, Hamilton, Han-
cock Co. , Illinois. 179
OOLOGISTS WANTED:— Will pay 50cts.
each cash for one of each June 1888, and April
1889, and will give an exchange notice, or cou-
pon good for one, for copies of the January
1895 and April 1899 issue, a notice for each copy.
FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N, Y.
WILL, COLLECT unusually fine sets this
spring at ^ cat. rates for cash. Datas will be
models. Get list of possible takes. "First
come, first serve." J. R. NOWELL, Anderson,
S. C.
FOR SALE.— 1 Timber Wolf skin for mount-
ing with skull and leg bones, $10.00; 1 pure
white Snowy Owl mounted, $10.00; 1 Almost
White, $7.00; 1 Great Horned Owl (subarticus)
$3.00; Saw-whet Owl, $1.00; Sharp-tailed
Grouse, $2.00; Canada Ruffed Grouse, $2.00;
Prairie Hen, $2 00; Spruce Grouse, $2.00; Amer-
ican Bittern, $1.50; 3 Cow Moose heads un-
mounted, skull and scalp, $6 00 each; Doe Elk,
13.50. All goods prepaid by mail or express.
Will send C. O. D. if desired. CHRIS P.
FORGE, Taxidermist, Carman, Manitoba.
WANTED.— Any complete volume of O. & O.,
Oologist previous to '95, Auk, and Recreation
previous to '97, also Recreation Jan. and Feb.
1900; Osprey Vol. I, Nos. 2, 4, 6 and 11-18; Nid-
ologist Vol. I, Nos. 2, 4 and 6; Feather, Vol. I,
Nos. 1 and 2; Iowa Ornithologist Vol, I, No, 1 ;
Vol. IV, No. 4; Oregon Naturalist, Vol I, Nos.
2, 3 and 4; Ornithologist (England) Vol. I, No.
6; Popular Science News, Vol. XXXII, No. 12;
American Osprey, Vol. I, Nos. 1 to 7 inclusive;
Bittern (1900) Vol. I, No. 3; Midland Monthly
June and August, '97; Western Ornithologist,
Vol. I, No. 3; Oologist, July, '88; and many
others. Send full list.
Will give in exchange for same hundreds of
duplicate natural history magazines (many
complete volumes), about 60 first class sets
with datas, 150 singles, stamps, ancient Indian
relics, Western bird skins, a few curios and a
number of old medical books. Write at once.
All answered. ALBERT F. GANIER, Bow-
mar Aye., Vicksburg, Miss.
FOR EXCHANGE.— 1 2 5. 3 2-6. 4 3-7, 6 1-7,
16 2-1, 63 1-3, 70 13-3, 77 1-3, 80 3-4, 106 5-1, 12a 1-4,
130 1-9, 141 2-9, 142 1-10, 143 1-6.184 2-3,1912 4,
194 1-4, 199 1-3. 202 2-4.211 1-8, 313 1-10, 239b 1-15,
390 1 7. 477 1-5, 488 1-5, 2 4, 488a 1-4, 497 1-4, 511b 1-5,
540 1-3, 560 2-4, EneliSh Sparrow 2-5, f61 3-4
563 1-4, 1-6. 581 4-5, 593c 1-4, 595 1-4, 613 1-4, 622 1-7,
628a 1-5, 683 1-4, 704 1-4. 705 4-5, 719b 1-6. 721b 1-6,
725 1-4, 2-6, 735 1-7, 761 1-4, 375d 4 2, 481b 2-3. 448
6-5, 1-4, 519 20-5, 7132-4, 3-5, 710a 4 3, and many
others. I want to trade these sets for full sets
of Limicolae or Raptores or for ornithologlcai
publications. For good full sets of Raptoi-es—
any species— I will allow 25 per cent, over cata-
logne rates. Taylor's list must be basis of ex-
change. H. H. DUNN, Fullerton, Calif.
WANTED.— May number, 1888, Vol. XXII,
American Naturalist. WILLIAM BREW-
STER, Cambridge, Mass.
WANTED for cash or exchange.— Eggs of
Golden Eagle, American Flamingo, Limpkin,
Wilson's Snipe and many others. I have on
hand these, 59, 202. 221, 226 fine series. 258a 5-4
very fine, 289 1-11,301,331,333, 335. 337, 337a, 366,
487 beautiful series, 51 lb beautiful series. All
first class and choice. J. W. PRESTON, Bax-
ter, la.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE:— Marlin re-
peating rifle 22 cal., nearly new, for pair good
Field Glasses; Mandolin for Coues' Key or
Ridgway's Manual; mounted birds, Red winged
Blackbird 75c, Red-bellied Woodpecker 7,5c,
Sparrow Hawk 75c, Quail $1.00, Coot $1.00,
Bufflehead $1.50, Squirrel $1.00,, Fox for best
offer. Send for photos, 3 years' Anthony's
Photographic Bulletins. If interested, write,
J. D. ANTHONY, Wauboek, la.
WANTED:- Al sets Nos. 83, 172, 192, 193, 206,
210, 228, 258a, 261, 286, 301, 302, 310 478, 486, 618,
701. Can Offer good sets, Belgian Hares, Abys-
sinian and English Cavies, Fancy Pigeons and
Pit Games. ALMON E. KIBBE, Mayville,
N. Y. 177
FOR EXCHANGE.— One Bristol steel rod, $5;
eggs in sets; one Davie's key. 5th edition, new,
$2 35; complete file Natural Science News, $2;
twelve back Nos. Osprey, including seven Nos.
of Vol. one, $3; Vol. three Museum, $1; twenty
Nos. of Oologist, back of 1896, $1; B-fiat cornet,
$8 ; three-inch T-perches painted white or nat-
ural finish, 10c each. Will give 50c per 100 in
exchange for any of the following tobacco tags :
Star, Good Luck, Horse Shoe, Master Work-
man, Standard Navy. Old Honesty, Drummond
Natural Leaf, Sickle Flanet,Cross Bow, Brandy
Wine, Nobby Spun Roll. Spear Head. Neptune,
J. T. Will also give 40c per 100 in cash. E. L.
HALEY, Rangeley, Me. 176
PEA FOWS.— I have two pair of young Pea
Fowls for sale at $5.00 per pair. MATT F. Mc-
GLEN, Gaines, Orleans Co , N. Y.
PRINTING.— All kinds of printing for col-
lectors. 100 envelopes, 100 note heads print-
ed by mail 80 cents. Satisfaction guaranteed .
Samples, two red stamps. PEARL PRINT -
ERY, Cleveland, O.
BOYS!
If you collect
note my
SPECIAL OFFER.
I will send you by mail postpaid one
each of the following eg<'a; American
Herring Gull, Gt. Blue Heron. White-
faced Glossy Ibis, Ring-necked Pheas-
ant, KiUdeer Plover, Burrowing Owl,
Road-runner, Red-wing, Dwarf Cow-
bird, Mofkingbird, Flicker, Wood
Thrush, Indigo Bunting, American
Robin and Mourning Dove, all listing
at $3.00, for only 72c. New list of sets
just issued ERNEST H. SHORT,
Rochester, N. Y.
THE OOLOGIST.
67
Bro. Lattin says,
"Send Copy by Return Mail."
I haven't time to write "copy"
for a large ad. so this will have
to do for the time being. . .
Watch for my ad.
In the next issue.
But if you want to be in the
"swim" send 25c immed-
iately and you will get
The Curio Monthly
for a whole year.
WRITE QUICK! YOURS IN HASTE.
ALLEN JESSE REYNOLDS, Pub.,
Connersville, Ind.
p. S.— The Curio Monthly is food for the
bansrO'' Collectors. Have you seen it?
20 pagres, 7x10.
COLLECTOR'S TOOL.
A POCKET INSTRUMENTFORTREECOLLECTING-
SAVES EGGS,DANGER,TIME.
Send Stamp for Circular. (179)
J. Row^land Now^ell, Portman, S. C.
Mounted Birds and Mammals.
The following specimens are all strictly first
class, freshly mounted specimens-regular price
in ( ) My closing price is by mail, express
or freight at purchaser's expense— will ship
cheapest way. Special rates on large orders.
Skunk ($10.00) $ 4 05
Red Fox (15.00) 9 10
Gray Squirrel (.5.00) 2 40
Gray Squirrel holding walnut 3 30
Tufted Puffin (5 50) 3 35
Black Guillemot (5.25) 2 70
Murre (5.00) . 2 70
Razor-billed Auk (mounted from a skin
from Audubon's collection) 6 75
American Herring Gull full plumage(4.50) 2 70
American Merganser (5.00) 2 70
Shoveller female (3.50) 2 10
Redhead (5.00) _ 2 70
Buffi e-head female (3.50) 2 10
American Elder (7 00) 4 30
Spotted Sandpiper (2.00) 1 10
Mexican Jacana (3.60) 2 10
Bob-white (2.50) 1 45
Texan Bob- white (2.50) 1 45
Mountain Partridge (3.50) _ 2 10
Scaled Partridge (2.75) 1 65
Gambel's Partridge (3.00) S 10
Prairie Hen [3.50) 2 20
American Barn Owl (5.00) 3 90
American Long-eared Owl (3.C0) .... 2 10
Short-eared Owl (3.50) 2 30
Great Gray Owl (16.00) 9 30
Saw-whet Owl (2.75) 2 10
FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion. N-Y.
OOLOGISTS' SUPPLIES.
If you are particular about the preparation
of your specimens I call particular attention
to the EGG DRILLS I am bringing to the no-
tice of collectors. They cut smooth atia cut the
lining. Sizes about 4 100 to 2-38: prices 25c, 35c
and 50c each. 4 selected sizes 8100. Also 3
large sizes at 60c and 75c each. 16 sizes in all.
Try them. Money refunded if not satisfactory
after use.
CLIMBERS. Best steel, made as they should
be for tree climbing. Long, sharp spurs with
4 heavy straps of best leather $3.50 prepaid.
Without straps $1,65 prepaid.
BLOWPIPES. Best 40c. No. 3 nickel 20c,
Cheap 12c. DATA BLANKS, 10c per 100. EGG
COTTON, all colors, 9c a sheet, 50c a package.
EMBRYO HOOKS, 12c. Handle With 3 hooks
48c. EMBRYO SCISSORS, 20c, 40c, curved
78c, best curved 98c. SLIDING CALIPERS.
Best nickel 85c. PENCILS. Extra good, soft,
thick lead, lOe. 3 for 25c. REGULAL OOLO-
GICAL DRILLS. Best quality, nickeled, 3 or
6 inch handle. No. 1. 20c; No. 2, 28c; No. 3, 38c;
No. 4, 46c; No. 5. 63c; No. 6, 80c. EGG TRAYS,
all sizes and colors. FISH BASKETS, all
sizes. I can supply your wants whatever they
maybe. Lists free. AW goods preiiaid Send
for egg lists.
BENJAMIN HOAG,
Stephentown, New York.
FENIKESE.
A reminiscent sketch of Agassiz
famous Summer School.
A 96-page book of much interest to
students of Nature.
R^ead -wbat others say:
■'Have found it extremely interesting read-
ing,"—Henry Prime, Garden City, L. I,
"I enjoyed the book [Penikese] very much."
— W. W. Kinsley (Supt. of Schools) Grand
Ledge, Mich.
"It is both instructive and entertaining and
deserves a place in the library of every student
of nature."— W. D. Lynn, Canfleld, O.
"I have just finished reading 'Penikese' and
can say that I have enjoyed it exceedingly.
Anything looking toward keeping green the
memory of the great Agassiz should be of in-
terest to the teacher of biology and no period
of his life is more interesting than the years
spent in building up the laboratory on Peni-
kese."—W. P. Hay (Prof. Biology, HighSchool)
Washington, D. C.
'•I have read the book [Penikese] with great
interest and think it an admirable remini-
scence of one of the greatest naturalists of the
nineteenth century. The name of Agassiz is
assuredly treasured by all true lovers of na-
ture and his methods of study have left a strik-
ing impress on present-day workers,"— (Rev.)
Robert Blight, Green Lane, Pa.
Price only 25c (reduced from 3Sc).
Prepaid.
FRANK H. LATTIN, Pub'r,.
Albion, N. Y.
68 THE OOLOGIST.
SELECTED CORALS, SHELLS, MINERALS, CURIOS RELICS, &c.
A Barrel of Shells and a FatDre Study Collection.
Offered on eight page insert in this Ooloqist. I still offer for sale or will ex-
change for desirable Eggs in Sets or for Standard Books or Ornithology, if at
right prices. It is advisable however to make your selections or purchases at
once, as the Pan-American and Chautauqua trade will take nearly, if not quite
everything left next month.
The following have already been sold: Brain Coral, Propeller Coral ($2.25
spec), Sawfish Saws, Ostrich Eggs, Emeu Eggs, Paper Nautilus, Bisected Cham-
bered Nautilus, Egyptian Idol, Chinese God. Chinese Cash Sword, Arrowheads
95c. lot from Illinois, Joplin Calcite— the $4.30 specimen. In the Nature Study
Collection it is necessary to substitute other specimens of greater value for
the Bisected Nautilus.
In case you can use anything left in larger lots, submit list and I may be able
to make special quotations.
I want cash but will "swap" some items, which I have in abundance— if necessary
and if you have what I want at right prices.
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The Western Red tailed Hawk.
[Buteo borealis calurus.)
To Raptorial birds, especially such
species as partake of the nature of the
Vultures and other carrion eaters in
their habits, Southern California of-
fers, next to the countries of the Torrid
zone, most ideal conditions, both cli-
matic and geographical, for the rearing
of their young. The rains of the win-
ter equinox have usually abated by the
last week of March, so that Hawks,
Crows, and others of the larger birds
which occupy open nests can by that
time or earlier have their last year's
homes renovated or if these be destroy-
ed or occupied by some hardier Owl,
be well started on the construction of
EGGS or THE WESTSBN RED-TAILED HAWK.
(From a set in the author's collection.)
new ones. Occasionally, as was the
case this season (1901) heavier rains
came on just about the time these birds
had begun to deposit their eggs and
their nidification was correspondingly
retarded.
Orange county, where my home and
principal collecting grounds have been
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THE OOLOGIST
for the past several years, is very near-
ly in the ^center of the seven counties
lying south of the Tehichapi Mountains
which are known as Southern Californ-
ia. It has some frontage on the Pacific
Ocean, though no ports or watering
places of importance are located on its
coast line. Oa its south eastern border
hills come down to the sea and thence
running north, north west they form a
moderately well wooded boundary along
its northern line. Otherwise the
county is about equally divided between
level cultivated lowland and the rolling
barley fields of the mesas.
In the heart of the hills before men-
tioned there are numerous large ranch-
es within whose bounds the Mexicans,
notorious wood theives, have not been
permitted to carry on their wood-cut-
ting operations. Many sycamores and
oaks dot these ranches especially
wherever water is to be found in the
smaller canyons, and in these the Red-
tails find suitable nesting sites. Of
course there are other Hawks which
breed 'n the same localities, but the
Red-tails are the most numerous by
about twenty-five to one. It has been
my good fortune, ornithologically
speaking, to be located in this region
for the past three and a half years, but
it was not until last year that I thor-
oughly "got onto the curves" of the
nesting Red-tails, and the result was
seventeen sets saved out of about
twenty collected. Three of these were
of four eggs, six of three, and the re-
mainder, eight sets, of two eggs each.
I think this porportion will hold good
in almost any representative series of
sets of Red tailed Hawks collected in
Orange county So far this season I
have taken three sets of four, four sets
of three, and four sets of two which
were preserved. One set, taken from
an immense nest forty feet up in a
sycamore— which, by the way, had no
branches for the first thirty feet— and
consisting of two eggs was too far gone
to be saved. This set had evidently
consisted when first laid, of three eggs,
for about half of the shell of one egg was
found clinging to the edge of the nest.
Of course they were finely marked.
Who ever saw an impossible set which
was not beautiful?
Again, only last Sunday, I climbed
over sixty feet to a new nest in an im-
mense old sycamore and found one
heavily incubated egg. No broken
shells were visible nor to all outward
appearances, had anyone climbed the
tree ahead of me. Last season, this
pair laid a nice set of four heavily
marked eggs in a nest in another syc-
amore not fifty yards from this one.
This is not an "ofl"' year, for two pairs
of these birds which laid but three eggs
each last year, have already presented
me with sets of four each and tomor-
row I am going to see what they
have done in the way of second sets.
Several pairs of Red-tails are nesting
on low cliffs, buildings or ledges or else
in crevices of the rocky wall, while I
know of one nest, which held three
young in May of last year, which was
built in a depression in the top of a
huge boulder projecting out from from
a sloping sidehill. Now and then,
though seldom, a nest will be built in
a wild walnut growing on the steepest
slope of a grassy hill. As these trees are
seldom over twenty-five feet in height
and correspondingly small of growth,
such nests are the collector's delight.
The photo presented herewith is from
a set of four eggs taken from such a
nest situated twenty feet up in a wal-
nut on a sidehill. No bird was on the
nest and neither one put in an appear-
ance until I had climbed to the nest,
when both commenced their usual
screaming and kept it up until I left
the tree. Portions of two lizards and a
gopher snake were in the nest as well
as remains of a ground squirrel and a
kangaroo rat. The whole outfit smelled
like a glue factory. One egg is in-
THE OOLOGIST.
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fertile and is the most heavily marked
egg of the set. The other three con-
tained small embryoes. The date was
March 28th, and this was the first
set of that year. This set of eggs
measure respectively: 62x47.5; 61x47;
61x46. These measurements are in
millimeters and the first is the infertile
egg. Compared with the average of
several sets of three eggs of the Eastern
form of the Red-tail (62x49; 62x48;
^4x49 mm.) tbey seem to be smaller,
yet this is a set of noticeably large
eggs as compared with about twenty
other sets now in my collection, and
collected by myself in the past two
years. Four sets of Krider's Hawk,
collected in Iowa, Texas, and Colorado
seem to average smaller even than
sets of the Western Red tail, and are
not marked so well either, though the
Eastern Red-tail is far ahead of our
form in matter of markings. Several
sets of two eggs of the Western species
which I now have are either entirely un-
marked or else one egg has a very
few faint dashes of rufous.
Harlan's Hawk has been taken here
in the winter and not more than a year
ago a pair were mounted by a Los
Angeles Taxidermist, so I am constant-
ly on the look out for them. Any one
who has collected eggs of this bird and
will favor me with good description or
other notes will do me a favor for
which I will pay either cash or speci-
mens and I am sure such an article
would be read with interest by collec-
tors who suscribe — as who does not?—
to the OoLOGIST.
If robbed, our Red-tail will almost
immediately commence a new nest for
the reception of a second set, but will
usually occupy the old nest the next
year, seeming to become strongly at-
tached to her home. In markings the
sets of one pair of birds, or of the fe-
male, if the male be shot, persist in the
same type, but not always in the same
distinctness of coloration. One nest
of this bird at least was "unavailable"
to me this season, though I haven't
given up trying for it yet. It is in a
sycamore just beside the road and fully
seventy feet from the ground. About
fifteen feet below it in the same tree is
an old nest of the Hawk now occupied
by a Pacific Horned Owl, which I sup-
pose, has hatched her clutch by this
time.
Harry H Dunn,
April 10, 1901. Fullerton, Calif.
Gleaning-s from My Note Book.
(Continued.)
May came in bright and clear, but
cold, bringing a few King birds, and an
Oriole whom I heard chattering but not
singing at all. The cold wave reached
its climax on the night of the 5th, when
a freeze caused the drizzling rain to
sheathe the grass and every shrub with
fantastic icy forms which sent forth
brilliant scintillations as "old Sol" came
smiling up over the eastern hills the
next morning. Even the set of Red-
tailed H.'iwk that I collected at sunrise
were covered with frost, for it seems
that when I flushtd the female from her
nest several evenings ago, she never
came back, so I had to be satisfied with
two plain eggs.
I have noticed many times that neith-
er the Red-tailed nor Red-shouldered
Hawk will return to their nest when
flushed from them after dark, even
when incubation was well along as it
was in this set.
As I left the woods I heard the clear,
sweet warble of a Ruby-crowned King-
let and soon I found him making his
toilet as he sat on the sunny side of a
pine tree on a dead branch.
No sooner had the cold snap passed
away than arrived on the 6th, a great
wave of migrants, and every moist
woodland, whether on hill or in vale,
resounded with melody far sweeter
than words can describe. Yet from
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secluded spot, or tree-top hij?h, we hear
those unobtrnsive "Tsips" which mean
so little to the unpractised ear, while to
the eager ornithologist it brings visions
of some new or rare bird.
Among them there were Redstarts,
Maryland Yellowthroats, Black-throat-
ed Blue, Black-throated Green, Yellow-
rumped, Magnolia, Oven-birds, Chest-
nut-sided and Black and White Warb-
lers, White-crowned and White-throat-
ed Sparrows, Crested and Least Fly-
catchers, Catbirds, Bobolinks, Scarlet
Tanager, and that little bundle of activ-
ity, the saucy Winter Wren.
May 9.— 1 spent this evening search-
ing among the swampy hummocks
where a pair of Wilson's Snipe are evi-
dently nesting, but aside from being
nearly flushed out of my rubber boots
by an Amerioan Bittern who suddenly
jumped up in front of me and uttered a
terrified squawk, my search was un-
eventful.
May 13.-— The corn stubble in swamp
has become a most interesting spot, for
here are gathered scores of Killdeers
and Spotted Sandpipers, either species
being capable of furnishing amusement
as long as one cares to watch them, be-
sides others of this kind have begun to
appear. This morning I saw a Solitary
Sandpiper walking daintily around the
muddy pools. On the 18th a small
flock of Least Sandpipers arrived, fol-
lowed on the 19th by 15 Semipalmated
Plovers, while on the 23d a beautiful
male Black-bellied Plover spent the
day here. A Least Flycatcher has been
tugging away at the fluffy end of our
clothes-line, working mostly morning
and evening. The female did all the
work, while the male followed close at
her heels like an arrant taskmaster, his
emphatic -'che-beck" sounding more
like a threatening "you-get," than an
expression of encouragement.
May 39. — Appearances are sometimes
very deceptive as was an evergreen
tree in which I found a rather remark-
able state of affairs this morning. I
was looking for a nest of Purple Finch
and had walked around the tree with-
out seeing any signs of nests, but to
make sureil gave the tree a gentle num-
ber 8 kick which stirred up a lively
rumpus indeed, for out of that tree
went 6 jibbering House Sparrows, an
excited Bronze Grackle and a more ex-
cited Robin. Upon climbing the tree
I found a small bird village, consisting
of 3 nests of English Sparrows, 1 of
Bronze Grackle, and 1 of Robin— 5
nests within a radius of 4 feet, and all
containing either eggs or young.
June 5. — While trying to get in a
good place to photograph a Black-billed
Cuckoo on her nest I stumbled onto a
nest of Maryland Yellowthroat contain-
ing 4 fresh egars. The nest was placed
upon a triangle of vines and weeds
about 8 inches above the ground. It
was a large bulky affair of dead leaves
and grasses, lined with fine round
grasses and horse-hair. This find so
pleased me — for I do not often find a
nest of this warbler— that I forgot all
about the Cuckoo, who had sneaked
away, but I got a fine photo of tho
Yellowthroat's nest and eggs "in situ."
June 7. — For some time I have heard
the song of a Black and White Warb-
ler, over in woods on hillside, along a
bush lot, so this evening I went over
purposely to hunt for their nest. I
was passing along the edge of the
woods, when I heard a rustle of dead
leaves, and looking to one side I saw a
W hippoorwill fluttering along, stopping
however, about 6 feet away, with wings
outspread in a wounded attitude.
Quickly glancing about me I saw Ohr
what I had hunted for for so many
years, two beautiful eggs of Whip-poor-
will, reposing on a bed of dead leaves
underneath a cluster of bushes, near a
pile of dead brush.
1 wanted a photo, of course, but had
not brought my camera, so knowing the
Whip-poor-will's tendency to slip out
Lrist No. 4.
March 15, igoi,
LATTIN'S CLEARANCE SALE.
SELECTED CORALS, SHELLS, MINERALS, CURIOS, RELICS, &c.
A Barrel of Shells and a NatoFS Study Collection.
Selected Specimens of Corals, Sea Shells, Minerals, Indian
Relics, Curios, &c.
^"The Engraving on last page of this list illustrates many of the
specimens offered on following pages. The numbers in ( ) refer to the
specimens in this engraving.
BRAIN CORAT^, Meandrina cerebri/ ormis,0^o.
1,) a very fine specimen from the West Indies,
11 in. in diameter and weighing nearly 20 lbs.
I will sell for only $2.50; its worth more.
VAl^yLCO'&AlL,, Madreporapalmata, (No. 2,)
from the Bahamas. This specimen measures
10 X 12 in. and weighs about 6 lbs. Will sell for
only $1,75. I have another specimen of
about same size, but more of a hand-shaped af-
fair (thumb and fingers, tip of small finger
broken) at same price. I also have about a
dozen other specimens of this Coral at 3 5 cts . ,
5 O cts . and $ 1 each. All big values for the
money.
PLATE (BRAIN) CORAL. Meandrina clivosa,
(No. 3,) size 16 x 82 in. and weighs nearly 30 lbs.
It goes at only ^'l-.SO I have another speci-
men more regular in form, 13 in. in diameter.
My price is $ 2 . 7 5 . Both from the Bahamas.
PINE APPLE CORAL, Porites astrceoides
(No. 4,) from Bahamas. 10 in. diameter, weighs
12 lbs; my price $1. 6 O I have also a 7-in.
specimen of this species.unbleached "Nig-
gerhead" Coral, at $1 .20.
PROPELLER or BUTTERFLY CORAL,
Agaricea agaricites, (No. 6,) from Bahamas.
This specimen measures about 12 in. and weighs
7 lbs. ^2. .2.5 takes this specimen. In '99, se-
cured a bbl. of this Coral and have about a
"bushel" left. Can furnish nice "wing" speci-
mens at lO. 1 5, 25, 35, 50 and 75 cts.
each and have a few of the "butterfly" speci-
mens at 35, 50 and 75 cts.
BRANCHING, TREE or SPIKE CORAL are
terms by which the Madrepora Corals are com-
monly called. I have several bbls. of Madre-
pora cervicornis . (No. 7,) andean furnish speci-
mens at any price from 1 c. to $ 1 each and can
furnish schools or teachers in bulk at very
reasonable rates. Its worth loose, without
packing, about $5 per bushel. I have also
many of the rarer Madreporas and the follow-
ing are of the close "spike" or "prong" form
and not in long branches :
Madrepora spicifera from Samoa, 8 x 13 in. ,
$1.50; 5x9 in.. 75c.; also an 18 x 15 in.
specimen at $3.50.
Madrepora obscura, a brown-colored species
from Torres Straits, about 15 in. diamet«r, at
$4,50 Could be broken up into lOO lOc
specimens. Another 7-in Madrepora, white,
from same locality at $ 1 .2 5.
Madrepora plantaginea from E. I., an 8-ln
specimen at ODlr $1.20. I also have half a
dozen clumps of J/adre;)ora from Fiji Islands,
ranging from 7 to U in. diameter, at S1.50.
$2 50 and$3.50 each.
Stylophora. a branching Coral from Red "Sea,
5-in. clump, 75 cts; 7-in., $1.50.
Madrepora abrotanoides , a 10-in. spray from
Fi.ii, $1.50.
Seriaiopora, CSo. 11,) from West Africa. This
beautiful, delicate and almost perfect clump of
Coral has been one of my star attractions for
past two years. I have not cared to sell this
specimen and haye held it at $ 1 0. and could
have sold it a number of times had I been will-
ing to shade the price a little: it cost me $6 in
cash and I will now sell at this figure.
ORG AN PIPE CORAL, Tubipora musica, (No
13 ) from Singapore ; this a section c/^) of a
clump, measuring about 9 s 11 in. and this sec-
tion has been held at $4- 50 Will sell for
$3.25; another specimen,8xlO in., at $2.50.
I have a case of this beautiful and interesting
species direct from Singapore and can furnish
selected specimens at following low rates- 2 in
lOc. Sin. 25c., 4in. 35c., 5in. 50c., 6 in!
$1 .
CORALS not shown in engraving. I have two
mammoth Rose Corals, Symphyllia from Tor-
res Straits ; an 8 in. one at $ 1 . 5 O and a 5^ in.
one, more symmetrical and beautiful, at same
price.
FEATHER CORAL, a 10 in. "bum" specimen
50c.
MUSHROOM CORALS. Fine specimens- 5
in. diameter of Fungia patella from Zanzibar
at only 35 cts. each. Selected specimens of
Fungia elegans from Gulf of Calif , ly^ in onlv
12c. prepaid. " ■'
CRATER or VASE CORAL, Turbinaria ciner-
ascens, from Torres Straits, somewhat resem-
bles the Neptune Cup Sponge, (No. 8 ) This
specimen stands 10 in. high and measures 11 in
across top; a 3 in. triangular piece has been,
broken out of one side; will sell for $2.5 O
PINK CORALS, Stylaster, from Samoa, and
the RED and YELLOW CORALS, Distichopora,
from Hawaii. I have hundreds of specimens
rangiijg from a few cents to 35 cts, in value.
PRECIOUS CORAL, Coralllum rubrum, from
Mediterraman Sea A fine two in. clumn ia
muddy matrix, with three specimens imbedded
of Megerlea trancata (a Brachipod of the Lamp
Shell or Ttfrebratali Family.) My price for
this specimen Is $1 .90. I also have a quant
Ity of this Precious Coral in p< 1 shed twigs,
."■uch as are used to make into the good old-
fash iou.d Coral Strings or "Beads," once so
connudU'y used for necii adornment. We used
to who e.-'ale this at $8 per pound; will close
out what 1 have left at ii5 cts. per ounce or
$3 per pound. Samples 5 cts.
WORM '-CORAL," Vermetus (No. 15.) A
clump or mass of these peculiar worm-like
shells from the W. L, measuring 5x7 in. anl
weighing 2 lbs. -.could be made into hundreds or
small specimens; $3.60.
NEPTUNE'S CUP or Vase Sponge, Paterion
(No 8,) from Tasmania. An odd and curious
specimen worth from $15 to $iO, and we have
always held this specimen at 110. It, measures
ai in. high and th'^ vase portion is 12 in indiam
It now goes for only $6 80. Its a bargain for
some one wanting such a specimen.
AN EGYPTIAN IDOL, (No. 21), carved from
stone or lava 1,000 or more years ago, repre-
sents an elephant or some other animal,, meas-
ures about 4 X iVi in. Secured by a missionary
acquaintance from a mummy pit in Egypt and
guaranteed gemiine Only $3 05.
CHINESE CURIOS.
CHINESE GOD (No. 5) Of white porcelain, 6H
in. high, from the collection of an old Chinese
traveller. My price is $1.90. I also have a Chi-
nese cash sword at $1.60. Shuttle cock of
feathers, snakeskin and "cash" 45 cts. prepaid.
SNUFF BO TTLES, size about 2 x 2i4 in. No.
1. pottery, ornamented, etc., 45c, prepaid; No.
2 Jade, carved acd ornamented, $1.35, prepaid.
STONE WATER VESSEL, 1 x 2'/2 in. Of
brown mottled "Jade," 65 cts., prepaid
OPIUM PIPES, No. 1, (No. 16) 24 in. ebony
stem, 4 in. brass mouth piece, brought by sea
captain from China, $1.60, prepaid ; No. 2, (No.
81) bone mouth piece, 18 in. bamboo stem, 90
cts., prepaid; No. 3, pipe only, (bowl) 40 cts.,
prepaid.
SPANISH CROSS inlaid with straw from an
ancient church in Jemez, New Mex. Curio
dealers would ask $5 for it, but it's yours, pre-
paid, for $1.45.
SAWFISH SAW (No. 23 ) This specimen is
the one next to Coral specimen No. 3, and
measures three ft. in length. It's worth $3.25.
The others in engraving have been sold. I also
nave two small specimens with snout or head
back of eyes attached, 10 in. spec. 75 cts., pre-
paid; 13 in. spec, $1 40, prepaid; all from Gulf
Mexico. . ■ .
SHARK JAW from Martha's Vineyard. A
small but fine and perfect specimen. About 4
X 7 in., with nearly 150 teeth. Only $1.80, pre-
paid.
ALLIGATOR (No. 30.) This 5 ft. specimen
was from west coast Florida and was one of
the finest specimens I ever saw. I purchased
it at the Atlanta Expo, in '95, and has been a
constant companic n in my expo-peregrina-
tions in the north since that date. I've sold
dozens of others, but I've always "hung on" to
this specimen. It's but little the worse for
travel. My price has been $10. Now $6.£0.
ALLIGATOR TEETH 15 to 20 years ago al-
ligators were abundant. The swamps and
streams of Florida was fairly alive with them.
Their teeth were used by the hundreds of
pounds for jewellery purposes and good teeth
were staple as flour or sugar at $2 per lb. A
pound of V2 to 1 in. teeth numbers over 1,000
(about 1,200) teeth and represents the product
secured from 15 or 16 alligators ranging from 5
to 12 ft. long. The craze for the jewellery has
waned in most sections and I have many
pounds of teeth on my hands. To close them
out I will sell single pounds at only .50cts; 5 lbs.
for $'3; orlOlbs for only $3. Just think of it,
OAVr 10,000 teeth, which represents the entire
product from over 150 large alligators for only
$3.
SHELL AND MOSS WRE.^TH (No. 34)
Made from the beautiful sea mosses and small
shells from the Callfc^ruia coast. In box 16 x 20
in. t hese wreaths sold at the World's Fair at
$20 each. A few of the petals, etc., have been
loosened through shipping. My price only
$4 60
EGGS OF THE EMEU (No. 28.) Nothing
attracts greater attention in the egg line than
the large dark green, nearly black, pebbled egg
with a lighter ground color of this peculiar
Australian bird. Every egg collection would
have contained one of these egg^ and even the
laity would have had them on their "what-
nots" or among their "brie a-brac" had not the
price— which has always been $2.£0 -been a lit-
tle too high. We now have a limited supply at
only 84 cts. each, prepaid This rate will hold
until May 1st, only. I have a few cracked spec-
imens and a few casts at 5'J cts. each.
OSTRICH EGGS (No. 27.) Stock all sold.
Can secure fair specimens at $1 each. Have a
few good 2ds. at 60 cts.. a few badly damaged
specimens at 30 cts. and have one large flatten-
ed warp-sided abnormality at $1 60.
PIPE-FISH. Sygnathus, (No. 31) from Gulf
California. We have a few choice specimens
of this queer and rare fish, with bony armor,
the first lot we ever secured in sufficient quant-
ity to place on sale. Prices, prepaid, at fjllow-
ing ridiculously low rates : Specimens under
10 in., 3 1 cts.; 10 in., 40 cts; 11 in., 45 cts.; 12 in.,
50 cts. ; 13 in., 60 cts.; 14 in., 75 cts.; 15in.,$l.
THE SE \ HORSES, Hippocamnus, are also
of same order as the pipe fish and with bony
armor. We h we choice specimens of both the
Atlantic and Pacific species. Pi ices of either,
prepaid, 15 to 35 cts. each.
PAPER NAUTILUS, Argonauta Nodosa,(No.
32.) This beautiful $10 specimen has been sold.
We have a few small specimens of the ordinary
Argonauta Argo from the Mediterranean Sea,
at 50 cts. each, prepaid.
CHAMBERED NAUTILUS, Nautilus pom-
pilius, from Polynesia Decoricated specimens
(NO. 9.) This mammoth 9 in. specimen, with
lip checked, $i.25; ordinary 6 to 8 in. specimens,
$1 25 to $2 50 each. Specimens 5 to 6 in. in nat-
ural condition, 50 cts. to $1 each; specimens bi-
sected to show structure, (No. 33) both halves,
75 cts. to $150; siphuncle, H. 50 cts. to $1; the
half not showing siphuncle, 35 cts. to 75 cts. I
also have a lot of broken and damaged shells,
valuable lor teaching, etc. Will close out at
only 25 cts. each. First orders secure best spec-
imens. I also have one very fine bisected shell
with animal in glass jar containing alcohol,
(No. 17) from Western Polynesia. A rare spec-
imen and seen only in a few of our larger mis-
eums. It cost me $9 as a dealer. Will sell for
$7.75. I have a beautiful 4J4 in. specimen of
Nautilus umbilicus from Australia at $1 ; lip
checked.
CHRYSANTHENUM SHELL OR THORNY
OYSTER, Spondy lus pictorum, (Nos. 12 and
16) from Gulf of California. These beautiful
shells usually sell at $2 to $3 each and range all
colors from pure white to bright red. I have a
few left and will close out at $1 each. I have a
few foreign specimens of this family from East
Indies, etc., at 50 cts. each; worth regular up
to $3. First orders best specimens ; have 3 or 4
species, as aurantia, wrightil, purpuraceus,
etc.
TRUMPET SHELL, Triton tritonis, (No. 25)
from Indian Ocean. Used as a teakettle by the
natives of theTypinsan Archipeligo. This spec-
imen is 16 in. long and was used for this or a
similar purpose ; $3.25. The other specimen in
engraving also has holes through shell for or-
namental or some other purpose ; S2.20 I also
have a few very fine specimens of this shell at
following low rates : 6 in. specimen, f,0 cts; 8
in.,75cts.; 10 in., ?1 to $1.50; 12 in , fl.50 to $2;
15 in., $?. I also have a couple baby specimens
2-3 in. at 35 cts. each, prepaid.
