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THE OOLOGIST,
FOR THE STUDENT OF

BIDRS, THEIR NESTS AND EGGS.

VOLUME XxXl.

| 2 o( 32 14

ALBION, N. Y.
FRANK H. LATTIN, M.D. PUBLISHER.
ERNEST H. SHORT, EDITOR AND MGR.

1904

FANDINOEMIE CIES Nia eimateeneante ory beastaee 105
ANIOSIOVOS bog che te oie neces oa ee nen Soe 105
MMO RROMIGS)<. Acc Av visa se. ale'da eee eee 140
A. O. U., Changes and Additions to
INGmenclatare cts 2). Sasi ee Ie ea 172
Birds Eggs, N. Am., (Review)........ 92
Birds, Home for Wingless............ 183
Bind Sa @ddyand: | Ranewsne nerinn i uot: 22
Birds of Flathead Lake, (Montana),
SUMMIT Sle eee ees Se arenes be Seay cine 60
Birds of the Galapagos Is.,............ 25
aitterm< eeaste: ee ih da ee WI ew 72
Blackbird sBrewers. ose ses nee Shae he 140
|B’ CIOL OURS Sakae femclel eee Oe ioe 72
‘*Boll Weevils and Birds’’ (Review)...43
Breeding of the Mississippi Kite....... a7
SJUSIPEE IEA Oc | Cimete, Genet Meee inane amr ried 149
@apmets; Moth: Proof... ..-0e snakes 104
Cal. Bush-tit and Parkman’s Wren,
GEOL Ra. leakalll Aan RIDE sage MN ara 149
Cal., Coopers Hawk in Orange Co..
Birdies lis ote ire 56
Catalogue, Lattin’s Standard......... 106
Whickadee, Carolina dy. Jt0 4c 50:2 ees 137
Climbing, Some Tree....-............ 89
Collecting Habits, Theta eheeteak 25
Cop CAME: ho meester oe a 72
Cormorant Colony, A Scotch......... II
Morpyotant, Mexican} s:5 (ea hes ae, 25
Coues Key, (5th ed.) Review......... 12
RB eATII Sosa hein See wee: 43, 88
Pmckoo,- Ground: kos Gane ksa ges che 23
Watteeanike crime yk ieee Pek ee At 10
Bucky shoveller ii2te sod. SUSE sreter: 73
|S ENE S18 (0 ea tale ae ety Ge Se 88
Eagles, A Season with Bald........... 85
' Eagles Nest, Bald (illustration) ........ 86
Prattorial, Greetings )s.0i Ssaeee ak bee 7
Egg of Apyornis maximus..........++ 105
Ege within another one...... ....... 263
Eggs of Black-billed Cuckoo, Ab-
LA CGF eae GS aa a 156
Eggs of Black-throated Blue Warbler,
MoteranOut test. seed ivan: eee 56
Eggs of Bluebird, Albino............. 105

Eggs of the Dwarf Screech Owl...27, 204
Eggs, Large Set of Yellow Warbler’ Ss, 140

Eggs of Solitary:Sandpiper, Discovery

Ol: thes hee eee enero n cee sn) ARUN ne 165
Finch, -Pigplertcsueeemaa rn core cae ie 9
Bratids,"Aboutiekereweeeee asks 187-188
‘“‘Prederick Young’? (Review)........ 172
Game; "WardenS Gee staan: 133. 137
Grebe, WEST ITY Chey ae eres us gt eomeeec 101
Grosbeak in Central lowa, Evening... .28
GrosbeakPind aon mee se eae 9, II, 44
Grouse, Ruffed: wismanmenet lensed ecaiic 42
Golden-eye, Arm Pibeeieiye oh ne oe 44
Goshawilk Am). :secemetnat ste ae 44
Gull, Franklin's , 2scpe hee tl 10
“Haunts of the Golden- -winged War-

bler? (Reviews ae See ih see de ee, 76
Hawk, Broad-winged................ 171
Haw ik} Coopers. icemie nt weet 41, 88
Hawk in Orange Co., Coopers........ 12
‘Hawk, Red-shouldered............. 9, 88
Hawk, Red-tailed) tema a. coset meatier g2
Hawk, Sharp-shinned................. oI
Herons, Among the Great Blue........ Al
Illinois, The Turkey Vulture in....... 103

Illustration, Am. Woodcock on Nest. .136
is Nest and Eggs of Bald Eagle, 86

ee Nest and Eggs of Cooper’s
FAW 27. Seeds sa ene 71
Illustration, Nest and Eggs of Grass-
hopper Sparrow BE Re ss Hina PaR I 184
Illustration, Nest and Eggs of Black-
throated Blue Warbler.............. 56
Illustration, Nest and Eggs of Solitary
Sandpiper Oe ee eae erent AGN ean ch 164

Illustration, Nest of Cal. Bush-tit.....151

bk Nest of Parkman’s Wren...150
Indiana, An Egg Collecting Trip in
Feranrkliny Gogo < sncmcc theese 70
Indiana, Collecting in Northern........ 73
Wess COs iol NONE cane Sahn saat 14
Jay, Double Set of the Blue.......... 156
Junco, Slate-colored Decade 44, 76, 103, 155
r MIAIKADO, Ohio nema stan Saris Cimntave-s,s 186
Kingfisher, ;Stork-billedi o 2205.2 y 0s « 23
Keildee ritics see eee pe aes Seger fo a 72
Kite, Breeding of Mississippi... ea 7
Be A ea Ds eh Ce 186-187
Wank lonmleduormctseraecsietcst ila ants ss {2
Laws, CAEN RE Pete cic'e Lae sees 137
Vonespitrubapland= «i251 ..ce sues ewes 9
LOOM GOGH -ENTOALCG asec. eae. eee es 60

THE OOLOGIST.

DNCAS OMA CG ciages ss’ aos ainne wie Sle wing nate Oe 43
MMCESANSECRSOAM. «<0 2s caitlin e® 44, 200
MichigansRandoms.. 2.5. 2022 se eat 88
Migration of Kirtland’s Warbler....... 55
INCRIMACIRODIN So: 2s et te teeess eo 104
West of Bald) Eagle... ck ge aire sees 86

Nest and Eggs of Swainson’s Warbler, 26
Nest of Kirtland’s Warbler, The Dis-

covery of the First Known.......... 53
Nesting of Am. Woodcock............ 135
Nesting of the Black Tern............. 74

Nesting of the Cerulean Warbler..... 181
Nesting of the Dotted Canon Wren...155

Nesting of the Hooded Warbler.......168
Nesting of Red-eyed Vireo, Late...... 201
Nesting of the Slate-colored Junco....103
Nests, Green Leaves in.... 2... 02.5% 171
New York, The Slate-colored Junco in
RAS ECUIN Goo eee SO eS fae eM 155
New Zealand, Bird Sanctuaries of... 183
MIPAUMAWK 62 35 ac ic ooiss tale oS ga 154
North Am..Birds Eggs.......... 40+ 139
Nuthatch, Brown-headed.... ........ 137
Nuthatch, Red-breasted.............. gl
AODUNAUY Sec och cee k ee a eee 60
“Odds and Ends” (Review).......... 76
Ornithological Iron Clad, An........ ‘101
Osprey. JAGNe o, sic. 5 cctah. ss Sooo See 137

Owl, Eggs of the Dwarf Screech. .27, 204

Owl, Great Horned.. ....... , 89, 105
Pigeon, PASSENZEL $5 S56 ra 0 fusediase 42, 69, 92
PEATE MN oe hia delete} ait aah ohare SO epee 50
Rail, Vireinia.s .. s Gegie i ely mes 75
Ramble, A Sunday Morning.......... 136
BREMDON LS aid Sevctts. SiMe as Base aes 44
ROA Bails te teat arctan PAR ES Ua a 186
Robin; Amiuaey sue bee Ree 104, is
Sandpiper; Spotted acc eects
Sandpiper, Discovery of the Egg ot ine’
St, Le ig 1 en ED 165
SeruVlanks), eras s-s..< Se Gee 88, 10
Shrike, Great Northern.............. 942
Shrike, The White.rumped in Eastern
New -¥ OnKkerAsie ss sages cee 202
Spatrow, Juincole’s ....7.. ss. aeeen. 42
Sparrow, keasnte’s .:.. <.v. wxtieeoee) - 5
Sparrow, My Song :. . olka 133
Spartow, Teenie. s ho hk aS eepeee 44
Suggestions eset: is «nw teads ares 104
Swallow, Large Sets of the Barn...... 156

Swallow, Rough-winged ............. 137
Swallow, White-bellied.(Tree) ....... 137,

Swift, Breeding of the White-throated, 152
Swift, Gavaes oooh 2. leige ise aan 23
Tern, Cominrony.(0>..: caer oe 88
Tern, Nesting of the Black... ¢.. 7a: 74
Thrush, Olive-backed .:.\25..-..2.ce 25

Virginia, The Great Dismal Swamp of, 197
Vireo, Late Nesting of the Red-eyed ..201

Vireo,, Red-evyed:.. 3s 0.0 kee cee 27
Visitors,’@ur Winter) - aoc seeeeee 44
Vulture in Douglas Co., Oregon, The
Gall? bs Sei ie aan el 55
Vulture in Illinois, Turkey.. ........ 103
Warbler, Black and White. . 22, QI
Warbler, Blackburnian...... 2 eo
Warbler, Black-throated Blue.. Oy Bs: 56
Warbler, Black-throated Green. . 122539
Warbler, Breeding of the Myrtle. Here 8
Warbler, Canadian................ 22, QI
W arbler,:Gernilean® .2i50 22 eke 22, 181
Warbler, Chestnut-sided:............. 57
Warbler, Connecticut......... ... Lae ee
Warbler, Golden-winged.............. 76
Warbler, Hooded....... Sie eae 168
Warbler, Kirtlands........ 9, 53, 105, 171
Warbler, Large Set of Yellow......:. 140
Warbler, Magnolia......-... 9, 22, 51. OI

Warbler, Nest and Eggs of Swainson’s

Tad aie dhe Ws be aM a dtelar ons Ahad Ua rae ea 26
Warbler, Pine: <3 .25-28).5;.20 03e 22, 136
Warbler, -Yellow.Palm. ..) 055... 5) S296
Warblers. 025.0200. alae gl
Water Thrush, Louisiana? ... RigiE oe 22
AN iia «: heat ata: iy ke weak Sane cee a 185
‘‘Where did Life Begin?’ (notice).....43
Whip-poorwill. . 2.00. ee ee 154
Woodcock, Amit 2 s.2te Sa ee 74
Woodcock in-Hard Luck............. 135
Woodpecker, Am. 3-toed:.:.0...2002%) 42
Woodpecker in Illinois, Hairy......... 59
Woodpecker, Red-headed............. 72
Worlds air t iso nee eee 105, 140
Wren;:Garoliha.:. 2.22922 Sige 136
Wren, House! *.c\ (sia pee ee ee 155
Wren, Nesting of the Dotted Canon, 155
Wren, Patkman’sos0. . Gia 149
Wren, Long-billed Marsh............. 72
Yellow-throat, Maryland............. 137

THE OOLOGIST.

A MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO
OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY.

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Vou. XXI. No.1. isin.

N, Yo,

JANUARY, 1904. - WHOLE No.- 198.

WANTS, FOR SALES AND EXCHANGES,

-- Brief Special announcements, *
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each additional word.

‘Wants,” “ Exchanges,” ** For Sales,” inserted in*this de-
Notices over, 25 words charged at the rate of 1-2 cent for
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Strictly first-class specimens will be accepted in payment at 1-

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9 “lars typ ike Dec.” 1904
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Tntermediate neers can easily be deter-

mined. If we have you credited wrong we .

wish to rectify,

' FOR SALE—One half section, 320 acres,
-choice unimproved land in Assiniboia, Can-
ada. Where wheat yields 40 bus. to the acre
and other grain crops in proportion, Is the
-safest and best investment of the present
time. Intending buyers write es descri
cote rice and terms to EDW. W. SPRIN
: watonna, Minnesota. °

Will exchange one fine cloth eopy of ft" Fred-
erick Young,” the naturalist,a story, for $3
worth of Al bird skins. Send list CHAS. L:
PHILLI PS, Taunton, Mass.

WANTED— Pre-historic copper-relics, also
extra fe ancient stone spears aud knives,

REV. E. C. MITCHELL, 534. Summit Ave,
St, Paul, Minn.

WANTED-—At once, choice sets of Ruffed
Grouse, Passenger Pigeon, American Spar-
row Hawk, Bald Eagle, Short-eared and
Saw-whet Owls, Purple Finch Arkansas
Goldfinch, Lawrence’s Goldfinch, Snowflake,
Savannah Sparrow, Gambel’s Sparrow, Tree
Sparrow, Slate-colored Junco, Bell’s Spar-
TOW .Pine- wood Sparrow, Fox- colored Spar-
row, Texan Cardinal, Blue Grosbeak, Lazuli
Bunting, Lark Bunting, etc. _Ican offer sets
from this and other localities in exchange.
Give me an idea what is wanted in return.
oe ee Ww. tO a -Owatonna, Minn. R.

TO EXCHANGE-Stone Moria ‘and Pes-
tles, Wampum, white and black Necklaces of
Beads, Shells and Bones, Pottery etc. from
mounds and graves, China and large Ameri-
can cents. Farallone Cormorant eggs, for
eggs insets, J.B. LEWIS. 910 Washington
St. Pelaluma, Sonoma Co. Cal.

California shells for others. ;,

TO EXCHANGE-—Fifty named ‘varieties of
Send list bv
mail, or shells rightly named by express
and I willreturn those not wanted and full
value in other varieties. C.M.SLAYTON,
Belding, Mich. RF. D3:

FOB § SALE OR ~ EXCHANGE. — Indian
Wampum white and black beads. Neck-
laces etc. from mounds and graves, old
American and foreign. copper and_ silver
coins, Prehistoric Mortars and Pestels,
Bows, Arrows, Points, Shell Necklaces and
Work Faralone Coromorant and Ostrich
eggs. J. B. LEWIS,. 910 Washington St,,
Petaluma Sonoma Co., California,

“ WANTED-—For Cash or Exchange, com-

plete sets of nearly every species of Maine

eggs., Have fine western sets, Indian arrow
oints and baskets. J. AROLD: EVANS,
anta’ Rosa Cal, : ee

"FOR EX@HANGE-— Books and magazines
on Surgery, Medicine, Oology and Ornith-
ology, for books on same subject and Taxi-
dermy. J,D, ANTHONY, Waubeek, Iowa.

- WANTED-—Personally collected sets of
nearly all species of Maine eggs; for cash or
good exchange in western sets, Indian bas-
kets, beads and arrow heads. J. HAROLD
EVANS, R, F. D. Santa Rosa California,

NOTICE—Should like to exchange sets of
Western birds for those of common eastern

species; Also other natural history speci-
mens. Address, JOHN M. BENEDICT, Jr.

Centralia. Lewis Co., Wash.

TO EXCHANGE—Collection of stamps and
album for first class skins. Many common
ones wanted. <All answered. WILLIAM
WILKOWSKI, Jr.. 1409 Alamo Ave. Kalama-
zoo, Mich.

Taxidermist, Oologists, I leave in March
for my third trip to the North, collecting.
Parties wishing skins or eggs should write
for list. J.D. ANTHONY, Waubeek, Iowa.

OSPREY—Vol.2 complete and 6 numbers
vol. 1 $1.50, 100dd numbers all different 0c.
4 pounds of magazines of interest to bird
men and lovers of outdoor sport 25c., all pre-
paid, BENJAMIN HOAG, Stephentown.
New York.

- FOR EXCHANGE—AIlmost complete file
of Osprey to exchange for A. 1 sets, of Pee
tores Waders or Water birds. W.H. BING-
AMAN, Box 151 Algona Iowa.

FOR SALE—For Cash Only sets of 1-3, 1-4,
354 $4.50; 1-2, 351 $1.00; 1-3, 1-4, 354a $4.50; 1-5,
367 .25; 1-5 376 $1.50. HARRY GORTON. 18
Edward St. Seedly Pendleton England.

ADVANCED or favorably situated collec-
tors of skins or eggs may find themselves
to the good by making a deal with, P. B.
PEABODY, Sundance Wyo. Jt2

WANTED— Raw Furs skunk, mink, fox,
otter, etc. Send me your list with lowest
cash price. Jas. O. JOHNSON, Southington,
Conn. Lock Box 6550. ;

ood running order, 24inch frame, trade for
$30 worth first class sets eggs, at list rates,
Lattin’s or Taylors, eggs your selections sent
prepaid. Youto pay express or freight on
bike. | BENJAMIN HOAG, Stephentown,
New York. j

EXCHANGE—Offer splendid butterflies,
papered or spread; from Central and South
America, India etc., for first class skins and
eggs. Perfect Western butterflies wanted
also erysalids.. LEVI W.
High School Reading, Pa.

FOR SALE —5 beautiful, sea shells for 10c,
25 shells all different 25c.: Panamas for por-
tiers\iall kinds of shells for fancy \ work,
white scallops 25c. per doz. My catalogue
of sea shells with first order. .Mrs “SUSAN
M. MOHR. Lealman, Fla. : J2t

J3t :

MENGEL, Boys’ :

FOR SALE—Cowe’s Birds of the Colorado.

Valley. Second-hand. perfect condition $3.50:
Macouns Canadian Birds part 1, new 60c.,
Davie’s Nests and Eggs 3d edition. perfect
condition. cloth, $1.00 all prepaid. BENJAM-
IN HOAG, Stephentown, New York. :

EXCHANGE-— Fancy Pigeons wanted in all

varieties must be thoroughbred stock only ‘

havea fine lot of eggs from the Southwest
to exchange for same, write stating what you
have with full description of same.; Homers
wanted in any quantity for squab breeding.
THE OLIVE PIGEON LOFTS, Los Angeles,
Cal. 853 South Olive St. ie

WANTED—A good cabinet. suitable for
bird skins, can offer a 44 cal. Take down
marlin rifle. also want A No 1, skins for cash
or skins. W. G. WIRT, Alkion, N.Y. Or-
leans Co. .R. F. D. No. 7.

MAMMALS! BIRDS!—Parties) wishing
fine mammals or birds from this. locality
let me know, I will collect to order A, Nov.
Scientific skins. Fine mounted specimens
for sale cheap. Address G, F. MONROE,
Taxidermist, Superior, Wis. tf

FOR SALE—From Arizona and Southern
California, rare and desirable sets for sale,
many with nests on limb among other good
things are the tollowiig. Mexican Gosnawk,
Elf Owl, Ant-eating Woodpecker, Gila Wood-
pecker. Coue’s Sulphur-bellied and Ver-
milion Flycatehers, Black-chinned, Brewers,
Black-throated and Mountain-song Spar-
rows, Bridled Chickadee, Lead-colored Bush-
tit, Arizona Junco, Painted Redstart, Red-
faced, Virginia and Lucy Warblers, send
stamp for full list and prices. O. W. HOW-
ARD, Los Angeles, Cal. 853 South Olive St.

THE OOLOGIST.

FOR SALE—Beebe Arms Cou., single barrel
breech loading shot gun, 12 gauge automatic
ejector, new $5,00 you pay express. Bri: tol
steel rod No. 16 new $4.00 delivered, No. 6 $3.10.
BENJAMIN HOAG, Stephei town, NewYork.

FOR SALE -Birds eggs; prices prepaid, all
first-class, full data, Mexican Horned Lark
1-3 35c., Bobolink 1-5 40c., Brown Thrasher 1-4
5¢c., Western Robin 1-3 15¢c., Wood Thrush 1-3
10c., Cardinal 1-3 6c.. Texan Cardinal 1-2 20c.,
White-fronted Dove 1-1 10c., Cassius Purple
Finch 1-4 50c., House Finch 1-3 5c., Wood
Pewee n-2 25c.. Vesper Sparrow, 1-4 8c., West.
Night Hawk 1-1 10c.. Least Vireo 1-3 35¢c., Tree
Swallow 1-4 20¢.. Bullocks Oriole 1-3 10c.,
Brewer’s Sparrow n-4 50c., Great Blue Peron
1-3 30c., Wild Turkey 1-1 60c., American Coot
1-5 20c., Road runner 1-4 20c., Western Grebe
1-4 35c., Arabian Vulture 1-1 $2.50 Golden-
cheeked Warbler 1-2 $2.00 Califoruia Shrike
1-7 30c., Song Sparrow 5-4 5c., Yellow War-
bler 4-4 5c. BENJAMIN HOAG,Stephentown,
New York. oats

a

Stephen Van Rensselaer Jr. West Orange,
N. J., desires to buy Indian relics, old pistols,
curios; bird skins, etc. also books pertaining
to the same. No postals answered.

f 1 f Parse tot pion tae
NOTICE—Columbia »Chainless Bicycle,
coaster brake, excellent condition. New $8..
tires, $30 net. A bargain. May exchange
for a good rifle—Savage or Winchester pre-
ferred. J.R. NOWELL, Union College (8. 8.
S.C.), Schenectady, N, Y. : se

LOOK, 5 different Foreign Coins, 10c.; 5 dif-
ferent. Minerals. 10c.: 2 old Liberty Cents, 10c.;
10 Curios 10c.; 3 Sea Curios 10c.; 3 Indian Rel-
ics 10c.; 3 South American coins 10c.; 3 Uncir-
culated Coins 10c.; Indian Tomahawk, _0c.;
20. Sea shells 10c.: 10 larger shells 22¢.; Indian
Knife 10c.; Scraper 10c.; Chisel 30c.; Sinker
18¢.; price List Liberty Cent and Relics. fora
dime. W. P. ARNOLD, Peore Dan, R. I.

INDIAN PIPES.

I have justsecured a few genuine Sisseton
Indian Peace Pipes made with painstaking
care from: the true pipestone or Catlinite
from the Indian Quarries at Pipestone,
Minn. They are nicely carved and etched in
symbolic designs and have all been used.

Stems of same material as pipes.

Extra fine Tomahawk shape, value §$ 4.00
length 141-4in. My price $2.95; another tom-
ahawk, length 16in. value $3.50, stem) mended
on lower side but hardly s hows, my price
$2.65; one Hammer Head Pipe, length 14 1-4in.
value $2.50. my price $1.98: one V shaped Pipe
ornamented and etched. stem curved length
l4in., value $2.50, my price $1.58; one rectan-
gular pipe, stem curved, length 11 1-2in., val-
ue $2.50, mv price $1.35. Can not be mailed
safely. Address

ERNEST H. SHORT, Rochester, N. Y.

STANDARD

in sets such as
All answered.

Je

DATA BLANKS and
Field Note Books. I
will accept a few offers
I can use for same.
GEO. W. MORSE,
Ashley, Ind.

THE OOLOGIST. 3

For Sale or Exchange at Taylor’s Catalogue.

This entire lot (from two collections) is for
sale. Will exchange some specimens for
stamps not under 25c. each, Scott’s 1903 Cata-
logue.

Sets, A.O. U No. 14-3 at 14c, 12 1-1 at 30c, 16
5-1 at 40c, 30a 10-1 at 5c, 361-2 Alaska at 82, 49
1-3 at 10c. 51a 2-2 5-3 at 8c. 53 1-2 3-3 at 20c, 69 13
and 741-2 at 5c 86 2-1 at 257, 90 1-1 at 35c, 106 1-1
at 5e, 117 2-1 at 20c, 122 1-3 1-4 atl5c, 1951-4 10-3
4-2 at 20c, 126 1-2 at 8c, 127 1-4 1-3 at 28c, 130 1-7
at 25c, 132 1-7 1-8 1-9 at 10c, 135 1-7 at 25c, 137 1-9
at 20c, 139 1-8 at 25c. 141 1-7 I-8 1-9 and 142 1-11 at
15c, 146 1-10:1-11 1-12 1-14 at 10c, 149 1-9 at 20c.1-51
1-9 at 25c, 167 1-7 at 18¢c, 178 1-20 1-21 1-22 1-16 19
1-51 at 50c, 200 1-5 at 6c 20134 and 202 1-4 2-3 at

5c, 190.1-3 at 4oc, 194 1 4 at 20c. 264 1-3 Europe at:

45c, 273 2-4 at 5c, 287 1-2 at 81 60 294 1-10 1-19 1-28
at 10c, 294a 1-13 1-14 at 10c. 308 1-5 at 64c. 308a 1-13
at 50c, 31912at 8c, 325 1-2 at 25c, 3392-3 at 15c.
341 1-2 at 48c, 342 1-3 at 20c, 339b 1-2 at 60c. 348 1-2
at 65e, 355 1-5 at #300, 360a,1-3:1-42-5 at 10c, 3262

1-2 at 3hc, 36524 1-6 at 10c‘ 366 1-5.at 20c, 367 1-3
1-6 at 42c,
1-3 at 81.75. 378 2-7 1-829 at 5c, 384 1-6 at Ic, 3907
15 at 7c., 393 1-4 at 20c, 394a sub-peciex willow
woodpecker 1-3 at 20¢e. 411 1-4 at 50c. 413 1-7 at 5e.
431 n-2 at 18¢c, 434 2-n 2 at 24+. 423 13 at de; 443 1-4
at 5c. 446 1-4 at 40>, 452 1-5 at 5c. 45315 at 15c, 454
1-4 at lic, 457 1-3 at &c, 458 2 4 2-3 1-5 at 5c, 461 n-3

at 5c. 462 1-4 at 8c. 464142-3at 8c: 471 n-2at4dc .

476 1-5 at 20c. 478a 1-3 at35c, 478b 12 at 45c, 481
1-4 at 10c, 497 1-4 at 5c, /501b 15 at 5c, 505a 1-4 at
10¢, 50% 1-4 at 6c, 513 a at 5e. 529b n-3 at 5c,.530
2- n3 at 6c, 542a 1-4 at 543 12 at 10¢, 546 1-5 at
6c. 549 1-5 at 9c, 560428 at5c 567 1-4at 8c. 574
1-3 at 18c, 581d 6-324 at5c, Salt Marsh Song

Sparrows 1-3 1 4 at 20c. 588b24 at 8c, 591b 33 =

5e, 592 1-3 at 20c, ‘5938c 14 at 9c. 594 1- 2 at 100. £96
23at5c 601 1-5 at lic, 614 15 at5c. 622n 15 at
5e 6321-3 at£0c. 633a 2-3 at 15c. €83 an-4 at 10c,
68 a n-3 at 30c, 701 1-3 at 30c. 713 1-3 at 8c, 719.4

1-6 at 15c, 719b 1-5 at 1 c, 730 1-5 at 35c, 73314 at

20c, 742b D-4 at 25e, 743a 1-5 1-6 at 5c. 756 1-4 at’

6c, 7581-4 atic 761r14at 7c, 767 2-5 at 6c. Grii-
fon Vulture 1-2 Europe, at 80c, Egyptian Vul-
ture, Europe. 1-1 95c.

Skins at 1-2 Reed’s Catolague. In pairs (male
and female) except where noted. A.O U. Ne.
4; 16 female, 149 male. 165, female, 167, 210, 216,
242 two males. 243a. 247, 273 female, 292 male
293 female, £94, 332a female, 360a, 367 female, 393
d male. 394. 398 413.426 431’ 453a male, 462 male,
471 male. 455a. 460-femals, 4748 male 474h two
males, 478. 478bj male, 481, 482 female, 494 male,
499, 50.b. 508 female 410, d17a female, male im.,
£19, 521, 422 two femalex, 533, 542c. 55¥a, male. 554b
male. 558 female 567, 567a 570 female 573 male.
Salt Marsh Song Spxrrow, ‘585a. 588, 590 two
males, 592 female, 499 male, 607 pairs in fall,
female spring. 6liat male, 615 two males 622u
male, 628 famale 629b male 636 male, 6:6. male,
656 fall, 688 two males one female, 669 female,
668 three pair. 6+0 four males. 6414 females. 711
female Salt Maash Yellow-throated male. 719%
725a, 726 male. 730 male 738,734 female. 74la
742d, 79a two females, 759, 761a femule, 763, 767
Transportation at your expense on sk! ns of
149, 165. 167. 210. 3324. 3604, 367 if or ‘ered separ—
ately on orders und-r $%.00 Everyvthiog else
prepaid Noorde s wanted under $100. DoN-
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Leconte’s Sparrow.

*From the author’s proposed work on
Southern Minnesota Ornithology.

Ammodramus Leconteti.
Leconte’s Sparrow has long been

Sena stamp for descrip- ©

recorded in. ornithological works as
occurring in a few favorable and some-
what restricted localities in Minnesota.
For a period of years: they have been
observed in Freeborn, Big Stone and
Grant counties and recently in Steele
county, while a number of distinguish-
ed ornithologists found these Spar-
rows.and secured some specimens in
the vicinity of Minneapolis.. The Rev.
P. B. Peabody found them breeding in
the northern counties of the Red River
Valley.. According to various reports,
in Iowa to. the south they occur’ only
as a migrant and in: Manitoba on the
north of us as a regular though rare
breeder. .A number of well known
ornithologists of extensive observation
have found them breeding in this
Province in the vicinity: of Reaburn.
I first made my acquaintance with the
Leconte Sparrow during the season of
1901, being introduced to a number on
April 21st, on. this occasion I did not
secure any specimens so am. not pos-
tive of the identity although it is
doubtless correct for later investiga-
tions under the most favorable .oppor-
tunities proved them as such.

Late in the afternoon of May 29th
found me near.a narrow strip of
marshy land through which extends
longitudinally a large ditch containing
two large areas of land of a similar
nature. These marshes formerly pro-
duced a luxuriant growth of various
wild grasses, but lately have been
drained and so closely pastured that
now only a scant growth is perceivable
while in some places it is nearly de-
void of vegetation. The narrow con-
necting strip mentioned, however, has
firmer soil (being slightly higher) and
produces a good growth of rank grass.

6 THE OOLOGIST.

While I was crossing this strip and
particularly when near the ditch my
attention was suddenly attracted to the
chirping notes of a pair of small spar-
rows not far away. Soon I espied them
restlessly flying about among the
grass and small bogs. Upon critical
scrutiny I arrived at the conclusion
that they were none, other than the rare
Leconte Sparrow and by their restless
actions and continuous chirping de-
cided that they must have a nest in
the immediate vicinity. Immediately
I commenced to search at first looking
only in the most likely places, but
finding nothing I returned and began
a most thorough search spending more
than an hour within an area six rods
wide and about ten rods long conti-
guous with the ditch, although with
the closest and most patiently applied
searching nothing in the form of a
nest could be found. Nearly, discour-
aged at such a failure I withdrew some
distance toa higher point for obser-
vation and awaited further results.
Almost simultaneously the loud and
excited chirping ceased, yet they were
very uneasy constantly moving about
either taking short flights or swiftly
running on the ground from bog to
bog, thus occasionally I would get a
glimpse of them or hear an almost in-
audiblechirp. It was exceedingly dif-
ficult for me to keep the location of
both birds for to my disadvantage the
sun had already disappeared and now
small things were rendered less dis-
tinct in the twilight. To keep pace
with the fast approaching dusk it was
absolutely necessary for me to move
nearer so that I might be within obser-
vable distance. This of.course I caut-
iously did and finally on the verge of
darkness when nearly every thing was
obscure I boldly ventured forth direct-
ing my steps toward a spot where I
had seen the birds go several times
but not staying long on any occasion,
and where one of the birds was now.

I came so suddenly upon her that she
had barely time to leave the nest
which to my disappointment contain-
ed three young birds and an egg about
to hatch. It was now too dark to meas-
ure or correctly note the composition
of the nest, so I deferred further obser-
vation to a future date, and thrusting
a stick into the soft earth not far away
for a mark I decamped. Returning
four days later on June 2nd I found
four young birds well developed for
their age occupying the nest, which
I photographed, but upon developing
the plate a poor negative was the re-
suit. The nest was effectually hidden
in a thick growth of grass and well
sunken in the mossy ground, it was
composed entirely of fine dry grasses
so arranged that the finer materials
formed the internal lining and mea-
sured inside 14 inches deep and 2+
inches diameter. This family of
young birds lived a comparatively
short life for on the morning of the
succeeding day June 3d. they were
found dead in the nest the appearances
evidently indicating that they were
crushed beneath the foot of some
‘‘eritter.””? On the —preceding* day.
June 2nd after a short tour and search
about the marsh I succeeded in locat-
ing another nest about sixty rods dis-
tant, containing one young bird about
ten days or two weeks old. The loca-
tion and composition of this nest were
identical to the one above described
and measured inside 1? inches deep by
2+ inches in diameter. During the fol-
lowing two weeks I made many trips
to this marshy area and spent many
hours in fruitless search but on the
15th was amply rewarded for all my
time and exertions involved in the
enterprise, for after two or three hours
of the most patient and critical search-
ing I was so fortunate as to flush a
sitting bird from its nest which to my
delight contained five eggs. This
nest was only sixteen paces from the

THE OOLOGIST. 7

last one I found and evidently belong-
ed to the same pair of birds, being an
attempt to rear a second brood. The
nest was placed ina luxuriant growth
of grass intermingled with a variety
of marsh weed, in this respect the
location differed from those previously
found, I did not then disturb the nest
as I desired to obtain a photograph of
the nest and eggs in their original sit-
uation,but not having my camera with
me I could not do it, so had to leave it
for the time being but I returned on
the 17th for that purpose fully equip-
ped with the necessary apparatus. [|
approached the nest cautiously and
came up to about four feet before the
bird left, then she hopped out and

swiftly ran away through the grass .

but in a few moments joined her mate
who was chirping vigorously and
flying about uneasily.

Carefully parting the grass soa clear
view of the nest could be obtained the

camera was then brought into action —

and two plates were soon exposed,
both, however, upon developing proved
to be fair negatives, one of which
is here reproduced in the accompany-
ing half-tone. This nest was con-
structed of dry brittle blades and stems
of grass with a few bits of green moss
distributed around the rim, the lining
consisted entirely of a species of fine
round grasses.

The dimensions were inside 13 inch-
es deep by 24 inches in diameter a
cavity waS excavated in the mossy
ground 2% inches deep and 3 inches in
diameter. All these nests were very
frail structures, for after taking them

up they would almost fall to pieces, .

thus are preserved with great difficulty.
The five eggs were far advanced in in-
cubation but with the free use of
pancreatin and the utmost patience in
their manipulation, three were finally
successfully prepared for the cabinet,
they measure respectively .71 X_ .5d,
.72 X .56 and .78 X .54 inches an aver-

age of .72 X .55 inches. Slightly larg-
er than the sizes generally given. The
ground color is grayish white, speck-
ed and dotted with brownish and lilac,
over which are thick and heavily spat-
tered large blotches of various shades
of dull brown.
Epw. W. SPRINGER,

Owatonna, Minn.

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. Editorial Notes and Clippings.

BREEDING OF MYRTLE WARBLER.

The following extract from an article
by C.J. Young in the “Daily. Herald”’
of Guelph, Ont. we deem of enough
general interest to reprint here.

‘‘Of the nests, the Black-throated
Blue was ina small maple sapling
near a hardwood bush, found May
28th, when it contained four fresh
eggs. This is the usual location for
that species. The nest of the Myrtle
Warbler was in a second growth pine,
two other nests in small. cedars, a
fourth in a small spruce, each from
five to twelve feet from the ground.
With regard to this bird, I notice it
has a decided preference for the vicin-
ity of water in the breeding season, as
three out of the four nests referred to
were located on islands in the lakes
hereabouts, the other was in a tamarac
swamp not far from Sharbot Lake, and
one I found some years ago was in a
cedar alongside of Calabogie Lake, in
Renfrew County. In each case the nest
was largely built externally of twigs of
spruce and hemlock (I have preserved
two of them), and the lining consisted
of feathers, which were in every case a
prominent feature. The late Mr. MclIl-
wraith mentions this, but Mr. Kells,
of Listowell, has apparently not observ-
ed it, writing in the O. F. Naturalist
Magazine, Vol. xvi., Nov. 7, of a nest
he found as_ being lined with rootlets
and hair. It does not therefore seem

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that the features are invariably present,
though undoubtedly they generally
are; the opposite being the case with
the Magnolia. 7 O, J. Young in
‘* Notes from Thicket and Swamp ”’
Guelph Daily Herald, Dec. 14th, 1903.
I note in September issue ‘‘ Bulletin
of the Michigan Ornithological Club,”’
pp. 83, a record of Four sets of 5 eggs

of Red-shouldered Hawk taken by Mr.

J. Claire Wood of Detroit, all found in
Wayne Co. Mich.

In the Collection of Mr. W. A. Dav-
idson of Detroit, there were three sets
of 5 each taken by Mr. Davidson in ’97,
°98 and ’99 from the same pair of birds
in Ecorse Township, Wayne Co.,
Mich. and he spoke of another set
taken by Mr. E. B. Schrage of Pontiac

In 796.

Southern Michigan seems to be rais-
ing a family of B. lineatus given to
laying sets of Five.

Up tothis year I had never seen one.

Ed.

EXTRACTS FROM LATE ISSUES OF BUL-
LETIN OF MICHIGAN ORNITHO-
LOGICAL CLUB.

Vol. IV.. No. 2.

‘*As we go to press we hear from Mr.
Norman A. Wood, as follows: Oscoda
County, July 3rd. -Started out at 6:45
this morning to look up D. Kirtlandi
and had five. males in my basket be-
fore9 o’clock. No females found so I
suppose they are setting very close—
no nests found yet. Have found nest
with two young ofthe Gt. Northern
Shrike; young are full fledged, nest
not very bulky, built in pine tree.

We shall expect a more extended
sketch of this trip by Michigan’s well
known ‘‘ warbler man’”’ for our next
issue.’’

Just after this issue had gone to
press Mr. Wood returned home from
his trip north in quest of the Kirt-
land’s Warbler with gratifying success,
having obtained a fine series of skins,

male, female, nestlings, full-fledged
young, nest and eggs.

Mr. Wood. also obtained some two
dozen photographs of the birds (in
life ) and their nests. The matergal of
this trip prepared by Mr. Wood and
illustrated by the photographs, will be
given to our readers in the third issue.
The editor also hopes to be able to give
a colored Pinte of the egg.
ye) gl SEED fp

Vol. IV,, No.3: .

The papers on the Kirtland’s! Warb-
ler promised to appear in this number
have been deferred to a later issue.

Mr. Wood has since madéa second
trip to ‘Oscoda county in company
with Prof. Reighard. oKds:

Owing tothe universal interest: of
this subject to all Ornithologists I
have reprinted these extracts in full.

All of us will look forward to Mr.
Woods article with anticipations of a
treat and the Editor offers congratula-
tions on his rare find.

Wm. WILKOWSKI, JR. Kalamazoo,
Mich., reports three Purple Finch
Dec. 7th. Is not this unusually late? -

Also records Pine Grosbeak from 1st
to 6th of Dec. and states that none
were seen after that date. He saw a
flock of fifty Lapland Longspur on
Dec 6th. Judged by W. New York
standards that would be an exception-
ally large flock. They have usually
came tothe editors notice in small
numbers associated with the Snow-
flake.

Periodicals Received.

‘* Atlantic Slope Naturalist ’’ Vol. I,
No’s. 2, 3, 4. and 5.

‘* Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithol-
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‘‘ The Condor ’’ Vol. V, No. 6.

‘* Notes from Thicket and Swamp’’
Daily Herald, Guelph, Ont. 3 issues,

Comments on articles specially not-

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Question Column.

H. Steenstrup, Chicago, and others.
How do Collectors get their set mark?
Ans. There are many systems follow-
ed by Collectors in marking eggs.
The most common is as follows—A
Collector secures his first set of Song
Sparrows in 1904 and he marks it this
way;—1—-; 1 because it is his first set of
that species for the season; 4 because
there were four eggs intheset His next
set would be 2-3, 2-4 or 2-5 according
to the number of eggs in the set. Now
this does very well for one year but
suppose he goes over the same system
next yéar and places his 1905 sets be-
side the 1904 takes in his Cabinet.
Now we will suppose some one tips
over two or three trays containing sets
collected in as many. different years.
If the sets happen to. be of the same
size and order all three will be marked
1-4.

He then has three dates for 12 eggs
all marked 581+.

Will he ever be sure that he has sep-
arated them right? Hardly.

Again suppose he packs six or more
of the sets to ship in exchange. (I have
had as high as 20 sets of one kind).
In this case the party who gets his
eggs can never be certain that he has
placed each set with its proper data.

Many advanced Collectors now
mark this way,
For 1904—04 1-4, 04 2-4 ete.
For 1905—05 1-5, 05 2-5, 05 3-5 ete.

This is much better but it makes
necessary a few more marks on the
eggs and the fewer marks the better
as every mark carries some risk of
puncturing the egg as well as marring
its appearance.

I consider the following method the
best of all.

Get your Data blanks in the Check-
book form and keep a record of all
sets mark on the stubs. Then begin

with your first take of a certain species

4

2}

Marking all the eggs simply with the
A. O. U. No. and the letter —a—,

Mark your next set of this species
—hb, the next —d—etce, up to Z.

This will take care of 26 sets of one
species, now begin on Capitals thus
A, B, C, ete.

Then if you collect a very large
series aS sometimes happens when
you find a colony you can begin on
the 53d. set thus aa, b b, ete. to z z.
After that, 1 a, 1 b etc. then 2a ete. to
2 2. :

This system makes less confusion,
requires fewer marks on the eggs and
admits of more expansion than any I
know of.

In marking a set of eggs always put
the marks in the relative position to
the blow hole on all the eggs .of one .
set. If you mark the first egg to the
right of the hole try to mark all of
that set in the same position.

This often helps in sorting sets from
different Collectors where some often
happen to be marked alike.

; The Editor.

Don’t be afraid to. ask questions.

The Editor will devote this Depart-
ment to as full an answer as space
permits

Franklin’s Gull.

Few, indeed, of those who are famil-
iar with the eggs of Franklin’s Gull
have any vidid knowledge of that er-
ratic gregarious .bird, whose summer
home is in the middle northern area
of North America, from Southern
Minnesota northward. There are two
known breeding places within our
border—one in Minnesota, and one in
North Dakota, where the birds some-
times breed; but some seasons not. In

Autumn they swarm, in thousands
about the larger, Dakota and Minne-

sota lakes and marshes.
P. B. PEABODY.

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The Pine Grosbeak.

By A. B. KiuGH, SEC’y WELLINGTON
FIELD NATURALISTS’ CLUB,
GUELPH, ONT.

On Nov. 5th ’03 large flocks of Pine
Grosbeaks (Pinicola enucleator cana-
densis) arrived and since that date up
to the present (Dec. 15) they, have been
common,

Here this bird is an irregular winter
visitor, but this year is apparently
competing for a place as a winter resi-
dent. /

These flocks have been composed
mostly of females and immature males,
the former in their ssmoky-gray uni-
form with orange on head and rumps,
the latter showing all graduations of
plumage from that ofthe female to
the adult male. i

The adult male is a remarkably
handsome bird, having the head,
breast and rump of bright carmine
pink and the feathers of the back edged
with the same color. When seen
among the conifers, whose branches
each bear a burden of snow, he pre-
sents a most beautiful picture.

The chief diet of the Pine Grosbeaks
for some time after arriving was the
seeds of Solanum dulcamara (Night-
shade). They plucked the berries off
the vines, and in eating them rejected
as much as possible of the fleshy por-
tion. A considerable part of their
time was spent upon the ground,
where they fed on the seeds of Polygo-
num hydropiper (Smartweed), and
caught insects, which they greatly rel-
ished. Jalso noted them breaking
open the galls on the Willow(S. dis-
color) and eating the insects within.
Another favorite food of theirs appears
to be Ambrosia artemisiaefolia (Rag-
weed). When feeding on this plant,
they hop ontoa stalk, which usually
bends down with their weight, when
they stand upon it and pick off the
fruits. While feeding upon the ground,

the warmth of their feet melts the snow
which then adheres to their toes in the
form of icicles, and the removal of these
with the bill, requires much nipping
and tugging, and a sort of gymastic
performance.

A Scotch Cormorant Colony.

On the 6th of May we cross the woods
tothe White Lock (Wigtownshire) a
lake of about 134 miles by % a mile,
where Islands have been the breeding
ground of Phalacrocorax Carbo as
long as I remember. We row out to
the first small island, the birds flying
off rather wild, there are 73 nests in
various stages of building, but very
few completed and only7 eggs. ° The
next island, rather smaller, has only
26 nests, but there are 17 eggs, one
nest containing 4. We now approach
the big ‘‘Scart island”’ as it is named,
as quietly as possible and landing at
its low end steal up behind a big cairn
of stones. The smell of a Cormorant
Colony is not soon forgotten, and
some of us have recourse to our hand-
kerchiefs. The birds here pay us no
attention, most are sitting on their
nests building round with large hea-
ther sticks while others are stealing
from their neighbors’ nests, near at
hand some exciting tugs of war are
going on, and many are flying in
from the shore with pieces of heather
or large sticks in their powerful bills.
Now we raise a shout and they all fly
off helter skelter, in great confusion,
their wings flaying in the water, and
then circling round,alight on the wa-
ter at some distance. One or two have
the presence of mind to take a_ stick
with them. Here are 248 nests and
467 eggs, many containing full sets
Some are content with a few sticks
loosely put together,but the ** Marthas”’
build an elaborate structure 1‘ feet
high by 22 inches, closely put to-
gether, of heavy sticks, well hollowed
and lined with dry grass. Some of

12 | ae THE OOLOGIST, 2'¢"?

the sticks are 14% inches in circum-
ference and 2 feet long, the nests are
all very close together, on flat rocks
near the water’s edge.
J. G. GORDON,
Corsemalize, Whauphill,
Wigtownshire, Scotland.

474 Horned Lark.

(Otocoris alpestris)

While I was out walking on Friday,
March 28, 1902. I saw a nest with
3 eggs in. I did not recognize the
eggs but I put them in my _ handker-
chief, as I did not have my collecting
box with me, and carried them home.

I found out from an‘ oologist that
they were the eggs of the Northern
Horned Lark, 80, called because they
breed up in Labador and Newfound-
land. This one had evidently staid
behind to breed as it was the only one
around.

The eggs are greenish-gray with pale
brownish-gray spots, which form a
ring around the thick end.
about the sizeof an English Sparrow
egg averaging .90x.64.

The nest was composed of grass lined
with feathers and setin the ground.
It was not hidden atall as you could
see both nest and eggs very plainly
quite a way off as there was no grass
or weeds to hide it.

This is accidental, as this bird’s
eggs are rarely found so far south as
Toronto. These eggs are invariably
mistaken for those of the Shore Larks,
but the Ornithologists here have decid-
ed that they belong to the Northern
Horned Lark as the Shore Larks have
not come up yet and the Northerns
had gone up a few weeks in advance

of the finding of this nest.
R. G. AUSTEN.
Toronto, Ont.

They are

Cooper’s Hawk, in Orange County, Cal.

While passing through a dense wil-
low forest at. the mouth of, the Santa
Ana Canyon in May of last year,,in
company with a young collector, I
flushed several adult Cooper’s Hawks
from perches among the branches,
and was not a, little surprised, when

-he, on climbing to an old nest, held

up a single, small, pale blue egg.

- He returned to the nest ten days later

and took a typical set of four fresh
eggs. He is. 30 miles away and I do
not remember the exact date, but be-
lieve them to be the first ever taken.in.

this county... : (
H. H. DUNN. ,

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sale, Heads of Moose from $10.00 to $40.00.
scalps from $4.00 to $8.00. horns and skuus,
cheap, Moose. Elk and Deer feet and legs.
for making novelties from 20c. to 50c. each.
Wolf skulls 15 to 50c. each, Wolf feet to first
joint of leg, make pretty mountings for paper
knives 25¢c. each. 3 Fox skulls 25c. each, all
goods O. K. small things can be sent by
mail. C. P. FORGE, Taxidermist and Col-
lector. Carman, Man.

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and second-
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FOR SALE. Prairie Dogs, Burrowing
Owls and other western specimens collected
during summer. Missouri River fauna.
Send in your orders now.

FRED W. SMITH, ‘Aderdeen. S: D:

TFOR SALE— Mounted animals and animal
sikns, 1 Jack Rabbitt, white $3.00. 5 gophers
$2.50. 1 Flying Squirrel $1.00, skins young
Rocky Mountain Goat $3.00, 1 Badger $2.50,
Wolf skulls 25c. each. CHRIS. P. FORGE,
Taxidermist,etc., Carman, Man.

FOR EXCHANGE—Choice sets with full
data. Chuckwill’s Widow, Am, Oyster catch-
er, Swainson’s Warbler, W ilson’s Plover,
Willet Royal Tern, Clapper Rail, Black Skim-
mer, Hooded Warbler, Summer Tanager,
DR. M. T. CLECKLEY, 457 Greene St,
usta, Ga.

OOLOGISTS ATTEENTION! Hand egg
Blow-pipe. “Very useful for all fresh eggs
invaluable with “ water blower” sent nost-
paid with directions for 50 cents. Nest stains
ink and pencil marks instantly and perman-
ently removed from eggs by using my solu-
tion. two dram bottle, 25 cents
CLECKLEY, 457 Greene St.. Augusta. Ga.

F., tf.

FOR SALE CHEA P—Choice Southern Sets
with full and accurate data. Chuckwill’s
Widow 1.00, Am. Oyster catcher 40 cents,
Wilson’s Plover 15 cents, Nighthawk 20cents,
Willet 15 cents. Royal Tern 15 cents, Brown
Pelican 10c., Laughing Gull 5e., Bachman’s
Sparrow 1.00, Swainson’s Warbler 1.00 Blue
Grosbeak 20c., Clapper Rail 5c.. Black Skim-
mer 5c., Boat-tailed Grackle 5c., Indigo Bunt-
ing 5c., Green Heron 10c., Yellow-breasted
(hat 5¢c., Summer Tanager 20c., Mockingbird
5c., Bob-white 10c., Long-billed Marsh Wren
5c., Red-eyed Vireo 10c., Field Sparrow 3¢.,
Cardinal 3c... Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 20c.,
Wood Thrush l0c.. Maryland Yellow-throat
l5c., Hooded Warbler 25., White-rumped
Shrike 10c.. Kingbird -5c., Yellow-billed
Cuckoo 10e., California Murre 1lic.. African
Ostrich 1.00. Satisfaction guaranteed. Many
Singles very cheap. Nests with sets. DR.
M. T. CLECKUIEY, 457 Green St. mai betel
Gra. ne tf

FOR SALE—This collection mounted birds
cheap. Listed below at $66.95 the entire lot
for $50.00, 1 White Pelican $5.00, 2 Snowy
Owls 5.00, 1 Barred Owl2.00.1 Osprey 2.00, 1
Swainson Hawk black plumage 2.00, 1 White-
fronted Goose 3.50, 1 Marbled Godwit 1.00.
aay young 50c., 1 Carmada Jay 1.00, 1 Gray

Ruffled Grouse 2.50, ladult across bill 1.00
2 immature plumage 1.00; 1 Dowitcher 1.00. 2
Sharp-tailed Grouse 3.00, 4 Prairie Hens 8.00,
1 Lesser Scaup Duck 1.00.1. Hooded Mergau-
ser 1.00, 1 Mallard 1.00, Pied-billed Grebe, 1.00,
1 Horned Grebe 1.00, 1 Magpie 1.50, 1 Buffle-
head Drake 1.50, 1 Yellow Legs 50c.,2 Canad-
ian Ruffled Grouse 2.00.2 White-tailed Ptar-
migan 4.00, 1 Virgin Rail 50c,2 Meadow
Lark 7dc.. 2 Bartrams Sandpiper 1.00,1 Pine
Grosbeak ‘0e., 1 Black Polled Warbler 50c..,
1 Redpoll 35c.,1 Snow-bird 35c., 1 Kingfisher
50c.. 1 Richardson Owl 200, 1 Hairy Wood-
pecker 50.. Black-billed Cuckoo 50c., 1 Fox
Sparrow 50c.,1 Bronzed Grackle 50c., 1 Red-
winged Blackbird 50c.,2 wrens 50c..1 Pectoral
Sandpiper 50.,1 Robin 50¢:, 1 White-breasted
Nuthatch 50¢c.. Young Sand Hill Crane in
down 1.00,2 young Horned Grebes 50¢., 2 3-4
grown Bartrams Sandpiper 1.00. Take the
lot at $50.00 or buy what vou want at the
prices, CHRIS. P. FORGE, Taxidermist
and Collector, Carman. Manitoba Canada.

, Aug- »
§ ahah His

RENE. D.,

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EXCHANGE. I hat ve fiine sets of birds eges
raptores especially, to exchange for rare
dian relics, U. 8. coins, stamps or sets nots in
my collection. JASPER BROWN,

For SALE for cash. Vols. II, III, 1V and —
‘V complete of the Condor.
L. IRVING ConpiT,
120 KE. 17th St. Minneapolis, Minn.

For SALE. For best offer in cash, a finely
mounted Carolina Paroquet. A. O. No.
382. 4s J. Wirt. Albion, N. ng

Orleans Co., Route 7

For SALE. DesirabJe books and papers on
ornithology, fine snow shoes, Simplex type-
writer. land and sea curiosities, choice shells
and minerals. Guy H. BRIGGs,

Livermore, Maine.

EXCHANGE. 25 big U. 8S. Cents, 15 dates,
40 War Tokens, 3 Cent 1835 for besi offer to-
bacco tags and bal ids.

W. en MCCLAIN. Edison, Ohio.

Taxidermist, Oologists, I leave in March —

for my third trip to the North, collecting.

Parties wishing skins or eggs should write ©
Waubeek, Iowa.

for list. J. D. ANTHONY,

FOR SALE—For Cash Only sets of 1-3, 1-4,
354b $4.50; 1-2, 351 $1.00; 1-3, 1-4, 354a $4.50; 1
367 .25; 1-5 376 $1.50. HARRY GORTON. 18
Edward St. Seedly Pendleton England. I3t

WANTED, Al sets ducks, with full nests of
down. Good exchange, or cash if your price

is right. Other sets wanted—many common.
Send full lists. AE. PRICE,
F4t ~ Grant, Park, Oh

FOR SALE—Cowe’s Birds of the Colagede

Valley. Second-hand. perfect condition $3.50.
Macouns_ Canadian Birds part 1, new d0c.,
Dayie’s Nests and Eggs 3d edition. perfect
condition, cloth, $1.00 all prepaid, BENJAM-
IN HOAG, Stephentown, New York.

MAMMALS ! ! “BIRDS! ! —Parties wishing
fine mammals or birds from this locality
let me know, I will collect to order A. No. 1.
Scientific skins. Fine mounted specimens
for sale cheap. Address G, F. MONRO
Taxidermist, Superior, Wis.

FOR SALE—5 beautiful sea a shells for 10c,
25 shells all different 25c.. Panamas for por-
tiers, all kinds ot shells for fancy ‘work,
white scallops 25c. per doz. My catalogue
of sea shells with first order. Mrs SUSAN

M. MOHR. Lealman, Fla. J2t

LOOK, 5 different Foreign Coins, 10c.; 4 dif-
ferent Minerals, lc. 2 old Eber ay Cents, 10c.;
10 Curios 10c.; 3 Sea Curios 10c,; 3 Indian Rel-
ics 10¢.; 3 South American coins 10c.; 3 Uncir-
culated Coins 10c.; Indian Tomahawk, 30C.:
25 Sea shells 10c.: 10 larger shells 22e,; Ir. "~n
Knife 10c.; Scraper 10c.; Chisel 30c.; ‘ mn
lkc.: price List Liberty Cent and Re
dime. W.P. ARNOLD, Peace Dale

HERE IS A BarGarn. A Hamp
writer (used 9 months) to exche
worth of strictly first-class sets
This is a $l00 machine. and this
eggs will represent not more th
Three kinds of type. Everythi

der. Let me hear from all whe
chine, and oblige, Yours for b
CLARENCE H. LUTHER
Fayette

Norway, lowa.

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INDIAN PIPES. Am. Sparrow-hawk, 4 fine............ Dafoe ao
Osprey beauties, 2 segetaheianietase Gh wet ce h AU ee CU 80
[have iustsecured'a few genuine Sisseton oars PL GIR eee RES Casce aie 1-20
Indian Peace Pipes made with painstaking Allen’s Humminebird: Nest and) 2 eos ee ia)
care from the true pipestone or Catlinite W bite Tis::3) fie ee eC eae Daa 35
from the Indian Quarries at Pipestone, Common Tern, SeRHINE ena es Sia ee rae 12
Minn. They are nicely carved and etched in Biaek Denn 3 SMe a tia ee ee ee 12
symbolic designs and have all been used. Long-billed Marsh Wren, beauties.....-.
Stems of same material as pipes. cee 4@ 2082.5): LOMO @ se es aaa 12
Extra fine Tomahawk shape, length 16 in, Rulfed Grouse, 6.........0... 0... eee 72
(value $3.50), stem mended on lower. side but Prarie Hen, 9+... .0. 0 jogs. e. eta eee 90
hardly shows, my price $2.65: one Hammer ERNEST H. SHORT,
Head Pipe, length 14 1-4 in., (value $2.50). my Rochester, N. Y.

price $1.98; one Rectangular Pipe, curved,
stem length 11 1-2 in., (value $2.50), my price

$1.35. Can not be mailed safely. Address. BIRD SKINS

ERNEST H. SHORT, Rochester, N. Y. Males unless marked fm.
List My price.

CahiaG JOT ee ea oe se 40, 19.0
EGGS IN SETS: JUSTIN: © Ree ee ee ee

White-faced Glossy Ibis......... 4.50 2.00
cy, Sa ne Price per set. Burrowing: Owls... 6220.5) 2565 32000 70
Mississippi Kite, 2fine................... $270 Gray Ruffed Grouse...>.......... 4.00 1.20
ec LB i rae sce cheese 125° White-wing Crossbill, fm........ 22
Crested Fly:Catcher, 5, very fine-......... 28 Snowflake, m. orfm............. 12
Onerou unc, fhne /2 eS one ie ees 70 Redpoll....... ES RAT he ‘4
Northern Phalarope, 4 fine. ......2....5.5. 95°. Blepned: lark ok ee aa 1s
Willet, 8 fine....;... CEE CEI RAID eR RAE G55 Qa liit hays iting cess een eee edt 28
COlGE i MeO Men ne MMe se io cian ieee ats 70 Black a White Warbler....... 18
Wihimiprel aime nana. 8 ac ie ade £5...) Biaek=nGlled)c te ae ae 18
Am. Long-eared Owl, Tits 6Y Dees ae 60 Black-throated green “....... 16
Pacific Horned Owl. 2. holes large........ 125 Mourning sb ArLe 40
Coopers Hawk, 4 fine.......0.... 200. + ss0ke- 45 TBE IO Re oneal a EY AC EAy
HArris?) a Weal he! ion ese 80 FLAT SKINS FOR TAXIDERMISTS.
Red-shouldered Hawk 93 fine}. ie 2. ee 45 Marsh Hawk (fine plumage)............. 0
4fime............. 60... Pox Squirrel. 0 000.5 eee 60

BMargh Tkseey ke: etimee SN ees 60 ; ;
Broadwinged Hawk,3............82..0.065- 2 40 ERNEST H. SHORT, Rochester, N.Y.

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Patched Together. ,
BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER
AND OTHERS.

The Editor has just closed a pleas-

ant correspondence with Mr. C. F.
Stone of Branchport, Yates-Co.,.N. Y.
in regard to the identity of two’ sets of
Warbler’s eggs and it has occurred to
him that parts of Mr. Stone’s letters
patched up, would prove as interest-
ing to many readers of the Oologist as
to him.

In regard to the sets Mr. Stone was in
doubt about, following is copied from.

correspondenee of Noy. 19th, 1903.

“Thad come to an open space in
dense bushes, (a bush lot surroundéd
by hemlocks), and noted two or three
dense growths of beech sprouts from
stumps.

I looked at one likely bunch putting
my hand in the top where the- leaves
were matted and, with a loud flutter,
away went a bird. I peered over’ into
the nest which was hidden in the
dense foliage. It rested on the dense
and tangled leaves and sprouts, Con-
cealed all around but open to the sky.
The female when flushed dropped to
the ground and remained Out of sight
for two or three minutes, then I saw
her coming back through the low
bushes but she was so lively that a
real good look at her was. impossible.
Here is a description of the female
that I gained as she flitted in “a most
lively manner through bushes, high
and low, or through dead. limbs close
to the ground.

Under parts from breast to within
about 4 inch of end of tail. a soiled
yellowish, brighter inthe rear. - Breast
dusky, throat dingy white, side — of
head an upper neck bluish ashy, ‘up-
per parts uniform dark olive brown,
tip of tail blackish on underside for
abont 4 inch.

This Warbler’s note or ‘‘chip’’ is
peculiar, wholly. different.from any
other warbler I’ve ever heard. | It is
strong, vigorous, alto-toned, musical,
seems to approach the ‘‘chip’’ of the
Maryland Yellow-throat yet different’’.

The eggs, fourin number taken
June 21st., 1903, contained small em-
bryos. After comparing the sét and

22 THE OOLOGIST.

To return to Mr. Stone’s interesting
letter [ would quote as follows:

‘‘T was very fortunate with warblers
this year as I took fine sets. of Ceru-
lean, Canadian, Pine, Magnolia and,
rarest of all, a beautiful set of Black-
burnian. I found two nests of Black-
throated Green but they are extremely
sensitive and deserted leaving one
nest undone and the other with one
egg. This particular place is very
rich in warblers and I have great ex-
pectations for next year. Lots of
Canadians, 12 or 15 pairs, Magnolia,
12 or 15 pairs; 8 or 4 pairs of Black-
throated Green, Black and White, also
3 or 4 pairs La. Water Thrush’’.

I think all Oologists will agree that
Mr. Stone struck an Egg Collector’s
paradise and I hope to be able to ac-
cept his invitation to ‘‘Come and see
me’’ some time next season.

I have taken some rare sets of war-
blers, notably, Mourning, Nashville,
Golden-winged, Cerulean, Black-
throated, Blue etc., but Canadian,
Pine, Magnolia and Blackburnian
have always been among my un
attainables.

ERNEST H. SHORT.

ODD AND RARE BIRDS.

WONDERFUL COLLECTION FOR THE

SMITHSONIAN.
Specimens Gathered on a_ Recent
Cruise on West Coast of Suma-

tra and Bay of Bengal. Dr.
Abbott's Researches.

C W. Richmond, assistant curator
of the division of birds, which is locat-
ed in the Smithsonian Institution, is
busy arranging and identifying over
570 specimens of rare and curious birds
from-:Dr.. W.. L.
obtained from islands of the west coast
of Sumatra, in the Bay of Bengal, on
his recent cruise. There are strange,
foreign pigeons, hawks, swallows,
crows, orioles, owls and so on almost
without number.

About six species of various colored

Abbott’s collection,

considering the nest and nesting site I
unhesitatingly pronounced it a set of
Black-throated Blue.

They are a creamy or buffy white
boldly spotted with lilac and spiashed
with brown, no decided tendency to-
ward wreaths at larger ends.

These eggs measure, .77x.98; .76x.57;
.76x.56 and .75x.59; very large for this
warbler and remarkably even in size.

They are by far the prettiest set of
this bird that ye editor has ever been
privileged to view.

Mr. Stone sent on for comparison
another authentic set of this bird ta- -
ken from a similar nesting site in
Cortland Co., N.-Y., in June 1899.

This set is remarkable in being so
far from typical both as to eggs and
nest. The nest is compactly and
neatly felted and in shape and con-
struction, except as to materials, it re-
sembles many examples of the Ameri-
can Redstarts art.

All other nests of this bird that I
have observed wer loosely made and
rough in outline.

The four eggs in this set are marked
very similar to typical sets of Mag-
nolia Warbler with ends well wreathed.
They are also very small measuring
.69x.52; .67x.52; .67x.57 and .66x,53.
The ground color shows very little of
creamy tint and the markings are
more specks than spots. No blotches.

I have in my possession another set
I took near Buckbee’s Corners, Mon-
roe Co., N. Y., last June, from an
exactly similar nesting site and nest
as Mr. Stone’s set. They were badly
incubated when found. Size of eggs
is intermediate between the two sets
described above, in fact about typical.
Color creamy with a bluish tint boldly
blotched with brown in light shades,
heaviest at largerend but not decidedly
wreathed. Very few lilac shell mark-
ings on these eggs. A pretty set only
that the advanced stage of incubation
rendered large holes a necessity.

THE OOLOGIST.

ouckoos, of all sizes, are represented.
Among these is the Ground Cuckoo,
which is the largest, and is distin-
guished by an unusually long claw,
that aids in walking.

Vari-colored and finely shaped king-
fishers are present in large numbers.
These birds, as, indeed, nearly all the
others, present a gorgeous appear-
ance as they lie side by side in the
large, flat boxes in which they are
being placed for safekeeping, their
beautifully colored breasts facing up-
ward.

There are three or four species of
these birds. The most striking is the
Stork-billed Kingfisher. It hasa long
red bill, from which it gets its name,
an orange-colored breast and cobalt
blue wings. A considerable number
of these birds are in the collection.

Another species of the kingfisher is

one belonging to the genus Halycon,
an old Greek name. The kingfisher

was thought by the-Greeks to be a
harbinger of good probably because
of the superstition that its nests float-
ed on the sea, and thus were a sign of
calm weather.

There are several smaller and more
brilliant kingfishers in the Abbott col-
lection, which resemble more closely
than the others the common European
variety of this bird. There is one also
which is peculiar on account of its hav-
ing three toes instead of four.

Mr. Richmond has a number of
swallows, or swifts, of the kind that
build the famous edible nests, so high-
ly prized as delicacies by the Chinese.
These birds are grayish-white in color,
and have very short legs. They never
perch, but are continually on the wing,
except when on their nests; and for
this reason longer legs would be super-
fluous.

Their nests are builtin caves, where
they are easily accessible, if it is ever
possible to discover the caves. Some
nests are pure white and others brown,

Lis
we

the former being considered the most
appetizing. They are made of certain
kinds of seaweed, mixed with the sal-
iva of the bird. The nests sell, among
the chinese, for a sum equivalent to
$40 per pound.

The contribution includes several
specimens ofa kind of crow, that re-
sembles the American variety in color
and form, but is much larger.

There are a number of birds that are
well known throughout the East as Bul-
buls, and are famed for their singing.
They have brilliant yellow breasts and
glossy, brown backs.

A kind of pigeon, known as the fruit
pigeon, is represented by a large series.
These birds feed on nutmegs. They
are about a foot long from tip of bill
to tip of tail

Many gorgeously colored orioles are
in the collection. Their colors are
yellow and black, like the Baltimore
orioles,but they are of an entirely dif-
ferent family. The American variety
is sometimes called ‘‘new world oriole’’
in distinction from the true or ‘* old
world ’’ oriole.

Besides all these birds there are
Rails, Sandpipers, and many
others that have not yet been identi-
tied. The collection, when mounted

_will be a handsome addition to the

Smithsonian exhibit,

Dr. Abbott, who is a resident of-Phil-
adelphia, has been collecting mam-

mals, birds, insects and ethnological
specimens ever since the year 1887,
and has joueneyed to many different
countries and islands of the sea to
accomplish his purpose. He has
placed the United States museum
under great obligations, and the work
he has done has won an expression of
most sincere appreciation. For two
winters Dr Abbott has collected speci-
mens from islands in the east. Previ-
ous to his recent trip he visited the
Andamans and Nicobars, and the
account of the cruise, is given by C,

24 THE OOLOGIST.

Boden Kloss, an Englishman of Sing-
apore who frequently accompanies Dr.
Abbott.

The cruises are made in the Terrapin
a Singapore-built teak schooner, 67
tons yacht measurement, of which Dr.
Abbott is the captain and owner. She
is 65 feet long and 16 feet broad, and
draught is 7 1-2 feet. She is provided
with suitable equipments and the ar-

rangement of the quarters is such as
would be desirable for sailing in the

tropics The crew, five ordinary sea-
men, a ‘‘serang,’’ or boatswain and a
sailing master are Malays. Natives,
it is said, are far more satisfactory in
nearly every way onasmall boat in
the tropics; than are white men, even
if the latter could be obtained. The
Malays can put up with more restrict-
ed quarters, are less inclined to grum-
ble under peculiar circumstances, or
to be disobedient, are more at home in
every way in their surroundings, and,
most important of all, keep in good
health and can stand the sweltering
sun. <A Chinese ‘‘ boy ’’ and cook are
also carried.

The Terrapin is well provided with
places for storing the numerous speci-
mens which are collected on every
voyage.

The schooner left Singapore on the
trip before the last in October, 1900,
cruised off the coast of Tenasserim,

and among the islands of Mergui arch- —

ipelago. A few days were then spent
in the Malay peninsula, where several
wild deer and pigs were obtained.
After visiting High Island, where an
unsuccessful search was made for
skeletons of an animal known as the
sellung, and where a numberof birds
and mammals were added to the col-
lection, the schooner left for the And-
aman Islands, which lie to the west of
the Malay peninsula, in the Bay of
Bengal. There are four large islands
in the group and many smaller ones,
They are excellent places for research

far students in Natural history. Below
these are the Nicobar Islands, a small-
er group.

The Terrapin cruised among both of -
these groups, stopping here and there
to visit the natives and collect things
of interest. Toa lover of natural his-
tory and ethnology nothing more like
a paradise could be imagined, it is
said.

Hundreds of specimens were secured,
every one of which is at present mount-
ed or preserved in some way at the
United States museum. Little trips
into the interior were made, either on
foot or in boats, and explorations made
up small creeks or inlets. Photo-
graphs were taken, which to-day bring
back pleasant recollections, and are
very helpful to the curators of the
museum in their study.

Not until April did Dr: Abbott leave
the islands and sail toward Sumatra
and for home,

On his more recent trip he returned
tothe same general region, though de-
voting his time to collecting among
the little islands just west of Sumatra.
The specimens which he secured here
are still being unpacked and mounted
in the museum. In a previous issue
of the,,** Star ’’ the domestic imple-
ments, weapons, decorations and
many other articles, showing the hab-
its and customs of the natives, were
described, But these are but a small
portion of the immense collection pre-
sented as a result of the cruise.

In fact, Dr. Abbott’s last contribu-
tion has proved to be so excellent
that, in reward for his unexampled
services to eum, it is said
there is a movement on foot to confer
upon him an honorary title in the in-
stitution. Ifnoclass now exists into
which he could be placed it is sup-

posed by officials of the museum that
a new and separate one will be created
in order that some recognition of his
services may be made.— Washington
Star, August 1903.

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Editoral Notes and Clippings.

The series of three Photos of Belted
Kingfishers by R. H. Beebe appearing
in current number of American Or-
nithology are works of art considering
the difficulties attending this work.
The illustrations in this Number are
fine and must be seen to be appreciat-
ed.

The interesting article on ‘‘ Birds of
the Galapagos Islands”? by R. H.
Beck, in the current number of the
““ CONDOR ’’ is worthy of the attention
of every Ornithologist and Oologist,
The fine half-tones from photos taken
on the Islands add greatly to its value.

Mr. Silloway also contributes an
instructive articleon the breeding of
Montana birds including Townsend’s
Warbler and Ruby-crown Kinglet.

There has lately passed through my
hands an unusual set of Olive-backed
Thrush. It was taken by Mr. W. A.
Davidson in Wayne Co. Mich., June
22d, 1890.

Nest six feet from ground in a bush,
built of leaves, twigs, fine rootlets and
strips of Cedar bark.

Sets of this bird from Michigan are
very rare and this is an exceptionally
fine set; yery large measuring 1.00 x
.69, 1.05 x .72.and 1.02 x 72, .99x.72 and
beautifully marked with shades of light
red, brown and lavender so profusely
that the set looks like an undersized
set of Sennett’s Thrasher. Unfortun-
ately one egg was slightly damaged in
preparing the set but, both as to local-
ity and beauty, it is unique in my
experience.

ED.

The Editor has just inspected two
fine sets of 5 eggs each, Mexican Cor-
morant, taken by F. B. Armstrong,
near Brownsville, Texas, on the 16th
of Oct., 1908. Incubation fresh.

Hows that for a breeding date ?

We note with regret the serious dam-
age to the collection of Mr, F. T. Noble
of Augusta, Me., during the fire on
the morning of Jan. 7th.

Rls 2
The Collecting Habit.

Occasionally, we hear some tnappre-
ciative parents express regret, when
their children begin to develop the
tendency to collect.

Some will object to the small ex-
pense involved, or to the time which
may be taken up in the collecting, or
to the space occupied in the house by
the collection.

Now, as an experienced parent, teach-
er and pastor, I want to enter my pro-
test against such opposition to collect-
ing. Young minds must become
acquainted with the world in which
they live, and especially with the
works of nature, which are the works
of God in nature.

And every child’s mind will be bet-
ter and happier if he can learn the
facts of the world in ways which afford
delight while learning. It is a secret
known to all careful thinkers in child
study, that whatever enters ‘into the
young mind with delight, makes a
strong and enduring impression. This
is the great secret of the Kindergarten.

Again, a second great secret, in de-
veloping a child’s mind, is to remem-
ber his great desire to handle the
things with which he is so delighted,
and to possess them, as his own.

Therefore, when a child is old
enough, let him *begin to collect
something, especially the -works of

nature, suchas shells minerals, ete.
Andthus you will fix his mind in the
things which delight him, and which
arouse in him an active enthusiasm,
which will go far towards sustaining
his interest in his studies, in later
years, when themore artificial methods
of study and teaching must be taken
up, in school.

As to expense, a habit of collecting

26 THE OOLOGIST. -

will tend to make achild need fewer
toys, because his collection takes the
place of toys, to a large extent.

A child educated without any ex-
pense, is likely to have a very cheap
education, one which dwarfs | his
mind, rather than devolops his many-
sided manhood.

As tothe space taken up bya little
collection, almost any house can
afford to spare the child a few shelves,
or a home-made box, or cabinet. And
it will help to train and systematize
the child’s mind, to feel that he has a
place of his own, where he can keep
his treasures, and for the good order of
which he is responsible.

As to the time occupied in making
collections, that can be regulated by
the amount of time at the child’s dis-
posal. Naturally, his collecting time
will come out of his play-time, and so
will not be any time Jost from study.
But in fact, collecting is one good
method of study, better because it
pleases and entertains.

A small collection made by children,
will often solve the hard problem of
what to do with your children on a
rainy day. And, even at other times,
the time spent with the collection
keeps the child out of mischief.

In every way, I believe in the habit
of collecting, kept, of course, within
reasonable bounds, as to expenditure
of time and money. [It helps to train
the mind in many ways.

I have seen the practical good of col-
lecting, in my own family, and in my
own life. And soI would encourage
the young folks to collect; and also the
older folks, who will find, in collect-

ing, a restful change, and an antidote
for ‘‘ the blues,’’ anda help to him
who would ‘‘ look through nature, up
‘to nature’s: God.”
E. C. MITCHELL.

St. Paul, Minn.

Nest and Eggs of the Swainson’s Warbler

DR. M. T. CLECKLEY.

( Helinaia swainsonii).—June 1st
and 8th were ‘red-letter’ days for me
from an oodlogical standpoint. Jump-
ing on my wheel and riding two or
three miles from this city, I came to a
swamp I had _ never visited before;
and while looking carefully among
the thick cane-brake, I heard chips of
a warbler. Birds were singing and
darting all around, and the ‘ swamp-
flies ’ were making my life miserable,
when I perceived a bunch of cane-
leaves near the top of a cane-bush
seven feet abovethe ground. On going
closer, I sawa warbler on the nest,
which immediately flushed and feign-
ed lameness, rolling and chirping on
the ground among the cane. I at
once recognized the bird as Swainson’s
Warbler, and on peering into the nest
saw, to my great delight, three white,
unmarked eggs ofa-slightly pinkish
hue and rather globular in shape.
The nest was a typical warbler’s, being
made of leaves of the elm, cane in
layers, pine needles, and lined’ with
fine rootlets and grasses. I at once
packed the eggs with the enthusiam
of having found such a rare nest—the
rarest eggs I have ever found in this
locality. Having read that this specie
of warbler nests in small colonies, I
continued in the cane, stooping often
to search the tops of the cane, I had
not gone ten feet, when I came to
another nest with a warbler on it, in a
canebush situated five feet above the
ground. The bird dropped and flut-
tered off. The nest was more com-
pactly built and contained three fresh
eggs, somewhat smaller than the eggs
of the other set.. Proceeding near the
end of the cane-brake, I saw a warbler
dart out from a clump of cane, and on
investigating. I sawa neat little Hood-
ed Warbler’s ( Wilsonia mitrata ) nest
with three creamy white eggs marked

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with specks and spots of chestnut,
and lilac gray wreaths. I had found
one uncompleted Swainson’s Warbler’s
nest, and on visiting thesame swamp
again in a week, I located two more
sets of three eggs each of this warbler
—the rarest of southern warblers.
Augusta, Ga.

Eggs of the Dwarf Screech Owl.

As I have now in my possession
what is undoubtedly an egg of this rare
bird, I have jotted down a description
and full notes since the egg has never
been described.

On the 25th of April 1901, Mr. F. O.
Nelson removed a small owl which he
thought was the Pygmy Owl froma
cavity in a Cottonwood Stump 3 miles
South of Meridian, Ada Co , Idaho.

There were four eggs in the nest,
incubation well begun, but all but one
were destroyed before reaching me.
This egg while very nearly
enough for the Pygmy Owl, is so en-
tirely diffcrent in shell texture and
shape that I would unhesitatingly
pronounce it an egg of the Dwarf
Screech Owl. The shell texture and
color is like the the Screech Owl types
and in no way resembles the creamy,
granulated, or roughened shell of the
Pygmy and Elf Owls. The shape is
more oval than the eggs of the Pygmy
Owls, also. It measures 1.26 x 1.04,
The smallest Screech owls egg I have,
an egg of the Texan bird, measures
1.36 x 1.21 and they run from that up
to 1.47 x 1.25 for Kennicotts’ from
Alberta.

The average given for Pygmy Owl is
1.12 x .95, Mine average 1.11 x .94.

However I have two eggs of the
Flammulated Sereech Owl, one from
Mexico, measuring 1.24 x 1.08 and one
from tha Nevada line measursng 1.28
x 1.04.

Considering the resemblence in
measure, shape and color with the

small |

fact that Meridian is only 110 miles
straight west of the type locality, ( Ket-
chum, Blaine Co., Idaho), of the
Dwarf Screech Owl I think there is
little room for question that Mr.
Nelson had the first authentic set of
this bird taken in the type locality
and I much regret that skin and _bal-
ance of set were not preserved.

A Misleading Appellation.

NORMAN O. FOERSTER.

It would be difficult to trace back to
the originator of the name ‘‘ Preacher’’
forthe Red-eyed Vireo. Since Some-
body, almost every writer on the Red-
eye has used that hackneyed term.
We are all fanciful at times, and say
and write things we would not even
think of at other times. Certain it is
that the author of this appellation
must have been in a fanciful or play-
fully cogitative mood when he wrote
his biography of the Red-eye. Take
an ordinary person, who knows almost
none of the birds along some country-
road and when you come tothe Red-
eye’s ‘‘pulpit’’ and hear ‘‘ the clear,
high tones of his rich voice ’’? which
are ‘‘a constant repetition of a few
triplets, but so ingeniously arranged
as not to become. wearisome,’’ ask
him what the notes suggest. I have
tried it often, but never yet received an
answer that pronounced it declamatory
or harangueful. On many occassions
where I suggested *‘ Preacher’? the
idea was ridiculed.

No doubt its ‘‘ short sentences, its
tiresome upward inflections, its ever-
lasting repetitionsness, and its sharp,
querulous tone’’ suggest certain
preachers; but when these notes were

likened to preaching no consideration

was takenof the fact that the principal
idea conveyed was a declamatory, style,
sharp reiterations, pauses, and clim-
axes. As Torrey sayS, ‘‘whoever dubbed

28

this vireo the ‘preacher’ could have
had no very exalted opinion of the
clergy. ”’

Mr. Cheney, as I have quoted above,
says the notes are ingeniously arrang-
ed and not tiresome but Torrey calls
them tiresome. It is natural that we
should disagree in an appreciation of
the song, but we ought not to be unde-
cided on such a point as sharpness,
“Its sharp, querulous note, ’’ says
Torrey; but it is not sharp. If it were it
might contain more of the elements
that go to make up the preacher’s
style. Indeed the notes are mellow:
heard from a distance they seem to
voice the summer breeze itself, uncer-
tain and tremulous, but never sharp;
heard near by they are, I think, al-
most as mellow as the Rose-breasted
Grosbeak’s. Now watch ‘“‘ this lively,
tireless singer, running rapidly after
insects in the tops of forest trees,
singing as he goes;’’ the notes are
uttered with scarcely any effort, seem-
ing to flow out and express in voice

the contentedness what a_ bird-face
cannot reflect. Certainly they are not
sharp.