SHELL VASE (No. 14) made from lai-ge-sr ec-
imens of Green Snail, Turbo marmnratus.from
Philippines. These vases are made from se-
lected 5 to 6 in. shells and are worth fl.50 each.
1 also have from same shell vases, basket style,
with carved handles, etc.. all In one piece, at
only 81.50. I can also furnish thtse»hells, with
Lord's Prayer engravtd on, or made into call
bells at $1 50. (Regular price of all these $1.50
articles is $2.) Shell vases of same shell simi-
lar to (14) made from 3 to 3^ in. shells, worth
50 cts. each; prepaid, only 35 cts. Shell napkin
rings from sections of this shell, plain 15 to 25
cts., prepaid; engraved, 25 to 35 cts., prepaid;
small 3 in. shells of this species in natural con-
dition at 15 cts. each, prepaid.
SIOUX TENT. Child's play-tent, 15—5 ft.
Willow tent pole.s (No. 26 ) Tent cloth or cover
measures, unpitched, two extremes— about 3 x
10 ft. It is spread on three top steps of engrav-
ing. Material of common factory and decorat-
ed in colors by some Sioux artist. This is
guaranteed genu'ne and has been in my pos-
session for 8 or 10 years. My pri^e is $3 80, and
its well worth double. The Sioux Pi e (No. 20)
has been sold. I have, however, a similar one,
length 14V^ in., both stem and bowl of red Cat-
linite or Pipestone, Indian make, unu ed, an-
gular and more ornamental than No 20. My
price J1.90.
INDIAN BASKETS mads by the Hoopa In-
dians of Humboldt Co. Calif., from natural
fibres, artistically woven and arranged in col-
ors, water tight, bowl shape. The Indians sell
them "on the ground" at |5 each. I have the
following sizes and will send, prepaid, at prices
named: 3 in. deep by 7 in diam., $3 15; 3^ in.
deep by 7/2 in. diam., $3 GOWVi in. deep by S'/j
in. diam., 14.10. I consider the best the cheap-
AZTEC PITCHER. Genuine aztec and pur-
chased from Mexican Village at Atlanta in "95,
with a guarantee that it was the ancient. I te
lleve, hov ever, that it was made rerently by
descendants of the ancient aztecs. Material
black day and covered with carvings, faces,
etc,; $2.60.
MOUND BUILDER'S RELICS. I have hun-
dreds of ordinary arrow and spear heads and a
few of the more common pieces such as sink-
ers, drills, scrapers, etc., but have very few of
the rare and desirable ones. The following
covers what I have left: Stone Pipe, (Horn-
blende or hard mica schist) (No. 19) size 2x4 in.,
wgt. M lb., from Brant Co., Ont , a very choice
specimen, S5. 10, prepaid; another from same
locali;y of a more common and unattractive
form, 3j^ X 2 in., 7 oz.. hatchet f-hape, $2 20, pre-
paid; Slate Pendant from Waterloo Co., Ont..
2 in. diamond shape, drilled, prepaid 70 cts.;
Hematite (Limonite) Celt fr>:m Van Buren Co.,
Ark., 2x5 in., 1 lb., prepaid, only $1 20. Ordi-
nary Stone Axe from Cumberland Co.. N. .7.,
(Serpentine, grooved, 4 x 5!^ in., 2^ lbs .) $1.30.
I also have the contents of a cache from Rowan
Co . N. C, consisting of about 375 unnotched
arrow or spearheads of uniform size and form,
about 2V4 long, will sell as a whole for only $S8 -
10.
CELTS. Various sizes and material from
near Baum Village site. Paint Creek Valley, O.,
at from 45 cts. to $1 each, prepaid.
NET SINKERS made from Iron-stone, Llm
onite, Concretions, Van Buren Co., Ark, weigh
ing from % to 1 lb. and measuring 2H to 3>4 by
354 to 4)i in , each 45 cts.
PESTLE of quartzite from Kv-. l>; IbP., 2>^x
41/j in., 85 cts.
ARROWHEADS. Van Buren Co., Ark,, as-
sorted; poor, per doz., 30 cts. ; ordinary. Poets. ;
selected, 11.
BIRD ARROWPOINTS. Same locality, 9c.
to 24 cts each, prepaid.
BIRD ARROWPOINTS. The famous little
beauties c.f jasptr, ctalcedony, obsidian, e'c,
from WilUmette Valley, Oregon. I have a few
ordinary ones left at 15 to 35 cts. ( ach, or 5 a.s-
sorted for $1.10, prepaid.
POTTER ■ fragments with markings, 6 pes ,
Ky. and N. Y., lot 40 cts.
FIVE good jasper and iftint arrowheads from
Mo., lot 50 3 , prepaid.
EIGHT damagea pes. Rowan Co, No. Car.,
lot 2,5c.. prepaid.
FOURTEEN white flint arrowhead.s frcm
Engiewood, Ills., fair lot; lot, prepaid, 95 cts.
MILKY QUARTZ DRILL, So. Car, W in.'
made from broken arrowhead, '■'b cts., prepaid-
GLASSY QUARTZ, leaf shape arrowhead.
So Car., fair, 3} cts , prepaid.
SCRAPERS. Nine small ordinary on^s from
So. Dak., chalcedony, etc., lot, prepaid, $1.
OVAL DISC shaped, pc. from Ind., 2 x'Z'-A in.'
23c., prepaid.
SLATE ORNAMENT, Waterloo Co , Ont.'
round, 2 in. diam., hole in center, 85c., prepaid'
SANDSTONE ORNAMENT, Orleans Co., N.
Y., very raie, unattractive and not ornament-
al, 3^4 m. didni., about 40 tally marks, one per-
foration, another partially through, $2.10, pre-
paid.
SPEARHEADS, Orleans Co., N. Y., rare in
locality, 3 in , lot (two), prepaid, 75 cts.
CUMBERLAND CO , N. J. One knife and
eleven seU-cled arrowheads, lot, prepaid, $1.25.
MONTGOMERY CO., PENNA. A selected lot
of ten pieces of Jasper and quartzite, as follows:
1 draw knife (?),1 scraper 2 small warclub heads,
6 arrow or spearheads; lot, prepaid. $2.10.
BONE NECKLACE. Thirty-two perforated
(lengthwise) phalangeal bones from an Ind'an
burial ground in Oxford Co., Canada, prepaid.
$3 60
BOTRYOIDAL GROUP OF CALCITES (No.
10 ) This magnificent specimen measures about
10 X Li in and weighs over 20 lbs. It was taken
from a pool of pure water in Crystal Cave,
Black Hills This form is not know n elsewhere
in the world Beautiful lemon yellow botry-
oidal groups of compound and contact thickly
studded, small 3-comered xtals, well worth $15,
but will sell for only ?8 90.
JOPLIN CALCITES are the most superb rich
yellow, with deep browmish base, calcltesinthe
world and occur in single xtals; low, broad
scalenohedrons. sharp angles, six sided, six-
faceted, with modifications very pleasing, bril-
liant, natuml polish; translucent ice-like ap-
pearance. I have a ;■ ingle ■■ rystal, which weighs
28 lbs., and measures 10 x 18 in. It ought to be
worth $1 per pound, but I'll sell for $9 30. I
have another but smaller Joplin xtal nearly
doubly-terminated, measures 6 x 11 in. and
weighs over 13 lbs. and goes at $4.30.
NATIVE COPPER from Lake Superior. The
globe. No. SS, was filled with eelectfd speci-
mens in acid, but old zero broke the globe and
we can furnish the ragged thread-like speci-
mens separately at 2.i tts., 35 cts., 50 cts. and $1
each, prepaid.
HOT SPRING QUARTZ XTALS. Have a
few left at 15c.. 2nc and 35c. each, prepaid; and
one 6 lb . 5 X 9 In., clump xtal, with group-like
base at $1 60.
RUBELLITE. I have a splendid assort-
ment of specimens of this beautiful bright rose
tourmaline, needle-like xtals usually arranged
so that dozens Wj 11 radiate from a single cen-
ter in a gangue of lavender Lepidolite and
f( uud in San Diego Co., Calif.: M lb. speci-
mens. 30 cts.; 1 lb specimens, 55 cts.; IH to 21b.
specimens, $1 ; 5 1b specimens, $2.50. I have
one beautiful museum specimen, which meas-
ures 8 X 10 in. and weighs 14 lbs., at $.5.40.
THE ABOVE ENGRAVING SHOWS ONE OF LATTIN'S
PAN-AMERICAN
NATURE STUDY COLLECTIONS
DISPLAYED IN A 4x4 FOOT SPACE.
This Collection will be Appreciated by EVERY STUDENT, TEACHER, COLLECTOR AND
AMATEUR, and is of Special Value in Nature Study Work.
Lattin's Pan-American,
NATURE STUDY
COLLECTION,
This Collection contains specimens selected with special care in order that the Collection, as
^ whole, would not only be of value to the Specimen Collector in building or adding to a cabinet,
but. b^ivA <»ndeavored to make it practically mdispensible In Nature Study Work, both to teacher
and student.
As many may not wish to purchase the entire Collection, I quote the regular price on each
■specimen and also my prepaid Clearance Sale price.
The entire Collection at regular retail rates would cost $11 ; at. my special prepaid rates if
purchased separately 5.19.
I will deliver the entire Collection f. o. b., freight or express, Albion, N. Y., carefully and se-
curely packed and boxed for only ,32.78.
No.
1
Regular
Price.;
Pink Mnrex, Murex bicolor,
Gulf Calif., 4in $ 35
2 Pearl Conch, Stromhus gran-
ulatus, Panama, 2>giD. 15
3 Orange Scorpion, Pte: seer a au-
rantia, Philippines, 4in 15
4 Goldmouth, Turbo clu!,sostom-
us, Philippines, 2in _ 15
5 Chambered Nautilus, Nautilus
pompilius, E. I., V4 of bisected
shell to show structure, etc.,
5in 75
'6 Mushroom Coral, Fungia ele-
g^ans, Gulf Calif., 2in 25
7 Armor Starfish, Nidorella ar-
mata, Panama, 5in 35
«c Black-mouth Tree Snail, Oxy-
styla undata var floridensis,
Florida, 2in _ 35
4 Tiger Cowry, Cyjircea tigris,
Australia, 3in 15
iO Black Murex, Murex radix,Fa,-
ge nama, 4in 35
11 Tarpon Scale, Florida, (2 spe)
2in , 10
!2a Compass or Sunflower Star-
. fish, Heliaster Kubingii, Chili,
4in . 35
iS^Mammoth Sea Urchin. Stron-
qylocentrotus franciscanus.
Pacific, 4in 35
14 Pink Coral, Slylaster sanguin-
eut, Samoa, 2^in _ 25
15a Orange tscorpion Shell. Cut
to illustrate structure, 4>^in.,
select 35
16 Silvermouth, Turbo tesselatus ,
Gulf Calif . 2V4'ln 25
17 Egg of Skate or Sand Shark,
Martha's Vineyard. 4jn lO
18 Organpipe Coral, Tubipora
musica, Singapore, Sin 35
19 Fossil Polyp Coral, Heliopby-
Hum, Genessee Co., N. Y
- 2in, Cilb) 25
$ 21
06
06
06
48
11
17
09
11
16
04
Lattin's 20 Purple-spined Sea Urchin,
Prepaid Strongyloce)itroius drobach-
Price. iensis, Gulf Mexico, 3;^ln
21 Horn Nut, China, 2j^in
22 Sea Horse, Hippocampus hud-
sonius, Delaware Bay, 4in
23 Screw Sbell. TurritelJa croc a,
Panama, 3iu
24 Native Lodestone, Magnet
Cove, Ark., 2in
25 Resurrection Plant, Mexico..
26 Young Corcb, Strombus gigas,
Bahamas. 5in
27 Propellor Coral, .4^aric€'aagfar-
icites, Bahamas, 5in
28 Coqulna Shell Conglomerate,
St. AugustiLe, Fla., Sin
29a Fossil Scaphites, (Nautilus
Family) Custer Co., Mon-
tana, 3in
30 Venus Clam, Chione gnidia,
Gulf Calif., 3in
31 Lettered Cone, Conus liter atus,
Ceylon, Sin
32 Golden Starfish. Asterias och-
racea, Calif., 7in
S3 Black Ea.r.ffaliotiscracherodii
Japan, S><iin
34 White Murex, Murex ramosus,
Zanzibar, 4!4in
35 "Electric Stone," "Hell Fire
Rock," a variety of Tremolite
so hijjhiy charged with;phos-
phonc acid tbat a light
scratch in dark emits a play
of lights. Sin
36 Branch CovslI, Madrepora cervi-
cornis, Bahamas, 7in. Branch
37 Sea Fern, Pterogorgia setosa.
Key West, 3ft
38 Golden Sea Fan, Panama, 151n
39 Yellow Sea Fan, Rhipidogor-
gia occatoria, Bahamas, 121n .
40 Sertularla, Atlantic City, ^ J.
25
10
35
15
25
15
25
35
25
35
25
35
35
25
25
09
06
09
11
11
19
19
25
09
25
16
.50
21
35
21
25
11
15
06
THE ABOVE ILLUSTRATION SHOWS ONE OF LATTIN'S
TWENTIETH CENTURY
....BARRELS OF SHELLS
CROWDED INTO A 4X5 FOOT SPACE.
TO PROPERLY DISPLAY WOULD REQUIRE A MUCH LARGER SPACE.
Our Twentieth Century
Barrel °^ Shells
Iq my list offering a "Barrel of Shells" six
years ago ('95) I quote:
"From time memorial it has been custom
ary for shell dealers to put up a barrel of shells
for others to sell again. $2ior$3Jisa favorite
price for one of these barrel collections, in fact
a good selection of saleable material cj,nnot be
sold at a living profit at a lower price. 'Lattin'
has been in the shell business for the past fif-
teen years. '95 makes his 9ih consecutive sea
son at Chautauqua (whei'e be has exclusive
right). His 'Fail' trade U and has been on-) of
the heaviest In the U. S., and at the WoRLd'.s
Fair 'Lattin' personally sold more shells than
all other dealers combined— the-^e htatements
may seem strong but they are facts neverthe-
less." At that time I offered a "barrel of
shells" to dealers only.
The "Twentieth Century Barrel of Shells"
has been put up from an eatirely different
standpoint; and while I expect to sell more
barrels to dealers than to others it will be due
to the fact that they realize more fully the ex-
ceptional bargain I am offering in giving a
greater variety and mikiag a lower rate than
they were ever able to previously secure.
I have about 25 of these Twentieth Century
Barrel of Shells. The engraving on preceding
page does not do the collection justice. It was
my original Intention to have the different
specimens numbered in order that one coul I
get an idea of each variety from the engraving
but I find that the reduction in size is so great
that the carrying out of my original intention
is out of the question.
This 'barrel" has be^n arranged, however,
so as to be of value to anyone, and especially
so for those wishing to get a nice assortment
of shells, etc., and be able to sell enough from
the residue to make their own cost little or
nothing. This assortment is of value to the
collector or teacher and of special value for
school work. It's needless to add or say more
as to its value to the dealer or to those who
wish a selection to sell again. I might call at-
tention, however to its great value, if proper-
ly displayed, as a store window attraction and
for ornamental purposes. An up-to-date mer-
chant can use it as an attraction for a few
weeks and then sell at Yz usual prices and real-
ize a good profit. It is also of special value to
place on sale and as an attraction at a Church
or Lodge Fair bioth, etc., etc.
For whatever purpose you purchase this as-
sortment you will find it one of the biggest
investments in the shell line that you ever
made for the money. You will also find that
the assortmeht contains no "dead wood."
Each variety Is plainly labeled and a good
sized cardboard libel Is also sent for each va-
riety, giving common and scientific names and
locality, making the assortment doubly valu-
able for display purposes.
The assortment is made up as follows:
2 Lai'ge Pink Conchs $ 75
2PlakConch Puiats 75
4 Youag Conchs 50
1 E. L Clam 50
2E I Clams 50
4 While Murex 60
2 Wh te Murex 50
3 Pink MureK 50
2 Pink Murex 75
2 Black Murex 50
1 Black Murex rO
1 Grandmother Shell 1 00
1 Grandmother Shell .. 35
1 Violet-mouth Scorpion 50
1 Orange Scorpion cut to show structure 35
1 Tent Olive 75
2GreenSnail 50
2 Tiger Cowry 35
1 Marlinspike 50
8 Mother of Pearl 50
4 Lettered Cones 1 00
2 White Spindle Shells 50
2 Venus Shells 50
5 Fighting Shells 50
5 Pearl Conchs 50
5 Silverllps 50
5 Goldmouths 50
5 Silvermouths 50
5 Orange Scorpions 50
5 Black Ears 50
5 Screw Shells 50
5 Banded Murex 50
5 Lettered Olives : 50
4 Boxes of assorted Small Shells 1 00
1 Sea Horse 35
1 Armor Starfish 35
1 Golden Starfish 35
3 Compass Starfish 75
3 Mammoth Sea Urchins 50
Lot of assorted pieces W. I. \^'hite Branch
Coral 2 00
Lot Organpipe Coral 1 00
2 Purple Sea Ferns 50
2 Purple Sea Ferns 1 50
2 Yellow Sea Fans .* 50
2 Yellow Sea Fans 25
2 Golden Sei Eans 75
This assortment of shells, etc., at low rates
will sell for not lass" than $28.03. I will pack
the entire lot in a barrel and deliver f. o. b.
express or freight, Albion, NY., for only $7.80.
It's worth nearly doubfe this figure at low
wholesale rates, and is the biggest bargain in
showy material in the Shell and Coral line 1
have ever seen in my 20 years' career as a deal-
e" and .lubber In Sea Shells, etc.
-Address plainly and in full,
FRANK H. LATTIN, M. D ,
Albion, N. Y.
THE ABOVE ENGRAVING ILLUSTRATES
A FEW SELECTED SPECIMENS
OFFERED ON FIRST PAGES OF THIS LIST.
THE OOLOGIST
73
with her household effects, if disturbed,
I covered the eggs with my coat and
hustled home after my camera and took
them "in situ." Although I use the
most rapid plates yet I had to make the
exposure 8 seoiiad< on account of the
gatheritig gloom in the woods. The
eggs were nearly hatched, but never
did an ocilogist use more time, patience
and pancreatin, than did I, but with
all my care I c )uld only save one egg.
June 21.— How queer it is— a solemn
fact though — that one is forever sur-
prising himself by finding just what he
is not looking for. Here I've found
quite accideatal'y the nests of two spe-
cies that I've searched for so many
times without success. I'his fact was
again illustrated on June 21 while pho-
tographing an Ovenbird on nest. I
was out in the woods at 5 a. ni., and
when 1 arrived at the nest the Oven-
bird was out to breakfast, so I took
photo of nest and eggs 'in situ." I had
just finished when she came walking
homeward with dainty, mincing steps,
turning a«ide here and there for little
bunches of grass or a dead limb. With
camera obout six feet away she camo
peeking around the nest, her sparkling,
beady eyes seeming to express anxiety,
which did not pass away even when I
requested her to "look pleasant."
While folding my camera I heard the
"hum" of a Hummingbird, overhead in
the oaks and I began to realize that a
nest was near, for judging by the
"hum" or "buzz" it sounded like a
Hummingbird from the nest a foot or
so, and darting back. A glance up-
ward revealed the tiny bird humming
around her home, on the crotch of a
dead limb, about 5 feet from the body
of a slender oak, and 30 feet above the
ground. She seemed to be nervous be-
cause of my presence and kept turning
her head sidewise, and peering at me
over the rim of her little gem of lichens,
spider's web and cottony stuff. There
were two slightly incubated eggs and
they now are in my collection.
There is another solemn fact that I
always think of as a sort of "hoodoo"^
and that is to have some misfortune be-
fall a new find. Either some "var-
mint" will destroy the nest before the
set is complete, or else some self-in-
flicted acc'dent will happen.
I well remember the first set of Chest-
nut-sided Warbler that I found. I had
succeeded in safely packing 3 of the
eggs and had the fourth egg between
my "first thumb and second finger'
when a mosquito lit on my thumb and
aroused my feelings — even more than
the offended Warblers— which caused
me to raise my hand, let it fall down
upon the mosquito, smashing him into
"smithereens" and incidentally the egg.
C. F. Stone,
Branchport, N. Y.
Iowa Notes.
"Oh! what so rare as a day in June?"
Sometimes we ornithologists think that
the early spring when the birds begin
to arrive from the sunny south, is just
as pleasant a time of the yea^, for after
the dreary months of our severe win-
ters, we are glad to greet our feathered
friends once more.
On the 13th of March I heard the first
Bluebird of the season. While on my
way to work in the morning I passed a
small creek bordered on either side by
willows, and from some where there
came the unmistakable notes of our
first spring arrival. A cold northwest
wind was blowing at the time and snow
and rain fell incessantly. The ther-
mometer registered 36 degrees above
zero all day.
About the middle of the forenoon on
the same day I saw a small flock of
Red-winged Blackbirds flying high in
air toward the south. Evidently their
northward journey was begun a little
74
THE OOLOGIST.
too early, and they had discovered the
fact in short order.
A flock of geese was seen flying north,
ward at noon, but they became dis-
couraged at the snow, rain and wind
which they encountered and 'struck off
to the east in a driving rain.
At one o'clock in the afternoon seven
Bluebirds were seen near Cedar Lake.
They were on the south side of a wil-
low covered bluff. The wind still blew
coldly from the northwest, and snow
was falling at the time they were seen.
Sunday March 17th, I heard a Robin
singing. There seems to be a scarcity
of Robins this spring, this being the
only one I have heard to date, (March
20th,) but their ranks are filled with a
goodly number of Bluebirds. I am
very glad to note the increase of Blue-
birds. Last season I found a pair
breeding in an old stump near my
home, but this was the only nest found
for several seasons.
Every ornithologist should have a
camera. A good photograph of a bird,
nest or eggs can tell more of the beauty
of Nature than words can express or
tongue can tell. The amateur "bird-
ologist" will find the camera a great
help in his study of bird life and bird-
architecture.
A few days ago the writer hunted up
his climbers, blow-pipes, egg-boxes,
drills, etc., and after looking them over
and cleaning them, put them away
where they could be found at a mo-
ments notice. The time will soon
come when they will be needed, and it
is best to have them ready before-
hand.
I heard a Meadow-lark on the 18th
of this month (March.) These larks
are quite common during the nesting
season, and their presence at this time
of the year is a sure sign that spring is
at hand. Several Red-winged Black-
birds were serenading the sun in the
early morning with their "kon-ker-ree."
Song Sparrows also sang in the shrub-
bery along the lake shore.
The writer has a unique way of iden-
tifying birds for field nse. It is a small
book with alternating blank and ruled
leaves. The left page being blank, and
the right ruled. When a strange bird
is seen, a rough outline of it is made on
the blank page and then colored with
colored lead pencils. A description of
the bird is written on the ruled page,
and it is very useful in identifying the
specimen at hand. With this book in
your panjamas, a pair of opera glasses,
and a good "key" with you, cr at home,
identification is made quife easy. Of
course the exact colors cannot always
be used, but they can be made ne^r
enough to serve the purpose.
Glen M. Hathorn,
Cedar Rapids, la.
Loxgilla portoricensis.
I first met this bird in the hills back
of Catana and Bayamon across the bay
from San Juan during the spring and
summer of '99. In a three months' so-
journ in the Island of Vieques I did not
observe it and do not think it occurs.
At Aguadilla during the summer of
1900 I found it common and again at
Mayaguez the succeeding autumn and
winter. In the brush of the lower hill-
sides near San Juan Bay it seemed to
evince no evidence of shyness or seclu-
sion and was readily approached and
taken, but around Aguachilla and May-
aguez I found the opposite to be the
base.
A male skin now before me measurns
six and one half inches in length. The
color is a uniform blue-black with pur-
plish reflections. A patch of Venetian
red of light shade covers the crown ex-
tending to eyes and base of bill and
continuing in two slight stripes three-
eighths' inch down on neck. Another
patch of same color and oval shape
covers throat and upper breast, meas-
uring one and five-eighths inches from
base of lower mandibles. A third
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75
patch of this same color covers under
tail coverts.
The bill is rather short, though far
less so than many of the Grosbeaks.
The culmen measures live-eighths inch.
The female is almost uniformly of an
olive brown color with chestnut under
tail coverts; the wing quills and tail
feathers are dark brown, almost black,
but edged with the same color brown
as the rest of the plumage. The young
of both sexes resemble the female.
The flight is slightly bounding with
successive, strong, separate strokes.
The song reminds one forcibly of an
exaggerated edition of the Song Spar-
row's and the alarm notes are sparrow-
like. I have he^rd the song just before
twilight when the resemblance to that
of the Song Sparrow was quite strik-
ing. Their food is largely vegetable,
but probably insects make up some
part of it. In a hasty review of my
note book I find record only of seeds
and budH, but I am quite sure I have
examined stomachs containing insect
remains.
The female Grosbeak is much shyer
than the male and I have never had a
good opportunity of watching her ways.
The male is often found feeding on the
hillsides and among the bushes without
one being able to find the least trace of
a female near.
The nesting habits I know only by
one nest found on June 15, 1900, in a
narrow bushy pass between two hills
near Aguadilla. It was built at an ele-
vation of about 8 feet; placed in a
clump of twigs against the body of a
small tree. In appearance it was much
like an enlarged edition of the nest of
Euthia bicolor, being bell-&haped with
entrance in the side. It was composed
of weed and vine stems, dead leaves,
and skeletons of leaves, and measured
externally 7x3 inches in depth, the lat-
ter measurement being to lower edge
of entrance, the former to top of dome,
— and 6i inches in diameter. The in-
side dimensions were: Depth, 2 inches;
diameter, 3 inches.
The eggs were three in number and I
sent nest and eggs to the U. S. Nation-
al Museum without taking measure-
ments or description, so must describe
from memory. They were fresh and I
should say about the size of the Car-
dinals', of a light blue ground, and
quite evenly and thickly sprinkled with
fine dots of reddish brown.
On June 13, 1900, I secured near this
same spot a young female in immature
plumage. Stomach's contents were
small round weed seeds.
B. S. BOWDISH.
Pan-American Notes.
If ycu don't know just where to go
next summer you can't make any m is-
take in going to the Pan-American Ex-
position.
The superb collections made in the
far northwest by the Alaska Geograph-
ical Society will possibly be shown at
the Pan American Exposition.
The best mineral exhibit ever made
by Canada will be seen at Ihe Pan-
American Exposition. Mine owners
and nrospectors are giving the Bureau
of Mines hearty co-operation in their
collection of specimens for this display.
The Bird Protective Association of
America proposes to make an exhibit
at the Pan-American Exposition which
will be of great interest and general
value to all agriculturists, particularly
those interested in the forest and shade
trees. The exhibit will consist of in-
fected sections of various kinds of trees
on which will be mounted the destroy-
ing insects in their various stages of de-
velopment, and the birds that devour
them.
The bird and insect life will be repre-
sented in a natural way, thereby illus-
trating the great value of bird life to
all forms of vegetation. It will be the
first exhibit of this nature ever made at
an exposition, and it is intended to
make it a most useful feature of the
Pan-American.
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THE OOLOGISl
There are 5,000.000 or more persons
in the United States who devote more
or less of their time to the collection of
stamps, coins, picturps, curios, etc.,
and the majority of them are members
of the societies of collectors. Amonp:
these are.- The American Society of
Curio Collectors, the Philatelic Sons of
America, the American Philatelic As-
sociation, the American Numismatist
Association, the American Camera
Club Exchange and the Illustrated or
Souvenir Card Exchange. These and
many other associations of collectors
will hold their annual meetings in Buf-
falo during the week beginning August
19th, while the Pan-American is in
progress.
On account of the many attractions
offered by the Exposition and Niagara
Falls, and the extraordinary opportun-
ities which the collectors will have for
adding to their specimens, it is expect-
ed that this will be the most largely at-
tended meeting of the different associa-
tions ever held.
When the Pan-American Exposition
opens its gates at Buffalo, May 1, 1901,
twenty-five years will have elapsed
since the Centennial at Philadelphia.
During all this time there has been
nothing noteworthy of the kind in the
east, and the new century may never
see anything to rival or surpass the
Pan-American in magnitude, richness,
beauty and universal benefit. Its loca-
tion, too, is one to assure a record-
breaking attendance, for tahing it as a
center and drawing a circle with a rad-
ius of 500 miles, over 40.000,000 people
— more than half the population of the
United States — would be included in
the area thus circumscribed, which
would, moreover, include at least sev-
enty-five per cent, of the nation's indus-
trial and commercial wealth. As a
center of railroads and waterways Buf-
falo is also at the front with the tonnage
of the Greas Lakes pouring into its
harbor, and twenty-six steel highways
reaching out in every direction. In
1876, the year of the Centennial Expo-
sition, the entire population of the
United States scarcely equalled that
now within the area indicated, and the
same circle in diameter, with Chicago
as its center, would not include over
half that number. The resultant ad-
vantages, both to the Pan-American
Exposition and its exhibitors and pat-
rons, are self-evident.
A new booklet, just issued for the
Exposition, tells a very charming story
of its history and creation and de-
scribes the beautiful city in which the
festival has been developed and brought
to completion. The booklet is embel-
lished with many illustrations, includ-
ing twelve coJoi ed plates of Exposition
buildings and views. These will be
sent free to applicants by the Bureau
of Publicity so long as the edition lasts.
All the principal buildings of the Ex-
position have been completed for some
time. The installation of exhibits be-
gan many weeks ago, and there is
every reason to expect that the Exposi-
tion will have a sand-paper finish on
the first of May— a remarkable achieve-
ment, indeed, considering the unfavor-
able weather and the history of other
expositions in this regard. Some of
the afterthoughts, such as State build-
ings, will not ba done till about May
20th, which is to be Dedication Day.
Everyone who has visited the grounds
of the Pan-Amoiican Exposition during
the last few months has been astonished
beyond expression upon beholding the
magnitude and the exceptional beauty
and novelty of the enterprise. It is
very much larger than people generally
have supposed, and it is apparent that
the $10,000,000 which is the approxi-
mate cost of the Exposition as a whole,
has been expended most wisely and
with the happiest results. The partic-
ular novelty that is to be noted in this
Exposition is discovered in the fact
that in its exterior aspect it is a radical
departure from former expositions.
The buildings are arranged upon a har-
monious and well developed plan,
producing court settings and vistas of
very charming character. The use of
molded staff work and decorative
sculpture upon the buildings and at all
salient points within the courts, the
liberal employment of hydraulic and
fountain features, the floral and garden
effects, the exquisite colorings of build-
ings and architectural ornaments, and
the illumination of the whole with
more than 300,000 electric lamps, com-
bine to make a picture of unsurpassed
loveliness. The musical features are
also of great importance and interest.
The exhibit divisions are very complete
and embrace the gamut of industrial,
scientific and artistic activities of the
people of the Western Hemisphere.
The Midway, claimed to be the great-
est in the world, has more than a mile
of frontage. The restaurant features
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are perfect and the Exposition, so far
as human ingenuity and the wise ex-
penditure of money can accomplish
such a work, is complete to the last
detail.
Bnflfalo, too, is an ideal city for an
exposition, having a summer climate
that is tempered by the breezes from
Lake Erie and, therefore, the most
comfortable in which one may erjoy
his summer outing. The people of the
city have prepared themselves In a
most ample way to entertain millions
of guests during the Exposition. The
private dwellings throughout the city
have been thrown open to the public
and, in view of the ample accommoda-
tions, very moderate rates will prevail
so that every visitor may have such ac-
commodations as he is willing to pay
for. He may have the palatial quart-
ers of the fine hotels, or the quiet rest-
fullness of a pleasant home. The
average rate for accommodations near
the Exposition grounds is about $1.00
per night for lodging, with 25c to 50c
added for breakfast, it being expected
that guests will take their other meals
upon the Exposition grounds. A num-
ber of responsible companies have
organized to find accommodations for
visitors at any price th?y may desire to
pay. The officers of these companies
are centrally located and this system of
management promises tT bring very
satisfactory resiilts to all concerned.
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Whole No. 177
Wants, Exchanges, and For Sales.
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tor 25c per 25 words. Notices over 2.5 words, charged at the rate of one-half cent per each addltloaa.
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NOTICE:— I will exchange ICO Datas, size
61/4x3^, printed on Diana Bond paper, for every
BO cts. worth of strict ly first class sets with
complete data sent me. Sets returned if not
entirely satisfactory. CLARENCE H. LUTH-
ER, Payetteville, Ark., P. O. Box 322.
WANTED:— Hummingbirds' nests with eggs
in exchange for specimens or supplies. J. P.
BABBITT, Taunton, Mass.
FOR SALE: — One set of Raven eggs with
nest at catalogue rates. ALVAH G. DORR,
Taxidermist and Fur Dealer, Bucksport. Me.
FOR SALE or EXCHANGE : Sets of 378 4-8,
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for Tobacco Tags. 10 tags for each egg. Get
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Address F. W. COLLINS, Garden City, Kan.
TYPE:— I have about 15 fonts of display
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TO EXCHANGE :-50 feet of seine (new) and
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Write for exchange list. ROY E. GASTON,
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FOR SALE:— Large Rocky Mountain sheep
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horn, 35 inches around outside curve, 22 inches
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Enclose stamp for reply. L. B. GILMORE,
HloominK Valley, Crawford Co., Pa
FOR sale:— A new No. 2 Eureka Camera
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cost $6.00. F. W. COLLINS. Garden City,
Kan., Box 431.
OOLOGISTS :— 1 have a fine lot of strictly
first class sets and .singles for sale at 80 per
cent, discount. Don't miss this chance if you
care to purchase eggs cheaper than cheap.
Send for list. ED KASCH, Lockhart, Tex.
FOR SALE:— The following first class sih-
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I5c; 326, 15c: 38.5, 5c; 387. 3c: 394a. 10c: 4C6. 2c:
443. 2c; 452, 3c; 4.54. 5c: .506, 2c: 507. 2c: 511, 2c:
511b, 2c; 513. 3c: 513. 3c: 5.52. 2c; .593, 2c: 594, 10c;
601, 2c; 604, 2c; 611. 2c; 627, 2c ; 633. 2c : 703, 2c :
719b, 5c; 735a, If'c; 766. 2c: Orders of less than
50cts. not dt^sired. Send before they are all
gone ADOLF SCHUTZE, 1611 Sabine St„
Austin, Travis Co., Tex.
look: look:— The following first class
sets with data for sale: 316 13. 3c; 443 1-5 10c;
506 1-5, 6c: .553 1-4 5c; .593 1-4, 5c: 594 1-4, 40c;
633 1-4, 10c; 703 1-4, 1 5, 5c. The above price.s are
per set postpaid, but orders for less than oOcts.
not desired. ADOLF SCHUT2E, 1611 Sabine
St., Austin, Travis Co., Tex.
CAMERA and EGGS for EXCHANGE:— I
offer nicely prepared, authentic sets of the fol-
lowing In exchange for sets I can use: 79a 1-1,
93 1-1. 107 1-1, 116 1-1. 286.1 1-1, 288 1-4, 1-5, 408 1-8,
449 14. 498b 1-4, 1-5, 520 n-4, 611,1 1-4 to 6, 708 1 3.
Also a 6x8 "Waterbury" view camera, made by
the Scoville & Adams Co., with .shutter, 3
double plate holders, carrying case and tripod,
all in good working order. In sending lists of
duplicates plea e mention number of each spe-
cies you have to offer. JAMES r, BABBITT,
Taunton, Mass.
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WANTED.— Sets Of eggs containing abnor-
mal specimens, such as runts, albinos, mon-
strocities, abnormally colored or shaped eggs.
Will give cash or good exchange. J. WARREN
JACOBS, Waynesburg, Pa. 101
WANTED.— May number, 1888, Vol. XXII,
American Naturalist WILLIAM BREW-
STER, Cambridge. Mass.
FOR SALE:— Fancy and common Geodes,
rangiag in price from 25c. to $5.00; halfs from
10c to 50e. Special rates to colleges aid mu-
seums. H. K. McLELLAN, Hamilton, Han-
cock Co., Illinois. 179
OOLOGISTS WANTED:— Will pay 50cts.
each cash for one of each June 1888, and April
1889, and will give an exchange notice, or cou-
pon good for one, for copies of the January
1895 and April 1899 issue, a notice for each copy.
FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y.
WANTED: — Al sets Nos. 83, 172. 192, 193, 206,
210, 228, 258a, 261,286, 301, 302, 310 478. 486, 618,
701 Canoffer good sets, Belgian Hares, Abys-
sinian and English Cavies, Fancy Pigeons and
Pit Games. ALMON E. KIBBE. Mayville,
N. Y. 177
WANTED:— Oologists and others to read
"Frederick Young," the prettiest book of the
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coln Phillips, an old contributor to this jour-
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Boston tf
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"A Handsome Little Owl."
Along the city street I wended my
way to the high school building, having
my eye open as usual for things orni-
thological and 00 logical. I was passing
the quarter-block occupied from time
immemorial by Martin Tighe's truck
patch, an infallible guide to the pre-
cocity or tardiness of the egging sea-
son, for when I saw Martin lining off
the patch for his rows of early potatoes,
I knew certainly that two haadsome
eggs were waiting my gathering in the
nest in the big Cottonwood overhang-
ing the creek. On this particular
morning a most unexpected event oc-
curred. Now I pride myself on my
acquaintance with every spot in my
parish that is likely t^ yield any oiilog-
ical products; but theie right before my
eyes, in one of the ancient fenceposts,
not more than three feet from the
ground, was a small opening suggestive
of a nest cozlly ensconced in the bot-
tom of a cav ty. Strange that I had
never seen that hole before. Wonder-
ing how that promising cavity had thus
eluded, my gaze while passing the spot
four times a day for several years, I
rapped smartly below the opening,
while all sorts os ccjlogical anticipa-
tions fluttered through my mind.
Wonder of wonders! Out popped a
tiny specimen of the Owl kind, a hand-
some little owl, which flattered aimless-
ly for a moment about my head, and
then perched upon the fence, scarcely
beyond the length of my arm. My heart
almost stopped beating in my excited
bosom, for I could readily see that it
was one of those little Elf Owls, or a
Pygmy Owl, — ah yes, it was indeed a
Pjgmy Spotted Owl, no larger than a
Passer domesticus, with beaut ful white
plumage mixed with longitudinal spots
of grayish white. I give all these de-
tails because some collectors are so
critically anxious about accurate identi-
ncation.
m
THE OOLOGIST.
As I peered anxiously into the cav-
ity, which seemed much larjjer and
rounder than I fancied would he con-
nected with the neat circular entrance,
I saw that there were eggs lying in the
bottom of the hollow. Was I indeed
about to secure a full set of eggs of this
rare species, about which I had read
with covetous eagerness in the "Man-
ual" and which the books declared was
only a casual straggler in California
and Arizona? One, two,— tears al-
most blinded my eyes as I realized that
the two, pearly white, small sub-spher-
ical eggs were an incomplete set. Why
had fate been so cruel to me, when
other collectors were always getting
sets of six and even seven? (I once
heard of a tet of eight.) What should
I do? It would never do to leave this
desideratum in the exposed site, with
hundreds of children passing several
times daily; but to take an io complete
set of so rax'e a species would be to de-
preciate their value, and would leave a
traia of regrets which would linge all
my future days with sadness whenever
I looked over my culogical treasures.
Something must be done, and done
quickly, for a group of children are
coming, «.nd my aclions would draw
their attention to the very thing I want-
ed them not to know. While rapidly
considering whether to take the incom-
plete set and blame fortune for the re-
sults, or to take the chances upon the
nest's being overlooked by the children,
even as I had overlooked it for years,
keeping my eyes glued upon the im-
maculate treasures in the brightening
cavity, I was surprised by the hand-
some little Owl's fluttering down and
striking me plump in the small of the
back,— why, 'tis nothing but the baby
planting his foot abruptly against my
spinal column, and I awake to find that
Saturday morning has arrived, bring-
ing a fine clear day for a tramp after
products of Bubo virginianus sub-
■arcticus.
Well, though no little Spotted Owl,
nor Elf Owl, or other desideratum so
valuable, allure me afield, I'm off for a
cruise to a grove five miles away. On
the preceding Monday evening, while
mousing around a haw thicket sur-
rounding two large cottonwoods, I had
detected an indistinct form aperch up-
on a low limb near the trunk of one of
the cottonwoods. Though I was seven-
ty-five rods away, as I circled the thick-
et there remained the same distance be-
tween the two prominences surmount-
ing the upper corners of the crouching
form, and I became aware that I was
being watched with the jealous eyes of
Master B. v. subarciicus. So starting
out about Saturday noon, I made my
way to the thicket. No Bubo was
about the place. However I made a
thorough search through the grove, in-
specting every old nest of Crow, Hawk
and even Magpie. I had not expected
to find the Owls nesting there, though,
for I had frequently inspected the
thicket and knew about what it offered.
Continuing my way I faced a cutting
dash of snow pellets f^r nearly two
mile', until 1 reached a grove of cotton-
woods where I suspected the Bubos
were located for their second attempt
at nidification. This was on April 13th;
I had despoiled the same pair of three
eggs on March 16th.
Before I entered the grove, I was in-
formed that the Bubos were there
domiciled and astir by a small colony
of Crows which inhabited the place.
Sure enough, I had scarcely stepped
among the bare trees when I flushed
the male Owl, and sent him flapping
away at the head of a dozen deriding
Crows. It happened that he alighted
near the female, who immediately took
wing, drawing after her the parcel of
Crows. The male thereafter remained
upon this perch, giving utterance oc-
casionally to a deep-voiced but subdued
hooting. As the female was thus
abroad, it was necessary for me to
THE OOLOGIST.
87
climb to each suspected nest, not know-
ing the precise site; and guided by my
experience with Bubo in Illinois, where
sycamores grow tall and Bubos nest
high, I ascended to several that were
conspicuously high. At length, having
examined all the likely sites, I conclud-
ed that the occupied nest must be an
insignificant affair in the top of a slen-
der tree. Pushing through the thicket
to reach the tree, I discovered a large,
lean-to nest against the trunk of a
small tree, the distance of the structure
from the ground being only ten feet.
Think of that, Dr. Strode, only ten
feet. Little thinking that B. v. sub-
arcticus was living so far beneath his
privilege, I scrambled up the trunk
from sheer force of habit, and ah, there
were two eggs, generously blotched
with blood as though produced through
sore affliction, lying lonesomely in a
cavity ten inches across and two inches
deep. Incubation advanced to blood
and matter, as I wrote in the data.
And thus my Owl dream partially came
true.
P. M. SiLLOWAY,
Lewistown, Montana.
The Turkey Vulture.
Cathartes Aura.
Throughout southern California,
from the booming surf of the hoary
old Pacific to the snow capped summits
of the Sierras, the Turkey Vulture, or
"Buzzard" as he is commonly called,
is by far the most abundant raptorial
bird. Hawks, mostly of the Red-tailed
and Red-billed varieties are common
residents of certam limited districts
but these vultures are well nigh univer-
sal, in fact, so plentiful are they that
one who has lived in this Golden state
for any length of time, notes their ab-
sence from landscape to a greater de-
gree than he does their presence in it.
In spring and early summer the big
dark colored fellows are found most
abundantly back in the higher hills but
as soon as the young are fully fledged,
they begin to scatter out over the low-
lands where the food their manner of
life demands is more easily obtainable
than along the sterile hillsides. This
family exodus takes place about the
end of August, but the huge California
Condors, who occasionally frequent the
same hills with their lesser relatives,
do not join in this local migration,
preferring to take their chances in their
naiive hills. These huge scaven)2;ers,
however, do not nest with us, if so my
knowledge on the subject is at present
quite limited, ss the Turkey Vulture do.
In this immediate vicinity, and, I
may say, throughout the northern part
of this county (Orange), their eggs may
be looked for from April 1st to May 1st.
Before this date sets are seldom com-
plete and afterwards my experience has
been that most eggs are "past redemp-
tion" even by such all powerful means
as caustic potash. I admit, on the
other hand, that full sets of the f ggs of
this vulture have been found near here
earlier than April 1st, and on the 10th
day of March of this year while out on
the trail of a pair of Pacific Horned
Owls, I found two fuzzy young "buz-
zards" under a shelving ledge of rock
on a barren hillside, and I have read of
fresh sets which have been taken a few
miles southeast of this place during the
last ten days of May.
Notwithstanding the many floating
rumors which have come to me of
"buzzards" that built huge nests in
trees. I have never yet succeeded in
finding the Turkey Vulture nesting
anywhere save in the ground, and then
always in little caves, never "among
the brush on a sidehill" as I have read
of other collector's doing. Nor do
they nest in hollow trees, a trait com-
mon to them in Texas and other Gulf
states. This is not from any lack of
dead trees for every fool camper who
passes through our canyons must of
THE OOLOGIST.
necessity build his Sre beneath the
overhanging trunk or the spreading
roots of some giant sycamore or oak,
so as to leave some mark of his vanda-
lism on a creation far beyond his in-
finitesimal ability to replace.
I have now in my collection several
sets of this species taken in Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona and other southwest-
ern states as well as eight sets of my
own collecting; further I have sets
from states east of the Mississippi also,
and it is worthy of note that all the
western and southwestern collected
eggs are much larger, more clearly
shell marked and more brilliant in
their outer markings than are those
from the eastern states. The set rep-
resented in photo herewith averages
fully .25 inch longer than the average
of four sets from east of the Father of
waters.
As may be seen from the illustration
this is a well marked set, yet I have
seen many, ana taken three or four
which were more strongly marked even
than these. They were taken April
12, 1900, from a hole, two by three feet,
in a rocky ledge on a steep sidehiil. No
diflaculty was experienced in walking
directly to the nest. In fact I have not
noticed that they try to conceal their
nests or to place them in inaccessible
positions
This year on April 5th I took another
set from the same locality and only a
few feet from the old hole, so I suppose
it was from the same pair of birds. The
markings persist in size and position,
while the four eggs could not be separ-
ated by the calipers alone. No attempt
at nest building is ever made and the
nest smells worse than the Red-tails' I
mentioned in the May Oologist.
I have never seen any egg which sur-
passes the egg of the Turkey Vulture
in beauty unless perhaps it be that the
Emeu, one egg of which I obtained
from the Publisher of the Oologist not
long ago. „
Harry H. Dunn,
FuUerton, California.
A Consideration.
In reading many of the articles in
current periodicals, a question must be
forced upon the minds of all true bird-
lovers. By bird-lovers I do not mean
to include those who simply see in
birds charming objects awakening a
coveting desire for personal possession,
but those who recognize in these
"feathered gems" fellow creatures
having right to existence, and the
power to enjoy same, entitled to re-
spect and possessini? traits of character
worthy of earnest and forbearing study.
The question which is suggested to
such students is how many persons in
the United States, collect birds their
nests and egsrs, one or all, of these how
many are there whose work in this
line actually adds to the sum total of
human knowledge, and of those who do
so add what percentage of their collect-
ing work continues to a desirable end.
In short what percentage of all such
collecting throughout the country, ac-
tually yields commendable results and
what percentage contributes to untold
evil?
These are considerations which effect
not alone the mere "collector," but also
at least nine-tenths of those persons
who are posing as sincere students, and
perhaps conscientiously believe in the
value of their work.
It is not my purpose here to enter
into that much discussed question of
what limits in collecting, the cause of
advancement of knowledge justifies.
"Who shall decide when doctors dis-
agree'" And that they do so disagree
on this subject, the columns of the pub-
lications on ornithology amply testify.
It has simply occured to me as a con-
sideration, why should not those who
are conscientious in the matter ask
themselves in sincere impartial hones-
ty, what the character of their work,.,
their ability for it, and its results justi-
fy?
THE OOLUGI.ST
89
When studeats whose conscieutious-
ness it would be unjust to lightly ques-
tion, indulge in rt^peat^'dlycoileetingnot
first alone, but second fnd third layings
of birds whose economic value is now
becoming known throug;hout thereilma
of agriculture us well as ornithology,
and birds and their nests and eggs are
amassed iu large series, l>y an ever in-
cressiagiy largo number throughout
the country, aside fjom the question of
consideration of the rights of these
weaker felluw creature?, asid i from
consideration of the marked decreas-
ing cf numbers of o! j cts of beauty
and iatere.-t, adding immeasurably to
the power of 0!ij>yment of nature, and
contributing a fertile subject for legit-
mate, harmless, and profitable study,
there is furnished to the great mass of
the people as just cause for complaint
from an ecouomie standpoint and not
alone is the study of ornithology im-
paired by tho lus-i of sul'jeot-i but its
cause is injured irreptrably in the mind
of tbou-ands of { eople Mho hold the
pleasure of diily observation of the birds
as tiny friet.d->, vastly above all the ac-
cumulated scientific knowledge of the
past.
If a conueleat student can look at
an amassed series of a hui dred speci-
mens of some species of a bird, or of a
thousand eggs, and can conscientiously
feel that the redults to true and valu-
able knowledge has justified this ter-
ribly seri')us sacrifice, it is my belief
that he is above reproach. But if he
has otie such specimen ia his collection
which has yielded nothing to knowl-
edge, whoso sacrifice of life has been
in vain, then it appeais to me that a
careful consideration of the fact must
give him regret, kesn and sincere in
proportion as his motives are honest
and co:,scieutiou8.
When WH review the enormous num-
ber of specimens iu the private col-
lections of the country, if we were
able to trace all the results they have
yielded in the way of increase of know-
ledge, should we find the sacrifice jasti-
fiedv And this does not touch thii mat-
ter of the millions of specimens gone
to early desi ruction with never a
to contribute to any: hincr, throuj^h the
misguided efforts of over-zea'ous col-
lectors whose ability to obtain, entirely
replaced auy ability to abstract ficts.
It seems to me then that when one is
inclined to turn to the pursuit of this
study he sho'.ild earnestly. thoLigh:fally
Ri^k himself the que^jtiou what bis pris-
s'ible ability justifies in t:\e rnatter of
coih-cting.
If such a student would discip i.ie
himself, first by an apprenticeship in
observing and accumulating facts with-
'iut tbe destroyin^r of life and the en-
jovmi'Kt of it, would not m-vuy fall by
the wayside, and -^ ould not the gain be
vastly gn-ater and the sacrifice greatly
]e s?. If a man has '•~erved such an ap-
prertieeship, studying birds by means
of c«me:a, opera glasses ar^d the many
means whereby their lives are not de-
stroyed, there has come to him oppor-
tunity for the acquirement of more
facts and original knowledge than
m^ny imagine, and is not tha': man
b tter fiUed thereby to enter into the
serious part which deals with those
lives that the true bird lover will rev-
erence second only to human life and
will not lightly sacrifice to the passing
desire of the moment or to a mistakea
idea of need.
Finally, when a man has fully deter-
mined that he ia justified in the pursuit
of that high branch of tne stu 1y which
occasionally requires the sacrifice of
life or happiness, he should u e the ut-
most care to assure himself that his
methods are such as to guard against
waste. When one reads of men taking
eggs from the nest when far advanced
in incubation and then failing to save
them with a weak excuse that they are
gone beyond all hope he loses all pa-
tience. I have taken a set of Red-
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shouldered Hawk in which the young
had already pipped the shell, and
blown them as fairly first class speci-
mens, by the careful use of caustic
potash and patience. I took a set of
Scarlet Tanager in which the youpg
had feathers formed and injecting
caustic potash and occasionally shak-
ing, the contents in three days became
transparent, and save for the feathers
Tjlew out, thin, almost as water. I
have also saved sets of both large and
small eggs in first class condition by al-
lowing them to stand a day or two with
water in, in the absence of caustic
potash.
I wish I might have an expression of
opinion on this consideration from my
fellow students, not a hasty, biased or
prejudiced one, but the result of care-
ful, honest consideration from all its
aspects.
;. Particularly I would like to see ex-
pressed the views of those students
whose work extends over sufficient
time to give them the guidance of ex-
perience.
B. S. BOM^DISH,
Mayaguez, Porto Rico.
May 18, 1901.
Pan-American Notes.
On and after June 1st, as time and
"patients" will permit, ye Editor in-
tends to take an occasional day off and
do the Pan-American — all exhibits and
portions of exhibits containing anything
of special interest to the readers of tne
OoLOGiST in the specimen and curio
line will be carefully noted, in order
that the many who visit the Exposition
with a limited amount of time at their
disposal, will surely see all pertaining
to their favorite hobby.
For the past five years we have spent
the bulk of our time in Buffalo and are
fairly well acquainted with the Pan-
American city and its accommodations.
We have many personal friends and
acquaintances, who are taking roomers
and boarders during the season and
in case any of the Oologist readers
intend visiting the Exposition and
have no biding place in view, we will
gladly turn them over to the tender
mercies of a friend. Write exactly what
you want and how long you intend to
stay etc.
The following regarding the wonder-
ful exhibit of the Smithonian Institution
and the National Museum at the Pan-
American Exposition, is rehashed from
an interview with Dr. Frederick W.
True, chi* f curator of the Bureau of
Biology of I he Smithsonian Institution
and Government Commissioner of the
Institution to the Pan-American:
The display is the finest ever made
by the Institution and the National
Museum, not excepting Chicago. While
the quantity of the exhibit at the Pan-
American may not exceed that of Chi ■
cago, the qu^iity will far excel it.
It forms one of the largest exhibits in
the Goverflment Building. Every
bureau of the Institution is represented,
but, as is naturally to bo expected, the
National Museum makes the most ex-
tensive display.
The Institution has several exhibit
illustrations of its history as well as
some showing new developments in
the work it also shows the will of
James Smithson, the founder of the es-
tablishment, and copips of his scientific
writings. Pictures of the chancellors
and secretaries of the Institution is
also shown, with views of the build-
ings, offices, the Hodgkins fund medals
and publications, and, finally, a com-
plete set of all the publications of the
Institution and all its bureaus from the
year 1846 to the present, comprising
hundreds of volumes.
The National Zoological Park is rep-
resented by a large relief model show-
ing all the natural features of the park
and the animal houses, ponds, bridges
and other matters of interest. This
model has been worked out with great
care and will show every important de-
tail with exactness. The model will be
supplemented by many interesting pho-
tographs of picturesque points in the
park.
The exhibit of the National Museum
consists almost entirely of new objects
not shown at any previous exposition.
The Pan-American idea runs through
the entire exhibit, and very little that
is not American will be shown. The
plan has been to select large and strik-
ing objects and exhibit them singly,
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91
rather than to show extensive series of
small specimens The exhibit !<; divid-
ed into three sections — zoology, geology
and anthropology.
In zoology the museum has been
fortunate in obtaining many rare and
striking specimens for the exhibit,
which is confined to American verte-
brate animals. Among mammals
should be mentioned the Kodiak bear
of Alaska, the largest boar in the world;
the singular little gray Glacier bear,
which lives among the snow fields back
of Mt. St. Elias; the giant moose, the
wild black sheep of British Columbia,
and Dall's sheep, which is enfrely
white; the rare West Indian seal, the
musk ox, the mountain caribou, and
others. All the larger species are
mounted on bases with accessories in-
dicating their natural surrounding- and
habits
The bird exhibit comprises about 300
of ihe most brilliant and striking forms
in America, including many West
Indian and South American species,
such as the condor, the American
ostrich, the macaws and parrots, um-
brella bird, bell bird, cock-of-the rock.
The taxidermy of both birds and mam-
mals is of a very high order.
Among reptiles the most striking ex-
hibit is a gigantic snapping turtle from
Texas, known as the alligator snapper.
The creature is about five feet long, and
is the largest fresh water turtle ever
found in America. This part of the ex-
hibit also includes the poisonous and
non-poisonous American snakes— rattle-
snakes, moi'casins, boa constrictor,
spreading adder", together with many
striking lizards, frcgs, tnads, and sala-
manders, including species from Cuba
and Porto Rico.
American fishes are fuUv represented.
The museum has had agents at Key
West, Florida, and on the Amazon
River collecting specimens specially for
the Buffalo exhibit. These have been
prepared by a new method, by which
their natural form and much of their
brilliant color is preserved. A novelty
in fishes is a large model of luminous
deep sea fish, arranged by means of
electrical attachments so that it will
phosphoresce, as it is known to do, when
alive in the depths of the ocean. Many
of the fishes from the deepest waters
are exceedingly grotesque and wonder-
ful in structure, but on account of their
small size and their bad condition when
dragged from the depths of the sea,
they are little known to the public.
The geological exhibits are diversified
and chiefly American. One very in-
teresting series consists of examples of
the various elements which occur un-
combined in the rocks, such as gold,
silver, copper, lead, mercury, platinum,
carbon and iron. Strange as it may
seem, one of the rarest of these ele-
ments is iron. The exhibit contains
native iron from Greenland, and a por-
tion of an iron meteorite from New
Mexico. Another interesting object is
a large platinum nugget worth about
$200 Carbon is represented by a dia-
mond crystal, a piece of graphite, and
specimens of the curios and valuable
black diamond, known as carbonade, a
piece of which the size of half a pea is
worth about $40.
A series of minerals includes every
important variet'^, and no small num-
ber of very striking forms, largely from
America.
Another especially interesting ex-
hibit at this time is a series of the rocks
of the Hawaiian islands, which, as is
well known, are namely lavas The
exhibit is accompanied by photographs
of the interior of the craters of the vol-
canoes. An exhibit of concretionary
structures found in minei-al and rocks
will include soma magnificent slabs of
the concretionary granite found in New
England. Collections of deposits from
the geysers and hot springs of Yellow-
stone Park are also shown.
Still another section of the geologi-
cal exhibits is devoted to fossil verte-
brate animals and fossil wood. Of the
fossil nnimals, the one which will
doubtless attract most attention is the
skeleton of the gigantic mammal-like
reptile known as Triceratops. This
creature was larger than the largest
elephant, and had an immense bony
shield on the back of the head, as well
as a pair of great horns over the eyes.
Besides the ske'eton, a large painting
representing the animal as it must have
appeared when alive, and a model is
also shown.
Another extraordinary creature ex-
hibited is a bird with teeth, known as
Hesperornis. This remarkable bird was
more than three feet high. The skele-
ton is practically complete Much at-
ten' ion will doubtless be attracted by
the collection of fossil woods from
Arizona, many of which are extremely
brilliant in color.
Hardly less striking is the Zeuglodon,
a whale-like carnivorous animal from
Alabama, which reaches a length of 50
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93
or 60 feet. It is a strange combiDation
of whale, sea-cow and sea-lion, and has
long been a puzzle to zoologists.
An extensive display of American
anthropology, prepared in co-operation
with the Bureau of American Ethnol-
ogY) completes the exhibits from the
museum. The most prominent fea'ure
of this exhibit is large family Kroups,
representing typical native American
peoples, from the Patagonian to the
^Arctic Eskimo. Each group will serve
to give an idea of the costumfs, sur-
roundings and mode of life of the people
to which it relates. Close attention
has been paid to every detail of the ac-
cessories and the modeling and paint-
ing of the human figures are of a high
order.
The principal peoples represented
are the Eskimo of the farthest north,
the Canadian Algonquins. the Thlin-
kins of Southeastern Alaska, the bas
ket making digger Indians of Cali-
fornia, the Zuni Pueblo Indians of Mex-
ico, the Mayas of Yucatan, the Napo
Indians of the Upper Amazon, and the
Rhea-hunting Indians of Patagonia.
Surrounding the groups are many
cases filled with collections representing
the arts of the Indians, their house-
hold utensils, dress, weapons, etc. A
series of models of habitation, the wig-
wam, the snow-house and pueblo is al-
so shown.
The public will doubtless find a great
deal to interest them in the collection
of native baskets, which are shown.
This series includes every type of ab-
original basket making in the western
hemisphere. There is many beautiful
pieces, such as the Aleutian fine grass
weaving, the pomo-coiled ware of Cali-
fornia, and the diagonal weaving of the
caribs of Guiana, the first Indians met
by Columbus.
With the object in view of presenting
a route of wholesome fun and instruc-
tion, some of the greater enterprises
and chief Midway attractions at the
Pan-American Exposition, have gone
together in an organization called the
Red Star Route, guaranteeing absolute-
ly their entire offerings as wholesome
and free from all objectionable features.
Naturally, the first visit will be made
to the electric reproduction of the Burn-
ing Mountain of the Sandwich Isles—
the Volcano of Kilauea, because of its
nearness to the main entrance to the
Midway. The spectator stands within
an extinct crater of this perpetual fire
mountain of Hawaii,
Next to the Volcano you visit the
greater Hawaiian Village, where you
will find the now world renowned Na-
tive Band of Hawaii, whose music, es-
pecially the Hawaiian national airs,
are delightful, and the famous Hulu
hulu dancing girls.
From all tbis fun, npxt, for the sake
of patriotism, visit the great electric
cyclorama, the Battle of Mission Ridge,
an enormous reproduction of the great
battle. Its management earnestly begs
that the G. A. R. will make their com-
modious waiting rooms their general
headquarters.
Moving along the vast Midway you
are sure to be attracted by the quaint
music of the Filipino Band. The Fili-
pino Village is a big colony and con-
tains representatives from nearly all
the races inhabitating the islands. They
range from cinnibalLsm to the highest
degree of civilization. Many of the
women are extremely beautiful.
Near the Administration building
you will find a handsome brick Vene-
tian edifice, which contains the great-
est wonder of all the Exposition — the
Infant Incubators, from the London
and Berlin Institutes, which has for its
object the saving of the lives of poor
little unfortunate babies who happen
to have been prematurely born.
On the Midway, and immediately op-
posite the great Horticultural building,
you will tind the Herodian Palace, con-
taining the sacred spectatorium, Jeru-
salem and the Crucifixion of Christ.
Softly you tread with reverential step
the grand staircase and look over the
great scene. It is all sublimely realistic,
and the most holy feelings of which the
human heart is capable are aroused.
This great work covers an area of can-
vas four hundred feet round by sixty
feet high.
The price to each of these leading
Midway attractions has been uniform-
ly fixed at 25 cents.
Although ground was first broken for
the Pan-American Exposition on the
25th day of September, 1899, it was not
until June 4th of last year that the first
timber was raised aloft as the begin-
ning of the superstructure of the first
building. Since that day a beautiful
city of more than one hundred build-
ings has sprung into existence. The
magic of 20th Century methods has
wrought a wondrous work in the con-
struction of this beautiful and costly
Exposition, which on Wednesday, May
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1, was formally opened for a six
months' festival.
The completed exposition is a dis-
tinct triumph for every one concerned
in the mammoth enterprise. It may be
said to the credit of Buffalo that her
citizens have furnished the money for
it, receiving no Government aid. The
entire amount appropriated by the Fed-
eral Government for the Exposition
nas been expended under the direction
of the Government Board of Federal
exhibits exclusively. The New York
State appropriation has also been ex-
pended under the same conditions.
The total cost of the Exposition, includ-
ing the Government and State appro-
priations, the cost of the Midway and
other buildings, is conservatively esti-
mated at $10,000,000. The Exposition
was first proposed by a number of citi-
zens at the Cotton States Exposition at
Atlanta, in 1895. Its official history,
however, began in June, 1897, when a
company for its development was or-
ganized by several prominent citizens
and received the approval of the City,
State and National governments. It
was at first intended to hold the Expo-
sition in 1899, but the Spanish-Ameri-
can War caused its postponement to
the present year. The preliminary or-
ganization was superseded by a larger
one with ample capital for the Exposi-
tion, and from the time of the reorgan-
ization the work has moved forward
rapidly. This organization consisted
of 25 directors, with the Hon. John G.
Milburn as president, Edward Fleming
secretary, George L. Williams, treasur-
er, and John N. Soatcherd as chairman
of the Executive Committee.
The Hon. William I. Buchanan, at
that time United States Minister to the
Argentine Republic, was unanimously
elected director-general, November 1,
1899. He had previously been the di-
rector of Agriculture. Live Stock and
Forestry at the World's Columbian Ex-
position at Chicago. His ability as au
organizer and director of a great enter-
prise was at once manifest, as the work
of the Exposition has gone forward
without apparent friction or delay.
The original plan called for some twen-
ty large exhibit buildings and to these
many more have been added The Ex-
position plot consists of 350 acres
in the northern part of the city,
accessible from every direction by
electric cars, and having as favorable a
steam railway service as could possibly
have been chosen. The general archi-
tecture of the Exposition follows the
Spanish Renaissance. The plan was
worked out by a board of eight leading
architects, representing several of the
leading cities of the country.
The most comprehensive view of the
Exposition is, perhaps, obtained from
tne Esplanade from a point a few rods
north of the Triumphal Causeway.
Here the visitor, with one sweep of the
eye, may see nearly all of the principal
buildings of the Exposition. The Tri-
umphal Causeway, behind him, is a
magnificent structure, designed by
John M. Carrere, chairman of the
Boatd of Architects. Four tall pylons
are connected by swinging cables. The
pylons are surmounted by four stand-
ard bearers, designed by Karl Bitter,
the director of sculpture. The bridge,
as a whole, is intended to express the
pride of the American people In their
achievements. The standard bearer
represents a muscular youth upon a
rearing horse. Below him are the
trophies indicative of feudalism, slav-
ery and tyrranical power, the whole
expressing the triumphal struggle of
the people of the Americas to free
themselves from the institutions of des-
potic ages and governments. Termin-
ating the buttresses of the piers are
four groups of trophies typifying Peace
and Power, modeled by Augustus Luke-
man. In the niches on the side of the
bridge are statues f-ymbolical of Hospi-
tality, Love of Truth, Patriotism, etc.
On each side of the bridge are fountains
of rearing horses and figures flustered
about tall poles which carry huge silk-
en flags. The fountain on the east typ-
ifies the Atlantic Ocean and that on
the west the Pacific Ocean, with one
ba^e uniting the two. The sculptor of
these is Philip Martiny. Beneath the
bridge are subterranean grottos mod-
eled after the famous Buttes de Chau-
mont.
Turning now to the eastern wing of
the Esplanade the observer will note
th« group of three great government
buildings, the open space being embel-
lished with sunken gardens, fountains
and statuary. At the left, marking the
western boundary of the Esplanade,
are the Horticulture. Mines and Graph-
ic Arts buildings, this court being, also,
decorated with statuary, fountains and
flowers. Looking due north, the ma-
jestic Electric Tower rises to a height
of 400 feet. This tower stands at the
north end of the Court of Fountains
and constitutes a very beautiful center-
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piece. On the eastern side of the Court
of Fountains are the Ethnology, Manu-
factures and Liberal Arts and Agricul-
ture buildings. On the west side are
the Temple of Music. Machinery and
Transportation and Electricity build-
ings. Beyond the tower is the Plaza
whose northern boundary is marked by
the Propylaea, a very beautiful archi-
techtural screen, rich in color decora-
tions and ornamentation of statuary.
East of the Plaza is the great Stadium,
a mammoth buildiue, having a seating
capacity for about 12,000 people. West
of the Plaza is the entrance to the Mid-
way, where one may spend days enjoy-
ing the multitude of novel entertain-
ments.
The beauty of the picture is beyond
the power of anyone adequately to de-
scribe, for no words can convey to the
mind the glorious result of the combin-
ed eti'orts of the architects, the sculp-
tor, the landscape gardener, the color-
ist and the electrician. They have all
worked harmoniously to produce a set
picture upon such a magnificent scale
as to dazzle and delight every beholder.
Upon the pinnacle of the tower
stands a graceful figure in gold called
the Goddess of Light, presiding over
the Exposition and looking abroad
over its many beautiful features. In
her upraised right hand she carries a
torch while with her left she points to
the beautiful scene below. The face of
the tower is covered with myriads of
electric lights. One does not realize its
mammoth proportions until he looks at
it from a near point of view. The
main body of the tower is 50 feet
square; with two wings, eaeb 110 feet
high extending from the east and south-
ward and enclosing a semi-circular
court' From its southern face gushes
a cascade, at a height of 70 feet. At a
height of 110 feet is a fine restaurant.
Elevators will carry visitors to various
heights in the tower.
The State and Foreign buildings are
situated in the southwest part of the
grounds- Nearly all the governments
of the Western Hemisphere are repre-
sented, either in buildings of their own,
or have creditable exhibits in the var-
ious exhibit divisions. Several of the
States have very fine buildings of their
own and all of the important spates are
represented by special exhibits in the
Agriculture, Mines and other buildings.
The Live Stock division occupies sev-
neteen pavillions, covering about 10
aci'es of land. A special building has
been erected for a model dairy and a
commodious building is used for dairy
exhibits. The division of agricultural
machinery occupies extensive exhibit
space beneath the seats of the Stadium.
Two special buildings have been erect-
ed in the southeast part of the grounds
for a commercial ordinance exhibit.
Between the two buildings is a model
of a Gruson turre^ 53 feet in diameter.
This is so arranged that the visitor may
go inside and note the construction of
this form of sea-coast defense fortifica-
tion. The exhibit of big guns by the
United States Government is one of the
very interesting features of the Exposi-
tion.
The arrangement of the various Ex-
position buildings is such that one may
save a great deal of time, as well as ef-
fort, in seeing the exhibits. The ar-
rangement is very compact and one
may go from building to building and
enjoy himself thoroughly as he goes.
The Fine Arts building is about 1,000
feet south of the Government buildings
and contains a fine collection of the
best works of American artists. The
forestry building is a near neighbor of
the Government Buildiug, and a few
rods to the east is a stockade of the Six
Nations oflndians whose ancesters dom-
inated the territory of New York 400
years ago. This stockade contains all
the various forms of buildings to be
seen in an Indian Village prior to the
settlement of New York. One of the
pleasure trips within the Exposition
grounds is the circumnavigation of the
buildings upon a broad canal by means
of launches which stop at convenient
points. This canal, over a mile long,
surrounds the main group of Exposi-
tion buildings. There are also wheeled
chairs in abundance, having noiseless
rubber tires and easy springs, so that
one may be as lazy and comfortable as
he desires. A miniature railway also
skirts the Exposition fence and will be
found convenient by many.
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also have a Lady's Bicycle, 28 in., for sale at
$18.00 cash. All answered. W, JENNINGS
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735, 655, THEODORE B, PARKER, 36 Beau-
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southern sets. Have Flying Squirrels for sale
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American Naturalist WILLIAM BREW-
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° I LIVE SHORT EARED OWLS.
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A 1 SETS Manitoba collected eggs with full
data, direct from the collector: Arctic Horned
Owl 1-4, $1.50; W. H. Owl 1-3, 75c; Prarie Horn-
ed i.ark 1-4 1-3. 10c; Short-eared Owl 1-10 2-7 3-6
3-5 3-4, 40c; Redtails 1-S 5 3, well marked, 2ae;
Krider's Hawk 2 2 3-3, 35c; Long-eared Owl 3-5
3-4, 10c ; Marsh Hawk 1-6 5-5 2-4 10c : Gray Ruffled
Grouse 1-9, 40c; Am. Crow 1-6 2 5 4-1 2c; Mallard
1-7 10c; Pintail 1-5 20c; Col. Sharp-tailed Grouse
1-10 1-12 1-13 1-17, 30c: Prarie Short-tailed 1-10
1-12 1-13, 30c Prarie Hen Ml 1-12 1-8. 10c; Mead-
owlark W3-4 2-5 1-6 5c ;Killdeer 1-41-3 10c ; Sharp-
shinned Hawk 1-5 1-6, $1.00; Purple Grackle 3-4
2-5 1-6, 2c; Rusty Blackbird 3-6 2-53-4. 30: Mourn-
ing Dove 3-2, 2c; Clay -colored Sparrow 3-s 4-4
2-3, nests, 10c;. Yellow Warbler 3-4 8-3, 2c; Chest-
nut collared Longspur 2-4 1-3. 20c; White-
rumped Shrike 3-6 3-4, 3c; Flicker 1-5 2c; Rose-
breasted Grosbeak 3-4 1-5, 5c; House Wren 2-6
2-5, 2c; Bewick's Wren 16 10c; Long-billed
Marsh Wren 3-6, 2c; Bartram's Sandpiper 3-4,
25c; Wilson's Pharalope 1-4, 50c; Loon 1-2, $1;
Swainson Hawk 4-3 3 4, 25c; well marked
Broadwinged Hawk 2-3, $1; Song Sparrow 3-4
2-5, 2c; Redwinged Blackbird 3-4, Ic; Osprey 1-3,
75c; well marked Whooping Crane 1-2, $2.00.
List is incomplete as I am adding sets daily,
but all listed are on hand. Prices per egg.
CHRIS P. FORGE, Carman, Manitoba,.
Mounted Birds and Mamnials.
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Great Horned Owl (6.00)
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American Hawk Owl (6 00) : _
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How Some Birds Capture Their Prey.
The ruacner in waich the different
species of birds capture their prey is
very interesting to the observer. There
are divers, snappers borers, grubbers,
ficoopers, skimmeis, diggers and many
others of devious ways. In swimmirg
and flying most of the birds pive evi-
dence of their habits of securing their
prey, as seen in the methods of the fly-
catchers and in the movements of the
Ducks in the water. But the habits of
nest construction are often quite dissim-
ilar from the methods of food capture.
We know that the Woodpeckers can
bore for food and at the same time hol-
low out their nest, but the Kingfishei^
uses its beak in securing iis prey in the
water, and yet burrows in the sand
when forming its home, while tho Wood-
cock, which bores for its food, builds its
nest on the surface of the ground. The
Bank Swallow captures its prey in the
air, but burrows in the bank like the
Kingfisher. The Great Blue Heron
spears or snaps up its prey in the water
and yet it builds its nest of sticks quite
similar to the ways of many small birds.
There are no groups of birds which
have not marked variations in some
habits and it is interesting to note them
in comparison.
Loons, Merganser.^, Auks, Guillemots
and many other birds secure their prey
by diving, and many can and do remain
a long time beneath the surface and
make long flights, so to speak, through
the water in pursuit of fishes. I have
twice seen birds swimming under the
water and they seemed to be flying. In
capturing their prey they undoubtedly
use their winas in a similar manner.
There is small chance of our seeing the
actual capture by these diving birds,
but we may reason that they secure
the minnows by a movement similar to
that of the Heron in his wadiog and
snapping.
Let us compare the ways of a fewr
birds in securing prey from the water,
on the surface or near it. The Osprey
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poises above the selected prey and at a
height of from fifteen to 100 yards, gen-
erally at about thirty yards, and then
plunges at an angle of from forty to
eighty degrees. He drops with a mighty
rush, and apparently, is certain of de-
struction if he strikes the water at this
speed. No one can positively assert
just how the Fish Hawk strikes the
water, for though it seems as if he
strikes heavily, and very often goes
completely under the surface, and in
some cases remains under for nearly a
half mimite, yet it is observable that the
prey, when secured, is always brought
forth in the talons. It is really remark-
able how the Osprey can regulate his
plunge and secure the fish with his
claws after churning the water to foam.