Allin all, I think it would be wise
to consider the term ‘‘ preacher ’’ rather
asa poor pun than as a name given
with any design at appropriateness.
Due. reverence to the ornithologists
who use the miserable figure, but the
unnaturalness of the term we need
not therefore ensconce.

Evening Grosbeak in Central lowa.

BY JAY G. SIGMUND.

Christmas day, while eating dinner
at a neighbors. I was called to the
door to see a flock of curious birds
which were feeding on cedar berries
in the trees inthe yard. I saw at once
that they were Evening Grosbeaks,
( Coccothraustes vespertina ). and was
somewhat surprised as they were the
first ofthis species I have ever seen in

THE OOLOGIST.

this locality, although a friend of-

mine secured a specimen here two
years ago.

There were about thirty birds in the
flock, and they paid no attention to
me but kept on eating their Christmas
dinner in the storm, chirping cheerily
the meanwhile.

As I desired to obtain a speci-
men for mounting, L had a gun
brought me and fired into the flock
killing one. The rest of the flock
took flight, and I picked up the speci-
men I had shot but was much dis-
apointed-to find that it was too badly
shot to be of any value as a mounted
specimen. The bird shot was an adult
female,

I afterward learned that this flock of
Grosbeaks were in the habit of coming
regularly to this place to feéd having
been seen several times previously, this
winter.

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MAMMALS! BIRDS! —Parties wishing
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Taxidermist, Superior, Wis. tt

WANTED, Alsets ducks, with full nests of
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Swainson Hawk black plumage 2 2.00, 1 White-
fronted Goose 3.50, 1 Marbled Godwit 1.00,
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head Drake 1.50, 1 Yellow Legs 50c.,2 Canad-
ian Ruffled prem 2.00,2 White-tailed Ptar-
migan 4.00, 1 Virgin Rail 50c.,2 Meadow
Lark 75e., 2 Bartrams Sandpiper 1.00,1 Pine
Grosbeak,0c., 1 Black Polled Warbler 50c,,
1 i Se ‘35C.. 1Snow-bird 35c., 1 Kingfisher

1. Richardson Owl 2 00, 1 Hairy Wood-
pecker 50.. Black-billed Cuckoo 50c., 1 Fox
parrow 50c.,1 Bronzed Grackle 50c..1 Red-
winged Binckbird 50c.,2 wrens 50c.,1 Pectoral
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Nuthatc 50C., Young Sand Hill Crane -in
down 1. 2 young Horned Grebes 50c., 2 3-4
grown Bartrams Sandpiper 1,00, Take the
lot. at $50.00 or buy what vou want at the
prices; CHRIS. P. FORGE, Taxidermist
and Collector, Carman. Manitoba Canada.

FOR SALE—For Cash Only sets of 1-3, 1-4,
354b $4.50; 1-2, 351 $1.00; 1-3, 1-4, 354a #4. ih 1-5
367 .25; 1-5 376 $1.50. HARRY GORTO ig
Edward St. Seedly Pendleton England. Ne

OFOR SALE—Mounted animals and animal
sikns, 1 Jack Rabbitt, white $3.00, 5 gophers.
$2.50. 1 Flying Squirrel $1. mY skins young
Rocky Mountain Goat $5.00, oe $2.50,
Wolf skulls 25c. each. CHRIS. P. FORGE,
Taxidermist,etc., Carman, Man.

FOR SALE—Taxidermists look here for
sale, Heads of Moose from $10.00 to $40.00,
scalps from $4.00 to $8.00, horns and skulls,
cheap, Moose, Elk and Deer feet and legs.
for making novelties from 20c. to 50c. each.
Wolf skulls 15 to 50c. each, Wolf feet to first
joint of leg, make pretty mountings for paper
knives 25c. each. 3 Fox skulls 25c. each, all
goods = K. small things Gan be sent by
mail. C.P. FORGE, Taxidermist aud Col-
lector. Caine Man.

FOR SALE—This lot of good skins at these
prices or the lot for $20.00 cash. 2 White Pel-
icans $6.00, 3 Canadian Rutfed Grouse $1.50..
2 Sharp- -tailed Grouse $1. 00, 3 Gray Ruftled
GrouSe $2.25, 3 Red- shouldered Hawks $1.50,
1 Duck Hawk 75c., 1 pair Wood Ducks $4.00,
1 Swainson Hawk 50c., 1 Broad: wiwecd Hawk
50c., 1 Marsh Hawk 50c., 2 Great Horned
Owls $1.00, 1 Marbled Godwit 75¢c. ,2 Yellow

legs 50c., 1 Shoveler Drake 50c., 1 Snowy Owl

$2,00, 4 Evening Grosbeaks $1. 00. If you only
want one divide price by number of skins..
CHRIS. P. FORGE, Carman Man.

Weare dealers in bicycles, talking machines.
and records, guns, rifles, watches and jewelry.
If you can use any of the above, we will take
part cash and first-class sets of eggs or desir-
able stampsin paymentforsame. GEORGE
D. FRENCH, Ivoryton, Conn. meats

Want to exchange fine mounted birds from
this locality for ancient relics and_book en-
titled “The Horse” by Pitcher. Would also
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Birds Eggs and Skins.

Eggs in sets. Fine condition, correct identi-
ficaton and datas guaranteed. Sent prepaid.

te No orders of less than $2.50 will be
accepted ezcept at purchaser’s risk of damage
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Pacific Kittiwake, 3 eggs
Stormy Petrel, legg.....
Harlequin Duck, 6 eggs
Scarlet Ibis, 3 eggs
Scarlet Ibis, 2eggs

Canada Grouse, (A. O. U. 298), 11 eggs..
Rock Ptarmigan 9 egss! S72 FS: 1 80
White-tailed Kite, 4 eggs.. 8 00
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a o ny ONCE ES. Meee on 3 75
Broad-winged Hawk, 3eggs............. 2) 735)
SUS one: DOCS a saseausane 1 50
Ferruginous Rough-leg Hawk, 5 eggs 4 10
ca A ‘ 4 eggs 3 25
Nee vi * 3 eges..°. 2 50
Prairie Hal cones ese gerc eres en teenie 7 50
Duck Hawk, (Am.) 3 eggs............... 6 75
a <4 Ay ER Dg He A Varin 10 00
Aplomado Falcon, 3 eggs............... 4 00
Audubon’s Caracara, 3 eggs............. 1 35
ny , DIOP OSS eeans Het thw 90
Long-crested Jay, 4eggs.........:.....-. 2 00
Northern Raven, oief28e..: 2-6) 3 75
PIMOWSAVE HELLS peyton austen Aone 3 40
Worm-eating Warbler, 4 eggs........... 2 10
Blue-winged Warbler, 4 eggs............ 2 00
nace Mnrasher: diecogy) lotus a, hee: 1 20
American Flamingo, 1 egg.............. 50
Black Vulture, a remarkably fine set 2 F

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Braineswarbler: Jegospes ous ceekee soe 30

Yellow-throated Warbler, 3eggs, (holes

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Harris’ Woospecker...........g.0cc0- de. 38
Narrow-fronted Woodpecker............ 50
Red-bellied Woodpecker...............+. 30
American 3-toed Woodpecker, fm....... 90
Waliformia Savas rs. wast ale seca secieenies 32
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Violet-green Swallow, m................. 32
Pine-woods Sparrow, m.................. 45

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Blackbird) Hnelande s\n. > See eee 26
Starline She amg ey yee e sees sue 32
Meadow Pipit. England.................. 24
Least Heron, Europe...................... 48
Least Grebe, Europe...............0.+00+: 38
Ortolanwhunopes ree. naee ee eee eee 28
Black-headed Bunting, Europe.......... 28
Green Woodpecker, Europe.............. 50
Grey Thrush. Huropes- fase see wees 30
Red-breasted Todie, Bahamas........... 38
White-throated Grosbeak, Bahamas.... 42
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Red-crissaled Woodpecker, Mexico.... 1 05
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California Jay, m. fine........ 85
Gt. Tailed Grackle, m. fine...... 95

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Breeding of The Mississsippi Kite.

I have lately had the pleasure of
inspecting what I believe to be the
largest series of eggs of the Mississippi

Kite ever recorded as taken by one
collector in the same locality and all
in one month.

Of 15 sets, fourteen were taken by
G. W. Stevens, between June 5th and
20th, 1903. Thirteen sets in Woods
County, Oklahoma, on the Salt Fork
of the Arkansas River and its tribu-
taries, and one set in Pawnee County,
Oklahoma, near the Arkansas River.
The other taken by J. M. Rutledge is
also from Woods County.

No. 1—Two eggs taken June 5th from
a white elm tree,one and one-half miles
northwest of Alva, Woods County.
Nest twelve feet from the ground, com-
posed of sticks, lined with a few fresh
sumac leaves. Incubation fresh. Size
of eggs, 1.68x1.38 inches and 1.63x1.32.
Birds at nest.

No. 2.—One egg taken June 10th
from the horizontal branch of an elm
tree, one and one-half miles northwest
of Alva. Nest twenty-two feet from
ground, composed of a few sticks,
lined with fresh willow twigs with the
catkinon. As this set was found in
same locality as No. 1 and the egg was
fresh, it may have been a second set
by the same pair of birds. Egg small
1.58x1.27 inches.

No. 3.—One egg taken June 7th from
forks of cottonwood tree, eight miles
northwest of Alva. Nest twenty-five
feet from ground, composed of sticks,
with a thin lining of green cottonwood
and sumac leaves. Incubation fresh.
Birds at nest. Egg measures 1.57x1.27.

No. 4.—One egg taken June 7th from
fork of white elm, two miles north of
Alva.
composed of sticks, lined with a few
Birds at

Nest twenty feet from ground,

fresh sumac leaves. nest.

38 THE OOLOGIST. #)\% ‘

Incubation well begun. Size of egg
1.64x1.30.

No. 5.—Two eggs taken June 10th
from horizontal limb of white elm,
six miles southeast of Heman, Woods
County. Nesttwenty feet from ground,
composed of coarse sticks, quite flat, a
spare lining of green elm leaves. Birds
at nest. Incubation halfover. Size of
eggs 1.67x1.30 and 1.70x1.33.

No. 6.—One egg taken June 10th
from horizontal limb of elm, six miles
southeast of Heman. Nest fifteen feet
from the ground, built like that of No.
5. Birds at nest. Incubation begun.
- Size of egg 1.57x1.31.

No. 7.—Twoeggs taken June 10th from
the top fork of cottonwood tree, six
miles southeast of Heman. Nest
thirty-five feet from the ground, built
of sticks, laid on top of some old nest
and lined with freshcottonwood leaves
and seed pods. Birds at nest. Incu-
bation advanced. Size of eggs 1.50x1.26
and 1.68x1.88, an odd looking set, as
one egg appears one-half larger than
the other.

No. 8.—Two eggs taken June 10th
from fork of cottonwood tree, six miles
southeast of Heman. Nest thirty feet
from the ground, built of sticks, lined
with green cottonwood leaves. Birds
at nest. Incubation begun. Size of
eggs 1.54x1.31 and 1.72x1.29. This last
egg is a freak, as it is positively
pyriform in shape, instead of the
rounded oval, typical of these eggs.

No. 9.—One egg taken June 10th
from the fork of an elm tree, eight
miles southeast of Heman. Nest
twenty feet from the ground, composed
of sticks, lined with cottonwood seed
pods, which were ripe and bursting.
Birds at nest. Incubation fresh. Size
1.59x1.27.

No. 10.—Two eggs taken June 10th
from an elm tree, eight miles south-
east of Heman. Nest eighteen feet
from the ground, made of sticks,
lined with fresh leaves of elm and

sumac. Birds at nest. Incubation
begun. Size 1.59x1.30, 1.55x1.29. The
eggs in this set are nicely matched as
to size and shape.

No. 11.—One egg taken June 12th
from upper forks of ‘‘Black-Jack’’
oak, two miles northwest of Walthall,
Woods County. Nest fifteen feet from
the ground, composed of sticks, lined
with a few leaves from same tree,
nearly fresh. Incubation fresh. Size

1.55x1.32.
No. 12.—One egg taken June 13th
from ‘‘Black-Jack’’? oak, two miles

north of Walthall. Nest nineteen feet
from the ground, composed of coarse
sticks and lined with fresh sumac
leaves. Incubation begun. Size
1.738x1.41, Very large. Looks much
like a rounded egg of Marsh Hawk.

No. 18.—One egg taken June 20th
from fork of large limb of ‘‘Black-
Jack’’ oak, at Pawnee, Pawnee County,
Oklahoma. Nest twenty-five feet up a
very flat structure of a few twigs, lined
with small twigs with green leaves on.
Incubation begun. Size of ‘egg
1.62x1.34. This egg was very heavily
stained and quite smooth from incu-
bation. I think incubation must have
been further advanced ‘than Mr, |
Stevens’ notes would indicate. Many
of the stains on this egg would suggest
markings, and I think it must have
been an egg like this that gave rise to
the statement in Coues key that the
eggs are sometimes faintly marked.
I never saw an egg of this bird that I
thought was marked when deposited.

No. 14.—Two eggs taken June 10th
from horizontal limb of elm, eight
miles southeast of Heman, Woods
County. Nest fifteen feet from the
ground, composed of sticks, lined with
green cottonwood leaves. Incubation
advanced. Size of eggs, 1.71x1.33 and
1.68x1.41.

No. 15.—Two eggs taken by J. M.
Rutledge from ‘‘Black Jack”’ oak, one
mile northwest of Walthall, on June

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12th. Nest fifteen feet from the
ground, composed of sticks, lining not
specified. Size of eggs, 1.63x1.34 and
1.55x1.30. Incubation fresh. A very
pretty set. One egg was checked and
mended again before it was deposited
by the bird. I have noted eggs of
Sandhill Crane and Brown Pelican
that exhibited this evidenceof nature’s
mending. The former had been broken
entirely around he center and firmly
joined without leaving any ridge on
shell. In the case of this egg of
Mississippi Kite it was a simple
radiated dent, which was healed by an
extra deposit « shell, leaving a net-
work of fine lines showing.

The average size of the twenty-two
eggs is 1.59x1.32. Davie’s average,
(10 specimens), 1.64x1.28.. Coues Key
gives average as 1.65x1.35; rather too
large, but giving a better idea of the
rounded oval shape than Davie’s size,
which is too slender. In common
rwith all normal eggs of this bird they
are white, with a greenish tint, caused
by the inner shell tint showing through.
Hold one of these eggs up to the light
and the inner shell shows as a deli-
cate pea green. Nearly all the eggs
show stains from lying on green, wilt-
ing leaves.

While Mr. Stevens does not note any
green leaves in nest No. 9, nor does
Mr. Rutledge speak of them in nest
No. 15, still the eggs in both cases
show the stains plainly, indicating
that they had certainly lain on green
leaves at some time. This habit of
lining the nests with green leayes
seems to be practically confined to this
bird, among our American Avifauna.
The Cuckoos sometimes use a few
green leaves with their catkins when
they complete their nest, but these
soon dry up and I have never.seen any
evidence of their replacing them.

Mr. Stevens’ records indicate what I
have seen stated as probable by other
authorities—that the Mississippi Kite

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constantly renews these leaves, and
thus keeps fresh ones in the nest all
the time. He found leaves under
incubated eggs to be as fresh as those
under freshly laid eggs

These records do not indicate a tend-
ency to pick out lofty nesting sites
like the White-tailed and Swallow-
tailed Kites prefer. Instead of finding
them in the tops of trees forty feet or
more from the ground his nests only
averaged twenty-one feet from the
ground, and if we leave out Nos. 7 and
8 we have an average of eighteen and
one-half feet for thirteen nests. Full
sets are said to be two or three eggs.

There is a record, quoted by Mr.
Davie, of a set of three taken by Mr. J.
A. Singley in Lee County, Texas,
many years. ago. This will have to
stand as very rare. I have never seen
a set of three. Mr. Stevens states that
one-half of all the nests he finds never
contain but a single egg and that he

has repeatedly allowed them to hatch

out sets of one and found nests contain-
ing one young on many occasions. I
think it should be one or two eggs,
rarely three.

We would expect the largest eggs to
occur in the sets of one, but the oppo-
site proves to be the case. Only one
of the single eggs approaches the sizes
indicated by the pairs.

ERNEST H. SHORT.

The Black-Throated Green Warbler in
Summer.

It has never been the portion of the
writer to reside or to make observations
within the territory wherein Dendroica
virens is to be commonly found as a
summer resident, and therefore these
brief notes pertain to the Black-throat-
ed Green Warbler in summerin locali-
ties where it is not accredited with
being commonly found at that season.

I have never found this Warbler’s
nest, nor have I diligently sought it;
but the bird itself I have observed in

40 THE OOLOGIST.

summer in two localities widely remote
from each other, in neither of which I
had expected to find the species.

Formerly residing inthe very county
where the OoOLOGIST is’ published,
(Orleans County, New York,) I had
known the _ Black-throated Green
Warbler as acommon migrant—one of
the best known, but notwithstanding
so good an authority on the birds of
that section as the Rey. J. H. Langille
had stated that he found it commonly
in Tonawanda Swamp each summer, I
was unable by explorations, either
there or elsewhere to find a trace of D.
virens at any time excepting during
the migrations,

In July, 1901, I spent seven days of
rest and recreation on Canandaigua
Lake, southeast from Rochester, N. Y.
Well, up towards the southern extrem-
ity of the lake, at Cook’s Point or
Linden Lodge, I found my place of
sojourn and tarried there from July 9th
to 15th. Leading back from the hotel,
the highway climbs circuitously the
rather precipitous hill and enters the
woods—cool, inviting and picturesque
—for now the wagon-road skirts the
edge of a steep declivity and coniferous
trees add denser shade to the already
shadowy ravine.

Here the Black and White Warbler
Mniotilta varia had been engaged in
nesting, for twice I caught it in the act
of feeding its hungry young. And
here, day after day, the ‘‘wee, wee, su,
see’’ so familiarly known to meas the
ditty of the Black-throated Green
Warbler could be heard by the most
disinterested passer-by, would he but
stop to listen; even though he might
not be able to derive the enjoyment
from these ‘‘grasshoppery’’ cadences
that I did. The birds were often seen
as well as heard. I did not find the
nest, but never did I traverse that
woodland road—and I traversed it often
—that I did not hearthis four-syllabled
singer. The inference was _ plain

enough that a pair of these birds were
breeding in that woodland ravine.

But not so remarkable is it that this
Warbler should be found in summer
just south of the 48rd parallel, as that
it should be observed in the breeding
season in latitude less than 30°.

Rather late in the afternoon of June
23rd, 1902, we were returning to Vin-
cennes by row-boat from a day’s outing
up the Wabash. On the right bank,
and therefore in the state of Illinois,
(the river being at this point the
Indiana-I]linois boundary line), While
yet about two miles above Vincennes,
the land rose rather abruptly from the
river and seemed densely wooded—with
deciduous trees mostly, but with some
coniferous trees occurring.

As oars were momentarily rested and
the boat drifted noiselessly not far
from shore, there fell upon my ears
the familiar song of the Black-throated
Green Warbler coming from out the
tlees along shore.

In this southern section at the sum-
mer season, I refused to believe my
ears when they told meof the song of
a northern warbler, and I demanded
further evidence. Idid not have long
to wait. Again came the notes and’
again, ‘‘wee, wee, su see,”’ ‘wee, wee, SU,
see,’’ very familiar notes to me, having ~
long known them and I generally de-
scribed them in this manner. And
this in southern Indiana, at a latitude
corresponding almost exactly with that
of Washington, D. C. in the east.

We made no landing nor further
investigation as the day was wearing

to its close, nor was I able
again that season to visit that
locality. Not until now has this

unusual occurrence been reported, and
I believe this is the first record for the
occurrence of this species in mid-sum-
mer from the state of Indiana. I
understand that Mr. Charles Dury, of
Cincinnati, O., has found this Warbler
in that vicinity in the latter part of
July, 1879
CORNELIUS F, Posson,
Vincennes, Ind.

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Among The Great Blue Herons.

(ARDEA HERODIAS. )

As per agreement I went down to
Salem, N. J., on the 18th of May,
1899, to visit a Heron colony. A
friend met me in the city, and after
enjoying the many points of interest
and being refreshed by a ‘‘soda and
cream’’ we drove six miles in the
country for the night.

After partaking of an early breakfast
next morning my friend and I drove
over to a neighbor’s and another friend
joined us. A drive of fifteen miles
brought us to a roadway leading intoa
woods, and after proceeding a mile
farther we fastened our horse near the
edge of a swamp.

A tramp of one quarter of a mile
through bushes, briars and _ trickey
sloughs brought us to the colony. My
friend, Mr. Crispen, who was my host
on this trip, had been there two weeks
previously and secured about fifty
eggs, but owing to a great many being
heavily incubated he could only save
thirty. It was anticipated that we
would be in good time for the second
laying, and the first set of three taken,
which were fresh, was encouraging.

The trees were all within a stone’s
throw of each other and it was only a
few minutes before a set of four fresh
eggs were on the ground. Mr, Crispen,
who did the climbing, went up and
down the trees like amonkey. He took
the eggs faster than I could blow them.
We found sets of three, four and five
about evenly divided, and after going
up fifteen trees had sixty eggs. There
were more nests, but we did not want
to be classed as ‘‘egg hogs”’ so left the
balance to breed.

Two sets of Flickers of seven eggs
each found their way into our collect-
ing boxes. Theeggsof the Great Blue
Heron are plain, greenish-blue, vary-

ing from elliptical to oval in shape,
three to six, (rarely the later) in num-
ber, Average sixe 2.50x1.50.

The nests were built on the tip tops
of pine trees, from forty to sixty feet
ftomthe ground. They were made of
coarse sticks on the first layer, finer on
the second and lined with a few pine
needles.

As a climber Mr. Crispen beats any-
thing I eversaw. Hewent up seventy-
five feet to an Ospreys nest on our way
to the Heron colony, and finding it
empty, jumped into it, and while his
legs hung over the side, sang three
cheers for the red, white and blue.
When he climbed the first Heron tree
he put the eggs in his coat pocket, got
into the nest and stood erect, while the
breeze swayed the tree back and forth,
making a survey of the surrounding
country. )

The day was an ideal one for such a
trip, the air being cool and pleasant,
while the sun shone out sufficiently to
soften the breeze that constantly blew
from the Jersey shore.

Birds could be seen on every side,
while we drove leisurely along each
bird as it came in view was called by
name and its nesting habits discussed.

It was nearly dark when we reached
home, so, after a hearty supper, we
finished blowing the eggs and went to
bed tired out.

Next morning Mr. Crispen drove into
Salem where I took the steamer for
Wilmington.

EK. J. DARLINGTON.

QUESTION COLUMN.

G. M. S., Mankato, Minn,

No. 1. After selling three eggs from
your six Hawks’ eggs you could not
call the three left a set.

Nesting of Cooper’s Hawk.
(333 Accipiter cooperi. )
April 6, 1902, I found a _ nest of
Cooper’s Hawk built in a yellow birch
tree 30 feet up, and nearly completed.

42 THE OOLOGIST.

I watched it carefully and May 4th I
visited the nest to collect the eggs,
but there was no eggs there. I hunted
around and found the female setting
on a nest containing four eggs. The
nest was built in a maple forty feet up
and about forty rods from the first nest
found, I collected the eggs. May 10th,
I again visited the first nest and col-
lected one egg laid by the same bird.
Were my eggs a set of five, or 1-4 and
1-1?

Cooper’s Hawk, is one of our most
common breeders in this locality, of
any of this family of birds.

Nests in April, May and June.

Guy H. BRIGGS,
Livermore, Maine.

Answer. If you took the one egg
within 2 or 3 days of May 10th, it was
probably the balance of your set of
really 5eggs. Ifa week or ten days
later your bird might have been begin-
ning a new set in first nest. 3

D.

Was It An Escape?

In March, 1903, about three o’clock
the afternoon of the 27th, I left my
home for the purpose of cutting wood.
But upon nearing the woods I noticed
ina grove of poplar trees, a Grouse
eating pople buds and as the house
was near I returned for my gun; and
upon returning to the grove, found the
Grouse still there; and I at once be-
gan to wallow through the snow, which
was from two to two and one-half feet
deep.

Upon’getting in range, as I drew my
gun to fire, 1 heard a swooping noise,
and the Grouse plunged into the snow
at my feet. A large hawk barely
missed the bird. I at once began
to investigate the hole which the
Grouse made and found him lying
very quiet sixteen or eighteen inches
below the surface of the snow. I took
it up but it made no effort to get away.
I took it home and released it but still

it made no effort to get away. And its
eyes shone like two black beads. Do
birds when in danger seek protection
from man?

W. W. RADLEY, Waupaca, Wis.

I do not think your bird was seek-
ing protection from you though he
undoubtedly realized your immediate
presence.

In an exposed situation like you de-
scribe the Ruffed Grouse would be
aware of your movements some time
before you reached the position you
did and would have taken flight or
flattened himself closely on the upper
side of a limb for concealment and
protection. Your large Hawk was the
main concern of Mr. Grouse as neither
of his methods usually available in
attempting to escape man would be
of any use against a hungry hawk in
the winter.

In his terror of the Buzzard he
dropped you out of the problem and
sought refuge under the snow. I have
seen them do this to avoid hunters
with dogs who had them completely
surrounded and, after burrowing some
distance they will thrust just enough
of their head up to watch proceedings.
In such cases their eyes always take
that set, glossy appearance.

Your bird was probably too badly
terrorized as well as surprised to re-
gain at once its natural wildness, but
I don’t think it would prove docile for
any very considerable time. “

D.

Caution.

We are informed on good authority
that certain parties are offering sets of
American Three-toed Wood-pecker,!Gt.
Northern Shrike, Passenger Pigeon,
and Lincoln’s Sparrow from Water-
down, Ont., Can.

As two of these birds do not breed
there at all and the other two very
doubtfully, we would caution all col-
lectors to restrain their anxiety to fill
these gaps in their collections until
they have these sets properly identi-
fied.

The Editor has been taken in by
some clever work in fixing up sets dur-

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ing the past season and hopes to lo-
cate the party before long.

Editorial Notes.

Dr. R. L. Jessee, S.S.S., Stansell and
Isaac E. Hess of Philo, Ill., are con-
sidering the formation of an Ornitho-
logical and Oological society of the
state of Illinois.

They would like the address of every
person in the state who is interested
along these lines.

A True Albino and a Strange Freak.

An Albino Meadowlark.

Plumage: Above white; underparts
and throat white with yellowish shade;

feet white; bill white; iris of eye pink. ~

A Freak Crow.

Natural in every respect except the
bill. The upper mandible being 14
inches and the lower mandible 38 in.
Both birds were shot in Oakland coun-
ty, Mich.

OLIVER GARTNER,
Detroit, Mich,

This last must have been the result
of some accident and would certainly
interfere with the birds feeding. Has
anyone an explanation?

D.

Notice.

February OOLOGIST was mailed on
February 23d.

All subscribers have the Editor’s
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Nature Study, London.
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Woman’s Home Companion, Spring-
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Notes from Thicket and Swamp,
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Vol. XIII,

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44 THE OOLOGIST.

Our Winter Visitors.

BY A. B. KLUGH

[Read before the Michigan Onnitholgedent
Club Meeting of Dec. 5, 1903, held at the
Detroit Museum of Art.]

To one whose specialty is Fringillidz
the winter is far from an uninteresting
season, as it is then that we may look
for most of the rarest birds of this
family. The present winter has been
marked by the early: appearance of,
and abundance of, certain species.

The first to arrive were, as usual, the
Tree Sparrows. They appeared on
October 21, for a month were very
common, and since have been noted
in fair numbers. At first they were
to be found in the thickets, but the
supply of food there must have become
exhausted, as latterly they have fre-
quented the weedy fields, feeding on
the seeds of catnip, lamb’s quarters
and ragweed and the fruits of ragweed
and blueweed.

On October 28 the Redpolls arrived,
and have been common up to the
present (January 16). Several large
flocks, varying from fifty to one hun-
dred and fifty, have been noted, but
they have been seen mostly in groups
of from two to five flying overhead. As
far as my observations extend they
have partaken of the same fare as the
Tree Sparrows. I have noted mixed
flocks composed of Redpolls, Tree
Sparrows and Juncos, and in such
cases when feeding two or three Red-
polls would be perched on a weed-stem
picking off the seeds, while some more
Redpolls and some Tree Sparrows and
Juncos would pick up the seeds which
they shook off. The average length
for Acan thie linaria is given as 5.46
inches and the minimum as 56.5. Of
twenty-two specimens which I have
taken only one reaches the minimum
length, one is only 4.6 inches and the
average 5.08 inches.

On November 5 came the Pine Gros-
beaks. I first saw them in a thicket

along the river Speed, feeding on the
seeds of thenightshade (S. dulcamara)
and on the ground on smartweed (P.
hydropiper. Whileonthe ground they
would hop rapidly after, catch and eat
insects. From the above date until
December 8 these birds wére very com-
mon, fresh flocks constantly arriving
from the north.

Their chief articles of diet were the
two seeds above mentioned, but I also
noted them breaking open the oval
galls on the willow (S. discolor) and
eating the larvas within and feeding on
the fruits of ragweed and blueweed and
the buds of the spruce. Of the weeds
on cultivated fields ragweed was their
favorite. They would perch on a stalk
of this plant, which would bend down
with their weight when they would
stand upon tha prostrate stem and pick
off the fruits.

The proportion of males in the bright
carmine plumage has been about one
in twenty, while that of immature
males with head and rump yellowish,
flushed in a varying degree with car-
mine has been about three in twenty.
The proportion of old males is hard to
estimate. My largest specimen, an
old male, measures 9.2 inches, my
smallest, a very dull immature male,
eight inches, the average is 8.5 inches.

Snowflakes appeared on November
22 and have been seen frequently,
sometimes in flocks of about two hun-
dred since.

On December 26 I noted an American
four

American Goldeneyes and four Ameri-

Goshawk and on January 11

can Mergansers, two males and two
females of each species. 3
What the remainder of the winter
brings forth in the way of bird records
I will communicate at a later date.
Guelph, Ontario. ©

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The Discovery of the First Known Nest
of Kirtland’s Warbler.

Probably few finds in recent years
have attracted more interest on the part

of the American oologists than the
discovery of the breeding area of Kirt-
Jand’s Warbler in Michiga2 by Nor-
man A. Wood, taxidermist to the U. of
M. Museum.

The bulletin of the Michigan Orni-
thological Club for March appears as
a ‘‘Special Kirtland issue’’ and it is
here that Mr. Wood tells for the first
time of his excellent success with this
bird which has so long puzzled oolo-
gists. Speaking of American warblers

NORMAN A. WOOD.
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Discoverer of First Anthentic Nesting
of Kirtland’s Warbler.

in the Auk for October, 1898, Frank M.
Chapman says: ‘‘With the cxception
of several Mexican species just reach-

x

54

ing our border we can now write, rare
nest and eggs unknown only of Kirt-
land’s Warbler.’’ At this time but
seventy-five specimens were known to
science—d5 from the Bahamas, 20
from the United States. Since then a
few more have been taken, but count-
ing Mr. Wood’s records, we now have
a total of 31 from Michigan alone.

Mr. Wood struck a small colony
and discovered two nests one of which
contained one egg. Through the
courtesies of the Editorof the Bulletin,
we are able to present to readers of the
Oologist a halftone of Mr. Wood and
make a few quotations from his arti-
cle—‘‘ Discovery of the Breeding Area
of Kirtland’s Warbler.’’

“Marly in June, 1903, the Museum
assistant, Mr. E. H. Frothingham,
with a friend, Mr. T. G. Gale, went to
Oscoda Caunty Michigan, to fish the
Au Sable river. On one of their short
trips Mr. Frothingham, who is an ex-
perienced field ornithologist, heard a
bird song which he did not recognize.
Mr. Gale shot the bird. Theskin was
preserved and was fqund on their re-
turn to be a male Dendroica kirtlandi.
When I saw this skin of Kirtland’s
Warbler, taken in northern Michigan,
I concluded there was its summer
home, and there it would be found
breeding. At 4:45, on the evening of
June 29th, I boarded the Toledo, Ann
Arbor and Northern R. R. train, bound
for Roscommon, in the extreme north
of that county. I arrived at this old
lumber town at 6 a. m. June 30th,
after a tedious night’s travel, due to
two changes of cars, After some in-
quiry I found that my objective point
was thirty-five miles to the northeast,
and that the best way to reach this
point was by the river. The South
branch, one of the main feeders of the
Au Sable, runs near the town. At 7
a. m. I was on board a row boat on a
sixty mile run down the river.

“Tt may be imagined with what de-

THE OOLOGIST.

light I beheld the first nest of this
rare bird ever seen, and with what
eagerness I dropped to my knees be-
side it to make a closer examination
of its contents. There were two young
birds‘ perhaps ten days old, and a per-
fect egg; this proved to be the only
egg found.

‘“‘This egg was a delicate pinkish-
white, (since the contents were remoy-
ed it has faded to a dull white,) thin-

‘ly sprinkled with shades of brown

spots forming a sort of wreath at the
large end. This egg is .72 x .56 inch-
es or 18 by 14 mm., and containe no
embryo. The nest was built in a de-
pression in the ground, at the foot of
a jack pine about five feet tall, and
was only five feet from the road. It
was partly covered with low blueberries
and sweet- fern plants. The nest is
two inches inside diameter and the
same in depth, very neat and compact,
and is composed of strips of soft bark
and some vegetable fiber, thickly lined
with fine dead grass and pine needles.
A few hairs from horses mane or. tail
complete the lining.

‘‘As IT sat near the nest the female
came and alighted on the branch of
the jack pine just back of the nest.
She. was not at all shy. Once she
came with a worm inher mouth, but
she would not feed the young while I
was so near. The male also came,
but not so close. Both birds were
very restless aud uneasy—only a few
seconds in a place— which made it
very difficult to take photographs of
them. 2

‘“‘T made Fraser’s on the North
brrnch, Crawford county, my _ head-
quarters for a few days that I might be
near this colony of Kirtlands. I saw
(July 9th) athird female and toox a
male, but I wished to locate all the
nests I could, sol did not shoot the
females. I made asecond trip to the
nest and found both parents feeding
the young. After watching them a

THE OOLOGIST. 5D

short time I tried to locate the bound-
ary of this colony on the east. <A
short distance east of the nest I
heard another male singing and tried
to locate his nest, but failed to do so.
In fact the jack pine is so thick, the
ground so covered with old logs, tree
tops and vegetation, that it was only
by the closest kind of work I could
hope to find them, and even then only
by watching the male and flushing
the female from the nest.’’

Mr. Wood also describes at length
the song of the bird, his trip down the
rivers, nature of the country, flora etc
making the most complete life history
of the bird yet written. In conclusion
he says:

‘*T still consider this bird as rare,
and only to be found breeding in
small colonies, and only in the jack
pine plains in favorable localities.
All that I found were on the first and
second terraces north of the Au Sable
river. One pair was only one-fourth
mile from the river, and the farthest
two miles. All of these birds were
near some road that was used by
teams or stock, and they seem to pre-
fer such places for nesting and _ breed-
ing. They sing constantly in June
and July by the roadside, so they may
be easily found by driving through
the plains at this time. I did not
find a bird over one-fourth mile from
a road, or under conditions other than
those described. This history of the
Kirtland’s warbler is in the main
copied from my field notes, written
with the birds before me.’’

NorMAN A. Woop.

In this same issue of the Bulletin is
also a valuable article by Chas. C.,
Adams on the ‘‘Migration of Kirt-
land’s Warbler’’ which is illustrated
by maps.

Mr. Wood has the congratulations
of the whole of the oological fraternity
and the Bulletin is to be congratulated
upon producing the articles and _ half-
tones in so neat a manner.—ED.

The Cal. Vulture in Douglas Co., Oregon.

June 1, 1903, I sawtwo Cal. Vultures.
They were at a great height and I[
could not have identified them if I
had not often seen them fn Los
Angeles County, Cal. I saw several
of the greatVultures during the month
of June. The birds that I saw were
about thirty miles from the coast. Is
it possible that there is a colony on
the coast of Southern Oregon? We
know that they straggled to the
Columbia at an early day. Would
like to hear through Oologist from
some California Ornithologist in re-
gard to them.

GEORGE D. PECk,
Salem, Oregon.

Is the observing of thirty-three differ-
ent species of birds in one day, not a

.good record for month of February?

Can any of your readers north of 38
degrees report a similar record? On
February 28th this year, I observed
the following: 1, Red-bellied Wood-
pecker; 2, Blue Jay; 3, Slate-colored
Junce; 4, American Robin; 5, Blue-
bird; 6, Carolina Chickadee; 7, Cardi-
nal; 8, Song Sparrow; 9, Tree Spar-
row; 10, Downy Woodpecker; 11,
Mourning Dove; 12, Meadow-lark; 13,
American Crow; 14, Tufted Titmouse;
15, Cedar Waxwing; 16; Killdeer; 17,
Towhee; 18, Fox Sparrow; 19, Bronzed
Grackle; 20, Canada Goose; 21, Caro-
lina Wren; 22, Phoebe; 28 Brown
Creeper; 24, Red-winged Blackbird;
25, Hairy Woodpecker; 26, Red-tailed
Hawk; 27, Prairie Horned Lark; 28,
Cooper’s Hawk; 29, White-breasted
Nuthatch; 380, Purple Finch; 31,
White-crowned Sparrow; 382, Mallard;
33, Flicker.
CORNELIUS F. POsson,
Vincennes, Ind.

56 . THE OOLOGIST.

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Photographed by H.C. Higgins, Cincinnatus, N. Y. June 6.21902,

NEST AND EGGS OF BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER.

More about the Eggs of Black-throated
Blue Warbler.

The set of eggs of the Black-throated
Blue Warbler sent you by Mr. Stone
for comparison with the set taken by
himself, (see Oologist for February,
1904; pp. 22.) was one of my own col-
lecting and it may be of interest to
your readers to have other comparisons
made. My first find of this Warbler
was at Cincinnatus, N. Y. on June 11,
1895. Atthetime I was in an open
tract in a piece of woods on a side hill
grown up to bushes, ferns and small
saplings with here and there a fallen
log and brush pile, when I was attract-
ed by the alarm notes of this Warbler
and a short search revealed the nest,
which was built on a fallen limb rest-
ing in some low beech saplings. It
was placed 18 inches above the ground
and was composed of rotten bits of
wood, vine bark and _ flowers from

weeds and partially covered with co-
coons. The lining was small black
roots and hair. The;female was shot
to make sure of identity.

All of the several nests I have exam-
ined in this locality were almost an
exact counterpart of this nest and
almost invariably rested upon fallen
dead limbs but concealed by weeds or
bushes. I think the nest which was
sent you by Mr. Stone was rather more
compact than when found from the
fact that it had been tightly wound
with thread. There were four eggs in
the above described nest. One unfor-
tunatly was broken. The other three,
which were slightly incubated, meas-
ured (63 x .52, .66 x .58, .62 x 150
which, you will note, were consider-
ably smaller than the set which I sent
to Mr. Stone. They also are unlike
any of the other eggs which I have
examined. There were no brown
markings but the eggs are covered

THE OOLOGIST. *WA 57

with small blotches of pale lilac well
scattered over the entire egg.

My next find was the set sent you
by Mr. Stone. It was taken on June
5, 1899 and the bird too well seen for
any mistake to have occurred. The
following day I discovered a nest con-
taining three young birds and one
egg. On June ll, 1901 I examined a
nest of badly incubated eggs and upon
my next visit to the nest found the
young hatched My next find occurr-
ed on June 6, 1902 and I am sending
you a photograph of the nest. (See
cut page 54.) It was in an open place
in the woods among weeds which com-
pletely concealed it from view and was
placed one foot up in one of the weeds
but you will notice in the photograph
that it rests upon a fallen branch as I
mentioned above. In order to photo-
graph the nest, I was compelled to
break off some of the leaves which hid
it from view. The eggs in this set
measured .73 x .54, .73 x .53, .72 x .53,
.74 x .538—not quite as large as the
eggs taken by Mr. Stone. The mark-
ings, which are entirely brown, are
confined to the large end of the egg in
the form of a wreath. .On June 9,
1908, I discovered a nest situated 22
inches up in a fork of a beech bush
in woods well grown up to underbrush
but the four eggs which it contained
were too far incubated to take, but I

remember the set as more blotched
than any of the previous sets and it

was by far the prettiest set I had seen.

Your speaking of typical sets of
Magnolia Warbler causes me to say
that I would hardly know just what to
consider a typical set of this species.
I have seven sets in my collection and
have taken others and find them very
variable in style of markings. I have
those that closely resemble eggs of the
Chestnut-sided Warbler, those marked
in the form of a wreath and oné set
with the eggs so heavily blotched that
the entire large end is covered and re-

,

minds one of the heavily marked eggs
of the Red-shouldered Hawk.
H, C. HIGGINS,
Cincinnatus, N. Y.
Judging from my experience with some 20
sets from Maine and New Hampshire, I
should call Mr. Higgins’ last set nearest typi-
cal of Magnolia Warbler as the heavily
blotched type has always predominated.
EDITOR.

The Connecticut Warbler.
(Geothlypis agilis).

This species of the Warbler family
received its name from Alexander Wil-
son, one of the fathers of American
ornithology, from the fact that he dis-
covered his first specimen in the State
of Connecticut, but it is only a rare
summer visitor in that locality. In its
general appearance and life habits it
closely resembles its near relative, the ©
Mourning Warbler, but it is a little
larger in size; the wings also are longer,
and more pointed; and the colors of its
plumage of a duller hue. Atthe period
of the spring migration it ranges over
a wide extent of eastern North America,
north to the Maritime provinces, and
across southern Ontario and _ west
into Manitoba; but it does not appear
to migrate beyond the low, wooded dis-
tricts of that province, certainly not
beyond the foot-hills of the Rocky
mountains. This species was first
added to the list of the Warblers of
Canada by Mr. W. E. Saunders of Lon-
don, who took a specimen near that
city in September, 1883, and afterwards
found it tolerably common in that
vicinity, and also noted it at Point
Pelee. Mr. MclIlwraith noted it on sev-
eral occasions at Hamilton and believed
it nested in Ontario; where it is probably
a more common summer resident than
is yet known. He says itis a widely
distributed species, but is nowhere
abundant, though it seems to be more
common in the west than in the eastern
portion of its habitat. It is of shy,

58 THE OOLOGIST.

retiring habits frequenting low,
swampy places, and keeping near the
ground.

In the early settlement of this prov-

ince the early settlers—had they been
so disposed—were more likely to ac-
quire a knowledge of the nesting habits
and life history of this as well as var-
ious other species, than is possible
now; for with the clearing up, and
drainage of the swampy woodlands the
summer haunts and homes of many
species of our wild birds have been very
much changed, and some species that
were formerly common in some locali-
ties, are now altogether absent, though
in other localities still in a state of
nature, they may be more abundant
than in former years. In more recent
years, since I have devoted more special
attention to the song notes ofour forest
_ birds, and by this means identified
them, rather than by a near approach,
or the inspection of their lifeless forms,
I cannot say that I have detected the
presence of this wandering ranger of
the low-land wood in the vicinity of
Listowel, or any other locality that I
have visited, but I believe that in for-
mer years I have met with it not only
as a spring migrant, but also as a
summer resident, and that, at least,
on one occasion, I found it’s nest. It
is now nearly twenty years ago, when,
on a day in early June, I was strolling
in a tract of swampy woodland, a mile
south of the town, a little bird
flew up almost from my feet, and dis-
appeared in some brush nearby; and
on looking down I discovered a nest
containing six eggs. This was neara
large turned-up root, but quite exposed,
and sunk in the moss and mould, and
composed largely of fine rootlets. The
eggs were of a white hue, dotted with a
circle of reddish brown towards the
larger end; altogether much like those
of the Mourning Warbler, and from
the glimpse that I got of the bird at
that time I took it to be that species;

but from my since acquired knowledge
of the nesting habits of the latter
species, I concluded that it does not
nest in that manner, or position. Not
knowing the rarety of these specimens
I soon afterwards gave them to other
parties.

The Connecticut Warbler is five and
a half inches in length, and the color
of the male bird in his spring plumage
is, on the upper parts, of an olive-green
hue; becomming ashy on the head;
while the chin, throat, and breast are
ashy gray, and there is a shading of
olive on the sides; the lower parts be-
ing yellow. The wings and tail are
also glossed with yellow. but otherwise
they are unmarked. The iower mand-
ible and the feet are of a paler color,
but there are no decided markings any-
where.

Mr. E. Thompson-Seton, who has
done much towards enlightening the
public on the subject of the Faunal
life of Canada, in relating some of his
observations of bird life in Manitoba,
gives an interesting account of the
haunts and nesting of the Connecticut
Warbler there; the substance cf which
is as follows:

‘“A few miles south of the Village of
Carberry is a large Spruce bush, in
the middle of which is a Tamarac
swamp, where Pitcher plants grow in
wild profusion, but in general it is a
dark, gray waste, interspersed with tall
tamarac trees, whose boughs cast little
shade. The chief bird notes heard in
aramble through this primitive wil-
derness, were those ofthe Crested Fly-
catcher, besides these the only notable
sounds were the ‘‘Beecher’’-like notes
oft repeated, of some Warbler. This
was much like the song of the Golden-
crowned Thrush, but differed in being
inthe same uniform pitch, from be-
ginning to end. Guided by this
sound,’’ says Mr. Seton, ‘‘I found the
bird high in the Tamaracs. It was not
shy, so it was easily secured, and it

THE OOLOGIST. 59

proved to be a male Connecticut War-
bler. As I went on a small bird sud-
denly sprang up from one of the grave-
like mounds. It seemed distressed,
and ran along like a Plover when
alighting, but on seeing that I would
not be decoyed away. it ran round me
in the same attitude. Recognizing
that it was the female Connecticut
Warbler, I shot it, and then sought
out thenest in the moss. This was
entirely composed of dry grass and
sunk level with the surface of the
mound. Theeggs, four in number,
measured .75x.56 of an inch. Before
being blown they were of a delicate
creamy-white hue, with a few spots of
lilac purple. brown and black, inclined
to form a ring at the largeend. This
nest with the parent birds were sent to
the Smithsonian Institute museum,
Washington.”’ j

Dr. Coues, in giving the range of
this bird, says:

‘‘Kastern United States, not com-
monly observed in the spring, abund-
ant in the fall in some localities, a shy
inhabitant, of brushwood and thicket.
Distribution, migration and breeding
habits still imperfectly known.’’

—W, L. Kells, in Guelph Daily Her-
ald. ‘* Notes from Thicketand Swamp.’’
Feb. 5, 1904.

Hairy Woodpecker in Illinois.

Back in 1900 (April 24th to be exact, )
I was homeward bound, after spending
a day with the Hawk’s in Salt Fork
timber. In the last row of trees bor-
dering the woods, stood a small, dead
sapling stump. Five feet from the

ground I noticed a small, round hole,
while freshly scattered chips lay on

the ground below. ‘‘A Downy,’’
thought I, ‘‘at least two weeks too early
for a full set.”’?’ Thinking it useless to
chip in and ruin a_ future Downy
home, I turned to retrace my steps.
A slight rustle arrested me and as it
seemed to orginate in the stump, I de-

hatched however,

cided to investigate. A long twig in-
serted in the hole received such a
thump that I could feel the force at
the otherend. ‘‘A Nuthatch’? quoth
I, and while chopping away at the en-
trance, I reviewed the many accounts
I had read of plucky little ‘‘carolinen-
sis’? remaining at her post until pull-
ed out. Eight inches down I came to
the bottom of the cavity and was sur-
prised to find a Hairy Woodpecker,
with flashing eyes, ready to defend
her four pearly treasures. She clung
with pugnacious desperation when I
lifted her off the eggs, and exhibited
no terror whatever. During a more
extended acquaintance with ‘‘villosus’’
covering the intervening seasons, I
have found this to be a habit while in-
cubation was taking place. While
covering a complete set of eggs, (my
experience tells me,) it is next to im-
possible to flush a female Hairy from
her nest. When the young were
mama and papa
‘‘villosus’’ are especially active and
an observer can hardly approach near
enough to tap the tree before a parent
Hairy appears at the entrance. How
many of my readers have passed one
of those likely-looking, freshly-cut
cavities after giving a careless tap
with the hatchet, only to be surprised
upon the next visit to hear the sharp,
metallic ‘‘chink’’ of the elder, and
the chirping chorus of the hungry
young Hairy Woodpeckers clamoring
for food?

May not these habits of ‘‘villosus’’
partly explain why Lattin lists their
eggs at 50c and why we so seldom
find sets of 893 in the exchange lists?

Isaac E. HESs,
Philo, Ills.

King Rail, A. 0. U. No. 208.

(Rallus elegans.)
June 14th, 1908, I was out driving in
the vicinity of Fisher, Ill., and visited

60 THE OOLOGIST. &l ‘ A)

asmall swamp, hoping to add a few
new sets to my collection. The swamp
was a small one, being not over an
acre in extent. Numerous Red-wing
Blackbirds hovered overhead, chirping
their continual con-ger-ee, and making
the cold chills run up my back, when
I suddenly started a bird, somewhat
larger than a pigeon, and _ shortly
found a nest containing seven eggs of
a buffish color, sparingly spotted with
rusty brown. Not knowing the bird
and therefore not knowing whether the
set was complete or not, decided to
leave it until a later date and return,
which I did the eighteenth, and find-
ing only nine eggs, took them. The
pest was composed of weeds and lined
with fine grass, a flat platform like
structure, about a foot in diameter,
located in a clump of willows, about a
foot from the ground. Later the eggs
were identified by Dr. Jessee, of Philo,
I1l., as those of the King Rail.
S 8S. 8S. STANSELL,
Philo, Illinois.

Editorial Notes.

So much good material along that
line has accumulated that we publish
this as a special Warbler Number. .

Now that the breeding of the Con-
necticut and Kirtland’s Warblers has
been ferretted out and described, Bach-
man’s Warbler occupies a unique po-
sition and we trust for anthentic data
in regard to its breeding and eggs
from some Collector in the Central
South before long.

We regretfully announce the death
of R. F. Anderson of Aylmer, West,
Ontario, Canada, last June by drown-
ing while out boating in pursuit of
his hobby.

Mr. Anderson was well-known as an
enthusiastic student and Collector in
several branches of Natural History.

We also regret the loss of another of
the best known of North American

Oologists, Mr. J. B. Canfield of Bridge-
port, Conn., whose accidental death
by asphyxiation has just been report-
ed to the Editor. Mr. Canfield was a
careful and conscientious collector
and leaves a fine collection. —

Publications Received.

Am. Ornithology, Vol. IV, No. 38.
Notes from Thicket and Swamp.
Guelph Daily Herald, Feb. 26, 704.

March 5, ’04 and March 12, ’04.
Condor, Vol. ‘VI, No, 2.

Review.

Additional notes on the Summer
Birds of Flathead Lake. P.M. Sillo-
way. Being Bulletin No. 18 of Uni-
versity of Montana. Biological Series
No. 6. A supplement to Biological
Series, No. 1, giving notes on nesting
of species not noted in No. 1, a full
revised list and some fine half tones
from photos.

On February 28th a friend and I
went in search of Great Horned Owl’s
eggs. Weread in ‘‘Davies Nest and
Eggs,”’ that the last of February or
the first of March is the time to look
for them. On entering the woods we
saw an Owl leave a large oak tree. I
climbed up and imagine my astonish-
ment to see three young owls, snap-
ping their bills at me. According to
this eggs should be looked for about
the last of January or first of February.
Is this not exceptionally early?

C. W. PRIER.

The twenty-seventh of February
there was found by the section hands
ofthe West Shore railroad, a young
Red-throated Loon nearly starved to
death, (it did die the next day,) in a
marsh near Port Gibson, Wayne Co.,
New York.

H. K. Sedgwick.

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Gray-tailed: iene see
Texan y seta iets >)
Rose-breasted Grosbeak :
Black-headed E
Blue : 2 2s
Indigo BUGIS aioe i feiten
1 EW AD Ib binegiaeer np a eget ak >
Sharpe’s Seed Eater,......
Dickeissel. fe eae
Lark Bunting: 22... secon
Scarlet Tanager ea eae
Summer! (nieve se wee wanes
Barn Swallow sa teeth hae
Banke 06 ides ccm Aare
Cedar Waxwing...........
White-rumped Saker ae
Loggerhead Hele
California aia
Red-eyed Vireo............
Warbling i is cds. a res ae
Yellow-th’d “ ............
Bilack=tap id oan cet

ee

White-eyed Ce hilaiie sone
Hutton’s Bei rety Gace es 3)
Black ane White Warbler
Prothonotary

Parula sf
Yellow )
Magnolia | s
Chestnut-sided be
Pine ae
Ovenbird

Kentucky eS
MeGillivray’s ss

Maryland Yellowthroat.. 06
Yellow-breasted Chat.... 03

ALM RCOSHATU 62520. faoes he 04
White Wagtail...:....50.6 05
Meadow Pipit eee rs tye dare 03
Sage Thrasher.......-..... 20
MGGk ine bIEG: 35.25.53 35.25 02
(SURTH CFSE SURO Hi eee tp aaa 01
Brown Thrasher.......... 02
PENMehh S<' “Ae Tee 06
Palmer’s riglays aE ere tee 12
Bema@ire’sr. S.-te eke See See 20
DEO UMCAS ss 3S FA ae 40
Calwtornians "Hae ee. oo 07
Address
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THE OOLOGIST. 63

WERONECS ie Ny Sache eee 65 Carolina Chickadee....... 07
Crissal ee oe Ce Pee ov = Calite Bush-tite. 4... 05
Cactus W Ne eat ee OBC 2M GROUT: | Sevet- tee ee eas, ee 12
UO CK ago)! ieee aro ee, Sa 20 Russet-back Thrush ee Se 06
CHOI: + See hea tee ree 08’ WiGos) ~ So se tie Bee ve 02
IBERVICK Sir eae =. teat wit sae 08 Wilson’s Trae We oc 04
WAILOR By asa ceca eee, cae, 08 Olive-back Lage ae i 15
House abe enralc teeta sels 03. Hermit AeA, Sate 12
PTC ORATN. Si narrate ue vee sae S (570 Alm eRIO DIME a) zocor. 0 Ol
Western House Wren..... O40 CPAMLE DITO =..00 some estee ae 02
Long-billed Marsh Wren. 02 Western Bluebird......... 04
Slender-bill Nuthatch..... Daye UOTE TANT <lpee sipetes e attae 04
Plain Titmouse............ 18 Ring Pheasants: 2 7.2:.%.. 10
Ghickadee sso te eae: 06 English Partridge......... 08

ERNEST H. SHORT,
ROCHESTER, N, Y.

_A MONUMENTAL ORK.

FIFTH REVISED EDITION OF THE

» Key to North American Birds.

By ELLIOTT COUES, M. D:, PH. D.

Wholly new text.

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One of the largest co'lections of Indian

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I offered in the March Oologist the U.S. Collection contains

remain unsold

During April I will close out what’s left 130 MO RTA RS
i -2 tel
At a D iscou nt of 20 Total eie ne 21-2tons. Mortars from 1 Ib. to

per cent.

. All numbered, giving date found and
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A splendid lot for museum or school. Will
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A Valuable Book
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In preparation,
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The Stone Age; xd

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KOMBI.—Takes picture one and one-fourth
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RARE Crystallized Fossils, Opals in rough,
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FOR SALE OR IN EXCHANGE for choice .
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Photographs of nests and Eggs and young.
Birds of Pre from. fine negatives.
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FOR SALE.—Good skins of Ancient Mur-
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Grouse 70c., Red-backed Sandpiper 30C.,
White Rumped Sandpiper, 30c..._ Pectoral
Sandpiper 20c., Wilson’s Snipe 25c., Least
Bittern 60c., Amer. Oyster catcher 70c., Little
Blue Heron (white) 70c., Clark’e Nutcracker,
50c., Woodhouse’s Jay 50c., Long-creasted
Jay 30c., Audubon’s Oriole 40c., Bay-breasted
Warbler 25c., Varied Thrush 25c. O. SB.
BIGGS. San Jose, Ill.

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FOR SALE.—Eggs of Red-faced Warbler,
Arizona Jay, Arizona Junco, Arizona Wood-
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WANTED for cash sets of Red-shouldered
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FOR SALE.—One Morgan saddle cost $10.00
good as new for $5.50. One telescope cost
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WANTED.—Eggs of the following A. O. U.
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Grackle, one-3 Boat-tail Grackle one-3, Ben-
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fm., 534, 419 (damaged), "615, 528. Also. offer
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and write ERNEST H. SHORT, Rochester,
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i

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WANTED.—The following first-class full
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Send prices and full particulars to

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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—200 scientific
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Rough-winged Swallow 1-6................... 48
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Anthony’ s' Towhee 153. 3). 4h ee ee 16
Rusty Song Sparrow 1-4... 5.0... -2.522..5-42- A
San Diego Song Sparrow 1-4.................-

Traills’ Flycatcher Dad iio ers cenetaea ee ae a
Alder: Flycatcher 43 aes eee 20
Am: Barn: Owl125s5 3.26 ae eee ees 75
Northwest Flicker-6). 2. Wo... 7.220. geamenee 45

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Franklin’s Gull Hy Dee OCA ira
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Forsters Tern
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Gannet i SOC aa ues
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| Passing of the Passenger Pigeon.

BY J. W. PRESTON.
It is a matter for regret when so fine
a bird which once was so plentiful as

to be a feature of the region it frequent-
ed becomes so scarce that it is a rarity.
I well remember when ‘‘Wild Pigeons’’
were as common as Turtle Doves. Not-
oriously gregarious they flew often in
vast flocks, which moved over the
country, back and forth from feeding
ground to roosting place or in the
migrations. The movement of these
flocks was similar to that of the Ameri-
can Golden Plover, yet more swift and
with less of that undulating motion.

I have spent much effort studying
the flight of birds, have often
timed some of our fleetest species.
That denizen of the wooded lakes, the
Loon, when coming from a feeding
ground will mount up far above the
woods, and then from that risky
height, with closed wings, dash
through space at an incalculable rate
of speed, or the Balded Eagle when
falling upon its prey attains terrific
velocity. But no bird of my acquaint-
ance can take its start and accomplish
a mile in as little time and with the
grace and ease of the Passenger Pigeon.
Every movement begin of that con-
stant, watchful alertness and unrest
natural to the bird.

One who has seen the movements of
these birds in spring and autumn
fights will not forget the elegant ease
of motion and the grand sweep when
they circled round and over a grove,
into the depths of which they plunged
soon to emerge and whirl again and
again before alighting in the top of
some large tree. Then while contending
for a choice perch, they would contin-
ually be changing position and fight-
ing each other, making little excur-
Sions from the main flock only to

70 THE OOLOGIST.

return again. With so many birds
together, uttering their wild note, with
much fluttering of wings, these gath-
erings were attractive and full of life.
Then in an instant at some intrusion,
they would with rush of _ beating
pinions, depart as quickly as they
came.

During the autumn they become
very flat on the acorns as well as grain.
I have seen immense numbers of them
swarm into fields where they almost
covered the grain shocks and did much
damage, but their natural food seemed
to be largely acorns in this locality. I
remember once to have crept through
the underbrush until close upon a
company of perhaps one’ hundred,
among some trees in an open place in
a grove, some were on the ground and
some on trees, where they were resting.
Certainly they were as trim and grace-
ful as any bird could be. There the
sun gleamed on the resplendent plum-
age which shone again. During the
spring of 1882 I collected eggs of this
species in the white oak forests along
the Iowa River in Johnson County.
Again in 1887, near Lake Itasca,
Minn. and later on the Red River, but
these resorts were abandoned.

Uniformly I have found them nest-
ing in remote forest places where
shelter was good. Here they lose
much of their fear and may be ap-
proached quite closely, yet the intense
energy and activity is noticeable and
really they make quite a good deal of
fuss about the amusingly, shiftless
style of nest they are building. They
certainly lose many more ‘‘sticks’’
than are made to stay in place at the
forking of some horizontal branch,
from four to thirty feet from ground,
and as far out from the tree or sapling
as may be. E

This nest is so flimsy that the bird
might be convicted of ‘‘criminal care-
lessness’’ toward the young bird or
‘‘squab,’’ for if the egg does not

anticipate the accidental downfall the
offspring is more than likely to do so.
Here in lies a chief factor in his
decrease; this, with the encroachments
of the ever-lurking Crow, which de-
stroys eggs and young.

Upon this slight structure is deposit-
ed one creamy white, smooth, shiny
egg, which may be easily seen from
below. I have not taken a set of two
eggs. Before me is an egg kindly
presented by my brother, the Rev. H.
L. Preston, collected by him in April,
1873, an early date for this latitude as
those other sets were taken in May.
This egg is elliptical, wrought to the
faintest suggestion of a point at one
end, being almost equal ended, the
outlines are very even. Incubation
was advanced. The measurements
are 1.40 x 1.05.

One summer day in 1900 while I was
driving along the dusty road a fine
adult male of the species flew close by
me and alighted in a small willow,
where he sat looking about for a little
time, then flew swiftly out across the
fields and he was gone, the last one I
have seen, and this creature of the
passing time, like his native groves,
has disappeared.

a

An Egg Collecting Trip in Frankiin Co.,
Indiana.

The morning of May 21, 1902, equip-
ped with a complete set of oological
tools, I started out for the White Water
River, which is about four miles from
my home, (Oak Forest, Franklin Co.,
Indiana. )

It was a bright, beautiful May morn-
ing, not a breath of air stirring, the
green grass covered the ground, the
trees and flowers were in their full
bloom and splendor, the birds were
singing sweetly from every bush and
tree, while the females were busily
engaged in their household affairs.

The object of this trip was to secure

THE OOLOGIST. 71

Photo by L. S. Horton, Hyde Park. N. Y.

NEST AND EGGS OF COOPER’S HAWK 45 FEET FROM THE GROUND, PHOTOGRAPHED
FROM THE TOP OF ANOTHER TREE, 15 FEET AWAY ON A CLOUDY, WINDY DAY.

72 THE OOLOGIST.

an egg of the Least Bittern (Ardetta
exilis) of which I observed a pair
building a nest a few days before, and
upon arriving at the nest which was
located near the river in some tall
grass, the female was flushed and the
nest contained but one egg, which is
now in my collection.

In the same locality a short dis-
tance away I came across an American
Coot’s nest with ten spotted eggs, one
of which went into my collecting box,
the remaining ones were left in the
nest, as my collection consists only of
single eggs.

My next find was four nests of the
Long-billed Marsh Wrens (Cistothorus
palustris) which appeared more like
mouse-nests than anything else I
could compare them with, and only
one of the nests contained five eggs,
one of which I preserved.

I next strolled down the river bed
where I discovered a nest in the sand
bar with four spotted eggs of the Spot-
ted Sandpiper, the single one which I
preserved was slightly incubated. In
a bank near by I observed a Belted
Kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon) fly from a
hole, and after about one hour’s dig-
ging I secured seven glossy white
eggs, and as the bird would not return
to its spoiled nest I took the entire set
of these eggs. While at this work I
observed the female Spotted Sandpiper
return to its remaining three eggs and
proceed incubating as if nothing had
happened.

The next two nests I found were one
of the Yellow-breasted Chat with four
eggs and one nest of the Cardinal
Grosbeak, but as I had eggs of these
two species already in my collection I
left them undisturbed. I also found
the Bank Swallow nesting in the same
bank where the Belted Kingfisher’s
were procured, but the nests were high
up on the steep face of the bank so I
could not procure them. Upon the
green grass under the welcome shade

JAMES F. HONECKER, OOLOGIST,

Oak Forest, Indiana.

of a large elm tree I sat down to eat
my dinner. after resting some time I
started out again for new material. I
next came to an old Sycamore stub,
when a rap on it flushed a Red-headed
Woodpecker from a hole. From a set
of six pure white eggs one was taken.
On a grassy hillside I found a nest of
four eggs of the Killdeer, one egg
went along with me leaving three in
the nest for its owner.

Entering the woods I discovered a
nest of the Cooper’s Hawk having an
egg of this specie I paid no further
attention to this nest; and after walking
about three miles J didn’t find a single
nest noregg. As by this time the sun
was sinking low in the west, reflecting
its golden sunbeams on the distant
hilltops, I was nearing home when I
had the pleasure of finding a nest of
the Bob-white under a large stone,
leaning against an old stump. The

THE OOLOGIST. 73

nest was placed on the ground, lined
with fine grass and feathers, and con-
tained four beautiful white eggs, one
of which I preserved. I now arrived
home, and it is needless to state I was
tired and hungry, but I will never
regret the trip. The eggs were then
prepared for the cabinet. I was well
' pleased with the results of my collect-
ing trip. I have collected many more
eggs but the above is the result of one
day’s work.
JOSEPH F. HONECKER.
Oak Forest, Ind.

a

Collecting in Northern Indiana.

It was a lovely day, late in the month
of May, when our little party started
from home, going to one of the lakes
so common in this state. We carried
everything necessary for a _ week’s
camping and collecting, and I may
add that in the end we were not dis-
appointed.

Thesun had not yet risen over the
eastern horizon, when we reached a
thick swamp, which however, was not
our destination. A good hour’s wad-
ing and struggling with the rushes
and briers was still before us, and
streams, too, often intercepted us.
Therefore it was indeed gratifying
when we reached the spot selected for
our camp, and by the time the neces-
sary arrangements had been completed
it was noon. All agreed that it was
useless to start collecting that day as,
the heat was terrific and birds were all
quite, with the possible exception of
some Bob-white which would occa-
sionally send out its clear musical
note across some distant meadow.

The next morning everyone was astir
early, and anxious for the start. By
the time the sun rose, we had left
camp several miles behind, directing
our way toward a rather large lake
which was situated near the center of
the swamp, and was known for the

large flocks of Shovelers that yearly
nested there. Birds were already
flitting from tree to tree, flowers bloom-
ing in greatest profusion everywhere,
and in short everything was as beauti-
ful as nature alone can make it; we
too were in the best of moods, proceed-
ing gaily, when a whirl of wings
directly in our path startled us, but as
it is only a stray Bob-white, let it
alone. Alas! a shot from someone
had already brought the bird fluttering
to the ground, where a short search
among the weeds revealed the victim.
But what a strange Quail, why, it is
no Quail, but a Wood-cock, and what
a large, fine specimen at that, of the
bird that will so soon be unknown. A
nest must be near, and all instinct-
ively turn to a small clump of willows,
where the nest is sure to be found.
But what is our disappointment when
a half hour’s search reveals nothing,
and we must proceed. We hope for
better luck later, however.

The sun was shining brightly when
we reached the lake, and all were eager
to embark, and search thegrassy islets
and shores for the treasures they are
sure to contain. Small dark spots are
dimly visible along the distant shores,
which our glasses reveal to be Ducks.
But we are aware of the Shovelers
habits. No nests are to be found
there. Therefore we must proceed
directly to the small islets; and this we
do. A few late Martins (Bank Swal-
lows) are still skimming over the
water, and a solitary Heron can be
seen fishing on the distant shore.
Killdeers can be faintly heard from all
sides, but can not be seen, so we must
imagine them running along the
shore, feeding on the small molloses
and crabs abounding. But the islets
are already reached, and how eagerly
does everyone search every tuft of
rushes and weeds passed. What was
it that so silently dropped into the
water a few yards ahead. And with

74 THE OOLOGIST.

such a dull splash as to be scarcely
audible. Ah! at last. How we fairly
skim over the water in our eagerness
to reach the spot, and carefully parting
the rushes what is our joy to find eight
dull, bluish eggs snugly lying in a
nest of softest down. A photograph is
first secured and then the prize. We
already feel rewarded for our exertions,
but are still pleased to continue until
six beautiful sets are securely packed
in the boxes, just one set for each, and
the rest are not disturbed. We now
turn toward a different shore, where
hundreds of blackbirds keep up an
incessent screaming. It is an easy
matter to secure all the eggs desired,
nests being found in nearly available
spot. The heat warns us that it is
noon, and landing, we are glad to rest
an hour, after which we slowly proceed
toward the camp. For the purpose of
making as many new finds as possible
we divide into two parties, each pursu-
ing a different route. We were nearing
the same clump of willows passed in
the morning, when we decided to search
again. This time we were more suc-
cessful. Aftera short search the nest
was found. Ina small depression lay
four large ashy-gray eggs, thickly
spotted with purple and brown. We
could easily see that the nest had not
been occupied during the day, and
this showed that it was very likely the
one belonging to the bird shot in the
morning. Perhaps not. Any way
they are the rarest set found yet. The
sun warns us of the coming dusk, and
we must proceed rapidly as we are still
far from camp. A few sets of Cardinal
and Chat eggs are all we find, and we
reach camp to find our friends already
awaiting us. L. E. MILLER.

[The set of Wood-cock was undoubt-
edly a second set owing to some acci-
dent to the first eggs or young. The
Wood-cock lays her eggs early in April
and if the first attempt results in her
raising a brood I do not think that
they nest again that season. I found

a half incubated set on May 20th,
1897, but an investigation soon located
the party whotook the first set from the
same pair four weeks earlier.—ED. ]

Nesting of the Black Tern.

CHARLES W. BOWMAN.

The lake region of North Dakota
offers special inducements to this tern,
which is here found in great abund-
ance, both as migrant and breeder.
The first birds arrive from the south
about the first to the middle of April.
A few solitary individuals are usually
seen a few days before the bulk of the
Species are with us. They make no
noise upon their first arrival, but soon
become noisy enough to suit the most
fastidious, seeming to incessantly
utter their harsh notes which soon
grate upon the ear.

About two weeks after their first
arrival the nesting site is chosen, and
nest building is begun.- This site
usually consists of a grassy slough or
marsh of any size from oneto one hun-
dred acres in extent. The Terns seem
to like best those sloughs in which
patches of grass and open water are
interspersed, carefully avoiding those
bodies of water which are heavily over-
grown with rushes. The chosen situa-
tion is usually occupied by from one
dozen to fifty pairs of birds, and they
invariably return to nest year after
year in the same spot unless molested,
providing the surroundings remain
the same.

The nests are usually on small
patches of open water, which is closely
surrounded by a growth of grass,which
may vary in depth from afew inches to
several feet. They are some times
frail structures consisting of but a
handful of grass, which rests upon the
surface of the water, but they are often
more substantial affairs being placed
upon a pile of drift or an old muskrat
house. By the time that incubation is
completed they are generally much de-

THE OOLOGIST. 75

composed from contact with the water.
The remarkable protective coloration
of the eggs, and the inconspicousness
of the nest, cause them to be easily
overlooked, and if the actions of the
birds be taken as a criterion the nests
will not be easily found by the inex-
perienced collector, for they are very
vociferous even at along distance from
the nests. These are never placed close
together and are often fifty or one hun-
dred yards apart. Anyintrusion upon
their domestic affairs is most fiercely
resented by the terns, as the intruder
nears the nest, they make repeated and
lightning like dashes at his head,
often giving that member a smart tap
with their sharp bill. |

The eggs are two or three in number,
and are generally more pyriform in
shape than those of the other gulls and
terns, but they much resemble these
in colors and markings, which are of
endless variety. They average in size
about 1.33 x .95 inches.

Soon after nesting time the birds
lose their handsome black and silver
suit, which they have worn through
courtship and early married llfe, and
as their appearance is no longer a mat-
te. of much moment, they don a coat
of the most fantastic pattern, in which
black and white equally predominate;
but in the early autumn they depart
for the sunny south land, and here
their plumage becomes almost white.

Rallus Virginianus.
VIRGINIA RAIL IN A Bay WINDOW.

On November 19, 1903, some boys
captured a Virginia Rail; the snow
was 12 to 14 inches deep and snowing
hard at the time. The little fellow
had waited a few days too long before
taking his southern trip and had to
drop by the way. A party gave him
to me the next day to mount as he
supposed he would have to die. I
took the Rail home and Mrs. K
thought it wicked to kill such a pretty

bird and I did not like the idea so we
concluded to let him stay in the con-
servatory. At first he was a little shy
and would not eat and at night would
fly all around the house until after the
lights were out when he would quiet
down and rest for the night. He
would eat some in the day time and
began very soon to get accustomed to
his new home. But every evening for
ten days he would fly around the
house as long as the lights were burn-
ing, then after that he became perfect-
ly reconciled to his new home and
would go to roost as soon as dark on
some plant, perfectly contented, and
now he is very regular in his habits;

- has one particular place for roosting

high up in the plant room and takes
his bread, milk and meat every day.
Will come and take food from my
hand, works in the roots of plant jars
as though he was after worms, goes in
an earthen dish and bathes almost
every day, and seems to enjoy life in
the Bay Window.
ALMON E. KIBBE,
Mayville, N. Y.

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NoTice.—We are sending a copy
of this issue to a number who were
subscribers to the Oologist for some
time but who dropped ig during the
period of irregularity caused -by the
growing pressure of Dr. Lattin’s
other duties.

Many of these undoubtly dropped
it solely for that reason.

Now that we have it in running
order, its regularity and _ standard
insured; the Manager submits the
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Send him 50c. for One year or 25c.
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He agrees to quit sending the pub-
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76 THE OOLOGIST.

scription or, at least, ask him to con-
tinue sending it. Address.
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Mgr. Oologist, Chili, N. Y.

Mr. Philo W. Smith, Jr. of St.
Louis writes us that he will put his
fine Collection of Eggs and Skins on
exhibition at his Hotel during the
World’s Fair.

This and his very reasonable rates
(see ad.) will doubtless induce many
Ornithologists and Oologist to make
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he Be IUACONAY IN. Y.:

Your bird with dull brown back,
gray-brown head and throat and white
outside feathers showing in tail when
flying is doubtless Slate-colored
Junco.

F, W. K., CLEVELAND.

Jan. 15 to Feb. 15th in West Fla.
would do for eggs of Bald Eagle,
early nests of Sandhill Crane etc.
but is too early for the bulk of Fla.
birds. March Ist to April 15th would
catch the bulk of shore and water
birds, Herons, Ibis; etc. There are
still ‘‘Gators’’ to kill if you get well
south,

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will, during 1901, remain as below:

After which the prices of many numbers will
be advanced and possibly not obtainable at any
price. Should you desire back numbers to
complete your file Now is the time to purchase.
You can never obtain them for less money and
possibly not at any price, as our stock ranges
from only | to 2 copies of an issue.

Prices for 1904 are as follows:

Nos 1 14, 18, 21, 28-24, 31. 32, 34-35, 42, 53, 89; .
111, 130, 132, 137, 139, 140, 153, 158 are £0 cents
e.ch.

Nos. 9, 66-67, 76, 77, 78, 7988, 90, 113, 138, 148
are 25 cents each

Nos 11, 18, 14, 15, 16, 54. 55, 56, 75, 87, 127, 128,
129, 144. 149 are 15 cents each.

Nos 19. 20, 22, 27, 28, 38, 39, 40. 45, 50, 60, 61,
63, 64, 65, 70. 74, 80, 93, 100, 114. 115 126, 133,135 are
10 cents each.

(All other numbers 5c per copy.

For %10,will send prepaid a copy of every issue
ever published, Nos 1 to 197. This offer in-
cludes your subscription through 1904.

My prices for ba: k Nos. of the YOUNG OoLo-
GIST and OOLOGIST in volumes, are as follows:

Vol. I 1884-5, No8.1t012 00... 8 90
Pere 1885, © 13and 14.

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“ TV. 1887, “ 21 to 25-26

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“ VIT. 1890, “ 51 to 62

““ VIII. 1891, “ 63t0 74

" IX, 1892 “ 75 to 86

ox 1893, ‘ 87to98

‘* XT. 1894, ‘ 99to110

“ XT. 1895, “ 11110122 ..

XTIT. 1896, “123 to 127

“XIV. 1°97 128 to 139 ..

“ XV. 1898 “ 140 to 149 re
‘EVI. sat8GOrt on 150; to1Gl a. eee a
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ERVIN AGL. 2) 192 toss 50
(UREN 1908 id © 84 to 195 See 50
“ XK . 1908, ‘ 196 to197 10

For $51 will send prepaid a copy “of every
issue published, Nos. 1 to 197, i clusive, except
the twenty-nine (29) 25c and 50c copies

For $21 will send prepaid every copy pub-
lished, Nos 1 to 197, inclusive except the sixty
(60) copies priced above at 10c or over.

BOUND VOLUMES.

Can be furnished, strongly bound in cloth and
boards, aS follows:
Vol. [and Il YouNG OoLOGIST bound in

ONE :ViOl WING eer eet cee nee meee nat $1 00
Vol. IX. THE OoLocist for 92, 298 pages

of valuable and instructive Oological and

Ornithological matter with many full

page illustrations 1
Or, if you order the two volumes at one time,
we will send them by return mail for only $1.75.
Every student of birds. their nests and eggs,
should have these two volumes in their libra-
ry. The valuable information they contain, is
worth many times the price.

Address plainty,

ERNEST H. SHORT,

Manager of Oologist.
CHILI, N.

78 THE OOLOGIST.

Sets Cheap.

The following first class sets with data
sent postpaid, carefully packed, at the
price mentioned per set: Canada Goose 4
$1.60, Frigate Pelican 1 50c., Loon 1 65c.
Booby z $1.00, European Swan 6 §2.70,
Cinnamon Teal 14 $2.10,Gadwall 7 $1.40,
Harlequin Duck 6 $1.80, Egyptian Goose
2 $1.60, Bridled Tern 1 50c, Western
Grebe 5 60c, Horned Grebe 5 5oc,
American Eared Grebe 5 35c, Pied-billed
Grebe 4 20c, Tufted Puffin r 25c, Large
billed Puffin 1 60c, Horned Puffin 1 95¢,
Black Guillemot 2 25c, Skua 2 6oc,
Parasitic Jaegar 3 55c, Herring Gull 3 30¢,
Mew Gull 3 30c, Fianklin’s Gull 3 45c,
White-winged Black Tern 3 55c, Fulmar
1 25c Audubons Shearwater I 45c¢,
Farrallone Cormorant 3 75c, Mexican
Cormorant 4 $1.00, Baird’s Cormorant 3
30c, Brown Pelican 3 30c, Whistling
Swan 3 Iceland $5.25, Least Bittern 5
35c, Great Blue Heron 4 goc, American
Egret 3 45c, Green Heron 4 25c, Clapper
Rail 9 45c, Virginia Rail to 5o0c, Sora 9
50c, European Cvot 7 35c, American Coot
8 30c, American Avocet 4 45c, Black-
necked Stilt 4 toc, Spotted Sandpiper 4
4oc, Whimbrel 3 60c, Lapwing 4 2oc,
Golden Plover 4 80c, Kildeer 4 40c, Snowy
Plover 2 30c, Wilson’s Plover 3 300,
Valley Partridge 17 $1.20, Ruffed Grouse
Io $1.40, Prairie Hen 10 $1.00, Chacalaca
4 $1.00, Red-billed Pigeon 1 20c, White
fronted Dove 2 25c, White winged Dove
2 cc, Mexican Ground Dove 2 35c, Black
Vulture 1 30c 2 60c, Mississippi Kite 1
$1.25, European Buzzard 3 55c, Red-
tailed Hawk 4 $1.00, Red shouldered
Hawk 4 $1.00, Swainson’s Hawk 2 4oc,
Prairie Falcon 1 $1.25, Merlin 3 55c,
Kestrel 5 50c, American Barn Owl 7 7oc
6 6oc 5 50c, American Long-eared Owl 4
50c, Barred Owl 2% goc. Florida Screech
Owl 3 60c, Texan Screech Owl 4 6oc,
Great Horned Owl 3 $1.35, Belted King-
fisher 7 Toc, Lewis Woodpecker 8 95c,
Golden fronted Woodpecker 6 §..50,
Chuck-wlll’s widow 2 $t.00, hip-poor-
will 2 $1.00, Florida Nighthawk 1 35¢,
Texan Nighthawk 2 30c, Black chinned
Humming bird n2 75c, Costa’s Humming
bird n2 75c, Mexican Crested Flycatcher
5 75c, Nurthwest Crow 5 6oc, Fish Crow
4 40c, Desert Song Sparrow 3 5c, Phai-
nopepla n2 35c, Loggerhead Shrike n6 4oc,
Hermit Thrush 4 7oc, Mountain Blue-
bird 5 soc, Imperial Eagle Germany
$1.60, Red footed Falcon 41 80c, Lesser
Kestrel 5 90c, European Sparrow Hawk
4 60c, Whiskered Tern 3 45c, Meditera-

nean Gull 2 30c, Lesser Black-backed
Gull 3 45c. And many other sets more
common, list of which will be sent on
request. M.L. Wicks, Jr. 128 Hellman
Block, Los Angeles, Cal-

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An Iilusirated Quarterly devoted to
the Ornithology of the Great Lakes Region

Michigan

ALEXANDER W. BLAIN, Jr., Editor.