It would almost seem that he makes a
grab in the dark after reaching the
water. His method of capture differs
from all others cf the birds which I
have observed in America. When the
Osprey secures the fish it quickly mounts
from the surface and then the capture
may be plainly seen in the talons of the
fortunate bird. The bird nearly or
quite always carries the fish head for-
ward and grasps it with both feet. In
quarters where I have observed I be-
lieve the average catch weighed about a
pound and a half and I judged that fish
that weighed less than a pound were
rarely hunted, while two pounders and
even as large as three pounders were
not rarely secured by the Hawk. On
one trip in Southern Florida we repeat-
edly observed a fishing bird that had re-
ceived an injury to one of its legs, rend-
ering it powerless to use the injuied
foot. This foot hung down when the
bird flew and was of no apparent use in
its forays for fish. We carefully watched
this crippled fisher in its attempts to
catch fish, and noted that the poor bird
made as many as eight or ten plunges
before securing a prize, and when the
fish was secured the prize was held in
the claws of one foot, the other foot be-
ing of no assistance. After the capture
the Hawk flew to a convenient perch on
a limb in plain sight from our boat and
attempted to eat the fish. The attempt
to manage the fish and as well hold to
its perch was too much of an under-
taking for the disabled bird and in its
struggles it lost its hold on the fish,
which fell to the ground. The Hawk
made no attempt to regain the captured
fish, but immediately began fishing
again.
The Pelicans are odd feeders and
their methods of securing prey are
various In addition to the habit of
snapping up fish and other food as they
swim about, they have also the habit of
swooping down and engulfing fish on
the surface or just below. This habit
frequently observed in the Brown Peli-
can in the south is most singular. The
fishing birds may be closely watched at
St. Petersburg on Tampa bay, where
they are protected by law, and where
they have become very tame and unsus-
picious. I have repeatedly seen the
birds dive within ten yards of the wharf
where I was standing. The bird flies
with flops of its huge wings and has not
inaptly been likened to an exagerated
Woodcock with its long beak drooping.
At times the birds hover over a spot
and then drop with a heavy thud into
the water This plunge is made head
first and it always seems a miracle to
me that the creature is not killed out-
right from the concussion. The bird
seems to strike the water like a huge
bladder and sometimes goes completely
beneath the surface, but generallv only
partially, and in most instances immed-
iatelv rises after its plunge. In these
cases where the prey is small and taken
from near the surface, I am well satis-
fied that the Pelican scoops up the food
rather than snaps it up with its beak.
If one will examine a Pelican's bill it
will be found that the upper mandible
is firm and very strong, while the under
mandible is of very pliable material,
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103
and though but an inch wide when rest-
ing, may easily be spread to four or tive
inches. It is my idea that the bird
when fishi g for small prey on the sur-
face, and by plunging, merely opens its
bill as it strikes the water ard scoops
up the minnows in its pouch. I have
frequently seen the Pelicans feeding so
near me that I could distinguish the
small fish jumping about in the pouch
of its captor just after the bird arose
from its plunge. Anobserver is enabled
to do this when the bird flies between
the wharf and the rising or setting sun,
as the pouch is almost translucent and
the jumping form of the little nsh may
be easily distinguished. Of course when
larger fishes are caught the principle of
capture is different. I have seen two
pound mullet taken from a Pelican's
gullet and have been told by a reliable
man that he had seen oo« of a weight of
over three pounds removed from a fish-
ing Pelican.
The Gulls and Terns feed almost en-
tirely from the surface and are graceful
in all their movements, dropping to the
water in bold plunges and skimming
above the surface like the wind-driven
foam. The Petrels and Skimmers course
over the sea, tacking and veering in
their search for food. These birds snap
up their prey when on the wing as with
nearly all the sea biids. The Geese
rarely go beneath the surface while
feeding, and I have never seen a Swan
more than plunge its head and neck
under water. Geese and Swans always
feed where the water is shallow when
on lake or stream, while the sea Ducks
feed from deep water. I have no doubt
that many species of Ducks feed from
the bottom where the water is twenty or
more feet deep, and I have found some
feeding on fresh water that had the
crops filled with crustaceans and aquatic
seeds, which were only to be found at
the bottom and in fifteen feet of water.
The Mergansers, which come very near
to being exclusively fish feeders, secure
their prey as do the Loons, ly ] ursuit
and snapping up the fish. This habit is
followed at times bv nearly all species
nf Ducks, and well kn^wn river Ducks
not rarely partake of a feast of small
minnow-i when they can be fonnd in
shallow watf r and are not difficult to
secure.
The Herons feed largely upon fish,
but they vary their diet and are even
known to eat grasshoppers, while they
are very destructive to the larval forms
of the dragon fly and other aquatic in-
sects. This is especially true of the
Least Bittern and Green Heron, which
are very beneficial to man in their
choice of food, though they are also de-
structive to the small fry, efpecially the
Fly-up-the creek or Green Heron, a
great poacher on the trout fry. I have
watched the Herons and Bitterns as
they waded ybout and have seen the
lightning like thrusts of their beaks as
they stabbed at their prey. Among the
fishes that are preyed upon by the
Heron family is the bullhead or horn-
pout, which is known to have three
erectile fin spines — one on the dorsal fin
and one on each side. The wild birds
are generally well aware of the danger
in swallowing one of these dangerous
fishes, whole, and they usually destroy
the hinge that works the set-trigger
spine before swallowing the fish whole.
I once had the pleasure of watching a
Greater Bittern dissecting out the dan-
gerous dorsal and pectoral fin spines
from a good sized bullhead, preparatory
to making a meal of him. The scene
occurred on thw edge of a marsh and the
thunder-pumper was so much engaged,
that it failed to note my presence and I
had a good opportunity to observe the
operation. The bird placed thecsplur-
ed fish on the marsh grass between its
feet and with sharp stabs destroyed the
attachments of the spines. The work
took some time t<s the fins of the cat-
fishes are strongly connected with the
bony frame-work. The bird was flushed
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before completing its work and I viewed
the result after the disappointed stake-
driver had departed. Two of -the spines
were found almost wholly torn loose
and the other about in shape for the
feast. This bird had evidently reasoned
the matter out to its satisfaction and
thus avoided being impaled by the
deadly spines. But this was not the
case with a mature Great Blue Heron,
who had captured a pound and a half
catfish in a lagoon. The bird had at-
tempted to swallow the live fish without
destroying its set-trigger spines. Re-
sult—the Heron was found lying in the
shallow water with several inches of
the body and tail of its destroyer stick-
ing from its bill ;the body of the captured
fish being started down the captor's
gullet, but held there by the dorsal
spine, which had penetrated the throat
just back of the greedy bird's bill, and
in such a situ.ation that neither fish nor
bird could relieve itself, and both were
dead; truly, an unforseen tragedy of
the wilds. The smaU bullhead some-
times works its spine-impaling act on
fish-eating water snakes, as well as on
the birds.
The Rails are interesting feeders and
it is a pleasure to see the trim fellows
patter through the marsh grass and
rushes. They feed on seeds, small mol-
luscs and crustaceans, as well as nymphs
and even the smaller minnows Their
movements art) active and sinuous on
the bogs and grass while the larger
members of the family — as the Gallinu-
les and Coots— swim ungracQfuUv and
gather food much after the manner of
the river Ducks
Of all the pleasing birds while feed-
ing, the active shore birds are the most
engaging. If my readers know of a
sequestered lake where thesa sprightly
crea'.ures congregate after the nesting
saason, then I would sui^gest that an
afternoon be taken in August to observe
the Sandpipers and Plovers, as they gy-
rate about the lake or patter about and
feed upon the sands. There is but slight
variation in the manner of securing the
food. Nearly all of the smaller waders
follow the same methods in feeding, and
whether upon the shore, as the Sand-
pipers and Tattlers, or among the Plov-
ers of the fields — as the Killdeer, G 'Iden
Plover or Upland Pluver — they all run
about actively and pick up their food in
the daintiest manner. Along shore the
Sandpipers may be seen traversing the
sands or even wading in the shallow
water and gleaning their small shelly
food. I have seen the Greater Telltale,
Lesser Yellow-legs and Semi palmated
Plover catching and eating minute min-
nows at the edge of the lake. The Spot-
ted Sandpiper, which I have watched
with great interest for over thirty years,
is a loveable little creature It feeds
upon minute animal Jife and has a wide
range in its diet, and searches for mol-
luscs, worms and insects among the
debris of the edges of the millpond and
on the low land surrounding ponds and
lakes.
Among the Scratchers we find but
slight variation in food, and while the-
Grouse, Quail and Turkey feed mainly
upon seeds, still they all partake of an
insect diet in the summer months. The
Wild Pigeon and Mourning Dove are
among the most exclusively vegetable
feeders. All of the Scratchers are well
known from their counterparts of the
yard and farm. The Wild Pigeon often
feeds on acorns, both spring and fall,
and unlike the Ked-head Woodpecker,
Blue Jay and Grackle, it swallows the
acorns whole, tilling its crop to repletion
and giving its front a peculiar appear-
ance. 1 have shot Pigeons in the woods
and found them stufifed with acorns,
and again with beechnuts. The Rutted
Grouse is occasionally in the habit of
eating strong-scented buds, which give
a balsamic taint to the flesh, which is
anything but agreeable. The Spruce or
Canada Grous-^ is rarely good for the
table on account of this habit, and at
THE OOLOGIST
105
times others of our game birds are
ruined for the table from the same
cause. ThR eating of wild celery by the
Canvft''- backed Dack is said to greatly
add to irs excellence as a table delica-
cey.
Among the rapacious birds there is a
greater variation in food and the man-
ner of spcurins; it than would be sup-
pospd. All excepting the Vultures seize
their prey with the talons, but while
the B' zzird Hawks are slow in securing
the live creaturo, the trao Hawks, Fal-
cons and Harriers are like lightning in
their m/vpments. The Red-taiiec? and
Redshoiildered Hawks are quite con-
tent with striped snakes, toads and
frogs; while an occasional common
striped gopher or chipmunk is added to
their bill of fare, and these birds are but
seldom found to molest the chickens of
the barnyard, it is the Cooper Hawk
and its near relaive the Sharp-shinned
Hawk, who claim most of the chicks
from the coop or garden. These depre-
dators will seize a chick or half-grown
fowl as quick as a flash and sail away
with it before a Buzzard Hawk could
make up its mind to an attack. The
Buzzard Hawks are not averse to in-
sects at times and scarcely anything in
the nature nf animal food is refused by
them; but 'hen most all of the rapacious
birds will vary their diet with a cheaper
quality of food. I have seen t^iat bird
of elegant appearance in the air — the
Swallow-taiI"d Kite — sweep down and
secure a scake and bear it aloft, trail-
ing it through the air as it swept the
heavens in graceful evo utions. Accord-
ing to my apprnciation there is no bird
in the air quite equal to the Swallow-
tailed Kite. Su( h dashes and plunges
and un^xpected g} I'atiuns as they make.
While the common Hawks are silently
soaring or plodding through the forests
the Kites are saeti to perform all the
evolutions known to the bird world.
The Spjirrow Hawk catches small
birds with great dexterity, but compen-
sates for this lapse in decency in a
measure by gatherincr in many of the
pestiferous rodents that infest the wood
and field. In the summer when the
grasshoppers are plentiful, this little
Hawk destroys an amazing number of
these insects. It is interesting to watch
a Sparrow Hawk catching hoppers. He
will sit on a dead branch and fly about,
first to one side and then to another,
much after the manner of a Flycatcher;
and he is almost as accurate in his work.
I once observed a Sparrow Hawk catch
a grasshopper on the wing, but the work
is mostly dune on the ground, and the
bird always returns to hii perch before
eating his capture.
The little Blue-winged hawk or Sharp-
shin is a veritable friend among the
small birds. There is no limit to his
destructive inclinations and I only for-
give hioi when he moves into the city
in November and December and wages
war on the imported Sparrows.
The Owls are flesh feeders and lot
part'cu'.ar as to choice, as they will eat
most anything dead or alive, but will
become very hungry before they will
eat tainted meat, as I have proven many
timt-s with my pet Owls. This is not
anything like the habit of the Bald
Eagle, the emblem of our country, which
often feeds on putr.d flesh, and I really
believe prefers stale fish to fresh. One
Owl that I had as a pet for a long time
would eat all fresh meat tQat I handed
him, whether steak, mouse, snake or
any small bird. His habit of eating was
always the same, and he invariably held
the object in his claws and tore it with
Morris Gibbs, M. D.
(To be Continued.)
Wisconsin Hash.
What has become of our House
Wrens, or in fact any of our Wrens? I
have not seen a Wren of any variety
this season, in town or out of town. All
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of my Wren houses are vacant, except,
perhaps, tenanted by a few spiders, etc.
The Evening Grosbeaks came this
year January 29th, a warm cloudy day,
some soft snow; at first a flock of a few
individuals, later large flocks, some-
times nearly a hundred. They stayed
with us until May 2d, when I saw a fe-
male, the last one seen; the main part
of the flock left about the middle of
April; two pair stayed around in the
evergreens in our yard so close and
acted like breeding birds so much, that
I actually was foolish enough to climb
an evergreen in the vain hope of tind-
ing a nest; but then, the fools aren't all
dead yet.
The beautiful, or I rather say the dear
little Bobwhite, are getting bred in
hereabouts again quite plenty, owing to
a protecting law of five years, and either
two or five years longer. (Am not cer-
tain.) I call my dog by a short, sharp,
quick whistle; one day he flushed a pair
of Bobs. Later one called and I answer-
ed; we answered back and forth several
times. The dog would look at me, tfien
toward where the Quail was, then at
me, etc., prick up his ears and could
not make out who the other fellow was
calling him.
One day while my dog and I were out
I found a Pinnanted Grouse's nest, bird
on. 1 watched her some time and as
she did not ofi'er to leave, I sat down by
the nest and after a little manouvering
she allowed me to stroke and pet her to
my hearts content, and to csunt her
eggs, a fine set of sixteen.
Any one wishing to secure, perhaps,
one hundred fine colored photographs,
size lOi X 14, of Audubon's Birds of
America, taken direct from Audubon
plates, can do so by buying the Sunday
Chicago Record-Herald, 5 cents. The
pictures come to your news dealer not
folded, or in other words, flat, and if
you stand in with your newsdealers you
can have him save out yours before his
delivery boys fold them; one plate
comes every Sunday as a supplement.
The series began June 16th. I do not
intend this in any way for an advertise-
ment of the Chicago paper, but as a help
to my brother naturalists, whom it may
concern.
A good way to trap English Sparrows
is to place a large cage, with a small
open door, on the (jrouu'i near chicken
coops, putting some feed inside.
Any one having a singer Canary
should never feed it lettuce; and if in
the habit of feeding it lettuce, should
stop off gradually.
How many species of birds, 1 esides
the Rose-breasted Grosbeak, eat the po-
tatoe beetle? I made a statement sev-
eral years ago in the Oologist that I
wish to correct, that the Cedar Wax-
wing eats the potatoe beetle. It should
have been Rose- breasted Grosbeak, a
female.
Geo. W. Vosburgh,
Co.umbup, Wis.
Notes On Two Birds of South Jersey.
Fish Crow— This little relative to the
American Crow can oniy be identified
from its larger relation at a clrse range
They inhabit the trends of the coast and
bay, and do not go far from brackish
water.
As nesting sites, they prefer a more
or less wooded island marsh to the
dense woods that set farther I ^ack. Their
nests are as bulky as the American
Crow, but the depression where the
eggs are laid is much smaller. The
height ranges from ten to forty feet at
times in the top of a small gum or cedar
tree, while at others against the trunk
of a large tree.
Complete sets may be taken with
three to five eggs between the first and
latter part of May. I have never col-
lected a full set in April yet. The young
of the American Crow are most always
ready to leave the nest, when the Fish
Crow completes her set.
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107
Of course the epjgs look like other
Crow's epgs, but much smaller, ncd at
times a small American Crow and .-i
large fish Crow will look just alike,
and measurement alone will not identify
them.
The last egg laid is sometimes beauti-
fully marked.
American Osfrey— This well known
bird is fast decreasing in South Jersey,
especially around the brackish waters.
I see no accountable cause for this, ex-
cepting every year several old dead
limbs break off with the nests.
Every set a collector gets of this bird
he well earns First, he generally has
a hard tree to climb, then a dead limb
to go out on, and when that point is
reached he strains every nerve to reach
over the nests, which are sometimes five
feet high. About that time out comes a
farmer and cries ' ut, ' come down out'
of that tree and leave them Hawks
alone."
I have never known the old birds to
strike, but they have come very near
my head.
They lay from two to four eggs.
Three is the usual number and four I
consider very rare. I have collected
eggs for eleven years and have only
found three sets with four. A series of
these eggs are the prettiest specimens
in a collector's cabinet. I can say right
here that I never saw the eggs in the
same set of like appearance. One egg
I have in my collection is nearly un-
spotted with a cream ground.
Wm. B. Crispen,
Salem, N. J.
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facerl Glossy Ibis, Ring-necked Pheas-
ant, Killdeer Plover, Burrowing Owl,
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ALBION, N. Y., AUGUST, 1901. Whole No. 179
Wants, Exchanges, and For Sales.
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IJurUniAlll* sued July 20th. The Sept. is-
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CERULEAN WARBLERS Eggs in sets with
nest in situ for sale at list rates. Sets of 617
for exchange. W. E. SAUNDERS, London,
Ont.
FOR SALE.— My collection of small birds;
169 in all. No's 815 and 640 among them. All
good skins. Will send list if you mean busi-
ness. W. F. WEST, Greensburg, Ind.
EXCHANGE.— A fine lot of bird skins to ex-
change for a pair of live Pheasants, any varie-
ty Correspondence solicited. C. VAN L.
SMITH, 109 Good St., Akron. Ohio.
COLLECTORS : Why don't you send for my
cheap prices on Birds Eggs, singles and sets.
I am just giving them away All letters an-
swered promptly. A D. DOERGE, P. O. Box
3, Navasota, Texas.
FOR SALE CHEAP.— Fine AI sets with
data such as Chuck-wiU's-widow, Louisiana
Water Thrush, Titmouse, Nuthatch. Hawks,
Owls, Vultures and many more. Write for
lists. ROBT. D. FOXHALL, Tarboro. N. Car.
FOR SALE.— Sets of American and Barrow's
Golden-eye, Loon and R. B. Nuthatch, skins
of Gray Ruffed Grouse, Cinnamon Teal and
Picket Pin Gopher, back numbers of "Osprey,"
bird pamphlets, etc., or will exchance any of
above for Davie's Taxidermy, good Watch or
Telescope. WM. A. BOWMAN, ColumbiaFalls,
Mont.
WILL SELL for best offer in cash or eastern
specimens of birds or eggs. One glass case con-
taluing L thirteen squirrels mounted upon
branches, etc. Case contains one Black, one
Red, one Grey, one Chipminck, one Flying one
Fox, one White Face Fox, one Florida Fox,
one German Black, one German Red. one Mex-
ican Red and Grey, one South American Fly-
ing, one India Black and Yellow. All answer-
ed. GEO. SWEZEY, 66-79 Jackson St. . New-
ark, N. J.
WILL t)ELL CHEAP or exchange for Al
sets with data. Lattin's catalogue. 1000 points
and buts of arrows and spears,3 forjlc exchange
5 for le cash; back numbers Oologist, "Birds"
Part I, colored olates, "Birds of New Jersey,"
"Birds About Us," Abbott; Eastman pocket
kodak; 22 and 32 cal. Smith and wesson re-
volvers ; a handsome tan sole leather gun case
for carrying two guns ; a four draw brass tele-
scope: pair of boy's climbers; sets of cigarette
cards; trap door spider's nest; large pieces of
petrified wood from Arizona and pottery from
the Cliff Dwellers: old copper cents and half
cents ; two glass topped cases, one, two draw-
ers (walnut) 21x84; other a wall case 16x24
(cherry); also sets of Al birds eggs. Every-
thing is Al and must go cheap for cash or Al
sets. B. A. CARPENTER, Salem, N. J.
I AM COLLECTING this season in Southern
Arizona in the Huachuca mountains. I am se-
curing many rare and desirable sets, including
Red-faced, Virginia, Audubon's. Black-throat-
ed Gray, Lucy's, Olive, Grace's and Sonora
Yellow Warblers; Coues', Vermillion, Sulphur-
bellied, Olivaceous and Buff-breasted Fly-
catchers; Stephen's Whip-poor-will; Rivoli,
Broad-tailed, Cactus and Black-chinned Hum-
mers; Arizona and Long-crested Jays: Scott's
Oriole; Hepatic and Cooper's Tanagir; Rock
and Canon Wrens; Canon Towhee. Painted
Redstart, Arizona Junco, Pygmy Nuthatch,
Chestnut-backed Bluebird, White-necked Rav-
ens and manv other varieties too numerous to
mention here. Everything will be prepared in
the finest order possible— nests with all sets
not larger than Jays. Parties wishing to
build up their collections send for my full list
and cash priax. Specimens sent on approval
where parties are kno^\-n to me or where good
reference is furnished. O. W. HOWARD, Ft.
Huachuca, Arizona.
WANTED.— May number. 1888, Vol. XXII,
American Naturalist. WILLIAM BREW-
STER, Cambridge, Maes.
114
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WANTED.— Sets of eggs containing abnor-
mal specimens, such as runts, albinos, mon-
strocities, abnormally colored or shaped eggs.
Will give cash or good exchange. J. W^ARREN
JACOBS, Waynesburg, Pa. 101
FOR SALE:— Fancy and common Geodes,
ranging in price from 2.5c. to $5.00; halts from
10c to 50e. Special rates to colleges and mu-
seums. H. K. McLELLAN, Hamilton, Han-
cock Co., Illinois. 179
OOLOGISTS WANTED:— Will pay 50cts.
each cash for one of each June 1888, and April
1889, and will give an exchange notice, or cou-
pon good for one, for copies of the January
1895 and April 1899 issue, a notice for each copy.
FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y.
WANTED:— Oologists and others to read
"Frederick Young," the prettiest book of the
year. A fine story with science and natural
history intermixed. Tinted illustrations ; gold
top. Price $1.50. Superlative as a gift. Order
through vour book dealer. By Charies Lin-
coln Phillips, an old contributor to this jour-
nal. H. A. DICKERMAN & SON, Publishers,
Boston . tf
EXCHANGE.— Choice first class sets with
full data Royal Tern, Am. Oystercatcher, Wil-
let, Wilson's Plover, Brown Pelican, Clapper
Rail, Laughing Gull,Forster's Tern BlackSkim-
mer. Green Heron, Boat-tail Grackle, Painted
Bunting.IndigoBun ting, Yellow-breasted Chat,
etc. for A 1 sets with data and large singles.
Sets also for sale very cheap. DR. M. T.
CLECKLEY, Augusta, Ga. 180
FOR EXCHANGE —Model '99 Kent's bike in
good condition. Will take bird skins or Indian
relics to value of $10. Write first. Address
BOX 817, Ames, la
WILL EXCHANGE.— Western photos or
plates and new books for eggs in sets. All let-
ters answered. Address CHAS. S. MOODY,
Oro Fino, Idaho.
WANTED.— Good U. S. stamps. Offer in ex-
change skins of 387, 412, 498, 761, 474. 759b, 587,
613, 614, 619, 521, 581, 461, 624 661, 671, 673. 467, 728,
735, 655. THEODORE B. PARKER, 36 Beau-
mont Ave , Newton vllle, Mass.
A FEW Sets each No. 123a, 49, 413, 588b.
Several volumes Oologist and other bird
journals; Gov. Pub. on Ornithology; Bar Lock
Type Writer, cost $100 In good condition; Star
Fish and Sea Urchins from Pacific Ocean.
All for A 1 Skins and Original sets. A. G.
PRILL, Scio, Oregon.
WANTED. — A pair of young live of each of
the following: Barn Owl, Long-eared Owl,
Short-eared Owl For good strong specimens,
large prices will be given. J. E. T., Box 98,
Lancaster. Mass.
FOR EXCHANGE.— Eggs of this state for
sets of other states. Send list and receive
mine. ED T. SCHENCK, Sprakers, N. Y.
WANTED.— A cabinet for bird skins and
back numbers of magazines. Can offer sets,
skins, mounted birds, shells etc. or part cash,
also have a Lady's Bicycle, 28 in., for sale at
$18.00 cash. All answered. W. JENNINGS
WIRT, Gaines, Orleans Co., N. Y.
OOLOGISTS.— Have some fine sets to ex-
change for same. Send your lists. Sets of
hawks owls and water birds especially desired.
RAY F. STEVENS, Shabbona, 111.
A 1 SETS Manitoba collected eggs with full
data, direct from the collector : Arctic Horned
Owl 1-4, $1.50; W. H. Owl 1-2, 75c: Prarie Horn-
ed Lark 1-4 1-3, 10c; Short-eared Owl 1-10 2-7 3-6
3-5 3 4, 40c; Redtails 1-S .5-3, well marked, 25c;
Krider's Hawk 3 2 3-3, 35c ; Long-eared Owl 3-5
3-4, 10c; Marsh Hawk 1-6 5-5 2-4 10c; Gray Rufiled
Grouse 1-9, 40c; Am. Crow 1-6 2 5 4-1 2c; Mallard
1-7 10c: Pintail 1-5 20c; Col. Sharp-tailed Grouse
1-10 1-12 1-13 1-17, 30c: Prarie Short-tailed 1-10
1-12 1-13, 30c Prarie Hen Ml 1-12 1-8, lOc; Mead-
owlarkW3-4 2-5 1-6 5o;Killdeer 1-4 1-3, 10c; Sharp-
shinned Hawk 1-5 1-6, $1.00; Purple Grackle 3-4
3-5 1-6, 2e; Rusty Blackbird 3-6 2-53-4,30; Mourn-
ing Dove 3-2. 2c: Clay -colored Sparrow 3-b 4-4
2-3, nests, 10c; Yellow Warbler 3-4 3-3. 2c; Chest-
nut collared Longspur 2-4 1-3, 20c; White-
rumped Shrike 3-6 3-4, 3c; Flicker 1-5 2c; Rose-
breasted Grosbeak 3-4 1-5, 5c; House Wren 2-6
2-5, 2c; Bewick's Wren 16. 10c; Long-billed
Marsh Wren 3-6, 2c; Bartram's Sandpiper 3-4,
25c; Wilson's Pharalope 1-4, 50c; Loon 1-2, $1;
Swainson Hawk 4-3 3 4, 25c; well marked
Broadwinged Hawk 2-3. $1 ; Song Sparrow 3-4
2-5, 2c; Redwinged Blackbird 3 4, Ic; Osprey 1-3,
75c; well marked Whooping Crane 1-2, $2.00.
List is incomplete as I am adding sets daily,
but all listed are on hand. Prices per egg.
CHRIS P. FORGE, Carman, Manitoba.
FOR SALE.— Plumbeous Chickadee, sets of
5, 6 and 7; 15c per egg. Send for list of choice
southern sets. Have Flying Squirrels for sale
at $1.50 a pair; also Fox Squirrels, Coons, etc.
E. F. POPE, Colmesnell, Tex.
U. S. ARMY GOODS:— For Collecting, can-
oeing, hunting and bicycle trips. Dog Tents,
3 pieces buttoning together, covers 5x7ft. ;
weight about 51bs., $1.25. 4 pieces button to-
gether, covering 7x10, 12.25. Rubber Ponchos,
45x72, slit for head, $1.50. Canvas Hammocks
and Haversacks, each, 50c. ALBERT B.
FARNHAM, 502 12th St., N. W Washington,
D. C 179
WANTED.— Sets of N. Am. Birds Eggs.
Can use any except 498, 187, 49, 385. The more
desirable the sets you offer are, the better the
offer I will make you for them. I can offer
Trays for Eggs, Large Egg Calipers (best 12 in.
sliding); Glass top Egg Cases, Rare Single
Eggs, Emue Eggs, Collection of 300 var. good
Postage Stamps in sets; Shells, a large assort-
ment labelled ; Minerals, single specimens or
collections; Fossils; Indian Arrowpoints;
Spearheads and Knives, many localities; also
an SVi in. Rough Stone Axe and a few Drills;
a few Bird Skins and Corals. Write, sending
list of what you can spare and giving me an
idea of what you want and I will make the best
offer I can. E. H. SHORT, Box 173, Rochester,
N. Y. 179
EXCHANGE:— One Premo camera 4x5 with
complete outfit to exchange for complete sets
of eggs with full data. No others accepted.
All letters answered. CHAS. S. MOODY, Oro
Fino, Idaho.
FOR SALE or EXCHANGE.— Two hundred
fifty perfect arrow and spear points. FRANK
RACKETT, Grand Rapids, Mich. Rural De-
livery No. 1.
GOOD EXCHANGE for nice sheets of Birch
Bark and Modern Indian bows, arrows, pipes,
buckskin, bead and basket work. ALBERT
B. FARNHAM, 502 12th St., N. W., Washington,
D. a
THIS PAPER is printed at the Book
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Ornithological Pamphlets, Excerpts, 8z:c.
FOR SALE FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y.
Continued from L,ist
Newberry, Birds of Sacramento Valley to
Columbia River, (Pac. R. R. Survey VI) 38p,
2col, pi, 4to 1 25
Page, Feathered Pets, A. Treatise on the
Food, Breeding and Care of Canaries, Parrots
and Other Cage Birds, 141p, Ills 2.5
Palmer, T. S., Bird Day in Schools, 4p 10
Posson, Some (27) Birds of Unusual Occur-
rence in Orleans Co.fN. Y. 4p 20
Rey, Die Eier der ;Vogel Mithleuropas, Part
I. 84p, 5col, pi. of 18 full-size eggs, eagles, etc,
1900 75
, Do do. Part II, 16p, 5col, pi, of 40 full-
size eggs, Hawks and Eagles 75
Ridgway, Catalogue of Old World Birds, 20p
05
, Directions for Collecting Birds, 28p 32
, Genus Sittasomus, 4p 15
, Nomenclature of N. A, Birds, badly
soiled. Pencil notes by Davie, giving colors of
iris of common species, etc 50
, Report of Dept. Birds U. S. National
Museum 1884-'82, 9 years, 64p 50
, Do do '86-'92, 6 years, 40p 25
Rotzell, Birds of Narbeth, Penna. and Vicin-
ity, 8p _ 30
Sharpe, British Birds, parti, 112p, llcol. pi,
40
Short, Birds of Western York, 14p, 1st ed,
'93 35
, ditto, 21p, 2d ed. '96 10
Shufeldt, M. D., R. W., Scientific Taxidermy
for Museums, 71 full-page plates , 57p, text.l 50
. Observations on the Classification of
Birds, 16p, '98 20
. Osteology of LaniuS' ludovicianus ex-
cubltorides, lOp, pi 20
, Forms Assumed by the Patella of
Birds, 8p 20
, Osteology of the Eremophila alpes-
trls, 30p. pi 25
, Osteology of the N. A. Tetraonidae,
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2 10
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10,000 perfect set?, coverinjj 850 species.
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the Everglade Kite, ninety of the Sharp-
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Whooping Crane, five Claike's Nut-
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gether.
Under date of March 25th Mr. O. S.
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male Passenger Pigeon which was kill-
ed Mar. 12 near Oakford, Illinois. It
is the first one I know of being killed
here in 8 or 9 years. I have it mounted
and in my collection."
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Priddy was omitted through error
from the May Oologist:
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the Oologist the death of Mr. D. Prid-
dy of Toronto, whose ad. has appeared
in the Oologist from time to time.
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THE OOLOGISl
He died suddenly from heart trouble a
few days since while at his work. Mr.
Priddy was a collector of shells and
took quite and interest in that branch
of science."
Bird Life of a Virg-inia Island.
Cobb's Island, a narrow strip of land
lying on the coast of Virginia in the
Atlantic Ocean near the southeast end
of the peninsula formed by Northamp-
ton county, was in former years, a fav-
orite collecting ground for ornitholo-
gists and oologists. While of but a
limited urea, some nine miles in length,
and six miles wide 'at its greatest
breath, its conditions as a breeding
ground for seafowl were most favora-
ble, and, each year, vast numbers of
them nested along its stretches of s<
marsh and beach. The ornithologist
here found h bird-metropolis of a most
interesting nature, presenting a popu-
lation of thousands.
During June-July, 1895, I spent three
weeks on the island among its birds.
The season was a favorable one, and
all the specimens were nesting. From
the time our boat slipped from the
mainland shore and set sail for the
island, birds were numerous. Com-
mon and Forster's Terns, with their
graceful airy flight, hovered around
the boat, darting suddenly to the water
sometimes, sending up splashes of
spray and catching small fish that ven-
tured too near the surface.
Merry Laughing Gulls, in pairs, fly-
ing low over the surface of the water,
each bird of a pair keeping close to its
mate, so that their wings nearly touch-
ed, indicated that the species was
breeding. Black Skimmers passed us
now and then, and toward the horizon
a long black line of Surf Scoters rested
on the water, this species lingering
even at so late a date. Gulled-billed
and Black Terns, in small numbers,
and a single Royal or Caspian Tern
passed by the boat.
We reached the island late in the af-
ternoon, and stopped at the little hotel,
(now washed away.) The following
morning, equipped with hip boots,
some old clothes and a spacious wicker
basket (for eggs,) I started for the salt
marshes of the western side. In order
to reach these to advantage I hired a
sail boat and a worthy sea-captain to
manage it. An hour later we were
among the great colonies of Laughing
Gulls [Larus atricilla.) Thousands of
these birds hovered over the marsh,
their cries, in union, creating a terrific
din when we neared the nests. The
sky was nearly objcured by the vast
number of circling birds. This was my
first experience among sea fowl, and,
what a revelation it was! All over the
marsh the nests were scattered. They
were built of marsh grass and other
similar material, sometimes raised two
feet above the ground, and most of
them held sets of three eggs, while sets
of four were found in several. Many
of the eggs were merely laid upon the
"wind- rows" of weed and grass. I
could have gathered several baskotfuls
of eggs, but took only a few of the
handsomer sets. While looking over
the the "wind-rows" 1 ran across a
number of sets of Forster's Tern
[Sterna Mr undo) laid upon the rows
without any attempt at a nest, a mere
depression having been made and the
eggs laid in it. I also ran across sev-
eral fairly well made nests of this spec-
ies, of grasses, placed on top of the
"wind-rows." As I went to examine a
particularly well made Gull's nest, I
nearly stepped on a Clapper Rail [Rall-
us crepitans) that wa^f sitting on her
nest of nine eggs. This was my first
set of this species and I was naturally
elated at my find. The Captain per-
ceiving this, told me that I could gath-
er a barrel of these eggs if I so desired,
which statement proved true, and
some twelve sets taken. The Clapper
Rails themselves were not much in
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119
evidence, we only getting an occas-
sional glimpse of them as they skulked
amor'gst the high marsh grass. The
nests are built of marsh grass and
placed a foot or so above the gi'ound
in the big i grass. The grass surround-
ing the nest is pulled down by the
birds, so that the ends hang over nnd
form a canopy above the nest. This
habit facilitates locating the nests, for
by scanning over the uiarsh and not-
ing where the even aspect of the
grass is interrupted by the ends being
thus pulled, over, the collector may
find many a nest that would otherwise
be overlooked. In this same marsh
we found sfveral nests of the Seaside
Finch, and saw many birds of that
species. The nests are difficult to find.
They are usually placed among the
gra«s tops, and the species has a pen-
chant for selecting the grass bordering
on the small sloughs. After seeing the
wonders of this marsh, I returned to
the hotel and worked all of the after-
noon and most of the next day blowing
the specimens.
On the following day I started early
to investigate the bird-life of the btach,
and especially to visit the large colonies
of Black Skimmers at the northeastern
end. This time there was no need of
a boat, but the Captain's services were
again secured, and he appeared on
time, driving the only horse on the
island hitched to a delapidated two-
wheeled cart. As we proceeded along
the beach, about the first birds to at-
tract my attention were a pair of Wil-
son Plovers. They were acting as if their
nest was near, and a careful search re-
vealed a cute little juvenile, covered
with down and faintly speckled,
crouching among the pebbles of the
beach. The mimicry was perfect, and
it was by mere accident 1 noticed him.
Several American Oystercatchers were
noticed on the beach and I found a
nest, or rather a depression in the
beach, with three eggs. One egg was
'tpipped," and so I did not disturb the
set. Another pair evidently had a nest
near by, but a careful search failed to
reveal it.
Toward the northeastern end Com-
mon Terns [Sterna hiruiido) were very
numerous, being in hundreds and their
nests were scattered all over the beach,
the eggs being laid in mere depressions
among the pebbles, and the eggs con-
stituted the average set.
At the extreme northern end, on the
eastern side, we found the Black Skim-
mer colonies. Hundreds upon hun-
dreds of Skimmers were congregated
and nesting. As we neared the nests,
the birds set up an awful uproar, their
"harking" notes together with the
screeching of the Terns making an odd
combination of discord. When we
reached the nesting ground, a great
line of Skimmers began to fly around
and around in single file, turning
toward the ocean, then curving toward
the land a/ain, and approaching us
directly, but only to curve aside at the
distance of some fifty or sixtty yards,
all the time uttering their peculiar
"Ohe hark" ' Ohe bark" 'Ohe bark."