J. CLAIRE Woop,
ADOLPHE B. CovERT. Associates.

Each issue of the Bulletin is filled with
notes fresh from the field and museum.
large corps of field ornithologists are among
its “contrioutors. which makes the Bulletin
indispensable to all students interested in
the bird-life in the region about the Great
Lakes. The prospects for 1904 point toward
a greater increase in size and general inter-
est.

Subscription, 50 Cents Per Year,
Sample Copy, 15 Cents.

Vols. I. If and III are out of print and can
not be supplied at any bea A few com-
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Standard Egg Catalogue

Second Edition (1904) More pages,
Features, Enlarged Scope. A Standard
and Invaluable Guide for Collectors and
Exchangers or Purchasers of Nests, Eggs
and Bird Skins. (Conforming to the no-
menclature of the A. O. U.)

THE FIRST EDITION,

issued in New York in ’96, pricing eggs
only, still enjoys wide circulation as a
handy and invaluable compendium, the
only amateur Catalogue.

ges Will be issued before collecting
season closes, with active co-operation of

American Bird Students, a big edition.
Price 25 cents.

THE SECOND EDITION

will have a chapter by Mr. Fred M. Dille
of Colorado, of great value to collectors

owing to new “‘contraptions,’’ with nu-
merous other features, including a

“Who's Who” in Oology.

Being a Directory of the Leading and re-
liable collectors, with their specialties,
and of owners of private museums, classi-
fied by states and provinces for ready re-
ference, with some abroad. Send promptly
data as suggested, abbreviating if pos-
sible, or amplify with any other informa-
tion desired to be inserted.

John Smith, M. A. O. U., etc., Boston
Common, etc. Has Coll. B. and E.
(birds and eggs); Specialty, Rap. (Rap-
tores), or Wat B. (water birds); Ex.
D. (exchanges desired) Off. Es. sets
Hks. Sea. B. (offers especially sets
hawks and sea birds), or Sou. E. (south-
ern eggs); Ex. Pho. (exchange photo-
graphs of nests, birds, etc.) W.P. Eggs.
(will purchase same); Mus. Sup.
(Museums supplied. )

This beats being buried in a ‘‘natura-
lists’ ’”’ directory. is of instant value,
and establishes community of interest in
studies, and will be exclusive in character.
SEND data required, and include 25 cents,
fee for insertion of same.

To first sixty who remit ‘o cents for
insertion in Directory and for copy of
Catalogue. | will mail free to each, two
copies of Old Catalogue (handy for
checking) and a copy of

“Story of the Farallons”

By the late Chester Barlow (price is 50
cents), copiously and beautifully illus-
trated. Out of print and becoming rare.

IMIPORTANT.

All Collectors are urged and invited to
value of
Give

iven those who aid.

suggest charges in exchange

skins and eggs. Write to-night.

reasons. Credit

Lists of private collections desired.

‘

Address

HENRY REED TAYLOR, Publisher,
President Cooper Ornithological Club,

Box 95. ALAMEDA, CALIF.

THE OOLOGIST.

A MONTHLY PUBLICATION DEVOTED TO

OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXIDERMY.

Vou. XXI. No. 6.

ALBION, N. Y.,

JUNE, 1904. WHOLE No, 203

WANTS, FOR SALES AND EXCHANGES,

Brief Special announcements
partment for 25 cents per 25 words.

“ Wants,” “ Exchanges,” “ For Sales,” inserted in this de-
t fe @ rds. Notices over 25 words charged at the rate of 1-2 cent for
each additional word. No notice inserted for less than 25 cents.

Terms, cash with order.

Strictly first-class specimens will be accepted in payment at 1-3 list rates.

What’s Your Number ?

Examine the number following your name
-on the wrapper of this month’s Oouoeist. It
denotes when your subscription expired or
will expire.
ne your subscription expires with this issue

5 Aug., 1904
O07 aK ss cs Oct., 1904
209 * “= . is Dec., 1904
21D" Be rt ft Mar., 1905
DIT a0 si a Dec., 1908

anioatite numbers can easily be deter-
mined. If we have you credited wrong we
wish to rectify,

Entered as second-class matter December
21, 1903, at the post office at Albion, N. Y.,
under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.

FOR EXCHANGE,.—Choice southern sets
with full accurate and stanbard data. Chuck-
will’s-widow. Am. Oyslercatcher, Wilson’s
Plover, Willet, Royal Fern, Brown Pelican,
Swainson’s Warbler, Hooded Warbler, Clap-
per Rail, Black Skimmer, Summer Tanager,
etc.. for A. I sets with data. DOCTOR M. T.
CLECKLEY, 457 Greene Strest, Augusta. Ga.

y

CHEAP FOR CASH.—Choice Cabinet Sets,
full accurate standard data, Chuckwill’s-
widow, 5-2 $1.00, Swainson’s Warbler, 5-3 $1.00,
Hooded W arbler, 3-3 20c., American Oyster-
catcher, 5-3 40c., Willet, 10-3, 15c., Wilson’s
Plover, 5-3 15¢., Royal Tern, 10- 3 15c., Summer
Tanager, 5-4, i6c., Brown Pelican, 10-4 10c.,
Red-eyed Vireo. 5-4 10c., Boat-tailed Grackle,
5-4, 2-5, 05c., Clapper Rail, 5-8. 5-12, 05c., Black
Skimmer, 10-4, 05c., Painted Bunting, T0- 4, 05c.
Indigo Bunting 5- 4, 0d5c. Postage extra. ‘Sat-
isfaction zuaranteed. DOCTOR hM.s en:
CLECKLEY, 457 Greene St., Augusta, Ga.

250 EXCHANGE SLIPS, 3x3 poster_paper,
lists 10 specimens, 50 word space. Printed
and mailed FOR you to 250 Collectors for 35c.
You send us 10 names to mail to—we get
other names from other Collectors whase
slipsare mailed with yours. Try it. Re-
sults dangerous. Send copy and coin and
get ready fora lively exchange biz. 2450 more
slips printed and mailed TO you for “95¢, ex-
tra. We mail X Lists for Vologists to the 4.
2’s of the O. Special offers, trial orders only.
Collector’s Printing Shop, GUY C. CONLEY,
Mer., Jonesboro, Texas, Coryell Co.

RARE CRYSTALLIZED fossils, opals in
rough, devil’s claws, fossil sea urchins,
stamps, to exchange for Coins, Stamps, Eggs,
Curios, Novels, etc. GUYC.CONLEY, Jones-
boro, Texas.

PRINTED ENVELOPES—Will print and
post pay 25 medium manila, or light weight
white envelopes for 5 perfect arrowheads or
25 Florodora Tags. Collector’s Printing Shop,
Jonesboro. Texas.

5 Choice Indian Relics, 30c.; Indian Toma-
hawk, 35c.; Hatchet, 35c.; 10 Curios, 18c.; 5 old

‘coins, 15c.; Old Liberty cents, 10 cents each;

5 minerals, 20c. Price list, old Liberty cent,

10 choice stamps, for one dime. Coins and
Indian Relics on approval, against good

Teferenees: W. P. ARNOLD, Peace Dale, R. I.
n

WANTED.—Eggs of the fom ane A.O.U.
No’s. Single or sets, 67, 5la, 54, 63, 64, 69, 80,
900, 202, 194, 273, 294, 300, 305, Bt 325, 326, 342.
362, 360; 364. 36>, 366, 368, 373, 375, 387, 388, 390,
393, 394, 406, 423, 428, 420, 443, 444, 452, 456, 461,
467, 477, 481, 501, 506, 507, 508, 510, 517, 529, 542a,
546, 587, 593, 601, 604, 608, 610, 611, 612, 613, 614,
619. 620. 622, 624, 627, 628, 633, 652, 648. 337, 339,
and many others. I offer 600 species of
Shells, 100 varieties of Minerals, Starfish.
Mounted Butterflies and Moths, Indian
Relics, Mounted Birds and Alcoholic speci-
mens. ERNEST H. SHORT, Rochester.N.Y.

W ANTED.—Sets of Red-shouldered, Red-
tail, Broad-winged and American Sparrow
Hawks, Osprey, Screech Owl, Field Plover,
Killdeer. American Bittern, Cedar Bird.
Prairie Horned Lark, Downy Woodpecker,
Meadow Lark, Bob White, Californian Quail,
Caspian, Sooty, BlackTerns, Leaches and Pe-
trel. Many others. I have thousands of eggs
to offer in exchange. W. RAINE, Kew Beach,
Toronto, Canada.

Live Belgium Hares, Burrowing Owls and
American Magpies and Idaho Sets, to ex-
change for Minerals. Indian Relics or Curios.
F. O. NELSON, 913 Hays St., Boise, Ida.

Bott et et ee

A FEW BARGAINS.—A Remington type-
writer, (old model) in first-class shape $18.00,
a Lov cil Champion single barrel 12 gauge,
Al on $3.75, a new copy 5th Ed. Nests
and Eggs, N. A. Birds by Davie $1.25 prepaid,
a slightly used copy, 5c, O. M. DAVIE.
Columbus, O.

82 THE OOLOGIST.

WANTED.—Sets of 4 and 5eggs of Ameri-
can Sparrowhawk. Offer anything in stock.
ERNEST H. SHORT, box 29, Chili, N. Y.

Price Lists and Samples of anything in our
ink shot by Uncle Sam at any eager-eyed
light-fingered Curioso on suspicion. Collec-
tor’s Printing Shop, GUY C. CONLEY, Mer.,
Jonesboro, Texas.

MAMMALS! BIRDS!—Parties wishing
fine mammals or birds from this locality
let me know, I will collect to order A. No. 1.
Scientific skins. Fine mounted specimens
for sale cheap. Address G, F. MONROE,
Taxidermist, Superior, Wis. tf

COLLECTORS NAMES WANTED-— Your
name and hobby wanted for our Exchange
Mailing List. For every 10 names and
addresses of Collectors and 4c. in stamps
(for postage) we will mail youeithera Devil’s
Claw, Fossil Sea-Urchin, or an opalized fossil.
We do gilt edge printing. We mail Exchange
Lists to Collectors the world over. _ Collec-
tor’s Printing Shop, GUY C. CONLEY, Mer.,
Jonesboro, Texas.

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—200 scientific
skins of small Wisconsin mammals, several
fine skins of Short-eared Owls. eee thous-
and named Coleoptera and 10 N. P. Railway
Survey Reports. Want bird and mammal
skins, stamps for my collection, Coleoptera,
named shells, Scientific Books and choice
sets of eggs. Ww. E. SNYDER, 109 East Mac-
kie St., Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. M. 2. t.

EXCHANGE.— Pistol shotgun 38-35, Climb-
ers, Taxidermists tools, collection stamps
for Bendire’s Life Histories, Vol. I, Brewsters
or Capens Oology, Coue’s Key or cheap for
Cae H. SKALES; Mount Forest, Ont.

Jan.

International Encyclopoedic Dictionary,
Four quarto volumes of 1,200 pages each, half
morocco, cost $15.00 for Coue’s Key, Davie’s
Taxidermy and for Ridgway’s Manual, or
part cash. R. P. SMITHWICK, 133 Marrinor
St., Norfolk, Va.

I want good sets Swallow Tail Kite, Yellow
Nose and Sooty Albatross, Ivory bill Wood-
pecker, and others. Do you want extra fine
set of 3 Bald Eagle taken past season by me
with photo of nest and selfup tree. J. J. RY-
MAN, Palm Beach, Fla.

FOR SALE.—2063, $5.00; 343 2-2 4, @ $1.00 per
egg, 308 1-12, $5.00 and others, as 294a3, 190 1-5,
475 3-5 1-6. 566 1-6 3671-7. Gulls and Terns, also
many Bird Books and magazines for sale

cheap. All prepaid. ;RAY DENSMORE,
Painesville. Ohio.

1 Large Black Bear Skin, entire head, skull
and feet make handsome _ rug_ $20.00; 2
Goat heads, $10.00, 1 pair Arctic Horned Owls,
live, nearly year old, $8.00. C. P. FORGE,
Carman, Manitoba.

Have sold all skins except, 1 Pelican, $3.00;
2 Red shouldered Hawks, $1.00; 2 male and 1
female Wood Duck $2.00 each; 1 male marsh
Hawk, 50c.; 1 Barred Owl, 75c. A few choice
Moose heads, scalps and antlers left. Will
make prices right for next month. Some
good white tailed deer scalps at $4.00 each.
These can be sent by mail for 50 to 60c each.
Elk, Moose and bear feet, a few still left, 20
to 40c. each. Wolf skulls 25c. to 50c. Mtd.
animals, Jack Rabbitt, $3.00, 3 gophers. $1.00
each. 1 Flying Squirrel $1.00. ‘CHRIS: P.
FORGE, Taxidermist, Carman, Man.

WANTED.—Back numbers of the OoLogisr
until further notice we will allow the prices
quoted below for the numbers noted. No
others wanted. You may select in payment
any specimens catalogued by either of us.
This offer does not apply to Instruments,.
Supplies or Books except by special arrange-
ment. For 50c, worth will allow you a years.
subscription to Oologist. For 25e worth we
will send you a coupon good for anexchange.
Notice. Copies must be clean and whole.

For June 1888 we will allow $.75.

For May 1884; Jan. and June 1885, July-
Aug. 1886; Jan,-Feb. and June- -Sept. 1887; May
1888; Aor 1889; March 1890; we will allow 50c
per cop

For Avance 1885, Jan-Feb. and Mar-Apr.
1886; Aug.-Sept. 1888; Feb., March or April,
1892: May, Oct. and Dec, 1897 and Jan. 1898 we
will allow 25c per copy.

For Apr. and May 1890; Apr-May 1891; Jan.
and May. 1892; Feb., March and April 1893;
Jan., March, 1895, July, 1898, Apriland Sept.
1899: we will allow 15c per copy

For Apr. 1885; June 1889; June 1890; Aug.
1891; June 1892; Jan. 1893; May 1896, Jan, Feb,
Mar. and Nov. 1897; Dec. 1898; and May 1898
we will allow dcts. per copy. Noothers want-
ed. These can be sent by mail for 1c for each
4 oz. postpaid. Address. ERNEST H.
SHORT, Chili, N. Y. Mgr. Oologist.

WANTED.—Single egg
tity. Kingbird, Blue Jay, Am. Goldfinch,
Cliff Swallow, Least Tern, Red-head Wood-
pecker, California Quail, Yellow Warbler,
Baltimore Oriole, Orchard Oriole, Kildeer.
Yellow-headed Blackbird, Purple Grackle,
Purple Finch, Ruffed Grouse, Prairie Hen,
any Hawk, except Cooper’s, any. Hummer,
Am. Herring Gull, any Heron. I offer sets
of Brown Pelican one-3, Western Grebe,
one-4; Tri-colored Blackbird, one-4 Least Bit-
tern, one-4 Cassin’s Auklet, one-4; Gt-tailed
Grackle, one-3; Boat-tail Grackle one-3, Ben-
dire’s Thrasher one 3, Florida Burrowing
Owl one-4, Mex. Horned Lark one-4, Mex.
Ground Dove one-2, Rough-wing Swallow
one-4. Louisiana Tanager one-3, White Ibis
one-3. Figure Florida Burrowing Owl at
$1.00 per egg. White Ibis at 35c. per egg, all
others at Lattin’s Standard Catalogue rates.
Even exchange, first-class side-blown eggs
only. Can also offer at even rates skins of
following A. O. U. No.’s, 129, 130, 151, 559, 515
fm., 534, 419 (damaged), 615, 528. Also. offer
some very fine Mounted Butterflies from U.
S. Cen. and So. America. Mail your eggs to
and write ERNEST H. SHORT, Rochester.
Ne Y ee Box 173:

Ss or sets, any quan-

250 EXCHANGE SLIPS. 3x6 poster paper,
lists 35 specimens. 150 word space. Printed
and mailed FOR you to 250 Collectors for
50c. You send us 10 names to mail to—we
get other names from other Collectors whose
slips are mailed with yours. Try it. Re-
sults are alarming. 150 more slips printed
and mailed TO you for 25c extra. We print
and mail exchange lists to Collectors the
wide world over. Send copy and coin and
get ready for biz. Special offers, trial ee

only. Collector’s Printing Shop, ZUY C
CONLEY, Mer., Jonesboro. Texas, Coryell
Co.

PRINTED NOTE HEADS AND ENVEL-
OPES—250 Printed Note Heads, good ruled
paper, padded, 75¢c. postpaid. 250 printed,
heavy manila or medium weight white en-
velopes, 75c. postpaid. Collector’s Printing
Shop, Jonesboro, Texas.

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WANTED.—Skins of Bob-white (Am,
Quail). Cash or exchange. Can use several
dozen. Address atonce. CHAS. K. REED,
Worcester, Mass. Taxidermist.

WANTED.—Oologist, July and August,
1886, No. 18. Must be clean and whole.
State cash price. Also Davie’s odds and
endsin proseand verse. R. P.SMITHWICK

133 Marrinor St., Norfolk, Va.

For sale or exchange.

Indian Wampum. white and black; Pottery,
Beads, Necklaces. etc., from graves, Cere-
monia[ Stones, (see cut above) Prehistoric
Mortars, Pestles. Bows, Arrows, Points,
Shell Work, Ostrich and Farallone’ Cormor-
ant Eggs and old Guns and Pistols.

June 2t.

J. B. LEWIS, 910 Washington St.,

Petaluma, California.
Sonoma County.

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A Season with the Bald Eagles.
I have been disappointed so many
times in visiting these nests that the
past season I concluded to be in time

and made my plans to start out with
my launch up and down the coast
about November 15th which I dare say
to you northern people seems very
strange. The Bald Eagle begins busi-
ness down in this Section’ very much
earlier than on the west coast of
Florida. I have found them nesting
on the west coast with young birds
only about two to five days old as late
as March 4th, here the latest I have
found eggs was January 7th. Well
after making my plans as before stat-

.ed I was notified while sojourning at

Asheville, N. C. that a hurricane had
swept over Palm Beach and torn up
things generally Sept. 15th so I hurri-
ed here and the enormous amount of
work getting my place in order made
it impossible to get out before Dec.
10th when the first nest was visited
and as the launch pushed her nose
upon the shore within one hundred
feet of the nest and no Eagle in sight
I began to lose heart fearing that the
thing that had happened there the
year previous and:had spoiled my fun,
had been repeated. ‘‘Old Uncle Abe’’
had been shot. All these thoughts ran
throughemy mind in a very short
space of time for the very moment we
arose to get out and see what was do-
ing to my surprise again off flew my
friend, I then said to my partner,
(who for short I’l] call Minnie) ‘‘T’ll
bet we are to early for eggs, because
the birds don’t make the fuss they
usually do when eggs or young are in
sight.’’ Well as I never miss a chance
to climb an Eagles nest (notwith-

standing I’m starting on my second

half century ride) I strapped on my
climbers and climbed to the beautiful
nest but 35 ft. high in a most symet-

86 THE OOLOGIST. a

MR. RYMAN CLIMBING TO NEST OF BALD EAGLE IN FLA.

THE OOLOGIST. 87

rical large pine tree and the nest was
so very large some six feet in depth
that I made three fierce attempts to
get my hands over the rim far enough
to ascertain what was to reward me
for such laborious effort getting up to
a nest so nearthe ground. The Bald
Eagle as a rule builds in very tall
trees and quite near the top as the accom-
paning picture will show. The nest
was so large, I should say about 7 feet
across, that I could not get around
and on top of it as I do in most cases,
but I was there to find out what was
in that nest, I had not come twenty
miles for my health alone, and while
Minnie was calling ‘*be careful now,’’
as my body was at right angles with
the trunk of the tree, I grew desperate,
almost made up my mind to burrow
through as I have done in some cases,
but I was finally astonished and
rewarded by putting two beautiful eggs
in my pocket and if I had only had a
glass of ice water at that time I would
almost have been willing to trade the
set of eggs for it ‘‘say! the’re beaut’s”’
‘‘say! Minnie, say we go up to that
other nest, but a few hundred yards
away,”’ ‘‘all right; its a go,’’ off I went
and to my astonishment some scoun-
dral had nailed cleats on and I have
no doubt had taken eggs from that
nest, it had every appearance of being
in condition such as are found when
containing eggs, lined with fine lin-
ing of bark and some spanish moss,
Well—so far so good lets start home,
no! lets get a guide while here and go
out in the woods and shoot a deer or
two first and its possible we may find
another nest or some rookery of other
birds. Very well. All arrangements
made off we start by day break next
morning after driving twelve miles
through a charming paradise for game
we pitched our tent at half past three
o’clock. ‘‘Say we go out a little while’’
says the guide, very well off we start
Within an hour three fine deer jump-

ed up within twenty feet of the guide
and after a cannonading for several
minutes it seemed to me, I ran toward
him and saw three as fine deer as I
ever saw getting through space good
and lively—how many did you kill
George says I; well to make it short we
didn’t take any deer to town that
night, nor did we find another nest
out there but met a hunter who had
just shot a fine large Bald Eagle,
which I’m always sorry to see during
nesting season. Well I was anxious
to get back home as I had been out
in the Everglades but a few days be-
fore and found a fine Eagles nest with
the bird on and she would not leave
the nest and I concluded she was
merely holding her claim and was not
ready for business as yet, but when I
found the two eggs above mentioned
and they were somewhat incubated I
said this nest needs my attention so
Minnie and I with my colored man to
help pole the boat started and when
there another surprise met me. No
bird appeared about the place and I
must say I felt a little discouraged.
Never the less as my love for climbing
to Eagles nests is so great I concluded
to go up. Here in a dense cypress
swamp was an immense nest in the
top of a slender cypress tree fully 60
feet high and not a limb except those
that support the nest. Another tree of
Similiar size was about six feet away
which I concluded to climb and
when even with the nest I would swing
over to the nest and help myself. When
nearing the top I heard some chirping
and discovered the Eagle circling
overhead but not making the usual
fuss, but when I finally got to the top
I saw the prize two fine ivories that
looked fresh. How am I to get them
is the question now. The nest is
about 8 feet across, I swing over and
step one foot on edge of nest and won-
der how I am to getthoseeggs. A
thought finally struck me. Itooka

88 THE OOLOGIST.

stick from the nest about 5 feet long
and about an inch thick with a crook
at one end and with that I reached
over as far as I could and pulled them
to the edge of nest when I gently took
them in out of the wet, packing them
carefully in hunting coat pocket with
plenty of Spanish moss to keep them
breaking in my descent, before start-
ing down my partner Minnie says
stand out and let me get your picture
standing on nest, and when coming
from the swamp in water two feet deep
and saw grass above my head she took
another fine view of me holding one
egg up in each hand. Well I began
to see it was evidently high time I got
after the rest of the nests I had plan-
ned to visit a year ago, and also to find
more. My son had come to spend
the holidays and he and I had always
for several years past hunted together.
We concluded to visit a nest we took a
‘pair of young Eagles from the year be-
fore. We started one bright morning
early; Minnie with us of course; she
by the way took the pictures, all of
which; some nine or ten are very fine
she also did the rifle shooting, when
necessary; being a fine ‘‘amazonian’’

shot. Wefound our nest, and a beauty

it was in a large pine tree some 60 feet
high, the picture is shown herewith
with my boy about half way up.
Walter Raine is the possessor of the
fine set of eggs. I find as I get to
writing there is much to say and space
I fear already used up but the most
interesting finds come later and which
will be given in another article or so
with photo. of nest with Eagle perched
nearly and with collector climbing
to nest,

unusual set of 3 eggs.

also of nest containing an

Yours truely,
J. J. RYMAN,
Palm Beach, Florida.

Michigan Randoms.

A set of four eggs of the Red-should-
ered Hawk on April 1, 1904, in Royal
Oak Tp., Oakland Co., beats my pre-
vious record by four days. April 15 to
20 is the best time to look for sets of
this Hawk here. My latest record is
two fresh eggs on May 18, 1902, in Van
Buren Tp., Wayne Co.

Made the acquaintance of a pair of
Bald Eagles in Monguagon Tp.,
Wayne Co., on March 18, 1904. Nest
in fork of large white oak limb and
just ninety-five feet four inches above
the ground. Tree eighteen feet around
the base and main crotch seventy-five
feet up. Nest six and one-half feet
in total exterior depth. It contained
three eggs incubated about five days.

Visited a colony of Common Tern on
June 14, 1908. This was on Middle
Sister Island, Lake Erie. Total num-
ber of eggs on Island were 2738-1, 248-2,
297-3, 38-4, 10-5—1166 sets or 2462 eggs.
One of the sets of four was undoubted-
ly the product of a single bird, but the
remaining sets of that number and
and those of five could be readily
separated into two sets per nest, thus
increasing the number of breeding
pairs to 1213. Three Crows and a
Cooper’s Hawk left the Island soon
after our arrival. - Numerous little
heaps of egg shells scattered through-
out the woods and a number of partly
eaten Tern tells the story.

Was much interested in the question
of set marks in January number. The
following system has been adopted by
a number of collectors and is a good
one as it imparts an idea of the breed-
ing abundance ofthe species. My last
set of redstart for 1903 is marked 148-4.
This indicates a set of 4 and the 148rd
ever found by me. The first set of
1904 will be marked 144 and so on. I
also add the season set mark to large
eggs. The last set of Red-shouldered
Hawk for 1903 is marked 624-7, being

THE OOLOGIST. 89

my 62nd set ever found, the 7th of the.
season and consisting of 4 eggs.

Wish to endorse Mr. A. D. Brown’s
statement in March number. As an
exchange medium the Oologist has no
equal, and never had during its exist-
ance. I base this opinion upon per-
sonal results. Have been a subscriber
since 1885 and tried all other ornitho-

logical publications as they appeared.

It should receive the support of all
collectors and bird students.
J. CLAIRE Woop.

Some Tree Climbing.

Artemas Ward has _ observed
that wicked people work harder for a
tropical hereafter than do good people
for a seat in heaven. Thisisappliable
to the Oologist on the grounds of cur-
rent opinion proclaiming nest robbing
asin unpardonable. As accorded by
the majority he is a sinful being with
the added appellation ofcrank. Little
things like this do not trouble him,
however, and he is so unkind as to
also entertain some ideas respecting
ecrankism but shifting all the honors
upon the shoulders of the opposition,
which tends not to conciliation. That
he delights to study things like eggs
demonstrates mental derangement
further proved by his idiotic craving
for lots of fresh air and rambles in
meadow and wood and appreciation of
everything in nature’s realm. In the
interest of the birds the majority has
appealed to his humane sensibilities
but so callous is his heart that, upon
returning to a locality where eggs were
taken the week previous, his illusive
optic fails to perceive birds sitting
around with the tears of heart rending
grief trickling down their feathered
cheeks. Somehow they appear to him
to be joyously hustling building ma-
terial with the practical business like
intention of depositing another set
soon as possible. So you see, his case

is hopeless but why not accept him as
an evil to be tolerated?

Accepting the opening hypothesis as
referable to the Oologist his heavenly
possibilities are not encouraging. He
always views an occupied hawk’s nest
with criminal designs upon its contents
and expends more labor in the ascent
than he ever will to ascend the Golden
Stairs. Like many others, labor that.
is pleasure is no labor to him. Did
the every day routine of business:
necessitate an amount of physical
exertion equal to his field work he
would succumb to despair in short or- |
der.

On February 28, 1904 the ear-like
feather tufts that adorn the intellectual
end of a Great Horned Owl were visible
above the nest. It required no great
mind to comprehend that the remainder
of Madam was present even if out of
sight but all the acoustical ingenuity
that could be devised failed to securea
more satisfactory view of her person,
in fact, she could not have adhered
closer to the nest had she been glued
to it. This nest was in a. great white
oak and just 84 feet: above the ground
as measured on March 15, 1903 when I
took a set of two eggs from it.

This is Mike’s second year of Oolog-
ical tendency. The valve that let loose
his pent up enthusiasm was a view of
my collection. He early confided the
information to possess a set of owl’s.
eggs, taken by his own hand, was the
goal of his monumental ambition.
Consequently I paid Madam an infor-
mal call on March 1st accompanied by
Mike and my complete climbing outfit.
The tree was a forest patriarch, as in-
timated, but a much smaller one grew
near by and a limb of this reached
within fifteen feet of the nest. Mike
had the choice of two courses—either
strugle up the rough barked monarch
or ascend the smaller tree and scoop
the eggs. I enquired his preference.
He prefered an elevator but since I had

90 THE OOLOGIST.

neglected to bring one along centered
his affections upon the smaller tree
which, by the way, was not so very
small after all. It would have been an
easy climb for an old hand but pre-
sented 84 feet of difficulty to Mike.
It was his second experience with the
irons and first tree of any size. He
worked slowly up the trunk some 25
feet, then paused to rest and looked
down. J asked if he felt a wild ex-
hiliration of spirits; a sort of glad joy-
ous freedom. No, his feelings did not
seem to tend that way; they tended
toward an insatiable yearning for terra
firma. Things also began to assumea
different aspect. The distance to the
ground already looked as far as had
the nest when viewed from said ground.
When the first crotch was reached he
had to gaze upward to the nest before
the could believe himself less than a
hundred feet in the air. This crotch
was 35 feet up and formed a bulge in
the trunk. Fortunately he could clasp
his fingers through the crotch but this
brought his face tight against the tree.
‘This did not prevent the use of his
legs, however, and he walked up until
his knees touched his chin. Thus he
posed for sometime with rear pointing
straight out into the billowly atmo-
sphere; then his legs walked down
again for he dared not let go and reach
for a higher hold. The perspiration
dripped from his marble brow and life
became a serious thing. Owl’s eggs
began to lose their charm and he want-
ed to come down but, spurred onward
by an attack upon his pride, he made
another attempt and conquered. The
nest was easy by comparison except
that the earth receded at an alarming
rate. At last he was opposite the nest
and not until then did Madam vacate.
“‘Two beauties,’’ was his gladsomecry.
He let down the string for the scoop.
The lower end dangled 30 feet above
the ground. I then remembered havy-
ing used a hundred feet of it during

the winter. Mike possesses a nature
philanthropic and a patience infinite.
I heard him sigh as he sadly contem-
plated the dangling end but, without a
word, he descended to where it would
reach. To reclimb that 30 feet, bur-
dened with the pole and scoop, was not
like floating with the current. He
arrived, however, and reached with the
scoop—it fell short by five feet. Here
is where a profane man would have
said things but Mike is not profane.
He dropped the scoop and by the time
he had covered the 30 feet I had it
attached toa longer pole. This second
upward climb was more difficult than
the first owing to the length and weight
of the pole but he did it allright. Here
he encountered another difficulty—he
could not coax the eggs into the scoop.
He chased them about the nest for a
full half hour with the temperature be-
low freezing and a strong wind blowing.
“TI must give up,’’ he finally wailed
and just then an egg rolled into the
scoop followed by the other. When he
lowered them I found the side of one
jammed in but said nothing until he
reached the ground an hour later. He
was so exhausted that he could not
speak and laid down in the snow until
I induced him to sit up. As the fatigue
wore off his enthusiasm returned until
it blazed with old time splendor for he
actually had a set of owl’s eggs and of
his own taking and would not part
with it to-day for the best set of Golden
Eagle ever laid.

The reader must not think the above
a development of imagination for it is
an actual truth in every detail except
the name of the chief participant but
then, you see, I meet him every day.

Here is one more of his experiences
aS a conclusion. Some time last sum-
mer he borrowed my climbers to invest-
igate the nesting site of 'a Woodpecker
but for reasons that were sufficient he
failed to do so. On the way he saw
a bird that, from his description, was

THE OOLOGIST. 21 C4 91

probably a Crested Flycatcher. This
bird was seated upon a limb beside a
nest the size of a foot ball and hanging
pendent like a great pear. Where had
he seen such a nest before? It was in
Johnson’s Natural History but the
birds were called weavers and were said
to inhabit Africa. Was he on the verge
of a great ornithological discovery?
Could it be possible he was about to
add anew genus to the North American
Avifauna? The tree was small, his
elation unbounded and hewas soon on
a level with the nest. Here he made
a great discovery that nearly deprived
him of breath—it was made entirely of
paper. Quickly working out the limb
he looked it over but could find no
opening and eagerly tore a hole in the
side. Whoop! Eureka! H oes B
was a hornet’s nest.
J. CLAIRE WOOD.

Warblers.

On looking over Short’s ‘‘Birds of
Western New York,’’ I notice that he
does not mention the Black and
White Warblers as breeding, also Red-
breasted Nutchatch.

Last June I was lucky enough to
find both species breeding here. On

the 5th of the month, I found a nest of'

Black and White Warbler containing
four young a few days old and an addl-
ed egg. On the 7th, C. F. Stone, Ver-
di Burtch and myself went lo the ‘‘Big
Gullie,’’ (a local name of a _ large
gullie about a quarter of a mile from
where I live,)in search of Canadian
and Magnolia Warblers nests. Mr.
Stone was in luck from start to finish.
He took 2 or 3 sets of Magnolia, a set
of Yellow-breasted Chat and a set of
5 Sharp-Shinned-Hawk.

About all that Mr. Burtch and I got
was a good soaking as it rained nearly
all day, but I saw a pair of Red-breast-
ed Nuthatches feeding their young,
and called Mr, Burtch’s attention to

them. We only saw three young.
They had only been out of the nest a
short time for they could fly only a
short distance at a time.

Up near the head of the gullie I
found another nest of Black and White
Warbler containing 5 young about a
week or ten days old. Sol think the
time to get fresh sets would be the
latter part of May.

I found a Canadian Warblers nest
containing 2 fresh eggs which [I left
for a full complement, but on going
back 4 days latter I was disappointed
to find the nest contained only the
2 eggs with incubation commenced.

CLARENCE N. Davis,
Branchport, N. Y.

Self-Explanatory.

FEBRUARY 25, 1904.
EDITOR OF OOLOGIST:

I would like to call attention to one
W.J. Wirt, Albion, N. Y., who has
been practicing fraud in the trading of
eggs. Two years ago I caught him
on spurious abnormal sets. He sent
me arunt set of Phoebe, and wrote
up a data for Wright’s Fly -catcher
collected in Arizona, for this job he
got 2-2 Whip-poor-will. Later he sent
me the best job of all—a set of three
eggs of Robin (as he called it) with a
well markedrunt. The ‘‘marked runt’’
is anormal specimen of Clay-colored
or Chipping Sparrow. This set he
claimed to have taken from a Robin’s
nest, and when I accused him of fraud
he pretended to be awfully hurt and
sent me an affidavit which he wrote
himself and signed his wife’s name to
and also a party named Robert Short
as ‘‘eye witnesses’’ to the collection.
He got more bumps from me and
finally he said he was going out of
the egg business altogether and was
going into the farming and _ stock
raising business.

92 THE OOLOGIST.

I had previously secured several
good abnormal sets from him and was
much chargined to find him to be a
fraud.

A. E. Price, Grant Park, Ill. and
Gerard A. Abbott, Chicago, Ill., also
got nipped by him.

This is the first time I have seen his
exchange notice in the OOLOGIST since
he entered the ‘‘farming and stock
raising business.”’

Yours very truly,
J. WARREN’ JACOBS.
Waynesburg, Pa.

[As the publication of such matters
as these is the most unpleasant duty
the Editor encounters he held this
communication for further investig-
ation. This only resulted in a torrent
of complaints, some of them worse,
from other prominent Oologists and
some damaging evidence, including
some unequivocal statements in regard
to sets examined by the Smithsonian
Institute at Washington, D. C., there-
fore the Editor sees no better course
than topublishthe aboveas a warning.
—EpD.]

That New Edition of Lattin’s ‘‘Standard
Catalogue.”

In the next issue of Oologist we run
the A. O. U. Numbers, revised to data,
with temporary Exchange values for
all eggs of N. Am. Birds as far as it is
possible to set any value.

All advanced collectors are requested
to mail the Editor a list of any changes
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We desire that this fifth edition shall
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This new edition will contain 149
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changes and additions to values.

Mr. C. W. Prier of Appleton City,
Mo., reports a set of 5 Red-tail Hawk
taken April 8d, this year. Ye Editor
has examined the eggs and there is no

question as to identity’ In another
issue we will give half tone of a set
taken this year by A. E. Priceof Grant
Park, Ill. These sets are the first I
have heard of in 10 years of this size.

While beating an open glade in the
great Cedar Swamp near Scottsville,
N. Y., on Decoration Day this year,
the Editor observed a pair of Passenger
Pigeons feeding a single young bird
not yet able to fly more than a few rods.

This is the first time I have noted
them breeding and no records have
come to my notice for Western New
York for 20 years.

Review.

North American Birds
Chester A. Reed.

This work, now ready for delivery is
a triumph of the printer’s art and is in
many respects the best work on N. Am.
eggs ever published.

333 pages and index, profusely illus-
trated both with figures of the eggs and
70 plates of nests and eggs in situ.

Owing to the fine quality of paper
used the illustrations make a fine
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The binding is both tasty and strong,
an important point with works of
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The only adverse criticism the Editor
would suggest is the omission of the
figures giving ordinary range of sizes
for each species. An average size,
only, is given. ‘

As the work has been brought fully
up to date it is for the time being the
only up to date complete check list
available.

Eggs by

Publications Received.

Nature study, Huddersfield, Eng-
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American Ornithology, Vol IV, No.
5. Condor, Vol VI, No. 8. The Ama-
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THE OOLOGIST. * 93

BIRD SKINS.

Peocock, magnificient adult male speci-

men in full plumage.................. $ 6 00
TATHOQICAMIG PILCOTH. of eo. Saat hin ate Bh mek 75
PAEEELG BTC LOW esfiae torah ttiaiaiohe he ods whales 30
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GEC ONL Wils OTAY > teienic once sesiiscs site pales 50
LoS Shr 18S a eg 0 ed Re oe 50
ESROM ZEON PACK LC. 2 ered .canidde er ccito eke ae 25
Cedar Waxwing....... sbucodebboosgatoneds 20
White-rumped Sandpiper................ 75
IESG GS RO as ee ee ee 30
WCAR GAMO DEWCT so scutes tetce sce aots= 3 25
Red-headed Woodpecker................. 35
Red-headed Woodpecker, young male.. 30
PamexGRosbeak, Males es eo sccces cack cwe 50
Pine Grosbeak, young male.............. 35
Pine Grosbeak, female..............:..... De
PON AIKE aoe. cet eeisat aos ats sasistecs 15
Bullock’s Oriole, female.................. 25
prairies orned arkess 2s. st Seenc uses 30
PICEA OPES UN GID S:: oo. 'seecee dence eee eo aoe. 20
Inn=plerhineh. female sia. ssi core + oe da seein 15
OMOMS TI ALTON « . cnaccemen cote. cis sicece onions (65)

BolUecbIrd, youns male.) i. ooo. eta. ee 15
White-breasted Nuthatch................ 15
RUMECK ACEC. « onecen eee cee Sindee ceoraee 15
HOOGEH VW ALDICT PAL concn eee seeks ccs uc 75
Canadian Warbler, male.................. 25
Black-throated Green Warbler, male... 20
Black-poll Warbler, female............... 15

Red-tail Hawk, young in down.......... 75
I have only the above skins left and they
ought to go quick at prices quoted.
PRICES NET.—Will ship cheapest way at
purchasers expense. FRANK H. LATTIN,
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MOUNTED BIRDS, Etc.

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PAELIS NV OOO DOCKET Aire soiree coeltoetenareca ee 1 00
Pine Grosbeak, female.................... 1 00
Bohemian LW ax wien... ss.hc css. .sec eens 1 50
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Amenican BarniOwl.-2253.05. 5.5.28 kes 2 25
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Gar Pike, 39 in. onstandard.............. 4 00
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ion

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FOR EXCHANGE.—Choice southern sets
with full accurate and stanbard data. Chuck-
will’s-widow. Am. Oystercatcher, Wilson’s
Plover, Willet, Royal Tern, Brown Pelican,
Swainson’s Warbler, Hooded Warbler, Clap-
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etc.. for A. sets with data. DOCTOR M. T-.
CLECKLEY, 457 Greene Strest, Augusta. Ga.
My tf.

WANTED.—Eggs of the following A. O. U.
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648, 337, 339,and many others. I offer 600 spec-
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Relics, Mounted Birds and Alcoholic speci-
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An Ornithological Iron-clad.

Number One of the A. O. U. is
not such a very interesting bird from
the standpoint of the scientific orni-

thologist but in the trite language of
my erstwhile friend Josh Billings, he
is ‘fan amoosin’ cuss.’”’ I have gotten
more downright hilarity out of watch-
ing the western Grebe than any other
bird in the catalogue. He always re-
minds me of an Iron-clad Monitor un-
der full steam, with nothing of him
but an elongated neck and a mere
speck of dark gray back sticking up
out of the water. Below the long rail-
road bridge crossing Lake Pen’d
Oreille (pronounced Pond deray) in
northern Idaho this bird is a constant
resident. They breed in the sedgy
marshes surrounding the lake and in
the winter season fish in the channel.
For the lake has a channel and a cur-
rent being only a widening of the
Clark’s Fork of the Columbia. Any
day you may sit on the bridge and see
from fifty to one hundred of them dis-
porting themselves in the limpid wa-
ter. They are not gunned very much,
in fact it does very little good to gun
them for like Johnny’s woodchuck,
they can get home faster than a gun
can shoot. This is a fact that I had
to acquire by stern experience. I want-
ed a few of them for mounting and
took out my Smith for that purpose.
After firing away about a ton of shot,
and every time the shot got there the
bird was over in another county, I
concluded that as far as Mr. L. C.
Smith and his justly famous gun was
concerned, I would go hungry for
Grebe a long time. I finally secured a
few however by laying for them with a
22 rifle. Its about the most amusing-
ly provoking thing in my experience
to see one of these fellows tip up at
the report of your gun and calmly dis-
appear beneath the water. It is all

102 Pt et EE OOLOGIST:

done with such an air of deliberation
and sang froid that you cannot get
really angry. When he comes up it is
always just out of range and he goes
paddling away with a sort of
grim chuckle that tells more plainly
than words how much he enjoys the
triumph.

It has been my pleasure to act the
spy upon these birds while home
building. It seems in other parts of
the country they insist on anchoring
their domicile out in the water three
or four feet from the shore. Occas-
sionally they do so here too, but most
generally the nest is placed upon some
little hummock or a deserted musk-
rat home out in the marsh, sometimes
many yards from the shore. One day
I was beating up the quarters of a
colony of red-wings that were habiting
a big marsh not far from here and
while sweeping the tules with my
glass I allowed the binocular to rest
for a moment upon one of these little
islands. My eye was attracted by a
movement upon the island. At first I
thought it to be a musk-rat foraging
but upon closer inspection I saw that
it was a pair of western Grebe house
building. For a better view, I crept
closer.

The architecture seemed to be plan-
ned by the lady of the household and
the principal occupation of the master
was to gather the building material
which he did with a great deal of zeal
in the labor. With a continual chat-
tering he would waddle in a top-heavy
manner to the edge of the hummock
and sieze upon floating bits of tule
and drag them to the nesting site
where they were raked with bill and
toes into position by Mrs‘ Grebe.
Noise seemed to be necessary to the
proper arrangement of the nest for
they both kept up a continual and not
at all unmusical chatter, grading at
times into a sort of grunt.

Many days after, I visited this same

spot and found the house keeping
fully established with three eggs to
their credit. Upon seeing me approach
the nesting bird hastily covered the
eggs over with moss and dried tules
and slid into the water, swimming
away with one eye looking over her
shoulder at the intruder of her home.
I carefully uncovered the eggs using a
long stick for the purpose and inspect-
ed the nest and contents. There was
very little attempt at nest building,
the tules being merely laid together
and a depression hollowed out by the
weight of the bird’s own body. The
eggs differed none from the ones
usually found in the collections of
every oologist excepting that they were
much stained with the grasses upon
which they lay. I was being watched
with jealous eyes by the parents at some
distance. I returned the covering and
silently retired. Watching the hum-
mock from a safe distance the birds
soon returned and investigated the
damage done. Satisfied with the re-
sult the hen snuggled down into the
nest again where I left her. Weeks
after I had occasion to return that way
and found a fluffy brood of nine ca-
reening around in the open water. A
shrill whistle sent every one of them
to the bottom as quick as a flash of
light. Fora long time I waited for
them to reappear in vain. At last
tired with waiting I sought another
part of the pond some hundreds of
yards distant. To my surprise here
were my truants. For an experiment
I fired my shot gun at them, and at
the report of the gun the water was en-
tirely guiltless of bird life, so [I said
the youngsters can get under the pro-
tection of the water as expeditiously as
their elders.

This is about all I can think of
about the Western Grebe. Often when
tired of my professional duties and
out of harmony with things in gener-
al, I saunter down to the long bridge

_ THE OOLOGIST. 103

and sitting on a pier quietly smile at
these happy-go-lucky fellows fishing
in the deep blue water. Then go home
and think that the old world is not
such a bad place after all,
CHAS. 8. Moopy,
Sand Point, Idaho.

Turkey Vulture in Illinois.

Through the varying seasons of
many years, the stump of a gigantic
sycamore tree has been rotting away—
gradually melting back to the mother
soil on a bank of the Salt Fork Creek.

The shell is yet solid but through a
strange action of the elements, the
heart is eaten out to its very roots.
The form left is that of a wood-curbed
well with the top three feet above the
surface and the bottom six feet below.

_Into this opening I peeped last sum-
mer and discovered in the strang re-
treat, a mother Vulture and two
youngsters that looked very much like
cotton balls in the great dark hole.

I would have enjoyed watching the
first futile attempts of the young buz-
zards to get out. A later visit how-
ever, proved they had accomplisned
the feat and I was forced to acknowl-
edge the mother cleared of a charge of
an error ofjudgement. A more typical
nesting site I found in a mammoth
oak tree in Lynn Grove. A violent
storm of long ago had torn off a high
limb seven feet from the ground, leavy-
ing a wound that time could not heal.
It ate and grew and spread until the
ground level was. reached inside. I
had visited this tree many times each
season, and always wondering why
‘‘Cathartes aura’’ had not chosen it
for a residence, I was never able to re-
sist peeping into the roomy tree cave.
Finally on May 8, 1903 my faith in
‘“‘aura’s’? judgment was rewarded.
At my approach a Vulture flopped out
of the entrance revealing a pair of
beautifully marked eggs. On the

dates of April 27, 1898 and May 27,
1898, I found sets in positions very
similar to the one just described.
Both were in the bottoms of hollow
living trees, the cavities reaching to
the ground level. On June 9, 1903, I
visited a lonely timber pond in another
grove. In the center of the pond grew
a large water-oak. Long since its life
had flown and now it stands a shining
naked monument, stripped by light-
ning bolts of its outer garments. A
Vulture appeared from somewhere
within its recesses and I climbed up
to investigate. Twenty feet from the
ground (or rather from the water) I
found a cavity where the only opening
was toward the sky. Two feet down in
this safest of nesting places, two young
buzzards lifted their heads and hissed
at the intruder. I may have been the
first unwelcome visitor at this hidden
home that had been in use, perhaps
for many years.

Thus I find the Illinois Vultures, and
birds of a practical bend, not heeding
fixed ancestral rules, but taking pos-
session of advantageous sites, whether
on the surface, above the level or be-
low the surface of the ground.

Isaac E. HESs,
Philo, Illinois.

Nesting of the Slate-colored Junco.

May 17, 1908 as I was going down
the bed of a large gully looking for
nests of the La. Water Thrush I[
flushed a bird from the bank beside
me. Supposing of course that it wasa
La. Water Thrush. I hardly glanced
at it but turned my attention to the
nest and when I looked at the eggs I
knew at once that I had found some-
thing newto me. Putting the eggs
back I turned my attention to the bird
and found that she had flown down
the gully and was now making her
way cautiously towards me and was
soon but a short distance away in a

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small tree nervously working to the
top branches and chipping. I had a
very good view of her and saw at once
that she was a Slate-colored Junco
(Junco hyemalis) but to be sure I went
back up the gully a short distance and
she soon went back on the nest.

Approaching cautiously I had a very
good view of her for about a minute
when she left the nest again.

The nest was situated on and among
the exposed roots of a tree and under
the overhanging bank about 4 feet
from the bottom of the gully. It was
composed of dead leaves and grass
lined with dead grass. The materials
and structure of the nest were much
like a nest of the Song Sparrow though
the location was more like a Louisiana
Water Thrush.

The eggs were fourin number with a
greenish ground color sparsely spotted
with reddish brown. They reminded
me somewhat of the Field Spaarow’s
eggs in color and markings but were
much larger. Incubation was advanced
and I left them in the nest. This is
the first authentic record of this Junco
nesting in Yates County, though Mr.
CG. F. Stone and I have before this
seen them here in June which would
seem to be good evidence that they do
80.4 @ VERDI BURTCH,

Branchport, N. Y.

Since receiving this I have seen a set of 4
very pretty eggs of this bird in the collection
of Mr. C. N. Davis taken this spring a few
miles from Branchport. They were found
ina sod field in hollow in the soil. The bird
is never very particular about situations for
nesting. They are not rare in the hills of
Chautauqua, Alleghany and Steuben coun-

ties, N. Y., and doubtless occur regularly in
Yates.— Hd.

Suggestions.

Will not the editor who has already
effected such a marked improvement
in the Oologist raise a protest against
the wanton destruction of birds in
nesting time. Suppose the collector
who flushed a Woodcock off her nest

and killed her had found instead of
eggs four young birds dead with cold
and hunger would not it have marred
the pleasure of the collecting trip.
Contrast this with J. Warren Jacob’s
statement in his excellent treatise on
Golden-winged Warbler that he never
found it necessary to take the life ofa
bird to pursue his investigations and
yet he has given us a life history sel-
dom excelled.

And if Mr. Honecker had removed
the full clutch of Spotted Sandpiper in-
stead of leaving the parent to incubate
a misfit of 3 the possibilities are that
in a few days the old bird would have
had another full set of 4 and one more
young Actitis Macularia been spared
to the world as well as three more eggs
to a scientific collection.

A. E, PRICE.

Moth Proof Cabinets.

So many owners of collections are
constantly fighting moth and dermest-
es pests that it might be of interest to
note that neither will enter a box built
of cedar. This was a well known fact
to our grandparents, for in the olden.
houses remaining today we always
find the cedar closet for hanging the
furs and woolen clothing in, and the
cedar chest for blankets.

Build your next cabinet out of cedar
and watch the result.

HENRY B. KAEDING.

A Robin’s Nest.

On June 28, 1902, I found a Robin’s
nest made completely of binder twine,
no mud at all used in the construction
of the nest. It was in a maple tree
twelve feet from the ground. It was
lined with fine grass. There was
plenty of mud during the month.

O. H. PEASE,
Hope,
Kan.

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Large Sets of Great Horned Owl in a
Cold Berth.

I have taken many sets of Great
Horned Owl but never until this spring
have I seen in this locality a set of
more than 3.

On February 25, 1904, I took a set of
¥y perfectly fresh, the thermometer did
not go above 4 degrees above zero any
time during the day and it had been
zero weather for a week previous. They
were about 50 feet up, big nest of sticks,
etc., and a few dry leaves which were
coated with snowand ice. The old bird
left nest when about half way up. On
going back on March 21st for second
set was surprised to get set of + Red-tail
‘Hawk in same nest that is very early
for Red-tail here. Have you ever known
of authentic set of 44 Great Horned
Owl east of Mississippi? My ex-
perience has been that they are about
equally divided between + and 3.

The set of 14 were taken in McHenry
County, Illinois where I do most of
my collecting.

C. M. ELDREDGE,
Chicago.

At the Fair.

An egg 12 inches long and 10 inches
in diameter with a shell nearly one-
quarter of an inch thick will be ex-
hibited among the treasures of natural
history by the government at the
world’s fair, St. Louis. It is an egg
of the Zpyornis Maximus and was re-
cently purchased in Paris by Dr. E.
W. True of the Smithsonian institu-
tion. Specimens of these eggs are very
rare, having sold in London as high as
$1,000.

Compared with other eggs some idea
of its immensity may be had.
hold the contents of six ostrich eggs, or
148 hen’s eggs, or 30,000 humming
bird’s eggs. Little is known of the
birds from which these eggs come.

It will «

Most of the eggs are found in the
sands and swamps of southern parts of
Madagascar. Onespecimen was found
afloat on the ocean, after a hnrricane,
bobbing serenely up and down.

—R. F. Greene in Editorial Notes,
Phil West, Vol. 26 No. 3.

Albinos.

Mr. C. W. Prier, of Appleton City,
Mo., reports a set of English Sparrow,
containing 3 Albino eggs.

Mr. Verdi Burtch of Branchport,
N. Y., has a set of five perfect albinos
of this bird. The editor secured a
very fine set of four Albino Bluebirds
from a pair of birds that had a first
set of normal blue eggs destroyed by
the untimely freeze April 20th, this
year. The set of Albinos were laid
May 8th to 11th in the same nest and
are a pure, glossy white. Would pass
for a large set of Downy Woodpeckers.

Abnormalties.

Mr. Verdi Burtch has two nicely
spotted sets of Wilson’s Thrush. On
June 11th while out for a Yates county
tramp with Mr. C. F. Stone, the edi-
tor found a set of Indigo Bunting con-
taining two spotted eggs. Oneofthese
was heavily wreathed with cinnamon
spots at larger end.

Review.
Discovery of the Breeding Area of
Kirtland’s Warbler. A pamphlet

issued by the University of Michigan,
being excerpt from Bull. Mich. Orni-
thological Club, Vol. V, pp. 3-138.

It puts the Kirtland’s Warbler mat-
ter in convenient form and the plates
are more distinct and show better de-
tail than they did in the Bulletin.

Publications Received.
American Ornithology, Vol. IV, No.
6

"Nature Study, Vol. XIII, No. 6.
Collector’s Note Book, Vol. II, No.
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INTERNATIONAL Stamp Album 2 vols.
full leather, for choice set of eggs, maxe me
offer, bargain for some one. Nest wau-ed
with small eggs. BENJAMIN HOau,
Stephentown, New York.

IF you want cash for first-class eggs, sets,
rock bottom prices, now or later send list and
prices to FRED A AS BLAC K, Box 148, Kalama-
zoo, Mich.

WANTED.—Bendire's Life FListories: Volts.
land2. Will pyy cash, or exchange choice
sets ofeggs. BENJAMIN HOAG, Stephen-
town. New York.

FOR SALE.—10 sets Dickcissel nests and
four eggs finely prepared. prepaid 25c.,
Screech Owl, 1-4, 75c., 1-5, $1.00, 1-6, $1.25, 417
1-2, $1.00. ISAAC E. HESS, Philo, Il.

FOR EXCHANGE.—Common sets from
this pluce. Would like to exchange sume for
common sets from east. Send your list and
ae: HOMER C. BURT, Santa Paula,

al.

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.— First-class
sets with data, 362 1-3, 3391-3, 419 1-2, 329 1-2,
2-2. 501 1-5, 388 2 3, 2-3, 263 1-3, 273 1-3, 212 1-9, 2-9,
3-9, 214 1-9, 727 1-5, 546 1-4, 1-5, 595 1-3, 2-5, 3-3,
1-4, Al skins, 1, 6, 65, 133, 132, 149, 165, 167, 221,
390, 478, 515, 534, 567. Will sell the entire lot)
cheap. Writefor prices. GEORGEJ.TILLS,
Albion, N. Y.

WANTED.—Ridgeway’s Birds of Middle
and North America, Vols. I and II in godd
condition, forcash. CLIFTON E. WEBSTER
Arthur, N. Dak.

FOR EXCHANGE.—Sets of 58. 80, 194, 348.
364, 490 and many others. Send list and get
mine, also_old copper pennies and target
nite, E, J. DARLINGTON, W ilmington,

el.

FOR EXCHANGE.—Minerals, and coins,
both ancient and modern, for eggs and In-
dian relics. Would like correspondence in

Alaska, B. C., Washington, Utah, Nevada.
Montana mae California. S: VV. WHARRAM,
Geneva, O., SHO PEN Olde

PHOTOGRAPHERS attention. You want
some improved autotone matt printing out
paper. <A limited quantity to exchange for
desirable sets of eggs. OGAN EVANS.
Wilsey, Kan.

FOR EXCHANGE.—Rare_ Indian hiver
Tern 1-3, Cerulean Warbler n3 and common
sets for sets. J. CLAIRE WOOD, 174 lith
street, Detroit, Michigan.

WANTED.—To exchange first-class singles
and sets for first-class sets. All sets with
full and complete data. Send tists. all
answered. Taylor's catalogue used.
WRIGHT M. PIERCE. Claremont, Calif.

WANTED.—Sets of Pennsylvania birds’
eggs not in my collection. Otfer in exchange
sets from this locality and from other states
or will pay cash if prices ure reisonable.
RICHARD F. MILLER, 3473 Amber street,
Philadelphia, Pa.

WANTED.—Singles of most all rare kinds
and many common for cash. W. F. WEBB.
416 Grand Ave., Rochester. N. Y.

WANTED.—Auk Complete vols. and odd
numbers. Quote your cash price postpaid,
also old bird books or magazines of any de-
scription. BENJAMIN HOAG, Stephentown
New York.

WILL close out the following mounted
birds, animals and skins cheap as iollows.
All that are left. 1 Pelican, *2.50; 2 Red-
shouldered Hawks, 0c each: pair Wood
Du -ks, $3.50: Male Marsh H: iwk, 40c;; Jack
Rabbit, winter mtd, $2.50: (sophers, 75¢.; a few
good Moose scalps. $0.00 to 48.00 eich; Moose,
Eiks and Deer feet 20: to 40 centseich. Every
thing else sold. CHRIS P. FORGE, Taxi-
dermist and Collector, Carmsn, Manitoba.

130 THE OOLOGIST.

5 Choice Indian Relics, 30c.; Indian Toma-
hawk, 35c.; Hatchet, 35c.; 10 Curios, 18c.; 5 old
coins, 15c.; Old Liberty cents, 10 cents each;
5 minerals, 20c. Price list, old Liberty cent,
10 choice stamps, for one ‘dime. Coins and
Indian Relics on approval, against good
Bea W. P. ARNOLD, Peace Dale, R. I.

LMA lb pelic

FOR EXCHANGE.—Choice southern sets
with full accurate and stanbard data. Chuck-
will’s-widow. Am. Oystercatcher, Wilson’s
Plover, Willet, Royal Tern, Brown Pelican,
Swainson’s Warbler, Hooded Warbler, Clap-
per Rail, Black Skimmer, Summer Tanager,
etc..for A. I] sets with data. DOCTOR M. T-
CLECKLEY, 457 Greene Strest, Augusta. Ga.
Myttf

WANTED.—

Eggs of the UO WinS s A OZUL:

No’s. Single or sets, 67, dla, 54, 63, 69, 80,
200, 194. 273, 294, 300, 305, 331, 395, ocue 312,
362, 360, 364. 36>, 366, 368, 373, 375, 393, 394, 406,
493, 428, 429, 443, 452, 456, 461, 467, 481, 501,
506, 507, 508, 510, 517, 529, 542a, 546, 587, 593, 601,

604, 608, 610, 611, 612,613, 614, 619, 627, 62 28. 633, 652,
648, 337, 339, ‘and many others. I offer 600 spec-
ies of Shells, 100 ‘varieties of Minerals, Star-
fish. Mounted Butterflies and Moths, Indian
Relics, Mounted Birds and Alcoholic speci-
mens. ERNEST H. SHORT, Rochester.N.Y.

MAMMALS! BIRDS!—Parties wishing
fine mammals or birds from this locality
let me know, I will collect to order A. No. 1.
Scientific skins. Fine mounted specimens
for sale cheap. Address G, F. MONROE,
Taxidermist, Superior, Wis. tf

WANTED.—Back numbers of the OoLoaist
until further notice we will allow the prices
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others wanted. YOu may select in payment
any specimens catalogued by either of us.
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Supplies or Books except by special arrange-
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For May 1884: Jan. and June 1885, July-
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1886; Aug.-Sept. 1888; we will allow 25c per
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ERNEST H.. SHORT, Chili, N. Y: Mer.
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CHEAP FOR CASH.—Choice Cabinet Sets,
full accurate standard data, Chuckwill’s-
widow, 5-2 $1.00. Swainson’s Warbler, 5-3 $1.00,
Hooded Warbler, 3-3 20c., American Ovyster-
eatcher, 4-3 40c.. Willet, 10-3. 15c.. Wilson’s
Plover. 5-3 l5c.. Royal'Tern, 10-3 15-.. Sammer
Tanager, 5-4, 16c., Brown Pelican, 10-4 10c.,
Red- -eyed Vireo, 5-4 10c., Boat- -tailed Grackle,
5-4, 2-5, 05c.. Clapper Rail, 5-8. 5-12, 05c.. Black
Skimmer, 10 4, 0dc., Painted Bunting, 10-4, 05c.
Indigo Bunting 5: 4, 05c. Postage extra. Sat-
isfaction enaranteed, DOCTOR Meer:
CLECKLEY, 457 Greene St., Augusta, Ga.

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My private Colegee of 1500
For Sale. - first-class sets (to-he sold all
together) ‘representing: about 425. different
species, some rare’sets. and some fine series.
Parties meaning. business: Wiribe for particu-
lars to : abt.

ALMON E. KIBBE, Mayville, N.Y.

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Hggs, prices per, sets prepaid. Satisfaction
guaranted or your money back.
Audubon’s'Caracana, 1-3). <2.) eee 1 00
Reaiome Falcon, 1-4, 1-4 5 00

Sharp- shine) Hawk, 1-4, 1-4,1-4, 12 4, $2.75

Tea Tels}; 19a, Tesh, 1B TER : 3 25
Kestrel, 1- 4, 1-4, 40¢.. 1-5 50C 1-6) eae 60
White-tailed Hawk, 1-3 Ab ks ENGEL ED
Valley Partridge lll). 3722S ee een
Sooty Grouse, 1-5 ........ SU) Baga 1 50
Golden Plover, 1-4 : Js 60
Willow Ptarmigan, 1-5, Sw eden 2a nine 1 75
Sharp Seed- eater, n-3 i 85
Plumbeous Chickadee, n-6 sie Seb eae haat ae
Texan Tufted Titmouse, n- a seer eee ee anime ())
Hooded Warbler, n-3 3 See ale 90
Parula Warbler, n-4 ....... i UREN 60
Wood Pewee, n- Be n-3 oe WM Bee EE 35
Western Flycatcher, n-3 Bree 30
Magnolia Warbler, n-4 J NN oe OD)
Great Black-backed Gull, 1-2 eee 80
Pallas Murre, 1-1 La ts 50
Man-O’War Bird, Pepe ee it Ie See er 40
BOODYyaIE2 Gree ee Noss: 125
GoldenjBacle wi? css) 5 ies pees 10 00
Screech Owl, 1-51 1 00

Florida Red-shouldered Hawk, pO} alice ifc!)

Black Viiltiire seo Ego" puis mena 60
Turkey Vulture, I- 2, 1-2.1-2 60
Broad-winged Hawk, 1-2,1-2, $1.50, 1-3,1-3. 2 25
Scarlet Ibis, 1-2 2 00
Black-bellied Tree Duck, 1-853. R kee 4 00
Fulvus Tree Duck, 1-20 10 00
Whip-poor-will. ee 2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2 1 10
Chuck-wil|s: Widaw, 1- 2, 1- 2, 1-2, ie 2, oe 1 10
Palmer’s Thrasher, 124s 1 25

Groove-billed Ani, 1-7 - 1 50

Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse, 1-13 ..... 2 50
Blue-winged Warb!er, 1-4 2 00
Chestnut-sided Warbler, n-3, n-3,n-3. 25
Brown Pelican, 1-3 50
Cal. Mune, 1-1, 1-1,1-1..... Bases 20)
Laughing Gull. 1-2... 3: GUN d ae 35
Kittiwake Gui], 1- Sh gtk S ee] ig 40
Merling 154):1-4 ene si ieee = neler 88
Am. Sparrow Hawk. 1-5, 1-5 .. ppc 50

Send for full lists, hundreds of other de-
sirable sets in stock.

. BENJAMIN HOAG,

Stephentown, rae York.

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WANTED.—Sets of eggs of following birds:
Loon, any Murrelet or Guillemot, skua, Am-
erican Herring or Ring-billed Gulls, any
Tern, American White Pelican, Hooded
Merganser, Gt. Blue, Little Blue and Snowy
Herons, any Crane, Gallinule. Sandpiper, or
Plover, Woodcock, California Partridge,
Prairie Hen, any Vulture or Kagle. Sparrow
Hawk Sharp- shinned Hawk, Caracara,
Screech Owl, Downy and Hairy Woodpeck-
ers, any Hummingbird, Crested and Ash-
throated Flycatcher, any Jay or Raven,
Yellow- headed Blackbird, any Oriole, Pur-
ple Finch, Savanna and Grasshopper Spar-
rows, Towhee. any Warblerexcept Redstart,
Carolina Wren, any Nuthatch, Titmouse or
Chickadee. Blue-gray Gnuateatcher, want
nests with sets of Hummers, Warblers.
Gnatcatchers and Orioles if possible. I can
offerin exchange. Capen’s “Oology” good
as new, published at $15.00. Proceedings of
the Nebraska Ornithologists Union. Vols.
II and III, beautitully illustrated, published
at $2.00 and new. Stearn’s “Natural History
of Labrador,” Spectroscope, Hall Type-
writer. best 12 in. Caliper square marked to
m. m. and 1-100ths of an inch, value $6.00 and
never used. Showy South American and
Indian Butterflies, Shells and Minerals.
foe ERNEST H. SHORT, Rochester,

PHOTOGRAPHS

from nature for s
of nests and eggs:

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Swainson Hawk, 1-4, 2-3,1-2 Ss -.-... 20
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American Sparrow Haw k, 1-5,1-6 ~ 15
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Burrowing Owl, 1-5 eho) ft HE SOE 07
Belted Kingfisher, 1-5, 1- (el Mi Nine a ea 10
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My Song Sparrow.

Three years ago late in the spring of
the year, my boy and I were walking

beside a muddy brook, overlooking the
fields near the town of Malden, Mas-
sachusetts, and, as we were looking for
birds’ nests, I heard what I supposed
was a Song Sparrow, that had young
birds. I told the boy we would try the
same place next spring earlier, and see
if we could discover the nest.

Early the next spring my wife and I
went down to the little brook and dis-
covered under one of the three tussocks
of grass, a black hole, which I sup-
posed was the work of the bird of the
previous year, on visiting it later I
found a nest and five eggs inserted in
the black hole, or so called, the cellar
of her home.

The next fall I tore the nest out and
the following spring, which was last
year, I discovered on Lexington Day,
the 19th of April, a nest and four eggs,
which did not resemble the nest or
eggs of the previous year as they were
more like the Swamp Sparrows.

On consulting Mr. Webster, the
Naturalist, he pronounced them the
Song Sparrow. I shall watch the same
cavity this year with much interest.

EDWARD S. COoMBs,
Malden, Mass.

=

From Ohio.

Owing to the stirring up our Game
Wardens gave the milliners last year,
Iam thankful to say, I have seen more
flowers and less of birds used on ladies
hats this winter.

If the Wardens in other states would
follow the example of the Ohio Game
Commission in such work as they did
last year it would mean the stoppage
of the slaughter of our birds to deco-
rate? hats with.

O. DAVIE, JR,
Columbus, O.

134 THE OOLOGIST.

Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! and Who?

THE OOLOGIST. 135

Woodcock in Hard Luck,

In our locality April 13th is usually the time to look for full sets of Woodcock
eggs. This year as in others was no exception, although if you remember on
that date and the next day we were visited by a tremendous snowfall to the
extent of about 8 inches, which was partially melted by the sun and froze hard
again during the night, and two days later another snow-fall occured. Saturday
morning found me on the Cattaraugus Reservation, which"is an ideal locality
for the nesting of this bird. The ground was completely covered with about
5 inches of crust covered snow. In company witha couple of Indian boys, we
immediately began our search for the Woodcock or their traces. We soon found
the tracks of a pair where they had been feeding or trying to, around partly
- frozen water holes. We flushed the birds and began looking the ground or rather
snow over carefully for the nests, but found none in that vicinity, but on
following the back tracks of a single bird, which evidently were made the
previous day, we found after following those tracks at least a quarter of a mile,

the spot where the bird had evidently started on his walk to the water holes’
On examining the place nothing but a slight depression was found, appearing
somewhat more dirty than the otherwise clean snow. We were begining to think
that the bird had taken this place, which was a small clump of bushes as a
refuge from the snow storms, when it was suggested, that perhaps after all the
nest might be under the hard frozen snow. No sooner suggested, than we all
were down on our knees, taking turns at melting the snow with our breath.
After a few minutes we were rewarded by the sight of one egg, and by continu-
ing we found a fine set of four eggs, the first egg lying directly in the middle
and on top of the other three eggs, and being separated by a layer of at least
an inch of snow. From this I take it that when the first snow storm came, the
bird had only three eggs laid and had a hard time keeping on the eggs for any
great length of time, as the Woodcock lives on worms in the soft marshy ground,
and consequently could not remain a long time on the eggs, or the vast
amount of falling snow made the bird continually shift until by constantly
moving the eggs were covered with snow, then the next day the other egg was
deposited as before mentioned, when the last snow-fall occured, which the bird
could not withstand and finally deserted nest and eggs. We found several more
sets in the same way on that day, and in each case the eggs were found as
described.

They are beautifully marked and colored from light to dark shades and vary
greatly in size.

EDWARD REINECKE, Buffalo, N. Y.

jo)
136 THE OOLOGIST. AY”,

Photo of Woodcock on nest taken by Edward Reinecke, April18, 1902.
It admirably illustrates the effect of protective coloration in natural haunts

of the bird.

Only the closest scrutiny will bring out the bird in the picture and

it would be even more difficult te pick her out in reality with a constantly
changing light and the natural blending of harmonious colors.

ee

A Sunday Morning Ramble.

As we are not all blessed with a lot
of worldly treasures, we cannot always
pick the days that we best like for a
stroll in the woods, but must take
that stroll whenever we can get it. So
that is why I am here to record a
‘*Sunday’s Ramble.’’

On April 17th of the present year,
I found myself up early and on my
way to the depot to board an electric
car for a chain of sand hills at Lynn-
haven Inlet on Cheaspeake Bay,
ranging from one quarter to half a
mile in width. One side being fring-
ed by asmall stream along the bank
of which, in some places, the sand is
very steep, but in other places spots of

wooded land, with marshy damp soil
is found, while on the hills we find
only scrub pine, farther from the
beach, scrub oak becomes plentiful,
and much of the sand is grown over
with grapevines and briers. Here we
find Cardinals but no nest, may be
they escaped my notice as I did not
search very lone for them.

My little friend, the Carolina Wren
is also here for I can hear the song of
at least three at once, but they keep
pretty well out of sight. Perhaps they
are nesting by this date, but have not
found any eggs. Without moving
any further I can hear the pleasant
song of a Pine Warbler as he swings
gently, to and fro, on the topmost
bough of asmall pine. Here is his

THE OOLOGIST. @}3 (x/ 137

mate with a mouthfull of material
that she is carrying to a pine near by.
A nest, nearly complete; perhaps a set
for some future day.

The next is the song of a Maryland
Yellow-throat coming from a part of
the marshy border of the stream. No
nest as yet for the season is not far
enough advanced for our summer
visitors to begin nesting, but then I
can enjoy his song as he flits nervous-
ly about and utters it at intervals of a
few seconds. Here goes a_ Belted
Kingfisher flying as if mad, also
another, uttering his discordant notes;
as he flies within a few feet of where I
am standing, my attention is attract-
ed by the always pleasant notes of the
Carolina Chickadee, coming from a
small cluster of pines to my right.
Search as I may there is no nest to be
found, although it must be under way
of construction somewhere near, even
if there are no eggs yet.

Imagine my delight, when upon
rapping on a stump, Mrs. Brown-
headed Nuthatch thrusts her head

through the neat entrance to her nest-
ing shanty, but picture my disapoint-
ment when I see but two eggs, fresh
and warm, laying in a nest of pine
seed leaves and feathers. I leave them
for the uneasy pair that are flying
around my head and giving vent to
their displeasure.

Many Rough-winged Swallows are
_ flying around over the water and sand,
with now and then a specimen of the
White-bellied, only a migrant, but
very commonly observed at certain
times of the season. Now we behold a
fine specimen of the Southern Hairy
Woodpecker drumming away at lei-
sure on the limb of a dead pine some
thirty feet distant. Flickers are
numerous flying here and there, they
appear to be very restless.

Boat-tailed Grackles and Red-wing-
ed Blackbirds are frequently seen and
beard to utter their discordant notes.

/

Crows are common, both the Com-
mon and Fish, one nest found but not

. examined, it being too high for a

climb.
We note the Field, Chipping and

Grasshopper Sparrows all pretty com-
mon; the first two remaining with us
throughout the summer season, while
the Grasshopper leaves us very short-
ly for the north. One Red-shouldered
Hawk observed soaring away at leisure
far above the top of the tallest of the
pines, while several Sparrow Hawks
are mated in different parts of the
tract before us. They may have nests
in some of the old Flicker’s
later in the season.

In addition to the above we observe
several Mockingbirds, two Mourning
Doves and Turkey Vultures soaring
away farabove. Towhees are frequent-
ly observed, with a few Bluebirds.
Several varieties of Gulls are plentiful
and a few Ducks are seen. While on
returning home by the same route, a
nest of the Osprey, placed on the
broken end of a pine stump about fifty
feet high is located; nest occupied last
season and is in repair for the present.
A little farther and we find Meadow-
larks by the dozen, probably not so
common later flying around over the
fields. Chimney Swifts are abundant,
having been arriving steadly from the
south for the last half month.

R. P. SMITHWICK,
Norfolk, Va.

nests

From A Worcester, Mass., Newspaper.

RIGHT OF SEARCH BILL IS
INTO. USE.
MENTIONED IN

BROUGHT

CLOSE TIME CHARGE.

The right of search law passed at the
last session of the legislature was given
its first trial in Worcester yesterday,
when chief deputy John F. Luman of
Palmer and Deputy commissioners D.
F. Shea of Ware, and A. D. Putnam

of Spencer visited Charles K. Reed’s

138 THE OOLOGIST.

taxidermist’s store and workshop on
- Thomas street.

They found 69 partridges, 27 quail
and half a dozen pheasants, some of
them mounted, and the skins of others
ready for mounting.

Mr. Reed was summoned to appear
in Central street Court this morneng
on the charge of having game birds in
his possession in the close season.
The charge of having game birds in
possession with intent to sell will also
be brought against the defendent.

The attention of the Massachusetts
fish and game commission was direct-
ed to Mr. Reed by a New York organi-
zation for the protection ofbirds. The
New York society discovered an adver-
tisement for quail Mr. Reed is running
in the Oologist, published in Albion,
Ne

Mr. Reed’s explanation is that he is
running the advertisement to buy
scientific skins of the birds from taxi-
dermist’s to mount and send to St°
Louis to the World’s fair, where he is
showing a collection. He maintains
that he does not buy the game birds.
He says he has no knowledge that such
a practice is violation of the law, and
that if it is he will be glad to learn it.

The fact that very few people know
how to remove the skin of abird to pre-
pare it for mounting, indicates to their
minds that the advertisement was not
for skins only, they say.

The deputy commissioners maintain
that there should be no distinction be-
tween killing game birds out of season
for mounting purposes and for the pot.
The bird is killed, and it is to protect
the bird that they are seeking to stop
the practice.

Rebukes
Wardens.

“Tf seems to me that state officers,
men appointed as fish and game war-
dens ought to know the difference be-
tween a crow and a quail ora bluebird

Judge Utley

Three Game |

and a sparrow. I have not the power
of appointment in that respect but I

_ think if I did possess that power I

would appoint men who knew their
business. ‘‘There is no case against
this man.’’

After delivering a stinging rebuke
to three deputy fish and game wardens
in the central district court this morn-
ing Judge Samuel Utley discharged
Charles K. Reed, taxidermist at 75
Thomas street who was charged with
violating the provisions of Sections 2
and 3 of Chapter 92 fishand game laws.

Reed was discharged after a long
hearing during which Webster Thayer
of Thayer & Cobb argued for him.
Jere R. Kane appeared for the govern-
ment. During the trial Atty. Thayer
remarked that if the defendent had
bird skins in his store they were not
birds; if a man wore leather shoes they
were not Cows.

Deputy fish and game warden John
F. Luman of Palmer testified that he
and Debuty fish and game wardens A.
D. Putnam of Spencer and Dennis F.
Shea of Ware visited Reed’s store yes-
terday afternoon and found specimens
of stuffed quail there. Witness said
he visited the store Saturday after see-
ing an advertisement in which the de-
fendant offered to buy quail. He
asked Reed’ why he did not get his
quail from breeders and Reed replied
that it was now the close season. Wit-
ness claimed that men in the store .
were skinning about 20 quail. The
‘‘quail’’? were imported. French part-
ridge which are on sale in the markets
all the year.

Under cross examination the witness
admitted that the advertisement was
for skinned quail and bobwhites. He
said two dozen were advertised for by
Reed.

The law which Reed was charged
with violating states that no person
shall have game birds in his posses-
sion. The defense interpreted the.

THE OOLOGIST. 139

law, as meaning birds and not bird
skins and ruled that the state officers
had no right to arrest a man for keep-
ing stuffed birds any more than they
could for keeping any kind of astutfed
animal.

Judging from this attack on Mr. Reed
it would seem that some people who
are looking after the interests of our
birds become so zealons in the pursuit
of violations of the game laws that
they overlook the fact that the posses-
sion of a scientific bird skin does not
violate any law.

We regret the trouble the little ad
at the end of this article brought to
Mr. Reed and print the matter in full
as it is of great importance.

Had there been proof that the skins
were taken out of season the matter
would then have been a case against
the collector and not against Mr. Reed

as, after scientific preparation they
ceased to be ‘‘game.’’
And again,—many of the states

grant special permits for this work
even in the closed season—hence the
zealous members of our ‘‘Bird Pro-
tection’’ societies should ‘‘look twice
before they leap’’ thereby. saving a lot
of trouble for all concerned.

No ad of this character would be
printed in the Oologist were it remotely
suspected that any but scientific skins
collected in accordance with the laws
of the collectors state, were desired and
we supposed everyone in the position
of the complainant in this case, (we
understand it was the Editor of a
prominent New York City Sporting
Magazine) would so understand.

Following is the ad’ referred to:

WANTED.—Skins of Bob-white ((Am.
Quail). Cash or exchange. Can use several

dozen. Address atonce. CHAS. K. REED,
Worcester, Mass. Taxidermist.

Editor.

North American Birds’ Eggs.

CHESTER A. REED.