Their oddly shaped red-orange colored
mandibles v'c^inted downwa'dly, and
the pure white of their underpart plum-
age contrasted strikingly with the
black of their upper parts. Now and
then a skimmer would fly at us, coming
so close sometimes as to make us dodge
but they always curved aside when
within three or four feet.
On the sand dunes and on the sandy
beach were hundreds of their eggs, re
markable for their beauty, their ground
color being averagely of a bluish white,
though sometiues a very clear white.
The markings are profuse and of um-
ber, lavender and black. Four eggs
constituted the full set, though sets of
three e^gs were common. The eggs
were laid in rather deep depressions of
the sand, and on a single sand dune I
found as many as seven sets. Owing
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THE OOLOGIST.
to the exposure the incubation is large-
ly accomplished by the sun's rays, and
the birds do not constantly sit upon the
eggs. In the same locality with the
Skimmers, we found a number of Gull-
billed Terns nesting, their eggs laid in
depressions in the sand and averag-
ing four to a set, though several of
three were found.
Formerly the Royal Tern nested in
great colonies at this part of the island,
but not a bird of this species was no-
ticed. Mr. Robert Ridgway found the
Royal Tern in great abundance on the
beach when he visited the locality
many years previous (See Davies' Nests
and Eggs) and records that its eggs
were so thick on the besch, that it was
with difficulty that he walked without
stepping on them. The Caspian Tern
also formerly bred abundantly on the
island, but wa did not notice its eggs
on our visit.
Thonsamls of Least Terns {Sterna
fm<t7?arwm) used to nest on tbe island,
but, alas! they have all been sacrificed
to the millinery trade, thousands of
them having been shot by mercenary
hunters who sold the skins to dealers
in New York. Not a single specimen
did we see, and the Captain informed
me that it had been a long time since
he had observed the species on the
island. The Willet is another species
that has decreased on the island. I
only saw a few pairs.
Bat now, Cobb's Island is not what it
used to be. The ocean has made great
inroads upon it and it has greatly de-
creased in area. The little hotel has
been washed away, and the birds are
not as numerous as formerly. But
there is an abundance of bird life re-
maining. The Skimmers and Gulls
are in great numbers yet and the col-
onies are still interesting. The col-
lecting days for the island, however,
are over. All sincere oologists must
certainly appreciate that there is a
marked decrease of bird life through-
out the country. There is no excuse
nowadays for bisketfuls of eggs.
What remains of these Cobb's Island
colonies, will be protected. The A.
O. U. has already taken measures to
this end, and happy is the thought, that
for many days to come Cobb's Island's
feathered population, a delight to the
eye of the bird lover, unmolested and
protected, will increase as the years
roll by.
John W. Daniel, Jr.,
Lynchburg, Va.
Some Twice Occupied Nests and Other
Notes.
On Jnly 1, 1897, at Torresdale, this
county, I took a set of three eggs and
nesit of the Graat-crested Flj'catcher
from a large knot hole 20 inches deep,
10 feet up in an apple tree.
On May 3, 1898, I took a set of three
eggs of the Flicker from the hole cap-
turing the female sitting on them which
I gave its liberty
May 7 took set of 5 eggs again cap-
turing the bird which again was releas-
ed. On May 28 the hole contained 8
two-third in:-ubated eggs. Captured
the Flicker brooding them and let her
go-
On April 18. 1899. found a Screech
Owl roosting in the hole. It has not
since been used.
June 9 1898, took a set of five Fiick-
ei's eggs from cavity excavated in a
maple stub 15 feet up Oa April 15,
1899, from the hole took a fresh egg
and the female Sere ich Owl (gray).
The owl lived only two days and dis-
secting her I obtained another egg and
found 5 small eggs in her ovary.
June 27, 1898, ^it the above locality
(Frankford) took two eggs of the Red-
headed Woodpecker from a cavity 30
feet up in a maple stub. This hole had
been used since during 1899, '00, '01 by
Passer domesticus .
On July 20, 1900, at Riverton, N. J..
THE OOLOGIST
121
took set of 3 House Wren's eggs from
Flicker's cavity 20 feet up in a stub.
On tiie same day at Now Albany, N.
J., took a set of House Wren'.s eggs
from a D^wny Woodpecker's hole 15
feet up in a branch of a dried tree in a
marsh.
'On May 22, 1901, at Holmesburg, this
county, took a set of 5 fresh Rough-
winged Swallow's eggs from an unfin-
ished Kingtisher's hole excavated in the
top of an unoccupied quarry. In 1899
a friend found a Rnuarh-winged Swal-
low's nest in aa old Kingfisher's hole
but tore it nut before it was finished.
On April ^6, 1901, at Volunteortown,
this county, took set of 4 eggs of the
Robin from a nest situated on a girder
of a steel railroad bridgj. On May 7
took another sat of 4 from same nest.
In 1899 took 14 eggs of the Flicker,
several sets, from a cavity excavated
in a %villow 15 feet up. Daring 1900 I
took several oth^r sots. In the winter
two Screech Owls were taken from the
hole. Mav. this year, a boy roboed a
Passer domesticus of her fggs, the nest
of which v.'as built in the hole. June
8, this year, I took a set of 6 Passtr's
eggs from the hole.
Apri[ 14, 1898, took a set of 3 fresh
eggs of the American Sparrow Hawk at
Frankford from a Flicker's hole 35 feet
up in a black oak stub. In 1897 a brood
of Flickers were raised in the hole.
RiCAARD F Miller,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Albino Eg-g-s of Sialia sialis-
Of the many specimens of runts, cur-
ious colored »nd shaped eggs that I
have seen in my many years as a stu-
dent of oology, it has never been my
good luck to see a pure white set of al-
bino eggs of the Bluebird until this
season, and this was only accomplished
through the kindness of my naturalist
friend, Mr. J. E. Teagae of this town,
who ha^f pvpr been a clo?e ob^e^'ver of
the birds of this locality, and to him all
credit should be given for had it not
been for him the eggs would never
have been found.
On April Ist as Mr. Teague was pass-
ing through an old orchard of apple
trees he saw a Bluebird fly from a hol-
low tree several ods away. He at
once thought a nest of common eggs of
the Bluebird was in the tree, but being
mnch interested in oology he went to
the tree for a look at the nest. The
hole was in the main trunk of the tree,
about tive feet from the ground and
about 10 inches in depth, a vacated
nesting place of the Flicker. On look-
ing in Mr. Teague beheld not blue eggs
but pure white ones, four in number.
This was indeed a surprise.
On May 2d he again visited the nest.
The Bluebird was on the nest and had
to be driven from the hole before the
eggs could be seen This time five eggs
rewarded his gaze and this completed
the set as no more were laid.
On May 8th Mr. Teague notifirid me
of the finding of the nest and eggs and
on May 10th I tramped six miles
through the mud in a heavy rain storm
and collectad the nest and eggs. They
are vtry glossy and look lika eess of
the Woodpecker, closely resembling
eggs of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
(Sphyrapious varius), both in color and
size. They measure .80x.62, .81x.62,
.78X.61, .78x 61, .82x 63.
The nest was very large and bulky
and composed of dried grass, lined
with the same and fine rootlets.
The nest and eggs now repose in my
cabinet and 1 prize tham very higely.
Guy H. Briggs,
Livermore, Maine.
■'Oh, you cruel boy, to take those
eggs out of the nest! 'Think of the poor
mother bird when she comes — ''
"The mother bird's dead, miss."
"How do you know that?"
"I see it in your hat!" — Punch.
122
THE OOLOGIST.
Unusual Nesting Sites of Melospiza
fasciata.
The Song Sparrow in the spring
builds her nest on the ground or near it
in this locality (northern Philadelphia)
but on May 2, 1898, 1 found a nest in an
unusual situation. It was placed in a
hole in the wall, inside wall, of an old
ruin, rootless spring house, protected
from wind and storms except on the
northeast. It was over 12 feet from
the ground and empty when found, but
live days later (May 7) it contained four
eggs, which were collected with the
nest. Both nest and eggs typical, the
nest composed entirely of grass stems,
lined with horse hair.
Later in the season, in late June and
July, it is not rare to find second nests
six and seven feet up. Why the birds
should have chosen the above situ for a
first nest I cannot explain.
Richard F. Miller,
Philadelphia, Pa.
Potash.
I note Mr. Bowdish's article in last
OOLOGIST.
When I published my "Directions for
the Preparation of Eggs," I advised the
use of caustic potash. I was promptly
"taken down" by a prominent western
ornithologist for being behind the times.
He advised the use of pancreatin as a
much more satisfactory drug. Since
then I have thorougly tried this drug.
I do not find it as quick nor as thorough
as caustic potash, and it is very expen-
sive, while caustic potash is cheap, and
can be had anywhere.
I heartily endorse Mr. Bowdish's pos-
ition and still believe in the caustic, com-
bined with a steady hand and plenty of
patience.
Ennest H. Short,
Rochester, N. Y.
How Some Birds Capture Their Prey.
(Continued from July Number.)
his beak. The Great-horned Owls that
a friend of mine owned for two years
or more, and which he reared from the
nest, finally escaped and at once visited
a neighboring chicken coop and killed
several chickens before they were de-
tected. This shows the latest ferocity
in predacious birds.
The Great-horned Owl is an excellent
provider for its mate and growing fam-
ily. One nest visited held upon its
edges the following food supply — re-
mains of one Ruffed Grouse, parts of
two hares and a Woodpecker, besides
the feathers and hair of other birds and
small mammals. This Owl is the only
Owl that is known to be destructive to
game and of no benefit to mankind, and
it stands in the list with the Cooper and
Sharp-shinned Hawks as a marauder of
the worst type. Still I cannot but think
that there must be some redeeming fea-
tures, for as with the Butcher bird I
cannot think that he is as black as is
painted.
The Cuckoos are among the mcst use-
ful birds that we have. Their food in
season is largely of caterpillars. I once
witnessed a Black-billed Cuckoo attack
a nest of the tent caterpillars, tear into
it and eat a surprising number of the
occupants of the structure. The Cuck-
oos also eat grasshoppers and a great
variety of other insects and also fruit of
several kinds, more especially berries.
In following this diet of caterpillars the
stomach must be well filled with hairs,
and this is so to the extent of having the
organ look as if lined with hair.
Everyone who has studied birds knows
of the oddly formed tongue of the Wood-
pecker, and it is easy to understand its
adaptability in di-a^irg forth the insect
life that is hidden in the decayed wood.
The Woodpeckers in the great lake re-
gion have mainly the same habit in se-
curing food from the cavities which they
THE OOLOGIST.
123
dig to uncover the insect lifO; and the
dainty Downy works and feeds in prac-
tically the same manner that the large
Pileated Woodpecker follows. But
there are two exceptions to the general
habit, or we may say that there are
charges at times. These differences
occur in the Yellow-bellied and Gold-
winged Woodpecker; for the former at
times varies his diet with liquid sweets,
while the latter sometimes leaves the
tree trunks and plunges his bill into the
soft earth of the ant hill in search for
this kind of insects. Therefore, these
two Woodpeckers are at times known
as the sap-sucker and grubber.
The Golden- wing leaves its perch on
trunk and limb, and takes up a position
on an ant hill or even on the level
ground, where it devours the ants with
great satisfaction. This is the more
astonishing change in a bird when we
consider that there are so very few
birds which will eat ants at any time,
and I do not know of another species in
my neighborhood which is largely in-
terested in ants, excepting the variable
Sap-sucker. Someone has claimed that
the Yellow-bellied Sap-sucker embraces
36 per cent, of ant food, but then this
matter of food differs in season, and
both the Yellow-bellied and Flicker ar-
rive some time before the ants appear
in any number in the spring.
Upon its arrival in late March, or
more likely about the tenth of April,
the Yellow-bellied Woodpecker pro-
ceeds to bore a number of holes in the
bai'k of certain trees producing sweet
sap. These usually selected are the
sugar maple and common planted ever-
green, though others are often bored,
including the tulip tree. The holes are
generally about a quarter of an inch in
diameter and are rarely much more
than that in depth. The holes ai'e usu-
ally elliptical in shape, and especially
so on the coniferous trees. Many claim
that these holes are bored so that the
bird may secure the insects which will
congregate around the sweets, but I
think this a ridiculous notion, as the
Sap-suckers are often seen feeding from
these holes when there is an April snow
storm and much too cold for any in-
sects to appear on the bark or anywhere
in the open. The Sap-sucker is easily
approached when feeding and I have
stood at the distance of five or six yards
and watched them many times, and I
am fully satisfied that they very rarely
catch an insect in their first week's stay
at the north; but that they sip the sap
from the bored holes is surely the case,
for I have witnessed the act scores of
times.
In the Belted Kingfisher we have an-
other species t^at gets its living by div-
ing in the lake and stream, but this
plunge is entirely unlike the plunge of
the Pelicans or Osprey. The Kingfisher
hovers as does the Osprey and as follow-
ed sometimes by the Pelicans, and like
those larger Ushers is also a surface
fisher. The Kingfisher descends at an
angle of sixty to eighty degrees and en-
ters the water bill first, but so quickly
is the stop made at the surface that in
many cases the bird does not disappear
beneath the water, though I have seen
the Blue >^ngler remain ten seconds un-
der the surface. The prize does not
average more than three and a half la-
ches long and many minnows of no
greater length than two inches are
creeled by this law breaker; however,
a five inch shiner is occasionally brought
to the surface. When a small minnow
is captured it is generally swallowed
whole, the bird perching itself and tak-
ing the little chub head first. But when
a minnow is too large to swallow whole
the prize is dissected and eaten piece-
meal, and this operation is sometimes
performed in the presence of observers;
but I have only once seen the dissection.
The bones of the fish are usually regurg-
itated after the carcass is digested, after
the manner of the Owl's process of get-
ting rid of the bones of small mammals
124
THE OOLOGIST
it has eaten. These bones when ejected
in the burrow arp carried away from
the nest as the birds are very cleanly in
their sand house.
These anglers of the lake and stream
are not confined to a diet of fish, though
I believe that they prefer minnows to
anything else and they are found about
streams and lakes at all times. They
not rarely pick up the larger insects and
they often eat grasshoppers, and I once
observed one catch and swallow a small
frog. It is said that in Arizona and
other arid districts, the Kingfishers live
mainly on insects and lizards, presum-
ably from the lack of suitable waters at
certain seasons. It is well that a bird
of a fish-eatiug habit can accommodate
its ways to the means offered in a desert
land.
MOKRTS GiBBS, M. D.
(To be Continued )
MISS JENNY.
MK. CHUPES.
The Dramatis Person^e.
From "Mr. Chupes and Miss Jenny."
(Copyright, 1901, by The Baker & Taylor Co.)
THE OOLOGIST.
125
Pan-American Notes-
A fine lot of Pueblo pottery and relics
of different sorts is shown in the Eth-
nology building of the Pan-American
Exposition. The Pueblos, who were
dwellers in the plains and in the c iffs
as well, are one of the most interesting,
from an archaeological point of view,
of all prehistoric people. Their civil-
ization was remarkable, and their in-
genuity in pottery making, basket
weaving, bead work and many ocher
things, very great.
They had many peculiar customs,
ceremonies and symbolic rites, and
their pottery is ornamented with fig-
ures the significance of which puzzles
the novice and expert alike. One of
their peculiar symbols was a broken in-
stead of a continuous line drawn about
a bowl or other dish, suggesting per-
haps the finite character of life. A
bowl shown in the exhibit of the Pueb-
lo pottery has the repr^^duction of two
feet upon the bottom of it, inside, sug-
gesting possibly the transitory and iu-
signifigant character of terrestial exist-
ance.
Fine specimens of the famous "black
and white ware," are shown, as well as
the "red ware," most of which is black
on the Inside. A number of specimens
finished so as to give the outside a cor-
rugated appearance, are shown.
Many ingenious fine tools, finished
stone implements, ornamental trinkets,
presumably having religious signifi-
gance, are on exhibition in the cases
The basket work of Indians is very
wonderful. Baskets made by compara-
tively modern Indians are shown.
Water-tight baskets in large numbers
and in many varieties are seen in the
exhibit. All are oranmented with fig-
ures woven in when the basket was
made.
The Pima Indians are those most
famous for basket making. They even
used baskets for cooking utensils, cov-
ering them with a thin layer of clay to
keep them from being destroyed by
contact with the fire.
An instructive exhibit of flint im-
plements from Mill Creek, Union Coun-
ty 111., occupies five cases in the bal-
cony of the Ethnology building of
the Pan-American Exposition. Rough
pieces of flint are shown in different
stages of completeness, and incomplete-
ness. On the left a number of blocks
of flint are shown, and, as one walks
along the line of cases, he sees the
various implements assuming a more
nearly finished condition, and finally
the complete flint spade, hammer, axe,
knife, or whatever domestic or agri-
cultural implement the crude work
produced.
In working the rough tools a stone
bearing some resemblance to the shape
the implement is to assume is usually
selected to save labor in chipping and
flaking the rough block.
Many of the implements are extreme-
ly crude, being hardly more than flat
stones used, probably, in excavating;
and round hard stones used in pound-
ing and flaking the larger pieces of
flint. Many of the stone spades and
axes, however, are chipped down to a
remarkable degree of thinness and
must have made very effective tools.
The Florida exhibit of sponges in the
Horticultural Building of the Pan-Amer-
ican Exposition, interests all who en-
ter this palace of wonders. This is an
important industry in that state and
should be developed. Mr. T. M. Wier
of Tampa, the Commissioner from
Florida, says: "The Florida sponges
are of many varieties, differing in com-
mercial value from $2 00 to a great
many dollars per pound. It is one of
the largest industries in the state, more
than 100 vessels being engaged solely in
this trade. The business is carried on
almost entirely by negroes. It is not
an uncommon sight to see a vessel's
captain and all of the crew composed
of colored men. The sponges are
gathered by means of a long pole with
a hook attached to the lower end with
which the sponge fisherman is very ex-
pert. He lies prone upon his stomach
in the stern of a boat looking through
an ordinary water bucket with a glass
bottom, which does away with the
glare from the water and allows him
to survey the bottom leisurely while
the boatman rows or sculls the boat.
A schooner lies at anchor nearby, from
which a half dozen or more of these
small boats fish, which returns to port
when it is loaded or at night, as the
case may be. The men all share and
share alike of the cargo, the captain
receiving a larger portion and the own-
er of the vessel one-quarter of the profit.
Anclote Harbor in Hillsboro County
and Key West are the principal sponge
stations off the coast of Florida.
126
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THE 05LOGIST.
127
BIG FREE MIDWAY.
The Buffalo Outside Attraction Increas-
es In Popularity.
LARGE ATTENDANCE.
The merry Big Free Midway is the
magnet thac is attracting thousands of
pleasure seekers who -come again and
again hading at each visit something
new and interesting. This Midway
has become a resort for people who
seek innocent amusement and its prices
are within the reach of the most hum-
ble.
It is located at the terminal station,
north of the Exposition proper.
The performances are presented on a
scale of magnificence never before at-
tempted at free street shows. The at-
tendance has averaged 17500 daily
since the openinsr, six weeks ago.
Among the most notable of the one
hundred big shows are the Streets of
Cairo, Sing Sing Prison, Idols of Art,
Streets of India, Trained Animal Expo-
sition, German Village, White Top
Palm Garden, Heaven and Hell, Gypsy
Camp, Persian Beauty Show, Palais de
la Danse, Arctic Cave and Athletic Au-
ditorium.
So much has been said and printed
about Midways and street fairs that it
would seem to the casual observer that
little more remains to be said. But
the more careful student of methods
and modes of amusing the public rea-
lizes that as long as Midways continue
to be popular, so lon'g will there be a
large variety of topics to discuss about
them. That street fairs are beneficial
is no longer questioned.
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Nesting Habits of the Broad-tailed
Hummingbird.
The nesting habits of the Broad-tailed
Hummingbird, while, perhaps, not un-
like those of the Ruby-throat, are at
least worthy of note in its peculiarities.
It is a common breeding bird in this
locality, often noticing the male in its
bright colors and sharp whistling aerial
flights; the female humming, neet build-
ing and feeding.
One peculiar trait of the male bird is
its manner of flight during the breeding
season. As the female is occupied in
nest building, incubating, etc., her mate
enjoys the time in sporting, rising by
short, sharp flights to a height at which
it is seen with difficulty and it returns
to earth with a plunge, terminating in
a miniature booming sound, not unlike
that of the Nightnawk. Rising again as
before and repeating until the little
thing seems exhausted and alights on a
bush or twig to rest.
The sharp chattering or screeching
note uttered during its flight is a pecul-
iarity of the male only and from close
observation I believe it to be made by
the wings of the bird.
The first nest that I ever saw vpas
built under a bridge and attached to a
knot on a small stick, one end of which
was held firmly betv«reen the planks.
Numerous nests of this species have
been observed during the past few years
since the one above noted, and all, with
one exception, were saddled upon dead
branches of oak saplings close to the
tree-trunk.
The first nest noticed in '97 was dis-
covered by seeing the female carrying
material for its construction. I.s posi-
tion was on a dead stubby branch, close
to and under the body of a leaning oak
seven feet from the ground and protected
from sun and rain by the body of the
tree.
One egg was deposited and covered
by the down in the bottom of the nest.
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THE OOLOGISl
As I placed my fingers in the nest, the
egj? was crushed and the bird had aban-
doned it. A few days later another nest
was found nearby containing a rotten
egg in a position no different than the
former, but at a height of twelve feet
above ground. As this was July the
second nest found was, undoubtedly,
the first of the nests built by the birds.
On May 25, 1898, a female was observ-
ed building her nest in the same clump
of trees, the situation being in no wise
different from the two nests above de-
scribed eight feet above ground.
On June 3d the nest and two eggs
were collected, but by the 18th another
nest with eggs were found only a few
feet away from tne place where the first
nest was found. The height, position
and protection by the tree-trunk were
very much the same as in former nests
noticed.
The female was caught from the nest
and identity made certain in this in-
stance, after which she was given her
freedom.
Two exceptions to the above have
been noticed where the nests were
placed on a forked branch of the oak,
one to tTO feet out.
One nest observed differing from all
others seen is worthy of mention; while
as a general thing the nests are covered
with lichens, this one contained an
abundant supply of moss woven into the
exterior and no lichens.
The female is not easily noticed by
one not familiar with Hummingbirds,
as she quietly hums from flower to
flower, the bumming of her wings being
heard but a few feet away.
P. L. Jones,
Beulah, Colo.
The Food Supply of the Baltimore
Oriole.
To the enthusiastic working ornithol-
ogist there is not a subject of more in-
terest than that of food supply; for
other things being equal, this governs
to a large extent, the geographical dis-
tribution of the various species. Im-
portant as the subject is, however, it is
one which is overlooked by a large num-
ber of the rank and t le of bird students,
who, while interested, do not dev te the
time they should to this most important
division of the study, but conteht them-
selves with leading what others have
written. For myself, I would rather
toil a whole season without other result
than to establish a hitherto unknown
point, than to add a thousand skins to
my collection and learn nothing.
Let us consider as a start, six of our
birds which we are constantly meeting
with during the spring and summer
months, viz: Baltimore Oriole {Icterus
galbula), Catbird ( Oaleosco2)tes carolien-
etisis), House Wren (Troglodytes aedon),
Meadow Lark (Si^crnella magna), and
the Mockingbird (Miraus poJyglottos).
The Baltimore Oriole is so well and
so favorably known about the land by
his various names of Golden Robin,
Hang Bird, etc., that i" may seem some-
what out of place to consider him, but
the food habits of this interesting crea-
ture are fully as beneficial as the plum-
age and song are pleasing, and where
ever this "flash of ornithological flame"
chooses to build its pendulous abode, it
is as safe as the nest of the Stork on the
roof of the Hollander.
The habitat of the Oriole extends
throughout the eastern United States
north of Virginia, and at times some-
what south of there. In the Mississippi
valley, however, it reaches farther south
than on the Coast. In New England it
is especially abundant, and extends west
over the wooded portions of the great
plains, and is finally replaced by its
brother in appearance, Bullock's Oriole
(/. bullocki). Here in New*England we
look for him with the bursting apple
tree buds, about the 15th to the 30th of
May; and westerly he is often seen as
early as the middle of April. Climatic
THE OOLOGIST
135
conditions affect him little, directly, ex-
cept as far as his food is concerned, and
as this consists largely of the insects
that live in the foliage of trees, the ar-
rival of /. galbula is postponed until
they have become plentiful.
It begins its southern migration about
the second week in August, and by the
first week in October we look in vain
for the beautiful flash of color so fre-
quently seen but a few short weeks
since.
I took one specimen at Woods Hole,
Mass., on the 2d of November, but have
seen none later, although the capture of
one as late as Nov. 16th is recorded from
Conn. By this date, however, ordinar-
illy, nothing but the deserted nest,
swinging from the leafless bough, as
the bleak November blast howls among
the trees, tells of the occurence of 1.
galbula in that locality. The winter is
spent in the warm southern countries
beyond the U. S. border.
The present paper on the food supply
is confined to the results reached from
the examination of eighty-six stomachs,
from birds taken from ten states, and
covering a range from Mass., westward,
to North Dakota, and were taken from
April 10th to Sept. 3d, inclusive. The
gross contents of these stomachs may
be stated relatively, as follows: Animal
matter (principally caterpillars and
beetles), 72.5; vegetable matter (princi-
pally wild fruit), 12.; mineral matter
(not food and can therefore be eliminat-
ed) 16.4; the additional 9 per cent, be-
ing water and mixed gastric juices.
From the reports received from west-
ern points, it appears that the largest
amount of insect food was found in
those stomachs examined from May 1st
to June 20th, averaging between these
dates about 87 per cent, of the whole
contents. The minimum amount of in-
sect food was found in those stomachs
examined in April and July, when it
was found to be only about 65 per cent.
Caterpillars were by far the most abund-
ant insect : in fact during the time when
these insects were most plentiful there
was scarcely any other insect to be
found in the stomach.
A general average between the cater-
pillars and beetles in the stomachs ex-
amined, would give as a result cater-
pillars 30 per cent., beetles 22 percent.,
and the other stomach contents making
up the balance.
The caterpillars were founi to be
more numerous in the stomachs after
the 1st of July than btfore, owing, no
doubt, to the increased supply of these
insects. Beetles are the article of food
next pleasing to the Oriole palate, and
though only eaten during May, June
and July, the click or srapping beetles
{Elatericlae) constituted nearly 10 per
cent, of the food for these months. 1 his
seems a trifle strange from the fact that
the hard shells of these beetles render
them .seemingly undesirable articles of
diet. However, let us not dispute the
good intentions of / galbula, for these
beetles, together with their larve, the
'•wire worms," are among the most de-
structive to ihe products of the farmer,
and as there are ever 500 species of
snapping beetles in North America, any
aid in their destruction should be gladly
welcomed by him.
Among the other beetles used by this
bird for fo d are the May beetles, [Scar-
abaeidae) the dung beetles (Aphodius)
and several of the leaf-eating beetles
(Dichelonycha). Among this latter, the
striped squash beetle, {E. vittata) which
in the larval state bores at the roots of
squashes and cucumbers, and in the ma-
ture state feeds upon the leaves, may be
mentioned. Odontola dorsalis and 0
rubra, which feed on the leaves of the
juniper and apple, respectively, and at
times ruin these trees, are also a favor-
ite with the Oriole. The Snout beetles
or weevils (Rhyncophora) are also taken
by this bird in small quantities. The
Caribidae or cannibal beetles.which feed
for the most part on the injurious in-
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THE OOLOGIST
sects, do not form an appreciable article
of diet for the Oriole, and it would seem
tiiat as both are intent upon a common
purpose, the Oriole passes over this
beetle without disturbing it.
Wasps, [Eymenoptera) bugs, (Eemip
tera) among the latter being many of
the stink bugs, {Pentalomidae) th'^ assas-
sin bugs, (Reduvinidae) which feed on
other insects, the scale lice (Coccidae)
and the common plant lice (Aphidae);
the two latter being among the most de-
structive insects known. Fiies {Diptera)
are also common food, the larvae of the
March fly (Bibio) being greatly in evi-
dence. During the months of June, July
and August, the grasshoppers and lo-
custs were found in the proportions of
3, 10 and 12 per cent., respectively.
Spiders also constitute a favorite article
of diet, and gradually increases to near-
ly 10 per cent, of the animal food in
August.
The vegetable diet of the Oriole con-
gists almost entirely of fruit, but seeds
and grain are sometimes taken. The
favorite fruits are cherries, raspberries,
blackberries, mulberries and juneber-
ries.
The examination of these s'omachs
has shown that this bird is a great in-
sect destroyer; that it destroys immense
numbers of caterpillars, grasshoppers,
bugs and noxious beetles and does not
prey upon the predacious or useful in-
sects. Let, then, the farmer continue
to hold his good opinion of this beauti-
ful bird and accord it the protection it
deserves.
C. C. PURDUM, M. D.
"Some Twice Occupied Nests"
After reading the article by Mr. Rich-
ard F. Miller, Philadelphia, Pa., in the
August OoLOGiST, under this heading, I
thought, perhaps, my experiences in
that line would not come amiss
April 16, 1897, collected a set of three
Phoebe eggs. Nest placed on a beam
under a large covered bridge In col-
lecting I had to remove the nest, which
I replaced on the beam, but there was
another beam that crossed beam No. 1
and it was on the other side of No 2 that
I placed the nest. This was not in its
original positio n. A beam separated
the two positions.
May 15 1897, I returned to the bridge
and found the nest gone from where I
had placed it, but there was a nest in the
place where I had found the one on
April 16. There had not been water
high enough to carry the nest away.
Did the birds tear the old one apart and
rebuild it in the old position? I think,
undoubtedly, that they did, although
they would have to carry the mate'-ial
past an 8inch beam. Near Arden Sta.,
W. Co., Pa.
May 25. 1897, collected one set of
seven eggs of the Flicker from a hole in
the limb of an apple tree in an orchard.
June 5, 1897, I returned to the Flick-
er hole, from which I collected the set
on May 25, and collected another set of
seven eggs. Near Washington, Pa.
June 18, 1898, col ected a set of three
eggs of the Kingbird from a nest fifteen
feet high in an apple tree in an orchard
nesr Tarkio, Mo.
June 23, 1898, I found a pair of Mourn-
ing Doves had taken possession of the
Kingbird nest, from which I collected
the set on the 23d inst. They relined it
with a few straws placed in the bottom.
I noticed that although the Doves built
a nest for the first set, for the second
and third they always took a deserted
Robin, Kingbird or Blue Jay's nest and
placed a few sticks or straws (generally
the latter) in the bottom and proceeded
with incubation.
June 15, 1900, collected one set of five
eggs of the Barn Swallow. I also took
the nest, situated on a beam of a small
bridge over a run.
July 10, 1900, I found that the Swal-
lows, from which I took the set of five
eggs on June 15, had built a new nest
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THE OOLOGIST.
137
on the sa*re spot as the former oae, and
had four eggs. Near Tarkio, Mo
June 18, 1900, collected one set of five
eggs of the Red-headed Woodpecker in
a hole in a maple tree in a grove beside
the house on a ranch some three miles
from town.
June 29, 1900, collected one set of five
fggs (if the Ked-headed Wooapecker
from the same hole as the set of the 18th
inst.
July 10, 1900, collected one set of four
eggs of f^e Red-headeil Woodpecker
from the same hole as sets of June 18
and 29.
I have found that the Red-headed
Woodpecker will do this every time,
and the third set generally, if not al-
ways, consists of four eggs. Near Tar-
kio, N. W., Mo.
April 19, 1901, collected one set of five
eggs of the Phieoe from a nest on a
beam under a bridge. (This is the same
bridge situated on the same place on
the same beam ?8 wtre the sets of April
16 and May 16, 1897.) I replaced this
nest, but it was carried away two days
la;er by high water.
June 8, 1901, collected one set of five
eggs and nest of the Phoebe in the same
bridge and on the same place on the
beam as the set of April 19, 1901. Four
eggs out of this set (June 8) were spot-
ted, two heavily around the large end.
The eggs in the set of April 19 were un-
8p:-tted.
May 16, 1901, collected one set of four
eggs of the Red-winged Blackbird Nest
situated six and one-half feet high in a
small willow in a creek bottom.
May 30, 1901, while passing the Red-
wing's nest, found the 16th inst., with a
friend, was more surprised to see an
Am. Robin sitting on the nest. On ex-
amination we found the nest contained
one egg and the R bin had relired it
with grasses and built the side no about
one-half inch with mud and grass.
Several days later I was passing and I
called on Mrs. Merula migratoria and
found her at home. The nest contained
four eggs, which I photographed and
left.
May 30, 1901, collected one set of five
eggs of the Red- winged Blackbird. My
friend, who was with me, also collected
a set of five Red-wings. I enclose you
a photo of same. These are the only
sets of five eggs of the Red-wing which
have come under my notice. The eggs
in both sets were ra'her smaller than
the average Red-wing eggs and rather
sperical. Both sets are well marked
with sploches and streaks of black.
Before I close I wish to thank Mr.
Geo. W. Vosburgb, Columbus, Wis , for
the paragraph in July Oologist where
he mentions about "The Chicago Re-
cord-Herald," Audubon series of colored
photographs. It has been the means of
selling more than one "Record-Herald"
here.
E. R. Forrest,
Washington, Pa.
How Some Birds Capture Their Prey.
(Continued from August Number.)
Among the regularly insectivorous
birds the Whip-poor-will swallows the
largest insects of all; frequently engulf-
ing large moths and beetles the siza of
the June bug. In one bird that I dis-
sected there were over thirty insects,
many of which I could identify. They
were of several species and embraced
beetles, moths and a few dipterous in-
sects. While the two Goat-suckers
known in the great lake region, the
Whip-poor-will and Night Hawk, or
Bull Bat, as it is sometimes called, feed
upon the larger insects, th*! Chimney
Swift only captures the smaller species,
relying mainly on the small two-winged
insects, flies, 'squitoes and gnats. The
former birds dash upon their prey in
plunges and side-flops, while the Swift
engulfs its food as it rapidly revolves.
"The flight and capture are quite sim lar
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THE OOLOGIST
in the movements of the Whip-poor-
will and Night Hawk when the two
birds are feeding, but the sustained
flight of the latter is quite different in
the open from the more curtailed wing
movements of the former in the woods.
I have but rarely seen the Whip-poor-
will flying and feeding in the day time,
though they sometimes do so in the
nesting season, and I once shot a speci-
men which had a crop full of plunder.
The Night Hawk is a well known feeder
during the daylight hours while the
young are small and I have seen the
old birds feeding and shrieking their
skeet as early as two o'clock p. m. But
I have never seen this habit of feeding
in broad daylight except when they
had young. The Night Hawk some-
times runs, or more properly, waddles
about on the ground in quest of food,
and I have seen an old bird gobble a
black cricket in broad daylight. Once
the observance of a rare sight was af-
forded me in a partial clearing, where
I beheld an old Night Hawk feeding its
one young one. This was in the day
time and the old bird flew close to the
nest and then scuttled to the little one,
which was a fluffy bit of down, with
closed eyes. The old bird placed its
bill within the mouth of its offspring
and apparently regurgitated the food
for the young. This act was repeated
three times in the space of a half min-
ute, after which the old bird closed its
eyes and both remained quiet on the
ground. I have repeatedly seen the
same act performed by the Chimney
Bwift on a nest in the gable of the barn
where they have nested continuously
for over thirty years.
from close observation I am led to
think that nearly all insect-feeding, as
well as many other birds, feed their
young in this manner. The Ruby-
throated Hummer is another species
which macerates its food before feed-
ing its very young, and when offering
them delicacies, as honey and insects,
thrusts its long beak way down the
throats of the nestlings, in an apparent-
ly aimless manner, but evidently to the
liking of the midgets in the nest. The
rapidity of movement in the Hummer
is remarkable and they could make
good flycatchers were it necessary.
They sometimes catch flies upon the
wing and I have seen them dart at
motes and specks in the air in sheer
sport as the trout snaps at specks in the
water from mere wantonness.
The question of food of the Hummer
has been much discussed and the idea
generally prevails that the Ruby-throat
visits the flowers for the insects that are
attracted by the honey in the flowers.
This question shall be discussed in an-
other chapter. Suffice it to say that in
my opinion the Hummer makes the
same use of the honey from the flowers
that the Sap-sucker gets from the sap of
the perforated bark.
The Flycatchers are exponents of the
art of lightning dash and perform in a
small way on the insects the same line
of work that the Falcons follow with the
birds as prey. Some, as the small
Green- crested, prefer the dark woods
where they are found catching the small
dipterous insects, while the larger spec-
ies are more open in their depredations
and I have repeatedly seen the King-
bird capture, dissect and devour the
harvest flies. The most rangy insect
that I have seen a Flycatcher capture
was a dragon fly, the giant libelula. The
insect knew its danger and sought to
evade its destroyer by flying in a small
circle and at a very rapid rate. The in-
telligent insect used excellent judgment
and foiled the persistent tryant for sev-
eral seconds. Round and round they
went and the bird did not gain an inch
on the devil's darning needle, as we
boys used to call these gavze-winged in-
sects, and I was wondering if this rea-
soning creature could manage to get
away from its fierce enemy, when sud-
denly the Flycatcher dashed across the
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139
circle nearly diametrically and caughit
the unlucky spindle amidships.
Kingbirds do not confine their efforts
to air captures, but often plunge at a
grasshopper on the ground. They also
eat bees and are known as Bee Martins.