The Quail Trap, June 9, 1904.—As
the oldest working field oologist in the
country, it is becoming for me to say
a long word of praise for the latest ad-
dition to the literature of bird’s eggs.
My shelves contain everything extant

or procurable on this subject. I cor-
responded with Dr. Brewer, the closet
naturalist, who first published colored
lithographs of American eggs, and I
have stacks of letters from Major Ben-
dire, presentation copies of whose life
histories are now before me. Further
reminders of this lamented curator are
also close at hand in the shape of sets
of American rayen, painted partridge,
sage cock, Bendire’s Thrasher, white
pelican and pigmy owl. Itis strange
that most pretentious works on eggs
are incomplete. Both Brewer’s and
Bendire’s treatises were issued by the
government and both authors died
with their congenial tasks unfinished.
Brewer’s American Oology is out of
print and becoming rare among col-
lectors. Bendire’s Life Histories may
be completed by Dr. Ralph in the near
future. The Jones Sisters’ de luxe
Nests and Eggs of Southern Ohio is

_too expensive for use and the copper

plates are now destroyed. One of the
authors of the magnificent work also
died before the hand-coloring was
done. Thomas G. Gentry’s pleasing
plates of Pennsylvania nests and eggs
embraced but few species and _ left
much to be desired. And soon down
from the ‘‘bigwig bird doctors’’ to the
lesser lights of oology. There have
been several editions of Davies to
make new additions and insert species
not figured at first. Nor must we for-
get the dead or suspended Ornitholo-
gist and Oologist, once printed in this
city, The Oologist, The Western Oolo-
gist, The Texas Oologist, The Maine
Oologist, and kindred publications.
Later we will include all these ephem-
era in a bibliography of American
and foreign eggs books. Maynard
and Ingersoll’s praiseworthy attempts
at egg-portraiture were both unfinish-
ed. So we welcome the new-comer to
our library. Reed’s North Amirican
Birds’ Eggs may be described by the
four C’s—crisp, compact, comprehen-

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sive and complete. The text does not
describe every known phrase of color,
nor deviations from the usual design.
All this verbiage is purposely left out,
and only the common type given. It
is left to our own field experience to
note the variations and additions which
only emphasize the common specimens
here submitted as the rule. I did not
think before this excellent handbook
that uncolored plates of eggs could so
perfectly represent the object sought to
be figured. The reproductions show
the most suitable selections from a very
large series. The photographs are so
good that any water colorist with a
touch or two of a brush to these cuts
could show us the egg itself to the life.
As it is, every species is at once recog-
nized without the accompanying text
and color guide. Cw eRe
Norwich Bulletin (Conn.)

Albino Robins.

On or about April 15, 1904 a pair of
Robins (Merula migratoria) arrived
here from the south and took up their
summer home in a large field sur-
rounded with fir and small spruce
bushes. The male bird is pure snow-
white, while the female has a lovely
pink breast but is white otherwise.
This is the first pair of albinos that
ever came under my notice. A beauti-
ful albino crow was taken here last
summer,

S. G. JEWETT,
Fredericton, N. B.,
Canada.

EDITORIAL.

The Person depieted in our frontis-
piece is in good company

All subscribers, except his personal
acquaintances, are invited to guess
his name.

Laying in another bird’s nest.
Data. Brewers Blackbird, set 4%, col-

THE OOLOGIST. 2! (%)

lected June 38, 1902 by H. F. Duprey at
Bodega, Califoania. Two of the eggs
in this set are Brewers Blackbird, the
other egg is a typical one of California
Shrike and unquestionably laid by
that bird. Since description of nest
calls formud, the Shrike must have
been the intruder.

The display of eggs of Pennsylvania
birds in Agricultural building at &t. .
Louis was loaned by J. Warren Jacobs
whose exhibit at Chicago attracted
much attention.

On June 7, 1901, Mr. E. W. Springer
of- Owatonna, Minn. took a double
(two story) nest of Yellow Warbler
the lower story containing two eggs of
Warbler and two of Cowbird and the
upper one six eggs of Warbler and two
of Cowbird. This is the largest nest-
ful ever brought to my notice. The
set was lightly marked.

= = =

REVIEW.

“The making of an Herbarium’’ by
Willard N. Clute, Editor of ‘‘The Fern
Bulletin’? published by Chas. D.
Pendell, Binghamton, N. Y. The
sub-title of this work ‘‘A complete
guide as to methods of procedure and
requirements’’ accurately describes
this well written illustrated pamphlet
which should be in the hand of all be-
ginners in botany. The price, only
25c, puts it within reach of all.

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Publications Received.

American Ornithology, Vol. IV,
No. 7.
Nature study, Vol. XIII, No. 7.
Bulletin of the Michigan Ornith-
ological Club, Vol.) Vo) No... 25) Rhee
Amateur Naturalist, Vol. I. No. 4. ,

Condor, Vol. VI, No. 4..

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first-class sets. All answered. WRIGHT
M. PIERCE, Claremont. Calif.

FOR SALE.—24 Crow: eggs with data.
Best cash offer, also common Minn. eggs
cheap. G. M. STRADER, R. F. D. No 6.
Mankato, Minn.

WANTED.— Foreign birds’ eggs and books
on foreign birds. I will give exchange in
sets from this locality, or cash. CHAS. P.
ae 19S. Judson street, Glovers-
ville, N. Y.

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FOR “-EXCHANGE.— Buttertiies collected
in this state for species not insmy collection.
Also bird eggs in sets and singles. GEOF.
GILES, San Antonio. Texas.

FOR EXCHANGE.—Many fine varieties of
Shells and Corals, also reports of U.S. Na-
tional Museum to exchange for eggs in sets.
E.L. WARNER, Jacksonville,, Fla.

FOR EXCHANGE.—Premo Camera, size,
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holders, listed at $40.00. Want A 1 sets or
volumes of Natal Bulletin, Auk, Condor,
Osprey and ?} Nidiologist. DOCTOR ae Ww.
RICHARDS, vase Navy, address, U.S. Ship
Arkansas, care Postmaster, New York, N. ¥.

FOR CASH CONSIDERATION .—A - violin
and a viola in good condition. Write for
particulars. All answered. GLEN M. HA-
Teen A. M., 836 Sixth Ave., Cedar Rapids.

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datas for sale at 12 1-2 cents per egg, cash.
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3c. per egg for postage. Drills that cut the
membrane, any size 25c. W. A. HART, La-
peer, Mich.

FOR SALE.—Following skins. White Pel-
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Crane, $2.00; 2 Richardson Owls, $1.00 each;
Mounted Jack Rabbitt, $2.50; Striped Sper-
mophile 75c. each. A quantity of Moose Elk
and Deer tips with feet, 15 to 40c. each. One
Mounted Moose head, $25.00; One tanned
Black bear skin, Large in prime winter coat.
Make handsome mat; claws and skull com-
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mounting. $5.00. CHRIS P. FORGE, Taxi-
dermist, Carman, Manitoba.

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE. — Indian
Wampum, white and black; Pottery. Beads,
Necklaces, etc., from graves, Ceremonial
Stones, Prehistoric Mortars, Pestles, Bows,
Arrows, Points, Shell Work, Ostrich and
Farallone Cormorant Eggs and old Guns
and Pistols. J. B. LEWIS, 910 Washington
St., Petaluma, California. ‘Sept. 2t.

WANTED.—Sets of eggs of following birds:
Loon, any Murrelet or Guillemot, Skua, Am-
erican Herring or Ring-billed Gulls, any
Tern, American White Pelican, Hooded
Merganser, Gt. Blue, Little Blue and Snowy
Herons, any Crane, Gallinule, Sandpiper, or
Plover, Woodcock, California Partridge,
Prairie Hen, any Vulture or Eagle, Sparrow
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rows, Towhee. any Warbler except Redstart,
Carolina Wren, any Nuthatch, Titmouse or
Chickadee. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, want
nests with sets of Hummers, Warblers.
Gnatcatchers and Orioles if possible. I can
offer in exchange. Capen’s ‘“Oology”’ good
as new, published at $15.00. Proceedings of
the Nebraska Ornithologists Union, Vols.
II and III, beautifully illustrated, published
at $2.00 and new. Stearn’s ‘‘Natural History
of Labrador,” Spectroscope, best 12 in.Caliper
square marked to m. m. and 1-100ths of an
inch, value $6.00 and never used. Showy
South American and Indian Butterflies,
Shells and Minerals. Address, ERNEST
H. SHORT, Rochester, N. Y.

F se ey her

L Mave a fine BebI3: Seumlet The ye ee
change for desirable eggs in sets. t
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~ Taunton Mass.

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493. 498, 499, 443, 452, 456, 461, 467, 481, 501.
506, 507, 508, 510, 517, 529, 542A, 546, 587, 593, 601,
604, 608, 610, 611; 612, 613, 614, 619, 627, 628, 633, 652,
648, 337, 339,and many others. I offer 600 spec-
ies of Shells, 100 varieties of Minerals, Star-
fish. Mounted Butterflies and Moths, Indian
Relics, Mounted Birds and Alcoholic speci-
mens. ERNEST H. SHORT, Rochester.N.Y.

MAMMALS !~ BIRDS !—Parties wishing
fine mammals or birds from this locality
let me know, I will collect to order A. No. 1,
Scientific skins. Fine mounted specimens
for sale cheap. Address G, F. MONROE,
Taxidermiist, Superior, Wis. tf

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CHOICE SETS coe SALE.

Holbecel’s Grebe, 1-4, 1-3, per egg $ 12
Horned Grebe, 1552:8- :- aaa 07
Loon 1-2 OR ee Oo ES. 1 00
Bittern, 1-4. ee Ei eee 20
Virginia Rail, 1-10 isso eaS 10
Sora: Rails2-6.1- 7-82 eee 03
Bartram’s s Sandpiper, 1-4 2 es 20
Spotted Sandpiper, 1-4 aft 07
Canada Rutfed Grouse. 1-8, 1-9 .. - Es 20
Prairie Hen, 1-9, 1-7, 1-13, 1- 14 Sess 08
Sharp- tailed Grouse, 1-10, 1- 11, 1- 12 ae 25
Marsh Hawk, 1-7, 2-5 lhe 15
Cooper’s Hawk, 1- 4, £2 ie ae 10
Red-tailed Hawk, 2-3, 1-2, aN eee 18
Swainson Hawk, 1 4, >- By er: 3 20:
Broad-winged Hawk, 9-4, 2- SoU Geese 75
American Rough- -legged ‘Hawk, sea gee 1 00
American Sparrow_ Hawk, 1-5, 1-6 Batre 15
Long-eared Owl, 1-7, 2-5, 1- 4 eee ee 15
» Short-eared Owl, et le 1-5. 2-4 eee 20
_ Burrowing Owl, 1-5 he ate a 07
Belted Kingfisher, 1-5, 1-6 Eee eon eat 10
Blue Jayson el ee nee 03
Red-winged Blackbird, 1-4 ges ests 02
Bronzed Grackleni-4) 9 sees 02
Chestnut collared ponssnite | Fs ee em ea 15
Claycolored, do, 2-4, 1 re Bee 15
Arctic Towhee, 1-4 ...:. (..).-J232. eee 25
Barn, do, 1-6 es
Loggerhead Shrike, 1-7 . ee es ee 05
W. Bluebird, 1-4 06

CHRIS P. FORGE, Collector,
Carman, Man.

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The California Bush-tit and Parkman’s
Wren.

By Harry H. DUNN.
For a good many years I have been
interested in the nesting habits of

these two birds, probably because both
breed in much the same localities and

because the nests of both have been,
up to within a season or two at most,
a sort of chinese puzzle to me and I
have found very few of them. The
finding of a Bush-tit’s nest is often a
matter of patient watching until the
parent birds become accustomed to
your presence, when they will usually
goto the nest. But a wren is quite
otherwise constituted, and while she
will scold you while you are removing
the eggs from her home, she will not,
unless she does not see you at all, go
to her nest while the coHector is near.
In this respect Parkman’s Wren is
different from Vigor’s Wren, whose
eggs I have collected in this locality,
in that the latter will invariably go to
the nest when watched and not even
try to conceal her home from prying
eves.

In the oak-covered flats, the bottoms
grown up to Sycamores and even back
in the slopes where the pines begin,
Parkman’s Wren is an abundant bird,
everywhere much in evidence, cheer-
ing the otherwise quiet hills with its
short but sweet song, and nesting
commonly in the dead trees (and in
woodpecker’s holes in some of the live
ones,) throughout its range. In the
accompanying photo a typical nesting
site is well shown. On the day in
which this picture was taken, my
friend, Mr. H. A. Bradford, of Placen-
tia, and myself were out prospecting
for Wrens and Bush-tits, when he
found the nest here presented.

Some wandereing camper had cut
from a sturdy elder tree one of its larg-
est limbs, leaving it to hang by a por-
tion of the stout bark.- At some time

150 : ‘THE OOLOGIST. ‘ a

previous to the cutting off of the limb
a woodpecker had cut two connecting
holes in the thickest part of the branch.
Entering from the upper of these two
holes, the Wren had built a platform
within and thereon deposited her
seven eggs, all fresh and carefully re-
moved to the growing collection of my
friend. Around on the other side of
the tree there was an unfinished Wood-
pecker’s nest which we_ investigated,
succeeding which he proceeded to chop
out the lesser bird and in resting. be-
tween strokes of the hatchet the came-
ra caught him. The usual bunch of
small sticks is shown protruding from
the hole in the tree and without these

there is very little use in chopping in-
to the nest of one of these birds, for,
even though the nest be new and the
birds ever so anxious there is every
probability that it will contain no
eggs. They seem to complete this
lattice work of twigs after the full
number of the set has been laid rather
than when the horsehair lining is put
in, and it is a sure protection against
mice and snakes and possibly against
the English Sparrow, if that pest ever
getsso far west as this. There are
literally thousands of such trees as
the one here shown scattered over

southern California and it is no exag-

geration to say that in nearly every

one of them, especially in suitable
localities, there will be found a Wren’s
nest during the months from the last
week of April to the end of June—and
possibly later. It has been my ex-
perience that sets of seven predomi-
nate in the eggs laid by this bird, but
frequently sets of eight and nine are
found. Small sets of five and six are
usually incomplete and if left may or
may not be filled, just as the bird hap-
pens to feel about it. I have left small
sets after having chopped a huge hole
in the tree and had them completed;
on the other hand, I have left them in

151

from its

a nest scarcely disturbed
first condition and found them aban-

doned when I came again. The great-
est number of sets of this Wren that I
ever found in one day was nine, and
they ranged in size from seven to nine
eggs, all fresh, all easily collected and
all safely blown, a feat I have not
equaled though I have taken many
sets since. This was in 1902, I believe
though I am not sure, and on about
the 20th of May. The little red eggs
of this bird are not nearly so fragile
as those of many another small bird
of similar region and size—probably

152 THE OOLOGIST.

they are purposely tougher so_ that
any accidental rolling against the
woody sides of the nest will not break
them.

But the nests of the Bush-tit are
quite different even though the two
birds are often near neighbors in their
nest building. From the _ willow-
covered lowlands that border on the
coast to the first beginning of the
pines will be found the restless, noisy
little Bush-tits, the dull grays of their
plumage intergrading well with the
foliage of the trees and brush through
which they hunt insects the whole day
long. Most of the Bush-tits, however,
retreat to the oak-groves of the hill-
sides as the breeding season comes on
and there remain ‘until well into the
fall when they with their broods scat-
ter out over a greater area in search of
food. In the other photo shown here-
with, the writer of these lines has just
discovered a nest, which an inquisi-
tive finger has told him is full of eggs,
placed out among the small branches
on the extreme end of an oak limb
some six feet from the ground. This
was about thirty feet from the site of
the Wren’s nest just described and on
the same bit of flat land in the bottom
of a canyon grown up to various trees.
This nest as may be seen at a glance
at the photo, was a very long one even
for this famous builder of pendulous
nests, and when one of these is hidden
in an oak tree in the manner in which
most small birds know how to hide
their nests, itis no snap to find it.

Sets are most usually of from seven
to nine eggs, the latter rarely, while
some birds, nesting in the same local-
ity year after year, lay but five or six,
never more. Ninety per cent of the
nests, however, contain seven eggs
when the sets are full, and so downy
and finely made are these nests that
hardly a single egg is ever broken
either by the wind or by the birds
themselves, but I might add that a

good many are broken by me in get-
ting them out of these nests for they
are the most easily broken egg in the
world, barring none. In fact about
the only way to get them out of one of
the long, bottle-shaped nests unbroken
is to tip the nest upside down on a
sheet of cotton and let the eggs roll
out, taking a chance that none of them
get damaged. This is a bird I never
was very ‘‘strong’’ on, either, but they
seem to be on the increase of late and
I have hopes of adding to my already
small series, consisting of seven sets,
this season. Nothing to my mind
looks prettier, both to the artistic and
oological eye than a nice series of
Wrens of all species and a well-filled
series of Bush-tits in the same drawer; _
the two always seem to me to belong
together more than any two other
North American species.
Los Angeles, California.

Breeding of the White-throated Swift.

(Through the courtesy of Prof. Robert H.
Wolcott I have before mea copy of the pro-
ceedings of the Nebraska Ornithologist’s
Union (3rd meeting) and among other inter-
esting articles, I find the following written
by M. A. Carriker, Jr., of Nebraska City,
Nebr. Probably a few of the Oologists’ read-
ers have seen this but in apology we would
remind these that hundreds of them have
not and as very little has ever been publish-
ed about this bird we reproduce the article
in full.— ED.)

“‘This interesting bird has for sever-
al years been known to be an inhabi-
tant of the canons of Sioux and Danes
counties and has been supposed to
breed there, but until May 30, 1901,
no nest or eggs had ever been seen or
taken. Indeed very little is known of
the breeding of this bird anywhere on
account of the usually inaccessible
situation which it selects for a nesting
site.

In May, 1900, a party consisting of
Mr. G. S. Hunter, Mr. Merritt Cary
and Mr. J. C. Crawford, Jr., located a
colony of perhaps a dozen pairs of
these birds near the head of West
Munroe Canon in Sioux County, but

THE OOLOGIST.

were unable to reach the places where
the birds appeared to have their nests.
So in 1901 the party went with a firm
determination to secure eggs of the
birds. On May 30, our party consist-
ing of Prof. Bruner, Dr. Wolcott, Mr.
Cary and mysalf, visited the cliff oc-
cupied by the birds the year before
and found that they had returned and
to all appearances had nests, under
constru tion at least, in the crevices of
the cliff about seventy feet above the
base of the perpendicular wall of rock.

The home of the birds was a bold
convex cliff, forming one wall of the
canon and facing to the southwest.
On the south side, about two-thirds of
the distance to the top, was a ledge
upon which rested the last year’s nest
“of a pair of Krider’s Hawks and into
which Mr. Hunter had longingly
gazed, from the top of a neighboring
pine, at the two eggs, so near and yet
so far. Around this nest and on the
west side of the cliff were scattered the
nest of the Swifts, as could be seen by
the way in which they were constantly
darting in and out of the cracks and
crevices, keeping up a constant vigor-
ous chatting as they wheeled, circled
and darted about in the vicinity of the
cliff. Their swiftness of wing and the
- poor footing made the work of collect-
ing any for skins well nigh an im-
possibility, and it was only after a
long-continued fusillade that one lone
bird was secured. After various plans
of reaching the nests had been dis-
cussed, I volunteered to make an at-
tempt to climb the cliff. The trunk
of a small pine, cut down by Mr.
Hunter the year before, lay at the
base of the cliff, and when this was
erected I was able to ascend about
one-third of the distance to a narrow
projection of rock at a point where
several nests were supposed to be. As
may be seen from the photograph,
there is a shoulder of rock, but a few
feet in width, running perpendicular-

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ly up the side of the cliff and ending
in the projection I have just mention-
ed. This shoulder was made by a
vertical section of the face of the cliff
slipping down and still remaining in
an upright though rather unstable
condition, and it was up the narrow
side of this section that I must climb
in order to reach the much desired
nests above. This cliff consists, as
do all the rocks of the region, of a
soft sandstone which is rapidly disin-
tegrated by the action of the elements
upon it. This fact made the ascent
far more precarious than it otherwise
would have been, since one could
never tell when the portion of rock
which sustained his weight would
tumble away. But while this was a
great difficulty, it was also the means
which made it possible for me to as-
cend the cliff, since I was able, with
the small handaxe which I carried,
to cut foot and hand holds in the

rock and thus gradually make the

ascent.

I think any one can appreciate the
task of clinging tothe nearly perpen-
dicular face of a cliff for the length of
time sufficient to cut steps for the as-
cent of nearly fifty feet. But persist-
ence finally overcame all obstacles and
I stood at the top within easy reach of
three nests, one of which was still
empty while another contained one
egg and the thirdtwo. The nests were
made entirely of feathers, glued into a
compact mass by means of the saliva
of the bird, and alsosecurely fastened
by the same means to the bottom of
the vertical fissures in the rock in
which they were placed. By this time
Dr. Wolcott had climbed by a round-
a-bout way to the top of the cliff and
let down a coil of rope over the face of
the rock to assist me in the descent.
Owing to the overhanging nature of
the cliff, the rope hung out several
feet beyond reach and I was compelled
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stout cord which I happened to have.
Taking a turn of the rope around one
leg, I started to slide down but stop-
ped a short distance below at a fourth
nest. Clinging to the rope with one
hand and lex I chopped away the rock
with the other hand until the nest was
reached and the four fresh eggs safely
transferred to my mouth and later to
_the ground. On June 14th, Mr. Cary
and I returned to the cliff and I se-
cured sets from the three nests which
I visited first on my former ascent.
On this trip I secured photographs of
the cliff and the nest and eggs.

On June 2nd, Prof. Bruner located
another nest in the west branch of
Warbonnet Canon. This was not so
high as the others, being not more
than twenty feet from the base of the
cliff, and was easily reached by cut-
ting a slender pine and leaning it
against the cliff. But two eggs were
secured from this nest. In all, five
nests were found and sets secured from
each, two of four eggs, two of three,
and one of two. The eggs are pure
dull white more or less specked and
spotted by some black foreign sub-
stance which can be only partly re-
moved by washing. They are long
and pointed, as can be seen by the
measurements. The eggs ina typical
set of four measured respectively, 25 x
15, 22x 14,22x14mm. The smallest
of the sixteen eggs collected measures
21 x 18 m m; the largest 25 x 15; while
the average is 22.7 x 13.6. During in-
cubation the parents are much attach-
ed to the nesting locality and fly con-
stantly back and forth before the cliff.
The female sits very close, often havy-
ing to be removed by force, which is
dangerous to the safety of the eggs, as
any one who has seen or felt their
claws can testify. The nest are invari-
ably infested by a hemipterous insect
much resembling the common _ bed
bug. Whether these insects live para-
sitically upon the young birds or not,

THE OOLOGIST.

I cannot say, but none were ever
found upon the adults. These birds
are quite common in all the canons of
the Pine Ridge where there are large
cliffs with fissures of a _ sufficient
height from the ground to suit the
birds. I also saw a few in August
around the large bluff at Gering, Neb.,
known as Scott’s Bluff.

Nighthawk and Whip-poor-will.

The Nighthawk is a characteristic
bird of eastern New York, and al-
though usually seen about dusk, it is
by no means a bird of night. All day
long, in the months of June and July,
it is seen zigzaging over the berry
tields, clearing the higher etherial re-
gions of insects and thereby becoming
invaluable to man. Once in a while
the birds come and alight in the tall
pine trees studding the _ blue-berry
fields and so lethargic are its slumbers
when thus alit that a stone may be
thrown that hits the branch upon
which the sleeper sits, and still he
‘‘waketh not.’’? For a long time I had
hunted in vain for the nest of this
bird and at last came to the con-
clusion that it was not my fortune to
see a set taken from this locality,
when on Monday, July, 11, 1904, a
friend of mine, Axel Olsson, found
an egg while berry picking in the
above mentioned fields. The old bird
was flushed from the nest(?) and tried
various alluring methods to entice
him away, but he didn’t ‘‘entice,”’
and took the imperfect set of one egg.
The egg, in my collection is rounded
on the ends and is beautifully mark-
ed with dark markings upon a lighter
ground.

The Whip-poor-will, unlike its Cou-
sin, the Nighthawk, is rarely if ever
heard before dark, and keeps up its
insect-destroying pursuits until ‘‘Old
Sol’? shows up in the east, when he
goes to rest. The whistle, from which

THE OOLOGIST. 21(4) . 155

he gets his name, is repeated for near-
ly the whole night and is kept up
continuously for long stretches at a
time. The Whip-poor-will is the char-
acteristic night bird of all campers out
and one rarely reads an account of
camp life without some reference to
this well known bird. On May 28,
1904, while up camping on Helen
Gould lake, a farmer boy secured a
set of one egg of this desirable bird
for me, while going through an old
field after cows. The egg was laid up-
on a bare rock and was found by
flushing the bird. The egg resembles
the Nighthawk’s in size and shape,
but is creamy white, marked with
small zigzag marks over the entire
egg but thickest in the middle.
C. P. ALEXANDER,
Gloversville, N. Y.

Slate Colored Junco in Eastern New York.

On June 30, 1904, Lawrence P. Mills,
ofthis city discovered a nest of the Slate
colored Junco in the northern part of
this county. While fishing, he flushed
the female bird from the nest, placed
in under an over hanging stump and
compactly made of dry grasses, lined
with finer. The bird, when flushed,
hopped off the nest and ran rapidly
across the ground like a mouse. The
nest contained five eggs upon which
incubation had just commenced The
eggs are of a pale greenish blue,
specked with reddish brown and lilac
gray, chiefly at the large end. I have
one other instance of Junco hpemalis,
breeding in Fulton Co., the nest being
found by a Mr. Robinson, a well known
farmer living near here and being
placed in a piece of swampy wood-
land, under a tussock of swamp grass.
This bird Mr. Robinson called the
white tailed Sparrow, but he described
the bird so ably that there is no doubt
as to its identification.

CHAS. P. ALEXANDER,
(vloversville, N. Y.

Nesting ofthe Dotted Canon Wren.

While on a camping trip in the head-
waters of the San Gabrial Canon, Los
Angeles Co. Californiain the early part
of July, 1904, I had the pleasure of
finding a nest of this interesting
mountain bird. ;

The nest was placed in a good sized
box, suspended by wire from the roof
of the old log cabin, in which we were
camped. The nest contained four
small young birds, which the parents
fed regularly many times a day. The
birds were very tame and did not seem
at all bothered, when I placed a can
filled with cotton in place of the nest,
which I wished to preserve, but un-
fortunately it was destroyed. The
birds had carried in sticks enough, as
a platform for the nest, to fill a good
sized pail, upon these was placed the
exquisitely constructed nest.

Before we left the birds grew very

tame and early one morning I felt a

tugging at my hair, reaching up I
nearly caught one of the mischevious
birds. We were sorry to leave our in-
teresting bird friends and departing
we left them singing their sweet song,
a varied musical whistle.
WriGcHTt M. PIERCE,
Clarement, Cal.

The Wren had Pipe Dreams.

Last Monday, June 20th while in my
barn loft, I was agreeably surprised by
the sudden appearance of a House
Wren nervously flitting from one
perch to another, energetically scold-
ing me allthe time. I became sus-
picious, and soon discovered madam
wren’s residence in a stove pipe, which
had been-laid up, for want of a_ better
place on the rafters. I thrust my hand
in the pipe, and very promptly a whole
wren generation came bouncing out
like six little brown rubber balls. In-
side of five minutes nothing but a

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typical wren nest was left to indicate
anything unusual doing.
Clarence H. Luther, D. D. S.

Editor Oologist:

The fire which destroyed our State
Capitol some time since, burned near-
ly all of the collection of war memen-
tos, among them being the skin
(mounted) of the famous War Eagle,
‘*Old Abe.’’

G. W. VOSBURGH,
Columbus, Wis.

EDITORIAL.

The entire Collection of Books,
Shells and Eggs in sets and the great-
er part of the Stamp Collection of Mr.
F. H. Andrus of Kellogg, Ore. (better
_ known at Elkton, Ore.) was destroyed
by fire on July 21st. As his correspon-
dence was also destroyed all corres-
pondents will be governed accordingly.
Mr. Andrus states that he will make
a start on a new Collection as soon as
he gets quarters in order.

The appearance of the Editor’s like-
ness in our last issue has evoked the
comment from one of our readers that
“feven birds of Wisdom can be stuffed.”’
So it seems that in one respect, at
least, he resembles his companions in
the Photo.

Friend Forge of Manitoba sent us an
adv. for August at thevery last minute
and we were unable to get a proof of it
hence it went in with incorrect ad-
dress. Please note correction in this
issue.

Five sets taken by G. B. Thomas
this year near Livermore, Iowa, and
lately examined by the Editor are
worthy of mention. Set R-2 Black-
bill Cuckoo (bird shot). Thetwo eggs
are as light in color as any of Yellow-
bill and immenseas tosize. Measure-
ments 1.27 x .98 and 1.88 x 1.04. Sets

THE OOLOGIST. 21 (9), Pe”!

A.7 and x-7 of Barn Swallow are evid-
ently 2 sets of 7 each laid by the same
bird and collected June 16th and 27th
respectively. i have never seen a set
of 7 of this bird before and two sets of
this size from the same bird in one
year is arecord. Sets C-5 and F-9 of
Blue Jay are both the result of double
housekeeping. Mr. Thomas says that
all four of the birds were about when
he took the set of 9 which are clearly
sets of 4 and 5 of different types. The
set of 5 are 3 from one bird and 2 from
another, clearly.

REVIEW.

In the current issue of American
Ornithology appears a Bird Chart that
should be in the hands ofall beginners
in Ornithology and Oology, especially
those who cannot afford an expensive
library on the subjects. The accom-
panying map is divided into six sec-
tions by natural parallels of latitude
and these are further subdivided by
three artificial lines into western,
middle and eastern or 18 subdivisions
all easily found by key figures and
letters on the Chart.

It is compact, simple and right up to
date. Wedo not understand that it
can be secured separately but 10 cents
and a request for a copy of August ~
issue of American Ornithology sent to
C. K. Reed, Worcester, Mass. will
undoubtedly secure it if you are not a
subscriber.

We had an egg of Common Night
Hawk sent in for Poor-will and
a set of Carolina Wren came in for

- Lomita a short time since both from

MissisSippi. A glance at this chart
would have been enough to have set
this collector right. a

Publications Received.

American Ornithology, Vol. IV,
No. 8.

Nature Study, Vol. XIII, No. 8,

THE OOLOGIST.

BIRDS EGGS

In sets with data,

Price given is for entire set postpaid.

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Am. Eared Grebe...............-. 5) 20) 6.00 Spotted Sandpiper.......... 4 ,22
SEO OUEST: 4 Tees arenes > 4 .2 Lapwing Plover............. 4 .22
PNeCORDMIEd <4 Weis cuss wetee= (0 Pech ty RY, KnllideersPlovierre sass setae. ce 4 08
Western SREP erie sic clete is 3-100; -p. 260 ING PIOVELR a eatores cee enesee DY neo
Horned | ond RT tee ace cya 'ere. 3. 00; 6 .60 scaledw@Quaile2 scien eases 11 3.00
PEO MMM O. '— - erecta ici siete s.s 4-150) California ‘Quail 2. ).- cess: 0 50
LOD gee SSS BEEE Oo nCOGU cen cee 2A:6OP SBOb-white!.2-.. 2... .0sce5 6 .30; Aste] {8D
Red-throated Loon................ 3320) Ruffed Grouse.....-.----.--- 60; 6 .70
Black-throated Loon.............. iss} Prairie Heneeesccroseseoenees Sa caeisia .=.48:.9) 72
[FOS TID) Sees 6 SSB BENE niOSt Scanprnouanace IG Sremvealley~Partridge i... cece 16.80
MIISSITS -AMKICE,. Sooen cciees fsae caine 1 .40 Ring -Pheasanter.oo.<cscesues 11 1.00
Black Guillemot. -jcccece2 esse eres 2 .40 ney Pheasantesascseeceees (fe
Rae 8 2c eetaemmen sattie sas oc el en Acalaca aatmss staan cemeee 3. 49D
Maltormig® MUTE. ose. sce ees. oes De Ale Red-billed Pigeon........... hes
PA ZOIeOTCAIK . . Sepreee cece cscneas 1 15 MournineDovesereeesceres 205
CECE TS) 0 ee eno ae eee 2 45 White-winged Dove......... 2.- 12
ems DillGuall’ =. ; Seas cee i cciee eww ONUCOU Whith-fronted Dove......... es,
Mhitormia Gull, Pkes accent esse 4 42 Mex. Ground Dove.......... 2. op
PAM EeTTING:) ~ Peter asec c.acac.: Basil) Ground Doves] eee eee Dade,
WrestermeGull.. < 2oossz secs. cece cs De vis ey = el) Inca DOver see: os oeehoeee 2
ane GH... Seas cas- cece cour, 4 7340) = Pourkey. Vulture... 2.5.55 2 .70
Mas manele rm «sperms een - 10 Sa Black avViilittmesssee- cen. eeeee Qe 10,
NOV GUlNPRORM cy «2. Sate atce ces asia caters 2.2533) 40 MASSISSippIKates assess kee 15355) 22510
GAO SeLEIN: « : pete bee zee IAD Marsh@Hawikeperceeenenceteter ato 40. 40-60
BOSEATC LETT... (eo geieie« 5 craterdioyale Bs Beer!) Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 2.25
Common Tern: 26.2... 2) 2083) 3) p12) eCooper’sielawkeaee eee ...4 48; 5 .60
Sooty Tern...... Lh? Red-tailed Hawk..... ie 40 ese OU
Black Tern... 08; 3 .15 West’ Red-tail Hawk 2 (extra) DU
Noddy Tern...... 1 .15 ted-shouldered Hawk.... Bole oe! ef)
Black Skimmer. 3. .20 Red-bellied Hawk....2 (1 aay 45; 2 ‘fine .65
Gannetes.. 2.5} 2 os Very sgl} White-tailed Hawk......... 3 1.00
Leach’s Petrel. i 1) Krider's) Elawkee = seeee erie ae 2 .45
PEPE ANTS) fh rete. = Serials s,c8 ate fun Swainson’s Hawk........... 2.30
Double-crested Cormorant....... Bt) Grey-tailed Hawk (Mex.)......... 2 2.00
BNOrida COrmoramb: joes. ce ees 2 All) Broad-winged Hawk........ 2 1,40
Farallone Cormorant............. Dmod Ferruginous Rough-leg aN 2 1,40
Brant se OOrmOramts. 2. cea = 5 .45 American Sparrowhawk.3 4 48; 5 .60
PAT VY TCO Cli CAM i acnes.cmi eine tas 2250 Desert Sparrowhawk rae a del
IBEOWINECHGCAN..; ..ccecnateocce tees ay cea) Caracara (beauties)......... 3 1.20
WMeriileard Dnek:. .... scetee nosepe seen 6 .60 American Osprey........... 2 .80
Blue-winged Teal...............- ¢ 80 American Barn Owl......... 5 .80
Cimnamon Teal ::. sss. 0<--2 cece 8 .96; American Long-eared Owl Deo
(with down) 1.20 Barred | Owilteeseeeestee no cee 2 1.00.
SHovevler Duck. tree. ocmceons 40-085 Screech “Owl tee eee so eee Be D0 ne 4aree
Lesser Scaup Duck................ ya B45) California Screech Owl........... Sier007 45 210
Am. Golden-eye Duck............. 5 1.20 Tex. Screech Owl............ 4 .70
A Ger DUCK. e aoee nace setecs 4 48 Great Horned Owl........... 1 40
Red-neaagn Duck: teense... .ncnon 5 .60 Pacific Horned Owl............... 12-503 21125
AaMer AMIN Os. vostro yaclosesce 1465 Burrowing Owl.............. 8 .d0
ATE MD ES +. \c/-\2..o eee enone ea cae 4 .45 Florida Burrowing Owl 3 .90
Poe EIGLeE |. reer oie O)~ Fel lo OAG-TURNER:.csseweceeee 5 42; 6 .d0
WeASt eB ILterN.... -.cceeeee eae on. Ge pase tay ay) Yellow-billed Cuckoo OSsaroieeale,
Great bive Heronstcoe-eace: cose = pieaoeed 60. Black-billed Cuckoo........ Picea Pears ye ike’
MOWAT HL eTON(. ..5 sateen osc net < A 330: Black-billed Cuckoo.......... 2 Ce es
meadishy Weret.ccecccececcec en soc 4 .50 Belted Kingfisher.......... : 5 6 .50
VCC HCTON:..... 2ssseheeeee Silo 4 225) 230 Baird’s Woodpecker........ 6 .50
Black-crown Night Heron3 .12; 4 .18: 5 .25 Downy Woodpecker........ 5 40
Yellow-crown Night Heron....... 4 .50 Red-shafted Flicker......... 6 .20
[iia Ra Rt ae a ee 9 .65;10 .75 California Woodpecker 4.53
SAD WEL Orval. ccclsmsee cle ta new enre Sieeao Gairdner’s Woodpecker 5.60
Warne Tal 842) 0 eo oe cmeriaa sees 7 .40; 10 .60 Nuttall’s Woodpecker ... 3 1.00
SCORE Wl Sof 5 [aa ener eae 6 .80; 8 .40;11 55 Red-headed Woodpecker 4 Gi2b3— {oe
Florida Gallinule......... %. 32; 9, 42: 10) ..50 BGKer is; ae ee eee see <a 918
PrErOpEean! COOLS nec sere. +l eeods 6 40 Whip-poor-will.............. 2 1.05
ENIMETICAN.| COOL 22 ene «scien scien 9 .38; 11. .48 Nighthawk a eu aase a eee yee
PMeriGan: COO d: sesesewcnesc sce ae 12°-.52: 14 370 Western Nighthawk........ 2 30
Northern Phalarope.............. 4 95 Merrill’s Parauque.......... 2 1.70
Wilson’s Phalarope............... : 4 1.15 Texan Nighthawk........... 2 30
Black-neck Stilt................-. 3 45; 4 165 Chimney Swift. esos 25; «4 40
PMeISh SHIDE. 7.5 Se.os te. oes o.o06 es 4 40 Seissor-tailed Flycatcher. a 15275) 20
(OUTTA eh ee a = a 4.65 Keine Ding sees oe eee ee aes S| ee: eT
IM eA OCCU sa. aoa ee osetia aes 4 .6d Ark Kingbird Eee Toa ee oe eel occ Don
CUS) SERPS ot te By ea Cassin’s Kingbird. ......... 4 36
Bartramian Sandpiper........... 4 80 Crested Flycatcher............... 4 30; 5 Ad

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Ash-throated™ oe bane Sa Wepaeso
IPHOebesee es Sos wooenpe 4 .08;.5 .10
Black Phoebe. . OMG Se ete Seen
Wood Pewee.... .-..-...... ++: BAe aRICR a) aye. rile!
West’s Wood Pewee.......... .-. 7 3.20
Acadian Flycatcher ............. 3 20:
Traill’s Plycatcher ....—..:..4 2. 3. 18s 4a 24
Mider Blycatcher: 22.220. acees ae. 3 18
Wea stbyiGatCheh 7 sa-ce oseterec car 4 .20
Prairie Horned Lark............. 3-825
Desert Horned Lark........ Be 4 .45
California Horned Lark.......... Bye ta)
American Magpie semana seen 9 .45
IBIS IRINZS eee asec onDan 3) 06304) S10 eee
CMAN Ve to) in cosa islet sorte ojabevees 9 (Double set) .30
(Cuulitioianile dei giao pate bob: paaaeenes Ble, Bite: eee
American Crow.............. Steel lI ii Ue)
JOT 0) (Gin) (ebigeganeeae ae wae oe neics 4 .60; 5 .75
UII eM 3 ois: ahciscaels cient eres corctetoee 3.15
IBOMONIM Kg = = nee ce acres oe 25° 4 FAQ yee)
Yellow-headed Blackbira. eae 3 10S dae
Red-wing Blackbird........-..... Ae 2055 508
San Diego Red-wing Blackbird..3 .12; 4 16.
Bicolored Blackbird...... -. .... 4 15
Tricolored Blackbird.... eA 4 18
Brewer’s Blackbird......3 .08; 4 .10; 6 .18
Mieadowilanrkee. oe eae eee on LOS Deets
West’ Meadowlark. wees eeae 4 g122 620
Hooded Oriole Le, coke e 3) 2409 eee O
Arizona Hooded Oriole. .3 .20; 4 .48; 5 .60
OnchardeOriole: 2.24. sacesseleen SLO Ome
Baltimore (Oriole. «0.0.3. eee nc cc Dies
BollockessOriole..<...ttacckeeeeses i) « elle}
BrGnzZeGguGrackle: . 2: 2s.2s6<:ese- 4.08" (5, 210
Great-tailed Grackle..............3 12: 4G
Boat-tailed Grackle............... Dime
Biimmles Gracklew. s28%.5<s0e aceon: yy alls}
Red-evede Cowbitd..-......---.. 1 15
ouse Himeh*........2..-.3: 06; 4° 108: 5re10
[SLO [ATCC OSes See ee ee 6 .15
St. Eucas House Finch.........<.-. aie all]
ERECT OUI <0 \a sce Ctercise winan sceies 4 50
- American Goldfinch.....:........ 6 18
Chestnut-collared Longspur..... Bie aia)
Lawrence’s Goldfinch............. 5 .30; 6 .50
Californian Goldfinch............. 4 3792
NWiesterneGoldfinch..2..-2 5.225...) 4 14
Ark. Gold (ChOKG) 0 ities eEetenoocr cn Saaas 4_ 15
Lawrence’s Goldfinch............. 3.20; 4 48
Vesper Sparrow ne anceps orcas: 3.02
Savanna Sparrow..............:.. 4.25
Grasshopper Sparrow Saas ae 4 .40
Sharp-tailed Sparrow............. 5 40
BLASIO ORODALTOW:.0 6s cca cancsmeocce 5 42
Lark Sparrow, eee eine ag 3: 06} = 4 OSs omp:
West’s Lark Sparrow...........-. 3 .06
Gamibel’s| Sparrow..:.:c...¢22--..0 203) 425
Chipping Sparrow Perma slop 2: diel
West’s Chipping Sparrow........ lal}
Clay-colorcd Sparrow...........-. 3) 6a)
BiplGes ac OW. :.- orcs oeceeeecee. 3) 065) 410).
Song Sparrow Sass AOR ee 4 .06; 5 .08
Rusty sone Sparrow. ....2..--.. -: 4.35
San Diego Song Sparrow.........3 .15; 4 .20
Ee SUVeMMO MS DALLOW.....-.2s20oscenciaco co; memes
SINE Rie oe. a Sais o ctciedasd aisle ole On el OED
Oreronslowhee.; ....0. 2. s.c0cecnes ay 4s)
Caitornia Nowhee...o..2.0.0. 2222. 4 16
Amnpaonves LOwhee..2.:..<..000.-0 . Los eez0
(Canin eee mem mes Seo) cl | AD)
Meramervrrnuloxia.'. o...s0cc2.-.3 4 .50
Rose-breasted Grosbeak......... 3) al 2sae al
Black-head Grosbeak............. Si alki)
BiWeNGTOSDeAak.........<sstecccecceos SY 74
MG POND LIB: oer cnc cra tccleaiston sss 305
WPA CINS. 2.5,-.20)s sce ames cee 3 18
Paint2d Bunting sick ak oa ee 3) A2S45r18
Sharpe’s Seedeater..2 and Dwarf Cowbird .35
MARISOL 5.5 cocoa se bceteas sea tiedien 3) C12 Aer I6
IDS: 1s 00) 000) Open Ope Braee sclsescee 4 «OBS
SGHmIen MANACEL. . i. cose ones 3 30;'4 .40
PUTRI NUA LOIN. cance sae whcadetemre 5.30
UT SV IOW: orto oss ce Sen cacceeaaee 4 08 5 .12
IAT Vel LOW 8 s.<:s.-)- suse s os!adecwcleererg 4 .08; 5 .10

THE OOLOGIST.

Barn Swaliow.27%-5.8...4 7 (very rare) oA
Tree Swallow.. SOOO we 0c 4

Bank-Swallow....>.......4 08 5 10; 6 6)
Cedar Waxwine@....:..::..:-<siees ~ 4 18
Phainopepeas ties. s sess. L eee 2 (24
Loggerhead Shrike................ DS 15; 7220
White-rumped Shrike ........... 5) Gli 6-20
California Shrike.............. een0 @lby sOmealey
Warbling Vireo.................-. 4 30
Red-eyed Vireo..................- 3 12
White-eyed Vireo................. 3 .20
Least. Vireon..2)..ce. eee 3.30
Yellow-throated Vireo....2and3 ove 25
Bell’s.. VireOssee 2t458 6 o.=. eee 3 25
Prothonotary Warbler....5 and Cowbird 45
yellow Warbler..................° 4 10

Yellow Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler..

Chestnut-sided Warbler..........
Parula, Warblers. 52). >. eee
Prairie. Warbler. i250. 32. oe 3
Maryland Yellow-throat.........
Yellow-breasted Chat
Oven-bird eee ee eee
Long-tail (Chat... Se
Hooded Warbler... =.)) (3
American Redstart...............
Mockinebind eh. eee 3
Catbind) 2. aeedneeek siete eee 3

Cactus Wreneaneeeeee 3
Carolina “

Baird’s) 12) Wisc aeke tae eee- eee
Bewicki ss S12 R-tree a. ee 5.50;
House Deidara ee eer On 2125

Long-bill Marsh“ ............... P
Whites breasted Nuthatch joe 5 ».75;
Wren-tit. cece. 2 ee
Red-breasted Nuthatch...........
Brown-headed Nuthatch..........

Tufted Miimowses..- 4)... ..cee eee
Wood ihriishtepees . . once
WilsoniseRhriish, aes. .c6ssseees 3B

-12;
Hermit nr usiie ie -)\ eee

West Robin
Bluebird

SETS WITH NESTS.

Red-eyed Mireoy n=3:..... 5. sens
Am: Ried stantean-4i - ees eee
Ruby-throat Hummer, n-2.......
Allens) dis We? eka en ee
Vesper Sparrow, 1 OTe IS CoC
Sharpe’s Seedeater, n-3...........
Arizona Hooded Oriole,
Catbind en-4 se 3 aerate Banc
Scarlet Tanager, n-2&C..........
Yellow-breasted Chat, n-4&C...
Phoebe) Mopercnsac cscs hee
Phainopepla,- N-2.2.:..02..2.2ssee.
Indigo Bunting, n-3 & C..........
Yellow Warbler, n-4 & C..........
Black-throat Green Warbler, n-3
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, n- eee
Chestnut-sided Warbler, n-4.....
Chipping Sparrow, n-3............
Song Sparrow, n-3.........----...- .

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West Wood Pewee, n-2.......... 20
SOU ONIN RS PA-OL cng neeite sclee-oeain = Heke R00
Arkansas Goldfinch, n-$:.;....... 30
Arizona Hooded Oriole, (mest ~
attached to leaf) n-3.....7... 48
California Bush-tit, n-6.. +t 45
Dickcissel, n-4 ......... ; 22
Wilson’s Thrush, n-4... : 25
Baltimore Oriole, n-4... 20
Kingbird, n-4......... 20
Barn Swallow, n-3.... 5)
Oven-bird, n-4........ 45
Anna’s Hummer, n-2 .. 5a Fe seer (9)
Black-chinned Hummer,: n-2..... 10

SINGLE EGGS.

In addition to the SINGLE EGGs listed in
April ooLoetstT (270 var. nearly all of which I
can stil! furnish), am now able to quote on
the following. prices per egg, postpaid.
Horned Grebe (data)..............

Vere. | ace eine te cas 10
Buropean Deal: .....G2. eee co. cee as 09
Cimmamon: Neal .:. sss eses «oases a2
American Bittern (data)......... 30
GreCensEGroma. >.< Jc aeee eran oes Ne 05
Yellow-crown Night-heron....... 10
Louisiana ceappen Jayne ae eee 12
American Coot (data).............. -04

kaS"NOTICE. Orders of less than 35c. must add 5c. for postage.
of over 35c. will be sent prepaid at prices quoted.
in packing eggs and have learned to avoid most of the breakage.

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Wilson’s Phalarope (data)........ 30
Bartramian Sandpiper (data).. 20
Mississippi-Kite .~............---. 1.25
‘Broad-wing Hawk.............-. 45
Desert Sparrowhaw k (data). ohn, 10
Black-billed Cuckoo............... 04
Belted Kinghisherss..0.2225 s0e<--=- 09
Ohimney Switts--.-22. 4:6 .c2.- eee .08
Ruby-throat Hummingbird, (nest
ANGMG ata) cee. senceut ae ae right Sate i)
Black-chinned Hummingbird
E (nest. and dlata))s ashe. eect e ce 45
Say’ SP HOCDGr.. nicste dare. a. cee 06
BlackiPHGCDE ec. bette e eee es .04
BUCA yi See: ce ae oot ae 02
White-necked Raven.............. 25
Yellow-headed Blackbird......... .02
San Diego Redwing (data)........ 05
Baltimore Orioles ee oe pceeeeee eee 03
Grasshopper Sparrow..........--- 10
Hark /SpParrowrececeocneceeeeeeee 02
Anthony’s Towhee..............-- 05
Purple Martin. =o: sensee. grease .06
Louisiana Tanager................ A225
MTree. SwWallOwWisdas stectosttanieceseeee s 06
Jedu¥shb ores Yer Gh 8s oan aen aoapedcec: 50 12
Black-throated Green Warbler... .20
Water Thrush, (data)............. -30.
Louisiana Water Thrush......... 12
Plumbeous Chickadee............. 18
All orders
I have had 17 years experience
However,

accidents will sometimes occur through the carelessness of Postal clerks, etc.

Where orders amount to over $1.00 I will replace all breakage.
Broken specimens must be returned with

tween 35c. and $1.00 I will stand half.
all claims for breakage.

On orders be-

To induce you to send orders large enough so that I can send by Express,

(which is much safer), I will allow 5 per cent.

discount on all orders over $2.00.

These explanations apply to list of Singles in last April OOLOGIST as well as

to this list.

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I HAVE afew very desirable sets for ex-
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falcons, kites and other Raptores, ducks with
down,ete. Warblers especially wanted. All
answered. A. E. PRICE ,Grant Park, Ill. stf

WANTED.—Fine sets of Sharp Shinned
Will give handsome sets of

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MAKE BEST CASH offer for Bendire’s
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CORRESPONDENCE desired with persons
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FRANK H. SHOEMAKER, care_ General
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WANTED-—First class sets collected in
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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—Many in-
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AUBION, NoW., OCT., 1904:

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FOR SALE—Photos of young Cardinal
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DO YOU ever Trap. Ifso you want “The
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Muskrat, Beaver, Otter, Mink, Martin, Fish-
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and Tan Skins. Cloth. Contains 134 pages,
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COLLECTORS—The largest eXchange ex-
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6 R. I. Arrowheads, 25c; Indian Tomahawk,
3oc; 5 different Indian Relics, 30c; 5 choice
Indian Bird points, 35c; Indian hatchet, 35c;
5 different old coins, 10c; 50 mixed coins, 75c:
3 old Liberty cents, 15c; 10 curiosities, 15c;
price list and Indian relic or old coin for 10c.
All the above for $2.00 bill. WM.P ARNOLD,
Peacedale, R. I.

FOR SALE—My private collection of about
2000 first-class sets, representing 456 different
species. Some rare sets and fine series.
Will sell in lot to suit purchaser. Here is a
chance for a live collector to obtain a fine
collection at reasonable price. Those mean-
ing business send for full list. Parties know-
ing me to be indebted to them from past ex-
change, will confer a favor by presenting
their bills). L. ERNEST MARCEAU, 274
Manhattan Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.

WANTED FOR CASH.—Nidologist, Vol.
I, No.2. Will pay a good price. Have for
sale Auk for 1899,4 Nos. Also first 4 Nos. of
Nuttalls Bulletin. J. L. CHILDS, Floral
Park! Ni.

Next Spring I shall have several sets of
349 to exchange. I want 2 sets of 147 and N;
204; 205; 206; 228; 329; 309; 310. Write now to
ee S. THOMPSON, Stanford University,

yal.

162

FOR SALE.—Collection of bird
mounted birds and eggs. Contains Ivory-
bill Woodpecker, Calif. Vulture, Eagles,
Owls, Hawks, etc. Will sell as a whole or
separately. Everything at low figures. Ad-
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WANTED.—Clean copies of “Bird Nesting
in North West Canada.” If you have a copy
send price to W. RAINE, Kew Beach, To-
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WANTED.—Woods. Foreign and native.
Will buy or exchange. Correspondence so-
eee: CHARLES KIRKPATRICK, Keota,

skins,

FOR SALE.—A fine, new dust proof 30
drawer quarter sawed oak cabinet, will hold
ten thousand eggs. <A bargain. Address
PHILO W. SMITH, JR., Mona House, St.
Louis, Mo.

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.—Fine sets
with data, prepaid. Price per set. Anna’s
Hummingbird, nest and 2, 40c; Allen’s Hum-
mer, nest and 2, 50c; Wren-tit, 2-4, 35c: 733, 1-6,
60c; 505a, 1-3, 35c. Send for list. WILLIAM
GALLAHER, Santa Barbara, Cal.

ReaD. Nos:

WANTED.—8 glass knobs for old fashioned
bureau, a Navajo blanket 5x9 feet, a.1. west-
ern bird and mammal skins. Will pay cash
if cheap. or exchange new 4x5 Film Pack and
5x7 Premier Cameras, R. R. lens, and desir-
able bird books. J. O. DUNN, 3930 Prairie
Ave., Chicago.

EXCHANGE.—21, 1-1; 130, 1-11; 132, 1-7; 133>
1-10; 138, 1-8; 148, 1-9; 151, 1-13; 152, 1-8; 154, 1-7;
165, 1-8; 337B, 1-4; 567d, 1-4; 641, n-5; 710a, 1-3.
Wanted.—Sets oe 28; 59; 112; 113; 142 and N..,
140 and N., 146 and N - 167 and N; 172 and N;
207; 218; 258; 302. “Exchange in December.
CHARLES 8S. THOMPSON, Stanford Uni-
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FOR SALE.—Vol. 1 and2 of Am. Ornithol-
ogy (perfect condition), One A. O. binder,
Lange’s “Our Native Birds,” etc., or will ex-
change for Vols. or back Nos. of O. and O.,
Osprey. Oolozgist, ete. ROB’T. W. GLENN,
Wooster, Ohio.

FOR SALE—I offer the following sets for
sale. All are in finest possible condition
with very full data. A. O.U. Nos. 61-6, 24c.;
994, 40c.: 44 1-3, $2.25; 1254, 30; 190 1-5, $1.25: 2634.
25¢e; 273%, 24c: 337a4 (a beauty) $1.25; 339%, 50c;
3493, (well marked) $8.00; 3603, 40c: 3644, $1.25;
373%, 30c., 2-5. 80c., 1-6, $1.10: 3942, 40c., 2-5, 50c;
461 3-3, 15c., 4, 20c; 448 1-5, 35¢e; 475 2-7, 30e; 595%,

10c; 5974. 40c: 624 n-4, 30c: 633 n- 4, 35c; 676 n-5,
$1.25; 7104, 20c; 721b 1-7. 24c; 727 2-7, 85ce, 4, $1.00.
Order less than $1.00 not solicited. Your
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MAN. Algona. Iowa. R. R. No.:

FOR SALE OR EXCHANG E£— American
Ornithology, Vol. 1, Bird Lore, Vol. 4. Apple-

ton’s Popular Science Monthly Vol. 53. Nos.

1 to 5, Vol. 54. Nos. 1-2-4; Osprey Vol. 1, Nos.
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Collection of about 850 fine specimens in
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Must enclose stamp for reply. Also hooks,
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WANTED.—Your notes if you live in
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FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE. — Indian
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Necklaces, etc., from graves, Ceremonial
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Arrows, Points, Shell Work, Ostrich and
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and Pistols. J.B. LEWIS, 910 Washington
St., Petaluma, California. Sept. 2t.

MAMMALS! BIRDS!—Parties wishing
fine mammals or birds from this locality
let me know, I will collect to order A. No. 1.
Scientific skins. Fine mounted specimens
for sale cheap. Address G. F. MONROE,
Taxidermist, Superior, Wis. tf

CASH WANTED.—The Auk, Vols. XII-
XXI inclusive, clean and fresh, $20 for the lot
prepaid; Frank Blake Webster collecting
gun, with thirty brass shells, almost like
new. $9 prepaid; neatly complete files of The
Oologist, Nidologist, Museum, Condor, Oolo-
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clusive, good condition, for best cash offers
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good sets of Montana eggs; write for what
you want, with best cash offer; odd numbers
of Insect Life, Wilsun Bulletin, Bulletin
Michigan Ornithological Club, Bird lore, and
miscel!aneous bulletins, all for cash; no ex-
change offers answered. P. M. SILLOWAY,
Lewistown, Montana.

INDIAN

Buy this lot as a
whole and you will
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“RELICS

No two points are
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One whole arrowpoint from each of
the following states: Arkansas, Tenn-
essee, Indiana, New York, California,
and three, all different, from Michi-
gan; one bird point, one drill, one
scraper, one bunt, one flesher. The
thirteen pieces, worth $1.45 will be sent
postpaid for only 65 cents.

I will add one Spade, one Hoe, one
Celt and a Hammer Stone and ship
the 17 pieces: for $3.90.

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Discovery of the Eggs of Solitary Sand-
piper.
WALTER RAINE, TORONTO, CANADA,

At last the long-sought for egg of
the Solitary Sandpiper has been found,
and it affords one considerable pleasure

to be the first ornithologist to record
its nesting habits, which are unique
among North American birds, for I
have positive proof that the species lays
its eggs in the nests of other birds,
this being one of the most important
discoveries in recent years in regard to
the nidification of any American bird.

In ‘‘Nests and Eggs of British Birds
non-Indigenous’’ the author, Mr.
Chas. Dixon’ says of this species, ‘‘In-
credible as it may seem the nest and
eggs still remain unknown to science,
for it is impossible to accept the
description of the latter given by the
late Dr. Brewer without anthentication.
Here can be little doubt that this spe-
cies lays its eggs in the deserted nests
of other birds in low treee like its old
world representative, the Green Sand-
piper, is known to do. Search should
be made in such places in the summer
haunts of this species.’’

I am aware that other ornithologists
have previously recorded what were
supposed to be the eggs of Solitary
Sandpiper but these records are far from
being satisfactory and mostly conject-
ure. For instance the above record of
which Mr. Chas. Dixon says ‘‘it is im-
possible to accept the description of
this egg given by the late Dr. Brewer
without authentication.’’ The egg
recorded by Dr. Brewer found in Ver-
mont in 1878 according to Dr. Brewers’
own description was without doubt
only an egg of the Piping Plover, the
nest being found on the ground, a site
not selected by the Solitary Sandpiper.

Another supposed nest of this species
was recorded by Dr. Clarke of Kings-
ton, Ontario, in the Auk for October,

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1898. This same nest was again re-
corded in the Ottawa Naturalist for De-
cember 1899 by the Rev. C. J. Young,
but this nest was also found on the
ground and the parent bird was not
secured and although both Dr. Clarke
and=-the » Rey.C...J.. Young © are
enthusiastic and reliable ornitholo-
gists, yet as they did not secure the
parent bird, identification was not
complete, besides Mr. C. A. Reed in
his recent work on North American
Birds Eggs. gives a figure of one of
these supposed eggs of the Solitary
Sandpiper found by Dr. Clarke, and
it very much resembles a variety of
the Spotted Sandpiper’s eggs both in
size, Shape and style of markings,
whereas my authentic eggs of the Soli-
tary Sandpiper are larger, more pyri-
form, finer grain of shell and more
polished and the ground color is pale
greenish white, a tint never seen on a
Spotted Sandpiper yet,-but usually
found in eggs of the European Green
and Wood Sandpipers, in fact theeggs
of the Solitary Sandpiper, as was to be
expected; bear astrong family likeness
to eggs of the Green Sandpiper, but
are one-third smaller as they should
be.

Now for my records which are ab-
solutely authentic and thoroughly con-
clusive, and establish once for all,
the fact that the Solitary Sandpiper
does not lay its eggs on the ground
like other American Sandpipers, but
deposits its eggs in the nests of other
birds, often at a considerable distance
from the ground.

In the spring of 1903, I engaged Mr.
Evan Thomson to collect birds eggs for
me in Northern Alberta, and when the
season was over he sent mea list with
notes on the specimens he had col-
lected among which was a record of
finding aclutch of Sandpiper’s eggs
in an old American Robin’s nest built
in a tree top.

I felt sure these would turn out to

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be eggs of the Solitary Sandpiper and
in due time the eggs were sent down
tome. On unpacking the specimens
I saw at a glance they were unlike any
other American Sandpiper and as they
very much resembled a set of Green
Sandpipers in my collection except be-
ing smaller in size, I was quite posi-
tive in my own mind this was a genuine
clutch of the Solitary Sandpiper, and
several.ornithologists who called upon
me to see my collection confirmed my
opinion. Among those who inspected
this clutch I may name the Rev. C. J.
Young of Madoc, Ontario, Mr. Edward
Arnold of Battle Creek, Mich., and
Mr. Edward Reinecke, of Buffalo, N.
Y. Butas Mr. Thompson had failed
to secure the parent bird thus estab-
lishing identity completely, I thought
I would wait patiently for another year
in hopes that another nest would be
found and the parent bird secured,
and in this we have been successful as
the following letter from Mr. Thomson
proves:

‘‘This season on June 9th I found |
another set of Solitary Sandpipers’
eggs, this time in a Grackle’e nest in
a lowtree. I blew the eggs and left
them until the next day intending to
return with my gun and shoot the bird
but on again visiting the nest, I found
the eggs were gone, evidently the bird
had removed them, as I saw no trace
of egg shells around.

However, on the 20th of June I was
still more fortunate as I found another
clutch and shot the parent bird as she
flew from the nest and secured the four
fresh eggs. This time the eggs were
found in a Cedar Waxwing’s nest in a
spruce tree out in aswamp or muskeg.”’

The following is a_ description of
the three sets of Solitary Sandpipers:

Set I. Taken in Northern Alberta,
June 16, 1903, 4 eggs advanced in in-
cubation, collector, Evan Thomson.
This set was found in an old nest of
the American Robin built 15 feet up in

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a tamarac tree, that was growing in
the middle of a large muskeg, dotted
with tamaracs. The bird was flushed
off the nest but unfortunately not
secured. This Clutch with the old
American Robin’s nest is now in my
collection and the eggs measure re-
spectively, 1.33 x 98, 1.38 x 98, 1.38 x
1.00, 1.85 x 95. The eggs are exceed-
ingly handsome and unlike the eggs
ofany other American Sandpiper. The
ground color is pale greenish white
heavily blotched: and spotted at the
larger ends with vandyke brown, rusty
or chestnut brown and purplish grey.

Set II. Northern Alberta, June 9,
1904. 4 eggs found in the nest of a
Bronzed Grackle, built in a low tree.
These eggs were unfortunately lost,
owing to Mr. Thomson first blowing
them and then leaving them in the
nest until he returned with his gun to
shoot the parent bird, which had evi-
dently carried off the egg shells during
his absence.

Set III. Northern Alberta, June 24,
1904. 4 eggs found in a Cedar Wax-
wing’s nest, which was built ina small
spruce tree growingin a swamp. The
nest was about 5 feet up and Mr. Thom-
son was fortunate in shooting the bird
as she flew from the nest and this
identification is perfectly complete and
beyond all possibility of a doubt.
These 4 eggs measure respectively,
oo x 02, 1 37x.98,4 2 30-x 997° 1.55 x
97. The ground color is pale greenish
white or sea green, spotted with van-
dyke brown, purplish brown and
purplish grey. The shells have a
fine grain, polished and pyriform in
shape.

The eggs of both clutches are exceed-
ingly large for he size of the bird,
the eggs averaging larger than any of
my Spotted Sandpiper eggs in a series
of over 100 eggs, but the Solitary Sand-
pipers’ eggs is one-third smaller than
those of the European Green and Wood
Sandpipers. This clutch of Solitary

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Sandpiper, with the Cedar Waxwing’s
nest and skin of the female Solitary
Sandpiper, together with the original
data label and letters from Mr. Thom-
son are now in the extensive collection
owned by Colonel John E. Thayer,
Lancaster, Mass., whom I am sure will
be pleased to show them to any orni-
thologist who can call and see hfs col-
lection of eggs and skins, which is one
of the largest in America.

The finding of the long-sought for
eggs of the Solitary Sandpiper, now
make the seventh species whose eggs
are new to science which were previous-
ly unknown until discovered by my-
self and assistants in north west Can-
ada. The other species are Richard-
son’s Merlin, Greater Yellowlegs,
Belted Piping Plover, Nelson’s; Le-
contes and Harris’ Sparrows, a record
that any ornithologist might be proud
of.

North west Canada has offered other
surprises to ornithologists by my find-
ing several species nesting there which
were previously unknown to nest so
far south as the fifty-first parallel.

These include the much _ dis-
puted Little Brown Crane, Lesser
Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Sandpiper,
American Rough-legged Hawk, Amer-
ican Hawk Owl, Canada Jay and Rusty
Blackbird.

In the past one or two American
Ornithologists, who have never been
in north west Canada, and know
absolutely nothing of the Avi-Fauna
of the vast Canadian north west, criti-
cised my book ‘‘Bird Nesting in North
West Canada.’’ They ridiculed my
records of the Little Brown Crane
and other species nesting in north west
Canada. I have spent 10 years col-
lecting all over north west Canada
and was the first ornithologist to
explore Assiniboia and Alberta, and

“ean back up all my records with in-
fallible proofs. Such an eminent
authority as John Macoun, M. A. F.

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R.S.C., ornithologist to the Geological. ,
Survey of Canada, endorses my book,
‘‘Bird Nesting in North West Canada’’
by saying ‘‘that it does not contain a
single record of any bird that does not
breed there,’’ and Prof Macoun knows
what he is talking about, as he has
spent many summers in north west
Canada. And now that the eggs ofthe
Solitary Sandpiper have at last been
discovered, for which ornithologists
searched in vain forthe past 25 years,
I hope oologists will pardon my con-
ceit and egotism when I claim the
credit of being the means whereby its
eggs and peculiar and previously un-
known methods of nidification have
been discovered.

My Hoodeds of ’97 and ’98.

The Hooded Warbler usually arrives
in Eastern N. C. not later than April
10th. I found them common in Bertie
county; frequently met with in Cha-
wan county; rarely seen in Beaufort
county; and, far from being common
in Lenoir county. In Norfolk county
Va., we note them, but far from being
common, though not rare.

1897.

May 8, Set 1-4. Nest of leaves, bark
and grass, lined with hair, placed in
small alder bush, 20 inches from the
ground. Incubation begun.

May 8, Set 15-4. Nest placed in
small myrtle bush, about 30 inches
above the ground, made of bark,
leaves and wool, lined with fine black
moss. Incubation medium embryos.

May 8, Set 16-4. Nest of grass,
leaves, fine bark and_ spiderwebs,
lined with very fine black moss from
trunks of trees; placed in small maple
bush, about 24 inches from the
ground. Incubation fresh.

May 8, Set 28-3. Nest of fine bark
and grass, lined with fine black moss;
placed in sweet gum bush, 20 inches
from the ground. Eggs fresh.

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May 10, Set 17-4. Nest of leaves and
and grass, lined with hair; placed in
reed, 16 inches from th2 ground.
Medium embryos.

May 10, Set 18-4. Nest of skeleton
leaves, grass and fine bark, lined with
hair from tail of cow; placed in myrtle
bush, 26 inches from the ground.
Incubation slight.

May 10, Set 18-4. Nest of skeloton
leaves, fine bark and grass, lined with
hair; placed in dogwood bush, 18
inches from the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 11, Set 20-4. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and grass, lined with hair;
placed in wild currant bush, 22 inches
from the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 11, Set 21-4. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and grass, lined with strips of
grape vine bark; placed in gallberry
bush, 18 inches from the ground.
Eggs fresh. ;

May 11, Set 22-4. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and grass, lined with fine black
moss; placed in myrtle bush, about 3
reet from the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 12, Set 23-4. Nest, leaves, fine -
bark and grass, lined with fine black
moss, placed in a sweet gum bush,
about, 2 feet high. Eggs fresh.

May 12, Set 24-4. Nest of grass,
leaves and fine bark, lined with fine
black moss; placed in small bush,
2 feet from the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 12, Set 25-4. Nest placed in
small myrtle bush, 18 inches from
the ground; made of leaves, grass and
fine black moss. Eggs fresh.

May 18, Set 26-4. Nest placed in an
alder bush, 3) inches from the ground;
made of fine bark and leaves, lined
with fine grass. Medium embryos.

May 18, Set 27-4. Nest of fine bark
and grass, lined with fine black moss;.

placed in myrtle bush, 27 inches from
the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 18, Set 28-4. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and grass, lined with fine black
moss; placed in a sowerwood, 30 inches
from the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 18, Set 23a-3. Nest of fine bark,

NORTH AMERICAN
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NorTH AMERICAN BrirRpDs EGGS.

74. Least Tern. Sterna antillarwm.

Range.—From northern South America to southern New England, Dakota and
California, breeding locally throughout its range.

These little Sea Swallows are the smallest of the
Terns, being but 9 inches in length. They have a
yellow bill with a black tip, a black crown and nape,
and white forehead. Although small, these little
Terns lose none of the grace and beauty of action of
their larger relatives. They nest in colonies on the
South Atlantic and Gulf Coasts, placing their eggs
upon the bare sand, where they are sometimes very
difficult to see among the shells and pebbles. They
are of a grayish or buffy color spotted with umber and

[Light buff.] lilac. They number two, three and rarely four, and

5 : are laid in May and June. Size 1.25 x .95. Data.—
DeSota Beach, Florida, May 20, 1884. Three eggs laid on the sandy beach.
Collector, Chas. Graham.

75. Sooty Tern. Sterna fuliginosa.

Range.—Tropical America, north to the South Atlantic States.

This species measures 17 inches in
length; it has a brownish black mantle,
wings and tail, except the outer feathers
of the latter which are white; the forehead
and underparts are white, the crown and
a line from the eye to the bill, black.
This tropical species is very numerous at
its breeding grounds on the small islands
of the Florida Keys and the West Indies.
They lay but a single egg, generally
placing it on the bare ground, or occa-
sionally building a frail nest of grasses.
The egg has a pinkish white or creamy
ground and is beautifully sprinkled with
spots of reddish brown and lilac. They EER
are laid during May. Size 2.05 x 1.45. [Creamy white. ]
Data.—Clutheria Key, Bahamas, May 28, 1891. Single egg laid on bare ground
near water. Collector, D. P. Ingraham,

[76.] Bridled Tern. Stern anethetus. cE

Range.—Found in tropical regions of both hemispheres; casual or accidental |
in Florida. |
This Tern is similar to the last except
that the nape is white and the white of the |
forehead extends in a line over the eye.
The Bridled Tern is common on some of
the islands of the West Indies and the
Bahamas, nesting in company with the
Sooty Terns and Noddies. The single
egg is laid on the seashore or among the
rocks. It is creamy white, beautifully
marked with brown and lilac. Size 1.85
x 1.25. Data.—Bahamas, May 9, 1892.
Single egg laid in a cavity among the
[Creamy white. | rocks. Collector, D. P. Ingraham.

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Horton.

Photo by Lispenard 8S.

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and leaves, lined with fine black moss;
placed in small myrtle bush, about,
2 feet from the ground. Small em-
bryos.

May 15, Set 24-8. Nest in small
myrtle bush, 12 inches from _ the
ground, made of fine bark and leaves,
lined with fine black moss. Incuba-
tion begun.

May 15, Set 25-8. Nest of strips of
cedar bark and leaves, lined with fine
black moss; placed in bunch of briers,
14 inches from the ground. Incuba-
tion slight.

May 15, Set 29-4. Old nest repaired,
of regular material; placed in small
beech bush, 12 inches from the
ground. Incubation advanced.

May 19, Set 26-3. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and grass, lined with fine black
moss; placed in small holly, about 3
féet high. Incubation advanced.

May 19, Set 27-38. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and grass, lined with hair;
placed in small dogwood bush near
the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 19, Set 28-3. Nest of grass,
leaves and fine bark, lined with fine
black moss; placed in maple bush, 36
inches from the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 19, Set 30-4. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and grass, lined with fine
black moss; placed in small sower-
wood bush, 30 inches from the ground.
Eggs fresh.

May 20, Set 29-3. Nest of leaves fine
bark and grass, lined with fine black
-moss; placed in small maple bush, 30
inches from the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 26, Set 31-4. Nest of bark alone,
lined with grass and fine black moss;
placed in a sowerwood, about 2 feet
from the ground. Incubation slight.

June 3, Set 30-3. Nest of leaves only,
lined with fine grass; placed on
horizontal oak limb, about 38 feet
from the ground. Incubation slight.

June 10, Set 31-3. Nest~-of leaves,
grass and fine bark, lined with fine
black moss; placed in small myrtle

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bush, about 2 feet from the ground.
Incubation advanced.

June 11, Set 32-3. Nest placed in an
oak bush, 4 feet from the ground;
made of leaves and fine bark, lined
with fine grass and hair.

1898.

May 6, Set 33-3. Nest placed in
small holly, 28 inches from the ground;
made of leaves, fine bark and grass,
lined with fine black moss. Incuba-
tion slight.

May 6, Set 32-4. Nest of reed leaves,.
grass and fine bark, lined with fine
black moss; placed in reed, about four
feet from the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 6, Set 33-4. Nest of leaves,
grass and fine bark, lined with fine
black moss;* placed in top of reed,
about 4 feet from the ground. Eggs
fresh.

May 7, Set 34-4. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and grass, lined with fine black
moss; placed in holly, 40 inches from
the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 10, Set 35-4. Nest of fine bark,
leaves, feathers and grass, lined with
hair; placed in small holly, 20 inches
from the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 10, Set 36-4. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and grass, lined with hair;
placed in small maple bush, 30 inches
from the ground. Eggs fresh. ;

May 11, Set 34-3. Nest of leaves,
grass and fine black moss; placed in
bunch of briars, about four feet from
the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 18, Set 35-3. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and grass, lined with hair;
placed in an elm bush, 24 inches from
the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 12, Set 36-3. Nest of leaves,
fine bark and grass, lined with hair;
placed in small bush, about 2 feet
high. Incubation slight.

May 15, Set 37-8. Nest of leaves and
fine bark, lined with fine grass;
placed in small myrtle bush, 30 inches
from the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 14, Set 1-5. Nest of fine bark,

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leaves and grass, lined with fine black
moss; placed in gallberry bush, 30 in-
ches high. One chipped when found.
Incubation small embryos.

May 14, Set 38-8. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and grass, lined with hair;
placed in small beech bush, 14 inches
from the ground. Incubation begun.

May 14, Set 87-4. Nest of reed
leaves, grass and fine bark, lined
with fine black moss; placed in reed,
26 inches from the ground. Incuba-
tion small embryos.

May 18, Set 39-3. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and grass, lined with fine black
moss; placed in small maple bush, 20
inches from the ground. Incubation
large embryos.

May 19, Set 38-3. Nest of leaves,
fine bark and grass, lined with fine
black moss; placed in small beech
bush, about 3 feet from the ground.
Egg fresh. .

May 19, Set 39-4. Nest of leaves and
fine bark, lined with grass. placed in
small sowerwood, about 24 inches from
the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 19, Set 40-3. Nest of leaves,
fine bark and wool, lined with grass;
placed in small maple,
inches from the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 19, Set 41-3. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and grass, lined with fine black
moss; placed in myrtle bush, about
4 feet from the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 21, Set 42-3. Nest of fine bark.
leaves and grass, lined with fine black
moss; placed in small holly bush, 24

inches from the ground. Incubation
slight.
May 21, Set 43-3. Nest of leaves,

fine bark and grass, lined with fine
black moss; placed in a sowerwood,
about 3 feet from the ground. Eggs
fresh.

May 21, Set 44-3. Nest placed in
gallberry bush, 380 inches from the
ground; made of fine bark, leaves and
grass, lined with fine black moss.
Incubation advanced.

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May 21, Set 45-8. Nest of grass,
leaves and fine bark, lined with fine
black moss; placed in small oak bush,
about two feet from the ground,
Eggs fresh.

May 21, Set 46-3. Nest of grass,
leaves and fine bark, lined with fine
black moss; placed in small beech
bush, about two feet from the ground,
Eggs fresh.

May 238, Set 47-3. Nest of grass and
skeleton leaves, lined with fine black
moss; placed in small gum bush, 22
inches from the ground. Incubation
slight. :

May 24, Set 48-4. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and grass, lined with fine black
moss; placed in small holly, 54 inches
from the ground. Incubation small
embryos.

Maw 24, Set 49-3. Nest of leaves,
fine bark and grass, lined with fine
black moss; placed in gallberry bush,
about two feet fromthe ground. Eggs
fresh.

May 26th Set50-3. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and fine grass, lined with fine
black moss; placed in hickory bush,

about four feet from the ground. In-
cubation slight.
May 27, Set 51-3. Nest of bark,

leaves and grass, lined with hair;
placed in an alder, 28 inches from the
ground. Incubation advanced.

May 28, Set 52-3. Nest of leaves and
bark, lined with hair; placed in small
oak, about four feet from the ground.
Eggs fresh.

May 28, Set 53-3. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and grass, lined with fine black
moss; placed in small oak bush,
about two feet from the ground. ' Eggs
fresh.

May 28, Set 54-3. Nest of fine bark,
and grass, lined with fine black moss;
placed in small gum, 12 inches from
the ground. Incubation advanced.

May 28, Set 55-3. Nest placed in
small dogwood, 12 inches from the
ground; made of leaves, fine bark and

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and grass, lined with fine black moss,
Incubation advanced.

May 31, Set 56-3. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and grass, lined with fine black
moss; placed in reed, forty inches from
the ground. Incubation small em-
bryos.

- May 31, Set 57-3. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and grass, lined with hair;
placed in small oak bush, about 380
inches from the ground. Eggs fresh.

May 381, Set 58-3. Nest of fine bark,
leaves and fine grass, lined with fine
black moss; placed in bunch of briers,
about 30 inches from the ground.
Eggs fresh. ;

June 5, Set 59-3. Nest of leaves,
fine bark and grass, lined with hair;
placed in reed, about 24 inches from
the ground. Incubation begun.

June 21, Set 60-3. Nest of leaves,
fine bark and grass, lined with fine
black moss; placed in an alder, about
three feet from the ground. Incuba-
tion begun.

The above is an exact list of
for sets taken in 1897-98.

The ‘‘fine black moss,’’ so often re-
_ ferred to as the lining, can be found
on almost any forest tree in this lo-
cality.

All the above sets were taken in
Bertie county, near Merry Hill, N. C.

R. P. SMITHWECE,
Norfolk, Va.

data

Kirtland’s Warbler.

On June 15th I took maleand female
and beautiful nest in situ and four
fresh eggs of Dendroica kirtlandi in
Oscoda county, Mich., and on June
29th I took another nest in situ with
four fresh eggs.

These, so far as I know, are the first
full sets of this bird known to science.

Nests were on the ground in dense
vegetation of Deer Vines, Winter Green,
and various vines. Femaleis a very

close sitter and thenests and eggs are
very hard to find.

I spent two weeks in Northern Mich-
igan, Oscoda county, and took two
nests of the Junco, one contained four
eggs, the other three, both nests found
the same day, June 16, 1904.

Dendroica kirtlandi is confined dur-
ing the breeding season to the Jack
Pine plains. The nest is built of
grasses and sunk into the ground and
always well concealed by surrounding
vines and vegetation. Female on eggs
allowed me to stand within six inches
of the nest and to almost touch her. I
could have put my hat over her on the
nest. The maleis a beautiful singer
and very noticeable.

E, ARNOLD.

ae

Green Leaves in Nests.

In the ‘‘Oologist’’ for March, Mr.
Short has given us a most interesting
article on a series of sets of the Mis-
Sissippi Kite, with description of lo-
cation and nest.

The description of nests show that
green leaves were almost invariably
used in the lining, and Mr. Short sug-

gests that green leaves in the nest lin-
ing are used only by the Mississippi
Kite among American Avifauna. He
excepts the Cuckoos.

As an exception to the general rule,
a description of a nest of Broad-winged
Hawk, found by my brother and my-
self in Sharon, Massachusetts, may be
of interest.

Nest: Small sticks, lined with hem-
lock bark and many green oak leaves.

There were three eggs in which in-
cubation was almost completed, prov-
ing that the leaves must have been
added long after the eggs were laid.

J. H. BOWLES,
Tacoma, Wash.

172

Editorial

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list any better than other publishers do.

The following is one of several that
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Editors vexations.

Mr. Ernest H. Short:

Dear Sir.— Received the ““Oologist” to date
and am greatly pleased to see it in such good
shape again. I trustit will receive the sup-
port it deserves so well.

Yours truly,
T. W. RicHarps, M. D.

U.S. 8S. Arkansas.

The following changes and additions

are announced by the Am. Ornith’
Union.
Additions: Dendragapus, obscurus,

sierre, Astragalinus psaltria hesper-
ophilus, Lanius ludovicianus mearnsi,
Budytes flavus alascensis, Beolophus
inornatus restrictus. Eliminations,
Sayornis nigricans semiatra; Pipilo
fuscus carole; Heleodytes brunneicap-
illus anthonyi Passerculus rostratus
halophilus.

Changes: Nyctala becomes Cryp-
toglaux; Corvus americanus becomes
C. brachyrhynchos; Scolecophagus be-
comes Huphagus; Helodytes brunnei-
capillus becomes H. b. couesi; Phyllop-
suestes becomes Acanthopneuste.
Dendroica xstiva brewsteri was rejected.

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Publication Received.

Am. Ornithology, Vol. IV No. 9.
Nature Study, Vol. XIII, No.9. Birds
and Nature, Vol. XVI, No.2. Condor,
Vol. VI, No. 5. Journal of Me. Orni-
thology Society, Vol. VI, No. 3.

Review.

There has lately fallen into my hands
a copy of ‘‘Frederick Young’’ by Chas.
L. Phillps.

As a rule efforts to combine Science
and Natural History with fiction have
been confined to story books for the
young or the flights of imagination
given us by such writers as Jules Verne
and H. G. Wells. :

Mr. Phillips has successfully made

‘

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and his science is all solid facts. ©

I find the book full of information
and yet so adroitly combined with
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I HAVE afew very desirable sets for ex-
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WANTED.—At once sets, 364, any Hawks,
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H two years
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The Cerulean Warbler, ©
Since Mike’s owl experience, des-
cribed in June Oologist, he has made
a discovery. After concentrating the
full force of his mental faculties upon
the sum total of our Ornithological

knowledge he has discovered that too
much attention has been given to the
‘‘big tree nesters’? while the ‘‘ground
builders”? have been neglected.
Consequently he spent the earlier
portion of the season searching for
the homes of elusive meadow larks and
rare little song sparrows. Being
thoroughly converrant with the habits
of these little known species he found
about 25 nests of the latter and nearly
secured.a set of the former. The lark
flushed at his feet. He stopped and
swept the ground with his penetrating
gaze. Then he stepped off the nest
and learned that after undergoing a

_ 150 pound pressure eggs make poor

cabinet specimens. However, he is
highly elated with his song sparrow
success and takes particular pains to
emphaize the knowledge and skill re-
quired to ferret out their well concealed
nests as compared to a nest the size of
a bushel basket in a leafless tree and
discernable a mile. Since March 1st
he somehow regards big trees with
reverental awe. When I ascended the
75 feet of limbless trunk on my way to
the eagle’s nest he sat beneath a
neighboring tree and actually pers-
pired through sheer sympathy.

It was no easy task to induce him
to accompany me into the ‘‘tall tim-
ber’? on June 5th. I depicted the
musical charms of the woodland song-
sters, the profusion of wild flowers,
the soft carpet of wavey ferns. the cool
shade, etc., but it was not until I
mentioned finding more than forty
nests of the American Redstart there
in 1903 and the majority less than
eight feet above the ground that he
consented.

182

We had barely penetrated the woods
when I heard him yell. There he was
high as possible in the branches of a
fallen tree while on the ground beneath
was coileda rattle snake. This spoiled
him for nest finding as during the
remainder of the day he dared not let
his eyes wander from the ground.
However, he found two nests—a red-
starts’ by stumbling against the sap-
ling and causing madam to fiutter
past his ear and an ovenbird’s. The
latter flushed in the thickest kind of
second growth and, owing to the deep
shade, was so snake like that she had
hardiy started in one direction when
Mike was headed in the opposite. But
to detail all of Mike’s mishaps would
leave space for nothing else so we will
dispense with him, merely mentioning
his impression of this woods. He de-
clares it a combination of tangled
vegetation, fallen logs, stinging nettle,
poisin ivy, mosquitoes and rattle
snakes and is willing to swear before
a notary that these mosquitoes weigh
a pound each and have bills a foot long
and were anyone to ask him what it is
that aman is always looking for in
the woods but never wants to find he
would promptly exclaim, snakes!

The above gives a fair idea of this
woods except that I have seen no mos-
quitoes quite so large as Mike’s. It is
a favorite collecting ground and here,
on the above date, I secured my first
set of Cerulean Warbler. It is doubt-
ful if more than two or three pairs nest
in this 50 acres. Every suitable tree
was carefully inspected and none of
the birds were seen except at their
nests. The location is Grosse Pointe
Township, Wayne county and all the
following is referable to this woods.

Nest 1—While looking up Black
and White Warblers on May 27, 1900
found a nest of Cerulean. It was in
thick woods on fork of horizontal red
oak branch 40 feet up and four feet
from main trunk. Female on nest

THE OOLOGIST. at ())).

and nearly touched her before she
flew. Was raining hard at time which
possibly explains her reluctlance to
leava. No eggs had deen deposited

'and was unable to revisit nest that

season.

Nest 8—Was searching for nests
of Goldenwinged Warblers in wild
clearing of luxuriant plant growth on
June 18, 1902 when a female Cerulean
was detected gathering nesting mater-
ial. Followed her to an elm standing
well out in the clearing. Nest placed
in loop formed by a limb sweeping
downward and turning up near the

end. Was saddled to bare limb
without other support, fully 650
feet above ground and 20 from main
trunk. Returned two weeks later but
severe wind and rain storms had des-
troyed it.

Nest 38—Found June. 22, 1902.
Several little sprouts, about 5 inches
long. grew from the side of a large
white oak limb about 7 feet from main
trunk and 25 above ground. The nest
rested upon these and against limb
and contained two young about ten
days old. Tree about 50 feet inside
border of thick woods.

Nest 4—The Ceruleans were slated
for especial attention during the pre-
sent season of 1904. It was for this
purpose I made the trip on June 5.
Spent the entire day looking for their
nests and Mike for snakes—both were
successful. Two old nests were first
discovered—20 feet up oak and 35 up
elm. The new nest was in white
oak amid thin scattering of trees
through wild clearing grown to small
second growth and surrounded by
heavy timber and was placed upon
horizontal crotch 40 feet up and four
feet from main trunk. It contained
four fresh eggs and was so well con-
cealed as to resemble a black spot.
Madam would have retained her
treasure had not a well directed stick
struck the limb and flushed her.

THE OOLOGIST. 2](\\ 183

Nest 5—Later in the day I circled
back to within a hundred yards of the
above and there found what looked
like the foundation of another nest.
This situation was identical with the
other except being 35 feet up and only
three from main trunk and not. well
concealed, This nest was completed
and contained two eggs on June 12.
Left it until the 19th and found that
only one more egg had been laid.

Both the above sets are now before
me. The eggs resemble those of the
redstart except that the ground color
has a decided greenish tinge. The
nests differ greatly from any other
local breeding species, in fact, both
the site chosen and the general ex-
terior appearance of the nest strongly
suggests the Wood Pewee except the
lichens appear in blotches instead of a
thick covering and the nests are deep-
er and lined with fine strippings of
grape vine bark. They are not diffi-
cult to find but the work requires time
and practice because of the great
number of suitable trees. Except in
the case of nest three and one of the
old nests m2ntioned all were placed
upon limbs ranging from 1 to 14%
inches in diameter.

This wirbler does not leave until
you are on a level with her nest. She
then flutters nearly to the ground and
with an upward sweep alights upon a
lower branch of the nearest tree, all
the time uttering a series of rapid
chirps. She then works upward from
branch to branch until above you,
then comes over to your tree and re-
mains within a few feet of you. By
this time the male is in evidence but
does not approach nearer than the near-
est neighboring tree.

The Ceruleans prefer the hard wood
timber and keep well up in the trees.
They have little taste for the dark
depths below and I have never seen
them upon the ground except for the
_ purpose of drinking and _ bathing.

They remain no longer than necessary
and dart up into the tree tops. They
join forces with the Golden-wings in
late July and disappear with them
during the last week of August.
J. CLAIRE Woop,
Detroit, Michigan.

Bird Sanctuaries of New Zealand.

From J. Welsh, N. Fitzroy, Australia.
HOMES FOR WINGLESS BIRDS.

New Zealand has done two things
thoroughly—one is to preserve those
wingless birds so characteristic of the
country, and which, because of their
helplessness, would soon disappear as
settlement increased—the other is to
acclimatise the best game of other
countries. Thus, in turning .own
Canadian moose in their mountains,
they brought a Canadian forester to
look after the young calves, and a
Scotch gamekeeper is now engaged
attending to the grouse. In the offi-
cial report of the Lands department
there are some twenty pages of notes
upon the wingless birds of New Zea-
land, contributed by Richard Henry,
the caretaker of Resolution Island,
one of the sanctuaries upon which
these interesting birds are being pro-
tected. Resolution Island, in Dusky
Sound, West Coast, discovered by
Captain Cook, is named after one of
the ships in which Cook made his
first voyage. There is material for a
charming little book on Nature in this
official document, the last place where
a Victorian, knowing something of the
character of his own Government re-
ports, would look for it. And Mr.
Henry’s chat about the birds which
are in his charge, and have become,
in some instances, his pets and friends,
is so homely, so sympathetic, shows
so much of close and loving observa-
tion, that something material to the
literature of Nature in New Zealand

184 THs OOLOGIST.

NEST AND EGGS OF GRASSHOPPER SPARROW.
Photo by L. 8. Horton, Hyde Park, N. Y.

THE OOLOGIST.

would have been lost had the notes
not been published.

The wingless birds that are being
given sanctuary on Resolution Island
are the weka or wood-hen, the kakapo
or great ground parrot, the roa, and
the kiwi or apteryx. In addition to
these, which are his special charge,

Mr. Henry writes of all the birds’

which are either native to or visit the
island. Itis the wingless ones, how-
ever, that are of chief interest. Had
New Zealand possessed amonst its na-
tive fauna any destructive animals,
such as the Australian dingo or the
Tasmanian devil, these birds would
have been extinct long ago. In settled
country both dogs and cats play havoc
with them, and the English weasel,
which, as Mr. Henry observes, would
never have been introduced had _ its
habits been known thoroughly, is also
destructive. When rabbits became
such a nuisance that poisoned wheat
was laid for them, some of the wing-
less birds were killed in thousands,
like the English pheasants, which had
been so successfully acclimatised. In
many of the public reserves of New
Zealand, such as the charming gardens
at New Plymouth, one can hear the
pheasant calling constantly in the
brush, and it is this thick native
underwood which gave originally com-
plete protection to the wingless birds.

The weka or wood-hen is evidently
~ one of the most interesting of the resi-
dents on Resolution Island. The
quaint ways and quick sagacity of two
of them, ‘‘Chicken’’ and ‘‘Scrag,’’
who visit the caretaker’s house on the
look-out for table scraps, and share

the contents of the dog’s dish without ~

risk, are amuseingly described. These
birds mate for life, and taketurn about
in hatching and protecting the brood.
One of them is never absent from the
nest from the time the first egg is laid
until the young—which !ook like balls
of soft down—are able to protect them-

185

selves. This care is the more necssary
as both the eggs and young are de-
stroyed by rats, weasels and sparrow-
hawks. Sometimes, of an evening,
when the tide is low, the wood-hens
take their families out on the beaches,
and the sparrowhawks watch for them
there, and kill the young by scores.
The weka is, in its turn, destructive.

‘Paradise ducks, like the wild ducks of

Australia, cover up their eggs carefully
with a mat of down when leaving the
nest, but the wekas have an hereditary
knowledge of the trick, and a young
bird, which has never seen a duck’s
nest, tears away the down to get at the
eggs the moment it discovers one. If
they find a hen’s~nest with eggs un-
covered, they always go through the
motions of tearing away the nest be-
fore starting to eat the eggs. Al-
though on friendly terms with the
caretaker, they hide their own nests
away from him very carefully, and if
one of the pair comes to the house for
scraps for its mate, it always takes a
round-about track to the nest, and is
careful to see that it is neither watch-
ed nor followed. They kill each
other’s young, so that every pair on
the island have their own run and no
others are allowed to intrude. Mr.
Henry considers these birds most val-
uable as insect-destroyers in an. or-
chard, and observes that if they were
difficult to get fruitgrowers would be
quite keen about them. On the table
land above the Otira Gorge, when
crossing from the west coast, one often
sees the weka and her brood running
along the track in front of the coach.
When the first brood have b2en hatch-
ed and are fairly grown, the hen hands
them over to her mate, and starts to
lay again. The male shepherds the
young persistently, apparently gives
them all the food he can find, and if
they call for help in danger, he is with
them in an instant, keen for a fight.
When he finds a rat he tackles it in-

— 186

stantly, though not strong enough to
kill it single-handed. The squeaking
of the rat is a signal to another weka,
who rushes up, and helps to kill the
enemy.

It is surmised that the kakapo, or
great ground parrot—the only parrot
which does not fly—had once the use
ofits wings. Finding in New Zealand
no ground enemies and abundance of
food and cover, it ceased to use its
wings, which only subjected it to the
risk of being taken by a hawk, and as
the wings degenerated from disuse, the
legs developed in the same proportion,
so that now it is a good runner. Tree
parrots in Australia are awkward on
the ground, but the seed-eating grass
parrots all run quickly. In addition
to the islands, which are so convenient
a sanctuary, the Government has two
preserves for kakapos on the main-
land. They are nightfeeders, though
fruit-eaters — an unusual com-
bination, as Mr. Henry points out.
Like the owls, they have a dise of
prominent feathers about the eyes and
near the nose, those long hair-like
feathers or feelers common to noctur-
nal birds or those which have their
home underground. They are so
feeble, so unconscious of having
enemies, that one may go up to them
without their showing any alarm If
itouched they are resentful, but if you
=. down beside the bird a little while
in daylight it tucks its head calmly
under its wing and goes off to sleep
again. Unlike the weka, the ‘kakapo
hides her nest away carefully from her
own mate, who is generally both fat
and indolent. These birds only breed
every second year, and the curious
point about them is that all the birds
lay in the same season—a peculiarity
which naturalists are quite unable to
understand. Their call at night is
very much like the booming of a bit-
tern in the swamps, and the night-
drumming is only heard just before

THE OOLOGIST.

the nesting time. In the following
year they are silent. The birds are
always plentiful where wild berries
grow thickly, and New Zealanders
speak of such spots as ‘‘kakapo-gard-
ens.’’ The young, when first hatched,
are covered with a snow-white down.
The holes so frequently found in their
gardens, where they have scratched,
suggest that they dig for truffles, and
it is known that they eat mushrooms.

The roa, another of the wingless
birds, is distinguished by its wonder-
ful beak—long, slender, and slightly
curved. This, too, is a night bird,,
and rarely found far away from for-
ests. It uses its long, snipe-like bill
just for the same purpose that the
snipe does its bill, except that it works
in harder ground, and its chief food
is earthworms. Its sight is poor, but
Nature, as is usually the case, com-
pensates for thls defect by sharpening
up its sense of smell and hearing.
When seen in the moonlight, it moves
slowly along with its bill outstretched,
and often stands with the point of its .
bill resting upon the earth, as though
either trying to scent the worms or
feel for their movements underground.
The peculiar thing about their breed-
ing habits is that a young bird a week
or so old and a fresh egg are frequently
found in the same nest. Like the
wekas, the parent roas share the cares
of a family, though in another way—
the male bird does all the hatching.
The young are born with all their
feathers like mature birds, and appar-
ently all their intelligence as well, for
as soon as they are hatched they start
to search for their own food, and
require no hints as to the best place to
find it. The single egg, like that of
the mutton bird, is exceptionally
large. Thus, in the nesting season the —
hen, always in fine condition, weighs
about 8lb.. the ‘‘hatcher’’ 5lb., and
the egg 180z. : :

The grey kiwi is described as ashy,

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gentle little thing, that seems to de-
pend wholly for its existence on its
ability to hide away in lonely places.
They are shaped much like the roa,
but bave straight beaks. It is a light-
loving bird, that feeds by day mostly
upon white grubs. It resembles the
roa in its breeding habits, laying one
large egg, hatched by the male bird,
but while in the nesting season the
pair of roas are rarely separated, the
kiwis are just as rarely found together.
The young are very beautiful little
birds, quite silent, but so alert and
cautious that if you take your eyes off
them for a while they disappear.
When grown, they have a shrill whist-
ling note, which Mr. Henry describes
as like the guard’s whistle in a rail-
way train hearda little way off. In
summer both the roa and the kiwi like
to go up to the high ground, affecting
naked mountain crests, and _ their
pathways are clearly marked. The
kiwi builds in a short burrow under-
ground, generally protected at the
mouth by the root of a tree.

In the case of both the roa and kiwi,
it looks as though the male-bird
hatched continuously for about 30
days. They go on the nest fat and
plump, and by the time the young
bird is hatched are feeble skeletons.
—Melbourn Argus.

Free Courses in Agriculture at the State
Agriculture College.

There has just come to this office
from the College of Agriculture of Cor-
nell University which was made the
New York State College of Agriculture
by the last legislature, an announce-
ment of three short practical courses
in Agriculture, as follows: General
Agriculture, Dairying, and Poultry
Husbandry. All these courses begin
January 5th and end March 21, 1905.
Tuition is free to residents of New
York. The total cost of taking one of

these eleven weeks’ courses, including
living expenses, is less than $75. In-
structiion is given by lectures and by
practical work in the barns, poultry
houses, dairy building, green houses,
orchards, etc. The Announcement
gives a full description of the Short
Courses, and may be had on applica-
tion to the College of Agriculture,
Ithaca, N. Y.

Review.

‘*Some of Our Useful Birds.’’ By
C.J. Pennock. Being Bulletin No. 5,
of the State Board of Agriculture of
Delaware. A short treatise on the
economical value of eleven common
birds of the east.

‘‘Mycological Bulletin No. 20.’’ be-
ing part of Vol. II of Ohio State Univ.
Bulletin. Of interest to all students
of Fungii.

Owing to delay in getting out Oolo-
gist Bills (dated October 10th) and the
further delay in issuing this number
we will extend the 30 day offer made
on Bills of October 10th to Jauuary
I, 1905.

Notice the number on your wrapper.
All No. 207 have expired and should
be renewed at once.

Publications Received.

Am. Ornithology Vol IV, No. 10, 11,
Birds and Nature, Vol. XVI, No. 3.
The Amateur Naturalist, Vol. I, No.
5, Nature Study, Vol XIII, No. 10.

EDITORIAL.

To the Editor of the Oologist.
July 1, 1904.
The publication ofa fraud in the
current issue brings to mind a timely
if unpleasant topic. In making our
exchanges we are compelled to trust

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almost wholly to our correspondents
and while the rank and file of these
are fine, honest fellows—may their
tribe increase—with whom it is a pleas-
ure to deal we occasionally run amuck
of a monster who goes about like a
raging lion seeking whom he may de-
vour and who in performing his
“‘stunts’’ leaves rather a bad tast in
our mouths.

An experience covering twenty years
has disclosed collectors who have quit
the business solely on this account;
because they did not care to deal—as
one of them put it—‘‘with men who
were not content with robbing the birds
but who wanted to rob their fellowmen
as well.”’

It would appear that if concerted
action could be had that this might be
remedied and the rogues relegated to
the tall timber.

Suppose a. committee of five well-
known Oologists in whom the frater-
nity had explicit confidence could be
selected to review any complaints that
might arise and act thereon. It would
be understood of course—let it be so
nominated in the bond—that this tri-
bunal should not rush _helter-skelter
into print every time a dispute occur-
red but that they should. advise—per-
haps admonish—those who were in
error and try by all honorable means
to adjust the matter with good feelings
to all concerned and nobody should be
found guilty without a chance for full
defense and, if need be, reparation.
Let them be conciliatory to a fault even
but let it be firmly understood that the
real frauds would be severely dealt
with. A course of action like this and
our favorite science will be robbed of
its chief bug-a-boo.

It is moved therefore that such a
committee be hereby appointed with
our able editor, E. H. Short as chair-
man and Charles 8. Thompson, Sec.
of Cooper Club, as secretary, the re-
maining three—well distributed in lo-
cation—to be selected by these two.
All in favor say aye.

A. E. PRICE,

When I received this communication
from Mr. Price it hardly seemed as
though this matter could be as bad as
he represented.

Of course differences of opinion will
always arise between collectors as to
what constitutes fair usage and first

- the following restrictions

THE OOLOGIST.

class specimens but that real intention-
al fraud could be so rampant that these
measures were needed seemed doubtful
tome. However, in the last four
months I have been called on to in-
vestigate a number of reported cases
and in at least five instances I have
found unquestionable evidence of in-
tentional fraud. And there are more
that may prove of that nature. —

In the light of these developments I
have been in correspondence with Mr.
J. L. Childs, C..S. Thompson and
others and find a uniform sentiment
in favor of such arrangement as Mr.
Price suggests. Now I am always
busy and of a peaceful disposition and
would much rather have someone else
fill the position of chairman of such a
committee. However, as all seem to
think that my position makes me
specially desirable in that capacity, I
will try to ‘‘fill the pew’’ until some
one better able to attend to it can be
found. My service must be subject to
and con-
ditions.

First. Nocase shall go from this
committee into print until the entire
committee shall be satisfied that an
actual fraud has been perpetrated.

Second. No first offense shall be
published if party makes prompt and
just reparation.

Third. All complaints should be
accompanied by at least ten 2-cent
stamps to help defray cost of investi-
gation else the chairman will soon be
subject to a financial burden that he
will derive no compensation for.

I believe from experience that these
conditions are all just.

Mr. J. L. Childs of Floral Park, N.
Y., Mr. A. E. Price of Grant Park, I].
and Mr. C. S. Thompson of Stanford
Univ., California have been suggested
and agree to serve on such a committee.
I would suggest Mr. Philo W.. Smith,
Jr. of St Louis as a fifth member. Let
us hear from him and others. -

THE OOLOGIST.

CURIOS.

Finely prepared specimens for your
cabinet or den. Full data on label.

‘‘Wampum,”’ genuine perforated In-
dian money, 8 for 10c. -

Indian Bone Beads, white and col-
ored, 3 for 5c.

Chinese Silk Worm Cocoons, natur-

al condition, shows you how the silk
is found. White, Ee each; 3 colors
the 3 for 10c..
Japanese Book, very curious, 42c.
Chinese Chop Sticks, pair, 10¢.
Chinese Coins “cash, 2.3 SIZES, 3 for
7 cents.

Sawfish Saws, for 2 years I have :

been unable to supply these and have
sent money back to many would-be
purchasers.
8 to 9 inches, 20c; 9 to 10 inches, 28c;
10 to 12 inches, 35c.

Horse-foot or ‘‘King’’ Crab, nicely
prepared,tails guaranteed; 6 to 7inches
17 cents.

Swimming Crabs,
inches, 11. cents.

Key-hole Urchin, 3 to 4inches, 9c.

Atlantic Starfish, 344 to 5 inches, 7c

Pacific Starfish, 4 to 5 inches, 10e.

Bahama Starfish, 11 to 12 inches,45c.

Tusk of Sperm. Whale, large, 52c;
smaller, 40c.

Tablets. of beautiful oiled . Mexican
Onyx, fine cabinet specimens — or
tasty, convenient paper weights,
weight 7 to 24 ounces, 3c per ounce.

Everything postpaid. or express paid
at these-prices. ..). e-7 Tis. BQ 3

ERNEST H. SHORT, — Rochester, N. Y.
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190 THE OOLOGIST.

Natural History Collections

Big value forthe money. A glance at
this list will solve many an X-mas
problem.

SHOWY SHELLS. Fourteen labelled
showy Sea Shells. especially selected
for ornamental value. Retail value is
$3.55. The entire collection by express
$1.53.

MINERALS. Sixty fine specimens
for any boy or girl interested in min-
eralogy, includes Silver, Azurite, Rub-
ellite, Marcasite, etc. By express 95c.

INDIAN RELICS. 10 different Arrow
points, three Spearheads, four other

pieces, retail value -$2.25. Postpaid
$1.35.
FOSSILS. Twenty-five named fos-

sils from seven groups. Fine for a
studentof Geology. Retail value $3.65,
By express $1.35.

CORALS. Eight varieties beautiful
corals worth $1.50 and including the
Organ-pipe and Pink Spray Corals.
By express 75c.

CURIOS. One collection Sea Curios, .

twenty varieties including three Star-
fish, four Sea Urchins, Sea-horse, Saw-
fish Saw, etc. Reyular retail price
$5.00, will be sent*y express for $2.

Curios, No. 2. Land Curios, fifteen
varieties, including Confederate Bill,
Indian ‘‘Wampum,’’ Revolutionary
Gun-flint, etc., postpaid for 95c.

BIRDS EGGS. Owing toa large pur-
chase at a low price I am able to offer
one first class egg of each:—Brown
Pelican, Fla. Cormorant, White-faced
Glossy Ibis, Swainson’s Hawk, Bur-
rowing Owl, White-necked Raven,
American Crow, Black-crowned Night-
heron, Red-wing Blackbird, Mocking-
bird, Cowbird,Chipping Sparrow, Amer.
Robin, Bluebird, Great-tailed Grackle,
St. Lucas House. Finch, Mexican
Ground Dove, Bob-white, American
Coot, Pied-billed Grebe, Black Tern,
Yellow-headed Blackbird and Florida
Gallinule. This collection of 28
showy eggs, listing at $4.65 will be
sold postpaid for $1.25.

ADDRESS

ERNEST H. SHORT
Rochester, N. Y.

BENJAMIN HOAG

Stephentown, N.Y.

Subscription Agency for ali maga-
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on your wants. Will certainly save
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or publisher. Simply send their
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Here are a few combinations and
prices. All subscriptions are for full

4
year, and may be new or renewal and

go to one or different addresses. All
books sent prepaid.
Oologist, American Ornithology
and your choice of North Amer-
ican Birds Eggs or Chapman’s
Color’ Key =: :. 332 ee $ 3 00
Oologist and Davie’s Nest and
Begs iy alin eee eee 1 50
North American Birds Eggs and
any $1.00 magazine published 3 00
Chapman’s Color Key and any
$1.00 magazine published..... 3 00
Condor (new sub. only) and
Davie’s Nests and Eggs.... .. 1 55
Success, American Ornithology
and, Oologist... 22 2:kee- ae ee 1 55
Auk and Oologist....-2.5. 222.2 3 00
Auk and Condor (new subs. to
Condor only). eee 3 45

Coues’ Key, 2 vols. cloth (note
change in’ price)s-4sseeee eee UU 50

Baird, Brewer and Ridgway’s
North American Birds: Land

Birds;-3 vols... .2jeieeh eee 20 75.
Water Birds, 2 vols......... 20 50
Chapman’s Handbook, cloth... 2 25
Leather -3:)':...¢: 2 2 60
Bailey’s Handbook Western U.
S., last edition::<\ 4422s 3 30
Goss’ Birds of Kansas.......... 4 00
Ridgway’s Manual.............. 5 60

Let me quote you whatever you want
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A Combination that Means Something

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GAME OF BIRDS iets oie el 58 tee
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The total amount of value..........

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Monthly; 48
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ee kee eles)
ee 25 | $2.00

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publishes pictures of birds, animals,
plants, ete.,
each month.

i r insects, flowers,
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birds ever found anything like such favor with the pub-
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BIRDS OF SONG AND STORY-4 bird book for Aububon societies, 16 color plates.

GAME OF BIRDS——_——

Illustrations of popular birds, in colors true to nature. on
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BIRDS AND NATURE your subscription will be advanced

one year.

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Send for Catalogue.

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Oct. 3t

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NO DUPLICATES.

These are incomplete volumes and odd
numbers that have accumulated during the
past four years. We will send them all
charges paid by us on receipt of above (2
cent stamps accepted). This is a rare chance
to obtain some choice bird literature, and a
large number of fine illustrations for a very

small] amount.
CHAS. K. REED,
Worcester, Mass.

How To Collect Animal Tracks.

A simple, inexpensive method of preserv-
ing the foot-prints of birds, mammals, etc.
Clean, instructive pastime for boys, girls,
sportsmen and naturalists. Send two cent
stamp for particulars or one dollar for com-
plete instructions, J. ALDEN LORING,

Owego, N. Y. O3t
RDS FOGS of the sets listed in Sep-

* tember issue. If you saw

or now see on that list any set you wish to
place in your collection write me at once. I
will send you a revised copy of the list
promptly, showing just what I can ene
you. ERNEST H. SHORT. Rochester, N. Y-

I can still furnish many

192 THE OOLOGIST.

Combination Offers.

We offer THE OOLOGIST for one year

and.

“Eggs of North American Birds’’ by Reed for $2.60 -

“Frederick Young”’ by Phillips for 90 cents.

“Taxidermy”? by Hasluck for 95 cents.

We offer THE OOLOGIST for four years
: and
“Eggs of North American Birds,’’ Reed for $3.25
‘Frederick Young,’’ Phillips, for $1.40.

“Taxidermy,” Hasluck for $1.45.

We offer THE OOLOGIST one year

and

One egg WITH DATA of each of: following Birds:
American Coot, Florida Gallinule, Pied-billed

Grebe, Black Tern; Brown Pelican, Boat-tailed

Grackle, Black-crowned Night Heron, American.

Eared Grebe, Farallone Cormorant, Tricolored

Blackbird, Arizona Hooded Oriole, White:necked |

Raven, White-faced Glossy Ibis and Yellow-headed

Blackbird. oe

4@sThese Fourteen eggs, all First Class and listing at $4.00, sent
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WANTS, FOR SALES AND EXCHANGES,

Brief Special announcements “ Wants,” “ Exchanges,” ‘ For Sales,” inserted in this de-
partment for 25 cents per 25 words. Notices over 25 words charged at the rate of 1-2 cent for

each additional word. No notice inserted for less than 25 cents.

Terms, cash with order.

Strictly first-class specimens will be accepted in payment at 1-3 list rates.

VOD. eXOxl . Nova2:

ALBION, N. Y., DEC., 1904.

WHOLE No. 209

What’s Your Number ?

Examine the number following your name
on the wrapper of this month’s OoLoatst. It
denotes when your subscription expired or
will expire.
se your subscription expires with this issue

ar., 1905
PA nae pr i a Oct., 1905
DI <5 en re Dec., 1095
ray me i vi Dec., 1908

‘7

Intermediate numbers can easily be deter-
mined. If wehave you credited wrong we
wish to rectify,

Entered as second-class matter December
21, 1903, at the post office at Albion, N. Y.,
under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.

I HAVE afew very desirable sets for ex-
change, such as loons, alabatross. cranes.
falcons, kites and other Raptores, ducks with
down,etc. Warblers especially wanted. All
answered. A. E. PRICE ,Grant Park, Ill. stf

WANTED.—Fine sets of Sharp Shinned
Hawks eggs. Will give handsome sets of
Aplomado Falcon at reduced _rates. T. H.
oN 343 E. Biddle St., West Chester,

a.

WANTED FOR CASH.—Nidologist, Vol.
I, No.2. Will pay a good price. Have for
sale Auk for 1899,4 Nos. Also first 4 Nos. of
Nuttalls Bulletin. J. L. CHILDS, Floral
Park, N. Y.

CHANGE OF ADDRESS.—Hereafter my
address will be as below. RICHARD C.
McGREGOR, Government Laboratories,
Calle Herran, Manila, P. I.

FOR SALE.—Remington double barrel
breech loading 12 gauge shot gun, new, $15.00,
Winchester 16 shot 32-20 Rifle, good as new,
Watches, Revolvers, cheap. C B. VAN-
DERCOOK, Odin, Ills. INE 2 Ate

_ WANTED.—Clean copies of “Bird Nesting
in North West Canada.” If you have a copy
send price to W. RAINE, Kew Beach, To-
ronto, Canada.

FOR SALE.—For cash splendid series,
_ eggs 364. Singles 315 and 206. Many other

singles at low prices—cash. R. P. SHARP-
LES, West Chester, Pa. N. 2. t.

&

FOR SALE.— Fine new Cabinet. dust proof,
30 drawers, quartered oak. Will take part
cash, part eggs. <A bargain. PHILO W.
SMITH, Jr., Mona House, St. Louis, Mo.

EXCHANGE.—I have thousands of stamps
to exchange for Shells, Minerals, Coins, Med-
als, Indian Relics, Nuts and Seeds, Auto-
graphs, Birds, Birds Eggs and all kind of
ee FRANK B. ELDREDGE, Attleboro,

ass.

WANTED.—At once sets, 364, any Hawks,
Owls, Vultures, etc., 6, 58, 64, 77, 261, 263, 273,
228, 387, 388. 390, 289, 300, 501, 498, 619, 703, 761, 624,
nearly all Woodpeckers, Warblers, Shrikes,
Vireos and Hummingbirds. I offer 117, 86,
13, 223, 302, etc. D. WILBY, Edmonton, Al-
berta, Can. Nov. 2,t.

MAMMALS! BIRDS!—Parties wishing
fine mammalsor birds from this locality
let_ me know, I will collect to order A. No. 1.
Scientific skins. Fine mounted specimens
for sale cheap. Address G. F. MONROE,
Taxidermist, Superior, Wis. tf

FOR SALE.—I have many back numbers
of various natural history magazines, includ-
ing the Nidologist, Osprey. Museum, O and
O, Oologist, Audubon’s Magazine and others;
Books and pamphlets on Natural History
subjects; some good bird and mammal
skins; marine invertebrates in formalin;
reptile and batrachians in formalin and al-
cohol; and various curios. Any of above
cheap for cash. Wo exchange desired. If you
have as much as fifty cents to invest send for
my lists, but don’t write unless you mean
business. F. P. DROWNE, M. D., 20. Bene-
fit St.. Providence, R. I. N.4.t.

CAN PAINT in oils almost any bird, life
size or under. Write for particulars.
AN WRIGHT, 31 Kingsborough Ave.,
Gloversville, N. Y.

WILL EXCHANGE 2 botanical specimens
for each seteggs sent me. I collect stamps,
coins, shells. Offer shells. CHAS. E. JEN-
NEY, Box 602. Fresno, Calif.

“WANTED. Hawks, Owls. Snowflake
Shrikes, Siskins, Redpolls. Wiil mount birds
or animals in exchange for same or give sets
or skins. E. B. PECK, 12 Chestnut St., Ba-
tavia. N. Y.

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WANTED.—To buy cheap for cash, rare
single eggs or sets not in collection. Ameri-
can or Foreign, perfect or imperfect speci-
mens. Many of the recent additions to list
needed. Reptile’s eggs also wanted. W. R.
WHARTON, Olney <Ave., Germantown,
Phila., Pa.

EXCHANGE.—After making the largest
exchange I ever made I still havea few eggs
of Coots, Galinules. Night Herons, Least
Bitterns to exchange for anything I can use
wae museum. DELOS HATCH, Oakfield,

is.

IF INTERESTED in the squab business
you now have opportunity to get the best
breeders for squab raising that can be bred.
Only afew for sale. Write for prices, Cli-
max Pigeon & Squab Co., Austin, Texas.

WANTED.

—A lot of common sets. with
good data. Will give bird skins, big singles,
coins or Indian Arrowheads. C. ABBOTT
DAVIS, Curator R. W. P. Museum, Provi-
dence, R. I.

PHOTO COLLECTORS, Attention! 1000
Interesting Photos, 4x5 and _ 5x7,
manship, to exchange for U. 8S. or Foreign
Stamps, or photos of birds, nests and eggs.
Cash offers solicited. BURTIS H. WILSON,
1102 17th Street, Rock Island, Ils.

WANTED.—AII kinds of Live Wild Birds
and Animals. State prices when writing.
Don’t ask me what I pay. DR. CECIL
FRENCH, Naturalist, Washington, D.C.

EXCHANGE.—I desire to exchange first-
class skins and eggs with other collectors.
Illinois specimens preferred. Bird-men from
southern Illinois write. CHAS. K. CAR-
PENTER, Polo, Ill.

FINELY MOUNTED Deer Head, Fifteen
Dollars; also others from Ten to Twenty-five
Dollars, also lot of new Orchestra and
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The Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia.

Much-has appeared in the columns
of our yarious newspapers in regard to
this immense swamp, the existence of
which seems to be quite generally
known although accurate information

in regard to it has, in the writers ex-
perience at least, been rather difficult
to obtain. Both before and after the
civil war it was much resorted to by
runaway slaves and others who found
a safe hiding place in its dense, dark
tangles and hence there is considerable
romantic interest attached to it. Popu-
lar belief has it that the swamp is now,
as it may have been then, a_ very
gloomy morass, almost inacessible for
travel, abounding in poisonous snakes
and making ah atmosphere heavily
tainted with malaria and swamp fever.
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writer, accompanied by Mr. Paul
White of Washington, D. C. paid a
short visit to the swamp during the
fall of 1901. We were well repaid for
our trouble by a sight of this interest-
ing country and of the: very pretty
body of water, Lake Drummond,
which forms a part of it.

The swamp occupies a plain about
forty miles wide, extending from
Suffolk, Virginia to Albemarle Sound,
North Carolina. ‘‘Its western bound-
ary is determined by a sharply defin-
ed escarpment, formed by the sea
when the continent was about twenty-
eight feet below its present level. Its
eastern boundary is marked by a series
of low elevations, dune like in nature,
extending from Norfolk, Va. to Eliza-
beth City, N. C.’? The country is un-
dulating in character, well wooded
and apparently fertile. The Dismal
Swamp Canal, a canal of considerable
width and depth, extends from Deep
Creek, Va. to South Mills, N. C., thus
connecting Chesapeake Bay with
Albermarle Sound and affording a
safe inside passage to such heavily

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laden barges and vessels as do not
attempt the ocean trip.

We made our start from Norfolk on
the eighteenth of September, 1901. It
was difficult even in Norfolk to obtain
any accurate information in regard to
the swamp, or by what means it could
be reached. We made frequent in-
quiries along the wharf front as. to the
whereabouts of the canal, generally
eliciting that discouraging answer,
‘‘Deed I doan know sah.’’ However
after much travel and questioning we
obtained the information that the
canal was at Gilmerton, some seven
miles from Norfolk and that a steam-
er for that place left Norfolk at two
o’clock in the afternoon.. After assur-
ing ourselves that this information
was correct, we visited the office of the
Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal
Company where we obtained an inter-
view with the manager. From him
we learned that there Was a canal
which started from Deep Creek, the
latter place being abont two and a half
mile from Gilmerton. He also in-
formed us that formerly the canal
commenced at Gilmerton, but that the
portion between Deep Creek and Gil-
merton had been abandoned. His
account of the swamp itself was most
discouraging, but in spite of this and
the terrible weather we decided to keep
going.

Promptly at two o’clock we appeared
at the wharf of the Bennett Line and
found there the little steamer Nita
which was to convey us to Gilmerton
where we hoped to be able to secure a
skiff. There had been a terrible rain
all this time and our clothes were
drenched, which made the little cabin
of the Nita seem doubly inviting and
comfortable.

The moorings were soon cast off and
we commenced to wend our way up
the Elizabeth River, stopping oc-
casionally at some little wharf to put
off freight. The scenery along the

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banks of the river was really very
pretty, marshes of considerable extent
reaching out from banks covered with
brush, and trees that stood out in
clear outline against the sky.

At Gilmerton we were landed in a
scow, from which we clambered to a
schooner lying alongside and thence |
to the wharf. Gilmerton appeared to
be a busy little spot but it was raining
hard and we could not well appreciate
the scenery. A man whom we met at
Gilmerton gave us considerable infor-
mation about the swamp, his stories:
about the abundance of game certain-
ly contradicting those of our inform-
ant in Norfolk. We succeeded in
renting a flat bottomed skiff from a
‘gentleman of color” and after bail-
ing it out we embarked and commenc-
ed our trip up the canal.

The scenery along the banks of the
canal was very pretty. Many species
of trees, among which we noted maples
pine, cypress, oaks and willows, inter-
mingled with a luxuriant growth of
shrubs, lined the banks on both sides.
The canal was from fifty to over one
hundred feet wide and of a good depth.
Had it not been for the rain our trip
up this portion of the canal would
have been one of many stops, but as
the rain was still coming down in tor-
rents we hustled along as fast as possi-
ble.

We met our first real trouble just
below Deep Creek, in the shape of a
carry of over a hundred yards, from
the Gilmerton canal into the main
canal starting from Deep Creek. Our
boat was very heavy and we could not
have managed it, had it not been for
the keeper of the Deep Creek lock gate
who came to our assistance. On get-

ting into the main canal it was but a
few minutes journey to Deep Creek.
When we arrived there the hour was
so late that we tied our skiff to the
bridge and went hunting for a lodging

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which we were fortunate enough to se-
cure. A Se7 \4%0'

The next morning the weather con-
ditions were somewhat better. After
purchasing a few supplies at one of
the Deep Creek stores, we commenced
the voyage to Lake Drummond. Our
host of the preceeding night had told
us of a lock keeper at the lake who
would put us up, and, since the weath-
er was so rainy, we decided to stop
with him if possible. After rowing
for a couple of miles we tied the tent
canvass to an oar, which made a first
rate sail, and used the tent rope for a
sheet. With this rig we made the
next ten or twelve miles up the canal
in good time, passing several launches
and the town of Walliston on the way.
This part of the canal had_ higher
banks and less in the way of trees
along the banks, although in places
there were plenty of trees. Some three
miles above Walliston we came upon
the mouth of the feeder ditch, as the
portion of the canal which branches
off to the lake is called.

This feeder is in some places not
more than fifteen feet wide and there
was a dredge in it at this time deepen-
ing, and I believe widening the
channel. This dredge very nearly
blocked our passage and we had quite
atime getting by it. The feeder is
three miles long and a hard pull on
account of the force of the water flow-
ing from the lake into the canal.

On arriving at the lock, which is
within a few hundred yards of the
lake, we disembarked and proceeded
to get acquainted with the lock keeper.
He proved to be very pleasant and
readily agreed to our making his
shack our headquarters.

We borrowed his boat, which was
above the lock, and made our first
visit to the lake. It was a beautiful
sight, almost a perfect circle of water,
of the same dark color as that in the

canal, about three miles in diameter,

and surrounded by a growth of high
trees, mostly gums, cypress and juni-
per. Almost all the way round, ex-
tending from the shore to a distance
of one or two hundred feet into the
water, were a lot of cypress stumps
and dead cypress trees, most of them
covered with hanging moss.

We spent two days at the lake, dur-
ing which time it rained, so that we
were unable to get many pictures or
take the extended trips about the
Swamp which we had hoped to do.
However, we managed to get around
considerable and found out many
things about the swamp and _ its
animal fauna.

Birds were quite numerous. I saw
many Pileated Woodpeckers, ‘‘good
gods’’ the swampers callthem. There
is a small herd of wild eattle near the
lake. Béar, judging from the ac-
counts given us, are still fairly plenti-
ful and those who understand hunting
them, get several each year. They
weigh generally about two hundred
pounds when dressed. Deer are get-
ting very scarce. The old practice of
driving them to the lake with hounds
and killing them while they were
swimming has almost cleaned them
out. Gray squirrels are still very
plentiful. Ducks are said to frequent
the lake in real cold weather and fish
are said to be plentiful in the right
season. One of the swampers told me
that ‘‘in the Spring we get all kinds of
fish.’’ They certainly were not plenti-
ful at the time of our visit. We saw
no poisonous snakes, though several
species of the non-venomous sort were
observed. The list of birds seen and
identified during our two days at the
lake, comprises twenty-nine species.
Several other species were noted but
their identity was not positively
established. The twenty-nine species
are as follows: Great Blue Heron,
Green Heron, Black Crowned Night
Heron, Solitary Sandpiper, Mourning

200

Dove, Turkey Buzzard, Sparrow Hawk,
American Osprey, Great Horned Owl,
Kingfisher, Downy Woodpecker,
Flicker, Pileated Woodpecker, Ruby-
throated Hummingbird, Kingbird,
Blue Jay, Baltimore Oriole, Crow,
Goldfinch, Redbird, Towhee Bunting
Indigo Bunting, Maryland Yellow-
Throat, American Redstart, Catbird,
Mockingbird, House Wren, Chick-
adee, Bluebird.

If we had been able to spend more
time at the lake this list would have
been much longer. The tall forests,
with their undergrowth of brush and
briars, together with the more open
land and cane brakes, bordering on
the lake and canal, afford a variety of
shelter for our feathered friends, and
the number of them present showed
that they appreciate the advantages
offered by this locality.

The undergrowth in the swamp is
very dense, and in some places there
is an abundance of sticky mud, but
on the whole the swamp is a pleasant
place to visit. Mosquitoes were not at
all troublesome on our trip and the
natives told me that they were not
troubled at all with malaria, nor was
swamp sickness more prevalent than
in other localities. The canal drains
the swamp very satisfactorily which
may account for the better conditions
prevailing there at the present time.

On September twenty-second we re-
turned to Gilmerton. Arriving in
Gilmerton in the day-time, we found
that an electric road connected Gilmer-
ton with Portsmouth and we elected to
go by trolley. At Portsmouth we
took the ferry for Norfolk arriving
there just in time to board the steam-
er for Washington.

The ornithological results of the
trip were not as good as I had hoped
for. However, we both felt repaid for
the trip, in spite of the miserable
weather we encountered, and later on
I hope to again visit this regicn when,

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THE OOLOGIST, 2! {!?'

with more time, I hope to establish a
larger acquaintance with its fauna.
F. P. Drownze, M. D.
Providence, R. I.

Unusual Nesting Sites of the American
Meganser. (Meganser Americanus),

By WALTER RAINE, Toronto.

-\

In all ornithological works on North
American Birds Nests and Eggs, the
nesting situation of this species is given
as being in a hole ina tree, after the
manner of the Hooded Merganser,

. Buffle-head, American Golden-eye and

Wood Duck. I was therefore very
much surprised to find American Mer-
gansers nesting in holes under boul-
ders on an island in Lake Winnepe-
gosis, Manitoba during June 1908.

My son and I found about thirty
pairs nesting on Gun Island in Lake
Winnepegosis on June 16, 1903. Alb
the nests that we could reach were built
far back at the end of dark passages
under the bowlders on the highest part
of the island, some nests were five or
six feet back from the entrance and
very difficult to get at. In one hole
we caught a female sitting on its eggs,
therefore identification was complete,
besides the eggs are easily told from
other ducks by their very large size
averaging 2.60 x 1.80 and their pale
buff tint. The down in the nest is
also pale greyish white like that of all
ducks that nest in holes in the dark.

The nests contained respectively
9.10, and 12 eggs, one nest contained
13 eggs, and one nest contained eggs
laid by two females, as could plainly
be seen, half the eggs being of a differ-
ent shape and darker buff tint than the
rest.

My son caught a female on the nest
and tied a fishing line to it and we
were surprised to see how fast it could
swim under water using its wings for
that purpose, it fairly flew under water,
after a while he set it at liberty. The

THE OOLOGIST.

male Merganser flew away from the
island as our sail boat approached but
the females sat close, dashing out of
the dark passages as we searched
among the bowlders.

On this same island several Red-
breasted Megansers had nests, but
these were built under dense under-
growth and not at the end of dark
passages like the American Merganser
nests. The Red-breasted Mergansers’
nests contained 8 and 9 eggs each,
they are smaller than American Mer-
gansers’ eggs, averaging 2.50 x 1.70,
the tint of the eggs is a yellowish drab
and entirely different to those of the
American Merganser, the down also is
much darker being of a deep warm
greyish tint. Both ducks are very
destructive to fish and are therefore
disliked by the fishermen. They are
known to gunners as sawbills and their
aesh is rank and unpalatable.

Late Nesting of Vireo Olivaceus.
RICHARD F. MILLER.

The Red-eyed Vireo ( Vireo olivaceus)
annually rears two brood of young in
Northeastern Philadelphia county,
Penn., the first brood in June and the
second late in July or early in August
at the latest, in my experience, Aug-
ust 25th, the second brood has been
hatched and left the nest to begin the
battle of life and to wage incessant
warfare upon the noxious woodland
insects. But it is not about the habits
of this well known bird that I wish to
speak, as my studies of its habits
does not differ very much from what
have been written about it by more
observant students. What I want
to record is the finding of a late nest,
probably the lattest on record.

The nest in question was found on
September 8, 1897, in Juniata Park, at
Frankford, Philadelphia County,
Penn. It contained 3 eggs, all fresh,
which I collected with the nest. It

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was situated 18 feet up in a maple,
wellin the wood, suspended from a
small horizontal crotch 12 feet from
the trunk. It was a typical nest com-
posed of the usual combination of
materials and handsomely ornament-
ed—if the spiders’ webs and cocoons
of caterpiller attached to the outside
can be called ornamentions; it was
loosely woven to the fork. The eggs
were of normal size, ovate in shape, in
color white, wreathed with black dots
and spots on the long ends.

Now for some suppositions. If I had
left the nest and eggs they would re-
quire 10 or 12 days in which to incu-
bate and would have hatched on Sept-
ember 18-20, probably on the 18th as
the bird would sit and brood more
closely and oftener, owing to the late-
ness of the season. Reasoning that
the young hatched on the 18th they
would be confined to the nest 10 or 12
days, before being able to leave it,

leaving it probably by October Ist, and

for the next few days they would need
the constant care and feeding of their
parents before being able to take
care of themselves. It would have
been October 4-5 before they would be
able to hunt their own food.

Octeber 5! And in less than two
weeks the Red-eye migrates to their
warm winter home, as my lattest fall
record during 7 years’ of consecutive
field observations is October 18, 1897 at
this locality—Frgnkford.

Even had all of the young hatched
all or at least two of them would have

. perished, not from the effects of the

cold, although they would have suffer-
ed somewhat, but from the lack of
food, for at this season of the year
most of the insects on which the Red-
eye feed are scarce, and they feed to a
large extent on berries, such as poke,
gum, dogwood and golden bell ( Forsy.
thia viridissenia). But I have never
observed them feed these berries to
their young for obvious reason—never

202

having found a nest containing young
at this season of the year.

My opinion is that the birds would
have subsequently abandoned the
nest leaving the eggs or young, what-
ever it may have contained at the time
of desertion to their fate, for it would
have been impossible for them to pro-
cure enough food for the substenance
fo their own and the lives of their
young.

+a _

The White-rumped Shrike
New York.

in Eastern

On May 18, 1902, while out walking,
I came upon a nest, situated in a thorn
apple tree, and as the bird which left
the nest was new to me, I lost no time
in climbing up and examining it.
The nest contained five young birds
about half-fledged and so I left, but
being over in that locality on June 8rd,
I looked into the nest and was greatly
delighted to find three fresh eggs
which I took. I got quite close to the
birds which I thought might be White-
rump shrikes. They were extremely
bold, approaching quite near to my
head and making a queer, snapping
sound with their bills. This noise
could be heard a long distance off and
was made as often on the wing as
when the bird was at rest. Occasion-
ally they varied this with a cry close-
ly resembling the call of a catbird.
Finally both flew away and did not
show up again that day. On May 7,
1903, I happened to visit the locality
and upon going to the old nest, was
surprised to find that the bird had re-
paired it and laid five eggs which were
about one-half incubated. I took four
leaving the other as a nest egg to
make them lay a second set but was
disapointed, as the egg disappeared.
I told a friend about the disappearance
of this egg and he suggested that the
bird ate it. Any way this bird left the
locality, and did not come back to it

THE OOLOGIST. 9) (1a)

again. On May 1, 1904, while over in
the country, some three miles from
the old nest, I came upon another pair
of White-rumps, and a short search re-
vealed the nest, just ready for the eggs,
placed in a pine tree about ten feet up,
and well concealed. I went over to the
neston May 7th, but it was empty.
The birds were around and so I knew
that the nest was not deserted. On
May 13th, I went over and found that
the nest contained six eggs. These I
took together with the nest. A couple
of weeks later, a pair of Kingbirds
built a nest in the same tree and at
present, have young. But to return to
the White-rumps. On May 16th, on
going over there, I found another nest
containing one fresh egg which I left.
The same pair of birds had built a
nest, a beauty, and laid an egg in three
days. Pretty quick work. On ‘May
22nd, I went over and secured the set,
also of six.

On June Ist, while looking for High-
holes, I chanced to strike the locality
again and you can imagine my sur-
prise at finding another nest contain-
ing six eggs also. I took four, leaving
the other two to the birds, but these
disappeared a couple of days later.
Either a boy or an animal got them or
else the birds ate them. Well, I went
over there on June 11th, and I could
hardly believe my eyes upon finding
another nest, this containing six eggs
also. Now, all these nests were within
a radius of fifty feet. This pair of
birds had, in forty-two days, built
four nests, and laid twenty-four eggs.
I left the last set and sincerely hope
that the Shrikes succeeded in raising
their brood. The nest was, in all
cases, quite bulky composed of twigs,
grasses, rootlets, etc., and very finely
lined with feathers. The eggs are, in
my experience, from three to six in
number, and are greenish grey, spot-
ted with light brown, olive and violet,
chiefly at the large end.

THE OOLOGIST. 203

On June 27th, while up near the
place where I found the nest in 1902
and ’03, I saw another shrike and af-
ter a short search found its nest, just
deserted by young, placed in an apple
tree about twenty feet up. I counted
five young and two old birds in various
parts of the orchard in which the nest
was situated. The pair will undoubt-
edly nest there in 1905. The birds
would Swing on dead primrose stems,
making a queer noise, probably shriek-
ing with joy. Thus, I know of two
pair of White-rump shrikes that have
nested in this county (Fulton) and
doubtless more have nested as my ob-
servations are quite restricted. Sum-
ming up the matter, I come to the
conclusion that the bird is gradually
becoming more abundant in eastern
New York and in a few years will un-
doubtably become one of the common-
est of our land birds. Before closing
I wish tothank Mr. Benjamin Hoag
for identifying properly, these birds
from a description which I sent him.

CHAS. P. ALEXANDER,
Gloversville, New York.

st

One Egg Within Another.
A QUESTION.

To the Editor of the Oologist.

DEAR SrR:—A few days ago a hen’s
egg was shown me which, from out-
side general appearance, was the same
as any other hen’s egg with the excep-
' tion that the shell was a trifle larger
than common but when broken open
it was found to contain a peculiar
lump enclosed in the white of the egg.
This lump was tbe shape of a bean
and about an inch long of a dirty yel-
low color. Nothing unusual about
the yoke or the other parts of the white
of this egg. The !ump mentioned
above proved to be another egg with a
shell on it Shell was very thick, very
near 1 millimeter in thickness, was

nearer the structure of a snake’s
than it was of a hen’s egg, as it was
very pliable and could be pressed out
of shape only to return to its natural
shape again, yolk was the same or
nearly the same as the other yolk with
this exception, it was a deeper yellow
color. It was not, to my thinking, a
reptile’s egg nora hen’s egg. What
was it? How did it get there, and
when? Egg was from the grocery
store so can’t tell what kind of a hen
laid it.

Last spring a White Rock Chicken
laid a double egg. The shell I resery-
ed for my collection. It is consider-
able thicker in structure than custom-
ary with hen’s eggs, shape of egg is
the same as an alligator’s eggs. Egg
was four inches long and about 1%
inch in diameter. Egg shell contain-
ed two complete eggs. Why did this
happen?

Thinking that the foregoing would
would be of interest to the readers of
the Oologist and would also give them
a chance to speculate on the formation
of two interesting abnormalities, and
hoping to learn from your excellent
publication more about thetwo eggs, or
I might say four, I am Yours,

EDMUND EVERETT Hoppgs,

ege

Binghamton, N. Y.

ANSWER—Double eggs like the se-
cond instance Mr. Hobbs gives, are
common with fowls in captivity, espe-
cially hens and ducks. This is very
rare with wild birds. In the first case
the yolk of the first egg was evidently
incased by the first membraneous lay-
er of shell with the white or albwmen
lacking and, being too small to cause
the hen to expell it, became a part of
and was enclosed in the shell of a se-
cond egg.

This is the first instance of this kind
to come to the editor’s notice.

EDITOR.

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204

EDITORIAL.

In the matter of that Egg of Dwarf
Screech Owl?

I received the communication from
Dr. Moody last spring as printed here-
with.

Sand Point, Idaho, Feb. 27, 1904.

Editor Oologist, Albion, N. Y.

Dear Sir:

I note in your issue of February,
1904, that you are of the opinion that
you are in possession of at least one
egg of the Pigmy Screech Owl (Megas-
cops flammeolus idahoensis) collect-
ed by Mr. Nelsonof Boise. Permit me
to doubt your classification. I am
very familiar with the locality of Boise
and were you so you would not for an
instant suppose that the egg sent you
could be of that elusive little Screecher.
Boise is in the midst of an arid plain
covered with sage and with only a few
scattering cotton-woods along the
streams. There is not an evergreen
tree within fifty miles of the place.
Then it surely does not stand to reason
that this bird of the deep fir and hem-
lock woods would come away out in
desert to choose a nesting site when
there are so many more available
locations nearer home. The Pigmy
Owl is not an uncommom bird in our
higher mountains here in Idaho, but
I do not remember having seen him
lower than 5,000 elevation. The Bitter
Root mountains from the north to the
south of the state are the home of the
Owl and it was only a chance that
Professor Merriam discovered it in the
Saw Tooth, in Blaine County. I have
studied this Owl in Shoshone and
Kootenai Counties and have hunted
diligently for the nests without avail.
Iam convinced that they nest early
and very high up in the dead tops of
the great hemlocks and pines, deep in
the gulches. They feed almost entirely
at night. I have watched them around
the small lakes in the mountains
catching frogs and pollywogs. It will
require ccnsiderable evidence to con-
vince me that Mr. Nelson found this
Owl nesting in the Boise Valley. Ido
not write this in the spirit of carping
criticism but to add to the store of
knowledge of this little known Owl.

Yours truly.
CHAS 8S. Moopy, M. D.

As this seemed to need investigating
I held the matter open and tried to
follow it up a little.

I greatly indebted to Mr. H. C.,
Mills of Unionville, Conn., for assis-

THE OOLOGIST.

tanceinthe matter. Icopy from corres-
pondence as follows:
Boise. Idaho, Mar, 21, 1904,
Mr. F. C. Nelson to H. C. Mills.

In this letter Mr. Nelson stated that
one live Owl he gave to a Dr. Bartlett,
an Englishman who was then travel-
ing through the Northwest and that
the Dr. had killed and kept another
which he (Nelson) had shot. :

This was the bird that was flushed
from my egg.

Mr. Nelson states in this letter that
he will at once write Dr. Bartlett and
find out what he finally found the
skins to be.

Under date Oct. 9, 1904, Mr. Nelson
writes to Mr. Mills. ‘‘I met Dr. Bart-
lett in Portland, Oregon this summer
and he says the birds were Dwarf
Sereech Owl.

I was unable to reach their breeding
ground this season owing to high water
but a friend of mine informed me that
he secured another bird but_ neglected
to save the skin.’’

I have through the kindness of Mr.
Mills, had the pleasure of examining
the other three eggs of the set my _ egg
was taken from. They were badly da-
maged but arein every way cuplicates
of the egg described and, while the mat-
ter is still open, I cannot call them
anything but Dwarf Screech Owl as
yet.

[EDITOR.] -

We would call special attention to
two articles in current number of
‘*Condor.’’

One on the Laysan Albatross by W.
K. Fisher profusely illustrated. and
one on West, Golden-Crown Kinglet
by J. H. Bowles.

Some samples of Bird Photo work
by B. S. Bowdish deserve special
notice.

His bird photos are good and the
expert work on enlargements and
lantern slides from photos are of un--
usual interest.

The 1905 calenders in decorative
leather embellished with prints from
photos of bird life are tasty suggest-
ions at Holiday time. You need his
photos of Hummers, Meadow larks
and Least Flycatchers’ nests for your
Portfolio.

Publications Received.

‘‘Birds and Nature.’’ Vol. XVI.,
No. 4.

‘‘Nature Study.’’ Vol. XIII., No. 11.
‘*Conder.’’ Vol. VI.«No. 6;

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VOLUME XXII

ALBION, N. Y
FRANK H.LATTIN, M. D,, PUBLISHER
ERNEST H. SHORT, EDITOR AND MANAGER
1905

INDEX.

Apnormal -Crow's= Beak. ...0.55.. 106
Adventures of a Grosbeak Family. 24

A Day in the Field with Walter
PMENTAVEING: ¢ 5.5) SRP oh wacyecs, soca coer! 135
After Western Red-tails.......... 53
American Ornithologist’s Union,
Twenty-third Annual Congress of.181
JANTOUSS CENTS a Pel BAW gc LS Ge Ge yee eager ae 119

Battle With the Broad-wings, A.. 89
Bird Flight, Wing Movements in. .182

“TB Teo! (GGG Re 0 SiS.c taco oie Geren i733
EncdeeMio ration, (Onl rms os 26h 2 eens 149
PiEdewerOteCulOn seeps ae cee iaie. a 2 186-187
Birdsof Monongalia Co., W. Va.,
SOMEMINOLES Olen ate sense ake 60
Birds Removing Eggs from Nests. 25
UGG See OtACIS. - Oise 4c tierscc akemvais 183
STEER eNCOSE. sAerrtcoere fa 6 2 cnetae 90
Blackbird, Red-winged.... ....... 44
CHO OMT Keres orcs < uence Mastesc bores aceite Os ey
HS OMe WMC ccs. 5:-:. Meee sane doe kolo 170
POMEL DUE eeala 2) «Septet a etietovcns o ia.geeiccaae 120
PESTS OMVATU Uni @ oe Dg: |. Aout oes io aire hccectrale hoot 28
ISTE EIT SO OLD eet acne aera eee 91
PESPES Hester @vallil fat easy cromatenoxorere issuers 136
California Nesting of the Dotted
CaAmyOn Wiener aks alee ceo 122
Catalogue, Taylor’s Standard
JES EeN os Ace anna bo. 7 inka natal ee OD 2i
Chat with a Naturalist. 255.5 0..4.).. 119
Chickadee, Black-capped.. ...... 92
Collection= of Ji wW- Jacovs. ..... 8
Coloration, Protective.... ....... 185
Crane, Whooping and Sandhill.. 85
ONE NTIS. seamen icy asic ete. exe 87, 106
CHG Oe eee oie Shee ee 9
ireOorme Calitin preare t ee elo es 169
(CIC C hl DITEANTS GS ero Sopa O.8 oe 185
CHEK OOS ares ss Loans oe ok 173
HDF NGW IO aA TID Es 5 Mew te on ti (2 2S 25, ohana eae hs 156
Dove Chronicle, A Mourning...... 72
Eagle Experiences in Fla. Bald.. 5
Egg Catalogue .......... Oe 27, 60; 9
sass reac ELeMS sh 5). mens ts cick V2

Eggs of Bank Swallow, Spotted. .166
Eggs of the Broad-winged Hawk.156
Eggs of Carolina Paroquet...... iis!

Hggs of Knot, Discovery of...... Ewe
MVOlitone Of ~SPeClOSma.con.. - 2 4- 181

Feeding Habit of Humming-birds.140
Hiraudds Wieos Ae eek we oen DOs 92,0 156

ClANINCES aot cn huts teen ie ae eae APA
Gnatcatcher, Blue-gray..117, 131, 155
Grosbeak, Rose-breasted....24, 39, 41

Grousey SEVP Cees mes states crchssc rea: 170
Ghul tale rye ere eee eetetelc es tales 108
LAW Kea AINA = SD aileEOWseele- sees © 60, 105
Hawk, Broad-winged.... ....89, 156
Hawk, Cooper’s...... oo ones AD asy, alee:
Hawk, Desert- Sparrow........... 165
Hawk, Ferruginous Rough-leg....106
lawless Vamsi: tape. score ers ares c ae 105
Hawk, Red-bellied ............... 43
Hawk, Red-shouldered.... ....43-124
Sek, Sng NMAC oo o6e Sadae- 105
Hawke waloSOMss= eerie si oe 43, 88
Hawk, Sets of Five Eggs of Red-
alleda.eti et eee ee Leta 140, 168
awk Wihite-tatledieansspieee os. 140

Hawk, West. Red-tail....43, 53, 168
Heron, A Chapter from the Life

Elistory of ‘themG@reente.......- 2a
Heron Gite eSlleanese ee e 85, 90, 101
TOCA. seit te pgycas cee meee ee rene ets a 186
Hone y-Caten sees sts ere eects. scsiels 121
ELOTND Ie 2 contre hse ane ae ke totes eet 75
lehvbamodhhatelorbeol, AORN So 455 Saceecs 136
lahvicaboabiavelonitOls ga cconccos Eownoed 140

Indiana, Nesting of the Whip-poor-

wall aban Imire nol dita Cio) 45k oc n eee 8
In North Carolina and Virginia..
wa ao OO Tee (ch We ales
JACS Ar OMAN were veleries o.. - 9
Vase Calittremniscremermeta access ss). 136
Kate: sBiverslad@nesrree-mrek ce eles er 2%
Kite, Spotted Egg of Miss...... 188
Kite, Swallow-tailed...... ........ 27

Knot, Discovery of the Eggs of.. 37

Longspur, Lapland

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IFAS DUG AI |. x ast chais mere ans emery 69
Martine se UTples:.)....<cicmasceeperne 74, 108
Medal, Awarded a Gold.......... 8
Migration on Bird.......... 148, 183
MoOckime binds ..ic fash. see eco 29

Mourning Dove, Chronicle, A.... 72
Mount Dry Skins, A Quick Way to. 76

Nest Building, Co-operative...... 168
Nests, Last Year’s Bird’s........ 138
New Jersey, Breeding Warblers of..182
New Jersey, Green Heron in...... 21
New Jersey, Gt. Blue Heron Col-
lecune min: Salem (Cos. 2aso-eeee 101
New York Am. Barn Owl in Or-
KeamSerCo x... sheer oo hee eee 106
Nuthatch, Red-breasted ......... 123
Nirthatehs “Syrian. sya ners cer ieee 75

Oklahoma, White-tailed Hawk in.140
On the Use in Surgery of the Ten-
dons of the Ardeidae and Grui-

(GIGS Rees ge ROS chee OMEN Secreta Gao 6 85
Oolosy cot tal Harm ners cee ila
OSpKeye AM. 8c ccs cue seers 39, 90, 104
OWensoinediin. sch. Pew ase se ise roe 189
Owl SoBarred osc sic eaten oe ehomencne tee 40
OWS aWw-WHEt S.icicre oye. cleve, hee neers 124
OwateeSCreceh east er scvp eee 90, 124
Raroguet. Carolinial yaaa: ee cere 173
Pantriaeze:. Calif ...S¢ Sate se. wee 135
Phoebes Black.) . fo.cd.at sau 135
Pigeon, Passenger ...... 44, 133, 149
Pelicans Browne. suse eee ejolltee4
PimplessMartin 6:58.22... tee eee 74
FRAT RIS OLA): o.c's ce tls cs cite on Gee 76
RAN ICTIE sar aie's' staat Sateen eee 40
RIMe=DITG 64.6 Ao 2 ae a0 ee 121
ENO IMRAN 5554525 4 recone ees 41, 58, 108
Robin. ‘Pred: ...'. ..2 st 2h ..<nie eee 120
Robin, Rose-breasted .........:.. 121
Robin? INeSt 1. oo. Fad. ao. eee 9
RodwelleG. HH. Death: of ~oiroccsae 2
SSAMMOTIEME |<... 24). 5! velvet (eee ene 38
Sandpiper: Spotted |... 42... eee 44
Sapsucker, Yellow-bellied ....... 87
Shrike, White-rumped...... ...... 25
SICHUUOE| ONG | eee eee per AaTh s S 5 3 120
Skins, A Quick Way to Mount Dry. 76
SIRUIALK | 5 RRs ss Sic 133, 188
SMM wUTOPeAaN, &. A... cick tee 38

Some Hawking Trips. .53, 88, 138, 165
Songs,About Some...... 41
Songs of Hermit and Wood Thrush.183

Sparrow, Enelish %s :: sse4e8 168, 173
spanmows Field. ....<... ..2.+.se eee 92
PALO, SONS... isc, cevepee eee 108

Species and Sub-species of N. Am.

Spotted Bank Swallows Hees. 5 eno

Swallow, -Bank |... eee 166
Tern, NOd@yi-<:... i +s tee eee 129
Tern, Sooty ......:.. SAME. Ae = aera
Texas, Pileated Woodpecker in.. 26
Thrasher,- Brown 2c seen eee 25
Thrasher, .Crissal > .33.0 eee 76
Thrush, - Hermit. |. 2¢ een one 183
Thrush, Varied)... .\cccseruerneereee 92
Thrush}) Wilson's” = coe 90
Thrush, Wood) ...._. saan 58, 183
The Other Side:t 2.7 as2ee oe eee 40
TOWhe6C@ =k Sa 3 3 eee 189
Turkey cia). ake | eee eee 40
Verdin: 2.033 66.c0 - occa 76
Vulture, Turkey. seen eee 76
Warbler,— Bachman’s=*) a. anise 103
Warbler Hooded) {2n5. seh eee 137
Warbler -kointlandisiieeaes eee Pallas)
Warbler; Mournin® .22 e020. seee ee 56
Warbler, Tennessee...... ...... 134
Warbler, sParulas 3. .Shee ose 39

Warblers of Demarest, N. J.....182

Whip-poor-will in Franklin Co.,

Ind., Nesting of the............ 8
Woodcock) “Ams (2 eeneeeee 170
Woodpecker, Downy ............ 27.
Woodpecker, Red-headed.... ...... 60

Woodpecker, Nest and Eggs of the

Pileated ice istis c6 os ae ee 26
Wren, Cactus: A352 76
Wren, Houses. 20... Seen noe 76
Wren, Nesting of the Dotted Can-
yon iniCalic:: : ..ctee one 122,
Illustrations.
Bald” Hagle and Nest? .2-eeeee 4
Nest and Eggs of Green Heron.... 22
Young Green Heron in Nest...... 23
Roadrunners ...2).. A eee eee 54

Nest and Eggs of Least Flycatcher. 70

Nest and Eggs of Bachman’s War-
bler. .. 3 bys asec ot oe 102

Calif. Vulture

Nest and Eggs of Tennessee War-
bler. o.235 25.38 .... ae 134

Nest and Eggs of Ruby-throat Hum-
ming birds... 3-032): +4 See 150

Nest and Eggs of Clapper Rail. .152
Nest and Eggs of Oven-bird....182
Nest and Eggs of Wilson’s Plover.184

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data. RICHARD F. MILLER, 3473 Amreb
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, FOR SALE. —Fine quartered oak cabinet

able bird books or perfect sets of Raptores.
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ark, New York.

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Bald Eagle Experiences in Florida.
Continued.

I had so many letters from various
parts of the country from Maine to
California and one from England
about my article on the Bald Eagle in
your June, 1904 issue, I thought

ALBION, N. Y., JAN.,

1805. WHOLE No. 210

another would interest your readers,
and I will also furnish you a photo of
fine nest with Eagle perched on tree
near nest from which I took a set of
eggs late in December last.

My boy still being home on his va-~
cation, and something of an everglade
trotter like myself, we concluded to go
south some 9 miles and in a direction
we had seen Eagles: fly when we had
been down on our launch. Both of us
with Minnie started by day-break and
poled our boat to the locality, but low
water and glowing sunshine made it
quite laborious work. Almost ex-
hausted we sat down amid swamps of
cypress and saw-grass to eat our lunch
with no luck to date,

After lunch I insisted on going
another direction and on rounding a.
point my boy said ‘‘papa, I believe I
see an Eagle sitting on an old dead
tree nearly a mile away.’’ I took in
the situation at a glance. When you
see an eagle at that season of year.
perched in that style it invariably
means business. We poled the liveli-.
est gait of the day although a few
minutes before we were about exhaust-.
ed.

Nearing the place things looked en-
couraging, we landed, eagle still
perched about 200 yards distant. I
said ‘‘If a nest is near by we shall
soon see both birds’? and no sooner
said than done, over our heads they
soared making their usual screeches
and we soon saw the nest. I conclud-.
ed to climb to it as my boy wished to
shoot a bird for mounting and I had
consented when we found one a
long distance from home. I caution-
ed him not to shoot until I had ex-
amined the nest and when I found 3.

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eggs I said ‘‘dont shoot at all. This
is the first case of this kind I ever saw
and she may lay 3 next year,’’ conse-
quently that eagle’s life was spared by
her having laid three eggs. I put
them in my pocket and began to de-
send when Minnie says, ‘‘wait and I’ll
get a picture with you up the tree”’’
which she did. This nest was the
smallest I ever saw and I’m inclined
to think its the first season used. It
was built of coarse sticks, was about
4'¢ feet across but only about 2% feet
deep; small depression only and lined
with few fish bones and some moss.
Its only about 40 feet high in pine tree
and in an ideal spot. We felt well re-
paid for our days work after all.

The next trip my boy was not along.
I had heard of a nest some 13 miles
away in a large pine tree along a cy-
press swamp. I was obliged to go
alone that day so I took the train and
had conductor let me off in a sort of a
paradise place for game. I sauntered
along in the direction I had been told
and finally I discovered a fine nest
but no sight of a bird near. I kept on
my course and finally I saw one come
to greet me, they always do, they seem
to like me. When I was at the tree, 9
feet in circumference and no limb for
fully forty feet, wind blowing about
15 miles an hour, I wished for com-
pany. Well, I put climbers on and
started up. My hat blew off when 20
feet up; my coat was fastened on or it
would have gone also. It was the
hardest climb I ever had but I made it
and was rewarded only by the sight of
a pair of little downy young about one
week old. I left them of course to do
me service later on. This nest was
some 60 feet high; 6 feet across; 4 feet
deep and was an old one; doubtless
has been used many years.

It was my first visit in that section
and it looked so fine about there I
thought I would continue along the
swamp and edge of timber as it was

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early in the day and I might find ~
another nest or jump up some game. —
When about % mile away I saw an
Eagle chasing some buzzards at a live-
ly rate about one mile distant. I said
at once ‘‘that means another eagle’s
nest and buzzards are there trying to
steal the fish which are usually found
on the edge of nearly every nest.”’ I
made straight for it. On my way I
put in some shells of No. 2, thinkiug
I would shoot an eagle for my boy as
this was a long distance from any-
where, but really if there is one thing
I dislike to shoot, its the Bald Eagle.
I have two, male and female, finest
specimens I ever saw which I shot and
had mounted three years ago. Well,
I jollied alorg quietly watching their
manouvers quite interestedly when to
my surprise up went about five or six
Jacksnipe. ‘‘I dont want to scare the
eagle so I’ll bag some of them on my
return’? was my thought. When this
was running through my mind up
jumped two fine deer, only 25 yards
away. We were short of meat at home
and had eagies so I got the drop on
one fine doe and saw the other run
away not daring to shoot another as I
did not know how to get the one home
already shot. I almost forgot my
eagles nest only 200 yards away. I
dressed my deer however first, took a
breath and up to the nest I went. I
got a nice set and didn’t disturb nest
or birds. Minnie and I went as near
as possible in launch a few days later
and took picture of nest, having to
rough it pretty well to get there
through swamps and tall saw-grass
shooting one alligator on the way, and
for a lady to get along on one of these
trips its no “‘boys play.’’ By-the-way
this is the picture shown herewith
with eagle perched near nest, quite
a thing to get. If you don’t believe it
try it. This nest is 40 feet high, in
pine tree, about 6 feet across, 4 feet
deep and was built as all others are of

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large sticks lined with bark
and Spanish moss.

I lunched, put saddle of venison
over my shoulder leaving forequarters
for the buzzards and started for rail-
road station 8 miles away. O dear!
I never had sucha day, and I never
want—; yes I do! many more just like
it, was home at 8 p. m., and to see
the expression on my boys face to
think he had not gone, was painful in
the extreme.

It was now getting late in the sea-
son but my partner and I went out oc-
casionally to investigate new territory
and often I would find something that
would be of interest later on if not at
that moment.

One eve, taking a circuitous route
home, I saw at a distance what appear-
ed to be an Osprey’s nest or an old
Eagle’s nest, so I went to it and when
there, or quite near, I remarked to
Minnie, ‘‘This looks very much like
a nest my boy and I took a pair of
large eagles from several years ago.’’
The swamp had all been burned over
and of course I scarcely recognized the
place, besides I had not been there for
several years and in the Everglades
everything changes rapidly. While
surveying the situation I thought I
saw the head of a bird move in that
nest, which by the way, I was going
right past because I thought it an old
burnt-out nest. I whooped and to my
surprise off flew ‘‘Old Abe’’ or his
wife and you should have seen my ex-
pression. Well, here we were at 4
p. m., 6 miles from home, nest in
middle of swamp and no rubber boots
nor climbers.

Of course we started right home to
return the next day, but high winds
and bad weather made the trip impos-
sible for several days. In the mean-
time we had left our wheels some six
miles from home wher: we expected to
return that evening and would have
done so but for the fact we could get

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home just as quickly by boat and next
day be on hand with climbers etc.,
and then get our wheels and explain to
the old settler what we had done, but to
our ammusement, he had kept a lan-
tern hung up for us all night thinking
we were lost and when we did not re-
turn he came to town and gave the’
alarm. We had surely drowned etc-
etc. Scouting parties were out at once
looking us up and we were finally
located at our homes safe and sound
and I never saw such a satisfied ex-
pression on a man’s face as the old
settler had. Well when the weather
permittea we ‘‘hiked’’ down there
again and I climbed to the nest but it
was so large and no limbs and the tree
was dead and so very shaky that I
burrowed through the nest and found
but one egg which I was about to put
back and return later for the set of two
but as only one bird was aboutand she
made no fuss and was not on the nest
when we arrived I concluded some-
thing was wrong, I found upon exami-
nation that the single egg was no good
and the Eagle had about abandoned
the nest for that season. We took good
picture of same with me up tree and
returned. This nest was built like all
others, was 60 feet high in top of dead
cypress, six and one-half feet across
and four feet deep. This was almost
our last trip especially for Eagles nests
as it was getting late in the season
about January Ist. Now what do you
think I was told a month or two latter
when avery fine gentleman and my
partner sat on my veranda one beauti-
ful afternoon? he said ‘‘well J. J. I’ve
stolen your partner,’’ 1 replied ‘‘you
don’t mean it.’’ He said ‘‘That’s a
fact I have concluded to take her for
life.’”’ Of course I was delighted in
one sense, but sorry in another as in
all my hunting trips I never saw a
person who so thorqughly enjoyed the
woods and all nature and was so ex-
ceedingly anxious to do her part, even

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to almost climbing trees, I can now
only look ahead next season to hunt-
ing alone and it makes me think of
one of Nat Goodwin’s plays ‘‘Lend me
your wife.”’
J.J. RYMAN,

Awarded a Gold Medal.

When the State of Pennsylvania
was collecting her exhibits for the
World’s Fair at St. Louis, Mr. J.
Warren Jacobs, of this place, was
called on for a loan of his birds’ egg
collection, or that part of it which
applied to this state. Mr. Jacobs
complied, and selected the eggs of
birds known to this state, and placed
them in the custody of those having
charge of the state’s exhibit at the
big show. Mr. Jacobs has one of the

finest collections of eggs in the
country. The collection has been the
subject of numerous newspaper

articles, and has received honorable
mention with illustrations in State
publications. When a child Mr.
Jacobs made a study of birds, and
spent much of his time in the woods
studing their habits and securing eggs
for what is now the greatest collections
in the country, and is in demand for
such occasions as the World’s Fair.
The interest grew on Mr. Jacobs, and
doubtless the birds have not a warmer
friend than he and he often reproves
boys who seek to destroy the birds.
He is a well versed ornithologist and
has issued several pamphlets on the
subject.