I once observed a Great-crested Fly-
catcher eating a hornet, which it had
captured from the neighborhood of a
paper hornet's nest in the woods. Still
1 do not think that many bees are
caught from the hives of the domestic
bees.
It is not uncommon for the Barn-yard
Phoebe to feed from the ground, while I
have seen one perch for a moment on
the back of a sheep, which caused me
to think that this bird ate the ticks after
the manner of the Cowbird. All the Fly-
catchers are our friends and should be
protected.
The Titlark and Horned Lark feed
from the ground and though they are
very fair fliers and indulge in many var-
iations in flight at times, still they are
ground feeders and do not show off in
the capture of their prey. The Crows
are very prosaic in the capture of their
prey, which in the nature of insects
mainly consists of grasshoppers, which
are caught upon the ground. Bobolinks
and all Blackbirds feed upon ground
insects and seed irainly, and like most
of the singers are not interesting nor
dashing in the capture of their food.
Among the Sparrows we have few ex-
ponents of the art of capturing food on
the wing. I have seen the Chipping
Sparrow seize a small moth while flying
and have observed the same proceeding
in the case of a few others of the family,
but all of our Sparrows are surpassed
in insect capture by that interloper, the
European House Sparrow, which is a
most persistent feeder upon insects at
certain seasons and which it catches on
the wing at times with considerable
skill.
Morris Gibbs, M. D.
(To be Continued.)
Jotting's.
On May 7th Mr. John Rittenberg se-
cured a male specimen of the Cape May
Warbler, Dendroica tigrina, and
brought the same to our office, where it
still remains, for identification. This
species is a very rare migrant in Orleans
County.
W. Raine of Toronto spent the past
collecting season in Assinaboia and has
returned with photo, nest, eggs, young
in down and skin of rarent bird of the
Little Brown Crane {Orus canadensis) —
valuable additions to his unique series
of this species.
Mr. Delos Hatch of Oakfield, Wis., an
old-time naturalist and collector, writes
that he has a live and pretty specimen
of the White Gopher (Albino Striped
Ground Squirrel).
In a letter dated July 26, from Mr. D.
H. Haight, who is summering in Hamil-
ton County, N. Y., and who had an ar-
ticle in the January, 1899, Oologist on
"Nesting of the Duck Hawk in Hamil-
ton County, New York." He writes:
"Remember those Duck Hawks I
wrote you about onceV Well, a pair
has raised a brood in exactly the same
place again ihi« joar. Probably the
young of the pair we shot. This morn-
ing I was up on the ledge and within
twenty feet of them— the old birds and
four young just well able to fly. I left
them undisturbed, although I could
have bagged the lot. They will un-
doubtedly nest here next year again.
"It would be a great chance for some
museum if they wanted to get up a case
of this rare Hawk, also noted a Cardi-
nal Grosbeak here. Never heard of one
so far north before. Probably followed
the Hudson River valley up and thus
strayed up here."
In a letter of recent date Ernest Shil-
labeer, secretary and director general
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of the Junior World's Exposition to be
held at Dayton, O., in September, a
more extended notice of which we give
in other columns, writes:
"I enclose a slip advising you of an
exposition to be held in this association
Sept. 9th to 21st, inclusive. It is gotten
up by boys under my supervision, and
is purely educational. It will be very
extensive. We have already received
exhibits from Russia, Jamaica, France,
New Zealand and many states. Nearly
every country and state will be repre-
sented. We expect 10,000 people in the
two weeks. The boys would appreciate
an exhibit from you of such things as
you would care to send. It should reach
us by Aug. 25th, so that we can put it
in the catalogue, which will be a souven-
ier and 10,000 issued.
its value in the eyes of a Philadelphia
entomologist. The ornithologist or en-
tomologist who collects specimens with-
out keeping at least locality and date of
capture is a back number."
Mr. Philip Laurent of Philadelphia,
to whom we recently sent specimens of
the Great Gray and Hawk Owls, which
were obtained during the winter of '95-
'96, from Red Deer River country. Al-
berta, and for which we could furnish
no further data, writes amply, timely
and tersely as follows:
'I am sorry that you can't give me a
little more data concerning the two
Owls. 1 have nothing to complain of as
regards the mounting of the two speci-
mens, although I think I could have
done a little better work with the Great
Gray. In my opinion, the man who col-
lects a bird skin as rare as the Great
Gray Owl or the Hawk Owl, and does
not take down full data (sex by dissec-
tion, such measurements as can not be
well taken from a dry skin; as well as
determining the contents of the stom-
ach, locality and date of capture) should
have at least three months in jail. There
are quite a few ornithologists whom it
would pay to visit some of the active
"field entomologists" of Philadelphia,
and see with what care they label their
specimens. An insect without exact
locality and date of capture loses half
The booklet sent out by Mr. Silas H.
Paine of the Silver Bay Hotel, Silver
Bay, N. Y., mentions "three unique at-
tractions," which ought to make Silver
Bay headquarters for the naturalist and
collector when in the Lake George re-
gion.
"The flora of Lake George:— Nature
study is becoming very popular. No
better place can be found for it than
the shores of Lake George. It is won-
derfully rich in wild flowers, ferns and
mosses. A lady guest of the Silver Bay
Hotel, arriving on the noon boat, found
over fifty varieties of wild flowers that
afternoon.
"A large room has been devoted to a
collection of 'The flora of Lake George'
— not pressed in books in the old-fash-
ioned way — but placed in frames, like
pictures, along the walls, where they
can be easily examined and studied.
"The fauna of Lake George:— A whole
building is devoted to a rare collection
of the birds and animals to be found in
this region, nearly 300 specimens, each
bird with its nest and eggs and young,
surrounded by the foliage in which it
makes its home, and each animal in the
same way — in its natural surroundings.
This work has been done by a skillful
naturalist and is of g'-eat interest, not
only to the student, but to all lovers of
birds and animals.
"The history of Lake George:— There
is no spot of equal length in America
that has been so many times fought over
as the shores of Lake i&eorge. The relics
of these old wars — arrowheads, spears,
tomahawks, cannon balls, bayonets,
muskets and all the paraphernalia of
the camp and battlefield— are turned
up by the plow, or fished up from the
bottom of the lake. Two rooms have
been devoted to a collection of these
historical relics and the portraits of the
French, English. Indian and American
soldiers who have fought here.
With these collections are also gath-
ered the books pertaining to them, so
that the amateur and the student can
find all the helps necessary for their
use."
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141
New Books-
The Home Life of Wild Birds. A
new method of the Study and Photo-
graphy of Birds. By Francis H. Her-
rick, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York,
4to, cloth, gilt top, 168p, with 141 illus-
trations from original photographs from
nature by the author, $3.50 net.
This is unquestionably one of the
most valuable "Bird Books" of the year,
not only for the working bird student,
but will be equally prized by the ama-
teur, the "Audubonian" and the scien-
tific and exclusive A. O. U. man. A
most happy combination: A necessity,
elegant for presentation purposes, un-
surpassed for the bird lover's parlor
table. The market has been flooded
with "bird books" and yet the publish-
ers of this volume claim a place for it at
the fore-front of such publications; it
admits of no competitor: all this be-
cause of the fact that Mr. Herrick has
perfected an invention that brings the
birds beneath his eye, and beneath the
eye of his camera, in a way hitherto un-
heard of. At an actual distance of
about two feet from the nest, the author
and his camera stand. From that point
of vantage they watch and record
every movement of the bird family
The domestic economy of nest life be-
comes a practical science, to be set
down on paper by pen and picture for
the practical needs of the scientist and
for the delight of the lay lover of na-
ture.
The Woodpeckebs. By Fannie Hardy
Eckstorm, Houghton, Miffiin and Com-
pany, Boston. Illustrated with five c )1-
ored plates by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
and 21 drawings by John L. Ridgway,
square 12mo, 140p, $1.00.
A comprehensive account of a single
family of birds distributed throughout
North America; accurate and orderly,
yet written so as to stimulate original
observation and intelligent study among
young people. The author has made
an exhaustive study of the structure and
habits of the Woodpecker and of his
tools— bill, foot, tongue, and tail— con-
cluding that he is a miner instead of a
carpenter as generally supposed. The
book is informing in contents and ani-
mated in style, and is certain to interest
boys and girls in the study of bird life
on their own account.
EvERYDAT Birds. Elementary Stud-
ies. By Bradford Torrey, Houghton,
Mifflin and Company, Boston. Illus-
trated with 12 colored plates from Au-
dubon and 2 from photographs, square
12mo, 112p, $1.00.
"Everyday Birds" is a collection of
sketches of a number of well-known
birds, some biographical, and others
general, in character. The volume is
really an interesting bird-study book,
written in a manner to interest children
and older people in birds and bird-life.
The illustrations include twelve colored,
plates from Audubon — the first consid-
erable reproduction of the colored draw-
ings from the "Birds" of that author.
Mr. Torrey combines entire scientific
accuracy with much literary charm, and
readers of all ages will find it delight-
fully interesting.
Bird Day, How to Prepare for It.
By Charles A. Babcock, L. L. B., Silver,
Burdett & Company, New York, square
12mo, cloth, 96p, 16 page illustrations
of common birds, 50c. *
As the author states: "The aim of
this book is to assist school children in
the accurate study of a few birds. It is
believed that if this be attained, further
study of birds will take care of itself."
It contains chapters on History of the
Movement of "Bird Day," The Value of
Birds, The Destruction of Birds, Plan
of Study, Further Suggestions, Direct-
ions for Written Work, Programs for
Bird Day, The Poets and the Birds, Ob-
jects and Results of Bird Day, and Some
Representative Birds, (note?, descrip-
tions and illustrations of sixteen com-
mon species.)
Tabby's Defense. By Harriet EU'ot,
Abbey Press, New York, illustrated,
cloth, 12mo, 42p, 50c.
The autobiography of a cat told in
simple language with a view to enlist-
ing the sympathy of children on behalf
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of dumb animals, and helpinj? them to
realize the responsibility which the
human race incurred when they received
the Divine commission to rule over the
animal world by mercy, and not by ag-
gression. The interest of the story is
enhanced by illustrations depicting the
various scenes of trial and prosperity
which Tabby describes.
Bobtail Dixie. By Abbie N. Smith,
Abbey Press, New York, 12mo, 154p,
cloth, profusely illustrated, $1.00.
Lovers of dogs (and their name is leg-
ion) have a treat in this book. The il-
lustrations which accompany it speak
as often and as loudly as the dog him-
self. The pictures alone are worth
more than the price. As the biography
of a bow-wow, the book is of great value,
while its different teachings with regard
to the treatment of animals will find a
place in every library and every school.
The author is to be congratulated upon
the production of a work which is so
unique, entertaining and instructive.
Cat Tales in Vekse. By Elliot
Walker, Abbey Press, New York, 8vo,
48p, daintily bound in cloth, 50c.
The multitudious friends (young and
old) of cats will welcome in this book
an absokitely new thing under the sun.
Here they will find the mioaus of their
favorites set in rhyme. Owners of cats
and these feline animals themselves owe
the author, Mr. Elliot Walker, a unani-
mous vote of thanks. The verses are
unique and admirably done. The cover
is designed by Mr. C. H. Rowe and is
very characteristic. Many of these
rhymes are of a high order of merit.
None of them are mere jingles. There
are both wit and wisdom in the lines.
EXPOSITION COMPLETE
Great Throngs Enjoy the Fan-AmericaQ .
Ample Accommodations in Buffalo for
All Who Visit the New World's Fair.
The Pan-American Exposition is
complete. Its transcendent beauties
and comprehensive exhibits are
viewed, enjoyed and prnised by great
throngs daily.
There are accommodations in Buffalo
and its suburbs for all who may visit
the Exposition. The rates at the ho-
tels, boarding hoases, restaurants and
private houses for lodging and meals
are reasonable.
These statements are made on the
authority of the Exposition officials
with a view of counteracting as far as
possible false and misleading reports
which have gained currency in certain
localities.
Hundreds of thousands of fair-mind-
ed appreciative people have visited the
Exposition and returned to their homes
delighted with the show and their ac-
commodations. Their words of com-
mendation will go far toward correct-
ing the evil. No other exposition has
offered so many fine attractions Never
before has human interest been so
graciously catered to. The illumina-
tion is the grandest and most inspiring
spectacle ever produced by the genius
of man. Bathed in incandescent radi-
ance the Rainbow City posesses a
beauty exceeding that of fairyland, a
loveliness beyond expression.
By day the scene is one never to be
forgotten. Unequal is the most fanci-
ful pen to an adequate description of
the magnificent architecture and beau-
tiful coloring of the palaces, grand
sculpture, cooling fountains, smiling
lakes, wealth of flora, waving foliage
and grass covered glades, delightful
vistas, and rising high above all else —
its pinnacle piercing the low-lying
clouds — a tower of graceful proportions
and amazing splendor, upon and about
which the newest and grandest ideas of
genius are fittingly exploited.
Mr. Arthur C. Pearson, the well-
known publisher of newspapers and
periodicals of London, Eng., who re-
cently visited the Exposition, said: "I
much enjoyed my day at the Exposi-
tion, which struck me as being very
fine. The lighting effects at night are
simply marvelous. I never saw any-
thing like them, which is hardly to be
wondered at as there has never been
anything like them to be seen."
Here are the expressions of a number
of distinguished Americans:
United States Senator Thomas C.
Piatt of New York: "It is wonderful,
very wonderful."
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143
Secretary of War Elihu Root: "It is
a splendid exposition, worthy of being
seen by the whole world."
Governor Richard Yates of Illinois:
"If Paradise has anything more beauti-
ful than the Pan-American Exposition
has when illuminated, I can't conceive
of it."
Passing from the enchanted courts
into the splendid palaces one reads in
the comprehensive exhibits the storv of
development and progress in the New
World during the Nineteenth Century,
vast discovery, stupendous invention,
marvelous advancement, which consti-
tute an example never before furnished
in the revolution of time.
Buffalo is amply prepared to accom-
modate all who come to the Exposition.
The rates are reasonable. The report
that the hotels are charging $5 to $10 a
day for single rooms is uttery absurd.
These charges are for magnificent
suites with extraordinary conveniences
at one or two hotels There are scores
of hotels where the charges for rooms
are $1 to $2 per day. At the mammoth
hotels near the Exposition the charge
for lodging, breakfast and evening din-
ner is but $2 50 and $2 a day. The
charges at downtown hotels are as
reasonable.
There are upwards of 200 hotels in
Buffalo, with accommodations for 45,
000 people. There are 650 boarding
boarding and rooming houses, accom-
modating 18.500. More than 10.000
householders have opened their homes
and will provide accommodations for
more than 100,000. The rates are 50c
to $2 per day.
In a mnjority of the boarding houses
and at many private houses lodging
and breakfast are to be had for $1.00.
To sum up the situation, Buffalo and
its environs are capable of accommo-
dating nearly a quarter of a million
visitors in a comfortable manner and
at rearonable rates.
It is well when convenient for the
intending visitor to make arrangements
for accommodations in advance. The
Pan-American Official Bureaa of In-
formation. 213 Ellicott Square, Buffalo,
will furnish all necessary information,
including lists of places where lodgings
may be engaged, with prices, and a list
of reliable rooming agencies and frater-
nal order's information bureaus.
There are plenty of restaurants
where good service is given at reason-
able prices. There are places on the
Midway where a good lunch can be
had for 20 cents and a satisfactory din-
ner for 35 cents.
Admission to all the exhibits build-
ings of the Exposition is free. In this
group are included the great Govern-
ment, Machinery and Liberal Arts,
Electricity, Fine Arts, Horticultural,
Mines, Graphic Arts, Ordinance, Agri-
cultural and Heavy Railway Exhibits
Building, in which the visitor might
spend with profit to himself several
days. The great Stadium in which
sports are held daily, is also free.
Nowhere before have so many mer-
itorious attractions been offered for-the
sum of 50 cents for adults and 25 cents
for children as at the Pan-American
Exposition. These include, daily con-
certs by the best bands on the Western
Hemisphere, organ recitals by the lead-
ing organists of the United States, and
drills by United States Marines, U. S.
Heavy Artillery, U. S. Life Saving
Corps, and U. S. Hospital Corps.
There are grand displays of fireworks
on special days.
Elbeet L. Lewis.
A NOVELTY!
In the way of International Expositions.
Boys Imitate Their Elders in an Inter-
esting Enterprise.
Dayton, Ohio to be the site of a Display
of the Products of many States and
Countries.
The "Juniors" of the Dayton, Ohio,
Young Men's Christian Association
have inaugurated a genuine novelty in
the way of Exposition propositions.
The boys cf all lands, and their older
friends, are invited to contribute speci-
mens of the natural products of their
respective neighborhoods for exhibition
at Dayton during two weeks in Septem-
ber.
The responses have been so generous
that this Junior World's Exposition
scheme has outgrown the original
thought of the youthful promoters, and
is becoming quite an extensive affair.
In the beginning an Exposition com-
pany was formed, the shares selling
solely to members of the Dayton Junior
Department, an organizition of boys
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from twelve to seventeen years of age,
some three hundred in number. Dis-
posing of the entire capital stock at
par, the company organized with a full
corps of oflBcers and committees in the
most approved fashion. Among the
committees for preliminary work are
the following: Care of Exhibits-
Frank Congdon, Ralph Niedergall,
Carl Congdon; Signs and Posters-
Julius Tafel, Charlie Wilson; Photo-
graphs — Robert Pape; Decoration —
Everson Welliver. George Ohmart;
Correspondence— Carl Starkey, Frank
Hale. Ihis last committee is receiving
much assistance from one of the local
commercial colleges, whose students
are furnishing many typewritten letters
for the boys. Secretary Ernest Shilla-
beer, of the Junior Department, is
serving as director general.
Upon completing the organization,
letters were immediately sent out to
many lands, asking for grasses, leaves,
shells and similar specimens easily ob-
tainable by a boy. Unthreshed grains,
crude spices, nuts and cotton balls,
as gathered in forest and fie'd, were
solicited, together with minera's and
other products of the under-world.
The earlier replies were so cordial,
and gave promise of exhibits so far be-
yond the original expectation of the
lads that they ha'^e been led to seek a
more representative and elaborate col-
lection. All answers received are fa-
vorable endorsements of the idea and
assurances of hearty cooperation.
The boys of Brussels wrote: "Be as-
sured -that we shall do our utmost to
let our small Belgium shine in your
gigantic America." An ostrich egg
mounted on an orange-wood stand has
already been received from the famous
California farm.
The boys of the Dayton Manual
Training School are preparirg a beauti-
ful piece of parquetry, consisting^ of
specimens of every obtainable variety
of wood native to Ohio. Hazelton, Pa.
will exhibit a model coal bunker, show-
ing the manner of handling a natural
product Marseilles will exhibit pro-
ducts of the historic Riviera Two
dozen countries and islands, together
with many states of the Union, will be
represented, according to the latest
returns
This first exhibition of its kind-
managed by boys in the interest of
boys, —it is hoped will add definitely
to the attractiveness of geographical
study by the bo s of Ohio, many of
whom will be privileged to inspect the
exhibits. Many other boys, reading of
this Dayton eft'ort, may fee new inter-
est in the study of places and products,
and in distant lands will start small
collections or exhibitions in their homes
or schools. Practical and fascinating
business lessons will be learned by the
boys taking this new form of corres-
pondence study under the tutelage of
the Dayton managers. The first con-
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the weighty problems involved, the
subsequent correspondence with head-
quarters in America, the planning nec-
essary to give their respective States
and countries creditable showing, the
preparation of the exhibit, the study of
packing and shipping methods, and the
dealings with customs officials, will be
of real value to the youngsters, who
may some day participate in Vnore am-
bitious international shows. Then, too.
there is a hope that the successful con-
duct of the affair may direct attention
to work for hoys among those who
have the world's betterment at heart.
A striking educaMonal feature of the
Exposition will be a huge map of the
world, to be worked out by the Dayton
lads. The spices of Ceylon, the tea of
China, and the cotton of the South will
be mounted on this unique map,
together with the characteristic pro-
ducts of other States and nations. "This
alone will be worth the price of admis-
sion."
The bureau of publicity is offering a
series of prizes for posters in water-
colors, to be submitted by pupils in the
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These posters may be of any size, shape
or design, and shall become the prop-
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used in advertising the show. The
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form an interesting preliminary ex-
hibit, to be held during the early sum-
mer.
The boy managers propose loaning
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favored with the manngement.
Young people or others desirous of
exhibiting specimens in September
should address Director-General Junior
Junior World's Exposition, Dayton,
Ohio, for further particulars.
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dollars] for bird skins or sea curios. G. A.
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arrow points, minerals shells, and U. S.
Stamps not in my collection. W. J. ENG-
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OLD COINS, Stamps, Stamp Papers, a few
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FRED ANDERSON, Box 59, Downs, Kan.
FOR EXCHANGE.— One brand new copy of
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TO EXCHANGE.— Complete volumes of Bird
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FOR SALE or EXCHANGE —Capen's Oology
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ogist, Osprey, Museum, etc. ; 800 Philatelic
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edition. Will sell any o' above cheap or ex-
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ton, Conn.
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All Nature or The Taxidermist. Can offer var-
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ter, Pa
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TO EXCHANGE.— Arrowheads and coins for
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Send lists. J. B. NEWTON, Unionville, Ct.
FOR SALE:— 4x5 Hawkeye Gamera, 3 plate
holders, cost $24; 1 copy British and European
Butterflies and Moths, new; 30 colored plates;
165 cigarette and gum pins ; 10 campaign pins
and buttons ;Oologists and Scientific American;
200 or 300 ciearette pictures; 1 baseball mitt.
All to be sold for highest cash price. FRANK
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TO EXCHANGE.— A lot of fine bird skins for
Bendire's Lite History or Capen's Oology.
FRED FREY, 428 Decatur St., Sandusky, O.
FOR EXCHANGE in December.— Sets, 86.
133, 273 294a, 333, 339b 365, 373, 375d, 378, 393d,
394a. 397, 407, 413, 4.5U. 458 7-27, 710a, 7.53. Singles,
207,455, 224, 228, 243 339b, 373, 402a, 479, 482, 487.
Want sets of water birds. Hawks. Grouse, only.
CHAS. S. THOMPSON, Paso Robles, Calif.
lOOO Arrowpoints and other Indian Relics
also 1400 beetles and 100 butterflies in glass
cases for sp.,le cheap or will exchange. M.
COLDITZ, Allardt, Tenn.
FOR SALE.— Sword Fish's Sword, 35in.
long, $1.50; Books, Birds of New Jersey by C.
A. Shriner. 35 111., descriptions of birds, nests
and eggs, $1. ; Brak« up Lake Shore. .50c: Rob-
inson Cro^oe. .50c- Porthos, 35c. WM. B. CRIS-
PIN, Salem, N. J.
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WANTED:— Knight's Birds of Maine.Davie's
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Eggs of Warblers, good exchange or cash.
GUY H. BRIGGS, Llvermore, Maine.
FOR SALE.— Singles and twos of 319, 320a,
714, 504, 421. 709, 519b and 593b. Five cents and
Eostage per egg, cash with order. R. P.
HARPLES, West Chester, Pa.
HELLO: I have two pairs field glasses. Na-
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other objects of Interest to you. State what
you want and what you have H. E. NEU-
MANN, 204 Rock St., Watertown. Wis.
FOR SALE —A lot of Fine Bird skins cheap,
among them I mention Mottled Owl, Short-
eared Owl, Rough-legged Hawk, Cedar Wax-
wing Snowflake and others. FRED FREY,
428 Decateur St , Sandusky, O.
WANTED— Eggs in sets or singles. Offer
Skins, Eggs, Indian Relics, Books, in fact any-
thing in stock. Also want good long spear-
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Send list of what you can spare and let me
know what you want. E. H. SHORT, Roches-
ter, N. Y.
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proper cash value of eggs of the Yellow Rail,
I offer my two personally taken sets, n8. nlO to
highest bidder before January first. Collectors
of bird photographs, representing newest and
most difficult work, with long tube and anastlg-
mat, will do well to write for list of rare and
attractive subjects, enclosing 10c. Photos, 15c
each ; $1 60 per doz. Lantern slides to order.
P. B. PEABODY, Hlbbing. Minn.
NOTICE.— I have for exchange "Nests and
Eggs of N. A. Birds" by Oliver Davie, fifth edi-
tion, new; one Eastman Kodak, 4x5, new, and
the best datas on the market. For Davie's
book I will accept $5 in complete sets with data.
For the Kodak, $25 worth of choice sets with
data. And I will send 100 datas to every col-
lector who sends me 50c worth of eggs In sets.
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LUTHER, Fayetteville, Ark.
FOR SA.LE.— A-1 sets.with full data, of Royal
Tern, 50-3, 50c; Brown Pelican, 20-3, 30c; Amer-
ican Oyster-catcher, 5-3, 81; Willet, 10-4, 50c;
Wilson's Plover, 5-3, 40c; Laughing Gull, 50-3,
30c; Clapper Rail, 5 8, 5-9, 5-10, 5-11, 512, 5c egg;
Boat-tailed Grackle, 5-4, 40c; Painted Bunting,
5-4. 40c; Yellow-breasted Chat, 5-4, 20c; Black
Skimmer, 10-4, 80c; postage extra. DR. M. T.
CLECKLEY, Augusta, Ga. 182
WANTED.— Sets of eggs containing abnor-
mal specimens, such as runts, albinos, mon-
strocities, abnormally colored or shaped eggs.
Will give cash or good exchange. J. WARREN
JACOBS, Waynesburg, Pa. 101
JAMES P. BABBITT,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Taxidermists' Supplies, Bird
Skins, Eggs & Publications.
Fine Imported Glass Eyes a Specialty.
Illustrated Catalogue and large monthly bulle-
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TAUNTON, MASS.
INDIAN RELICS.
BARGAINS FOR CASH.
I offer for one-half usual prices Relics,
from Cree Indians; Stone Pipes, Stone -
head War Clubs, Charms, Bows with
Arrows, War Sling-shots. Write fnr
list if you mean business.
ERNEST H. SHORT.
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The Food Supply of the Catbird.
By C. C. Purdum, M D.
The Catbird (Oaleoscoptes carolinen-
sis), breeds in the greater part of North
America. Its range extending from
the Atlantic Seaboard to British Colum-
bia, and from the British Provinces,
southward to the southern boundry of
the United States. It is found most
plentifully in the Transition and Upper
Astral Zones of the eastern United
States and generalUy rears two broods
in a season throughout the most of its
range.
Although fond of the society of man,
in many places it is not appreciated,
and is subject to persecution, through
the mistaken idea that it is a fruit
stealer, as well as for its plaintive feline
call. However, examinations of the
contents of the stomachs of these birds,
show that at least one-half of the fruit
that it eats, is wild, and that fully a
third of the entire food is composed of
insects which are more or less detri-
mental to the farmers' interest, and
which yearly cause heavy losses to the
country. The good accomplished in
this manner fully counterbalances what
harm it dots by appropriating a few
cherries and strawberries. The reports
received from observers in the central
states, show that the damage done by
catbirds in that locality is much great-
er than along the seaboard, but when
we take into consideration the fact,
that in the central part of the United
States, wild fruits are much more
scarce, than along the seaboard, the
reason is perfectly apparent. This
would perhaps account for the differ-
ence of opinion in regard to the use-
fulness of this bird, between the west-
ern and eastern observers. Experi-
ments to establish facts in connection
with the controversy, have been con-
ducted by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, and show conclusively
that catbirds prefer mulberries to
strawberries and cherries, and in those
localities where the latter are abun-
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dant, they amy easily be protected by
planting the Russian Mulberry, which
grows luxuriantly, in hen yards and
runs, serving the double purpose of
affording excellent food for the hens,
and attracting the birds from the mar-
ket fruit. Buckthorn, wild grape, dog-
wood, wild cherries, and elder, are 'ilso
much sought for by the catbird and
will be taken in preference to the culti-
vated fruit wherever it can be procured.
The catbird arrives from the South,
early in May and consequently is
obliged to subsist on other than ripe
fruit for its vegetable diet. Until the
time when the fruits ripen however,
the greater part of its diet consists of
insects, of which ants, May beetles,
thousand legs, prfdaceous ground
beetles, and caterpillars, form the bulk.
Even at this time however, the bird
will consume large quantities of last
years smilax, sumach, etc. which have
been exposed throughout the winter.
During the greater part of June, the
same, or nearly the same, conditions
pertain, but as the weather becomes
warmer and the vegetation increases
the vegetable diet increases also. At
the beginning of the sea'on, the grass-
hoppers and crickets do not form a
large article of consumption, but as
June advances, they are consumed in
great numbers. After the last week of
June the number cf these insects con-
sumed is insignificant. The same is
true of the May beetle consumption,
which increases from the 1st to the 20th
of June and then rapidly decreases.
The vegetable diet is greatly in ex-
cess after the first of J uly, and from
the 1st to the the 25th, the ratio is 4 to 1.
During this time the fruit is most abun-
dant, and the catbirds erjoy the har-
vest to the limit. During this time
only about two per cent, of the food
consists of caterpillars and beetles.
In their winter homes, these birds,
while probably preferring fruits and
insects, are forced to make many a
meal from fr zen berries and hiberna-
ting insects, which in the spring fol-
lowing wou d awaken, to lay countless
numbers of eggs which would hatch in-
to hungry and voracif^us larvae, cap-
able of each day consuming more than
their own weight of garden plants.
The number of stomachs examined of
this bird were one hundred and ninety-
two, and were from specimens taken
as far north as Maine and as far south
as Florida, and covering a p*riod ex-
tending from March to December. The
examination has shown that of the ani-
mal food of the catbird, the beetles and
ants form the principal part. Smooth
caterpillars, crickets and grasshoppers
are next in importance, while centi-
pedes, thousand legs, bugs and spiders
are not found in such large quantities,
but nevertheless are constantly met
with. The constant occurence of
thousand legs in the stomach of the
catbird, leads one to suppose that they
are particularly relished, but owing to
their abode, living as they do for the
most part under stones and other art-
icles upon the ground, they are not so
easily captured.
In this and the preceeding paper, no
mention has been made to the earth-
worms as an article of diet. As a mat-
ter of fact, earthworms form a far
smaller proportion of the foods of birds
than is generally supposed. Even the
robin does not use as many as we are
prone to believe from so frequently
seeing him about ploughed ground etc.
where worms are most likely to be
abundant. It is a noteworthy feature,
that out of the 193 stomachs examined
not one contained an earthworm.
To sum up briefly then the economic
status of the catbird, we may say that
two-thirds of the food for the entire
year is vegetable, and the remaining
one-third animal. Of the former, the
majority is composed of fruit, wild
fruit preferred, but where the cultivat-
ed is more easily obtained or exists in
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151
fjreater variety, the latter is taken to a
large extent. Of tlie animal food,
three per cent, consists of wild bees
and carniverous wasps which assist
nature by carrying pollen from one
plant to another, but this is counter-
balanced by the destruction of the
thousand legs, plant feeding bugs and
weevi's.
The easily procured predaceous
ground beetles, are also a favorite as
has been mentioned, but even the de-
struction of these beneficial beetles
is compensated for by the number of
the May beetles and their relatives
which are destroyed. These added to
the caterpillars, crickets, grasshoppers,
leaf eating lice and click beetlo'-i, make
our friend Oaleoscopies carolinejisis,
clearly beneficial to the husbandman
and as such he deserves their protection
and care, rather than the persecution,
to which however he is all too often
subjected. The next paper will deal
with the gastronomic proclivities of the
House Wren.
Pancreatin vs Caustic Potash.
While I dislike entering into a con-
troversy over this matter, I believe it is
due the readers of this magazine that
someone should compare the prop-
erties and merits of these com-
pounds, as a knowledge of them may
be the means of saving rare and valu-
able specimens which might otherwise
be destroyed after having been taken
from the birds.
When I wrote the item "Don't Use
Caustic Potash" (Oologist May 1899) it
was with the purpose of adding some-
thing to the technique of preparing
odlogical specimens. I have usd both
the pancreatin and potash during my
eighteen years of oological collecting
and after a careful comparison I am
more in favor of using pancreatin for
removing embryos than I ever was.
Let us compare the two compounds-
Caustic potash [Potassa, Potassium Hy-
drate] is a very powerful and active
alkah, which when brought in contact
with other compounds, decomposes
them, extracting their water ard upset-
ting their chemical equilibrium When
a drop of the potash solution touches the
shell of a delicatelv tinted or ppot'ed
6gg it decolorizes it wherevor the so-
lution touches. Having a decide'^ pro-
pensity for combining with other alka-
lies thn pota'h decomposes the calcium
salts of which the egg thell is rompos-
ed, changing them from carbonates,
etc.. to the hydrate and thereby render-
ing the shell very brittle and so d s-
arranging and changing the composi-
tion of the egg shell, that it is not egg
shell at all but merely a comj)orcnd made
from egg shdl. Potash saponifies the
embryonic contents cf the egg and this
soap is so alkaline that the whole in-
side of the egg shell is attacked by its
corrosive and caustic properti s and the
shell is charred and weakened even if
none of the solution touches the outside
of the egg. The potash solution also at.
tacks the skin on the hands of th-i oper
ator and for that reason is disagreeable
to handle.
In 1895 I took a set of eleven pggs of
Blue-winged Teal which were advanced
in incubation. Having no pancreatin
I used caustic potash (which I had at
hand) to help remove the embryos.
The eggs are in my cabinet now but
they are bleached on the outside and
stained with dingy black on the inside,
by the chemical decomposition brought
abont by the potash and are examples
of what is claimed against the alkali.
Pancreatin is an organic ferment
which digests albumenoidf, converts
starch into sugar, emulsities fats and
curdles milk. It is not sufficiently
alkaline (or acid) to combine readily
with the salts composing the egg shell
consequently does not change or de-
compose them. Being a ferment it di-
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THE OOLOGIST
gests the embryo and renders it soluble
in water so that it can ba removed with
ease. Trypsin, the main proteolytic
principle of pancreatin is probably the
most powerful ferment known. Stu-
dents of physiology know how actively
and powerfully the pancreatic juice
digests all that is left after gastric di-
gestion. (Pancreatin will digest 30G0
times its weight of freshly coagulated
egg albumen )
A few weeks ago a friend in this city
removed nearly fully matured embryos
from a fine set of ten eggs of King Rail,
in 48 hours He used one and one-half
drachms of pancreatin (15 cents
worth.) He injected the solution at
6 p. m., blew out and reinjected at 6
p. m. the next day and blew out all
that remained of the embryos at 6 p.
m. the next day without damaging the
shell in color, texture or compcsition in
the least. The shells of these eggs
were very brittle as is usual when incu-
bation is almost completed and in my
opinion, he could not have had a per-
fect set of eggs had he used the potash
to soften the embryos
In comparing the cost of pancreatin
and caustic potash, I will admit that
the digestant costs several times as much
as the alkali but inasmuch as we buy
these drugs only in small quantities the
cost is not a matter of any great mo-
ment We use them only when we find
something rare or desirable, and to
prepare such specimens in a strictly
first class manner we should and most
of us do, look for satisfactory results
regardless of expense, especially when
the expense is only a matter of a few
cents.
The question of time is also a matter
of but little importance to one who
wants to prepare his specimens in a
first class manner. The actual time
consumed in removing the contents by
using pancreatin is probably less than
while using potash. Of course time
must be given for the ferment to digest
the egg contents but that time is not
necessarily wasted, as the ferment will
do its work without watching or urg-
ing. The alkali solution has to be
shaken about inside of the egg to obtain
the best and speediest results and is
slower when we reckon the actual time
consumed in the preparation of the
specimens.
Summing the matter up— the only
point in favor of the caus ic potash is
its cheapness. The points against it
are: it will blacken and stain the egg;
it changes the nature of the shell; it
renders the shell more brittle and less-
ens the stability of the specimens, (this
being admitted by Mr. Short, in April
1899 Oologist, where he states in refer-
ring to the use of caustic potash: ^'This
is impracticable with thin shelled eggs as
it makes them too brittle to stand anything.
You can often save large heavy shelled
eggs when in the most advanced stages
of incubation, etc." Another point
against the potash is its attacking the
skin of the operator's hands.
The points in favor of pancreatin as
compared with potash are: It does not
attack the shell; it does not bleach; it
does not stain; it is ns uszfulfor delicate
thin shelled eggs as it is for 'Harge
heavy shelled" ones. I have removed
three-fourths incubated Chickadee's
eggs in two hours, after injecting a 1:1&
solution of pancreatin without irjuring
or staining the shells. Those who have
tried to blow out incubated Chickadee's
eggs know how difiicult it is to do so
without injuring their thin brittle sheU.
Pancreatin does not burn the hands of
the operator wherever it touches. The
only point against pancreatin is. that it
costs more. It costs 10 cents per dram
here in small quantities.
I trust these particulars will explain
the advantages to be gained by using
pancreatin in the removal of embryos
and should anyone desire fuller inform-
ation 1 will be glad to give same.
ISADOR S. TrOSTLER,
Omaha, Neb.
July 24, 1901.
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153
Some Surprises.
Eggs of our American Cuckoos have
been found in tlie nests of other birds,
but 1 never expected to have this fact
verified by personal experience. Such
was the case this spring, however.
About eight feet from the ground in the
main fork of a maple sapling amid the
dense .second growth bordering a big
woods I found, on June 2d, a nest of the
Wood Thrush, containing four eggs of
the Thrush and one of the Black-billed
Cuckoo.