The awarding of the gold medal by
the Superior Jury at the St. Louis
Exposition is a compliment and honor
deservedly bestowed, and Mr. Jacobs
will gracefully wear it. The other day
he received this notice, ‘‘In accordance
with the rule, I beg to inform you
the Superior Jury has approved the
recommendation that you be awarded
a gold medal in group 121.’’ This

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notice is signed by David R. Francis,
President of the Superior Jury. Mr,
Jacobs has been notified by the State
Department to go to the St. Louis Fair
and be there to superintend the pack-
ing of his collection for shipment at
the close of the exposition. He will
leave in a few weeks. ‘‘Independent,”’
Waynesburg, Penn.

Nesting of the Whip-poor-will in Frank-
lin County, Indiana.

I have been requested by some of the
readers of the Oologist and other ex-
perienced enthusiastic ornithologists,
to relate the experiences attending the
taking of a set of Whip-poor-will’s
eggs by myself in the collecting season
just closed. The finding of the eggs
was on June 26, 1904, and notwith-
standing the fact of being taken so
late in the season, the set, two in num-
ber, contained only slight traces of in-
cubation.

An accurate description would be a
delicate, faint creamy white, slightly
intensified at one end, but also show-
ing at this end very faint shell mark-
ings of small brown spots of different
shades. This beautiful set of eggs
was forwarded to Mr. Ernest H. Short,
editor of this paper.

The eggs were found at the foot of a
hill along Wolf-creek about one mile
from my home (Oak Forest, Indiana),
the bird when flushed flew across a
deep gulch close by and alighted on a
bank on the opposite side. I then ap-
proached to within about twenty feet
of where the bird was sitting, and with
the aid ofa field-glass I was able to
study and observe her at my leisure
while in this position, and when I
flushed her again she flew back to-
wards her nest, slightly passing in
front of and about ten feet above my
head, giving me a good opportunity
to observe the general appearance of
its under plumage.

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The place where the eggs were taken
was at the foot of a hill in a dense
thicket the eggs were lying in a shal-
low depression in some dry leaves
with no attempt of nest-building what-
ever. Three weeks later I found two
young Whip-poor.wills near the same
place which were only a few days old.
If this was the same pair of birds that
nested there before, I am unable to
say, perhaps it was.

Jos. F. HONECKER,
Oak Forest, Ind.

Much to My Sorrow!

T found a Cuckoo’s nest about the
time the blueberries were scarce with
**6 eggs’’ 24 their natural size; two were
with holes, three rotton and one is in
with my singles. I believe this is very
rare.

I find something is ‘‘raising the
dickens’’ with Cuckoo’s eggs in: this
_part of the country. I find quite a
few Cuckoos’ eggs with holes picked in
them.

I found a Brown Thrasher’s nest on
the ‘‘ground’’ under an Oak tree or
you might call it a bush, situated like
a Chewink’s nest, but had plenty of
stick.

E. S. CooMBs.

The Yellow-billed Cuckoo often lays
six or even seven eggs in rare in-
stances. The Black-billed seldom lays
over four.

I once found a Robin’s nest on the
ground at the base of a Railroad em-
bankment. Flushed her from the
nest and it appeared to have been built
there. Editor.

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A Pomarine Jaeger.

In October, 1904, Mr. W. A. Ket-
cham of Toledo, O., while out duck
shooting near Cedar Point saw a Pom-
arine Jaeger out of gun shot. This
bird is rare in this section of the
country, having been observed only a
few times around the Great Lakes or
perhaws more definitely; Lake Erie.

It was chasing a flock of smaller Gulls
and finally dissappeared making a
dash after some unfortunate Gull.
This Gull was seen plainly and could
hardly be mistaken. A fellow sports-
man saw it also. :
A. C. REED,
Toledo, O.

7, EDITORIAL.
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Houston, Texas, Dec. 31, 1904.
Editor: Oologist:
My Dear Sir:

I take the liberty of writing to you
in reference to a Mid-winter tent-outing
and horseback journey through South-
western Texas and Old Mexico beyond
the Rio Grande. The party is to con-
sist of fifteen men, aside from guides,
chef, helpers, physician and _ host.
Business men who need rest, diversion
and out-of-door life, young men who
are not strong and amateur sportsmen
are the class I desire to have with me.
The camp outfit will be of the best,
and the cooking equal to that in any
private home. The temporary camps
and journey of many miles will occupy
two months’ time, and will extend
through a high, dry country, ranging
from 1,000 to 3,000 feet elevation, where
the weather is as mild and delightful
as Indian summer in New England.

: Each guest is to be represented by two

horses, the one he rides and the one
hitched to a wagon. When tired of the
saddle, he can avail himself of a seat.
The cost will be $10.00 a day.

A physician of large experience in
the care and cure of chronic disorders
will be one of the party, therefore, any-
one needing medical attention on the
trip will be able to secure it, and any-
one desiring special treatment while
on the journey can arrange for it be-
forehand. The place of meeting will
be San Antonio, Texas or some point
west of that city to be agreed upon.
New Orleans can best be reached on
the Southern Pacific Steamers that
leave New York City at high noon
twice a week. The Sunset Limited
over the Southern Pacific takes one
through the old sugar plantations of
Louisiana, through the oil and rice
fields of Texas, through Houston, the

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metropolis of the state, and through
San Antonio, a delightful city, quaint
with Spanish architecture. It takes
more hours to reach New Orleans by
water than by rail, but it is the ideal
way to get south, having our rendezy-
ous in view. It costs a little more to
reach Texas than Florida, but the
damp atmosphere of that low country
precludes the possibility of camping
out. This plateau I am writing about
is the land for tents, horses and. a. life
free from conventionalities. <

JOHN T. PATRICK,

Houston, Texas,

The advantages of this trip need no
special mention. We would like to
have some one in this party as our re-
presentative. While the regular rate
for this trip would be between $700
and €800. If anyone will go as our re-
presentative, furnishing us notes on
the trip, we will make arrangements
whereby they can take it all in at
about half of these figures. Write at
once to publisher of Oologist, Albion,
N. Y., if you can see your way to avail
yourself of this opportunity.

EDITOR.

REVIEW.
Standard American Egg Catalogue.

BY H. R. TAYLOR.

After a careful examination of this
second edition of Taylor’s Catalogue I
am glad to pronounce it far superior te
the first edition. Many of the incon-
sistencies between eastern and western
forms have been obliterated.

Some of those that are peculiar to
this edition may be oversights. I pre-
sume this would account for the dis-
parity between the Swallow-tailed and
Everglade Kites and also for the price-
ing of White-faced Glossy Ibis.

Many collectors will join with me
in condeming the raise in price on
Aplomado Falcon, Bob-white, Vermill-
ion Flycatcher, American Magpie,
Brewer’s Sparrow, Pileolated Warbler,
and others in less degree. And why

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were not Mexican Cormorant, Wood
Ibis and Cassin’s Vireo, lowered?

Was the .60 after Bonaparte’s Gull
a mistake or has some one a bbl. full
back that the Editor has not heard of?

Why raise Mourning Warbler to $5.00
and leave Blackburnian at $2.50?

I think that reversing proportions
between the California and Valley
Partridges was the correct idea and the
same applies to Texas Pyrrholoxia and
Gray-tailed Cardinal but when this
was applied to the Grosbeaks I must
differ in opinion. All Collectors will:
regret that the work could not have
been presented on better paper with a
clearer print. And the shape seems

unhandy too, too wide a little and too
long a great deal.

Of errors in nomenclature there are
many but fortunately few of a nature
to hurt the value of the work. The
Wild Turkeys seem a little confused.

The remarks in the preface are good,
even if some seem aimed at a mark,
and Mr. Dille’s ‘‘Contraptions”’ will
be endorsed by all. On all sides I hear
the complaint—‘‘Why were the Skins
not priced?’’ Well I suppose the job
was big enough as it was, as friend
Taylor says, ‘‘ Its no snap.”’

EDITOR.

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you are willing to send first-class References
an approved lot will reach you safely and on
time. A few bargains, 5 Indian Bird Points.
35c., 5 different colored, arrowheads, 35c., In-
dian Tomahawk, 35c., 10 different Indian Im-
plements, 8c., 5 choice War points. 35c. 1]
the above for $2.00; 10 fine old coins 23c , 3 Lib-
erty cents, 15c., 3 coins 100 years old, 18c. My
price list,old liberty cent. and confederate bill
foradime. Wehavethe goods. You do the.

asking.
W. P. Arnold,

Peacedale, R. 1.

FINELY MOUNTED Deer Head, Fifteen
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Birds Eggs.

New sets juSt in. Subject to discounts and
conditions as printed on page 159, OoLoGIsT
for Sept. 1904

Eggs.
Richardson’s Jaeger.................... 2 $ .45
Starnity Petrel.. 2 asso 22s. eens: 1 22
*Gull-billed Tern......................-. 4 10
WABEIS: EEAW Ks f5. Sooo redee las. es ls 3 00
*Krider’s Hawk...................50000: 3 yf)
*Nor. Bald male. CATSSKA)patisccas 2 6.50
EPONA os) HRC EE TRE oe a a 4 40
Swainson’s Hawk...................---- 3 45
Swainson’s Hawk........................ 2 30)
*West’ Red-tail Hawk.................. 2a a)
FAT SOSDICY ss 252 soe ae eo ee 2 80
PMLA ke ic cat ae Se OAS eetiie ces code. © 1 3
SS anny Crane. oe aise cies pista eer 2 eo 2 1 2.40
Black-tailed Godwit..................... 3 45
Oyster: Catcher... eh he 4 45
BALL PTS (a ale a eee RO 1: Pa Ee OOO 4 0
Northern Phalarope.................... 4 95
*Wilson’s Phalarope.................... 4 1.10
AWilson’s Phalarope... 2:1. see ss acl 3 80
AU OAV CEG te clan ¢ oak sone 4 .60
> Black-necked Stilt... 00.52... ee eee. 4 aor
Black-necked Stilt ies nn iil wick 3 40
Rime PIOverss: 2. . Dated we oe 4 40
SHOW IOVIEN. -. « soieai aise thm isenaieD 00
HOME lOVER fois eee eae aire eh 2 30
1 USI Ve pone ata ete cn a eR 3 45
FG OlMEH, PEMOV ED: sda boars ise nioee a eee 4 70
PAG ss OOO ses. 2s Pct sass Daten memes 4 40
WelloweRail, rare. ssc: - GnoenEor aenen 8 10.00
White-throated Swift, rare............. 1 1.90
Hooded Merganser..................205: 7 7.00
Baleipateds. 6 Fas eee eee ea cease 6 1.50
Ani tNo. 383 from me Am, i (2:4 1.25
Summer Tanager.. aN 3 19)
Rocks WTeN sa)... 2 .eees 6 1.00
Please sts nce 6 1.35
*Coast Wren-tit...... 4 1,20
West. Horned Owl..... 2 85
Canadian Warbler....... 3. 1.50
*Yellow-throated Vireo.. 4 .60
Savanna Sparrow.......... A 20

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I HAVE afew very desirable sets for ex-
change, such as loons, alabhatross. cranes.
falcons, kites and other Raptores, ducks with
down,etc. Warblers especially wanted. All
answered. A. E. PRICE ,Grant Park, Ill. stf

WANTED.—Fine sets of Sharp Shinned
Hawks eggs. Will give handsome sets of
Aplomado Falcon at reduced rates. T. H.
aha 343 E. Biddle St., West Chester,

a.

FOR SALE.—I have many back numbers
of various naturalhistory magazines, includ-
ing the Nidologist, Osprey. Museum, O and
O, Oologist, Audubon’s Magazine and others;
Books and pamphlets on Natural History
subjects; some good bird and mammal
skins; marine invertebrates in_ formalin;
reptile and batrachians in formalin and al-
cohol; and various curios. Any of above
cheap for cash. Wo exchange desired. If you
have as much as fifty cents to invest send for
my lists, but don’t write unless you mean
business. F.P. DROWNEH, M. D,, 20 Bene-
fit St., Providence, R. I.. N.4.t.

DO YOU ever Trap. Ifso you want “The
Amateur Trapper,” by Stanley Harding, tells

' you how to make traps for catching the

Muskrat, Beaver, Otter, Mink, Martin, Fish-
er, Skunk, Gopher, Squirrel, Raccoon. Opos-
sum, Fox, Wolf and Bear, also how to cure
and Tan Skins. Cloth. Contains 134 pages,
with 50 illustrations. Send 50c. to OLIVER
See ee eS, O., and get one pre-
Paid. J 2556.

RADIUM.—I am _ prepared to furnish
Radio-active substances of from one up to
one million activity, and also to make de-
terminations on Radio-active minerals at
reasonable rates. I have some of the finest
specimens of Radio-active ores to be ob-
tained, some of which have just been re-
turned from the St. Louis Exposition and
which I will exchange for fine Indian relics
or old U.S. coins, or other Radio-active ores
not in my collection. No collection of min-
erals or curios is complete without a series
of these extremely interesting substances.
Have also for exchange a fine imported Ane-
roid barometer, both English and Metric
Seales. aa V. CASE, Tarrytown-on-the Hud-
son, N. Y.

WANTED.—Fresh skins or in the meat,
Great Horned Owl (or subspecies), Snowy
Owl,, Ptarmigan, Mountain Partridge,
Hooded Merganser, Wood Duck, Sets of
Cuckoos, Am, ‘Herring Gull, Least Tern,
Laughing Gull, Any Sandpiper or Plover.
What can you offer and what can you use?
ERNEST H. SHORT, Rochester, N. Y.

WANTED:- Five hundred white weasel
skins, also furs of all kinds. Good prices
paid. For sale in the flesh, one wild cat, per-
fect specimen, also Mergansers and Golden
eee J.2.t. ALVAH G. DORR, Bucksport

aine.

FOR SALE.—I still have about 1000 fine
sets left from my private collection which
will sell at reasonable prices. Also Ben-
dire’s Life histories. Studer’s Birds of North
America and Bird Magazines. Write for
list and prices. L. ERNEST MARCEAU,
274 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, N. Y.

FOR SALE.—"Nidologist,” vols. 1,2 and 3,
bound in half morocco. _Good_ condition.
For best cash offer. CLIFTON E. WEB-
STER, Arthur, N. Dak.

WILL EXCHANGE.—During coming seas-
on, sets collected in Texas for eggs not in my
collection. Full datas. Also butterflies and
moths. GEOF. GILES. San Antonio, Tex.

WANTED.—Correspondence with people
who are interested in the painting of birds.
ALAN WRIGHT, 31 Kingsborough Ave..,
Gloversville, N. Y.

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DAVIES’ Nests and Eggs, 4th edition, 13
Recreations. North American Fauna, 1-3-4-5,
Some other good books to exchange for com-
mon sets of eggs. ‘C. B. VANDERCOOK,

FOR SALE.—Fine quartered oak cabinet
containing sixteen drawers 20 x 22 inches, a
beauty. Will take part exchange in desir-
aoe bird books or perfect sets of Raptores.

H. PAUL, 59 West Miller .St., Newark,
oe York.

WANTED.—Another copy of of Rigewas
ik

d. 1873, in good condition. R. PEARCE
SNTTHWICE: 133 Mariner St., Norfolk,
Virginia.

BIG BARGAINS in the following Ist class
sets and singles, for some one, 2735, 212 1-7,
3594, 388%, 3, 4474, 466a4, 5952. 3, 3, ae 1=5)ee 5 bil 1- 5,
50124, 505a%, 5963, 6192, 'k, 6244. 68 2-4, 6843,
7664, 7554. Singles, 2-1, 30a. 3- ala. 38, 64, 86" 4-142,
9-219, 263, 2-273, 326, 337b, 2-308a, 357, 494, 3- 505,
9-687, 3, 2d class 228. Write for my cash price
for ouuite lot. GEORGE J. TILLS, Albion,

WANTED.—AI1I kinds of Live Wild Birds
and Animals. State prices when writing.
Don’t ask me what I pay. DR. CECTL
FRENCH, Naturalist, Washington, D.C. J12t

FOR SALE.—Guitar, Tandem bicycle. In-
cubator, Bflat cornet, Eggs, Coins, Show
coops, Oologist’ s Osprey’ s Popular Science,
Ear Condor. OTHO N. GAY, Men-

on, i

ABOUT FORTY species of common Birds’
eggs, first class full sets i data to oxehen ey

WANTED.—A few first class skins of
Contopus borealis. State lowest cash price.
Hest: DAGGETT, 241 Rialto Bldg., Chicago,

FOR SALE.—Pacific Railroad Reports.
Volumes, 9, Birds,8, Mammals, 6. 10,12, Birds,
Mammals, Fishes, Reptiles, Shells. etc. Five
large quarto volumes bound in Cloth. 265
full page plates, including 38 fine colored
plates of birds. Allin good condition. The
five volumes for $700. F. F. DROWNE,
M. D., 20 Benefit St., Prov., R. I.

FOR SALE.—Microscope, four inch tube,
total height, including base seven inches,
two objectives, in nice case. Good as new.
Cost $5.50. Will sell for $3.00. | Stevens’
gallery pistol, Diamond model, six inch bar-
rel, both globe and neep sights, 22 cal. in ex-
cellent condition. Cost $600. Wil] send pre-
paid for $3.00. F. P. DROWNE, M. D., 20
Benefit St., Prov. R. I.

HAVE thousands of good stamps cata-
logued from 1c to $1.00 each to exchange for
first class sets and bird books. For every
dollar’s worth of first class sets will give
$1.50 worth of stamps. Send listsfirst. GEO.
D. FRENCH, Ivoryton, Conn,

BIRD SKINS ata Bargain. I am selling
part of my collection. 350 skins, about 100
species, many very desirable. All first class

skins. Great bargains for cash. No Ex-
change. List for stamp. Write at once.
ee DROWNE, M. D., 20 Benefit St., eee

OOLOGIST.

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.—Mounted
Grouse $1.00; Barred Owl, $1.25; Blue Heron,
$2.25; Blue Jay, 50c; Black and Grey Squirrel,
$1.25; Osprey, $2.00. GEO. F. HILER. Sebring,

FOR SALE.—A large collection of Miner-
als and Indian Relics, also Postal Currency,
coins, postage and Revenue Stamps. Isaac
Ss. KIRK, Nottingham, Pa., R.2. ~

FOR EXCHANGE.—Fine sets of Whip.
poorwill, King Rail, Florida Gallinule, Bar-
red Owl, Great Horned Owl; also a fine’ large
hand made Walnut egg cabinet, for eggs.
R.M. BARNES, Lacon, Ill, |

A COLLECTION of postage stamps con-_
taining 855 varieties, fine condition. Cata-
logued at over $22. Will exchange for $15
worth of first-class sets. Send lists first.
GEO. D. FRENCH, Ivoryton, Conn. -

FOR EXCHANGE.—Fine sets of Pa. eggs
761, 704, 581, 725, etc.. for others. Complete
data. RICHARD F. MILLER, 3473 Amber

., Philadelphia, Pa. .

DO YOU keep worm eating birds? I can
sell you large, fat, live, yellow mealworms.
1000 at 70c.: 1500. $1; quart(about 4000) ae Hx-
press paid, terms cash. G. BUETTEL,-7
West St., West Somerville, Mass.

FOR SALE.—A. 1. séientific skins of Ari-
zona birds. Will collect: to order during
season of 1905. First class eggs in sets, skins
or insects. Correspondence solicited. H.
H. Kimball, Tucson, Ariz, t.f.

W ANTED.—Back numbers of the OoLocistT
until further notice we will allow the apa
quoted below for the numbers noted.
others wanted. You may select in payment
any specimens catalogued by either of us,
This offer does not apply to Instruments,
Supplies or Books except by special arrange-
ment. For 50c, worth will allow you a years
subscription to Oologist. For 25c worth we,
willsend you a coupon good.for an exchange.
Notice. Copies must be clean and whole.

For June 1888 we will allow $.75.

For May 1884; Jan. and June 1885, July-
Aug. 1886; Jan, -Feb. and June-Sept. 1887; May,
1888; April 1889; we will allow 50c per copy.

For March 1885, Jan-Feb. and Mar-Apr.
ee Aug.-Sept. 1888; we willallow 25¢c per
co

No. others wanted. These can be sent by
mail for 1c for each 4 0%. postpaid. Addresss
ERNEST H. SHORT, Chili, N. Y.° Mer.
Oologist.

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choice line of Indian Relics and coins. If
you are willing to send first-class References
an approved lot will reach you safely and on
time. A few bargains, 5 Indian Bird Points,
35¢c., 5 different colored. arrowheads, 35c., In-
dian Tomahawk, 35¢., 10 different Indian Im-
plements, 85c.. 5 choice War points. 35c. All
the above for $2. 00; 10 fine old coins 23c . 3 Lib-
erty cents, 15c., 3 coins 100 years old, 18¢. My .
price list old liberty cent. and confederate bill
foradime. We hayethe goods. You do the

asking.
W. P. Arnold,

Peacedale, R. I.

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A Chapter from the Life History of the
Green Heron.

(By B.S. Bowdish.)
During my vacation in the second

week of June, 1903, at Demarest, N.J.,
I became satisfied that a pair of Green
Herons were breeding in a swamp

there, but as a pair of high rubber
boots seemed indispensable to an in-
vestigation, and I did not have any-
thing of the sort with me, my sus-
picions remained unconfirmed.

During the spring of the present
year, I observed a pair of herons about
this swamp on several occasions, and
it seemed probable that they would
again nest there, so when I started on
my vacation, May 28th., a pair of high
rubber boots formed an important
part of my equipment.

The swamp where the birds were
seen is about half a mile long by an

_eighth of a mile wide, being a bog-
-hole three fourths surrounded by a

fringe of hard wood timber. Its adge
is protected from the average rambler
by a depth of water that, save in a few
places, renders high boots unavailing,
and extending in arod or more. Be-
yond this the bog is a morass of yield-
ing moss, where one sinks into alter-
nating depths of six to eighteen inches
of water. It is grown with a dense
tangle of, bush and vine, in places
dwarf tamaracs, and scattered here and
there, the knarled and scragly skele-
tons of large and mostly dying trees.

To this swamp I went, on June 8th,
equiped with camera, tripod, ball-and-
socket clamp, plate-holders and high
boots. After some difficulty I effected
an entrance without shipping any
water, and steered my course toward
that portion of the swamp that I
thought most likely to be the nesting
site of the herons. Only those who
have been similarly situated can ap-
preciate the pleasure of making one’s
way through such a tangle, carrying
tripod, camera, and haversack of
plate-holders, where every step one

22 THE OOLOGIST. 3260)

Photo by B. 8S. BowpIsH.

NEST AND EGGS OF GREEN HERON.

may plunge Unexpectedly into mud
and water over boot-tops, and all un-
der the broiling rays of a sun which
beats down into the oven-like, breeze-
less swamp.

Fortunately I did not have very far
to go before I came upon the object of
my search. The nest was built in the
main forks of one of a smail clump of
maple saplings, about twelve feet up.
It was a platform of twigs, somewhat
more substantially built, and better
hollowed than the average nest of this

_ species, and measured about twelve
inches across by three inches in depth.
From below through crevices of the
platform gleams of pale blue betrayed
the presence of eggs. About three
feet from the sapling that held the
nest grew another, Having photo-

graphed the site I was soon squirming
up this latter sapling, pushing the
camera on the tripod ahead of me, and
with the haversack of plate-holders
swung over my shoulder.

It reads easily enough to say that I
suspended myself opposite the nest,
with my legs wrapped about the stem
of the tree, and the legs of the tripod
gripped between my knees, while I un-
packed plate-holders, focussed, and
made four exposures. However if an
appreciation of the difficulties of reach-
ing the site required experience, then

much more is experience necessary to
the understanding of what photogra-
phy under this class of difficulties im-
plies. The work was
however, and subsequent development

accomplished,

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Photo by B. 8. BOwpDIsH.

YOUNG GREEN HERON IN NEST.

proved the negatives to be fairly satis-
factory.

At this visit one of the parents re-
mained perched for some time in a
large dead tree about three rods from
the nest, but made no demonstration.
The nest at. this time contained five
eggs, but I made no effort to ascertain
whether incubation had commenced or
not.

I visited the nest again on June 26th,
hoping to secure a photograph of
young birds. Two eggs had just
hatched and a sixth egg had been laid.
I made two partially successful photo-
graphs of the four eggs and the two
helpless, sprawling young. One week
later, July 3d, I returned to the place

and found six young birds of varying
sizes, the largest standing about six
inches high on his tiptoes, the small-
est still rather wabbly. They all
promptly stood up on their tiptoes
stretching their necks as high as _pos-
sible, pushing their heads forward and
glaring at me, keeping up a continuous
hissing, interspersed with screams
which even at this age commenced to

have considerably the sound of the

adults cry. Oneofthe parents prompt-
ly responded to these cries, and com-
ing to the large tree where it had on
the occasion of my last visit remained
a passive spectator, it gave vent to
screams differing from the usual cry
(which was interspersed occasionally),

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and resembling somewhat, the squawk
of a hen. —

Quite a number of sticks which had
failed to remain where they were placed
in building the nest lay on the ground
underneath, and nest, tree and ground
were spattered white with excrement.
Needless to say, the spot was not fra-
grant. ‘Che exposures made at this
time were unexpectedly successful, but
while they were washing a member of
the family inadvertantly turned the
hot water on them, with results too
painful to record.

In the hope of replacing the lost
negatives made on the 3d, I again
visited the nest on July 7th. The last
hatched bird had then been dead seve-
ral days, and one of the other smaller
ones had died a few hours previously,
apparently. Their bodies lay in the
nest, trampled under the feet of their
surviving brethren. These latter had
grown surprisingly, the largest pro-
bably measuring nine or ten inches
in length. Three of the larger birds
promptly climbed out of the nest and
well toward the tip of one of the limbs,
and fearing to disturb them to the ex-
tent of causing a tragedy, I confined
my photographing to the one remain-
ing infant, his dead brothers, and the
nest, and afterward two views from the
ground of the young on the limb.
The latter were not suceessful, and the
former only partially so.

I removed the two dead birds from
the nest before leaving, and from the
fresher one prepared a skin. This
measures six inches in length, and
pin feathers are starting on the wings.

Owing to the difficulty of access to
the nest, and to pressure of other mat-
ters, I did not again have an oppor-
tunity to visit the place, and so do not
know what was the last chapter in the
life histories of these birds, but I hope
that the four young were successfully.
reared.
changing the intentions of a young

I had the satisfaction of —

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man whose purpose was to collect one
of the adult birds, and I hope that I
may find them at the same site
another year.

ood

“Adventures of a Grosbeak Family.”

The beautiful rose-breasted Gros-
beak is a common summer resident
of and a well known and favorite bird
in Jasper County. I have found them
nesting in fruit trees, in climbing

grape-vines, and in osage hedges, but

more often in box-elder trees at from

six to thirty feet from the ground. .

Their nests are very frail structures
and the complement of eggs three,
sometimes four. They are imposed
upon by the Cowbird. (Fully agree-
ing with the article in the November
Oologist written by Mr. B. S. Bowish,
I have tried to make the above as con-
cise as possible).

A pair of Grosbeaks have nested for
the last three years in a box-elder tree
in our backyard, hardly twenty feet
from the door. Last spring they
arrived from their winter resort on
May 5th and very soon after com-
menced nest building. We watched
their frail nest grow from day to day
until it contained three eggs. After
careful brooding by both parents, at
the end of two weeks, three tiny chips
off the old block were safely ushered
into bird-dom. About this time aspy-
ing Bluejay thought that something
similiar to veal would suit him for
breakfast. Happening near, he soon
changed his mind, and decided that a
brisk walk (or rather a fly) would
benefit his appetite and constitution.
For the male Grosbeak assisted by two
screeching robins, which he had called
to his aid, soon made him hike out of
sight on the overland route.

One bright day near the first of
June, we observed the three young-
sters perched at different heights in
jhe tree, uttering at regular intervals

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their mournful little cry. They even-
tually reached the ground, where the
children caught and patted them,
placing them time and again in the
nearby trees and a lilac bush, where
they. would stoutly cling and climb as
high as they could towards the end of
of the limb. They would allow us to
approach at any time and stroke their
heads, at which they would open their
mouths at us as if expecting food.
The mother would fearlessly come to
feed them while I stood only three feet
away, but the father would never come
out of the trees.

At last after several days two of
them disappeared, but the third a little
male, stayed several days longer.
a funny little fuzzy miniature of his
illustrious father, was still covored
with yellow down, as when he left the
nest, and would always be seen hop-
ping or taking three-yard flights along
the ground. One morning while I was
eating breakfast, I was startled by the
excited calls of birds in our front
yard. I rushed out to find the mother
Grosbeak flitting excitedly from tree

to tree, while at the foot of an oak a
- Woodpecker was waging war against
her offspring. Iran toward them, fir-
ing a club at the red-headed rascal
as I went, and picking up the poor
young adventurer, found he had been
severely pecked about the head and
mouth by the stout sharp bill of the
Woodpecker, who was now exulting
over his victory from the top of a
neighboring telephone pole. The
sides of the young bird’s mouth were
badly torn and his throat was so filled
with blood that he could not peep.

After washing his mouth out with
warm water and rubbing his wounds
with cosmoline, I placed him in the
sun on our w:de front porch, from
which on the following day he followed
his mother off into the wide world
somewhere, apparently none the worse
for his exciting adventure.
J. L. SLOANAKER
Newton, Iowa.

ies

Birds Removing Eggs From Nests.

In the December number of the
‘‘Oologist’’? Mr. Chas. P. Alexander in
his interesting article on ‘‘The White-
rumped Shrike in Eastern New York,”’
mentions finding a ‘‘nest containing 5
half incubated eggs, four which he
collected, leaving the fifth as a nest
egg to make them lay again but was
disappointed as the egg disappeared,’’
also finding another containing 6 eggs
four of which he took, leaving, in this
instance, 2 eggs as nest eggs. These
eggs, disappeared a couple of days
later. A friend suggested that the
bird ate them. This suggestion is
preposterous, and the first instance of
birds devouring their eggs that the
writer ever heard of. ;

The birds simply removed the eggs
being chagrined at the spoiliation of
their clutches. Mr. A. would have
been richer by two nice full sets had
he collected them when he first found
the nests. Very few species of birds in
the writer’s experience will lay more
eggs into a nest after the greater part
of the clutch has been removed. They
invariably desert the nests first, how-
ever, removing the remainder of their
spoiled clutches. There are some ex-
ceptions, however, in which the birds
retain their incomplete clutches and
brood them and in which they simply
abandoned nests and the remaining
eggs,

Here is an instance of bird removing
an egg from the nest, the case being
however unlike Mr. A’s. On May 28,
1898, at Torresdale, this county, found
a Brown Thrasher’s nest situated four
feet up in a clump of blackberry briers
containing four eggs. As they looked
incubated and not caring to spoil four
embryo Harporhynchus rutus lremovy-
ed one of the eggs and drilled a small
hole in the side toascertain incubation
and was pleased to find it fresh. Re-
placing it in the nest, carefully con-

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cealing the hole, I left the set while I
hunted elsewhere. Onreturning about
half an hour later was surprised to
find but three eggs. The birds had
discovered the hole in the egg and
perceiving that it was worthless (to the
birds) they promptly removed it. How
Iam not preparedtosay. The remain-
der of the set was collected. Idare say
Mr. A’s friend would suggest that the
bird ate it.

Haid I time to consult my note book
I could cite many interesting cases re-
lating to bird removing eggs from
their nests. Any reader of the Oologist
knows how the eggs are removed.
This is an interesting subject, little
known and probably unanswerable.
Let’s hear fro. you reader.

RicHARD F, MILLER,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Nest and Eggs of Pileated Woodpecker.

This bird is quite rare in this local-
ity. They only can be found in the
largest bottoms. On April 12, 1902 I
and my brother started for a large bot-
tom in the Navasota River in Brazos
County in search of different specimens
of birds. Going about 5 miles in the
bottom we came to a large dead elm
stub some 14 feet high, it had several
large holes in but they proved to be
old homes of these beautiful birds.
We kept on going and soon we came
to another large dead stub about 15
feet high. In going around it I
noticed a large hole some 11 feet up.
The ground was covered with chips of
rotten wood and bark. We rapped on
the trunk of the tree several times but
failed to bring anything in sight, so I
thought it would bea very good idea
. to climb it. My brother strapped on
his climbing irons, as I am not much
ofa climber. He was about 2 feet from
the ground when the beautiful female
bird left her home with a loud cackling
voice. He was soon to the hole find-

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ing it large enough to insert his hand
and arm, it being about 2 feet deep.
The nest contained 3 very beautiful
glossy white eggs, one of them was in-
cubated but the other two were entirely
fresh.

I suppose the readers of the Oologist
know how happy we felt as this was
the first set of these eggs we have ever
taken, but in a short time we did not
know ourselves where we were at as
we got lost about 5 hours and did not
get home until night.

I fell down some 5 or ten times but
as luck happens I did not break any
of the eggs. This set is in my cabinet
now and never to be taken out.

A. D. DOERGE,
Navasota, Texas. |

Do Something.

A physician says: ‘‘If you cannot
find pleasure in the study of the many
wonders that surround you, if you
care not for geology, natural history,
or astronomy, collect walking sticks,
buy and cherish old, cracked china,
fill up albums and scrapbooks or even
gather together autographs and post-
age stamps—anything sooner than be
idle.”’ The doctor is undoubtedly
right, for true recreation requires a
thorough change of work and also of
thought.—Ex.

EDITORIAL.
Review.

Vol. I, No.2 of the Universal Ex-
change Magazine, Belvidere, Ill, isa
decided success. Well printed on good
paper and the Directory of Collectors
periodicals is alone worth a years sub-
scription. EK:

The current issue of ‘‘The Condor’’
is XXX as usual but of special in-
terest is the Editorial Comment on
Ernest Thompson Seton’s position on
page 181. ‘‘Bird Lore’’ fer December
1904. Unfortunately we can not spare

THE OOLOGIST. 27

room to to reprint it but it hits the nail
on the head and we were strongly
tempted.

‘“‘The Warbler,’’ second series, Vol.
I No. 1, is before us. Of course it is
fine. Coming from ‘‘Childs’’ it was
bound to be, but that fine plate of the
set of 4 Kirtland’s Warbler was an
agreeable surprise.

Mr. Arnolds position toward any
Oologist who may seek to copy his
example of the past season is hardly
charitable however.

We regret to announce the death, of
Mr. G. H. Rodwell of Holley, N. Y.,
on December 3d last.

Mr. Rodwell was an associate of the
Editor’s earliest Oological experiences
and an active member of the old West
New York Naturalists Association now
defunct. Under any conditions, wheth-
er in connection with his hobby or not,
it was always a pleasure to me meet
him and his death in early life is a
loss that we will all regret.
a small but choice collection.

Publications Received.

December Ist to February Ist.
American Ornithology, Vol. IV, No.
12,
Birds and Nature, Vol. XVI, No. 5.
Nature Study, Vol. XIII, No, 12,
Amatuer Naturalist, Vol. I, No. 6.
Philatelic West, Vol. 29, No. 1.
Journal of Maine Ornithological So-
ciety, Vol. VI, No. 4.
American Ornithology, Vol. V, No.
1.
Universal Exchange Magazine, Vol.
I, No. 2.
: ‘‘Birds and Naturs,”’ Vol. XVII, No.

‘“‘Nature Study,’’ Vol. XIV, No. 1,2.
‘‘Candor,’’ Vol. VII, No. 1.
‘Warbler’ (2nd series) Vol. I, No. 1.
American Ornithology, Vol. V, No.2.
Philatelic West, Vol. 29, No. 2.
Collector’s Note Book, Vol. III, No.

He leaves

A Question Answered.
L. LAWRENCE, Ohio.

The male Downy Woodpecker has
the scarlet patch on nape. This varies
much inextent with individuals. The
females have none at all.—ED.

Alameda, Cal., Jan. 30, 1905.
Editor Oologist:

Kindly allow meto add a word or
two to’ your review of my Standard
American Egg Catalogue, and to thank
you for criticism conceived in so fair a
spirit, while citing a few ‘‘bulls’’ which
you have overlooked. It certainly is
no ‘‘snap’’ to compile acriticism-proof,
all wool and a yard wide comparative
“exchange basis.’’ To presume to do
do so is like taking a shotat the moon,
I didn’t. Skin prices were omitted as
suggestions on that side were almost
entirely lacking.

On any schedule, Swalltow-tailed
Kite’s eggs should be priced higher
than Everglade’s, as the former, hav-
ing occured in England, is constantly
in demand in that country, where
Oology is more fostered than in Amer-
ica. There are doubtless more sets of
Swallow-tailed in collections in Eng-
land nowthan in America.’ The in-
creasing rarity of the egg is apparent.
In Bendire’s Life Histories it may be
learned that the Everglade breeds in
colonies in South America, where it is
known as the ‘‘Sociable Marsh Hawk,’’
Mr. Gibson finding ‘‘twenty or thirty
nests, placed a few yards apart.’’
There is a possible, even though re-
mote, supply down that way of ‘these
eggs, but never of Swallow-tailed.
White-faced Glossy Ibis, owing to
plenty of eggs now available, (in Ala-
meda), are high enough. The star
is a palpable error.

The list, which came to me in electro
form, contains some ‘‘breaks’’ in
nomenclature, but for the most part, I
was obliged, per force, to let it go at
that. You did not catch error on Bick-

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nell’s Thrush, which might better have
been left unpriced; and Brandt’s Cor-
morant, obviously common, though
with no price, should have been about
40 cents. Boneparte’s Gull should be
$6 at least. Haven’t seen the bbl. full.
The printers certainly led me a devil’s
chase, as when they worked in Passen-
ger Pigeon at 5 cents and caused me
thereby to reprint four pages, but I
wish the next man (and no better than
the Oologist’s editor can be suggested )
more luck, and hereby subscribe in
advance. we :
rH, R. TAYLOR.

Thanking friend Taylor for his prompt
reply in thesame spirit in which I con-
ceived my review I would only add, I
agree that Swallow-tail Kite is entitled
to more than Everglade but think the
difference too much. Also agree that
White-faced Glossy crowd the demand
just now. It was some such conditian
in 1895 and 1896 that induced Lattin
to make the drops on Gt. Black-backed
Gull, Cabot’s Tern, Tex. ’ Cardinal,
Pine Warbler and Sennett’s Thrasher,

yet these all proved to be mistakes.\; _

—EDITOR.

Owing to pressure of work in our
engraver’s office followed by an un-
avoidable delay in printer’s hands,
partly caused by our new standard
catalogue, we are very late with Feb-
ruary issue. We regret it as muchas
you. We note in current issue of
‘“*Young American’’ that we are not

‘the only ones wite these troubles.

March will be on time.

Se onan

A FRAUD PAR EXCELLENCE.

During the past seven months the
Editor has been quietly investigating
what appears to be the tail of the
worst of all egg frauds.

Some chapters in his history remind
one of the notable records accredited
to certain stamp fiends.

I have traced his record back for 11
years and as a successful ‘‘Big Game’”’
hunter he seems the shining light.

In late years he has operated from
Floral Park, Nyack and New York

| OOLOGIST.

22(>)

City addresses. I am not at liberty to
cite all his triumphs. They foot up
into the hundreds and are all on the
same plan.

The two extracts below I publish by
permission.

Stanford University, Cal.,
Dec. 26, 1904.
Editor *‘Oologist’’:
DEAR Sir:—‘‘It seems to me that

the next crook to get roasted should
.be one C. L. Brownell, formerly of

Floral Park, N. Y.° His present ad-

~ dress I do not know, but if the number

of kicks registered to date is any cri-
terion, in Brownell we have about the
smoothest bilk that has made a repu-
(but no character) for himself, for a
long time. Eminently respectable in
his methods, (he represents himself
to be the manager of a well known
magazine) he has had no trouble in
doing every one with whom he has
had dealings. I hesitate to name some
of those who have been skinned, as I
am afraid that Brownell is a tender

“spot, but I am willing to confess to

having been done to the . extent of
$61.50 exchange value in Raptores and
Warblers.

Brownell did not go out for small
game, and this may to some extent
account for his success as a fraud.
Once he had obtained eggs, he never
concerned himself with acknowledging
their receipt. Threats availed nothing
and he does not care for opportunity
to justify his dealings. Apparently
“‘the nine points’’ satisfy him, and as
he seems to desire further advertise-
ment, I am strong for giving itto him.
Thinking that he had run out of post-
age stamps, or needed the money, I
wrote to his Post Master, who informed
me that he knew Brownell personally,
and that C. L. Brownell had received
my eggs, and would settle up. That
was all the satisfaction that I ever got,
but compared with others who have
run up against Brownell, I think that

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I have them skinned to death as far as
satisfaction goes.

I waited for some time for Brownell
to say something, but I didn’t seem to
have anything coming to me. | There-
fore I sent all the evidence that I had
been able to collect to the Post Office
Inspectors. They promise to give Mr.
Brownell a good run for his eggs, but
I firmly believe that a little judicious
advertising won’t do him any harm (1!)
For myself. I don’t feel sore at Mr.
Brownell, as I expect to go East next
summer. If he is in the vicinity of
Floral Park, I firmly expect to settle
withshim. The machine says that I
can punch—well, I can ring the bell
dead easy, with either hand. But I
am sorry for some of the other people
who have been peeled for their only re-
dress seems to lie in warning their
friends.’’ ; e

‘*Brownell never even gave the vic-
tim the satisfaction of knowing that he
had received the eggs. ‘I realize that I
am perhaps doing Mr. Browneil an
injustice, but my vocabulary is limited

and you can’t call a man anything ©’

that is so very much worse than fraud,
he might feel hurt.
that C. L. Brownell has it coming to
him, with interest; and it is the sincere
hope of your correspondent that all
those who are not looking for ex-
perience, should avoid: him like the
man who sells lottery tickets, for it is
a stand off between them. One will
steal from you, and the other will rob
you. Take your pick.
Yours truly,
CHARLES 8. THOMPSON.

To the Editor:

One C. L. Brownell of Floral Park,
Nyack and other points in New York
who once achieved distinction by being
a principal in the famous Brownell
divorce case the details of which were
so delightfully indecent has broken
out in a new place in his thirst for

However, I think!*

further notoriety. He is now a col-
lector who intends to ‘‘publish a book
on eggs.’’ .

He visited me

last winter—was

suffering from ;on acute attack of

the ‘‘grippe’’ so he said when he came.
We took him in, fed him on quinine
tablets, toast,:eggs, etc., until he had
recovered sufficiently to look over my
duplicates from which he. selected a
little over $100 worth. He fails to send
the eggs he promised in exchange or
to return my sets or even to answer
my affectionate letters, the latter fact,
being a person who likes a good cor-
respondence, I regret almost as much’
as I do the loss oftheeggs, the quinine
pills, et cetera.

I understand he is swindling every-
body whowill send him a set of eggs
on ‘‘approval.’’ As one friend puts it
he is as ‘‘crooked as a dog’s hind leg”’
and parties who don’t care to part with
their specimens as easily as the un-
dersigned did should heed this friend-

ly warning.
Aes PRICE.

A word to the wise is supposed to be
sufficient. Lookout for this gent.
“No telling’? where he will show up
next. ©

And there are two or three more pro-
spective candidates for honorable (?)
mention in these columns.

We would advise them to patch up
the weak spots in their records prompt-
ly before the sun of publicity brings
them into objectionable prominence.

—ED.

We have had avery cold winter for
this climate. Mercury - registered
twelve below one morning and at other
times four befow but in spite of this
weather we have had a Mockingbird
(Mimus Polyglottus) with us. I have
seen him several times in. the hedge
fences near town and yesterday morn-
ing, zero weather, he was in a neigh-
boring yard apparently doing well.

C. B. VANDERCOOK,
¢ Olin, Ill.

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Entered as second-class matter December
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under the Act of Congress of March 8, 1879.

I HAVE afew very desirable sets for ex-
change, such as loons, alabatross. cranes.
falcons, kites and other Raptores, ducks with
down,etc. Warblers especially wanted. All
answered. A. E. PRICE ,Grant Park, Ill. stf

WANTED.—Fine sets of Sharp Shinned
Hawks eggs. Will give handsome sets of
Aplomado Falcon at reduced_rates. T. H.
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FOR SALE.—I have many back numbers
of various naturalhistory magazines, includ-
ing the Nidologist, Osprey. Museum, O and
O, Oologist, Audubon’s Magazine and others;
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cohol; and various curios, Any of above
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business. F. P. DROWNE, M. D., 20 Bene-
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with 50 illustrations. Send 50c. to OLIVER

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paid. J.2. t.

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Laughing Gull, Any Sandpiper or Plover.
What can you offer and what can you use?
ERNEST H. SHORT, Rochester, N. Y.

WANTED: Five hundred white weasel
skins, also furs of all kinds. Good prices
paid. For sale in the flesh, one wild cat, per-
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J.2.t. ALVAH G. DORR, Bucksport

WILL EXCHANGE.—During coming seas-
on, sets collected in Texas for eggs not in my
collection. Full datas. Also butterflies and
moths. GEOF. GILES. San Antonio, Tex.

WANTED.—Correspondence with people
who are interested in the painting of birds.
ALAN WRIGHT, 31 Kingsborough Ave.,
Gloversville, N. Y.

WANTED.—Another copy of Ridgway’s
Manual, must not be too badly soiled. Will
ay cash, or trade Winchester rifle, 44 Cal.,
fod. 1873, in good condition. R. PEARCE
SMITHWICK, 133 Mariner St., Norfolk,
Virginia.

WANTED.—AlI1I1 kinds of Live Wild Birds
and Animals. State prices when writing.
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FOR SALE.—Guitar, Tandem bicycle, In-
cubator, Bflat cornet, Eggs, Coins, Show
coops, Oologist’s Osprey’s Popular Science,
Ss Condor. OTHO N. GAY, Men-

on, Il.

WANTED.—A few first class skins. of
Contopus borealis. State lowest cash price.
aa DAGGETT, 241 Rialto Bldg., Chicago,

FOR SALE.—Pacific Railroad Reports.
Volumes, 9, Birds,8, Mammals, 6, 10,12, Birds,
Mammals, Fishes, Reptiles, Shells, etc. Five
large quarto volumes bound in cloth, 268
full page plates, including 38 fine colored
len of birds. Allin good condition. The

ve volumes for $7.00. F. F. DROWNE,
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$25 VICTOR Talking Machine, good as
new and 50 records for first-class eggs in sets.
A bargain, write. BENJAMIN HOAG,
Stephentown. New York.

WANTED.—Egegs in sets. large or small
lots. Will give in exchange. fine collections
of minerals and shells. A few sets and skins
and some books. Can use many common
Seu ERNEST H. SHORT, Rochester,

WANTED.—Talking Machine or Foot
Power Scroll Saw. for Banjo, Bird’s Eggs.
Books, Magazines and Curios.—F. L. BUR-
RILL, 4 Pear! Ave., Amesbury, Mass.

WANTED FOR CASH. ~ Volume one (1),
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Michiaoe DruiRncloaical ‘lub, or any single
number of the same. Will purchase several
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Write stating price and condition.—J. WIL-
BUR KAY, 62 Selden Avenue, Detroit, Mich-
igan.

FOR SALE.—Microscope, four inch tube
total height, including base seven inches,
two obiectives, in nice case. Good as new.
Cost $5.50. Will sell for $3.00. Stevens’
gallery pistol, Diamond model, six inch bar-
rel, both glove and peep sights, 22 cal. in ex-
cellent condition. Cost $6.00. Will send pre-
paid for $3.00. F. P. DROWNE, M. D., 20
Benefit St., Prov. R. I

BIRD SKINS ata Bargain. I am selling
part of my collection. 350 skins, about 100
species, many very desirable. All first class
skins. Great bargains for cash. No Ex-
change. List for stamp. Write at once.
FE. P. DROWNE, M. D., 20 Benefit St.,
USE: F2t

EXCHANGE.—One new 21 jewel, Gold
filled hunting case watch, for 44 Colt’s revol-
ver, or A No. 1sets with data valued at $40.00.
WwW atch cost $23.00.—S. G. JEWETT, 689 Temno
Ave., Sellwood, Oregon.

FOR SALE.—82 good sets which list to
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sets on sale as apart or a whole. Send _ for
list. FRED M. DILLE, 644 Gilpin St., Den-
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P. S.—Your magazine “The Oologist” is the
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WANTED.—Western collectors and taxi-
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Cal., 1204 South Main St.

EXCHANGE— A 1 mounted birds for
Butterflies and moths in papers, nothing but
perfect specimens wanted. Write for list.
E.R. ADAMS, 2494 Washington Street, Rox-
berry, Mass. (Taxidermist.)

EGGS WANTED. First-classsets. Brown
Creeper, any Horned Larks, Am. Dipper,
nests if possible. Also sets Mexican Jacana,
Surf-bird, Turnstones, Am. Avocet, Phalar-
opes, Topic birds, Skau, Jaegers, Albatrosses.
Spot cash. Quote me what you can supply.
Good exchange in other sets if prefered. Al-
so want all other species American eggs in
sets. nest with rare species any quantity.
Send your list. quote your cash ae BEN-
JAMIN HOAG, Stephentown, N. Y.

OOLOGISY,

FOUR POUNDS back numbers Recrea-
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Rae BENJAMIN HOAG, Stephentown,

FOR SALE.—A large collection of Miner-
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on postage and Revenue Siamps- Isaac

_ KIRK, Nottingham, Pa.,

FOR EXCHANGE.—Fine sets of Whip-
poorwill, King Rail, Florida Gallinule, Bar-
red Owl, Great Horned Owl; also a fine large
nae made Walnut ege cabinet, for eggs.

R. M. BARNES, Lacon, I,

A COLLECTION of postage stamps con-
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logued at over $22. Will exchange for $15:
worth of first-class sets. Send lists first.
GEO. D. FRENCH, Ivoryton, Conn.

FOR EXCHANGE.—Fine sets of Pa. eggs
761, 704, 581, 725. etc.. for others. Complete
data. RICHARD F. MILLER, 3473 Amber
St., Philadelphia, Pa.

DO YOU keep worm eating birds?
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1000 at 70c.; 1500, $1; quart(about 4000) $2. Ex-
press paid, terms cash. G. BUETTEL, 7
West St., West Somerville, Mass.

FOR SALE.—
zona birds.

A.1. scientific skins of Ari-
Will collect to order during
season of 1905. First class eggs in sets, skins.
or insects. Correspondence solicited. H.
H. Kimball, Tucson, Ariz, t.f.

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For March 1885, Jan-Feb. and Mar-Apr.
1886; Aug.-Sept. 1888; we willallow 25c per
copy.

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mail for 1c for each 4 oz. postpaid. Addresss
ERNEST H. SHORT, Chili, N- Y.. Mer:
Oologist.

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to make to you Mr. Collector. Ihave a nice
choice line of Indian Relics and coins. If
you are willing to send first-class References
an approved lot will reach you safely and on
time. A few bargains, 5 Indian Bird’ Points,

30c., 5 different colored, arrowheads, 35c., In-.
dian Tomahawk, 30c., 10 different Indian Im-

plements, 85c., 5 choice War points. 35c. All
the above for $2. 00; 10 fine old coins 28¢ , 3 Lib-
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price list, old liberty cent. and confederate bill
foradime. We have the goods.: You do the

asking.
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WIth 1905 The Warbler begins a new
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The many contributions will be enriched
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Discovery of Eggs of the Knot.

WALTER RAINE, Toronto, Canada.

In ‘‘Nests and Eggs of British Birds,
non Indigenous,’ the author Mr.
Charles Dixon, publishes the foliow-
ing in regard to the eggs of the Knot.

‘‘Several reported eggs of the Knot
are in collections, but none of them
are authenticated. The reputed egg
obtained by the Greely Expedition,
near Fort Conger, is unidentified and
apparently too small, size 1.10 x 1.00.
The egg in the possession of Mr. See-
bohm, although unauthenticated is
more likely to be genuine so far as
size is concerned, being similar to that
of the Common Snipe, but paler in
ground color. This egg was obtained
at Disco, in Greenland; in my opinion
a locality much too far south. This
however, is not the most southerly lo-
cality at which reputed eggs of the
Knot have been obtained. W. Raine
in his ‘‘Bird Nesting in Northwest
Canada,’’ figures and describes what
he asserts to be two eggs of this birds,
taken on the 20th of June, 1889, at
Rododavmsi in Iceland. The account
is circumstantial enough, but unfor-
tunately the parent birds appear not to
have been obtained. It.is only fair to
say that Mr. Raine’s eggs agree appar-
ently in color with that obtained by
Lieutenant Greeley, but are larger in
size and certainly, judging from the
illustrations, very abnormal in appear-
ance. The nest is described as a de-
pression lined with bits of drift wood,
the eggs having the ground color pale,
pea green, finely speckled with ashy
brown.”’

Although some years have past since
the above was published, nothing has
occurred to shake my faith in these
Knot eggs collected for me in Iceland
in the year 1889, It is impossible for
these unique eggs to be that of any
other bird. What else can they be?
The only species nesting in Iceland
laying eggs of a similar size to the

38 THE
Knot’s eggs are the Purple Sandpiper
and Common Snipe and they are
smaller than Snipe’s eggs and entire-
ly different in character, ground tint
and markings. But I have recently
examined a pair of reputed Knot’s
eggs, kindly loaned me by Mr. Wallis,
of Weymouth, England. These were
also taken in Iceland on June 18, 1901
and while they are a trifle larger than
my Knot’s eggs and of a deeper ashy
green ground tint and more heavily
spotted, still they bear a strong resem-
blance to my eggs of the Knot. The
similarity is at once striking. I have
seen hundreds of Snipe’s eggs and
scores of Purple Sandpiper’s, not one
of which had any resemblance to these
reputed Knot’s eggs. Then what else
can Mr. Wallis’ eggs be but those of
the Knot?

IT am fully aware that the Knot is a
rare bird and only an occasional visit-
or to Iceland, but it would appear that
a few solitary pairs occasionally re-
main in Iceland during the summer,
although the majority of the birds
pass on further to the north to breed,
and as the Sanderling is known to
occasionally nest in Iceland, why
should not the Knot do likewise? I
have yet another record of a Knot’s
egg that was taken by myself as far
south as Toronto Island, in Ontario,
and it greatly resembles the other eggs
taken in Iceland, but the ground tint
is more ashy green than any other
Knot’s eggs taken in Iceland. It
measures 1.45 x 1.10 and is also finely
spotted at the larger end with ashy
brown. It was found or May 8, 1897,
by myself and two other Toronto Or-
nithologists.

In referring to my note book I find
the following entry:

“May 8, 1897. This evening Mr.
Fred Dippie came to my house and re-
ported that while he and his brother,
Mr. Sydney Dippie were rambling over
Toronto Island they flushed what they

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took to be a Snipe and ,found its egg
in a depression on the ground, which
they left intending to call a week later
and get the full clutch.

The following Saturday afternoon,
myself and the Dippie brothers visited
the Island, and I took my camera
along with the intention of photo-
graphing the nest. Judge our dis-
appointment in finding the nest forsak-
enand still containing the single egg.
I saw at a glance it was not an egg of
Wilson’s Snipe, a bird that never nests
so far south as Toronto, and as it
greatly resembled my Knot’s eggs
from Iceland, I could not possibly re-
fer it to any other species. The time
of the year May 8th, was very early for
a Snipeto belaying. And spotted Sand-
pipers never have eggs in this locality
betore the first week inJune. This egg
was much too large for a spotted Sand-
piper’s egg; in fact itis as large as a
Killdeer, although entirely different
to the egg of the latter species, so I
consider it safe to name this a genuine
egg of the Knot. It corresponds
exactly with my reputed Knot’s eggs
from Iceland.”’

Now some Ornithologists may laugh
at the idea of an-Arctic Bird like the
Knot nesting so far south, but they
must take into consideration that
Knots frequent Toronto Island in May
during this migration northward.
Several local collections containing
skins of the Knot were obtained on Tor-
onto Island in May.

So that it is evident that this Knot
had an egg developed and had to lay
it and then proceeded along with the
others of her species on their flight to
their nesting grounds in the far north,
I am satisfied that before long other
eggs of the Knot will be collected on

some of the Arctic expeditions and
that this will prove that the eggs re-
corded by myself and Mr. Wallis from
Iceland are genuine eggs of the Knot.

TES

It is not a rare occurrence for migra-
ting birds to lay eggs during migra-
tion.

I know of authentic records of this
occurring with Yellowlegs, Solitary
Sandpiper and Shoveller Duck. ie

D.

The Quail Trap.

Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin
By C. L. RAwson.

The Quail Trap, Midwinter, 1905.—
The mild ten days in the middle of
January a1oused a little activity among
local birds. On January 18 and 20 I[
saw :1obins in the Public Gardens,
Boston, and one at the entrance to the
subway on the Common, while the
Frog pond was covered with skaters.
January 10 I drove from Putnam to the
English neighborhood near the state
line on the driver’s seat of a public
hack. From this lofty perch, among
many winter birds, I saw a group of a
doZen associated robins and bluebirds
and asingle lone wacup. January 10
and 11 I went into the Quail Trap
woods to read this winter’s hierogly-
phics on the snow. There were rabbit
tracks innumerable, many signs of
squirrel and mice, and some imprints
of skunk, mink, jays and crows. In
an open barway, from wall to wall,
the different rodents had made a beat-
en path, plainly flanked by a weasel
as big as a ferret. Indistinctly seen
among alot of hound and bird dog
tracks, were footprints which I made
sure were bobcats, and after a little
search, again, as last winter; I found
the track of a northern white hare. I
measured and compared these impress-
ions with the feet of ajack rabbit which
I just received from Manitoba. The
hare’s front track was larger, but the
jack made greater displacement be-
hind.

Our old cock grouse still bears a
charmed existence. Gunners who
have shot at him during the late open

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season tell me that he uses all the
known artifices of old birds, by flying
straight away, behind the trunks of
hemlocks, by ‘‘towering’’? above the
tops of bushy trees, and by not ‘‘flush-
ing’’ till the gunner passed by. Three
young grouse were spared in our woods
this year, and their tracks were seen
in several places. The impression of
Red Ruff in the snow is in keeping
with his size. To a novice it looks
like the track of a big partridge cochin
cock, and an expert cannot help notic-
ing its resemblance to a ptarmigan’s,
it is now so heavily furred.

The recent death of Joseph M. Wade
of Boston recalls many sunny days a
birding with him in local woods, and
happy hours in his Laurel Hill study
collaborating on bird sketches for va-
rious journals. His off-hand mono-
graph on the house Phoebe stands to-
day the best thing extant on the sub-
ject. I have his special interleaved
copy of the De Luxe Nests and Eggs of
Southern Ohio, now out of print, and
several rare foreign bird books from
his library, rich in unique Audubon-
iana and Wilsoniana. There is a set
of Long-eared owls in my collection
which he took from a Cooper’s hawk’s
nest near Rockville. I have also sets
of Osprey taken by him from rocks,
bar-posts, savins and low hornbeams
on Plum Island, inthe haleyon days
before government occupation.

I recall his delightful enthusiasm
when I showed him, one morning in
early June, ‘‘in situ,’’ fourteen nests
of Parula warbler containing three
score of eggs, showing every shade of
variation. Wade thought it ‘‘remark-
able that in all the pensile nests we
examined there was not a single lazy
bird’s egg.”’

Many people in the bank building
can remember the song of Wade’s
trained grosbeak, which could be heard
for two seasons all along Shetucket
street, when the cage was hung out on

40 THE

the Summer street veranda. At that
time it was a rara avis, but now the
rosebreast dominates everything in
song on our shaded summer streets.
This particular bird was stolen from
Wade’s door in Dorchester, and after-
wards found and identified in a Tre-
mont street bird store by his pathetic
recognition of his owner.

The raven which Mr. Wade brought
from Scotland, when freed found a
congenial home in the wild ledge back
of Summer street. In the fissures of
these rocks his American congener in
olden times no doubt bred in security.
The croaks and gutturals of this raven
often had half of the crows from ‘‘the
Commons”’ and ‘‘ Hell Gate’’ hovering
overhead. When at last he was taken
from his high cave in this ravine he
put up the stiffest kind of fight to re-
tain his freedom. ;

As aclimber Mr. Wade was moder-
ate in his ambition, and on his lofty
finds I usually did the ‘‘shinning’’
for him. I emphasize this point by
recount*ng the chief incident in a trip
we once made in early April over
Hearthstone mountain. Near Whip-
poorwill ledge I climbed to a Red-
shouldered hawk’s nest which held
young Barred owls in the down. ‘‘I
am going up to see those squabs if I
lose a leg,’’ said Wade.

By chopping a twenty-foot stub I
got him up to the first limbs on the
tall chestnut. Then, crawling over the
big branches for thirty fet more, he
did fairly well. Then came a straight
shin of fifteen feet. Wade hugged
three or four feet of this, slipped back,
looked up and down, and said he dared
go no higher. My words of encourage-
ment that I had been up to this nest
half a dozen times safely, failed to con-
vince him. He began slowly to feel
his was down, when the mother owl
softly dusted his cheek with her noise-
less wings, lit on the next tree, and
began to snap her bill.

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This gave theclimber new courage,
and in a second attempt he centrived
to swarm up within two feet of the
nest. Here he had another attack of
vertigo, and after ten minutes of
frightful nausea he lay pale and ex-
hausted on mother earth. He after-
wards described his sensations to me
of his last climb, in his characteristic
hyperbole. ‘‘I tell you, Rawson, that.
when I was near those owlets, I felt as
if I was very close to heaven; but when
I took just one look down those seventy
feet, I was sure to take a tumble
straight to hell! I wouldn’t climb an- ~
other tree like that for a million
dollars.’’

——————o

The Other Side.

It requires little encouragement to
launch the average oologist into a glow-
ing description of the pleasant side of
his field experienrice, but he exhibits no
such great hurry to portray the other
side. This is because he prefers the
illustrious light of a hero to the detri-
mental impression of a blockhead. It
is all right, of course, but I prefer
Mike’s frank impartiality. There was
his turkey episode for instance. In-
stead of the reticence one might ex-
pect he took a humorous view and ad-
vertised it well. He was in the heavy
timber, far from human habitation,
when, partly concealed beneath a brush
heap and near the base of a beech tree
he perceived a turkey upon her nest.
No possibility of its being the domes-
tic article entered his mind although
he had been told that the wild bird was
long since exterminated. He could
hardly repress a shout of joy, but did
so, and cautiously approached, every
moment expecting Madam to flutter
away. She did nothing of the kind—
just sat and eyed him with a bearing
suggestive of calm contempt. When
within a few feet he thought of catch-
ing her and slowly extended her hand.

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Suddenly out shot Madam’s head
backed by about eight pounds of in-
dignant turkey and Mike went back-
ward and sat down real hard. He had
not been expecting this kind of re-
ception and it came as a great shock
and surprise. He sat and collected
his scattered ideas; then wiggled his
fingers and was delighted to find them
in working order. Convinced that no
bones were broken he turned to the
problem of separating Madam from
her oological collection without further
unpleasantries. A solution was pre-
sented in the form of a dead sapling.
When pried from the nest her turkey-
ship refused to stir and Mike had to
push her away with the pole. The
nest contained eight of the handsom-
est eggs he ever saw. His feelings, as
he packed the set and started for home
are left to the reader’s imagination.
Before leaving the woods he met a
farmer. It is one of his characteris-
tics that he can not keep a good thing
to himself. He immediately decided
to enquire regarding wild turkeys and
when told they no longer inhabited
that section intended to spring the
glad surprise. The sun was shining
so Mike started in with the informa-
tion that it was a pleasant day. The
farmer reckoned it was and thought it
did not look like rain. Then Mike in-
quired in a casual off-hand way: ‘‘Any
wild turkeys in these woods?”’ ‘‘Guess
not,’’ was the reply, ‘‘but my turkeys
all come in here to nest and it keeps
me busy looking them up. Am going
to a nest now to tote the whole outfit
to the farm. It is partly under a brush
heap near a beech and [ had trouble in
finding it but speaking of wildturkeys,
now forty years ago——’’ But Mike
suddenly recollected he was inahurry.
When out of sight he started on a run
and did not pause until the brush pile
was reached. Here he found Madam
patiently incubating the empty nest.
He wasted no time but pried her off,

replaced the eggs and got out of the
neighborhood. Then he sat down,
clasped his tired head between his
trembling hands and triedto think it
allout. The only thing at all clear
was the presence of a colossal chump
and he bumped his head against the
nearest tree and went home. The
above is as Mike told it except the
weight of the turkey, his estimate being:
100 pounds,

J. CLAIRE WOOD,-

Detroit, Michigan.

About Some Songs.

ROBIN VS. ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK,.

Ask some. ornithological friend
which song he prefers, the Robin’s or
the Rose-breasted Grosbeak’s. With-
out hesitation he may reply, ‘‘The
Grosbeak’s of course.’? Ask another
friend and he may answer as readily,
‘“‘The Robin’s is the better’’. We
shall blame neither. Taste is un-
accountable, not dependent on the in--
trinsic value of the thing in question,
but the object plus the personality of
the one who chooses. Therefore hav-
ing my own opinion, it will be hard to
secure an unbiased verdict concerning
the beauties and excellences of the
two songs.

The general trend of ornithological
writings seems to be somewhat depre-
eatory to the robin, while the general
trend of opinion from _ investigation
made in my locality seems to favor
him. Havethe writers of books the
keener sense, perception and more
matured judgement? Or does this lie
with the multitude that do not endeav-
or to express themselves in written
language. Let us consider a few spec-
imens. Chapman writes, ‘‘The song
of the Rose-breasted Grosbeak is gen-
erally compared to that of the Robin,
and musical annotation would doubt-
less show that the comparison is not.

42 THE OOLOGIST.

misleading. But the similarity is
largely one of form; in expression
there is no more resemblance in their
voices than there is between the birds
themselves. There is an exquisite
purity in the joyous carol of the Gros-
beak; his song tells of all the gladness
ofa May morning; I have heard few
happier strains of bird music.’’ | Dr.
Kirtland states (per Wheaton, ‘‘Birds
of Ohio’’?) that in the cranberry
marshes of Northern Ohio its song
surpasses the Mockingbird in anima-
tion. Abbott in his ‘‘Birds About Us,’’
is extravagantly in favor of the Gros-
beak.

This will suffice for the Grosbeak’s
side. On the other hand we find the
following in John Burrough’s ‘‘Wake-
-Robin,’’ in my opinion the fairest,
sharpest, double-sided view to be
found, containing as much meaning
as could well be crowded in one sen-
tence. ‘“‘It is a strong, vivacious
strain, a bright noon-day song, full of
health and assurance, indicating fine
talents in the performer, but not
genius.’’ Elsewhere from the same
source I quote the following at some
length. ‘‘In that free fascinating,
half-work and half-play pursuit,—sug-
ar making—a pursuit which still
lingers in many parts of New York,
as in New England—the Robin is one’s
constant companion. When the day
is sunny and the ground bare, you
meet him atall points and hear him
at all hours. At sunset, on the tops
of the tall maples with look heaven-
ward and in a spirit of utter abandon-
ment, he carols his simple strain.
And sitting thus, amid the stark,
silent trees, above the wet, cold earth,
with the chill of winter still in the air,
there is no fitter or sweeter songster in
the whole round year. It is in keep-
ing with the scene and the occasion.
How round and genuine the notes are,
and how eagerly our ears drink them
in! The first utterance, and the spell

of winter is thoroughly broken and
the remembrance of it afar off.’’

And now I should contribute my
mite of opinion. The basis of this is
not mere taste, [ trust. The chief rea-
sons why so many prefer the rich carol
of the Grosbeak to the uncertain but
plaintive and inspiring evensong of
the Robin are: 1. The Robin is so
much commoner, his notes so much
more familiar, and their novel beauty
cannot stand the test of eternal repeti-
tion while the Grosbeak is rare enough
always to command attention. 2. The
Robin is heard in prusaic, often’
hideous situations, while the Grosbeak
sings chiefly in the gorgeously bright
woods of May and June. 3. The
Robin’s song has many detracting im-
periections, his voice cracks most un-
musically at times, while all the Gros-
beaks are good singers.

Transfer these items in favor of the
Robin—where they should be—and
the scale will weigh against the Gros-
beak. Clothe the beautiful Grosbeak
with the Robin’s familiar chestnut
and grayish brown, bring him to the
‘‘back yards’’ of the city, make him
as abundant as the Robin now is, and
sing as constantly, and it would take
a surprisingly short time to tire of
him. It is easy to avow we could
never tire of a song, but this cannot
be true. I have never yet met the
nature lover who could not tind a con-
Stantly-repeated song monotonous,—

‘*Variety is the spice of life

That gives it all its flavor,’’
says the poet, and this applies nicely
to the situation.

I would not have it believed I depre-
ciate the Grosbeak’s song; I could
listen to it for hours (but not forever).
I only seek to ‘‘give the devil his due.’’

Green Leaves in Nests.

Mr. J. H. Bowles article in ‘‘The
Oologist’’ for October set me lo look-

THE OOLOGIST. 43

ing up datain my note books and I
find several instances of nests of Red-
tailed and Red-shouldered Hawks in
which green leaves were used, as fol-
lows:

Red-tailed Hawk, April 26, 1896. In-
cubation advanced. Nest contained
some sticks on which were small green
leaves.

Red-shouldered Hawk, May 3, I896.
Incubation one-third. Nest of sticks
lined with moss, maple twigs on which
were small green leaves, strips of bark
and lots of tent caterpillar’s nests.

Red-shouldered Hawk, May 12, 1896.
Incubation fresh. Nest lined with
strips of bark, dead and green leaves,
a small piece of moss and several cat-
erpillar’s nests.

Red-tailed Hawk, Apr. 24, 1898. In-
cubation fresh. Nest contained green
maple blossoms.

Red-tailed Hawk, May 22, 1898.
Eggs addled. Nest contained a lot of
green Jeaves.

Red-shouldered Hawk, Apr. 23, 1899.
Incubation fresh. Nest lined with
rootlets, fine bark strips, birch bark
and a few dried green leaves.

Red-shouldered Hawk, Apr. 23, 1899.
Incubation, small embryos. Nest,
lined with dead leaves, bark strips,
some green moss and a green fern.

Red-shouldered Hawk, May 7, 1899.
Incubation two-thirds. Nest contain-
ed green leaves.

Red-shouldered Hawk, May 12, 1899.
Incubation, small embryos. Nest,
lined with pine leaves, bark strips,
some broad grass, a few green leaves,
an old Vireos nest and some down
from the bird’s breast.

Red-tailed Hawk, Apr. 28, 1901.
Incubation, large embryos. Nest
lined with bark strips and a few corn
husks. A few evergreens were hang-
ing from the edge of the nest and some

of the twigs in the nest had green _

blossoms on them.
In nearly all cases the green leaves

were placed around the rim of the nest
seemingly as a decoration.

Nearly all Red-shouldered Hawks in
this locality use lots of the old nests
of the tent caterpillar to decorate their
nests with also an occasional sprig of
pine or hemlock with the green leaves
on. Around Penn Yan the evergreens

‘are seldom. used, although there are

evergreen trees in nearly every wood,
but at Branchport, only 8 miles from
Penn Yan, nearly every nest contains
evergreens.

The Red-tailed Hawk uses an abun-
dance of evergreens in nearly every
nest.

The Red-shoulder uses quite a varie-
ty of nesting material among which I
have found corn in theear, corn cobs,
corn husks, tissue paper, Baltimore
Orioles, Wood Pewees and Red-eyed
Vireo’s nests, straw, mullen leaves
and binding twine.

VERDI BURTCH,
Branchport, N. Y.

More Green Leaves in Nests.

Mr. Bowles’ description of his
Broad-winged Hawk’s nest with green
leaves in October ‘‘Oologist’’ makes
an interesting addition to Mr. Short’s
list of one, (Mississippi Kite) but
does not by any means complete the
list.

I have found green leaves in nests of
Western Red-tail and in Swainson and
Red-bellied Hawks. In the cases of
the first two itis so rare as to be re-
markable and can only be considered
accidental or freakish, but with the
Red-bellied Hawk it is another story
and | have found the nest that does
not contain a greater or less quantity
to be the exception. My records show
scarcely a nest where they were not
found.

Out of seven nests of the species tak-
en by me last season, green leaves
were in all but one. This contained

44 THE

three eggs with slight incubation.
The other sets ranged from fresh to
chicks with feathers.

I am quite well convinced from
many years of observation that this
Hawk replaces the leaves from time to
time during incubation as I have
found them in nests containing eggs
in all stages, frequently finding badly
incubated and leaf stained eggs in
nests with fresh leaves.

In the ‘‘Life Histories,’’ Major Ben-
dire records finding green willowstems
with the leaves on, in lining of nest,
containing two fresh eggs and quotes
Wm. L. Belding, regarding the find-
ing of three young birds in nest which
contained green, but dry, and broken
leaves in lining. Both nests of this
species.

Davie in the ‘‘Nests and Eggs’’ at-
tributes the green leaf habit to the
Florida Red-shouldered Hawk also.

C. S. SHARP,
Escondido, Calif.

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Red-winged Blackbird.

The curious notes of the Red-wing,
liquid when close by, burly at a dis-
tance, have given rise to a variety of
phrasings most surprising. Yet, out
of the host, not one is perfectly satis-

factory. If it were, it would be accept-
ed and used as such. (e. q. the
‘*Teacher teacher’’, etc. which Bur-

roughs applied to the Ovenbird.) The
most generally favored at present
seems to be one of the earliest, that
used © by Thoreau—‘‘conqueree.’’
When the phrasing is changed, the
changed form may be very like the
original, e. g. the ‘‘kong-quer-ree’’
used by Chapman. All that I have
seen have good points, all save one—
Flagg’s ‘‘chip-chip-churee’’?’ which
might as well apply to any other bird.
The general fault (in my opinion, of
course) seems to be the lack of an ez-
plosive syllable, and the fact that the
first, almost inaudible syllable, is giv-

OOLOGIST.

en equal importance with the last, the
only part of the song audible at a
good distance. Why not italicize the
last syllable? With the assumed
faults corrected, it might stand as
‘‘con-ker-pléé.”’

NORMAN O, FOERSTER.

Young Spotted Sandpipers can Swim.

Last summer while out on a collect-
ing trip in a large swamp south of the
city, having collected nothing but a
set of Yellow Warbler and American
Red-start, I sat down to rest on a bank
ofasmall pond, feeling a little dis-.
couraged. A small flock of Sand-
pipers came into view, and while
watching these a Least Bittern came
and scared the Sandpipers away. I
went over after the Bittern. I flushed
up an old Sandpiper and her little
chicks. Two of these little fellows
came in the path and ran towards the
pond. I stopped for them to come
back, being afraid they would get
drowned, but to my surprise they
walked into the water and swam out to
a small sand bar where I could not
get them. In the meantime the Bit-
tern became frightened and flew away.
I walked up the bank aways and sat
down to watch the young Sandpipers.
I caught one with little difficulty and
examined them to see if they had web-
bed feet. They had not. I then took
him and flung him in the pond about
two rods out, he came to the top and
swam to the shore and hid in the grass.
This may be a little news to some,

ALAN WRI@HT,
Gloversville, N. Y.

The young of all the wading birds
that I have had opportunity to study
swim with perfect ease and voluntarily
when a few hours old. Many, though
not web-footed, have limited diving
powers also,

EDITORIAL.

WILD PIGEONS RE-APPEAR.
Big Flock of Rare Birds Seen at Chardon.

CHARDON, O., Nov. 2.—A flock of
fully 6500 wild pigeons passed over
Chardon, Saturday afternoon. Hun-
dreds of people who are familiar with

THE OOLOGIST. 45

the markings of the wild pigeon, wit-
nessed the sight. The flock was also
seen at Aquila Lake. The re-appear-
ance of these birds after an absence of
twenty-three years has caused consid-
able speculation among the sportsmen
of this locality. Wild pigeons were
last seen near Chardon in April, 1883.

The last great flight of these birds in
northern Ohio, was witnessed in the
spring of 1876. The pigeons reappear-
ed in the spring of 1877, but in greatly
diminished numbers. Their total dis-
appearance later caused the belief to
become general that the birds had been
annihilated by market hunters. For
years the Smithsonian Institution has
had a standing offer of $1,000 for a
single specimen of the American wild
pigeon. At various times the presence
of pigeons has been reported in remote
sections of foreign countries, but all
efforts to locate the birds in the United
States have proved fruitless.— Toledo
Blade.

Re-appearance of the Pigeons.

In certain localities in New Eng-
land, wild pigeons are said to have
appeared so freely as to suggest the re-
generation of a species supposed by
many to have become nearly extinct.
In times not yet really remote they
were familiar as visiting their favorite
haunts in prodigious numbers. Their
great ‘‘roosts’’ in northwestern Penn-
sylvania, not very far from Buffalo,
are well remembered by the old sports-
men. Considerable pieces of forest
would be literally loaded with the birds,

so heavily that large branches of trees _

would give way under their weight;
and their slaughter with guns or cap-
ture with nets was the simplest of
accomplishments. They were des-
troyed by the million; as relentlessly
followed up as the wild buffalos on the
plains were, and apparently with sim-
ilar result. The pigeons were seen no
more in anything comparing with
their former profusion. The popular
belief was that they had been killed
off. Some inclined to the opinion that

the instinct of self-preservation had
caused them to migrate permanently
to some remote part of the world; and
this may be true, for stories have been
told by travelers of seeing vast flocks
of them in the Andes of South Amer-
ica. If it is true that wild pigeons are
returning to the North in substantial
number, every state into which they
may come should provide amply by-
laws for their protection. — Buffalo
Courier.
June 20, 1904.

The above clippings are in line with
other reports more or less authentic
this last season and it would seem
possible that these birds are becoming
more plentiful.

If careful observation during the
coming season should confirm this,
let us welcome them with careful pro-
tection and abstain from a rush for
Skins and live Birds, which would be
a calamity.

I know of one pair breeding in Mon-
roe county, N. Y., last June. Had I
taken them I could not reasonably ex-
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they escaped and will return three-fold
this coming summer.

We have Laws enough. Too many
in this state. As a prominent Game
Protector said this last season. ‘‘If
the people would co-operate to help us
enforce half of the existing laws the
Birds would be amply protected.”’

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CHRIS P. FORGE,

Carman, Man.

List of Mounted Birds and
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Snowy Owl with Rabbit, $3.50; Rough-
legged Hawk, spread wing with prey, $3.50;
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Snowbird. 50¢.: Sawwhet Owl], $1.50; Blue-
winged Teal, $100: Pileated Woodpecker,
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Carman, Man., Can.

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SOME HAWKING TRIPS.

By HARRY H. DUNN.
After Western Red Tails.

I have been feeling it coming for
some time, this longing to get. once
more into print through the columns

of the Oologist and today I am going
to try to tell you just alittle of the fun
I have had afield in the warm days of
many a new year in southern Cali-
fornia.

How it is with the rest of you fellows
who read the Oologist and contribute
good stuff to its pages, I don’t know,
but as for me, I like to take down a
file of the ‘‘old reliable,’’? draw my
chair up to the fire and spend one of
these long evenings reading about the
things some other fellow has done in
an oological way in some other state.
Best of all I like to read about their
‘‘takes’’ of hawks and owls and eagles,
sets that are precious because it takes
dear effort to get them.

There are always such sets in every
collection, and as I turn’ my hawk’s
eggs over, one by one, noting each
flash of purple, each grotesque daub of
brown, I come upon two ‘huge speci-
mens, unmistakably Red tails, yet of
size more ample than most Western

‘Red Tails, large enough indeed to have

come from some of the famous hawk-
ers of lowa and Kansas and Minnesota,
where the genuine old down east Red
tail holds forth. What a day this set
recalls to mind! Morning in the hills,
me astir at five of a cool March day,
the 31st, I believe, the chores done, a
lunch box, heavy with mother’s good
cookery on my arm, my little lathers’
hatchet at my belt, my pockets full of
cotton, and, last but by no means least,
two dogs atrail. One of these, a bob
tailed, human hearted old fox hound,
answered the death song of a rattle
snake almost four years ago. The
other, little. and nothing, but common
‘‘dawg’’, but a fit companion for the
brave old hound, still lives and is the

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torment of careléss boys who come to
kill the meadowlarks or other sweet
singers on his master’s place.

Such was my outfit, and I struck off
into the hills like Ponce de Leon on the
quest of his fountain of youth. Close
together, like the three comrades that
we were, we crossed the first low range
of hills and then let ourselves down
into a canyon filled with low live oaks,
here and there a lofty sycamore rear-
ing its white head gaunt against the
blue of the California sky.

It was almost noon when we came to
this place, and so far I had found just
seven nests of the big hawks, most of
them filled with green leaves, but none
containing eggs. Heartily tired I sat
down to eat my lunch beneath one of
the oaks, while the dogs bathed and
played in the creek below, when, glanc-
ing up I, saw, fitted close in against
the trunk of one of the largest of the
sycamores, a rough nest, huge of out-
line and surmounted by the head of a
hawk! :

Lunch was forgotten. I ran down to
the base of the great trunk, which
could not have been less than three feet
in diameter, and rapped excitedly with
my hatchet. There was a scream from
above, a sound as of flapping wings,
and an immense, hawk flew away
through the tree tops. The way I went
up that tree was a circus and I have no
doubt that, if dogs laugh, the sides of
both of mine were sore when I came
back to earth.

The tree was too large to climb
without irons and of these I had none,
so I had to crawl into the tree on a low
hanging branch. Once there it was an
easy climb up to the nest.

Judging from all appearances, I
should have found at least a set of
three ; what I got. was two monstrous,
badly incubated eggs, evidently a full
set, beautifully marked, unusual in
size, but too few to be typical. In
nine cases out of ten, when a Red tail’s

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nest contains only two eggs, the set is
incomplete, though ‘sometimes the fe-
male lays a second set of only two
when, for some reason she has been de-
prived of her first s >t.

When I had rested from this climb I
started down through the oaks and
about the first thing I did was to rouse
a Long eared owl off six nice fresh eggs
in an old crow’s nest only a few feet
from the ground in an oak sapling. I
never saw one of these owls accept a
deserted nest in so unstable a position
but I expect Madam Owl knew more
about this than I did, but I have her
set yet. Then I began to investigate
the old crow’s nests more closely, with
the result that, in the next hour, I
took two more fine sets of the Long
eared and found a family of three
young Pacific Horned Owl. These large
owls usually lay their eggs in January
or February, so that their youngsters
had a long way the start of the long
ears.

I flushed a number of young Barn
owls, birds of the year passed, from
among these empty crows’ nests, and I
judge that they were making use of
them as roosting places and hunting
lodges, for their home nests, I well
knew, were several miles away in a
honey combed cliff on the edge of a
large canon.

The Red tails seem to sort of shun the
oaks except in very rare cases, so I
paid little attention to many of the old
crow nests until I came in sight of
one visible from all sides. It was in
the upright fork of a vertical limb of a
giant oak, fully forty feet from the
ground and without a limb for the last
half of that distance. On the nest in
plain sight, sat Mrs. Red tail, calmly
watching my movements and not deign-
ing to fly until I rapped her tree heav-
ily several times. Then she left with
a rush and a scream, rising to join her
mate, hanging on motionless wings
far up in the heavens.

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It took me a good half hour to get to
that nest, but when I got there all else
was forgotten for there lay four beauti-
fully marked and perfectly fresh eggs.
Red tails by their markings and from
her scream I knew them to be, but had
they been Golden Eagles’ eggs, I should
hardly have been more delighted.

Then, when I had had a rest, I struck
off across the hills for home with a
light heart, and you who have wandered
far afield in this pursuit know full well
that it was well after dark ere the
lights of home came into view.

(To be continued.)

Personally I am not competent to
state as to completeness of set of 2 of
337b, but am certain that 2 is very of-

ten a complete set of the Eastern Bird.
Ed.

NOTES ON THE WARBLERS OF CAN-
ADA.

By W. L. KELLS.
The Mourning Warbler.

(Geothlypis philadelphia. )

The Mourning Warbler though not
abundant in any district, is yet pretty
widely distributed over the province of
Ontario, as well as other divisions of
eastern Canada, but it is among the
last of the family to announce its vern-
al advent amid the wild scenery of its
summer haunts. Usually, when the
expanding buds of the lower underwood
are bursting into leaves, when the yellow
bloom of the leather wood scents the
spring time air, and the virgin soil of
the for2st, is variegated by. the early
wild flowers of the season, the observer
of bird migrations, if in the vicinity of
its chosen summer home, will be enabl-
ed by the sound of its song, to add to
his list this species, as among the more
recent arrivals from the sunny south.
But, as the month of July advances, its
nesting period is over, its notes for the
seasons are silent, and the bird itself

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appears to be among the first of the
members of its. family to take its de-
parture from the uncultivated scenery —
of its summer home, and begin its
aerial voyage towards its tropical win-
ter residence in the regions of Central
America.

Here it enjoys the pleasures of exist-
ing amid perpetual summer, during
that portion of the year when its Ca-
nadian fatherland feels the chilly
breath of the ice king, is covered with
a mantle of snow, and swept by the
wild storms of winter. In March it
begins its northward journey, but two
months pass away before it reaches the
terminus of its winged voyage in the
region of its northern range and sum-
mer home; and here begins again one
of the chief objects of its migration
movements, i. e., the propagation of
its species, and when the period during
which this can only be done, is over,
the impulses to return towards the
south seem strong, and to yield to the
promptings of nature, in this matter,
is not long delayed; for, by the middle
of September, if not earlier, all the
species of the genus have disappeared,
though some individuals may linger
longer amid the scenery of their sum-
mer haunts, in the thicket and swamp,
than is now known.

The haunt and home of the Mourning
Warbler, during the period of its resi-
dence in Canada, is generally on the
margins of lowland woods, or second
growth swamps, where there is an in-
termingling of young under wood, fall-
en brush and Raspberry vines. It may
also occasionally be found to frequent
wooded ravines, the sides of brush coy-
ered hills and the margins of mud bot-
tomed creeks, which are found to me-
ander their courses through what are
called ‘‘beaver meadows,’’ where there
is deep concealment, and here, amid
the thick foliage, one strain of the song
notes of the male of this species, may
often be heard in the midsummer days,

THE OOLOGIST. 22(A 57

while the little performer itself is
invisible. At times he will rise to a
considerable elevation, and after a
pleasing performance of quite a differ-
ent series of musical notes, in the vent-
ing of which he appears to take much
pleasure and pride, and during which
he makes a rainbow like circle, he
makes a rapid descent into the thicket
below, near where, it is probable, the
female has her nesting place. Another

particular haunt of this bird is small -

clearings in tracts of hardwood forest,

and along the sides of roadways through
' primitive woods, but it is seldom ob-
served out in the open fields, except in
the backwoods settlement, nor does it
often approach the garden, or other
environments of human habitations,
and, except where the woods are open,
it will not be found deep in the forest, but
as the original forests of southern On-
tario are fast disappearing, time will,
no doubt, effect great changes in the
summer haunts of this species. In
eastern Canada, the Mourning Warbler
does not appear to advance further
north than the Gulf of St. Lawrence,
and the valley of the Ottawa River,
but in the western portion of its range,
which extends to the foot hills of the
Rocky Mts., it may extend its summer
range to more northern latitudes, and
higher altitudes, than in the east. Too
little is yet known of the nesting his-
tory of this Warbler, to describe wheth-
er it deposits more than one set of eggs
in the season, certainly its nesting per-
iod would not allow of its raising more
than one brood during its summer stay
in Canada; but where the first clutch
of eggs are taken it will doubtless nest
a second time. But considering the
many enemies among the smaller mam-
mals, birds of prey and reptiles to
which its eggs and young are exposed
it is doubtful if even one brdod is rais-
ed by each pair of the species that
cross our national boundry with each
return of spring; even in the most pro-
tective localities; though the process

of civilization is rather in favor of its
increase except from the presence of
the domestic cat and yet it is wonder-
ful how some nests of our garden fre-
quenting birds will escape the attention
of this agile feline foe. The chief
protective means resorted to by this
species is by selecting a deep shady
spot either among thick herbage, vines
or young underwood on or near the
ground, and then when incubation has
begun and as soon as the female be-
comes aware of danger she does not fly
directly from the nest but quietly runs
off among the surrounding shade and
does not take wing till some distance
away, nor does she return to her charge
till she thinks the danger is over.
These efforts to protect her progeny
are so far as human kind are concerned
so successful that very few of the nests
are ever discovered, and its eggs are,
and ever likely to remain a rarity in
oological collections, but the case is
very different with the lower orders of
Carnivorous mammals and _= snakes,
which are ever on the search to find
and devour the eggs and young of every
species that comes within their reach.
In this, charge the Red Squirrel, the
Chipmunk, the Weasel, the Mink, the
Fox and the Skunk, are among the
chief transgressors that range the
haunts of the Warble s, while nearer
human habitations, cats, rats, and even
mice do their deadly work, and no
enemy of all the Warbler family is
more dreaded than the vagabond Cow-
bird. During the past twenty years a
number of the nests of the Mourning
Warblers have come under my observa-
tions and the finding of these has been
rather accidental than the results of
continuous field and forest research,
Guelph, Ont., Daily Herald.

Probably more authentic sets of this
Warbler have been taken in Orleans
county, N. Y., than any other locality
as restricted.

They much prefer the first nesting
site mentioned. They do not nest but
once unless disturbed. Ed.

58 THE OOLOGIST.

Adventures of a Grosbeak Family.

The beautiful Rose-breasted Grosbeak
is a common summer resident of and a
well known and favorite bird in Jasper
county,lowa. I have found them nesting
in box elder trees at from six to thirty
feet from the ground. Their nests are
very frail structures and the comple-
ment of eggs three, sometimes four.
They are imposed upon by the cowbird.
Fully agreeing with the article in the
the Oologist written by Mr. B. S.
Bowish, I have tried to make the
above as concise as possible.

A pair of grosbeaks have nested for
the last three vears in a box elder tree
in our backyard, hardly twenty feet
from the door. Last spring they arriv-

d from their winter resort on May 5th
and very soon after commenced nest
building. We watched their frail nest
grow from day to day until it contained
three eggs. After careful brooding by
both parents, at the end of two weeks,
three tiny chips off the old block were
safely ushered into bird dom. About
this time a spying Blue Jay thought
that something similar to veal would
suit him for breakfast. Happening
near, he soon changed his mind, and
decided that a brisk walk or rather a
fly would benefit his appetite and con-
stitution. For the male grosbeak as-
sisted by two screeching robins, which
he had called to his aid, soon made him
hike out of sight on the overland route.

One bright day near the first of June,
we observed the three youngsters
perched at different heights in the tree,
uttering at regular intervals their
mournful little cry. They eventually
reached the ground, where the children
caught and patted them, placing them
time and again in the nearby trees and
a lilac bush, where they would stoutly
ling and climb as high as they could
towards the end of the limb. They
-would allow us to approach at any
time and stroke their heads, at which

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they would open their mouths at us as
if expecting food. The mother would
fearlessly come to feed them while I
stood only three feet away, but the
father would never come out of the
trees. .

At last after several days two of
them disappeared, but the third a little
male, stayed several days longer. He,
a funny little fuzzy miniature of his
illustrious father, was still ~covered

with yellow down, as when he left the

nest, and would always be seen hopping
or taking three yard flights along the -
ground. One morning while I was eat-
ing breakfast, I was startled by, the ex-
cited calls of birds in our front yard. I
rushes out to find the mother Grosbeak
flittin excitedly from tree to tree,
while at the foot of an oak a wood-
pecker was waging war against her oft-
spring. I ran toward them, firing a
club at the red headed raseal as I went,
and picking up the poor young advent-
urer, found he had been severly pecked
about the head and mouth by the stout
sharp bill of the woodpecker, who was
now exulting over his victory from the
top of a neighboring telephone pole.
The sides of the young bird’s mouth
were badly torn and his throat was so
filled with blood that he could not peep.
After washing his mouth out with warm
water and rubbing his wounds with cos-
moline, I placed him in the sun on our
wide front porch, from which on the
following day he followed his mother
off into the wide world somewhere,
none the worse for his exciting advén-
ture. J. L. SLUOANAKER.

One day last summer I discovered a
Wood Thrushes nest containing one egg.
On visiting it again I found three eggs.
Then there was an interval of about a
week before I got time to go to it
again. Upon arriving I was very much
surprised to see a Robin fly off the
nest. I climbed up and found that the
nest contained 3 Thrushes’ eggs and 3

THE OOLOGIST. a2(/4 =9

Robins’. A lady told me that about a
week before she had seen a dead
thrush near the nest, so I judge that the
Robins drove away the remaining bird.
This is the first incident of the kind I
ever witnessed. Is it a common or
rare occurrence in bird life?
DAVID HARROWER,
Swarthmore, Pa.
No! This is not common by any

means. Such notes are always of inter-
est and solicited from all. Ed.

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The Editor of the Oologist :

The excellent suggestion of Mr.
Price, resulting in the appointment of
a committee to whom questionable
transactions in the egg line may be
submitted, is one which will certainly
meet with a cordial endorsement from
all who have been through the mill.
That the investigations of the gentle-
men who have kindly consented to act
in the matter will be accepted and duly
appreciated goes without saying.

My collection is still a modest one
but 1 find in my note book that my
first oological specimens were taken
<‘June 20, 1884’’; I have them yet,
highly prized and respected, and I
would hardly part with that old set of
Catbird’s for dozens of ‘‘rare and curi-
ous’’ eggs that have reached me in the
past twenty years. They run all the
way from a couple of sets of Lapwing’s
taken in Dakota some fifteen years
ago, toaset of Rock Wren, recently
received. The _ specifications accom-
panying the latter set call for six eggs,
but the Wren through an oversight, no
doubt, only supplied five, the other
being added by a friendly Vireo to com-
plete the set; all of which goes to show
that the cowbird is not the only biped
oceasionally druppng an egg among
strange bedfellows. But after all, it
is not the rank, blundering imposter,
making up impossible data or freak
substitutions that drives collectors
“‘out of the business’’; as Mr. Price

says; how much oftener do we receive
a set with marks obscured or renewed,
details on data erased or altered, or
that just has a ‘‘queer’’ look, we can-
not return it and risk an unjust accusa-
tion, and so it remains, an object of
suspicion and distrust among its honor-
able neighbors, until, like an evil weed,
it is thrown out and destroyed. Fort-
unately the egg shark is not easily con-
tent; becoming bolder with apparent
success, his greed is seldom satisfied

‘until, over reaching himself, detection

and exposure finally follow.

In his connection I would like to sug-
gest that, as a matter of precaution and
self protection, collectors of rare and
valuable eggs, particularly of the larg-
er kinds, such as cranes, eagles, falcons,
ete., might do well to note on the data
blank in their own handwriting, some
natural distinguishing feature of the
eggs themselves, such as their size or
peculiarity of shape and marking ; those
are set marks that cannot be altered.
I recently received a handsome set of
Broad-winged Hawk’s eggs upon which
the set marks, originally in pencil, had
become so blurred as to be absolutely
illegible; the collector, however, had
earefully noted on his data accurate
measurements of each egg, which I
readily verified, and I valued these
figures a good deal more than the com-
mon place ‘‘Remarks’’ that the eggs
were taken ‘‘From an old crow’s nest,’’
40 feet from the ground.’’ This col-
lector protected himself, for the eggs
had passed through many hands and if
any substitution had been attempted
clearly he was not responsible for it.

One more example may not be amiss.
Of two sets of Wren-Tit, one was fresh
when taken, in the other incubation
was advanced ;’’ in the latter set three
eggs have large holes, while the fourth
egg was blown through a ‘‘pinhole’’;
no harm in that, to be sure, but if I
ever send that set out in exchange to
some suspicious stranger he may be

60 THY,

relieved to see the collector’s state-
ment that ’’one egg was addled.’’
T. W. RICHARDS,
Surgeon, U. S. Navy.
U. S. S. Arkansas, Nov. 28, 1904.

Is it a Common Thing?

On June 11, 1902, I started down
the road for a little tramp and just as I
was about to turn in the field, Isawa
Red-headed Woodpecker on a_ fence
post with a mouse in his claw, I went
toward him and he flew to a tree taking
the mouse with him in his claws the
same as a Hawk does. I went to the
tree and scared him and he flew to the
woods with the mouse still in his claws.

A. E. KIBBE,
Mayville, N. Y.

The Red-headed Woodpecker is al-
most omnivorous in his feeding habits,
but this is the first time I have heard of

their feeding on mice. Might it be that
the bird found a dead mouse? Ed.

Sparrow Hawk feeding on Cocoons.
During my ornithological rambles in
the Delaware River meadows at Brides-
burg, this county, during the winter of
1991-1902, I have twice observed the
Sparrow Hawk feeding on cecropia moth
cocoons, and judging from the large
number of torn, empty cases of these
and other moths they must feed in the
winter to a large extent upon cocoons.
Have any other cbservers observed
them feeding on these cocoons?
R. F. MILLER,
3473 Amber St., Philadelphia, Pa.

In December Oologist, I noticed de-
eription of an egg within an egg, and
you say that you had never heard of a
ease of this sort before. For over 20
years I have had a little chicken’s egg
in my collection fcuad within an ordin-

ary chicken’s egg by my aunt. The
egg is about the size of a Song Spar-
row’s and of a dark yellowish color the
shell unlike the one described was not
pliable. I have read of other cases.
WM. R. WHARTON.
Philadelphia, Pa.

OOLoGIsT. 22(4)

EDITORIAL.

After many vextious delays our New
Standard Catalogue is ready for deliv-
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claim that it is absolutely perfect.

Recent developments since it went to
press convince us that a few prices may
not be just right, but we think it is
the best obtainable and we trust the
shape and style may suit the many who
collaborated in its conception. We re-
gret that lack of space and time for-
bids a Skin Catalogue at this time.

A Correction.

Unfortunately, in making up March
number our printer cut Mr. Foerster’s
article on ‘‘Some Bird Songs’”’ page 41
into two parts and failed to give the
author any credit for Robins vs. Rose-
breasted Grosbeak. This on pages 41
and 42 was a part of one article with
Redwing Blackbird on page 44.

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Review. rR

Gleaningms No. IV, J. W. Jacobs.

“‘Some Notes on the Birds of Monon-
galia, Co., W. Va.”’

An interesting account of two trips
through this territory. Of speciel in-
terest was his find of Cowbird’s egg in
nest of Parula Warbler which seems to
be unu:uil. Ed.

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Pica Pica Hudsonica.

There is a black and white rascal out
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more amusement and study than all the
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commend me to the Black-billed Magpie.
You no doubt recall that old fable of
how all the birds came to school in nest
building to the Magpie and one by one
departed using just so much of the les-
son taught as they had learned, until she
was at last without pupils, hence the
Magpie is the only bird who knows how
to build a nest rightly. The story has
a moral to it. It is a fact that of all
the specimens of bird architecture that
I have ever examined the nest of this
bird is far and away the most unique in
its adaptability. The nest used to be
constructed in hawthorn bushes about
ten or. fifteen feet from the ground,
then there came a change. When I first
began the study of birds the fact that
every bush of any size in the Clearwater

_ valley was the site of one or more nests

of the Magpie made me look to that
bird first of all. I was struck at once

‘with the great wisdom displayed in the
nest building.

ant is a very bulky affair 5
for so small a bird. Often it is as

_ large as a bushel basket and is eunningly

woven of dried limbs that have fallen
from the thorns and are a. veritable
chevaux de frise directed against any
too inquisitive and dinner hunting red-
ent who sought to molest the peace and
quietude of the family. It was my good
fortune at one time to see a racoon din-
ner hunting in this manner. He ap-
proached the nest amid the storms of
protest from the parent birds who dash-
ed at him with shrill cries of anger.
They picked and scratched in the most
determined manner. With the sway-
ing of the slender limb the poor coon
had very little time to defend himself.
With grim determination he crept out
to the nest and when he found that it
was quite another matter to get at the

70 ; > 2° + “THE OOLOGIST.

Photo by B.S. Bodish.

NEST AND EGGS OF LEAST FLYCATCHER, IN SITU., LEONA, N. J.

THE OOLOGIST. ie 71

eggs a look of disgust came over his
face that is hard to describe in words.
With a zeal worthy of a good cause he
sat to work demolishing the structure
which he evidently assumed would take
only a short time. The longer he lab-
ored the more tempting those ezgs be-
came and at the same time more futile
his labors were for he was tearing up
the compact structure of the nest and
making it more and more difficult to
get a paw in. In fact he had by this
time closed the nest up so securely that
the old bird herself would be unable to
enter. At last. disgusted and full of
thorns he clambered down and made off

without any omelet of Magpie eggs to
satisfy him for all the work he had
I followed him up to the bush

done.
and got my hands nicely torn up trying

to open the nest so that I might add to

my collection. Many times have I re-
turned from the collecting trips my

_ hands one mass of scratches. The game

was worth it all however. I have of-
ten wondered how the old bird could get
her body through the very small open-

ing that she leaves in one side of the

nest. She does though, for I have noted
them simply dive into the nest without

a pause and never break an egg. I said,..

at first, they built their homes in the

hawthorn bushes in the river valleys.
Now, however, since the advent of set- .

tlement and acquired enemies have tak-
en the place of the natural enemies of
the bird, they have begun building in
the higher pines upon the hillsides. In
fact the last collecting that I did in
the Clearwater Valley of some one
hundred sets that I collected hardly ten
of them were taken from the typical
nesting localities. Instead we were
compelled to don the ‘‘hooks’’ and
skin to the summits of the towering
pines for our. treasures. I consider
this a very remarkable reversion with-
in so short a time.

I can see no objection to collecting all
the eggs of this bird that can be found.
To the casual bird student the Mag-

pie is a very cute fellow with a fund of

_ humor to his credit and a store of good

shrewd common sense under his black
bonnet, to the resident of his bailiwick
he is a most arrant thief and des-
troyer of other nests and is not above
purloining a young chicken whenever
the opportunity presents. Those are
minor sins compared with his habit of
picking at live animals. I lived among
the Indians for several years, and
learned that the Indian is never very
careful of his horses, riding them until
they have sore backs, then turning
them out to get well the best way they
may. Many and many times have I
seen two or three Magpies seated upon
the back of one of these poor beasts
industriously making a meal. It seem-
ed impossible for the tortured animal to
shake them off. They would flap up
into the air a foot and realight as soon
as possible and resume their tearing at
his flesh. The sheep men of the west

_ hate a Magpie above all other pests.

They harass the weak sheep in the
spring to such an extent that they of-
ten kill them. It is a rule on the range
to shoot the old birds and destroy their
home whenever one is found. . This is
not a pleasant topic in bird life but I
suppose that we are not reading for the
breakfast table but for information.
- The eggs are quite familiar to ool-
ogists hence it is not necessary to des-
cribe them. They usually lay large
clutches, seven being the- average
though I have taken many sets of twelve
and one of fourteen. These last are
under the suspicion’ of being lain by
more than one bird however. The
parents are very industrious as indeed
they must be to keep so many mouths
filled. It is really astonishing the
amount of food they will collect. and
carry to the nest in the course of a day.
All is fish that comes to their nets.
Everything digestible is commandered
and carried to the waiting mouths.
When the young are nearly grown and
have left the nest they form a very

72 THE
handsome family and the old ones are
very proud of their progeny as they sit
in the dense branches of the thorn
shrubs.

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Freak Hen’s Eggs.
By RicHARD F. MILLER.

Mr. Hobble’s very interesting letter
in the December ‘‘Oologist’’ regarding
‘‘One egg within another’’ was read
with considerable interest by the writ-
er who has observed some interesting
data relating to freak Hen’s eggs. As
they*may be of interest to many read-
ers of the Oologist, I have contributed
them:

In the spring of 1903, Mr. John Luft,
of Barnville, Berks county, Pa., found
a Hen’s egg in his chicken coop reputed
to be the largest and first of its kind
ever reported in that county. It meas-
ured 6 1-2 by 8 1-2 inches in circumfer-
ence and weighed 4 ounces. Ordinary
sized Hen’s eggs weigh only 2 1-2
ounces. Inside its original shell was
another perfectly formed egg with a
hard shell, -measuring 4 1-2 by 5 1-2
inches in circumference. Near Eves-
boro, N. J., last May, on the Chene’s
farm, a large Hen’s egg was found. In-
side was another perfectly formed. The
outer egg contained the yolk only. Was

unsuccessful in my attempt to obtain ~

the size of this egg.

Mrs. Joseph L. Woodring, of Schoen-
erville, Pa., had a Hen (and may still
have it,) that laid in the spring several
eggs within eggs, the outer ones being
extra large, and both eggs having hard
shells and perfect yolk. Also failed to
obtain any definite information regard-
ing these eggs.

A Canton, N. J. man, Mr. E. Smith
had an enormous Hen’s egg. It meas-
ured 9 x 7 inches in circumference and
weighed six ounces. This is the largest
Hen’s egg that I have a record of.

In my collection I have four abnorm-
al Hen’seggs. One is a runt, spherical

OOLOGIST.

in shape and no larger than a Catbird’s
egg; second is the size of an Antwerp
Pigeon. Both of these eggs are of the
ordinary shape. None contained any
yolk. The fourth is abnormal in shape
as well as size. It is alligator egg
shaped, double ended, size 3.25 x 1.75
inches and 8 1-2 by 4 1-2 inches in eir-
cumference. It contained a double yolk
and weighed about four-and a half oun-
ces. It was laid, as was the three oth-
ers, by the Great American -Hen.

A farmer of Argus, N. J., had a Hen
that laid eggs with three yolks, an un-
usual occurence. In my collection of
alcoholic specimens I have a four-legged
chick. It lived only a short time after
birth.

My note book used especially for in-
formation relating to freak hen’s eggs
and other interesting notes. regarding
the hen, I unfortunately lost. It con-
tained-much of interest and value. and
several list of freak chicks, with one-
leg, four-legs and-wings, twoheads, ete.

A Mourning Dove Cronicle.
By MoRRIS GIBBS, M. D.

A pair of Mourning doves has occu-
pied our yard or vicinity for ‘a period
of eight years successively and the not-
es taken have been so entertaining that
they are offered for publication.

Probably but one pair has occupied
the locality during a season and as two
birds have never been heard singing at
the same time and three old birds have
not been seen at the same time, it is
quite likely that only the one pair or
their descendents have bred in the
neighborhood. Our. neighborhood is
within two blocks of the center of a city
of 30,000 inhabitants and previous to
this invasion of the locality by these
happy mourners it was very rare to
hear the notes in this vicinity, though
birds are abundant in the surrounding
country and frequently nest in the out-
skirts of the city.

THE OOLOGIST. 73

Though the species frequently re-
mains in the county during the winter
months, still as a rule the birds are
found with us for about seven months
of the year and generally less than this.
It is evident that the birds leave the
neighborhood and spend the balance of
their time at the north in the country
as they are never seen in my neighbor-
hood after October 27th, while they are
to be found in abundance as late as No-
vember lst in the fields and woods.

The following dates of appearance
and disappearance are given as recorded
for the neighborhood, though these
dates must not be taken as the regular
dates of arrival and and departure for
the county.

1897,arrived Ap. 6, last seen, Oct. 21.

1898, arrived Ap. 4, last seen Oct: 17.

1899, arriv’d Mar. 30,last seen Oct. 26.

1900, arrived Ap. 2, last seen Sept. 26.

1901, arrived Ap. 3, last seen Oct. 27.

1902, arriv’d Mar. 30, last seen Oct. 25.

1903, arrived Ap. 7, last seen Oct. 16.

1904, arrived Ap. 11, last seen, Oct. 2.

The birds do not sing upon their ar-
rival and are with us all of a week be-
fore the first notes are given and some-
times quite two weeks before the regu-
lar song is uttered, though a. few half
articulate notes are occasionally heard
as if the performer were practicing
soto voce.

The earliest nest construction was be-
gun May 5th, but the birds were not
observed in nest building ¢ach season.
One season, 1901, the pair started two
nests, nearly completing one, in ever-
greens, and then selected another posi-
tion and reared their young, quite re-
moved from the first location. Indecis-
ion seems common with them and one
spring the pair did not begin building
until May 28th.

In 1904 I had an excellent opportunity
to observe the nesting habits as the pair
selected a large Burr oak Quercus ma-
crocarpa which -shaded my favorite
seat in our backyard. The nest was
placed at the side of a large limb at

about thirty feet from the ground and
was built between some slight supports
offered by small twigs from a large
Trumpet creeper which attached to the
limb.

Both birds shared in incubation as
with the comraon tame pigeon and all
of its varieties and as I have observed
in the Passenger Pigeon, EHctopistes
migratorius both wild and in confine-
ment. Both birds had low, pleasing
notes when greeting their mate at the
nest and these subdued notes were
nearly always uttered when the birds
took their tricks at setting, though the
full song was never uttered in the tree
holding the nest and the birds were very
silent and unobtrusive about their
homes at all times. When one of the
pair was to leave the nest and make
way for its mate it did not fly from the
edge of the nest as do the robins and
other well known species of perchers
but generally stood upon a near by limb
and watched its mate settle upon the
eggs, but not rarely returning to the
edge of the nest and billing and cooing
over its mate. bie 3
_ The period of incubation is 16 or 17
days and on June 3rd, 1904, the young
emerged from the shells and received
their food in the manner of all members
of his family. The young are not fed
as often as are the nestlings of the in-
sessores and after they were three or
four days old the parents fed them not
oftener than every hour. Not infre-
quently one of the oldbirds would sit
near the nest and wait until the food
was pre-digested ; this sometimes tak-
ing nearly an hour.

J could not discover that the old birds
ever fed their mate but know that they
alternate in incubation and judge that
the trick of a bird in setting is about an
hour.

At the end of fourteen or fifteen days
the young were sufficiently developed
to step from the nest and sit upon a
large limb, returning to the structure
the first night. Thesecond day of their

74 THE

outside life they chose a perch not quite
ten feet from the nest and there they
remained constantly for two days long-
er. The two young sat side by side and
as close together as possible. On the
fourth day of their removal from the
nest the father bird, after repeated and
tansuccessful pleading with the young
birds to fly, deliberately alighted upon
the backs of the young and literally
forced them from the perch. They flew
well at the first and returned but once
to the tree and were soon lost sight of.
though the old birds were often seen.

‘The male continued to sing until
about the middle of July as in former
seasons, though as usual only in the ear-
ly morning hours after the spring nest-
ing was over, while the song was in-
termittent through out the day during
courting and nesting. The song, when
given in full was always composed of
the first or long note followed by the
three shorter notes, the third and fourth
being about half as far apart as the
second and third.

And now comes a remarkable instance
of second brood raising in a species that
is credited with rearing but one brood
in a season. The two young disappear-
ed and the old ones were seen repeatedly
throughout the months of August and
September, though not a song was heard.
On the morning of September 28, 1904,
I was called out of the house by an in-
terested neighbor who excitedly told me
that there was another brood of young
in the oak tree. On going to the back
piazza I saw two young sitting in the
exact position that was occupied by the
spring brood. We watched the old birds
feed one of the young the next day and
the bird was evidently just out of the
nest. ae

This is not only a remarkably late
date for this species to nest but it es-
tablishes the fact that the Mourning
dove does; at least occasionally, rear two

broods in a season, and this too without
any song whatever being uttered.

OOLOGIST.

In North Carolina and Virginia:
Progne subis.

A common summer resident and
breeder in all sections, apparently of
regular distribution, as I have noticed no
variations in their numbers in any lo-
eality. By about the 18th of March they
begin to arrive from the south, and
continue to grow in numbers until about
the 25th; by which date, in eastern
North Carolina, they are in full force.
In the more northern and western sec-
tions they arrive a few days later than
in the east. In eastern Virginia they
become common by the Ist of April,
while in the north and west they are
not fully represented for several days.
Sometimes in southeastern North Caro-
lina, a few are to be noted by the 12th of
March, but usually they continue rare
for a week or more thereafter. These
early spring arrivals are not of common
occurrence, about one spring in every
four or five. Of all the birds that in-
habit this land of ours, the Martin is one
of the most interesting species. Obser-
ving their graceful movements and ad-
miring their wonderful flight, if we can
spare them only a few minutes of our
time, is a pleasure alike toall. Behold
how gracefully, when at a height of
several hundred feet above, they fold
their wings and dart downward not to
stop until they are perched in the en-
trance to their nesting place, or how
gracefully they wend their way to
regions beyond the vision’s range. As
they dart hither and thither in pursuit
of some unfortunate insect, they are
soon lost in space. Throughout eastern
North Carolina, nest building usually
begins by the Ist of May, sometimes a
little earlier. Eggs are rarely to be ob-
tained before the middle of the second
week in May, and usually not before the
15th. In the west, nest building begins
later than in the east; the dates vary-
ing with those of their arrival, three to
fourteen days. Almost every farmer

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has his colony of Martins, therefore
nesting sites are easily found. These
kind hearted individuals usually pre-
pare boxes for their little feathered
friends to use, and under the protection
of such powerful guardians they flourish
in their haunts. The boxes are, as a
rule, so arranged that they supply nest-
ing places for from four to fifteen
pairs of birds. Apartments for six nests
make a good size, being neither too
small nor too large. In some sections
they nest in gourds strung on the limbs
of poles prepared to receive them; the
limbs having been cut off about two
feet from the pole, a gourd is tied to
the end of each limb; a pole usually
supports from five to twelve gourds.
With a small hole cut in the side to ad-
mit the birds, they seem. to form excel-
lent nesting places. But, even at this
a few still adhere to the old custom
and build in the hollows of dead trees
or in cavities used on previous years by
flickers. The nest is not very neat, being
loosely thrown together in the bottom
of the cavity,
roots, grasses, and leaves plucked from
living trees.
iced them at work building their nests,

was fitted with such large entrances to:

the apartments that the birds saw fit to
fill the extra space with wet clay;
which, when it became dry, reduced

the size of the entrance to suit the taste .

of the bird. The eggs range in number
from four to six, rarely seven; five and
six are the usual numbers, but some-
times only four are deposited. The
young leave the nest in the latter part
of June or early in July, and then, ac-
companied by the parent birds, they are
to be seen at all times flying around

over the meadows or skimming the
fields in search of food. By the middle
of August they begin to migrate south-
ward, gradually becoming less abundant
as the days pass by, and disappearing
altogether in the early part of Septem-

ber.
R. PEARCE SMITHWICK,
Norfolk, Virginia.

and consisting of fine-

One box, in which I not- °

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This walling up the opening to nest-
ing cavity with clay to regulate size of
opening is a habitual trait of the Horn-
bill and Syrian Nuthatch, but I never
saw a record of this kind for any North
American Bird. (Ed.)

On the 26th of June, 1902,- my little
son and I were taking a stroll in the
eastern suburbs of the city, when my
attention was attracted by the vocifer-
ous twittering of several birds on a
clump of low bushes in a field of timo-
thy across the street. At the first
glance I took them for Yellow-headed
Blackbirds, but on closer observation
they. proved to be Bobolinks. They
were evidently nesting, but I did not
search for their nests, as. the timothy
was ready to cut and the place -a very
public one.. A few days later I took
my binoculars and identified them be-
yond all question. The bushes were
only about fifty yards from the street
where electric cars, other vehicles, and
pedestrians were constantly passing,
but they seemed to have no fear, except
when I stopped to watch them, when
they flew to another part of the field.
There were at least two males. So far
as I know this is the only record for
Miami county. The Bobolink nests in
several of the counties of northern
Indiana, especially on Lake Michigan,
and has been seen in several neighbor-
ing counties, but in eleven years’ reési-
dence this is my first record. Butler’s
‘‘Birds of Indiana’’ does not record it
from Miami county.

W. H. SHEAK,
Peru, Ind.

My train was delayed a day by a
washout in Southern Arizona, coming
back from New Orleans, and I took the
opportunity to do a little collecting
about Pantano, a railroad station on
S. P. line. A stream ran near, with
many mesquite trees and I also got
friendly, to my sorrow, with several
kinds of cacti. Located several nests

76 THE

of Cactus Wren just built, six or seven
nests of Verdin in same condition (one
had three fresh eggs), and took nest
and three fresh eggs of CanonTowhee.
Found a nest of Crissal Thrasher with
two badly incubated eggs. This was on
St. Patrick’s Day, March the 17th.
The Verdin’s nests were all in trees
on which foliage had not yet sprouted,
and were accordingly easy to locate.
Had the train been delayed another
day, no doubt I- would have followed
that river and ‘got myself lost some-
where down by the Mexican border.
Yours Sincerely,
H. R. TAYLOR.

anata

A Quick Way to Mount Dry Skins.

Take your bird and extract the filling
very carefully, then instead of soaking
inside and out, simply use luke warm
water on inside and under the wings
fill with cotton and soak it, being care-
ful all the time not to get the feathers
wet. Put ina tight box and in about
24 hours, (according to size of bird)? you
will have a comparatively fresh skin.
Some of my best birds have been
mounted this way, with very little, if
any trouble. Roll cotton soaked around
feet and legs.

R. A. LEE,
Sanilae Center, Mich.

The Editor has followed this course
with success for some years but would
add that it is wise to grease the toe
nails and beak before soaking to pre-
vent them from scaling off. Ed.

Irregular Distribution of Birds.
The House Wren, is said to be a com-

mon bird in this state, and I understand

it is in many localities; but in twenty
years of observations have met with
but five individuals in Bristol county.
Examined one nest which contained sev-
en eggs. This persistently erratic dis-
tribution is difficult to account for.
Some say it is due to certain insects, to
which this bird is partial, being found

OOLOGIST. 22/5)

only where the Wren summers. This
is not plausible, however, because we
then haves the anomalous agente
of the insects to explain.
CHARLES L. PHILLIPS,
Taunton, Mass.

Turkey Buzzard Near Toledo.

On March 28, 1905, Mr. C. T. Day,
Mr. H. E. Emery and myself, all of
this city observed a turkey buzzard. It
was flying low and could not have been
mistaken for any other bird. This bird
is very rare in ths section of the county.

A Sora Rail.

On April 13, 1905, Mr.
this city caught a Sora Rail with his
chickens. He shut it up in the shed
over night but it was found dead in the
morning. This isa peculiar place to

find a Rail.
A. C. READ.

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Editor of the Oologist:

About three weeks ago I put up a
bird box for wrens and in a week a pair
had commenced to build in it. It is now
complete and has a full complement of
eggs (7) which are nearly hatched. Al-
though several mornings it has been at
freezing point the eggs are alright. Is
it not rather unusual for wrens to build
so early? Also several sets of Lark
Sparrow’s eggs have been taken here.

April 19, 1905.

URI WORCESTER.

Evidently the Wrens are early in Ok-.

lahoma. Western New York has enjoy-
ed nightly freezes and several snow
storms during the last two weeks. Rob-
ins, Bluebirds, Horned Larks, Hawks
and a few Phoebe’s are nesting. Edi-
tor.

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WHOLE No. 215

On the Use in Surgery of Tendons of
the Ardeide and Gruidz.
COMPLIMENTS OF THE AUTHOR.

The subject of sutures and ligatures
and their proper sterilization and use
has long been an important subject in
the realm of modern surgery. Various
materials have from time to time been
recommended, many to drop by the way
side, and we find even in the materials
of the present day, namely, catgut,
kangaroo tendon, silk, silkworm gut,
horse hair and silver wire, great differ-
ence of opinion in the minds of surgeons
as to their use.

The recent introduction by Dr. Kieff-
er of an entirely new material will be
of much interest to the surgeon, but it
likewise will be of no less interest to
the American ornithologist. Dr. Kieff-
er found after a series of experiments
that the tendons of the Ardeidae and
Gruidae made an excellent suture and
ligature and, moreover, that they seem-
ed to possess some advantages over the
present materials, principally kangaroo
tendon and catgut. The flexor and ex-
tensor tendons of the great blue heron
(Ardea herodias) were first made use
of, and later those of the sand hill
crane (Grus canadensis) and whoop-
ing crane (G. americana). The ten-
dons were readily made aseptic by the
Claudius method of sterilizing catgut.

Regarding his experiments Dr. Kieff-
er says: ‘‘There is still room in the
armamentarium of the surgeon for a re-
liable, slowly absorbable suture and
ligature material. I have been recent-
ly investigating a material which I be-
lieve to be entirely new. Dr. Geo. P.
Johnson, of Cheyenne, called my atten-

tion to the long and strong tendons in
the legs of the bird commonly known
throughout the United States as the
blue erane. He had used this material
with excellent results as a suture for
the aponeurosis in a case of hernia,
the suture giving no trouble and appar-
ently being absorbed in time. I obtain-
ed from him a number of these tendons
and immediately began a series of ex-
periments to test their value.*** Asa
result of these studies I have come to
the conclusion that we have not only a
valuable suture and ligature material,
but one easily obtained in all parts of
the world.’’ It is to be wondered that
the tendons of the larger grallatorial
birds were not long ago thought of as
suitable material for surgical purposes.
Dr. Johnson is to be commended for
his originality.’’

' Thus the herons and cranes are given
an economic value which unfortunate-
ly must further add to their destruc-
tion. Think of the thousands of these
birds which would have to be killed
annually should this material be adopt-
ed for ligature and suture purposes by
even a small proportion of our Ameri-
can surgeons.

It is the least of my desire to criticize
the author above referred to. His well
conducted experiments are commenda-
ble, but only to voice a word of warning
to what at present might prove the
extermination of the larger members
of two great families of birds.

Unlike the Anseres (ducks, geese,
swans) and members of the order Gall-
inae, notably the bob-white (Colinus
virginianus), the members of the Ar-
deidae and Gruidae are far from pro-
lific breeders. Members of the latter

86 é THE OOLOGIST.

named families rarely lay over five

eggs, while certain ducks lay as high as
fifteen and the bob-white often more
than twenty. Moreover, the latter
two species often raise more than one
brood in a season, and it is doubtful if
the herons and cranes ever do. This
will partially account for the survival
of the game birds in spite of the inroads
caused by gunners. Furthermore,
herons build in colonies termed heron-
ies, so that once the breeding place is
located their capture is made easy.
Thus the herons (A. herodias) of any
one county of Michigan, for instance,
might be exterminated by one hunter
in the course of a season, should there
be a demand

Unlike a great proportion of our
American birds, little can be said of the
economic value of members of the
above mentioned families, either as
benetactors to agriculture as insect and
weed-seed destroyers, or an articles of
food.

A plea for the herons and cranes then
can be made solely on sentimental
grounds. It is their esthetic value, not
as songsters, but their beauty, the
grace which their presence adds to the
landscape of the various portions of our
continent. The history of a departing
race is always a sad one and, judging
from the thousands of dollars which are
spent annually on our zoological gard-
ens, we are inclined to believe that our
people admire rather than desire to
exterminate any of our native fauna.
Truly the places occupied by our herons
and cranes is a typical one, and as orn-
ithologists we should aim to preserve
rather than destroy.

Already some members of the tribe
have been driven to the verge ot exter-
mination by the plume hunters. A
strong public sentiment has been raised
of late in favor of these species, not
only in this country, but in various
countries of Europe. Under the present
conditions the organized bird protectors

of this country, the Audubon societies,
had looked for an incréase in these
species under our more recent laws re-
garding birds, but it is plain to see that
should the tendons become popular with
our surgeons for ligature and suture
purposes the birds might have a still
greater enemy. Ido not consider the
statement sweeping when I say that
the extermination of some _ species
would be only a matter of time.

However, as the author concludes:

‘Think of the comfort to the civil or
military surgeon in isolated places of
knowing that he can have a suture ma-
terial at the end of his shot gun.”’

ALEANDER W. BLAIN, JR.

Detroit College of Medicine.

Not enough of any Amercian Crane
could be procured to even establish a
market. If the price made it an object
the colony breeding Herons would suffer
to some extent unless some semi-domes-
tic industry could be established as
with the Skunks and Foxes.—Kditor
Oologist.

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker.
In Review.

Zoological Quarterly Bulletin, Penn.
Dept. of Agi. Vol. II, No. 4, issued un-
der direction of Prof. H. A. Surface.

This is a special Bulletin on Wood-
peckers and contains much of value.

Our attention is specially attracted to
the Chapter on the Yellow-bellied Sap-
sucker. :

I agree with the authorities quoted to
the extent that this bird is solely ac-
countable for the rows of parallel holes
found drilled around the trunks and
sometimes the limbs of trees.

But I do not think that the quotation
given from Dr. Trimble ‘‘that the birds
make thenr (these holes) to attract the -
ants by such tempting bait is a palpa-
ble exaggeration of the reasoning pow; -
er of this bird,’’ is:sufficiently proven.

Fifteen years ago my: father had a.

THE OOLOGIST. 87

fine windbreak of Austrian Pines on
the west side of his house. These prov-
ed especially attractive to the Yellow-
bellied Sapsucker. Every spring and
fall from ‘one to several individuals
would make an extended stay around
this row of pines. It was placed on
the line between the dooryard and small
fruit garden and a fine young orchard
of apple trees then about 15 years old
and very thrifty. As opportunity per-
mitted I studied the habits of these
birds carefully. They seldom bored
any holes in the apple trees. The orch-
_ ard stands today in fine condition and
the few rings of holes they drilled can
be still detected by the scars.

But every pine tree was perforated
with many rings of the slightly oval
holes in nearby parallel rows and of
nearly uniform depth. Just deep
enough to secure a free flow of sap.

If they drank any sap I failed to note
it. And would the mixture of turpen-
tine ,rosin, etc., constituting pine sap
be apt to prove a palatable and nourish-
ing diet?

But for some reason these pines were
attractive to the ants, whether they
relished the sap or were attracted in
some other way I failed to satisfy my-
self. There were many of the elevated
nest hummocks of the common black
ant all along the sod border beyond the
tips of the tree limbs and they were
always crawling up ‘and down the
trunks.

Whether these ants fed on the sap
that exuded from the birds perfora-
tions or not, they were, at least, at-
tracted to it and as it dried a little it
became sticky enough to annoy them
and retard their movements.

Now the birds did all their drilling in

.a few short intervals during the day
but returned often to the trees’ and
spent much time running up and down
the trunks of the trees.

I only examined two stomachs but
found the contents to be mostly ants.

In Prof. Surface’s quotation from Dr.
Merriam I read in regard to their food.
“‘Kighty-one stomachs were examined
and of ae whole 36 per cent. consisted
of ants.’

Now I believed at the time that the
birds selected these pines because the

~ ants vere there in numbers and were

at least retarded by the sticky sap if
not attracted to it also.

Dr. Trimble admits that ‘‘Ants are
certainly found sometimes about these
holes and apparently attracted by the
sap’’ and I do not believe that his as-
sertion that these ‘‘holes beingd esigned
for this purpose is a palpable exaggera-
tion of the reasoning power’’ is suf-
ficienty proven.

I have positively proven that the
American Crow, when searching for
“‘Cut worms’’ in a corn field, learns
that the grubs congregate in or close
to the young hills of corn and digs the
dirt away from the hills in search of
them.

In many cases the growing corn is
not uprooted nor even the kernel taken
from the roots and I have seen entire
hills dug out and the kernels left to dry
in the sun for a well fed crow evidently
prefers ‘‘cut worms’’ to softened corn.
Of course I dont’ know that the bird
had located a grub every time. I sus-
pect not as the hills will often be ex-
amined continuously. But they have
evidently reasoned out from experience
that the grubs can be found there as
they make no attempt .to procure them
from beneath the surface until the corn
appears. Now! would the assumption
that the Sapsucker (so ealled, I believe
with Dr. Trimble, that ‘‘they should
be called woodpeckers’’) drills the holes
for the main purpose of attracting and
securing insect food, mostly ants, im-
pute to the bird any greater reasoning
power, or nearly as great, as that I
know the Crow must possess.

I allow that both birds undoubtedly
made the first discovery by accident

88

and, in the Sapsucker’s case, at least,
it is now, perhaps, purely instinctive.

More light on this subject is needed.
Who knows?

Ten years ago the entire row of trees
was so badly tipped over during a wind
storm that it was necessary to take
them out and the Yellow-bellied Sap-
sucker is rarely seen and does not make
any extended stay there now.

ERNEST H. SHORT.

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Il. A Day with Swainson’s,.

By HARRY H. DUNN.

As has not infrequently proven the
case with other oological finds, I came
into possession of my first set of Swain-
son’s Hawk eggs in an entirely acci-
dental way. I was driving slowly up
the bed of the Santa Anna River in
Orange county, California, when I saw
the mouth of what was seemingly a
short and narrow canyon, breaking out
of the hills on the south side. The day
was very warm, I was alone and did
not feel like tackling the dense growth
of willow scrub which covered the
banks of the stream, so, unhitching my
horse and staking him in a luxurious
bed of wild clover, I struck out up this
canyon.

One of my inseparable companions on
all these trips is a small] hatchet and a
pocketful of large nails. - I have climb-
ed some tough trees thus armed, nailing
steps as I went up, and, if I wished to
keep the tree for future visits, tearing
them off as I came down. Iam willing
to admit that this method is not so good
as the use of a rope, but it is much less

work to carry the hammer and nails
than to burden one’s self with a hund-
red feet or so of rope of a suitable size.
Then, too, rope, like a ladder, some
times arouses suspicion in the farmer’s
breast. And you ean bet that the farm-
er is a ‘‘bird protectionest’’ every time
when the oologist comes to him with a

THI:

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request. Anent this I can and will tell
a good story on a deputy game warden
of Southern California in a later one
of these papers.

Well, to return to my Swainson’s—
the date was April 16th, late for Rap-
tores in this region, but I hoped to find
a stray Screech Owl covering four or
five fresh eggs provided the canyon
were at all wooded. A few hundred
yards up the gorge widened out and I
could see it stretching on for some ‘two
or three miles into the heart of the
hills. All the way it seemed heavily
wooded with Sycamores and water
beeches, with here and there an oak.
Here was a field indeed, one into which
I had reason to believe no collector had
ever stepped. Kingbirds and _ other
Flycatchers were busy among the green
branches, Sparrow Hawks wove leisure-
ly their way to and from their nests in
dead trees further up the canyon and
then, suddenly out of the clear sky, fell
the scream of a hawk. There was no
mistaking the family to which the mak-
er of the noise belonged. He was a
Hawk, but what species? Not a Red-
tail, that was certain; not a Sparrow
Hawk; maybe Krider’s. I had long
been watching for this form of the Red-
tail, which I am sure breeds in Orange
county, but once more I was disappoint-
ed. The second scream drew my
straining eyes to a very dark bird, not-
iceably smaller than a Red-tail, tumb-
ling and playing in midair a short dis-
tance up the canyon. At first I did not
recognize the bird, and it was evident
that he had not even sighted me as yet.
Keeping under cover of the trees, I
made my way toward a tall Sycamore
I had marked as- quite near his play-
ground. Arrived there, looking upward
through the dense canopy of leaves, I
saw, not the flying bird, but a small
and compact nest, built close to the
body ofthe tree and not over thirty-five
feet from the ground. Here was luck,
and I said,to myself ‘‘Cooper’s Hawk!

THE OOLOGIS'. 39

here’s where you get the first eggs of
this bird taken in Orange county.’’ But
I didn’t.

For ten feet ina true circle around
the base of that tree lay the thickest
cactus patch you ever saw. The worst
bit of buckthorn the old down East
hills can produce wouldn’t be a circum-
stance to it. It wasn’t very high not
more than a foot or so, but thick as
‘chair on a dog’s back’’. At it I went
with a big club, making more racket
than two men ought to have made.
Above I heard the hawk leaving her
nest, and this only added strength to my
blows. Like a Hindu fakir I rushed
rough shod over the thorns and tackled
the tree. WhenI had gained the first
limb a huge branch which grew straight
out over the dry creek bed some ten
feet up. Here I slipped off my shoes
and stockings and then up I went.

Not being much of a climber, I sweat-
ed and shinned, and I fear, swore a
little, ere I gained that nest. But the
reward was there, three pale blue white
eggs, smaller than those of the Red-
tail, yet larger than the Cooper’s. The
nest was well made, firmly thatched
and lined with bark from the dead wil-
lows of the river bottom. The old
birds were quite fearless, dashing at
my head repeatedly as I lowered the set
in a small sack to the ground. Their
sooty bodies and general. buzzard ap-
pearance gave away their identity, and
the books at home established it beyond
a doubt when I returned. Before this
I had been unable to connect with the
breeding places of this hawk, though
I knew them to be fairly numerous in
Southern California, but since I have
found several sets, none, so far as I
recall, of more than three eggs and the
majority of only two. For the most
part they build in Sycamores or large
oaks along the edges of dry canyons,
or on the edges of sloping mesas,
where their principal food supply,
squirrels and gophers, are abundant.

They are of inestimable value to the
grain raisers of the western
though it may be ealled, one of the
least known to all of the so called
“Chicken hawks’’ of the west.

(to be continued. )

_

A Battle with the Broad Wings.

slope,

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R. V. HASKIN.

The 15th of May, found me bound for
a piece of woodland where my friend
Mr. B. had informed me that a pair
of hawks were breeding.

As I came to the outskirts of the
woods, the male hawk came circling
overhead and eyeing me as if mistrust-
ing the object of my intrusion. I did
not leave him long in doubt as to my
destination, but commenced to look for
the nest, which my friend had told me
was near a small pond of water. After
exploring the woods for some distance
around the pond, I finally located the
nest in a large black oak and about
thirty feet from the ground. As climb-
ing irons were impracticable on so large
a tree, I decided to use cleats and pro-
ceeded to nail them on.

The female hawk was alarmed at the
pounding and raising from the nest,
flew about fifteen yards, alighting in
the dead branches of an old beech,
where she watched my operations with
evident unconcern. However, after I
had come up within five feet of the
nest, she suddenly seemed to realize
what was going on, and with a hair rais-
ing whir of wings came straight at my
face.

To say that I was asonished would
be putting it mildly. I had climbed a
tree the year before, and secured one
of the young of this same pair of
hawks, and they had looked calmly on
and never raised their voices in protest.
But this year they, or rather she, as
the male took no part in the conflict,
decidedly meant business, and one dive

90 THE OOLOGIST. 2.04)

succeeded another with startling fre-
quency.

I did not wish to harm the hawks, but
as the fourth dive nearly carried away
my hat and inflicted a slight scratch
on my neek, I promptly resolved to
bring Madam Hawk to book, and in the
next dive she encountered a_ bullet
which just grazed her wing. She took
no notice of that however, but the next
shot sent some of her brown feathers
floating on the morning breeze, and
she wisely concluded to give up the
unequal battle, and contented herself
with cireling overhead and screaming
lustily.

By dint of hard climbing, I reached
the nest; it was composed externally
of sticks, and lined with grass, leaves,
etc. The five eggs which it contained
were a typical set; a sort of bluish
grey, thickly speckled with spots and
lines of light brown. Although one
might reasonably suppose that the
hawks would fight more for their young
than they would for their eggs; as be-
fore stated, they offered not the slight-
est opposition in 1900 but fought fierce-
ly for their eggs in 1901. Possibly
they had decided to turn over a new
leaf with the new century.

[Sets of 5 eggs of this bird are rare.
Ed. ]

Some Rare Finds this Season.

While walking in the woods where
Great Blue Heron’s nest, I picked up an
egg of the Heron that had fallen from
75 to 85 feet, landing with its point
down and sticking in a mulch of leaves
and soft dirt and in its downward course
it passed through some underbrush, all
without breaking.

I report also of taking 1-4 Osprey. All
eggs are light in color but one egg in
particular is white in appearance ata
little distance. Another set of 1-3 Os-
prey. One egg a runt, about one half

actual size. This is the only runt of
Osprey I have heard of.

A set of supposed Sereech Owls that
take the exact measurements of Saw-
Whets. They measure as follows:
1.19x100, 1.20x100, 1.19x100, 1.20x1.00,
1.28x97. Saw-Whets were never known
to build this far south although they
have been killed here. If I collected
the eggs I would know for a certainity.

WM. B. CRISPIN,
Salem, N. J.

If Mr. Crispin will send one egg of
this set to the Editor it may be worth
while. The eggs of Saw Whet Owl are
distinct. — Ed.

a

Birds Removing Eggs from Nests.

It was with great pleasure that I
read Mr. Richard F. Miller’s interest- ~
ing account about the removal of eggs
from a disturbed nest and his criticism
of my statements made in a previous
number of this paper. Mr. Miller is
undoubtedly right in his criticism, the
eggs were probably removed by the
parent birds but the devouring of eggs
by the owners of the nest is not as
preposterous as Mr. Miller evidently
thinks. Mr. F. M. Chapman, in his
book, ‘Bird Studies with a Camera’
gives a most interesting account of the
eating of some Least Bittern’s eggs by
the old birds when once the nest was
disturbed. But enough of this, and to
return to the subject of my article, |
will state that I also have noted several
instances upon this subject. These
chiefly come under the heading of Wil-
son’s Thrush, Turdus fuscescens. This
bird is extremely sensitive and if a
single egg or two is taken from the
clutch the old birds immediately desert
the nest, first destroying the remaining
egg and carrying the shell away. I
have noted this fact several times. In
finishing, I will echo Mr. Miller’ Ss. con-
cluding words, and. say, ’’Let’s” hear
from you, reader.’’ - Be

CHAS. P. ALEXANDER.

THE OOLOGIST. 91

Apropos of our New Standard Catalogue.

It has made a decided hit and proven
a complete. success.

Of course there are a few mistakes
in typographical errors, five have come

o our notice. The worst are the
omission of part of the scientific name
of 648a,. which should be americana
usnea; the misprint of price on 722a,
this should have been $2.50; and the
omission of the star (*) after price on
Harlequin Duck which is applicable to
foreign eggs only. Owing to lack of
‘information on some of the rare West
Coast Birds a few serious errors in
price have slipped in. After a careful
study of the few adverse criticisms at
hand and making due allowances for
difference in point of view we think
that following should be changed to
EeAG viz No: ‘Slamesa> No: 93)" $3"
544c, $2; 632c,-$4; 748a, $5; 754, 3.50;
Numbers 520.1, 424 and 544a had better
been left unpriced.

Time will uncover more like these,
It is impossible to avoid them as col-
lectors always clamor for a price on
many species that it is difficult to get
authentic infomation about. Those in
a position to know often have motives
involved that incline them to silence. In
this connection would say, I: made an
effort to get better information on
many of the West Coast eggs than any
at hand and met with an almost uni-
versal silence. One party in admitting
that our catalogue will be accepted as
the Standard complains that these er-
rors will cause endless ‘‘bickering’’ in
making exchanges.

Where does the fault lie?

ERNEST H. SHORT.

‘Still They Come Like This.

The new standard catalogue of North
American Birds’ Eggs I have just re-
ceived and I am delighted with it.—
Very truly yours, JOHN E. THAYER.

In reply to your letter dated May 8,
1905. Beg to advise your catalogue of
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CLECKLEY.

EDITORIAL.

Mr. G. L. Fordyce of Youngstown,
Ohio, sends us cuts from a series of
Photos of Nest, Eggs and young of
Cooper’s Hawk.

Mr. Fordyce watched this nest close-
ly and found the period of incubation to
be 31 days.

Was this a case of delayed incubation
or is it more common than has been re-
corded? ©

It overruns all records by a full week.

Who knows?

We have secured for the ‘‘Oologist’’
in the near future description with fine
half tone of type sets, of Bachman’s
Warbler and the best half tone of Cali-
fornia Vulture from life that we have
seen.

“All will regret the recent death of
Walter E. Bryant at Santa Rosa, Cali-
fornia.

Mr. Bryant was one of the best
known of Western Collectors.

He was a Corresponding Fellow of
the American Ornithologists’ Union, an
honorary member of the Cooper Club
and for seven years curator of the
Academy of Sciences at San Francisco.

He had made successful collecting
trips to the Pacific Islands, Alaska and
Mexico and leaves a large collection of
Ornithological and Oological material.

92

Publications Received.

‘“‘Condor,’’ Vol. VII, No. 5. Penn-
sylvania oological Quarterly Bulletin,
Vol. II, No. 4. American Ornithology,
Vol. V, No. 6.

Editor Oologist :—

I had the good fortune to secure a
fine female Kirtland Warbler today.
The first one I killed was a male, May
4, -1878, which shows that the males
pass through Ohio, nearly 2 weeks be-
fore the females as the last female kill-
ed some 2 years ago was May 15th, this
specimen I took today was one exactly
the same line as the first one I took in
1878. Unless a collector sees the yel-
low throat he will mistake it from some
sparrow and had IJ not seen its warbler
beak I should have passed it by.

A. HALL,
Lakewood, O.

$$ $_$—_—_—_ > —

Delayed Migration.

Dec. 17, 1886, I shot a male Field
Sparrow, Spizella pusilla, at Dighton,
Bristol county, Mass. Examination
revealed two quite large wart like
growths on one leg. The specimen was
not attenuated and it was in good plum-
age. I am of the opinion that this
affliction detained the bird North, as
the species habitually leaves this local-
ty for the South about Oct. 1st.

CHARLES. L. PHILLIPS;
Taunton, Mass.

A Large Set of the Chickadee.

In the Oologist, Lispenard S. Hor-
ton, mentions the finding of a set of
ten eggs of the Chickadee, Parus atri-
capillus, which he considers a very
large set. On the 9th of May, 1897, I
found a set of thirteen eggs of this
interesting little resident, which were
in an advanced stage of incubation. -

GLEN M. HATHORN,
Cedar Rapids, Ia.

THE OOLOGIST. #2 ((/) :

A nest of the Varied Thrush within
the radius of the U. S. is a rarety. In
North Idaho he makes glad every brush
patch with song but hies him away to
foreign lands to’ mate. Occasionally
however, they do nest here. Last
spring while fishing I found a nest sad-
dled upon a white fir tree about 10 feet
up containing 4 beautiful blue eggs
flecked with amber brown, especially
about larger end. In size and shape
closely resembling those of the West-
ern Robin. These were promptly add-
ed to my collection and right thankful
I was to my friends for selecting Idaho
for a home.

DR. C. S. MOODY.

* Noting your invitation as to an ex-
pression of opinion regarding the advis-
ability of establishing a Collector’s Pro-
tective Committee I wish to vote in
favor of such a committee as moved
by Mr. Price and supported by yourself.
Personally, I have little patience with

a deliberate egg fraud and when proved
such to the satisfaction of such a com-
mittee as proposed there should be no
hesitation to public condemnation. The
suggested chairman appears to me as
one in touch and sympathy with the
collector and who would regard it a
duty to extend the beneficial influence
of his editorial position. Taken as a
whole, the knowledge of an existing
committee ever ready to act promptly
and firmly would have an excellent
a strong tendency to
check dishonesty, and beyond doubt ev-

moral effect,

ery honest collector will earnestly
sanction the election of such a com-

mittee especially if he has had his wild

turkey and goose eggs collected in a

barn yard and his American Curlew
and Creeper eggs in Europe.
J. CLAIRE WOOD.

x

THE OOLOGIST. 93

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FOR EXCHANGE.—A fine lot of shells,
minerals, curios etc., for American or For-
eign stamps new to my collection. Wish to
correspond with beginners. Will buy collect-
ions for cash. A. t. f. RUTH HE Es 202
Westminister Road, Rochester, N. Y.

WANTED.—Eegs in sets, large or small
lots. Will give in exchange fine collections
of minerals | and shells. A few sets and skins
and some books. Can use many common
Sue ERNEST H. SHORT, Rochester,

series California
and three White

FOR SALE.—A large
Murre eggs, fine sets of two
Pelican and others. Birds nests, Mounted
Birds and Mammals. Skulls of small ani-
mals. A finelot of Guinea Pigs in all colors.
Fancy Pigeons, Game ee ee,
ALMON KIBBE, Mayville, N. Y.

: Los Angeles, California.

Dear Friend Short:—I am awfully obliged
to you for running my ady. the second time,
but for gocdness sake cut it out this issue.
If I had a thousand sets to trade they would
have all been gone before now. I got 54
answers to that ‘adv., seven before I had re-
ceived the copy of the Oologist containing it.

Yours,
H. H. DUNN

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in full plumage. well worth $10 Will box
and ship at purchaser’s expense for a0 even
$5. FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y.

FOR SALE.—A. 1. scientific skins of Ari-
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season of 1905. First class eggs in sets, skins
or insects. Correspondence solicited. H.
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What can you offer and what can you use?
ERNEST H. SHORT, Rochester, N. Y.

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WANTED.—Good field glass, SCOL
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Skims and mounted birds from this ea
ALFRED T. GARRETT, Waterport, N.

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FOR SALE.—My entire collection of birds’
eggs cheap. Some 300 different species. You
may purchase the whole lot or in small lots
as youlike. Send for list and prices. Ex-
press paid on orders over $2.50. BERT
NICHOLS, Granville. N. Y.

FOR SALE VERY CHEAP.—A large col-
lection of rare single eggs, most all with
data. All A. No. 1, eiiher single or by the
lot.- Send 2 cent ote for tist. DOCTOR
MAR SCL CK LE ¥2 Greene St., Augusta,

Ga.
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FOR EXCHANGE— FIRST- CLASS SETS
WITH DATA.—5-4 704, 5-4 581, 4 614, 4 761, 4, 756,
4 687n, 2 560n, 5-4 652, 4705, 4 Eng. Sparrow, 4387,
EDW.S. COOMBS, care of Jones Mig, Co., 243
Franklin St., Boston, Mass.

TO EXCHANGE.—O and O Vols., VI, VII,
VIII. Condor, Vols. IV, etc. Want bird
skins or books. F. B. MCKECHNIE, Ponka-
pog,. Mrss.

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skins of eastern and southern specimens.
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WANTED-FOR CASH—Bird eggs in sets.
Must be first class. Send me list of what
you havetooffer. OSCAR P. SPIELMANN,
93 to 99 E.. North Ave., Chicago, Ill.

I HAVE two male Texan Jays and one
male Cooper’s Tanager collected in Brewster
county. Texas. State highest cash price per
individual skins. AS Nof al: NAT. W.
HARDY, 1530 Columbus St., Waco. Texas.

FOR EXCHANGE.—Common eggs in sets
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localities. Send list and receive mine. J.D.
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Minn.

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regular price of a fair set in ordinary bind-
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Palaeontology. 5; Mineralogy, 1; Agriculture,
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FRANK H. LATTIN. Albion, N. Y.

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~ Bird Photos and Slides,

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Dec. 1904 Oologist. ;
B.S. BOWDISH,
Demarest, N. J.

BIRD SKINS.

I have left, the following A No. 1 Bird
Skins: 6 American Crow, 3 Blue Jay, 1 Least
Bittern TOC 2 Cedar Waxwing, 4 Pine
Grosbeak—females, 13 Snowflake, 2 Purple
Finch—females, 1 white-breasted Nuthatch,
1 black-throated Green Warbler. I will send
the above 33 Skins and add 2 of the Gray
Squirrel and 1 very fine mounted Crow. En-
tire lot is cheap at $10. I’ll] box them all and
express at purchaser’s expense, for only $0,75-

FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y,

THE OOLOGIST. 99

‘Exchange Extraordinary.”

During the past few years my cabinets have been practically empty. I now desire to
fill them up—not only with a private collection, but with a series of duplicates to use for
exchange and other purposes—in fact I’ve got the Oological ‘ ‘fever’ once more and that too
in its most virulent type. Hence [ want at once oological specimens of species both rare
and common, ‘ind [ will during August or until Sept. Ist accept in exchange any species in
any quantity from any reliable collector on the following terms, viz: For the first set with
data of each species any collector may send I will allow full rates. Single eggs accepted at
one-fourth rates only. Our new “Standard Catalogue” inust be the one usedin pricing all
specimens sent. All specimens must be blown through one smoothly drilled hole.in the
side, and the contents must be thoroughly cleaned out. No end blown or second c lass
specimens accepted at any price. Vo exchange les: than $2.00 can be bothered with. All pack-
ages must be sent prepaid at senders risk by mail or express. I shall neither repeat nor ex-
tend this “extraordinary” offer and I cannot spare the time to correspond in relation to the
same. Simply send on your specimens and state your wants and unless otherwise men-
tioned I will ship the same to you prepaid at my earliest possible opportunity and guarantee
satisfaction. In return for your specimens you make your own Selection from the following,
at prices quoted:

BIRDS’ EGGS. Money Cowry, Ceylon... 10] Chalcedony...... ... ..... 15
i : i Boat Shell, Mass.......... 10} Tinted Chalcedony....... 10
(Can furnish either singles or | Screw Shell, Med......... 10} Tree Chalcedony ......... 15
Se: sets.) »- | Goldmouth, Philippines 25] Red Ribbon Agate....... 15
Razor-billed Auk......... $ 39) Banded Tree Snail, (tuba 25] Black Ribbon Agate 15
Ring-billed Gull........... 35] Black-mouth Snail, Fla.. 25] Moss Agate............... 15
Roseate Tern.............. 25) Sun Shell (pair), VL. .ci 10 Wood Neatew et... 15
White-faced Glossy Ibis. 35] Jewel Shell (4) Australia 10] Fossil Coral............... 15
Sennett’s Thrasher....... 15} Thorney Chama, Baham. 10| Bloodstone................ 25
Curve-billed Thrasher... 15] TheStudent’s Shell Col |
Inca Dove...............-. 75! lection: This Collection MISCELLANEOUS.
Groove- Dilled. Anica: 75 contains Forty Small ¥ *
Browiidav.-.... 2.2 1 00 Shells collected from all Horn Nut, China... ...... 10
Lesson’s Oriole........... 75 quarters of the Globe, gun ee Bony. za
all of which are num- slay Police istie, Mex.
SEA SHELLS. bered to correspond Arrowheads, Ark., Tlls., 2
with a catalogue. which Ohio, each........ TOMS Zorso
Silvermouth, Gulf Calif. $ 25 gives their proper, com-
Silverlip, Mauritius SE A508 20 mon and scientific SEA CURIOS
Pink Cone. Bahamas..... 30! names, with the locality 5
Pearl Conch,3in.Panama. 25] where found. These Compass Starfish, Chili$ 25,50
Helix fideles, Oregon ..... 25 shells when purchased Spined Purple Urchin... 35
Magpie, Bahamas........ 25! individually and prop- EggCasePeriwinkle,2inpe — 10
eeOiant:. .. eee 50 erly labelled would cost Acorn Barnacle, Pacific... 15
Neritina reclivata, Fla.. 10 from 2 to 25 cents each. 1 50 | Sea Horse, Atlantic ...... 40
Stair Case Cerithedea, Fla 10 Pipe Fish (very fine) Pac 1 00
Scarabus pyramidatus.Gm 10 MINERALS. Skate or Sand Shark Egg 10
Achatinella olivacea,Haw. 10 S Lucky Tooth of Cod_ .... 05
ey spirizona,Haw. 10 Halite Xtals, faceted cu- “Eye Stone,” GulfofMex. 06
uniplicata.tHaw. 10; booctohedron. .... ....$ a Alligator Teeth, Fla...5, 10, 25
Calf Cowry. Australia:..10, 25) Thenardite Xtals......... mam’oth | 50
Thorny-nosed Murex.... | 15 “crosses. 5 Tanees Sealegiere .- .. 05
Pink Murex, L. Calif..... 7 Cone-in-Cone, N. Y.......
Black Murex, Panama... 75 Dog-tooth Spar, N. Y.... 25 fish, Bahamas........ 75, 1 50
Scorched Murex, Baha... 05 Pryoye Crystal. Dak..... Precious Coral,twigs,med 10
Milky Stromb., Med..... 15 “Electric” Stone, N.Y...
Little Stromb.,Amb...... 1b)" Coquinans Waters... . se. 29 FOSSILS.
Lynx Cowry, Sing........ 10 Green Fluorspar, N. Y.. 25 | : :
Gnawed Cowry, Paly.... 10 Native Lodestone, Ark.. 25, Diatomaceous Earth,rich
Gann Cowry. Ceylon. ... es ]0 Mexican Onyx, Mex...... 25 | sere ms is
alif. Cowry, Cevlon..... 15 | Sana 7920 SR Or aL
Cow-tooth Shell;KeyWst 15! GEM STONES. | eo Se ae oF
arkeRoobhuivViae.. +.... 2:
Bosne Mazus, Med ae + Cut and Polished Semi-prec- ' Spirifer varicosa, Ind...... 10
Pecten dislocata. Gulf Mx. 25 _ ious Stones. | Owent, Ind ....... 29
eo Oe ‘ pede Intaglio.... geese ue fuck bulbosus. Ind 2
pider We ive, Ca 1 DD AMS a eee eee = = as 5 ons Ae rypa reticularis, sees SO
Orange Scorpion, Poly . Db) RedvOny xem. = «2.2 10 Athyris vitata............-. 05
Violet-mouth ‘ ‘Molucas” 100 Black One... ae . 10 Scaphites nodosus. Mon-
Ringed Cowry, Singap’re 10 Crocidolite ‘Tiger Eye)..10,25 tama................ 25, 50, 1 00
Snake-head Cowry. Aus. 10 Lapis Lazuli.............. 25
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bourne, with notes and many ills. 6 in. TOVON Ge Ee eee asc e ones 1 00

cols., 800. This is the elegant presenta- The Nidiologist Vol. Il complete, 174p. 60

Memerthion)..csepepaeteniascc <5. 400s: 30 half-tones, Col. Pl. of set White-tailed _

Do, do, do, regular edition.............. 150] Kite-Eggs.........cceceeeeecgeneees eee ee es 2 50
Natural Science News, 25 issues, all dif _ | penikese, (a reminiscent sketch oi Agas- +

WOMETIGAL {. 3c oS aos WOMEN ae coc vas aw canine J siz famous summer school), 96p, 123 i eae 35

FRANK H.LATTIN, Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y.

100 eee

THIS 18 THE WAY THEY COME.

/
Dear Mr. Short:

Your new catalogue is to hand. Many
thanks for same. It certainly Stee.

VINCENNES, IND.

Your catalogne is very tastily gotten up.
It isneat form and handy. In so many lists
of this kind, when it comes to the scientific
names, the printer falls clear down. and with-
out a most painstaking proof-reader gets
after him. a tyhographically incorrect mess
is made of it. In your Catalogue I have not
yet noticed any.

Asto the matter of prices, I am not an
authority along this line, and can express no
opinion, other than that I believe tbat the
names of the compilers, Lattin and Short is
sutficient guarantee of the prices being just
about in the right notch. THEY KNow. ne

Cebae:.

Gentlemen: A A i i
Your new Price List of North American

Birds Eggs was duly received. Many, many
thanks for same. It is a Beauty, binding,
paper and press work simply fine, size per-

fect. After only a hurried glance would say
that the prices appear to be fair and equit-
able. The compilers surely deserve great
credit, and should meet with the support
which their efforts so richly deserve.
Yours truly
PHILO W. SMITH, Jr.
The new “Standard Egg
hand. Many thanks for same. It came asa
surprise. Beyond doubt it is the best out
and will become the standard medium of ex-
change with all Oologists. J.C. W.

Catalogue” at

Odell’s $6.45,

Americans

$5.90. Each
with fancy case. Typewriter papers; 500
8xl103 sheets 65c; Circulars free. Agents
wanted. THE A.L. HARVICK NOVELTY
CO., Vienna, Ills. M3t
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PHOTOS! SLIDES! 92's: 20e

selected from nearly 200 subjects, 60c;
15c each. 1 doz. slides, any subject,
$2.75, 25c each. B.S. BowpisH, Dem-
arest, N. J.

For June

South American Butterflies.

I can furnish the following rare and mag-
nificent, from U.S. of Columbia: MorpHo
SULKOWSKY, 43x4§ in. MorRHO MENELAUS,
(gorgeous peacock blue)d5:x7in. Either species
prepaid, for only $2.00. Ea:h insect is mount-
ed on a new patent tablet, which not only
protects it from dust, breakage, etc., but puts
them ina shape at once more beautiful and
infinitely neater than is possible by the anti-
quated ee of impaling them on pins.

RANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y.

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OOLOGIST.

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and Hooded Warblers, Chuck-will’s-widow,
American Oystercatcher, Royal Tern, Wil-
son’s Plover, Willet, Clapper Rail, Black
Skimmer, etc. The largest and most val-
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competent collectors. Stamp for list. Sat-
isfaction guaranteed. Juldt

DOCTOR M. T. CLECKLEY,
457 Greene Street, Augusta, Ga.

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JOHN LEWIS CHILDS, EpitTor
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Stamps of any denomination will be accepted
for sums under one dollar. Make Money Or-
ders and Drafts payable and address all sub-
scriptions and communications to

ERNEST H. SHORT, Editor and Manager,

Chili, Monroe Co.. N: Y.

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G. B. Heron Collecting in Salem Co. N. J.

In the first week of this month (Ap-
ril) I went to the Heron rookery which
was about one half mile from where I
was visiting. Putting ona pair of gum
boots, my assistant and I proceeded, as

we entered the wood all around us loom-
ed up trees of the virgin forest 90 to 115
feet high consisting of pin oak, white
and black oak. The pin oak being about
15 feet taller, and range from 2 to 5 feet
in diameter. (One tree here produced
30 two horse wagon loads of wood.) As
we penetrated we came to water about
one foot deep, here was placed the col-
ony in three of the largest remaining
pin oaks. The giant of these I pro-
ceed to ascend by way of a tall gum
80 feet high where I throw a rope over
to a limb of the large tree bringing the
limbs close together, I cross over. being
over I descended down 40 feet to main
crotch which is 50 sheer feet from the
ground with not a twig to intervene.
From here which is central you go up
50 and back 50 feet until you visit 15
nests, which are placed on the utmost
ends of the limbs 90 to 110 feet from
the ground, made entirely of sticks and
about the size of a bushel basket. Out
of these nests in two climbs within six
days I collected over 50 eggs in sets. I
think this is a record for one tree.

On the first climb I only expected one
nest to containeggs. Going up without
any bag or pencil I had to take my in-
ner shirt and tie the sets separate which
amounted to 37 eggs and put it around
my neck, of course about seven eggs
were broken. This tree I should men-
tion is 12 foot in circumference. I did
not use any climbing irons, and can say
collecting G. B. Herons in this vicinity
is harder and more perilous than the
majority of Bald Eagles I have visited.
The other two trees contained 12 nests
between them. I should mention two
sets contained 6 eggs each.

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Bachman’s Warbler.

- Some time ago | stated, in speaking of the then recent discovery of nest
and eggs of Kirtland’s Warbler, that ‘‘Bachman’s Warbler now occupies
a unique position and we trust for trustworthy information in regard to its
nest and eggs before long.’’ (See Oologist, No. 201, pp. 60.)

No one called my attention to it at the time but the nest and eggs of
this bird had already been described.

In the ‘‘Auk,’’ July, 1897, Mr. Robt. Ridgway described a set taken in
Missouri as follows:

Type set now in U S. National Museum taken by the veteran collector,
Oito Widmann on Kolb Island, Dunklin county, Mo., May 17, 1897.

Nest a somewhat compressed compact mass composed externally of dried
weed and grass stalks and dead leaves, many of the later partially
skeletonized.

Lining of black fibres, apparently dead threads of the black Lichen
(Ramalina sp.) which hang in beard-like tufts from Button bushes
{Ophalanthus) and other shrubs growing in the wet portions of the south-
western bottom lands. :

Nest 3% by 4 in. outside. Inside cavity 1% by 2 in. Eggs three.
Regularly ovate. Pure white in color. Measurements .63 by .48, .64 by
-49, .63 by .40.

On May 13, 1898 Mr. Widmann secured another set now in the col-
lection of J. P.. Norris, Jr., Phila, Penn.

Through the kindness of Mr. Norris | am able to describe this set as
follows:

Nest was found on Buffalo Island, Dunklin county, Mo., was placed 2
feet from the ground in a blackberry bush in full bloom. Similar in struc-
ture to the type nest and not attached to branches but simply supported
between half a dozen of them.

Eggs three. Pure china white and glossy. Size practically as in type
Set. ;

The female was sitting when the nest was found at 10a. m.on the 13th,
and Mr. Widmann left it until the next day but secured only the three
eggs. Evidently three is a full complement. Possibly they never lay
more though it would need a more extended acquaintance to make this
certain.

Through Mr. Norris’ kindness we are able to present on another page a
good half-tone of this set in nest.

E. H. SHORT.

104 tHE

The Quail Trap.