Later. July 16, I met with another
surprise in the heart of this big woods.
It was a set of seven Redstart's eggs or
rather two sets in one nest. One fe-
male was on the nest and the other close
beside it. They were equally demon-
strative of anxiety as I ascended the
tree. The eggs were in two layers and
all slightly incubated. Being of two
distinct types there was no difficulty in
separating them into sets of three and
four. Now comes the question, are all
the eegs found in a nest one set when
you know they are laid by two birds?
I do, not consider them so. Instances
of two Terns or Gallinules sharing the
same nest are of almost yearly occur-
ence here, but it rarely happens with
the land birds.
Up to this year I found the Rough-
winged Swallows breeding in single
pairs only, but on the 30th of last May
I discpvered a small colony. Their bur-
rows were in the perpendicular face of
a gravel pit and about a quarter of a
mile from water. The colony consisted
of eight pair together, with two pair of
Bank swallows and one of English Spar-
rows—all within a space of thirty feet.
Perhaps the greatest surprise of the
season occured on May 9th at a Great
Blue Herony, consisting of seventy-two
nests and all occupied. I was high up
in a large elm scooping eggs into a net
attached to a long pole. Glancing into
a neighboring tree I beheld a Red-tailed
Hawk upon her nest. Climbed the tree
later and secured her two eggs. She
had taken possession of a Heron's nest
and warmly lined it with corn husks,
bark fiber, moss, dead leaves and a few
feathers. It was situated amid the top-
most branches of an ash tree and as our
tape line was only 100 feet in length, I
am uncertain of the height, but judge it
at 113 feet. The remaining two nests
in the tree contained Heron's eggs.
For some unknown reason the Red-
shouldered Hawks laid larger sets this
season. Our take consisted of three
sets of three, thirteen of tour and one
of five. Most seasons three is the usual
number per set. We secured second
sets from most of the above, consisting
of two eggs in every case.
The Cooper's that laid four eggs last
year also went one better this.
J. Claire Wood,
Detroit, Mich.
How Some Birds Capture Their Prey.
(Continued from September Number )
Of all the birds which capture their
food in mid air, the Swallows are the
most entertaining. To be sure, the cap-
tured insect is so small that we cannot
see it as a rule, but then we may watch
the graceful skimmers as they sail about
the premises, and we know that at each
dash from the course the flyer has bene-
fitted the agriculturist by engulfing an
insect. Blue-backed Swallows prefer
insects which are to be found about the
water, and generally skim the surface
in their search, while the Martin flies at
a greater height and at certain times al-
most out of sight. All of the Swallows
engulf their prey after the manner of
the Nighthawk and Whip-poor-will, but
do not capture such large insects as
these night fliers.
The Cedar Waxwing ordinarily de-
pends upon a diet of fruit and seeds,
but at certain seasons feeds largely upon
insects which it catches in the air with
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THE OOLOGIST.
much of the dash of a typical Flycatcher.
I have seen a Waxwing perched on the
topmost bough of a tree fly up and catch
a score of insects inside of a very few
minutes. In these movements it some-
what resembles the actions of the Red-
head Woodpecker in that it nearly al-
ways flew almost straight up and then
returned to almost the identical perch;
but it is more graceful as a Flycatcher
than the Woodpecker.
The Great Northern Shrike and our
common White-rumped Shrike are the
Hawks of the hedge-row and their dash
and pertinacity are equal to the actions
of the larger predacious birds. A Shrike
rarely, if ever, captures a bird upon the
wing; at least I have never witnessed
the act and I consider them slow upon
the wing. But they are great at strategy
and frighten their intended victims so
that they fall an easy prey. I have wit-
nessed a capture where the Shrike had
chased a Sparrow intv^ an osage orange
hedge and then tried to seize the tremb-
ling creature. Each time the Shrike
made a dash the Sparrow would slip
through the hedge to the other side and
escape for a time; but it did not dare to
leave its place of comparative safety,
though I doubt not that it could have
escaped by straight away flight. This
game of hare and hound had continued
quite a time, when the Shrike's mate
appeared upon the scene and made a
dive at the beleaguered Vesper Sparrow
on the opposite side of the hedge. Two
enemies were more than the distressed
and rattled bird could manage and it
quickly fell a victim to the rapacious
pair which had a nestful of young near
at hand.
The Vireos are graceful feeders and
very deliberate in their movements.
They have no dash in capturing an in-
sect and depend more on the smaller
larval prey, which is picked from the
leaves and twigs with a coy movement,
which is amusing. Often the move-
ments of a feeding Vireo are quite simi-
lar to those of a parrot on its perch.
All of the Warblers are given to catch-
ing their prey upon the wing at times,
though most of them are mainly glean-
ers among the twigs and leaves, while ,
the Water Thrushes often wade about in
the shallow pools for food and the Oven-
bird occasionally scratchas after the
manner of the Towhee. The Redstart
dashes about among a flock of mosqui-
toes like a typical Flycatcher. I have
seen the Pine Warbler dash out for an
insect while it was singing in the top of
a tall pine. The Hooded Warbler is an-
other species which is expert at flycatch-
ing.
The Catbird occasionally captures an
insect upon the wing as do also the
Brown Thrasher and Robin, while the
Swainson's, Hermit and Wilson's Thrush-
es are quite persistant in aerial forays,
though all these birds are generally
found feeding on the ground. The
Robin's habit of dragging eaath worms
from their holes is well known and we
have all watched the struggles of the
captor and captive. Once I observed a
Robin engaged in fishing. The spot
was in the woods where a little brook
swirled about the root-lined banks and
made little eddies at the bends. In a
shallow place the Robin was catching
tiny minnows and appeared to follow
the sport simply for the fun of it. There
were a dozen little tish lying on the
muddy edge and as I watched the fish-
erman twitched another minnow not
over an inch and a half long from the
water.
The House Wren sometimes catches
an insect flying, but this species as well
as all the others of the familv mainly
depends on hunting its food in the
nooks and crevices, though the Long-
billed Mtirsh Wren feeds from the water
among the cattails and marsh debris.
The Brown Creeper is an interesting
feeder and we marvel as we see the del-
icate creation creeping about the bark
that this mite can sustain life from these
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155
searches in the middle of winter. The
Creeper generally begins its search at
the base of the tree and circles upward
and sometimes after reaching the higher
branches will drop to the base of the
trunk again. It differs, markedly, from
the movements of the Nuthatch, which
not rarely moves head downward in its
search for insect food or seeds. I have
seen the Red-bellied Nuthatch clinging
to and feeding from a cone.
The Kinglets, Gaatcatchers and Tit-
mice are pre-eminent as acrobats while
searching for food, and the Black-cap-
ped Chickadee is foremost in these od-
dities of movement. Sometimes the
Chickndee catches an insect on the
wing. The Bluebird is another of our
fa verities, who frequently makes a fly-
ing capture, and I have seen a warbling
male make a series of forays and catch
an insect at every attempt
MOERIS GiBBS, M. D.
Field Notes From Manitoba-
Continued.
THE WESTERN HORNED OWL.
Eighteen or twenty years ago I re-
member reading in Wilson's American
Ornithology of the Virginian Horned
Owl; but it was not till the year 1887
that I had the pleasure of making the
personal acquaintance of Bubo virgin-
ianus.
The farmer with whom my first few
months in this country were spent,
came home one night from a few hours
after the Prairie Chickens, and brought
with him a fine Owl that he had shot on
his way home in the dusk sitting on the
top of a straw stack. I mounted it for
him It was a fine specimen of the
Western Horned Owl.
Since then I have shot and bandied a
large number and taken both the young
and eggs, having had fine opportunities
to observe their habits. In this section
they are fairly plentiful, frequenting
the timbered country and are very par-
tial to heavy timber following the course
of creeks and rivers.
In such localities almost any evening
in the year while walking or driving
through the woods my attention has
been arested by their call, "Hoo, Hoo,
Hoo," thrice repeated, then a pause as
though listening for an answer, and
then repeated again till Mr. Bubo is
tired or goes off to look for some din-
ner.
Until the spring of 1892 I had never
found a nest of this species because I
did not know just when or where to
look for them. However, on the 1st of
May, while looking for Red-tailed
Hawks' nescs, I chanced to see a pair
of feathery tufts protruding from the
top of a Red-tailed Hawk's nest. I rap-
ped on the tree and off flew Mrs. Bubo.
I climbed the tree expecting a set of
Horned Owl eggs, and peeping over the
edge of the nest saw three baby Owls in
different stages of growth, but all ap-
parently equally surprised and angry at
my intrusion. One was feathering, one
about half grown, while the third was a
little downy fellow just emerged from
his prison cell. I left them still mani-
festing their anger by a volume of hisses
and bill snappings and descended to
terra tirma again. Two weeks after I
called again to find the big fellow sitting
on a branch away from the nest and the
other two still in the nest. I took the
two and brought them home, making
them a cage of a large box and made
pets of them till near the end of July,
when I gave them their liberty again.
From these little captives I obtained
some interesting notes, some of which I
will record here. During their captivity
they were quite friendly and except
when fed always lived on the best of
terms, but when fed^they would some-
times show a disposition to quarrel over
the possession of the food given to them.
I fed them bodies of birds I had skin-
ned, but they did not seem to like this
kind of food, only eating it when forced
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THE OOLOGISl
to by hunger. Mice and gophers seem-
ed to be their favorite food and they had
a great liking for snakes. When I
would throw one of these into the cage
they would immediately seize it, one at
each end, and holding it down with
their feet tear it to pieces and devour it.
Rabbits seemed to be another favorite
"dish," but they seemed to be lazy
about this, as if I did not open the rab-
bit before 1 put it in it would remain
untouched. Probably this was because
the parent birds always tear to pieces
the food they bring to their nestling?,
and in captivity they failed to lea'U to
provide for themselves.
During the day they would climb on
to their block perches and remain very
quiet, but toward dusk they became
lively and noisy, spent a good deal of
time trying to get out of their prison,
eat any food I gave them and called to
each other in a peculiar whistle, later
using the same ''Hoo, Hoo," that the
adult Bubo uses in the weird hours of
the night
It was very amusing to see them fight
for the possession of a snake. One seiz-
ing hold of each end they would tug and
pull, flutter and struggle till the snake
would come in two, and they would
each take its portion to a different cor-
ner of the cage and devour it.
Well to leave the young Owls and re-
turn to the woods in the sprirg of '93
On the 15th of April I found another
nest of Bubo virginianus, this time in
an old Broad-winged Hawk's nest in an
oak tree about 30 feet from the river
bank and 35 feet high. Mrs. Bubo was
at home and a good rap on tbe trunk
brought her off In this nest I found
one just hatched, young one and two
badly incubated eggs, all of which I left.
I might here mention that the first nest
recorded was in a tall oak on an over-
hanging branch 40 feet up on the bank
of a dry ravine and about 150 yards
from the river Boyne. The nest was an
old Red-tailed Hawks used the previous
season and about the 2l8t of May, short-
ly after taking the young birds, I took
from this nest a set of three finely
marked Red-tailed Hawk's eggs.
My third find of this species was in
the latter part of April, 94. While fol-
lowing the Boyne river in search rf
Ducks I came upon it in the main fork
of a giant basswood tree 45 feet up. An
old and very delapidated Red-tail nest
did duty for a home. No repairs had
been bestowed upon it, but the large
fork in which it was situated helped to
make it more habitable. I cou!d see
that the nest contained young so I
climbed up to investigate, leaving my
coat at the foot of the tree with my gun.
Just as I peered over the edgts of the nest
endeavoring to raise myself above it,
the old bird resenting my intrusion
made a dash at me, striking me in the
back with her talons, which I felt
through vest and two shirts. The male
bird joined in the attack, but was not so
bold, contenting himself with dashing
past or sitting on the branch of a neigh-
boring tree and mingling his vocifera-
tions with those of his three offspring in
their hissing and bill snappings.
In the nest I found the hind quarters
of two rabbits, half a garter snake,
about medium size, part of a weasel, the
legs and one wing of a Sora Rail and
an almost entire male Ruffed Grouse.
The nest first mentioned having con-
tained a one-third eaten Prairie Hen,
part of a garter snake, an almost entire
gopher and the hind quarters of a rab-
bit. This shows how royaly these power-
ful birds of prey supply for their young.
C. P. Forge,
Carman, Manitoba.
[ To be continued ]
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Blue Jay. Least Flycatcher, Wood -Pewee.
Crested Flycatcher, any Kingbird, Scissor-
tailed Flycatcher, BuTowing Owl, American
Sparrow Hawk, Red-shouldered, Red-tailed,
or Cooper's Hawk, Killdeer, Bartramian Sand-
piper Only strictly first-class sets desired.
P. M. SILLOWAY. Lewlstown, Mont.
Now, who ever heard of a silk-lined Egg
spoon, for handling very delicate eggs in the
cabinet. A valuable thing for every collector.
Sent postpaid on receipt of Sl.uO worth of eggs
in sets with data. Again here is an Al bargain.
100 extra flue data, for every 50 cts. worth of
eggs with data sent me. I also offer, 1000 well
mixed Foreign Stamps for $1 00 worth of
choice eggs in full sets with complete data
Satisfaction guaranteed. Address CLARENCE
H LUTHER, Fayetteville, Ark., P. O Box 322.
FOR EXCHANGE:— Original sets with data,
all North Amerijan. 12 1-1, 13 1-1, 16 1-1, 27 1-1
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70 1-3, T2 1-3 105 1-1, 130 1-7 1-8 1-10 1-11, 132 1-7,
140 MS, 1.59 1-3 201 1-4. 211 1-8. 212 16, 214 1-14 1 17,
225 1-4, 226 1-4, 263 13 14, 274 1-2, 1-3, 289 1-16, 297a
1-8 402a 1-5, 410 1-5, 471 n 3, 474c 1-4, 476 1-5, 478a
1-4, 486a 1-3, 492 1-3, 549 n-5, 5.50 n-5, 553 n-5, 554 1 2
1-3 1-4, 573 1-4. 495a, 578 n-4, 593c 1-4, 594 1-4, 630
1-3, 633 n 4 1-3 of 495a. 708 1-3, 715 n 3, 719c 1 6, 729
1-4, 746 n-3, 751 n-4 758 1-4 a^d others. Want
Raptores and a few sets of 452 and 461. J. D.
SORNBORGER, 101 Hammond St,, Cambridge,
Mass.
FOR SALE.— A-1 sets.with full data, of Royal
Tern, 50-3, 50c; Brown Pelican, 20-3, 30c: Amer-
ican Oyster-catcher, .5-3. 81; Willet, 10-4, 50c;
Wilson's Plover, 5-3. 40c: Laughing Gull, 50-3,
30c; Clapper Rail, 5 8, 5-9, 5-10, 5-11, 5 12, 5c egg;
Boat-tailed Grackle. 5-4, 40c; Painted Bunting,
5-4 40c; Yellow-breasted Chat, 5-4, 20c; Black
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Costa's ■' " '• " ■■ 75
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EXTRA LARGE SETS.
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Manx Shearwater 15
Short eared Owl 18
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Wild Turkey 20
Rough legged Hawk 12
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Long bill Curlew 18
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Sooty Grouse 12
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Turkey Vulture 12
Ruddy Duck 10
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Ruffed Grouse 05
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Leconte's Sparrow (data) 25
Short-billed Marsh Wren 10
White breasted Nuthatch 08
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (runt) _. 10
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The Spotted Owl.
[Syrnium occidentals.)
By Harry H. Dunn, Fullerton, Cal.
Of this owl, probably the rarest
North American species of its genus,
very little appears to be known. At
least, when, a year or two aj?i^, I at-
tempted to gather together a little in-
formation on the genus Syrnium, I
met with very mea;?er results concern-
ing this particular bird Of its occur-
rence in Southern California I was then
quite well assured as I had seen
feathers, which I supposed belonged
to this species, on the ground under
trees which were evidently the nightly
"hunting boxes" of some owl. But it
was not until this season that I became
thoroughly acquainted with this large,
dark colored bird in its summer home
and as I h.:ve tak«n three sets of two,
three and fouv eggs respectively, I feel
warrNDted in inflicting myself upon
suih readers as I may have with a short
description of bird and nesting habits.
The country round about my home,
here on the north western border of
Orange cour.iy, is extremely hilly and
given over to small and precipitous
cliffs The hills are not what would in
the east or middle west be called "well
wooded," but in some of the more
protected canyons a heavy growth of
oak and sycamore with now and then a
cottonwocd may be found. On March
26th of the present yesr, I was making
my way up one of the larger of these
canyons kweping a sharp lookout for
Western Red tails and Pacific Horned
Owls, whch the la ter frequently occu-
py old Jnawk'd nests, when my atten-
tion was drawn to an old oak stump
some fifty yards up one of the sides of
the canyon, by the actions of a pair of
Desert Sparrow Hawks. I was morally
cert=>in that the little Hawks were not
nesting at so early a date, but I had
just taken two sets of Western Red-
tails, each consisting of four eggs, so I
was ready for any old chance that hap-
pened to come along. I clambered up
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to the stump and dealt it a resounding
blow with the small hatchet which I
usually carry with me on such occasions.
Much to my surprise a large owl came
hustling out of a hole some ten feet
from the ground, and flying across the
canyon, settled on a dead sycamore
limb, thus permitting a good view of
her brown body, heavily marked with
blotches and bars of a darker shade.
Up to the tree I went, and peering into
the hole saw some three feet down three
pure white eggs on a bed of rotten
wood. I returned to the bottom of the
canyon and got my rifle (a 22 calibre
collecting gun) and my box. When I
came back the owl was still sitting
where I had left her, and when I came
in sight she commenced snapping her
beak at me, much as does the Long-
eared Owl. I noticed that her face and
in fact most of her head was much
lighter in color than the rest of her
body, and though quite sure of the
species, I shot her, and upon careful
comparison with description and
measurements given by various authors,
I proved her to be the Spotted Owl.
This bird was very near as large as the
average of two female skins of the
Pacific Horned Owl now in my pos-
session, she being 20.50 inches long and
having a wing length of 13.75 inches.
The eggs are much like those of the
Horned Owl, only rather more glossy
and a trifle smaller. In fact they are
perfectly similar in all ways to those of
the Barred Owl of the eastern states.
These three were fresh, but dissection
showed her to have laid her full com-
plement.
At a distance this bird when in re-
pose would pass for a Horned Owl,
though in the three cases which have
come to my notice, the male Spotted
Owl did not appear at the nest as the
male Pacific Horned usually does, nor
did the female Spotted Owl make any
noise whatever, save the snapping of
beak, during my stay at the nest, a
trait common to the female of the Pa-
cific Horned. I have taken sets of this
latter bird from nests with the male
and female sitting on a boulder not
twenty feet away and "hooting" with
all their lungs.
My second set, consisting of two eggs
I found in an old hollow sycamore stub,
which had fallen slanting across the
creek bed, and was led to its discovery
as I have been to several nests of the
Pacific Horned Owl, by a tell tale
feather which still clung to the rough
bark of the tree. This was on the 16th
day of April and was in the Santa Ana
canyon about eleven miles from my
home. I did not shoot this bird as she
was on the nest and well seen. Incu-
bation fresh, but as one efrg had slight
traces of blood, I consider it a full set.
On the 18th of April, just two days
later, I took my third set from a hole
in a live oak about 20 feet from the
ground, the eggs being laid about a
foot and a half in from the entrance.
The bird was on as before but also left
with a few snappings of her beak when
I rapped on the trunk. This was a
natural cavity and had, I think been
occupied by Desert Sparrow Hawks the
season before. There were four eggs
in this set and all were more or less in-
cubated indicating that the bird had
made a business of sitting on the eggs
from the time the first was laid. No
attempt at nest building was made,
though the hole was very near horiz on-
tal with nothing to prevent the eggs
rolling out should they once get started.
The eggs were similar to the two
previous sets and not so granulated or
"lumpy" as type eggs of the Pacific
Horned Owl usually are.
On the whole, I think from my ex-
perience this season that the Spotted
Owi is about one-third as numerous
during the breeding season in southern
California as is the Pacific Horned Owl,
of which I took nine sets this year
against the three sets of the Spotted
THE OOLOGIST.
167
just mentioned. Neither owl is nearly
so rare as the Short-eared owl which I.
have found breeding but once and then
with a nest full of young.
Field Notes From Manitoba.
Continued.
THE WESTERN HOENED OWL.
I did not visit this nest again, but in
the spring of '95 I decided to profit by
the three accidental finds I had made,
and on April 1st, I took the course of
the river west and as the ice had not
broken up and made the best walking,
I followed the river on the ice about
three and one-half miles west of town.
I found in a basswood tree leaning over
the river an old Broad-wing d Hawk's
nest, from the top of which peeped two
tufts of feathers, which previous exper-
ience told me were the ear tufts of Mrs.
Bubo. Knowing that all was right, I
climbed the tree and as I neared the
nest the old bird flew off and perched
on a tree near by, while I finished my
climb and examined her home.
The nest was small, very little more
than a foot in diameter and only just
hollowed enough to keep the eggs from
rolling out. It was lined with a few of
Mrs. Bubo's feathers and contained but
two eggs. These were in different stages
of incubation. I left them in the nest
to see if she would lay any more and re-
turning a week after found the two eggs
still there and Mrs. Bubo still engaged
in the duties of incubation. So being
sure the set was complete I took them.
From '95 to '98 I left my Horned Owls
to breed in peace, when on the 24th of
March I thought by way of recreation
and for necessary out-door exercise I
would see how they were prospering.
Accordingly, taking my gun and a box
well filled with cotton in my pocket, I
took the course of the river east from
town and after passing various unoccu-
pied nests found in an elm close to the
bank of the river 25 feet up an old nest
of the Broad-winged Hawk, from which
1 could see the tell-tale tufts protruding.
Climbing the tree I found the nest again
a very small one and contained only
two eggs, which I left to see if any more
would be laid. Returning a week af:er
1 found the nest as I had left it and the
two eggs awaiting me, so I took them.
On the 1st of April I followed the
cour:^e of the river west and in a bass-
wood tree leaning over the river I found
another nest. Mrs. Bubo was at home,
as numerous feathers cau«rht on the
edge of the nest and in the nearby
branches testified, and after a short
climb I reached the nest, which contain-
ed the usual complement of two eggs
I left this nest for eight days, when I
returned to find that Mrs. Bubo consid-
ered a family of two enough to look
after and I bv taking her complement
of eggs put her to the trouble cf re-
suming her household duties. This nest
was about 25 feet up and quite near the
place I found the nest in '95.
In '99 I tried the same route on the
29th of March without success to the
east and on the 3d of April to the west
for three miles, but found no nests. I
however saw two Owls, one of which I
shot, a fine male of Bubo virginianus
subarcticus, which is the commonest re-
presentative of the family here.
In 1900 I again tried my luck and on
April 2d in a grove of oak trees three
miles east of town on the bank of a
ravine I found a nest of the Red-tailed
Hawk, occupied by Horned 057ls. This
nest was occupied last year by Red-tails
and as Owls generally are not well
versed in the mysteries of architecture
the nest was simply flattened and two
eggs rested therein. As it was late in
the season and the eggs appeared pretty
well advanced in incubation, I took
them and after spending the balance of
the afternoon in fruitless search return-
ed home. The nest was in a tall oak 40
feet up and on a main fork plenty of
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feathers in the branches and on the side
of the nest, showing that the birds had
often passed to and fro. All these sets
and nests were those of the Western
Horned Owl.
This year on March 17th I thought I
would enjoy a ramble in the woods. It
was a lovely day and mild, and as the
snow was too deep in the woods for
comfortable walking I took the course
of the river and walked on the ice, which
was smooth and without snow from a
previous t aw. About two and one-
half miles east of the town I visited a
Red-tail's nest in a large oak tree, from
which I had secured a set of eggs last
spring, and as I clambered up the river
bank I noticed Owl feathers In the
branches and on the edges of the nest.
As I drew closer I could see the tell-
tale tufts and knew 1 had located Mrs.
Bubo's intended nursery. As it was
Sunday I did not climb, but made up
my mind that I would visit this nest
again, so on the 23d as the river was
still frozen I hitched my horse to the
cutter and drove do^n to see how Mrs.
Bubo was prospering. Arrived at the
wooded point, almo t an island, well
timbered with oak, elm and basswood,
I left the rivdr and following my path
of last Sunday soon reached the foot of
the tree. Mrs. Bubo was at home and
I began the ascent. The tree was so
large I could not shin it, so I climbed a
small sapling and swung over till I
could climb into the first fork. After
this, as there were plenty of branches,
I soon reached the nest. The old bird
flew off as I neared it and alighting on
a dead tree close by watched me.
As 1 peered over the edge of the nest
four handjome egg3 arrested my gaze,
and raising myself above the nest I took
notes. The nest was large, 20 inches in
diameter and was in better repair than
usual. The cavity also was deeper, 9
inches in diameter, just holding the four
eggs nicely. Quite a lot of downy
feathers were caught in the branches
near the nest and on the edge of the-
nest and a few of these also composed a
lining.
While taking my notes the male bird
came flying by and made a dash at me,
and both male and female began scold-
ing me for my intrusion, uninvited into
their home, snapping their bills and
hissing at me and calling to each other
"Hoo, Hoo." I had a fine view of them
as they sat in the tree-top close by,
every few minutes making a dash at me
as though to drive me from their home.
The smaller size and very light color
and pure white feet told me that I had,
without doubt, found a nest of the Arctic
Horned Owl [Bubo virginianus arcticus) .
After taking all notes and getting the
height of the branch on which the nest
rested, an overhanging one and 35 feet
from the ground, I descended, returned
to my cutter and followed the course of
the river to where the bush ended, find-
ing no mora nests.
Oq March 29th I tried the river west
and as the ice was getting pretty rotten
the cutter broke through and I nearly
got a cold bath. However, I saved my-
self by reaching out my arm and righted
the cutter with only an arm wet to the
elbow. On this occasion I found in a
basswood tree in a Red-tail's nest, old
and dilapidated, a set of two Western
Horned Owl's eggs. Both were incu-
bated and as is usual the one about a
week more than the other. This nest
was 25 feet up and in a tree quite close
to the river bank. The nest was very
flat and well adorned with the yellow-
ish downy feathers of its occupant. I
took the eggs and as the unsafe state of
the ice prevented further progress re-
turned home.
Now to sum up. These birds seen in
this northern latitude are very early
breeders, nesting always while the snow
is on the ground, dates being from the
17th of March until 1st of April. I have
never known them to construct their
own nest. They always seiza on the
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169
nest of some kind of Hawk and use it
for their nursery. They like to build
near a ravine or river, for the reason
that finding a tree whose branches over-
hang the river the male takes up his
position there and watches until some
unwary mouse, squirrel or rabbit crosses
the ice, when he swoops down upon it
and carries it off to his mate. They
hunt chiefly at night or in the dusk of
twilight, which accounts for the pres-
ence in their nests, which contain young,
of such dusk-loving animals as rabbits,
(northern hares) pocket gophers, mice
and snakes. They take birds as they
roost aad the birds most frequently
caught by them are ground birds as the
Grouse, Riils, etc. These they cat h
while s'eeping, as you may prove for
yourself if you will go out some fine
night in the spring at the lime the Owls
have their families to provide for, and
sitting down in the shelter of the trees
on the border of the woods frequented
by them watch them. As twilight deep-
ens you will hear a call 'Hoo, Ho.>,
Hoo," then a pause and again thrice re-
peated the "Hoo, Hoo, Hoo." Strain
your eyes and against; the evening sky
you see Mr. Bubo sitting motionless as
a statute on some dead stump or limb
of a tree or perhaps a fence post. Watch
him. In a moment he leaves his perch
and flaps n uselessly over the grass,
keeping about three or four feet above
the ground. His large wings and soft
plumage carrv him silently through the
air and his large, well developed eyes
scan the ground for his prey. Ah! see
him poise. He sees some game. Hovers
a moment, then drops. Run to the
place and you see him rise from his
quarry. He carries off with him a
mouse, a rabbit or perchance a Grouse.
On fine evenings in the spring I have
witnessed this performance as I sat
down to rest on my way home after a
day's collecting
I don't want to impress the reader
that they are a very destructive bird,
for I find that it is only at the season
when they are raising their brood that
they destroy much game. At other
times it does not take much to keep a
pair of these Owls, for the two I had in
captivity were not very large eaters, a
full-grown rabbit lasting them for three
days.
If you will open these Osvls' stomachs
at other seasons you will generally find
that its stomach contains 95 par cent, of
the remains of mice, moles, weasels,
snakes, rabbits and such mammals and
that few birds are taken.
We have the three varieties of the
Great Horned Owl hare, the two prev-
iously mentioned and the Dusky. This
variety is rarer than the other two, only
about three specimens having come into
my hands. I have not found their nests
as yet, although I feel pretty sure that
they breed here. I had one brought to
me in July of '94, and it appeared to be
a young bird, as all the down was not
oft' its feathers.
The Arctic is rather more common, but
chiefly seen in winter. With the excep-
tion of the nest found this March I have
never seen a nest. This year while on
a visit to Rock and Pelican lakes I
boated down the Pembina river for
about seven miles between half past 4
and half past 10 ori the third of July>
and after passing a heronry of the Great
Blue Heron in a very secluded spot at a
bend of the river where the crooked
course of the river almost forms a large
island, I frightened from their perches
on overhanging branches four young of
the Arctic Horned that wee well able to
fly. They alighted in different places
near the river, some on overhanging
branches and one, the smallest of the
four, on a stump. I passed within ten
feet of him as he sat there staring at me
with his big yellow eyes, and knew at
once that I had seen a family of B. y..
arcticus. These were all one brood, I
have no doubt, as they stayed close to-
gether and had probably been hatched
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in one of the old Heron's nests in the
heronry before mentioned.
• Well, so much for Bubo virginianus
in his different phrases. When I again
take up my pen to treat the readers of
the OoLOGisT to some bird lore I will
tell them something about the Loon.
C. P. Forge,
Carman, Manitoba.
The Food Supply of the House Wren.
BY C. C PURDUM, M. D.
One of the birds I most love is our
quick motioned and cheerful little
House Wren [Troglodytes aedon.) I
meet him everywhere in the United
States where I may pitch my tent, ex-
cept in the mountains. In the winter,
if I chance to be in the wooris in
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, or in
fact any of the Southern states, ho is
there to greet me. If in the summer,
when the heat becomes oppressive, I
invade the cool and delicious solitudes
of the forests of Maine, I find him
always cheerful, always chirping hap-
pily to his mate on her eggs in the nest
in the fence post, and always glad and
happy to be in the society of man.
Like our friend O. caroUnensis, the
House Wren rears two broods each
season, depositing six to eight reddish
brown eggs, generally in some artific-
ially constructed shelter. Thus we
find them nesting in bird boxes, unused
gutters, tin cans of all sizes, which by
chance are elevated somewhat above
the ground, holes in the fence posts,
old wood-pecker holes, and in one in-
stance in a watering pot which was
suspended from the back porch. *
Some years ago when the writer was
preparing a report on "Odd and pecul-
iar Nests and Nesting" (the completion
of which was interrupted by a long per-
iod of sickness,) he received an inter-
*Report on the House "Wren, U. S. Dep't. of
Agriculture, 1895.
+Mr. Roy G. Fitcli, since deceased.
esting note from an observer in the
West f as follows: "The day before
yesterday I took a set of seven eggs of
the House Wren. I have taken many
sets of these eggs before, but the pecul-
iar situation of tho nest, etc, warranted
I think, taking it. An old rubber boot
had been cut down to the ankle and the
foot used as a shoe by one of the farm-
ers about here, and had afterwards
been discarded in the field. In clear-
ing up the field the next Spring prepar-
atory to planting, tLe improvised shoe
had been thrown carelessly into a brush
heap at the edge of the field, and re-
mained there. The birds took posses-
sion of this and filled it with sticks ard
then built a nest, thus making for
themselves a very substantial abode.
The nest and it's encasing of boot foot,
make a very interesting addition to my
collection " In most localities, this bit
of perpetual motion is respected by the
farmer, and his worth fully appreciat-
ed. Hunting with the minutest care,
but with marvelous agility, the Wrens
skip hither and thither along the fences,
about the brush heaps, in and out
among the stones of the loosely con-
structed walls of the pastures, through
the orchards, and about the out build-
ings, searching with their little pierce-
ing eyes, every crevice, nook, and cran-
ny, for food for their youngsters and
themselves, and altogether make one
of the most useful, and certainly the
least expensive of the farmer's assist-
ants. The report of the U. S. Dep't. of
Agriculture, on this bird, gives the re-
sults of the examination of fifty two
stomachs, taken from a range extend-
ing from Connecticut to California.
Ninety-eight of the stomach contents
was composed of insects, while the
remaining two per cent, was composed
of rubbish, like bits of grass, wood, and
sand, which was in all probability taken
by accident. No vegetable food could
be said to have been taken intention-
ally, was found in any one of these
THE OOLOGIST
171
stomachs, and none was expected, for
I do not know of one observer who has
taken the trouble to closely follow the
habits of these birds, who has been
guilty of charging them with even an
occasional departure from an insect
diet.
Nearly one-half of the insects con-
suaied are grass-hoppers and beetles,
and the other half is about equally
divided among the bugs, spiders and
caterpillars. Among the beetles, the
ground varieties form about six per
cent , and the weevils rank next in im-
portance. Indeed during July they ap-
proach eleven per cent. Only about
half as many dung beetles are consum-
ed, as weevils are not eaten at all after
May, when these beetles are of most
value from an economic standpoint.
Among the other varieties, which were
found in only small quantities or oc-
casionally, may be mentioned, beetles
of the lirefiy group, leaf beetles, click
and rove beetles.
'Cine bird had eaten a longicorn
beetle." From the examination above
spoken of it was found that during the
month of August, the grass-hoppers
reached a maxium of sixty per cent., to
the exclusion of some of the heretofore
most common kinds of insects. Of this
sixty per cent, the common and green
grass-hoppers and insects formed the
bulk, and as the bird continues to eat
insects after the fruit ripens we can not
but make a most favorable comparison
between it and the bird of our last
paper, Oaleoscoptes carolinensis.
Among the bugs consumed by the
House Wren are many of the plant
feeding and leaf hopping varieties.
The stink bug [Pentatomidae) is also
consumed in large numbers. Plant
lice are occasionaly eaten. The large
number of daddy-long-legs which this
bird devours, is however, from a strict-
ly economic standpoint, somewhat det-
rimental, as they are known to feed
upon aphids. Very few flies were
found in the stomachs, owing no doubt
to the fact that these insects are more
difficult to capture than the others.
But few wasps were found.
In conclusion I can do no better than
to quote "verbatim," from the excellent
paper of Mr. Sylvester D. Judd, Assist
ant Ornithologist to the Department of
Agriculture.
"From the foregoing detailed account
of the Wren's food, it is obvious that
the bird is very beneficial to agricul-
ture. Such insectivorous birds should
be encouraged. It is a pity that the
quarrelsome English sparrow can not
be exterminated, for if in the place of
every dozen English Sparrows, Ihere
was one House Wren, our churches
would present a more sightly appear-
ance, while the yield of the crops of the
country would be greatly increased.
At Cambridge, Mass., the sparrow has
driven >the Wren away by occupying
the nesting boxes. This is true to a
certain extent wherever the two birds
have met. To secure the services of
the wren, the farmer must put up nest-
ing boxes and declare war on the spar-
row."
TABLE SHOWING NUMBER OF STOMACHS
AND PER CENT. OF FOOD.
Number of stomachs examined 53
Per cent, of animal food.
Ants 4
Caterpillars 16
Beetles 22
Grasshoppers 25
Bugs 12
Spiders, Thousand-legs, etc 14
Miscellaneous 5
Total animal food 98
Miscellaneous vegetable food 2
Total 100
Nesting^ of the Coppery-tailed Trog-on.
One of my collectors has recently sent
me several sets of eggs of the Coppery-
tailed Trogon, and as they are quite
rare 1 thought your readers might be in-
terested in his letter describing the tak-
172
THE OOLOGIST.
ing of a set of them. They were taken
on July 24 of this year. He writes:
"We left Sinaloa, Mexico, at 5 a. m.
on the 23d of July. The pack mules
were started, but it had taken so long
to get them off that we decided to take
lunch before leaying. After lunch we
went down to the river and were fer-
ried across, while the mules were re-
quired to swim. Our afternoon ride
was a pleasant one and we enjoyed it
hugely. It was through a rather low
growth of all sorts of strange trees.
There were giant cacti of various kinds,
several varieties of prickly pear and
many climbing vines. At frt quent in-
tervals we came to native dwellings, as
poor as they could be to be called shel-
ters, the sides made of brush and the
top thatched with palm leaves.
"I never elsewhere saw so many tar-
antulas. Their holes lined the sides of
the road, and occasionally one would
stick his front feet out as we went by.
Before night came on our mules showed
signs of fatigue, though we had traveled
slowly. Toward evening we struck the
first creek of any importance, by the
side of which the natives were starting
to cultivate corn. The temperature was
about the same a*" that in a moist hot
house. It was just as the sun was set-
ting that we rode into a little village of
thatched houses. We put our cots un-
der a shod and tried to get some sleep,
but it was rather a failure, for the bur-
ros kept up a braying to each other
through the entire night. I put in only
about an hour's sleep for the night.
"Our mozos was up at 4 a.m. and fed
the mules, and by 6:30 we were off on
the road. It was like a moist hot house
all morning. The trail wa^ a pretty
one, winding beside an arroyo with
large trees and very dense foliage all
around. Here and there we would pass
patches of bananas, mangoes and sugar,
cane, with a little thatched cottage in
the grove generally shaded by an orange
tree. As we were riding along a siooy
bit of trail, always on the lookout for
curios, my eyes caught sight of a bird
which interested me. There are lots of
large green and blue parrots to be seen
along the trail, and another bird of bril-
liant red, green, black and white plum-
age. I saw one of the latter disappear
behind a stump, and on riding up to it
she flew out of a hole in the stump. I
looked in t^e cavity and found her nest
of eggs. I did not see how she got in
there, for her tail was as long as the
hole was deep. I think she must have
left it at the entrance and put it on
again when she went out. My old spirit
of colle'cting birds' eggs got the better
of me, and out the eggs had to come.
They were fresh, and I blew them and
put them back in the nest, covered them
with leaves, sticki and stones and left
them until my return trip some weeks
later."
The native name of this bird is Coa or
Cola, but the A. O. U. knows it as the
Coppery-tailed Trogon,
The eggs are pure white, about as
dull in color as a pigeon egg, and either
two or four in number.
R. P. Shakples,
West Chester, Pa.
Mr. Richard C. McGregor of the U.
S. S. "Pathfinder" under date of Aug-
ust 16th, in Dutch Harbor, Alaska,
writes: "I have some little time for
birds, etc., here. Have put up plenty
of skins of Aleutian Leucosticte, Sand-
wich Sparrow and Aleutian Song Spar-
row besides a few other species. Have
eggs of Nelson's Ptarmigan, Fork tailed
Petrel, Sandwich Sparrow, Green-
winged Teal and some common things^
THE OOLOGIST.
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4tO, 7i4p, 28pl 2 15
Butterflies, &c from Colo., Ariz, and
Utah, 16p _ 10
Tertiary Insects, Colo, and Wyo.,26p 15
N. A. Eaiwigs, 12p 10
Fossil (Green River) Insects; Fossil
Coleoptera, 42p _ 85
Smith, Insects found in New Jersey, 486p 1 10
Lepidopterous Family, Noctuids of
Temperate N. A , 234p. 5pl, revision of the spec-
ies of the Genius Agrotis, M B 38 85
Lepidopterous Super-family,NoctuId8e,
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Revision of Saturnidae, 30p, 3pl lf>
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Thomas, Bynopsis of the Acrididie of No.
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Thomas & Uhlfr. Orthoptera and Hemiptera
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Wellman, Study of the Prothorax of Butter-
flies, 6p, 9tlg 10
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336p, 12pl, M. B. 31 1 15
Wood, Insects of the World, See Herpe-
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Trees of Michigan and Their Uses, 24p 10
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Burgess, J. T., English Wild Flowers, 182p.
illus 35
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46p 10
Carpenter, Vegetable Physiology and Sy-
stemic Botany, .576p, 200 flg, (2.50) 1 40
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Wants, Exchanges, and For Sales.
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ror 25C per 2.t words. Notices over 25 words, charged at the rate of one-half cent per each additional
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FOR SALE:— One buffalo overcoat in per-
fect condition. Or will trade for best offer in
authentic sets. Some back volumes of The
Auk to exchange for sets. J. W. PRESTON,
Baxter, Iowa.
I WILL EXCHANGE a nearly new 5x7
camera and desirable sets for a compound
microscope or a Bausch and Lomb oil immer-
sion objective. ISADOR S. TROSTLER, 4246
Farnam St., Sta. B., Omaha, Neb.
WANTED:— Any part, odd pages, plate,
volume or volumes of Audubon's "Birds of
America," or Audubon's and Bachman's
"Quadrupeds of America." Liberal cash fig-
ure. JOHN W. DANIEL, Jr., Lynchburg, Va.
I HAVE Fossils, sets of hawks, owls, and
other birds, eggs to exchange for good Indian
relics, stamps, coins or other good setsol eggs.
(184.) JASPER BROWN, Norway, Iowa.
DESIRE first-class specimens of Downy
Younerof "Shore Birds." Address GEO. H.
SWEZEY, 66, 79 Jackson St., Newark, N. J.
FOR EXCHANGE :— Four volumes Youths
Companion, complete file Natural Science
News containin'? story "Penikese." Ohio
state agricultural reports. Also a few sets
Northern Ohio birds eggs, and mounted birds
Will exchange cheap for revolver. Indian
relics or tobacco tags, certain kinds. OLIVER
HOTCHKISS, Bedford, O.
WANTED.— Sets of eggs containing abnor-
mal specimens, such as runts, albinos, mon-
strocities, abnormally colored or shaped eggs.
Will give cash or good exchange. J. WARREN
JACOBS, Waynesburg, Pa. 101
WILL BUY cheap lor cash reptiles eggs,
and :"are single birds eggs not In Collection.
American or foreign, either first class or im-
perfect specimens W. R. WHARTON, Ger-
mantown Philadelphia, Pa.
FOR EXCHANGE OR SALE:— ten pairs
large-bill sparrows, two pairs Belding'J marsh
sparrow. Want hawks, grouse, partridges and
warblers, ducks, best spring plumage. W. B.
JUDSON, 4957 Pasadena Ave., Los Angeles,
Cal.
CHOICE specimens of Opalized Tree, by mail
10 to 50c. If large specimens are wanted,
write for particulars. This is the only tree of
this kind in existence. If you want the best,
order now. O UHRLAUB & CO., Clover,
Lidcoln Co., Idaho.
TO EXCHANGE:— Eggs In sets With data of
Ihis locality, for sets from other localities.
Papers on "O and O" for sale or exchange.
JOSEPH S. DIXON, Escondido, Cal.
BENTON HOLCOMB, West Granby, Conn.,
wishes correspondence with collectors having
Indian pipes of stone or clay and pottery
(ancient) for sale or exchange.
WANTED :— To correspond with all persons
interested in Southern Minnesota Ornithology.
Exchanges desired, especially with Minnesota
Oological collectors. Enclose your lists when
writing. EDW. W. SPRINGER, Owatonna,
Minnesota.
WANTED:— Skins, Eggs, Books. Can give
exceptir>nal values in finely prepared Marine
invertebrates in Formalin. Write me at once,
as the supply won't last long. Full list for
yours. No postals. DR. C. C PURDUM,
Pawtucket, R. I.
TO EXCHANGE :— Nice sets and singles for
sets, athletic, sporting or furnishing goods,
curios, stamps, coins, cutlery, kodak supplies
or anything useful. Also have cash. Satis-
faction guaranteed. H. L. HEATON, OberUn
Kansas.
178
THE OOLOGIST.
FOR EXCHANGE:— Skins of Gray Fox and
Great Horned Owl, for handbook of Birds of
Eastern North A merica, and mounted deer or
Elk head. MRS. MOLLIE F. SKEEN, Far-
mer, N. C.
NOW who ever heard of a silk-lined egg
spoon for handling very delicate eggs In the
cabinet. A valuable thing for every collector.
Sent prepaid on receipt of $1.00 worth of eggs
in sets, with data. Send list for selection.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Address, CLAR-
ENCE H. LUTHER, 2204 Third Ave., Birming-
ham, Ala.
MTD. BIRDS FOR SALE:— Golden Eagle
88,00; Loons $4.00; Snowy Owls $3.00 to $5.00;
Artie Horned Owl $.5.00; W. Great Horned Owl
$3.00; Sawwhets$l 50; Sharp-tailed Grouse $2.00;
Ruffed $1.50; Gray Ruffed Grouse $i.50; Black
billed Cuckoos 75 cents; Snow birds 60 cents;
Redpoles 50 cents; Pine Grosbeaks 75 cents;
Evening do. 75 cents ; small specimens prepaid
by mail at prices quoted. Wolf skins for
mounting or rugs, from $3 50 to $2.00. Eagle
claws and feathers. Fresh skins of Northern
birds for sale during winter months. CHAS.
P. GORGE, Carman, Man.
TO EXCHANGE:— Finely prepared speci-
mens of the Marine Invertebrates, preserved
in Formalin, for books, eggs or skins. These
preparations are 'ivery one beauties and an ad-
dition to any collection. Full list for yours.
No Postals. ■ C. C. PURDUM, M. D., 128 Min-
eral Spring Ave., Pawtucket,; R. I.
DESIRE SETS OF Grasshoppers and Savan-
na Sparrows. Purple Finch, Fish Crow,
Horned Lark, Green crested Flycatcher. Whip-
poor-will, Hairy Woodpecker, Screech Owl.
Am. Ospre./, Am. Sparrow Hawk, Red tailed
Hawk. Ruffled Grouse, Bartramian Sandpiper,
Am. Woodcock, Hermit Thrush, Tufted Tit-
mouse, Carolina Wren. R. W. Swallow, Blue-
Gray Gnatcatcher and Summer Tanager. Ad-
dress, GEO. H. SWEZEY, 66-79 Jackson St.,
Newark, N. J.
FOR SALE :— The following sets at one-third
Lattin's catalog A. O. U. Nos. 6 1-4, 30a 6-1, 49
2-2, .51a 1-2. 70 1-3, 77 4-3, 223 1-1, 269 1-3 430 n-3,
481 1 3, 710 1-3 and others. Send stamp for list.
RICHARD F. MILLER, 3473 Amber St., Phila-
delphia, Penn.
WANTED:— Eggs in original sets with data,
strictly first class skins, books, or anything
the collector can use. Can give excellent value
in finely preserved Marine invertebrates, and
some eggs. Write me at once as I shall close
this stock out immediately. C. C. PURDUM,
M. D., 128 Mineral Spring Ave., Pawtucket,
R. I.
FOR SALE :— I have still a few choice sets of
eggs for sale which I will close out at follow-
ing prices: ShortEared Owl, 1-4, 80c; 1-5, $1; 1 6,
81 20; 1 7, $1.40 per set; Gray Ruffled Grouse 1-9,
$2.50; Am. Crow 1-4, 8c; 1-5, 10c; 1-6, 12c; Pintail
1-5.81.00. Sharp-tailed Grouse 117, $3.40; 1-14,
$2.80; 1-10, $2.00; Prarie Hen 1-8. 80c; Ml $1.10;
Killdeer, 1-3, 30c; Br< nzed Grackle, 1-7, 1-4. 1-6,
12c; 1-5 10c; 1-4. 8c; Rusty Blackbird, 1..7, $1.75;
1-6; $1.50; Mourning Dove. 1-2 4c; Clay colored
Sparrow, 1-4, 40c; Yellow Warbler, 1-4, 8c;
White Rumped Skrike, 1-6. 18c; 1-5, 15c; 1-4, 12c;
Flicker 1-5, 10c; House Wren, 1-6. 12c; 1-5, 10c;
Bartrams Sand Piper. 1-4, soc; Wilson's Phara-
lope. 1-4. $2.00; Loon single Chipped hole, 30c;
Swainson Hawk, 1-3, 50c; SongSparrow, 1-5, 5c;
1-4. 4c: Red-winged Blackbird. 1-4, 4. All sets
with full data and a 1. CHRIS. P. FORGE,
Carman, Man.
Exchange:— Colt revolver, banjo, stamps,
eggs, old-fashioned foot stove, sp^c. conglome-
rate and others; want old U. S coins and
Indian relics. F. H. RICKER. Lisbon, Me.
TO EXCHANGE: -12th, 17th, 18th. 19th Re-
ports Geological Survey, 10 vols., '-BatsN. A ,"
Allen, and -'Half Hours With Insects," Pack-
ard, for ornithological publications, mounted
birds or desirable sets with data. H. E. LEE,
Bryant, S. D.
FREE : A collection of 25 beautiful sea
shells with large list of bargains for 10c post-
age only. E. BOYER, 536, W. 61, Chicago, 111.
NOTICE:— I am putting up a building for
my collections and as soon as I get moved I
win be ready to exchange. DELOS HATCH,
Oakfleld, Wis.
FOSSILS, geodes, polished onyx, curios,
shells, 250 varieties minerals; $8.00 worth for
$5.00. Also Indian relics, Spinning wheel,
grandfathers clock, etc. CURIO CO., Craw-
fordsville. Ind.
WANTED AT ONCE:— Any ancient Indian
spears over 4 inches long, must be perfect.
Send full description Will give good exchange
in flint arrows. Absidian spear-heads, beads
and pottery, or cash, if cheap. ROY H.
BULLIS, (Member A. S. of C. C. No. 107)
Winnebago City, Minn.
EXCHANGE:— I have a large quantity of
Gladiolus bulbs and Geodes to exchange for
Natviral History specimens, coins, stamps,
curios, etc., etc. DELOS HATCH, Oakfleld,
Wis.
WANTED;— A number of sets each, 6, 27,29,
58, 63, 64, 77, 80, 120a. 122 137 139, 140, 144, 149, 160,
172, 183, 190, 214, 218 238. 261, 263 264, 273, 277. 277a,
289, 294 295. 300 309, 210, 318, 325, 326, 328. 329, 337,
337b, 339, 343. Any Hawks, Owls, Humming^
birds ana Warbles and nests, nearly any spar-
rows, 364, 373. 387, 388, 390, 393, 394, 501, .509, 5,=i8,
601, 611, 614 619, 622a. 622b 624, 761, 751 and nests,
at once. Collectors are requested to send full
lists of these and other duplicates. Good ex-
change offered. D. WILBEY, 27 Front St.,
West, Toronto. Ontario, Canada.
LARGE second-hand Billiard Table, fine to
use or cut down. Cheap. Stamp for particu-
lars. Vols. V. to X. inclusive, ' Birds and All
Nature," for cash, $4.50. G. W. HOLMES
VOSBURG, P. O. box 307, Columbus, Wis
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Warblers Found Breeding in Liver-
more Maine.
Black and White Warbler iMni-
otilta varia.) Breeds, but its nests
are very hard to find. I think it is not
an uncommon breeder in this locality,
and is found quite abundant during
migration. Earliest nest found May
25th, latest June 9th. Eggs 3 to 5 in
number, color "white, spotted in the
form of a "wreath around the large end
■with hazel, lilac, che&tnut etc. Nest
composed of leaves, bark, pine needles,
grasses, lined "with horse hair, and hair
like roots.
Nashville Warbler {Eelmintho-
phila rvjicapilla.) Fairly common
breeder in this locality. Its nest is
"well concealed and very hard to find
unless the bird is flushed from it.
Ear iest nest found May 31st, latest
July 5th. Eggs 3 to 5 in number.
Color "white, spotted over the entire
surface "with lilac, chestnut etc. Nest
composed of grasses, moss, pine needles
and hair, and sunk deep in the ground
so that the top of the nest is level wi:h
the surface.
Northern Parula Warbler [Com-
psothJypis amerii-ana nsiiea ) Breeds,
and no doubt quite abunaantly in this
locality -where trees are found that
are laden "with the long gray moss the
usnea of the botanist, that is found in
such abundance throughout the forests
of Maine, but I have never found its
nest until this season. They "were
built in "woods near stagnant pools of
"water at a height of from 20 to 30 feet
from the ground. Earliest nest found
Jidy 9th, latest July 22d. Eggs 3 to 5
in number. Color white, speckled "with
bro"wn, chestnut, grayish etc. Nest
composed of the usnea moss. The
usnea moss in which one nest of this
species is built and which is in my col-
lection, measured 33 inches in length.
It was in a dead spruce, and is a beau-
tiful nest.
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THE OOLOGIST
Yellow WABBLER(Z)enc?roica cestiva)
Fairly common here, but not so abund-
ant a breeder in this town as in other
localities near by. Breeds very abund-
antly at Dead River and Androscoggin
Lake in the towns of Leeds and Wayne,
Me. See The Oologist, Feb., 1900,
pages 26, 27 and 28.
Master Harold W. Philoon found a
beautiful nest of this species containing
four eggs, built in a pear tree at his
home in Livermore this past season.
Nests early in June in this locality.
Eggs three to five in number; color,
greenish or bluish white, spotted with
black lilac and brownish, thickest at the
large end in the form of a wreath.
The nest is very finely made and is
composed of plant stems, fine fibers and
grasses, and lined with soft plant down
and some times a few feathers. I have
never found them built over ten feet
from the ground, seldom more than two
or three, although I have found a large
number of them.
Black-throated Blue Warbler
{Dendroicaccerulescens.) I consider this
species a very rare breeder in this local-
ity and have only one record of its nest-
ing in this town June 12, 1893. A nest
containing four slightly incubated eggs,
placed in a low bush about eighteen in-
ches from the ground, and composed of
nearly the same material as described
for this species in Davies' Nests and
Eggs of N. A. Birds, 4th edition.
The color of the eggs is a greenish
white, very heavily blotched with red-
ish brown chestnut and hazel nearly
covering the entire surface at the large
end, a very beautiful set of eggs.
Myrtle Warbler {Dendroica corona-
ia.) This Warbler although not an
abundant breeder in this locality is not
rare here by any means, and I think is
far more plentiful than one would sup-
pose. I consider this species a common
summer resident and is found breeding
in coniferous growths of small pines at
a height of from five to fifteen feet from
the ground. Earliest nest found May
23d, latest June 15th.
Eggs four or five in number; color,
white, spotted with reddish brown and
blotched with large patches of lilac,
mostly around the large end in the form
of a wreath.
The nest is composed of fine twigs of
the hemlock and fir and fibers, and a
few dead grasses, and lined first with
• oft grasses and lastly with a warm bed
of featherj from the Canadian Ruft'ed
Grouse [Bonasa uinbellus togata.)
Magnolia Warbler [Dendroica mac-
ulosa ) Very common breeder in this
locality. Have found many nests of
this species built in confirious growths
of pine, hemlock, fir and spruce at a
height of from two to ten feet from the
ground.
Earliest nest found June 5th, latest
July 5th.
Eggs three to five in number; color,
white, spotted, speckled and blotched
with brown hazel black and chestnut in
some nearly all at the large end, in
others over the entire surface.
Nest composed of fine twigs and grass-
es and lined with fine black hair like
roots; it is made very flat and is very
loosely constructed.
Chestnut-sided WARBLER(2)en(Zroica
pennsylvanica.) Abundant throughout
its range and a very common breeder
in this locality.
Its nest is commonly found built in
low bushes seldom more than two feet
from the ground in old bushy pastures.
Earliest nest found June 8d, latest
June 27th.
Eggs three or four in number; color,
white, spotted with brown, chestnut,
lilac and sometimes dots of blackish.
Nest composed of bark, dead grasses,
weed stalks, plant down, etc.; lined
with fine grasses and horse hair, and is
generally loosely constructed, although
this is not always the case, for I have
found them finely made.
Blackburnian Warbler [Dendroica
THE OOLOGIST.
183
blackburnice.) I consider this a very
rare breeder in this locality, but is fair,
ly common during migration. I have
never found its nest, but have taken
their young just out of the nest, and
have observed them feeding their young
in the tree tops in a woods of pine, cedar
and fir.
This past season the date at which I
took the youDg was July 29th. No
doubt fresh eggs could be obtained in
the latter part of June in this locality.
Next season I hope to record a nest and
eggs of this species from Livermore.
Black THROATED Greek Warbler
{Dendroica virens.) Common summer
resident and no doubt a common breed-
er in this locality, although I have found
but few nests.
Earliest nest found June 8th, latest
June 26th. •
Eggs three or four in number; color,
white, with a wreath around the large
end of rufous lilac, chestnut and brown-
ish spots, although some are spotted
over their entire surface.
Nest is composed of bark strips, dead
grasses, hair and sometimes feathers;
lined with fine down and hair, and all
that I have seen were built from five to
fifteen feet from the ground.
Pine Warbler (Dendroica vigorsii .) I
think this species is a common summer
resident in Livermore, although very
few nests are found and I do not think
it is found breeding very abundant in
any part of the state.
I have had the good luck to find two
nests, each containgfour eggs, one June
14th, the other July 6th, both built in
small pine in thi^k coniferous woods,
one about fifteen feet up and the other
only six or seven feet from the ground.
Eggs white or grayish white, spotted
and blotched with brownish lilac and
blackish in the form of a wreath around
the large end, the rest of the egg spar-
ingly marked.
The nests are composed of fine strips
of bark from the birch and grapevine,
find dead grasses and a few fine twigs,
and are deeply hollowed and lined with
fine dead grasses, hair and hair like
roots, and warm mosses, and are very
thick and warmly made.
Oven-bird (Seiurus aurocapillus.) A
common breeder in this locality. I
have found many nests of this species
and I do not consider them hard to
find.
The most beautiful nest and eggs of
this bird that I have ever seen was one
that I found in the month of June, 1898,
in the town of Leeds, Me., near the An-
droscoggin Lake, that I have mentioned
in The Oologist, Feb. issue, 1900, page
26.
Well do 1 remember that night, for it
was after the day had past and the sun
had gone down below the western hills,
and night was coming on. With my
naturalist friend, Mr. J. E. Teague, of
Livermore, who has been my compan-
ion on many a camping expedition, I
was climbing a hill to view a cavern far
up the hillside among the ledges. Every-
thing was silent, not a breath stirred
the leaves of the giants of the forest,
and from the hilltop we could look out
over the silent waters of beautiful An-
droscoggin Lake, dotted with its many
islands, its waters glistening like silver
under the rays of the risins? moon. That
one could always go through life as calm
and peaceful as this. A scene like this
brings one nearer to his Creator and
fills him with more noble purposes. It
seemed as though I was looking into
another world as we stood looking out
on to this grand sight.
The silence was broken from a clump
of bushes near by. There came to us
the mournful notes of the Whip-poor-
will, then from the deep dark forest the
hoot of an Owl was heard, then silence;
then from far out on the lake came the
mournful screams of a pair of Loons
that were nesting there, then silence
again. Night had come and all nature
was at rest.
184
THE OOLOGIST.
We turned to retrace our steps back
to camp, when, from the leaves at my
feet, there ran a little bird with the ac-
tions of a mouse, and looking down, we
beheld the beautiful home of the Golden-
crowned Thrush, built among the grand
old hill'? of northern Maine.
This species nests in this locality in
June. I have never found it nesting in
any other month of the year.
The eggs are four or five in number,
usually five, and are too well known to
need any descriotion, as is also the nest.
Maryland Yellow-throat {Geoth-
lypis trichas ) Common breeder in this
locality. Have found many nests built
in bunches of grass or low bushps, and
sometimes on the ground at the foot of
a tussock of grass near or in swampy
localities.
The nest is very hard to find by
watching the birds carrying nesting
material, and nearly all that I have
found was by flushing the bird from the
nest, which is very large and bulky for
so small a bird.
Earliest nest found June 6th, latest
June 28th.
Eggs three to five in number; color,
white, spotted and lined with brown
and black mostly at the large end, al-
though the rest of the egg is not un-
spotted.
The nest is composed of dead leaves
and course grasses and lined with fine
dead grasses and horse hair.
Canadian Warbler ( Wilsonia pusil-
la.) Rare breeder in this locality. Have
never found its nest. July 10th found
two pairs of these Warblers feeding
their young. It was in a low swampy
woods of fir, spruce and ash. The
young were hardly able to fly and were
easily caught and positively identified.
Next season I intend to find a nest of
this Warbler if careful search will re-
veal it.
American Redstart {Setophoga ruti-
cilla.) Abundant breeder and a beauti-
ful bird and with tail spread like a fan
they flit from tree top to tree top, re-
minding one of a huge butterfly in all
the brilliant colors of the rainbow. The
Redstart delights to nest in woods of
deep green foliage near running
streams.
Earliest nest found June 1st, latest
June 25th.
Eggs three or four in number; color,
white or greenish white, spotted with
brown and lilac over the entire surface,
thickest at the large end.
Nest composed of fine fibers and bark
strips and spider webs; lined with
gras--e8 and horse hair. Built from five
to fifteen feet above the ground.
In closing this paper 1 would say that
I consider the Warblers the most inter-
esting family of birds for the ornitholo-
gist to study, and in giving the descrip-
tion of the nests and eggs i-n this paper,
I have described specimens that are in
my own collection, and while it may
differ from the descriptions given by
others, it is correct in regard to the
specimen that I have examined.
Hoping that more attention will be
given to the study and less to the de-
struction of our feathered friends, I re-
main oologicaly and ornithologicaly,
Guy H. Briggs.
Livermore, Maine.
The Accipiter Cooperini in Wayne and
Oakland Counties, Michig-an. *
Cooper's Hawk is a common summer
resident in both Wayne and Oakland
counties, being exceeded in abundance
only by the Red-shouldered [Buteo bore-
alls ) It is well known to the farmers
as the "chicken-hawk," and most farm-
er boys pride themselves upon the
number they have killed. It is the
most dashing and spirited of our sum-
mer hawks becoming, however, like
most other hawks, commonest in Aug-
ust and September. Undoubtedly
more than 80 per cent of the depreda-
THE OOLOGIST.
185
tions committed upon domestic poultry
may be attributed to it. Bendire says:
"Cooper's Hawk must be considered as
one of the few really injurious Raptors
found within our limits, and as it is
fairly common at all seasons through
the United States, it does in the aggre-
gate far more harm than all other
hawks. It is well known to be the
most audacious robber the farmer has
to contend with in the protection of his
poultry, and is equal in every way both
in spirit and dash, as well as blool-
thirstiness, of its larger relative, the Gos-
hawk, lacking, however, the strength
of the latter, owing to its much smaller
size. It is far the worst enemy of all
the smaller game birds, living to a
great extent on them as well as on
smaller birds generally. It does not
appear to be especially fond of the
smaller ro ients. These as well as rep-
t'les, batrachians, and insects seem to
enter only to a limited extent into its
daily bill of fare, and unfortunately it
is only too often the case that many of
our harmless and really beneficial
hawks have to suffer from the depreda-
tions of these daring theives." How-
ever, this has always been the most in-
teresting of hawks to me, perhaps be-
cause the first I ever shot. To relate
the story: It was late in the afternoon
on a September day. A friend and
myself were returning from a collect-
ing trip rather disappointed with our
day's "catch," when we noticed a hawk
sailing through the air. Suddenly he
seemed to drop into an apple tree at
the end of a long field. We crept to
within gun range, when he suddenly
sailed from the tree. I tired bringing
him to the ground- When we got up
to him he turned over on his back and
showed signs of fight. Not knowing
the strength of a wounded hawk, I
went to pick him up. when at the same
time he took a gentle hold on my hand,
and would not let go until we killed
him.
Mr. J. Claire Wood speaks of a female
Cooper's Hawk in his collection which
was taken in Greenfield Tp., Wayne
County. The bird had dashed through
the laths of a hen coop in pursuit of
pome small chickens, and was caught
by the farmer before it could escape.
It was very poor in flesh, and its stom-
ach was empty, which probably ex-
plains its daring ferocity. Mr. Wood
also records the following sets of eggs
of the Cooper's Hawk taken by him.
"May 6, 1900. Nest situated about 45
feet from the ground in the main fork
of a slanting beech, in higher portion
of a thick woods in Van Buren Tp.,
Wayne County. This nest contained
four eggs.
"May 5, 1901. From same pair of
birds, nest also 45 feet from the ground
in fork of young beech, the trunk of
which was not more than nine inches
in diameter. This nest was not more
than 100 feet from tree containing old
one. The old bird was not at home,
but put in h°r appearance as I ascended
the tree, and was very demonstrative,
sweeping down within a few feet of my
head. Was induced to climb by notic-
ing bits of down clinging to nest and
surrounding limbs, which is invariably
the case, I believe, when incubation has
commenced. This nest contained five
eggs somewhat incubated.
"May 11, 1900. Rather open oak
woods bordering railroad track, Clark-
ston, Mich. The continued persistant
cries of this bird induced me to look for
the nest. There was a great many old
crow nests in the woods and I climbed
to several before discovering the one
containing the eggs, which were five in
number, and very slightly incubated.
"The most remarkable part of this
take was the fact that while it rained
steadily all day, the hawk had not been
on the nest for some hours, for the nest
was soaking wet, and the eggs cold,
nevertheless, she was very solicitous
over the welfare of her home."
186
THE OOLOGIST.
It has been stated that a visit to the
nest of a Cooper's Hawk would cause
the parents to abandon it, however, I am
inclined to differ judging from a pair I
had an acquaintance with last spring.
On April 21st, while out collecting birds,
we met a farmer of whom we inquired
if he had seen any hawk nests. He re-
plied in the affirmative, and said that a
pair of "duck hawk" had taken up
their abode in a nearby woods, point-
ing out about where he supposed it
was. He said that but a couple of days
before, he had passed the tree, and that
the old ones flew around, saying some
very inpolite words (in hawk). We
made directly for the spot, and found
the nest in the crotch of a beech tree
33 feet from the ground, but the tree
was too hard to climb. On April 25th,
we returned with irons, and climbed to
the nest. It contained one egg which
was cold and dirty, and as no birds
were around I concluded that it was
the egg of a Red-shouldered hawk which
had deserted the nest on account of the
farmers interrupting it. However, I
took the egg home and upon washing
it, found it was the egg of a Cooper's
hawk. I blew it and found it fresh.
On April 28th, I again visited the nest
on which the old female was sitting,
but she flew in response to a tap on the
trunk of the tree. There was one egg
in the nest, which I took and replaced
it with that of a chicken. May 5th, I
returned to the neet and found two
more fresh eggs beside that of the hen.
I took these eggs home leaving one
more hen's egg in the nest. On May
19th, I returned to find one more hawk's
egg, it was highly incubated.
You will probably be interested to
know what became of the chicken eggs.
What would the poor hawk do if after
setting three weeks, find that she had
only raised — her breakfast, but this
could not be, as the eggs were hard
boiled intended for my lunch, and upon
my last visit, I threw them from the
nest.
Alex. W. Blain, Jr.
* Read before Chapter 176 Detriot B. Agassiz
Association. Oct. 4, 1901.
The Food Supply of the Brown Thrash-
er and Mocking- Bird.
By C. C. Purdum, M. D.
The Brown Thrasher:— This bird
IS found most plentiful in the Carolin-
ian zone of the U. S., but is found
breeding from New England to the
Dakotas. Like the birds which we have
last considered, this bird rears two
broods in one season. Being more re-
tiring in its habits than the catbird, one
would naturally look to find the thrash-
er less destructive than the latter. As
a matter of fact it is, but there is no
great difference in the varieties of cul-
tivated fruit which it devours, although
the quantity is much less.
Perhaps the variety of food taken by
this bird from the garden is grea'^er
than any heretofore considered by us,
consisting as it does of a rather diver-
sified list of fruit, viz., peaches, plums,
apples, pears, strawberries, black and
red raspberries, grapes and cherries;
all of which are marketable and a
great source of income to tbe farmer.
Naturally therefore the fruit grower,
observing these birds feeding in his
trees and shrubs, looks upon them with
no favorable eye, and contemplates
their destruction as a thing to be de-
sired. He should, however, look far-
ther than the loss of a few fine cherries
or grapes, and observe the bird closely,
when he would find that for each peck
at a grape or any of the other fruit, the
bird will eat a dozen or more noxious
insects, taking them as the body of the
meal and the fruit as a side dish.
This paper on the food supply of the
Brown Thrasher, is based upon the re-
port of the examination of one hun-
dred and twenty-one stomachs, collect-
ed as far west as Kansas and covering
a range from Florida to Maine. This
investigation was conducted by the U.
S. Department of Agriculture during
the years of 1893 and 1894, and the re-
sult may be roughly estimated as fol-
lows:
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187
Animal matter, 63 per cent.
Vejjetable matter, 35 per cent.
Mineral matter, 2 per cent.
()f the animal food, beetles are by far
the most relished, forming nearly one-
half of the whole amount. Next are
the grasshoppers and crickets (Ortho-
ptera), forming about one-tifth of the
animal food consumed. Then comes
the caterpillars, forming somewhat
less than one-fifth, and then the spiders,
thousand legs and bugs, forming the re-
maining one tenth.
Only eight per cent, of the beetles
consumed are among the beneficial
predacious ground varieties, and by
the consumption of a great volnme of
crickets, caterpillars, weevils, click and
leaf beetles, a ratio is established, de-
cidedly in favor of the Thrasher.
Before rendering a complete verdict
on the Thrasher, we must follow his
food supply through the entire season.
In the case of the Wren we
found this bird subsisting on an
animal diet almost entirely through-
out the entire season. With the
Thrasher it is different; he changes his
diet with the ripening of the fruit, and
as he eats more fruit he takes a smaller
number of insects, and vice versa. For
Instance: Early in April when the
Thrasher first arrives from the South,
animal food is much more plentiful and
the Thrasher consumes at least, three
times as much animal food as vegetable,
and as the insects are very plentiful
even before the vegetable food is ripe,
the excess of animal food continues and
increases until about the latter part of
May it reaches a maximum of 7 to 1.
When the vegetable element begins
to ripen, the proportion of animal food
to fruit begins to lessen, and about the
middle of August to the first of Septem-
ber, the ratio changes gradually until it
stands inversely 2 to 1. At no time
however does the proportion exceed
this two to one ratio, leaving quite a
iieavy balance to the end of the season
on the side of the animal food.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
maximum of fruit consumed, is reached
in July, we find that a large number of
beetles and ants are also devoured dur-
ing this month.
After the 20th of June the caterpil-
lars which have been very largely con-
sumed up to this time, begin to fall off
in numbers, and their place to be taken
by mulberries, buckthorn, etc., and
while a few are found in the stomach
constantly, still after the above date
they fail to increase to any marked de-
gree during the remainder of the sea-
son.
The above looks somewhat dark to
the value of the Thrasher economically,
but after all, out of the general propor-
tions of 25 per cent, of vegetable food,
we find that only 11 per cent, of it is
cultivated, and of tnis, eight per cent.
is fruit and the rest grain.
Mr. Sylvester D. Judd of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, says of this bird,
"The economic relation of the Brown
Thrasher to agriculture may be summed
up as follows: Two thirds of the birds
food is animal, the most of the
vegetable food is fruit, but the
quantity taken from cultivated crops is
offset by three times that quantity of in-
secc pests. In destroying insects, the
Thrasher is helping to keep in check
organisms, the undue increase of which
disturbs the balance of nature and
threatens our welfare. A good example
of the result of such irregular increase
is to be had in the fluctuations of the
Rocky Mountain locust.
The Brown Thrasher in its present
numbers is a useful bird, and should be
strenuously protected from gunners
and nest plundering boys."
The Mocking Bird (Mimus polyglot-
tos): — The amount of data regarding
the food supply of this bird is small,
and although its range is large, and in
many localities, especially in Texas, the
bird occurs in great numbers, the in-
vestigations— what few have been made
188
THE OOLOGIST.
— have not been carried out systemati-
cally. What has been determined can
be stated concisely as follows:
The animal food is much less in
quantity than the vegelable, and con-
sists entirely of insects and spiders.
The insects include grasshoppers, cat-
erpillars, beetles and ants, while the
vegetable food is composed of the pulp
of the larger fruits, as pears, plums,
apples, etc., together with large quanti-
ties of the seeds of berries of the smilax,
sumac, mulberry, bayborry, pokeberry,
black alder, red cedar Virginia creeper
and poison ivy.
The writer will be pleased to receive
either authentic notes on the contents
of the stomachs of birds shot, or es-
tablished facts in regard to the food
supply of this bird, and will later em-
body them in a report, if sufficient data
can be procured to prepare an article
of value. The concluding paper will
deal with the Meadow Lark [Sturnella
viagna.)
An Example of Maternal Solicitude
Many are the stories told in prose
and sung in rhyme of maternal devo-
tion among animals and birds. So
strongly is the maternal instinct devel-
oped that it leads to acts of sublime
heroism that challenge the admiration
of the world. Then it has its amusing
side, as when a brooding hen will pa-
tiently incubate a china door knob
without one ray of suspicion of the
hoax being played upon her.
An example of sublime, though re-
diculous devotion came under my ken
last summer which may be worth re-
counting. I made a professional visit
to one of our distant mining camps,
high up in the mountains. After my
patient's wants were ministered to. the
Superintendent, who knew of my pro-
pensity for robbing birds nests, called
one of the men and requested him to
lead me to the nest of a Humming B'rd
that had been discovered a few days
previously. The path led us up the
steep mountainside about one-half
mile, through the dense white fir and
alder thicket. The nest was saddled
upon the body of a small fir, about four
feet from the ground. I was delighted
to find the bird at home and ready for
callers. She was a Calliope (Trochilus
Calliope) one of the rarer species with
us, and as my guide remarked that she
had been upon the nest three days pre-
viously, I felt sure that a fine set of
egg^ would shortly be added to my cab-
inet. I gently shook the bush with the
intention of causing her to vacate Not
any vacate there. On the contrary, she
settled down into the nest with a sort
of fight-it-out-on-this-line-if it-takesall-
summer air that was highly amusing,
I then gently lifted her up by the beak
despite her scoldings. She dug her feet
into lhe lining of the nest in such a
manner that I feared to break tbe eggs
which I could not see, so was obliged to
desist.. Reversing the plan of battle, I
lifted her by the very brief condal ap-
pendage projecting above the rim of
the nest. This was too much of an in-
dignity for even an outraged hummer,
so with an angry buzz she took wing
and perched upon a tree not many
yards away. I looked down at my
treasures and no treasures were there.
Not an egg. A pretty little nest of
black moss and tree down but nothing
that would in the future add to the
bird populaiion of Idaho. Maybe some
of your readers can tell me what that
bird had in her mind. If so, I will
gladly furnish stamps for I very much
desire to know. Yours ooloaically,
Chas. S. Moody.
Orofino, Idaho.
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