Housekeeping is over with our seven
species of resident hawks, except witha
few of the late Accipiters and harriers.
The fluffy young redtails I have seen
afield appear larger than the old buteos.
Dozens of Red-shoulders are out of the
nest, and with their parents are just
now very silent foragers. The early
launcher in Fishers island sound can see
trios of eaglets balancing on the spind-
‘les, dreading the first essay with their
long wings, but soon to be pushed off
the huge nests by the old ospreys, when
they must fly, or get a salt bath. A
laborer on a farm in Bristol threw tv:o
eaglets from their nest to the ground
to die. The angry ospreys have since
followed, made such threatening dashes
and so pecked at the man that he could
not work, and he was discharged. New
help was at once hired, and the birds
quieted down seemingly satisfied with
their revenge. From my own exper-
ience I should say that this was nota
fish story, for I knew a Noank man
who climbed to a fish-hawk’s nest and
had his straw hat seized by the fierce
talons and dropped in the middle of the
Sound. The only wonder is that the
hat was not added to the olla podrida
in the catch all of a nest.

The portable saw mills have made so
many gaps in the cordon of big timber
that used to surround Norwich, that ob-
servers have feared the birds of prey
would be driven away from this vicin-
ity. Partly to allay these fears and
partly to visit my old friends, I have
visited nearly all the scattered groves
that are left fit for nidification, and I
ean report more favorably than would
seem possible. There are still breed-
ing pairs of Red-shoulders in Rock-
well’s at Spalding’s dam. Cobb’s city
reservoir, Bowen hollow, Whip-poor-
will ledge, Hearthstone mountain,
McCall’s hill, Bashan, Wauwecus Barry-
town Leffingwell Paradise woods Mohe-

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gan, Sunnyside, The Commons, Brick-
yard, Hell Gate, Cindy’s cedar swamp,
McClimon’s, Benjamin’s, Bundy hill
and Zion hill. On the Baltic road Al.
Lillibridge reports that the Red-should-
ers breed in the time honored sites and
Barred owls were raised “in the same
old stub.’’ It is worth noting that un-
der too frequent observation these
buteos will line and feather two or
three old nests before deciding where
to lay. Trios were the rule with these
sets this season, there being only two
sets of normal nest washed fours.

The eyries of the Redtails are in a
periphery just outside the circle of its.
cogeners. I find pairs of the largest
buteos still at home at Ayer’s moun-
tain, Lamb’s woods, Blue hill. Gardner
lake, Kingsley’s woods. Montville,
Spicer ledges, Gungawamp, Lantern
hill, Broad brook, Rix road woods,
Brown’s mountain and in three groves
in Lisbon, in one in Sprague and in two
in Canterbury. May day a North Ston-
ington farmer brought me an old Red-
tail which he had trapped on a nest
holding two young and an addled egg.
On cutting the thong from one of the
hawk’s feet, the claw auickly seized
the farmer’s hand, and on freeing the
other leg the talons at once sank deep-
lv into the farmer’s wrist. The hawk
was at once placed in an empty pheas-
ant coop, with the intention of carrying
it towards its native woods the next —
day. But the hawk secured its own
freedom by twisting with its powerful
grasp the wires which had been proof
against many dogs. The old hawk
waited a moment in an apple tree, as
if to get his bearings,
soaring a little at a mile-a-minute clip
straight over Scalpingtown towards the
Anguilla district.

Marsh hawk also girdle the city in
about the same numbers as the Red-
tails, and their homes are not often
broken up by the farmers and choppers.
I visited the bogs named below, and

and then. after .

THE OOLOGIST. : 105

while every nest was not located, the
hawks were all at home: Cranberry at
Wauwecus, Long Society cranberry
bog, railroad bog in Lisbon, and bogs
in Sprague, Franklin, Preston and Led-
yard. Mr. Brand used to find the mole
hawk breeding in the bog now covered
by. the Sachem park skating pond.
There are two bogs on the Davis-Kim-
‘ball trout brook and one in North Ston-
ington, always peopled by harriers. It
was here that Mr. Trumbull, on sud-
denly coming on a nest witha full com-
plement, exclaimed: ‘‘Gracious! There
are more than a bushel of eggs!’’ A
set of seven eggs from this place now
in Washington, are as brightly marked
as the average set of Red-shoulders.
Two harriers I saw in woods this season,
and I saw both in trees for a wonder.
But though terrestrial in habits and
oftenest seen skimming low over the
surface of the ground, vet when stand-
ing by anest of young marsh hawks
I have seen the parents soar overhead,
higher and higher, in narrowing spirals,
till lost in the sky.

The total disappearance of the Sharp-
shinned hawk around Norwich has been
a matter of much comment. Indeed, it
is growing rarer everywhere, for I am
constantly receiving letters from collec-
tors in the west and south desiring
Sharpshins’ eggs and offering in ex-
change choice foreign rarities. The
Sharp-shinned hawk used to be common
here, and I have found it breeding at
Brewsters’ Neck, Harvey’s Grove,

~Rockwell’s woods, ex-Senator Barnes’
woods, East Side, in Bill park, in hem-
locks back of Harry Jennings’ barn on
Laurel Hill avenue, in a grove opposite
the Norwich and Worcester depot, and
at Pinehurst, in the heart of the city.
Indeed, its domestic habits and its
its fearlessness has led to its destruc-
tion. In town and country it has been
hunted by the small bov with a gun,
whose ambition has been ‘‘to shoot a
pigeon hawk.’’ Mr. Thurston Lilli-

bridge, farmerlike once threw a set of
six eggs on the ground from a nest in
an easy hemlock in the Widow Law’s
brook, above the city reservoir. Only
think, ye oologists! Throwing away a
set of these incomparable eggs, the
very showiest hawk’s eggs, and dis-
playing more variation than any eggs
known !

‘The larger Accipiter, Cooper’s hawk,
though much more destructive to farm-
ers than its cogener, the little Sharp-
shin, has fared much better locally-
Wherever I was looking up the buteos,
I found this saucy robber at home, in
evergreen, or deciduous’ trees, in
swamps, or on high land, building his
own house, or using old crow’s or cast
off hawk’s nests. Coopers are sharp
enough to put off laying until they can
have leafy screens, while the poor but-
eos, whose homes in leafless chestnuts
are easily found by farmers, have to
suffer for the poultry raids of the Coop-
er.

April 27th, I saw a Sparrow hawk
come out of a wacup’s hole on the
Brickyard road. There are three in-
stances of its breeding in dove cotes in
in this city. Somehow, through its in-
conspicuous habits and dress, this bird
has escaped the too handy shotgun, and
is increasing in this locality. By actual ~
trial I find that all kinds of young
hawks taken from the nest can be easily
raised in confinement, but for many
reasons do not make desirable pets.
While at Dr. Fitch’s school at Windham
I had many tame hawks. By means of
long kite strings and other rude ap-
liances, I tried in vain to revive the old
art of faleonry. But I did discover that
the easiest obtainable and the best food
for the hungry hawks are the descend-
ants of the ancient frogs of Windham.

C. L. RAWSON.

I lately saw a nicely marked set of
Marsh Hawk taken in Orleans county,
N. Y., some 9 years ago. Not many
Oologists would throw awav a set of

106

Sharp-shinned Hawk still I can’t quite
agree with Mr. Rawson as to their
showing the most variation. Fora dis-
play of variation from plain white to
beauties in umber, chestnut and _ lilac,
from speckled to streaked and blotched,
from pointed oval to globular in shape
give mea full series of Ferruginous
Rough-legs. Editor.

The American Barn Owl in Orleans
County.

After an absence of two vears from
the old home scenes among which I
was born, passed my boyhood, and con-
tinued to reside until the fall of 1901,
I stepped down from the train in my
old home town of Medina on the morn-
ing of June 20th, last.

Among the former friends and ac-
quaintances of mine who were about
the station platform coming and going
on different errands was Mr. Henry
Freeman. wno was just taking that train
for Rochester, conveying with him to
a taxidermist there, a specimen alive
of a peculiar bird which up until that
time he had been unable to correctly
name, nor had he been able to find any
one in town who had seen such a bird
before.

My arrival! at that moment seemed
timely, for otherwise I might have
missed seeing the bird all together, as
my stay in Medina will be brief.

Mr. Freeman was pleased to have the
birds’ identity established and to learn
that he had secured one of the rarest
birds that ever visits Western New
York, for it was nothing less than an
Amercian Barn Owl (Strix pratincola)
which he had captured alive in his barn
on his farm about. four miles south-
west of Medina.

At the time I removed from Medina
to Vincennes, Ind., in the autumn of
1901, I had in course of preparation and
not far from completion, a proposed
work on the birds of Orleans county ;
which on account of my removal to the
West, was never finished.

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In consequence of having such a work
in preparation. I had made a most thor-
ough study up until that time, not only
of the ornithology of this county, but
of Western New York generally, and
Inew precisely the status of each spec-
ies occurring, and had a record of all
rare bird occurrences for Western New
York. In the four years that I have
lived in the West, I have still kept my
self posted on the new things and rare
occurrences in bird life of this section.
1 am therefore able to state regarding
this occurrence of the American Barn
Owl at Medina, that it is the first and
only record for Orleans county. In Ni-
agara county, Mr. J. L. Davison of
Lockport has a specimen which was tak-
en at LaSalle.

In Erie county, Dr. W. H. Bergtold’s
“List of the Birds of Buffalo and Vi-
cinity,’’ published in 1889 mentions
this species as a rare straggler, on the
authority of Otto Besser.

In Yates county, cne was taken by
Mr. John B. Gilbert near Penn Yan,
prior to 1879.

If there are other records of the oc-
currence of this owl in Western New
York, they have escaped my notice and
I shall be interested to hear of some
through the columns of the ‘‘Oologist.”’

CORNELIUS F. POSSON.

Medina, N. Y., June 21, 1905.

A Freak Crow.

In the Oologist for March, 1904, a
Michigan correspondent recorded the
capture of a freak Crow, whose bill
was abnormally developed, viz: to quote
his own words ‘‘the upper mandible
being 1 1-2 inches and the lower mandi-
ble 3 inches in length. Compare this
abnormal shaped bill with a normal siz-
ed one, which is two
length, and the differences in the length
of the mandibles will be readily seen.
I have a, somewhat similar freak to —
record.

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THE OOLOGIST. 6A(T ) 107

~ On June 9, 1903, at Sandiford, this
county, we found a Crow’s nest con-
taining 4 young nearly three-fourths
grown, situated between an upright
crotch in a slanting willow on the bank
of a creek, 25-feet from the ground.

Nothing unusual about the nest or its
site, though a late one, but what struck
me as remarkable as I glanced into the
nest at the four erect heads and gaping
mouths, was the singular shaped bill

_of one of the birds. Had not the birds
opened their mouths for food, when I
gazed into the nest, in all probability
the freak would not had been noticed.
It was as vociferous as its companions
in clammering - for food when I made a
noise ‘“‘like a crow’’ to attract their
attention, which caused them to raise
their heads and open wide their capric-
ious maws for food they expected but
didn’t get. It was normal in all other
respects, fat and healthy. Here is the
description of its abnormal! bill as I
wrote it down at the time in my note
book, after a careful examination. Its
bill was not quite 2 inches in length,
straight for half an inch, or one quarter
its length; where the mandibles sharp-
ly diverged the upper one to the left
and the lower one to the right.
they recurved inward so that the tips
of the mandibles nearly met, being only
half an inch apart. The shape of this
eurious formed bill strongly resembled
an oar lock. ;

I meant to secure the freak when it
had attained a proper size so as to make
an attractive pet, and rear it, and learn
whether it would have been possible for
it to pick up food or other objects
with its curious shaped bill, which I

._ doubt it could have done. But my

raseally cousin spoiled all of my con-
templated exp2riments, for he discov-
ered the nest several days latter and
eruelly killed all of the young by throw-
ing them to the ground. Those that
survived the shock of the fall met their
fate in the creek by drowning. And

Then °

when I remonstrated with him for his
cruelty in recklessly killing them he
weakly pleaded that ‘‘Crows steal
corn,’’ but the amount of corn the Crows
are accused of stealing, I told him, did
not amount to one-fifth of that which
is consumed by the Pigeons his father
permitted him to keep in the barn. As
far as my observations go the Pigeon is
a greater devourer of grain and other
seeds than the Crows and Blackbirds
combined. But I am digressing.

In his answer to the Michigan freak
the editor attributed the abnormal
shaped bill to some accident and asks
for an explanation which has not as yet

een forthcoming. He thought it
would interfere with the bird feeding
as it undoubtedly would. He does not
say whether he thinks the accident oc-
curred to the bird in its embryoic stage
or after it had emerged into the world.

I confess to being an incompetent au-
thority upon the subject of incubation
but I am inclined to believe that the
abnormal growth of both of the birds’
bills was caused during their embryoric
period of growth for I cannot see how
it could have happened latter, my own
freak being a young bird supports my
theory. I think that the abnormal
growth of the two Crows’ bills occurr-
ed in the eggs and offer this explana-
tion. The formation of the embryo oc-
cur first in the yolk, and, as it is here
that the change first occurs which de-
termine the form of the future individ-
ual the cause of these abnormalties
then, it is my belief, was occasioned by

- some vital action which occurred in the

earliest stage of the formation of the
embryos. A friend offered the sugges-
tion that they were born in abnormal
sized or shaped egg, but I think it un-
likely.

Have any other readers an explana-
tion to offer?

RICHARD F. MILLER,
Philadelphia, Pa.
July 1, 1905.

108 - THE

If the birds in these two instances
emerged from the shells as they grew
they were, of course the product of dis-
arranged cell growth in the earlv em-
bryonic stage.

This matter is not well understood as
yet though many attribute it to mental
or physical disturbance of the parent
inmammals. This would hardly ac-
count for the condition occurring in
eggs.

We agree with Mr. Miller that Pig-
eons are worse nuisances agriculturally
than Crows, but have concluded after
years of careful observation that the
balance of the Crows account is against
him.—Editor.

Rough-winged Swallow at Hartford,Conn.

It has b2en my good fortune to care-
fully watch a pair of these Swallows
for the last three years using a water
conductor or pipe hole in an enbank-
ment wall on the Park River in the city
for a breeding place. This year they
have raised their young in this place
which seems an unusual one, the hole
is 18 inches above high water and 10
feet up from the bed of the river.
They arrived May 4, 1904 and May 18,
1905. This Swallow is rare in Hartford
county.

CLIFFORD M. CASE.

Red-tailed Hawk.
A High One.

While on a collecting trip Good Fri-
day, April 28, 1905, after Red-shoul-
dered Hawks’ eggs, I found an extra
tall piece of woods covering some 7 or
8 acres. I found two or three old nests;
a little fartheron a new one, with a
good vigorous clapping of my hands a
bird flew of which proved to be a Red-
tail from anestin a white pine tree.
On measuring it proved to be 92 feet
from the ground. It contained 2 dirty
and badly incubated eggs. I think
this is one of the oldest pieces of tim-
ber in Hartford Co., and the highest

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tree that I have met in 25 years in col-
lecting in Connecticut.
CLIFFORD M. CASE.

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I was interested in Mr. Smithwick’s
article in the Mav issue. The follow-:
ing notes maybe of interest to some.
For several years Purple Martins had
reared their broods in a box placed on
a pole. During last winter a. storm
blew the boxoff thepole. On April 6th
of this year the Martins were seen
alighting upon the pole, chattering
and flying about it until a new box
was erected.

Does this not show that birds havea
remarkable memory and that thesame
pair or pairs return to the same nest-
ing site? ;

The following may beofinterest. A
pair of Blue Jays built a nest upon a
pole in my barn but the rats destroyed
the eggs.

C. W. PRIER.

C. B. V., Ills.—and others.—No. 5la
was omitted from our last Standard
Catalogue because the A. O. U. has
now concluded that 51 and 5la are not
distinct forms and combined them as
one Herring Gull.—Editor.

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To-day I have just got a set of Song
Sparrow’s eggs and nest with a Robin’s
egg in it. Something new to me.

Yours truly,
Ep. Dixon.
Unionville, Ont.

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Philatelic West, Vol. XXX, No. 2.

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FOR EXCHANGE.—Fine set of 2 cees of
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Scientific Bird Skins.

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Female Hooded Merganser............---- 50
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spurred Towhee 2) 016 cbic. cece eee ete la ee 15
Northern! Shrike... 2.22005. cic. cc ce cesses cen 25
Evening Grosbeak..................00.0008- 50
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Vermillion Flycatcher..................... 26

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South American Butterflies.

‘I can furnish the following rare and mag-
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New York Natural History Survey.

Thavea a of 22 vols. of this rare-and-elaxj-
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irregular distribution so far as I have
been able to ascertain in any particular
place, but they put in theirappearance
on dates varying as much as eight or
ten days; on some seasons arriving by
the twentieth of March, while on others
they do not reach us before the first of
April. In the west they are a few days
later than in the southwest, and much
later than in the east. In northern
Virginia they arrive several days later
than in the southeast, and much later
than in the southeastern sections of
North Carolina. In Bertie county,
North Carolina, nest building begins
by the 25th of April, but sometimes
the nest may not be begun before the
first of May. In beginning the con-
struction of the nest, as if from some
definite cause, all the birds seem to
be late on the same season. Mr. H.
Gould Welbourne (see Oologist, Sept.
1895), gives them as a common sum-
mer visitor around Lexington, North
Carolina, and describes a nest in the
upright fork of a plum bush only five
or six feet from the ground. On the
20th of April, in Norfolk county, I ob-
served a pair of birds building their
nests in the ‘‘V’’ shaped crotch of a
small willow at the height of 11 feet
from the ground. The nest was visit-
ed several times, and on May 5th was
found to contain three fresh eggs.
As in the north and west they arrive a
few days later than in the south and
east, so, also, are they from three to
eight days later in building their
nests. During the construction of the
nest both birds share alike in the
labors, but the male seem to be de-
void of that hustling quality that so
well marks the efforts of the female;
even then he is far from being a lazy

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THE CALIFORNIA VULTURE.

THE OOLOGIST. 119

mate, helping to carry the materials
to the nest to be arranged by the fe-
male. The nest is placed on the hori-
zontal or drooping limb of some tree
in a grove or heavily wooded tract, or
occasionally on the limb of a tree by
the side of a road, and more rarely in
the shade tr2es in the yard. Their
favorite trees are oaks and sweet gums,
on the limbs of which they place their
nests at heights ranging from eleven
to sixty-five feet from the ground; but
frequently do we find them on the
limbs of beeches, elms and other trees
common to our forests, and rarely in
the trees in the orchard and garden.
The nest is often placed in the twigs
that shoot upward from the main limb,
but in such a manner that it is seated
on the main limb, and is so firmly
seated in and around the twigs that
often it is with difficulty that the nest
is removed as itis woven around the
twigs. The nest is an exceedingly
neat, but rather frail, structure, made
of the withered blossoms of plants—
those of the beech being used to pro-
fusion in some nests, fine grasses,
occasionally some wool and skeleton
leaves, securely felted with a kind of
vegetable down, and is ornamented on
the exterior with lichens which serve
to deceive the collector. The interior
of the nest is very neat and well shap-
ed, being about one and a half inches
in diameter by slightly less in depth.
Usually the walls are inclined to turn
over, or slightly roll inward at the
edge, thereby giving the nest a very
neat appearance. The usual number
of eggs are five, but sometimes four
and six complete the set. With the
exception of the piney tracts, Blue-
Grays are equally abundant in all
kinds of wood; but on some seasons,
however, they are more abundant than
on others. The readiness with which
it removes the material of which its
nest is being constructed to some
other site, is one of the most interest-

ing of the peculiarities of this bird;

_ always using the same material in the

new nest that was used in the deserted
dormatory, often not carrying it more
than a few rods, but sometimes to the
most remote part of the woods. This,
I think, is never done unless they are
watched by some human foe, and then
only to defeat his efforts to dispoil
their treasure. One unusually inter-
esting instance of this kind came un-
der my notice in 1899. I chanced to
discover a nearly completed nest on
the limb of a sweet gum about 20 feet
from the ground, after seating myself
on a convenient log I passed several
minutes watching the birds; and then
departed, having approached to within
not nearer than twenty-five feet of the
nest. On returning the next day,
greatly to my surprise, I found the
birds as busily engaged removing the
material, as, on the previous day,
they had been in bringing it to the
first site. After a short search I locat-
ed the nest on the limb of another
gum about twenty-five rods away. I
found, on visiting the locality four
days later, that they had removed the
material to some distant part of the
grove. After all they succeeded in de-
feating my attempts at securing their
eggs, I found the nest of young sever-
al weeks later. From the 10th to the
25th of September they depart south-
ward, ¢
R. PEARCE SMITHWICK,
Norfolk, Virginia.

Chat with a Naturalist.

From J. Welsh, Victoria, Australia, “Mel-
bourne Argus.”

The time and the surroundings
were appropriate for achat about birds,
for we were sitting in one of the soft
cushion bushes amongst the sand-
dunes and banksias of Phillip Island,
waiting for the incoming of the mut-

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ton-birds. A little later conversation
upon any subject would have been
out of the question, for black wings
whistled around us in the black night,
the air was dense with the musky
odor of seabirds, and all the uncanny
noises of earth seemed to be gurgling
and shrieking under foot, over one’s
head and round about us in the
strange voices of these strange sea-
birds. It was while waiting that I
asked my companion, Mr. A. J. Camp-
bell, how he first got that taste for na-
ture study which he has made the
life work of his leisure hours, and
which is so splendidly recorded in his
two illustrated volumes, ‘‘The Nests
and Eggs of Australian Birds.’’ What
I can remember of that chat long ago
can only be a memory interview.

‘‘T became interested in the subject,’’
he said, ‘‘when I was a boy about
eight years old onthe Werribee Plains,
and the first nests that interested me
were those of the black and white fan-
tail, the red-browed finches—which
built in an old hedge—and quails,
which were then very plentiful. My
grandfather was a strict old Highland-
er, who thought the taking of eggs a
sin, so I kept my collection hidden in
a stone wall, and by mischance left it
there when we came away. My moth-
er encouraged me in the study of all
forms of nature. The first puzzle I
met as a boy was finding the brown
egg of the bronze cuckoo amongst the
white eggs in the nest of a yellow-tail-
ed tit, the second, equally a surprise
and a delight, occurred years after-
wards, when [I climbed a gum sapling
on the River Darling, and found the
curiously marked egg of the bower
bird, which looks as if it were wound
round about with brown cobweb. As
a schoolboy in Melbourne, I spent all
my spare time nest-hunting in what
was then a happy hunting ground of
birds—the line of shore and bush
stretching from Sandridge past the

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Red Bluff. at St. Kilda. The oldest
egg in my collection—that of the yel-
low-breasted shrike-tit—was taken in
those days in Albert park, and the
lovely swinging nest, with that pe-
culiar bulge at the sides, which pre-
vents the eggs being rolled out of it in
a high wind, looked as beautiful to
me then as now. It was only on get-
ting hold of Gould’s ‘Handbook’ that
I realized little or nothing had been
done on the domestic side of bird life,
soI took that up, both as a hobby
and a scientific work.’’

What do you consider your most in-
teresting trip?

“That to West Australia in 1899,

when Sir James Patterson, then Com- °

missioner of Customs, gave me fur-
lough for the purpose. There were
certain unknown eggs and nests
which I required to complete the ma-
terial for my book, and I gut them all,
with the exception of the western
scrub bird, which has not yet been
discovered. That is strange, because
the conspicuous call of the bird is so
often heard. Still more curious is
the fact that no collector has ever
found a female scrub bird. One of
the birds I was anxious to get was the
pied robin, and calling at a sawmill I
found the bird and its nest close be-
side it. The discovery was interest-
ing, because instead of the apple-
green eggs expected they were more
like those of a wood swallow, and the
generic name of the bird was altered
in consequence.’’

What is the finest bird sight you
have seen?

‘‘The most impressive was the first
sight of the sea-bird rookeries on the
islands of Bass Straits, which were
then unknown. I remember landing
one morning on one of the Flinders
group after a storm so heavy that we
feared we could not attempt it, and we
dressed lightly, lest we should capsize
and have to swim for it. We walked

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THE OOLOGIST. 121

up through the tussocks towards the
crown of the island, and suddenly the
acres of gannets upon their nests,
their white plumage gleaming in the
morning sun, burst upon us. Rat
Island, one of Houtman’s Abrolhos
group, off the West Australian coast,
was another wonderful spectacle, for
spread over its 3800 acres was not one
but three layers of nesting sea birds,
averaging about a bird to every square
yard. On the top of the seaweed and
salt bush were the noddys, beautiful
and harmless as doves. On _ the
ground under the bushes was a layer
of nesting sooty terns; underneath it
the island was honeycombed with the
burrows of great myriads of mutton-
birds.’’

Have any preferences for a particu-
lar order of birds grown out of that
wide experience?

‘‘Well, I like, perhaps, the honey
eaters best. They are so beautiful, so
happy, so graceful; their eggs are a
charming feature in a cabinet, with
that warm tone of pink running
through most of them; and their nests
—such daintily woven baskets, swing-
ing amongst the foliage of blossoming
trees. Curiously enough, the last egg
of the honey eaters 1 -wanted to com-
plete my collection was that of the in-
teresting helmeted honey: eater, which
is peculiar to Victoria. One Saturday
a party of us went up the Olinda
Creek, amongst the native hazel,
where we found the helmeted honey
eater on a beautifully woven nest of
bark. Two of us climbed for it, but
the bough suddenly broke, and nest,
and eggs, and collectors went into the
water together. The eggs were saved
only through the bird sticking to the
nest until it reached the water. In
the same way, I wanted the brown
eggs of the pilot bird to complete my
collection, and I walked up another
gully, and sat down within a few feet
of the nest. Once on my way from

Adelaide I left the train at Nhill, and
went out into the mallee to look for
the nest of the wattle-cheeked honey
eater, and was fortunate enough to
find it. The bird had been known for
60 years, but its eggs then were un-
discovered. The eggs of some birds
that have been known for a hundred
years have yet to be found.’’

What do you consider the most rare
of the beautiful eggs and nests in
your collections?

‘‘The most beautilul nest, I think,
is that of the~ rose-breasted robin—so
neat in its cup shape, so artistically
decorated outside with colored mosses
and lichens. The most valuable egg
is that of the rifle bird, worth more
than its weight in gold. When [I first
went in search of it I asked a settler
if he ever found the nests. ‘Oh, yes,’
he said, ‘that’s the bird that builds
its nest with snake skins.’’ I was
amused at the absurdity of it, but the
first nest I found had woven into it the
cast skin of a carpet snake. The pale
green eggs of the cassowary—the larg-
est egg in Australia—are getting very
rare. They are only found in a little
area of Queensland, and it is being
taken up by planters.’’

You have done nothing in the col-
lecting of birds?

‘‘Very little, except in cases where
it was necessary to shoot a bird in
order to settle some point in dispute,
or where specimens were wanted for
the museums. Sometimes I regret
lost opportunities, but then it is a
satisfaction to look back and feel that
one has been able to do this work
without destroying much life.’’

To what extent has the study of the
domestic side of bird-life been covered?

‘‘There are about 770 species of birds
in Australia, and the eggs of perhaps
a hundred haye yet to be discovered
and described. But there is no genus
which is unknown to science, and
reasoning by analogy, we know pretty

122 THN
well what these unseen eggs are like.
We have birds whose eggs are un-
known and eggs whose birds are
unknown. I have in my collection at
home the white egg of a rail, which,
although it differs in color from other
rails’ eggs, we still know is the egg of
a rail, but we don’t know which rail
laid it. The rufous-headed bristle-
bird is peculiar to Victoria, but the
only eggs I ever obtained were got by
a friend at Lorne. One peculiarity
about eggs that I have noticed is that,
while the main tone of the American
and European birds is blue, that of
Australian birds is distinctly red.
Less than a third, I should think, of
the eggs of Australian birds are.white.”’

What are your methods and equip-
ment in searching for eggs?

“Very litthe—a tomahawk and an
egg basket. Most birds build low in
warm scrub. It’s largely a matter of
going quietly, constantly” keeping
your eyes open, and making the most
of the daylight. A discriminating
ear is also a guide. It findsa signifi-
cance in bird notes that the untrained
ear does not discover. But most
finds come from the eye—the fleeting
glimpse of a bird darting silently off
through the scrub as she leaves the
nest. It is a strange circumstance
that as soon as I had got all the ma-
terial for my book I lost the tomahawk
I had carried for years. I took it asan
omen that my work amongst nests
and eggs was finished.”’

Most people will hope not. Mr.
Campbell, from the very nature of the

- wholesome outdoor life to which his

leisure has been given,-is still a young
man, and as he strides along through
the bush the man who keeps with him
for a day is a good athlete. His work
is a fine and fascinating contribution
to natural science, much more gener-
ously recognized, perhaps, amongst
the scientists of England and Germany
than in his own country. Perhaps in

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the material sense he would be _ better
off if he had given his leisure to crick-
et or some other game that commands
the universal approval of Australians.
Only a few know the value of the
work he has done, but by those few it
is appreciated. Lately I received the
third volume on bird life issued by
the Geological Survey of Canada; the
annual reports of the Agricultural and
Forestry departments of New Zealand
give much space to the subject. In
Australia it has been left to a private
individual to do out of his own means
and leisure the work which the state
has done elsewhere. He has been
elected a colonial member of the Brit-
ish Ornithologists’ Union—an honour
limited to only ten persons in the
world; while the American Ornitholo-
gists’ Union has elected him one of
its corresponding ‘‘Fellows.’’ All
honor to him that his work has been
so well done.

Nesting of the Dotted Canon “Wren in
Alameda county, California.

By STANLEY G. JEWETT.

On May 8, 1905, while collecting
bird skins and eggs in the Upper Al-
ameda Canon in the Livermore Mts.
of Alameda county, California, I had
the good luck to find a nest of the
Dotted Canon Wren, C. m. punctulat-
us. The nest was discovered by acci-
dent, as most good things are, on the
8th of May, when it contained two
eggs and the set of five was completed
on the 11th and added to my collection
on the 12th. Both male and female
birds were observed up and down the
canon on several occasions so the
identity is complete. The female was
sitting above side of nest in cleft of
rock when we came to photograph it,
in its gloomy retreat amid the rocks
beside the roaring waters of the wild
gorge.

The nest was composed of a mass of

THE OOLOGIST. 22.(6)

bits of moss in a green state, mingled
with bits of dry grass stems and tree
leaves, well bound together with spider
webs and cocoons. Inner part of ‘nest
was fitted with many soft feathers of
different birds. Depth of nest one
and one-half inches, across the top
three by two and one-half inches,
height of nest in front where it lay on
the rock two and three-quarter inches,
being two inches only in the back.
The under part of the nest was built
up in front witha lot of dry sycamore
twigs of one to seven inches in length,
this acted as a support to the front of
the nest to level it up. The extreme
length of nest was nine inches, several
twigs were scattered all along the
ledge for two or more feet as though
the bird was undecided where to start
her nest proper.. It was placed on a
slight shelf in a cleft in sandstone
rock, back fifty-one feet in a cave, en-
trance of cave only five feet from run-
ning stream. Thecave was fifty feet
high at entrance and twenty feet high
at extreme end. The bluff where this
nest was located faced the north in a
gorge some two hundred feet deep
where the roaring creek rushed down
the mountains, and far above the
scraggly black oaks, reared their long

branches over the poison oak thickets

below.

Description of eggs. A crystaline
white, having a slight polish marked
with fine cinnamon specks of one
shade, centered mostly in a ring
around larger end, numbers one, three
and four are more marked over the
whole egg than numbers two and five.
No under shell color is seen as in
many of the other wren’s eggs. Eggs
measured bym.m. Five specimens
perfectly fresh. No’ 1,19x13m. m.;
Woz2, 19 x 134m;-m.; No. 3, 20 x -14
m. m:.; No. 4, 20.x 14 m. m.; No. 5,
18x18 m. m. Average of the five

eggs, 138 x 19 m. m.

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The Red-breasted Nuthatch.

(Sitta canadensis. )

In EASTERN NEW YORK.

I have noticed very little in regard
to this interesting species in the col-
umns of the Oologist and only one men-
tion of its breeding in New York (Mr.
Clarence N. Davis, in Oologist for June,
1904, mentions the finding of some
young nuthatches) has come before my
notice. Sets from New York are prob-
ably very rare andI consider myself
very fortunate in finding two nests of
this species during this spring. One
nest contained three eggs (showing
traces of blood upon being blown, and
consequently a full set, though few in
number) and I have not examined the
other nest as yet but hope ‘to find a
fuller set.

On April 23rd, while out walking in
a small woods near here, I heard a pair
of nuthatches calling and upon following
them, noticed one fly out of a small hole
in a poplar stump, about five feet above
the ground. I did not lose any time in
investigating that stump and was soon
looking into the nesting cavity. The
hole was excavated about an inch and I
quickly decamped, as I did not want the
birds to desert such a promising ‘‘bo-
nanza.’’ The old birds were quite shy
but I easily identified the species by
its small size black stripe through the
eye, and reddish under parts. On May
7th, I again went down there, and was
pleased to find the hole so deep. that
I could not see the bottom. On May
13th, I decided to go and investigate
my find and did so with the above men-
tioned result. The entrance to the nest
was about an inch and a quarter in di-
ameter and the hole was five anda half
inches deep. The wall of bark was so
thin that I could easily break it with my
thumb. At the base of the cavity, was
a large mass of bark strips, probably
from a poplar tree, which made quite

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a soft nest for the eggs. For a foot
‘below the entrance, as well as slightly
above it, the bark was thickly covered
with pine pitch. The reason for this,
I have no idea, unless as suggested by
~ Mr. O. E. Crooker, in Oologist for July
1892, it is for the purpose of keeping
ants, woodticks and other insects from
the nest, and imprisoning them in the
sticky substances, enables the birds
to devour them at their leisure. This
supposition is undoubtedlv correct, as
the birds, it appears, could have no
other purpose in view. ;

The eggs were of a delicate pinky
white hue, retaining the same color
upon being blown, and they were spot-
ted all over with reddish brown chiefly
about the larger end. Their average
size is .61x.48 inches.

CHAS. P. ALEXANDER.

———

Bangor, Me., June 2, 1905.

Accept my thanks for the copy of
Standard Catalogue recently received.
It is a most excellent and up to date
work and very handy for reference.

I have found time to do some work
in the field this year, and though I do
* less collecting than I did years ago I
do more studying of the birds and
their habits and accomplish much more
practical results. The photographing
of nests and eggs, flowers and other
nature studies occupies considerable
of my leisure time. In fact I do not
think of collecting a set of eggs now
days unless I have first secured a num-
ber of photographs of the nest and sur-
roundings.

To-morrow Mr. J. Merton Swain and
and myself are thinking of trying to
find a nest or so of the Yellow Palm
Warbler. Though the birds nest regu-
larly in an extensive peat bog near
Bangor it is hard to find a nest save
by accident.

Very truly, -
O. W. KNIGHT, B.S.

THE OOLOGIST. 49.(¢)

Referring to Mr.'Wm. E. Crispin’s
article on the Screech Owl eggs which
take the measurements of Saw-Whet
I wish to callfhis attention to the fact
that the Saw-Whet while not being a
regular breederjas far south as Salem,
N. J., might possibly do so. I am
located at Odin, Illinois and I find I
am about sixty-five miles further south
than he is and I am positive I collected.
a set of five of the Saw-Whet Owl on
March 18, 1890. See page 205 Vol. 10
No. 7, July 1898 Oologist for account
of said taking. I had this bird in my
hands about a dozen times and a fellow
collector and myself carefully com-
pared her with the description given
in Coue’s Key and Ridgway’s Manual
and we are confident we made no mis-
take. While his eggs by not being
fully identified at taking would remain
in doubt, yet there is a degree of pos-
sibility of this being Saw-whet Owl’s
eggs,

C. B. VANDERCAMP,

Since June ‘‘Oologist’’ went to press.
I have seen the set of Owl’s eggs in
question. They were simply small
eggs of Screech Owl. I think the Saw-
Whet might breed in that latitude but
these would not do for Saw-Whet.

EDITOR.

~ A Snake in a Hawk’s Nest.

In reading the articles of green leaves
in Hawk’s nest reminds me of a Red-
shouldered Hawk’s nest I peeked into
a few years ago, it contained one fresh
egg and a spotted or milk snake 16 in-
ches long, but they nearly all have green
twigs from hemlock in this section.

A. E. KIBBE,
Mayville, N. Y.

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you. ERNEST H. SHORT. Rochester, N. Y.

ite can still furnish many

BIRD SKINS.

I have left, the following A No. 1 Bird
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Bittern (poor), 2 Cedar Waxwing, 4 Pine
Grosbeak—females, 13 Snowflake, 2 Purple
Finch—females, 1 white-breasted Nuthatch,
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express at purchaser’s expense, for only $5.75. ..

FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y,

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Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher.

Ep. OOLOGIST:

In reading Mr. Smithwick’s article
in the Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher in Aug.
Oo.oatst, I was struck with the differ-
ence in the breeding habits of this
species in his locality and in mine—
more particularly because it seems the
reverse of what we would naturally
Suppose. In Bertie Co., which is in
eastern N.C., he says nest building
begins about April 25th. In Iredue
Co., western N. C., which ought to be
later, I have found nests under con-
struction by March 28th, and in no
case have I found nests later than the
4th of June. Nests holding eggs are
rarely seen in this county later than
May Ist.

As to the nest itself, I have never
seen one less than ten feet from the
ground, and that not often. Twenty
feet seems about the average. Usual-
ly a horizontal branch is chosen, gen-
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the trunk, so pronged that one fork
will be over the nest, forming a kind
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favorites. Outof many nests that I
have examined, all were in oaks ex-
cept three in pines, one in maple, one
in dogwood, and one in peach.

Going out in the woods after the
breeding season one never finds old
nests. On the young leaving the nests,
the old birds immediately tear it in
pieces. Why this is done, I have not
been able to find out.

The new Catalogue is all right.
JACOB BOSTAIN,
Statesville, N. C.

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In last issue (Vol. I, No. 3) of the
‘‘Warbler’’ appears among other good
things an account of the nesting of the
Passenger Pigeon near Minneapolis in
1890 by W. Otto Emerson.

*

This brings authentic collecting of
the eggs of this species down to a much
later date than I have seen recorded.

The set, like all authentic records I
have investigated, consisted of oneegg.

On page 59 Penn. Bulletin Div. of
Zoology Vol. III, No. 2, I notice as
follows: ‘‘We should hesitate to
recommend the destruction of skunks
as these animals are known to be among
the most valuable of our insectivorous
creatures and are certainly the most
valuable fur-bearing mammal in the
State.’’

The editor of the OOLOGIST began on
skunks with a steel trap when he was
a boy of less than 14 years and he has
been studying skunks from various
points of view ever since.

Inevitably he has Aaa at a few
conclusions.

Unquestionably the skunk is insecti-
vorous but ‘they are also practi€ally
omnivorous along the line of animal

matter. The greatest point [ find to
their credit is the number of young

field mice (meadow voles) that they
dig out of the nests and devour. If it
were not for one characteristic this
alone would turn the balance in their
favor.

In the springand summer the skunk
is a light feeder. They wander but
short distances from their home bur-
row and get along with a minimum of
effort and food. While this period
lasts they destroy birds’ nests, mouse
nests, etc., including young chickens
if located in the near vicinity of their
home but they do not as a rule attract
much attention by their depredations
until along in September when cool

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nights bring a suggestion of coming
winter,

Then the skunk remembers about
the coat of fat that sustains them
through the winter and immediately
becomes industrious. Birds’ nests
and young are practically out of the
way now and mice are not so easy to
secure though they breed to some ex-
tent the year around.

Tnrning over stones and clods for
beetles and crickets is good as far as it
goes bnt they know a trick that yieids
much larger results with less labor.

After the middle of August the com-
mon toad has a habit of inflating him-
self with air after a good full meal and
retiring to some spot where the digging
is good where they burrow down from
four to seven inches and lie there.
The period and purpose of this I have
not yet satisfied myself about.

The skunks know all about this and
their keen noses will locate the toad
without any waste of time.

They simply claw the toads out and

capture a generous meal with little ©

effort. JI have seen the sides of sandy
knolls almost dug over by them.

It continues from early in September
to November and it would be useless
to attempt to estimate the number of
toads. destroyed. Now the toad does
his best work destroying insects dur-
ing the growing summer months and
and each one is nearly worth its weight
in gold.

One skunk will destroy in six weeks
a host of toads that have been the
farmers and gardeners best allies all
summer and I cannot see that they do
enough good at any time to balance
this. As to their value as fur even a
black skunk at $1.00 is a poor propo-
sition to balance 50 or 100 industrious
toads and it may take $5.00 worth of
effort to catch him at that. No! I
ean’t find where the skunk earns
enough credits to balance his debit
accountand IJ advise everyone to com-

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pass their destruction where possible
with safety to their person whether
with Bi-Sulphide, traps or firearms—
Editor.

A Day in the Field with ‘Walter E. Bryant.

Early in May 1901, I invited mv
friend and fellow oologist, Walter E.
Bryant, toaccompany meon the follow-
ing day’strip. The next morning I got
my ropes, lines, hatchet, 3 sizes col-
lecting boxes, cotton, etc., ready, put
my book of field notes in my pocket

_ and started before 6 o’clock, picked up

Mr. Bryant at his home and made for
the country north of Santa Rosa.
About three miles from town in driv-
ing over a small bridge we flushed a
Black Phoebe. Mr. Bryant took a look
under the bridge and reported ‘too
early, try again in two weeks.”’ We
stopped to examine some bridges but
Saw no signs of nests. While driving
along we noted the following birds:

Red-wing Black-bird, Brewer’sBlack
bird, Western Lark Sparrow, Ark
Goldfinch, Black-headed Grosbeak,
California Partridge, American Spar-
row Hawk, Violet-green Swallow,
Western Meadow-lark, Golden-crowned
Sparrow, California Towhee, California
Shrike and Western Bluebird.

When four and one-half miles out
and the road followed the edge of the
hills we tied to the road fence, taking
our apparatus with us we made for the
timber, going through a small vine-
yard. In going over a pile of brush at
the foot of the hill [ started a pair of
California Partridges. We examined
the brush thoroughly but no sign of
eggs or nest. We made up our minds
that Mr. and Mrs. Tetraonidx were out
on a house inspecting tour. As soon
as we reached the top of the ridge we
saw and heard plenty of bird life.
Quite frequently we were halted by
hearing the buzz of Anna’ Hummer.
We would set down very quietly and

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and watch but with no result.

After an hours slow walking without
seeing any new nests, we were stopped
by another Annas. We sat down on the
ground and kept very quiet. After
about ten minutes wait Mr. Bryant got
up and said, ‘‘We have got it.”’ He
explained by saying that he heard the
peculiar buzz the female makes when
setting on her nest. We soon located
Mrs. Anna on her nest four feet from
the main limb. Mr. Bryant stripped
his coat and claimed the honor of get-
ing the nest. On getting opposite the
little lady he politely asked her to va-
cate, which she declined to do. He
took off his hat and made two or three
passes at her before she did leave.
Then the next move was to cut a twig
right length and place a wad of cotton
in the nest over the eggs. I then sent
up the hatchet, (which by the way was
not so sharp as it might have been)
and by easy and slow cutting he cut
the branch nearly through, then pulled
it toward him until he could get hold
of same close to nest. I then sent up
the smallest of the collecting boxes
(made from Mr. Bryant’s idea of a col-
lecting box) and he placed the eggs in
same, placed the rabber band around
the box and threw it down tome. He
then cut the branch off about four
inches each side of the nestand lowered
it down to me, then came down himself.

After a short rest we started on. We
heard more Hummers, Warblers, Bush
Tits, Jays, Towhees, California Thrash-
ers, Spurred Towhees, but no more
nests. As it was now about eleven
o’clock we began to work back towards
the buggy and lunch. When we got
back to the buggy we drove about one-
half mile further on and down a side
road before lunching.

After lunch we started out again
along the side hill. We walked about

one-half mile without seeing a nest, so_

turned back. On the way back we
started a Jay, and about forty feet from

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where we first saw her we found the
nest, about ten feet up in second
growth white Oak: I made the climb
up to the nest and looked in and saw as
fine a set of five eggs as an oologist
would want to see. Placing them in
my collecting box I passed the box
down to Mr. Bryant, then cut away a
small branch that was holding the
nest. I very carefully took out the
nest and came down. We worked our
way towards the buggy and left the
nest of the Jay there then went further
on. We noticed a couple of Bush-tits
acting in a peculiar way so sat down
to watch. We were on the bank of a
small cut where there was some water
runniug. During the fifteen or twenty
minutes we were thera we noted the
following birds that had come for
water: California Busn-Tit, Arizona
Goldfinch, Western Chipping Sparrow,
Western Bluebird and Western Lark
Sparrow. Wegot up from where we
were sitting and started out to find some
oftheir nests, Mr. Bryant on one side of
the cut and I on the other. Mr. Bry-
ant called to me and told me to come
and find the Bush-Tit’s nest. I did so
and very readily found the beautiful
nest of this peculiar bird. Ithink that
this bird and the Hummingbirds’ are
entitled to honors for nest building.
The nest was about nine inches long
and four inches in diameter, growing
smaller near the top, where the open-
ing or door to nest was. We soon
found that the eggs were hatched and
that we were too late. We spent
another hour looking for more nests
but found none, so started for home.
On the way home Mr. Bryant sug-
gested that we go out about a mile east
of town and visit a Bush-Tit’s nest
that he had found two weeks previous
When he found the nest it was not com-
pleted. But when we got there we took
the nest and on pouring the eggs out
found seven diminutive pure white
eggs, one of which was cracked. I

THE

took the nest and eggs and have them
added to my cabinet.

It being nearly sundown we made
for home, first driving to Mr. Bryant’s
home to let him out. He insisted on
me stopping while he showed me his
den as he called it.

Here it is that he has his work
shop and storage room for his
boxes of mounted birds, mammals, etc.
He has a room about 10 x 12 feet
stacked full. He showed me one
small box of about forty or fifty Hum-
mers that he had mounted, all taken
on one trip to Guatemala. They were
gems of their kind. Mr. Bryant will
leave for Alaska on May Ist.

H. F. DuUPREY.

This article written before Mr. Bry-
ant’s untimely death is particularly
interesting now. It is now thought
that the city of Santa Rosa will secure
his collections which include many
type sets of Coast Is. species.—Ed.

In North Carolina and Virginia.
Wilsonia mitrata.

An abundant summer residant and
breeder in Bertie county, North Caro-
lina, arriving in the first ten days in
April, and becoming more numerous
than in any other section that has been
visited by me. The males arrive a few
days in advance of their mates, and
are in full song by the time they feach
us. In Lenoir county they become of
more casual occurence, being tolerably
numerous on some places and rather
rare in others; further to the westward
they do not appear at all. Their total
absence is noticed in some parts of the
East; this absence must be permanent
as [ failed to note them in Beaufort
county, North Carolina, in the month
of May, 1900, and among my friends
there were none who had seen them
there. Whether or not this is the case
every season yet remains to be proved.
They appear in Norfolk county. Vir-

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137

ginia, and, while not so numerous as
in Bertie county, North Carolina, are
fairly common; but they are of less
even distiibution, very likely being
influenced by the density of the popu-
lation. A few have been noticed by
me within the city limits (Norfolk)
during the fall migrations; itis strange,
however, to note that all were females.
By some writers (the correctness of
whose observations I do not doubt) the
song of this bird has been described as
consisting of three variations; notwith-
standing this fact, two variations are
all that I have been able to discover.
I have spent two seasons with them,
giving more time to their habits in
my observations than have I to those
of any other species; and fortunately
having the opportunity of examining
more than one hundred and twenty-five
nests, within the short period of two
years, with contents in all stages, from
fresh eggs to nearly fledged young.
The two songs are very distinct and
different from each other, but when
once heard are easily distinguished
from those of any of the the other birds.
In its favorite haunts, the deep shady
woods and swamps, it revels amid the
under-brush and reeds, filling the
woods with its melody as it sounds and
resounds from throat to throat. Their
songs carry away the fortunate orni-
thologist who may be in their midst
as would the appearing of a vision, as
his heart is filled with raptures and his
thoughts carried far above until some
sudden rustle causes him to awaken,
and leaves him wondering at what he
has just heard. Perhaps it was the
clumsy efforts of a toad as it resumes
its weary journey, or the sudden
screech of a hawk as it cleaves the air
with nimble wings, tireless and strong,
that carries it through air with such
wonderful rapidity again to be lost™in
space;.or perhaps it was the sudden
and shrill notes of a Wood Thrush
coming from some near by tree, or the

138

plaintive scolding of a Cat-bird,—that
brings me back to earth. A visit to
their haunts is one sure to be a pleas-
ure to all who are lovers of the beauti-
ful, of which the bird himself is the
fairest model. Nest building begins
in the latter part of April, and contin-
ues until the latter part of June, or
early in July. Two, sometimes three,
broods are reared in a season, nests be-
being as numerous in June asin May.
The latest date for fresh eggs that I
find in my note book is June 11. The
nest, a neat cup-shaped structure, is
always placed in the upright fork of
some small bush or reed ranging in
height from six inches to five or six
feet from the ground. The nest is
made of collection of leaves, fine strips
of bark, and fine grasses, neatly tined
with fine grasses, or hair from the tails
of horses and cattle, or a kind of very
fine black moss; the latter is used in
the linings of more nests than both
the former, and on rare occasions all
three appear. The number of eggs are
three or four, rarely five. Three typical
specimens taken by me in Norfolk
county, Virginia, measure as follows:
.64x.54, .67x.52, .66x.52. By from the
middle to the latter part of September
they begin to migrate southward dis-
appearing by the fifth of October.
R. PEARCE SMITHWICK.
Norfolk, Virginia.

Last Year’s Birds’ Nests.

Much valuable information can be
obtained at this season by the Oologist
by studying the location and nesting
material of unfamiliar birds’ nests,
thus enabling one to more easily locate
the new species in the breeding season.
. Last year I located a new heronry in
this way. Always make a note of any-
thing peculiar about a nest or nesting
Site.

Sincerely,
A. W. COMFORT,

TH!

OOLOGIS™. 3

SOME HAWKING TRIPS.

Cooper’s Hawk in Southern California.
By Harry H. Dunn.
LEE

In my last paper I promised to tell
something of an adventure, or rather
an accidental meeting I had with a
deputy game warden and its results in
an oological way. My frind, Mr. A.
H. Bradford, of Placentia, California,
and myself were driving up the ‘‘River-
side road,’’ a splendid bit of highway
some thirty miles long leading across
the eastern boundry of Orange county
one bright March morning some three
or four years ago when he suggested
that we ‘‘investigate’’ a wide-mouthed
canyon that came down to the very
road, its level bed separated therefrom
by a high wirefence. This was famous
hawk ground and we were on the look-
out for anything from Red-tails to Cali-
fornia Vultures, though with little hope
of the latter.

Accordingly we drove up the well
defined road in the bed of the canyon
until we came suddenly upon a large
ranch house, looking as out of place
as a hummingbird’s egg in an ostrich’s
nest. Beyond the house were large
sycamores through which the road
wound on and on. We drove along
hailed by a half-dozen curs of various
lineages, but seeing no one until, flash-
ing into view around a corner of the
house appeared a half-breed Mexican,
a star on his breast of the sfze.ofa full-
grown pie and two huge revolvers of
undoubted argumentative ability
strapped to his middle. Hedemanded
our business in his canyon. We told
him we were after natural history speci-
mens; he stared at us in blank amaze-
ment. Then: ‘‘Well, if ye’ve got any
bizniss up ther’ be at it, but I don’t
allow no trespassin’ on my land.’’ As
time proved he was a minion of the
Bixby Ranch company, a mongrel

THE OOLOGIST. 139

half-breed whom the misguided sheriff
of the county had given a star and who
lost no opportunity to kill such game
as he wanted, in season or out, irre-
spective of State laws or county or-
dinances. Of course we turned back,
but a day or two later Bradford and his
younger brother went up the canyon
on foot and collected five or six (I no
longer remember the exact number)
as fine sets of Hawks, Red-tailed and
Swainson’s as I ever saw. This was
evening matters with a vengeance, and
-since then we have been in the habit
of collecting with impunity almost in
this fellow’s door yard. I have all
kinds of respect for a game warden who
does his duty, but for any law-breaking
rascal like this, whose sole claim to
standing as an officer rests on his pull
with the county’s executive I have less
than for a professional poacher.

But I wander, as usual. After this
we turned back down the river bed,
and, leaving the horse and rig well
hidden in the larger trees beside the
road we plunged into the dense growth
of willows which every where clothes
the sandy bed of this stream. Here
and there throughout this bottom land
rise tall solitary willows, their heads
raised well abovethe surrounding forest
and the haven of their branches the nest-
ing sites of countless Orioles, Fly-
catchers, Hummingbirds, etc. Now
and again some Hawk, usually a red-
bellied builds a bulky nest in one of
them and time was when the Kites, now
- soscarce in the sonthwest, were compar-
atively common here. The most we
hoped for this time, however was a set
of two or three Red-bellied Hawk’s
eggs. Most all the afternoon we kept
at it, finding a number of abandoned
nests in various degrees of despair,
and taking one badly incubated set of
six Long-eared Owls from an old Crow’s
nest in the top of an unusually tall

willow—one which would never have
been climbed had we not hoped to find

the small Hawks at home here. As it
was the Owls made a desirable addition

to my cabinet and served as well to
revive somewhat flagging hopes. The
day wore on, however, and beyond the

taking of an occasional set by my com-
panion or myself from some one of the
many occupied smaller nests that we
found there was nothing doing. Among
these were two or three fine sets of the
Ash-throated Flycatcher, which fell to
him. Indeed I have never yet been
to take a set of the prettv and attractive
eggs. At last all our day slipped away
and as nearly as we could judge from
our position in the tangle, we headed
for the buggy. Inadvertently I leaned
rather heavily against a leafy willow,
somewhat larger than its surrounding
mates and heard the peculiar sound
made by a Hawk as she leaves her nest.
From the ground no bunch of sticks
could be seen, but it was the work of
less than a moment to ‘‘shin’’ up that
tree. And there sure enough was the
nest, small and round, but not so
compact as previous homes of the
western species of the Red-shouldered
with which I had had dealings before, ©
so I was not so much snrprised after
all when I raised myself up even with
the edge of the nest to see four pale
blue eggs, unmistakably those of
Cooper’s Hawk, the first I had ever
seen in their nests, and, as you may
imagine, an interesting sight to any
western collector. Thus by accident I
became acquainted with this species as
well as with Swainson’s of which I
wrote in my previous article. I know
that Cooper’s Hawk is quite common
back there where most of the boys who
will read this live, and you may wonder
at my going home well contented with
so small a ‘“‘take,’? but you must re-
member that Cooper’s is a rara avis
out here, and ‘‘personally collected”
sets are not at all common,

(To be continued. )

140 ©

A Query.

Editor Oologist:

Did you ever note or hear of any one
else seeing Hummingbirds pierce the
sides of blossoms whose corollas were
deeper than the birds’ bills were long?

Last May I was living near a house
one porch of which was covered with a
morning-glory vine laden with huge
pink blooms. This vine was a gather-
ing place for bees and other insects as
well as for several pairs of Phcebes and
any number of Hummingbirds. One
afternoon, while passing about ten
feet from this vine, I was surprised to
see a Hummer fly rapidly up to one
especially large blossom and drive his
bill directly through the side of the
corolla, down very near to the envelop-
ing leaves of the calyx. At first I
thought I had not seen aright but a few
moments pause showed me several
such operations being performed by
many birds. They seemed to plunge
their bills in by the very force of their
flight, holding themselves in a position
perpendicular to the axis of the flower
while collecting the minute insects
that had crawled into the flower and
been unable to escape.

I examined several of the flowers
after the birds had left them and found
each one to be neatly split for a dis-
tance of an inch or more, instead of
having the round hole I had expected
to find. To me, at least, this was a
new experience, thongh there may be
others who have noted the same habit
among the Hummers.

Harry H. DUNN.
Los Angeles, Cal., July 25, 1905.

No! I have never seen an instance
of this happening with our Eastern
Ruby-throat. We have few flowers of
a shape to require such treatment here.

The trumpet blsssoms are deep but
with wide throats which they fly entire-
ly into.—Editor.

THE OOLOGIST.

White-tailed Hawk.

On a camping trip this spring while
staying at a gentleman’s house
through a rain I mentioned the fact
that I was interested in the eggs of
birds and that my companion was
gathering a collection of skins. Upon
finding this out the gentleman volun-
teered to take us to a Hawk’s nest and
as he stated it, the largest Hawk’s nest
he had ever seen. In a very thick
part of the forest we saw a Sennett
White-tailed Hawk circling around
which my friend promptly shot as we
had never found this Hawk so far
north as Oklahoma. On arriving at
the nestit proved to be of the same
bird and my friend secured the mate
and I,after much difficulty, brought
the eggs down to terra firma. They
were three in number, dull white
marked faintly with brown and meas-
ured 2.25 x 1.80, 2.23 x 1.79 and 2.24
¢ isl

URI B. WORCESTER,
Enid, Oklahoma.

Five Eggs of Red-tail.

An unusual set of five eggs of Red-
tail Hawk, taken in Kankakee county,
Ill., Apr. 12, 1904, by A. BE. Price. My:
Price says:

‘*This wood was examined on April
2d, except a small portion and I was
within 100 yards of this nest at that
time but I first saw it from another
grove on the opposite side % mile
away on April 12th. Had I found it
on the 2d it would probably have con-
tained 2 or 3 fresh eggs as the set had
been incubated about one week on the
12th. And yet some people don’t
believe in luck.”’

We took photo of this set through
kindness of Mr. Price, but owing to
an unfortu ate selection of background
the photo would not make half-tone.

We specially regret this as one egg
was cracked in transit back to Mr.
Price’s Collection, an accident we
greatly regret though he kindly re-
frains from a very hard kick.—Editor.

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SINGLES FOR SALE.—Nos. 6, 206, 261, 182;
639, 197, 264, 278, 315, 377, 490, 584. 674 and quite a
number of others. Correctly _ identified.
Very cheap, cash. Aug.4.t. R. P. SHARP-
LES, West Chester, Pa.

FOR SALE VERY CHEAP.—A large col-
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data. All A. No.1, either single or by _the
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t T. CLECKLEY, 457 Greene St., Augusta,
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FOR SALE—AII kinds Cavies, white and
black dragoons, white and colored Homers,
black-breasted Game Bantams, white Wy-
andotts. Will consider afew exchanges for
A No. 1 sets. Aug4t. ALMON KIBBE,
Mayville, N. Y.

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Hooded Merganser, Wood Duck, and other
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ERNEST H. SHORT, Rochester. N. Y.

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FOR EXCHANGE.—A fine lot of shells,
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PEACOCK.—A magnificent male specimen
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FOR SALE.—A. 1. scientific skins of Ari-
zona birds. Will collect to order during
season of 1905. First class eggs in sets, skins
or insects. Correspondence solicited. H.
H. Kimball, Tucson, Ariz, _ t.£.

FOR SALE. About 15 Audubon Plates
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inches—average price $5 each. F. B. Mc-
KECHNIE, Ponkapog, Mass.

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some time ago. Iam very much pleased
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W. BLAIN, Jr.

TO EXCHANGE OR SALE.—Duplicates in
my collection of war relics, flint lock pistols
and guns, sea shells and corals, old news-
papers for Indian relics or cash. JOHN B.
CONE, Box 194 Hartford, Conn.

146 THE
FOR SALE or EXCHANGE —N. C. quartz
erystals, Indian relics, very fine. Want in

exchange books by modern writers, espec-
jally “‘Ben Hur” and would also like to ex-
change for graphophone. MRS. HRLE
HALSETT. B. F. D. 2. Lincolnton;N. C.

FOR SALE.—New pair of Bausch field
glasses cheap, cost $45. Also will buy live
Fox Squirrels, Black- yas Gophers
and Prairie dogs. S.5.t. C. A. CURRIER,
Lexington, Mass.

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.—60 Ostrich
eggs. Entirelot prepaid, cash $30; exchange
Taylor, $1.50, Latin $1.25. Sell or exchange
any number, but at higher rates. Many
other eggs infine sets. Send your lists and
get mine. §.2t. J. M. CARROLL. 714
Speight St.. Waco, Tex.

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410, 412, 413, 419. 420a, 453, 443. 456, 471, 474a,
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746. Send your list and get mine. J. M.
CARROLL. 714 Speight St., Waco, Tex. S2t

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of “The Trader.”’

WANT TO EHCHANGE.—No. 84 Sooty
Albatross for full sets not in my collection.
If interested write for terms sending list for
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St., New Bedford, Mass.

FOR SALE.—Good field glass. ‘The Lever-
pool,” cost $16.50, conditian excellent, enamel
slightly worn. Do you want a good glass
cheap? Address CHAS. F. BRENNAN,
Mount Carmel, Ill.

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE.—N. C. quartz
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exchange books by modern writers, especial-
ly “Ben Hur,” and would also like to ex-
change for ape rong MRS. HYRLE
HALSELL, R. F. D. 2, Lincolnton. N, Y.

FOR SALE.—Flint lock musket and pistol,
fine condition. What am I offered for either
7 oe A. B. ROBERTS, Medina, O., R. F.

. No. 3.

FOR EXCHANGE
for Bird Books.
Oologist in Vols.

.—4x 5 Poco good as new
Will take the Auk or
JNO. L. COLE, Nevada, Ia.

RUBBER STAMPS.—Makethem yourself.
They sell quickly at 10 cents a line. Directions
for making sent to any address, 25 cents.
O. SWANDERS, Kenton, Ohio.

FOR SALE.—10 different large U. 8. cents
30c.; Jackson cents, 4 different, 25c.; 10 different
foreign coins; 20c.; 10 different same large
size, 40c.; 10 different nickle coins, 35c.; 10
different Confederate, Broken Bank, Southern
State and other bills, 25c. Sent postpaid.
J. A. NORDELL, Carbondale, Colo.

OOLOGIST.

=WANTED.—Sets of Rock Wren, Pine and
Hooded Warblers with nests, Piping Plover,
American Avocet, Woodhouse’s J ay, Chuck-
wills-widow, Pinon Jay, Brown-headed Nut-
hatch, Least Tern, etc., from original col-
lectors. Can offer sets of Great Horned Owl,
Whip-poor-will, Screech Owl, Green-winged
Teal. Baldpate Shoveller and American
Golden-eye Ducks with down, Clay-colored
Sparrow, etc. W.H. BINGAMAN. Algona.
Iowa. R. R. No. 3.

Dear Sir: It gives me great pleasure to
tell you that your paper is a peach for ad-
vertising. I received 10 letters to my ad.
before I received the paper, letters are com-
ing yet, although the eggs were all gone two
ne ese ago. BERT NICHOLS, Granville,

TO EXCHANGE for A 1 sets process for
tanning small or large peliet good squirrel
cage with wheel, book on breeding the skunk
in ‘captivity and removing the scent gland.
Many common sue wanted. ALMON
KIBBE, Mayville, N. Y. O.4t.

A FEW SETS left from August ad still for
sale. Horned Grebe 1-4, 20c., 1-5, 25¢.; Ringed
Neck Duck 1-10 down, $5,00; American Bittern
1-3, 60c.; Wilson Phalarope 1-3 legg chipped,
50¢.; Canada Ruffed Grouse 1-12, $1.50; Gray
Ruffed Grouse 1-10, $5.00; Swainson Hawk 1-3,
60c.. 1-2, 40c.; Broadw inged Hawk 2-3, $2.25;
Long Eared Owl 2-4, 40c.; Short Eared Owl
1-5, $1. 00; Artic Horned Owl 1-4, $4.00; Least
Fly catcher 3-4 n, 20c.; Bobolink n- -4, 50¢.;
3rewers Black,bird 1- 5, 10c., 1-4, 8c.; W. Sa-
vannah Sparrow 1-4, 50C.; Clay colored Spar-
aow 3-4, 20c.; Yellow Warbler 3-4 nas 10e8
House Wren 1-7, 15c. Nests, postage extra.
CEHIRESHE: FORGE, Taxidermist, Carman,
Manitoba.

EXCHANGE.—For A. 1 sets new to_ my
collection or special deriderata: 11-5, 71-2,
11 1-2, 30 10-1, 30a 10-1, 31a 1-1. 325-1, 34 1-1, 371-2,
441-3, 1-4: (47 1-355 1-3, 1211-4175, 130 1-10
down, 141 1-11 1-9 down, 144 1-11 down, 1541-9
down, 155 1-6 down, 179 1-5, 206 1-2 slightly
defective, 210 1-8, 220 1-7, 222 1-4, 223 1-4, 225 1-4,

2261-4, 229 1-4, 267 1-4, 269 1- 4, 271 1-4. 289 1-13,
297a 1-7, 302 1-10, 325 1-2, 326 1-2, 3281-3, 329 1-11-2,

332 1-5, 333 1-5, 336 1-3, 337b 1-2, 339 1-3 1-4, 341 1-3,
342 1-3 1-4, 343 1-2 1-3 1-4, 347 1-3, 347a 1-2, 349 1-2,
354a 1-2, 308. 1-5, 359 1-3 1-4, 359.1 1-4, 362 1-3,
364 1-2 1-3 1-4, 378 1-9, 384 1-7, 385 1-5, 3901-5, 394a
1-4, 410 -5, 416 1-2, 417 1-2, 419 1-2, 421 1-2, 428n.2,
429 n-2, 434 n-2, 449 1-4, 473 1-4, 493 1-5, 481 1-4,
533 n-4, dd4a ie 578 1-3, 593c 1-4, 641 n-4 n-5,
645 1-5, 646a 1-4, 648a i, 654 1-3. 656 1-4, 657 n-4,

7 1-4, 675 1-4, 976 1-5 1-6,
_ 684 n-4. 685b n-4, 702 1-3,
-6. A. BE. PRICE, Grant

679 1-4, 680 1-3, 681b 1-
707 1-4, 735b 1-6. 736a
Park, Il.

FOR SALE.—5 Moose heads unmounted.
1.44 in. spread 13 and 11 points; $18.00.
1.46 in. spread 9 and 10 points; $18.00, 1.41 in.
spread 9 and 10 points; $15.00, 1.38 in. spread
10 and 10 points; $15.00, 1.35 in. spread 9 and 10
points $12.00. 2 big horn sheep heads,{l 15 base
curve $16.00, 153 base, 2 0. curve $16.00. The lot
for $100.00 spot. CHRIS P. FORGE, Taxi-
dermist. SEE Manitoba. This offer not
good after Dec. 1, 1905.

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FOR SALE.— Some nicely mounted game
birds in splendid condition; cheap and good.
also chamber and orchestra music and
sportsmen journals. RUSSELL SMITH,
1535 Fontain St. Philadelphia, Penn.

648a 1-

658 n-3, 659 1-4, 661 1-4,
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FIRST CLASS EGGS for sale in full sets
with data, at end blown prices, also tools
cabinet trays. Sendstamp for list. FRED
TRUESDALE, Shandon, Cal.

NOTICE.—I have one set of Marbled God-
wit, but want 3 sets more. I will give a good
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On Bird Migration.

As is well known most species of
birds migrate at night, at least it is
generally believed that this is the case,
and it has been conclusively proven

that many birds follow this method of
movement. However, many species
perform their seasonal movements in
broad day light. Wild Pigeons did
not migrate at night though they were
frequently seen making for a forest
late in the day and were again on the
move at a very early hour. It cannot
be understood by any person who has
not studied the subject how vast were
the seasonal waves of the Pigeons. I
have often stood on a southern slope
of a hill and watched the incoming
flocks. There would be as many as
twenty groups of birds seen at one
time. These groups in the form of
ranks would be stretchea out in a line
from ten to an hundred yards long
and embracing from a score to a
thousand birds. At the time of great-
est flight these ranks were almost con-
tinuous and the noise of their rushing
wings was:almost like the noise of a
tempestuous stream escaping from
confinement, At times there would be
a lull in the incoming flight and then
One would see a faint line in the sky
to the south and this very quickly
grew to tangible dimensions, succeed-
ed by other faint lines which in their
turn resolved themselves into flocks:
and again the flocks would Sweep on
to the north. This would continue
morning and evening for the space of
two or three hours and covering a pe-
riod of three to five days. Then the
birds would practically disappear for a
space of three months and only return
to us.in the autumn; occasionally in
augmented flocks but generally in de-
tached groups.

150

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NEST AND EGGS OF RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD IN SITU.

Photo by B. S. Bowdish

THE OOLOGIST. 151

Geese principally move in the day
time while the ducks generally migrate
in the dark. Gulls and Terns move as
arule during the day, for though they
are as well provided with means of
transportation they are still among
our uost deliberate migrants, and
seem indifferent as to time. I have
watched a flock of Gulls following our
steamer on the great lakes and Atlan-
tic and have in one instance proven
‘ that a particular bird has followed a
boat continuously for three days. This
I was enabled to do from the fact that
this particular bird in the flock had
received an injury to its leg which
caused the foot to hang low and there-
by we were able to identify the follow-
er. At certain seasons, most any time
when the birds are not engaged in
nesting, the Gulls are much given to
following ships and a great many
gather their principal living from the
scraps thrown out from the ship’s gal-
ley.

Herons generally migrate at night
and also often fish during the darkest
nights when they have young to pro-
vide for. Rails and all Snipes, Plo-
vers and other shore birds migrate un-
der cover of darkness, but very often
Golden Plovers and several species of
Sandpipers move in thedaytime. Tur-
keys and Quails would migrate in day-
light if they were given to seasonal
movements, as they are like the do-
mestic birds and given to early retire-
ment.

Many years of careful observation
have convinced me that the Rails move
in the darkness, but I cannot say
whether they select a starlight or
cloudy night. No one has ever told
me of meeting with a migrating Rail
in the day time and I have never yet
seen a Rail of any species, excepting
the Coots, flying across the land in
the day time. Coots, however, mi-
grate in flocks in the daylight, at
least at times as I have noted.

If observers are questioned they will
probably tell you that more species se-
lect dark and cloudy nights for their
migrating movements. This is also
my opinion, though we may all be in
the wrong. If we are alert to catch
the notes of passing birds we shall
hear ten to twenty times as many on a
cloudy night as compared to a clear
night, which would seem to indicate
that the birds generally select this
kind of a night for travel. When
many birds are found dead in the city,
from being killed by violent contact
with the electric lights, or when vast
destruction from the tower of the coast
light house, it is almost invariable
that the evidence of havoc follows a
cloudy and tempestuous night. Some
may say that this does not prove that
birds prefer cloudy nights, and simply
shows that destruction may folluw on
these nights; the dead and maimed
birds simply proving that the mi-
grants selected the wrong time for
their journey, and the many notes
heard on a murky night as compared
with those of a moonlight night, sim-
ply shows that the migrants are con-
fused and unable to keep well together.
lt is at these times that the birds fly
against the destructive electric lights
and are killed in great numbers, all
over the land, and both on the coast
as well as interior. Let us call atten-
tion of observers to one point in this
connection; namely, that it is aftera
cloudy and often tempestuous night
that we meet with the greatest number
of fresh arrivals in our morning trips
in April and May.

Over forty species of dead birds have
been brought to us as evidence of the
vast destruction of light and wire in
this vicinity, and over one hundred
species have been listed as having met
destruction along our line of light-
houses on the Atlantic seaboard. The
lights of cities, especially the tower
electric lights, are very destructive to

152 THE OOLOGIST.

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NEST AND EGGS OF CLAPPER RAIL.

From photo by Dr. M. T. Cleckley taken at Sandy Point, 8. C.

THE OOLOGIST. — d 153

birds. The effects are readily ob-
served and we find the destruction to
be vast. There is another danger
which is not generally considered, but
which is, I believe greater than elec-
tric wires of the cities. I refer to the
wires which are stretched all over our
land. The lights though destructive
are only occasional, when the whole
territory is considered and are only
especially destructive when large mig-
rating waves pass upon murky nights,
whereas the wires are to be found every-
where throughout our broad land and
in a perfect net work.
Take the Rails for instance and other
species which fly low in migrating.
The flight of the Rails is weak and
slow, yet they must necessarily take
quite long flights across dry stretches
of country in order to reach the ponds
and lakes where they find their select-
ed quarters. It is not unusual to find
mutilated Rails in sections far remoy-
ed from localities of their choice.
Among the smaller birds that mi-
grate to my neighborhood, the Cuc-
koos are night journeyers; the Gnat-
catchers, Orioles and Sparrows also.
The Vireos are sure to be with us in
numbers after a suitable night for mi-
grating in spring. The dear little
warblers drop into. our forests and
fairly swarm in suitable quarters after
a murky night. The Wrens and
Thrushes also blow in over night and
it is reasonable to say that the little
short-winged Winter Wren makes
night trips with the rest of the mi-
grants. I once surprised a Winter
Wren which had probably become
tired in making a night flight and had
dropped down in a cleared section. It
was the first and only time that I have
' found one of this species away from its
woodland haunts. The devices resort-
ed to by the midget to elude my vigi-
lence were amusing. The bird dodg-
ed along the ground, fluttering between
tussocks of grass and securing tempo-

rary hiding places behind small bush-
es and debris. It finally reached a
rail fence where it played peek-a-boo
in an animated manner for several! rail
lengths and finally disappeared, prob-
ably hiding beneath the bottom rail.
Nor would any efforts of mine dislodge
the ‘‘timorous beastie.’’

There is nothing to make me think
that the blackbirds migrate at night,
though the Bobolink may do so,
though in the August journeys the
flocks may be seen as they start on
their trip to the rice fields. Most of
the blackbirds are very deliberate in
their movements, but the Rusty passes
through our section in a very rapid
manner. The Rusty seems to contain
both males andfemales in the spring
flights, while the Redwing and Bronzed
Grackle send delegations of men be-
fore the women arrive; the latter bird
showing males as much as seven or
eight days before the females are seen.

Flycatchers are deliberate in their
movements and are night migrants.
This leads me to ask if anyone knows
of the destruction of a _ flycatcher,
whippoorwill, swift or night hawk by
flying against an eiectric light? -If
these birds are killed in this manner
it is probably a rare occurrance.
Swallows perform their seasonal move-
ments in the day time, as do also the
Rubythroat and Chimney Swift. I
have seen a disconnected flock of sey-
eral hundred swifts flying to the
south; all moving in_ revolutions
which gradually trended toward their
winter’s home. Of course the Night
hawk and Whippoorwill can and do
move at night, as might be expected
:n the case of night feeders. However,
the former generally makes its aut-
umnal trips in the broad daylight,
more often in the late afternoon. I
have seen disconnected flocks of sev-
eral hundred winging their way to the
south in late August and early Sep-
tember.

154 THE

Of the birds that visit us from the
north in winter, most, if not all move
in the day time and I have yet to learn
that any winter visitants have ever
been killed by contact with electric
lights or wires in my neighborhood.
Birds that straggle about as the Pine
and Evening Grosbeaks, Waxwings,
Crossbills, Siskins and Snowbunt-
ings have no need to migrate at night.

Why birds move at night is a prob-
lem in itself. Many are the answers
given, but there are good reasons for
disputing most of these attempted ex-
planations, for the reasons presented
are all liable to contradiction from
comparable cases in other birds which
differ in a marked degree from nearly

allied species; for instance, some
maintain that night movement is

chosen because of the less likelihood
of danger from enemies.

If this is so, then why do not Swal-
lows, Hummers and many other day
migrators move at night? Others
claim that the birds move at night in
order to avoid the glare of the sun.
This is too nonsensical to require ref-
utation, as are also the theories that
birds migrate at night that they may
have the day to search for their food;
or that they employ the hours of dark-
ness that they may have the stars to
guide them on their trip.

The truth is, that there are reasons
for the times selected as well as the
methods chosen, but we are not as yet
able to comprehend the principles
which govern the birds in their choice,
and speculation is idle. Practically
all that we know is this.. That we
look about us some fine morning after
a shower and find a score or more of
arrivals that were not with us the day
before.

These pleasing migrants of spring
come to us invariably from the south
and the earlier they reach us in the
spring or late winter then the nearer
they have wintered to us, while those

OOLOGIST.

Species which reach us in May are,
many of them, known to have spent
the colder months in the tropics. For
instance, the Purple Finch, which
reaches us in March does not general-
ly migrate to the south over three or
four hundred miles, returning to us
at the opening of the season; but the
Redstart is known to visit Central
America in its winter vacation. The
finch finds its food of seeds distributed
for its refreshment; while the Redstart
confined to a diet of living insects,
must wander further to securea living.

The hawks are invariably migrators
by day andI do not learn of an in-
stance where these rapacious birds
move at night. Theowls of my vicin-
ity are mostly permanent residents,
with the exception of one species.
Then we have several winter visitants
from the far north. These are all
night migrants as might be expected
in the case of birds that are princi-
pally night feeders. There is one
species of owl, the Short-eared, which
is transient with us, spring and fall.
This owl has never been seen to fly
about voluntarily in the day time. It
undoubtedly migrates at night, but it
secretes itself in the prairie grass and
passes the day in these situations. I
have routed a number of these owls
from a lot of grass and weeds, and
have seen aS Many as six or seven in
a group; perhaps a family. They have
been seen in flocks of over a score,
and it is the only owl which I can
learn about that migrates in flocks in
this section.

Birds of a _ species have regular
routes of travel in their seasonal
journeyings and these lines of move-
ment are very interesting. Some, as
the Golden Plover, have a route north
in the spring that does not take in ~
any portion of Michigan that I have
visited or can learn about. Therefore
we do not see these birds in the spring.
However, in the autumn the Golden

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THE OOLOGIST. 22 (©, 155

Plover appears in large flocks in
many quarters where they were not
known the previous spring. It is said
that these plovers are known in spring
in the states of Wisconsin and Minne-
sota, and itis probable that our au-
tumn visitors are birds that have gone
northwest of Lake Michigan.

There are many of the smaller birds
which have a circuitous route for mi-
gration and are found at the north in
numbers while in certain sections to
the south of the sections inhabited in
summer they are not to be found at
any time, whether in spring, summer
or autumn. For instance, the Mourn-
ing Warbler is commonly found in
Montcalm county and several sections
to the north of Kalamazoo county, and
yet I have met with but one bird of
this species in Kalamazoo county in a
period of thirty years. Then there
are birds that have varying routes of
migration. This is more general
probably thanis supposed and there
are undoubtedly many species that
change their routes from year to year.
More will be said upon this subject
in the chapter on the effects of civili-
zation. One well known instance of
variable route in migration is evident
in the case of the Wild Pigeon, which
was known to vary its route as well as
its summer quarters, as often as every
three years for many years and finally
each season, after the inroads of the
netters became unbearable. Finally,
after being driven from pillar to post
and over the wilder part of the territory
of three states, the imposed upon
pigeon yielded up the ghost and has
become extinct or so near to it that no
one can tell where the possible rem-
nant has hidden itself.

In passing through the land there
are many species of birds which follow
practically the same paths and pass
the same points in their journeys
north and south spring and autumn.
One of these points is at Mackinaw,

Michigan, where the birds in countless
thousands pass to the north in spring
and autumnal trips. Another spot
for crossing is near to Fort Gratiot,
Michigan. At this point which is the
short cut into the Canadas from the
south, the birds pass over in great
numbers. Of course it is difficult to
identify the smaller birds on the wing
but the larger birds are easily studied.
For instance, hundreds of hawks have
been observed flying over the river at
this pointina single afternoon, and
sixty specimens, embracing four kinds
have been shot by one man in a few
hours, A needless waste surely,
though I doubt not that shooter con-
sidered himself doing humanity a

service.
MORRIS GIBBS, M. D.

I have had brought to me specimens
of Ruby-throat, Am. Woodcock, Song
Sparrow, Short-eared Owl, Kingfisher,
Wilson’s Snipe, Am. Robin, killed by °
Rural telephone wires near Rochester,
N. Y.—Editor.

>_>

Blue-Grey Gnatcatcher.

Dear Mr. Editor:

I must say that I was struck on
reading Mr. Bostain’s article in Sept.
Oologist replying to mine in the
August number. He says they begin
to build with him as early as the 28th
of March, but at Lexington, about 30
miles to the eastward of Statesville,
Mr. H. Gould Welbourne says: ‘‘The
earliest date I have for the beginning
of nestbuilding is Maylst. The Blue-
Gray Gnatcatcher arrives here in the
first part of April being common about
the fifteenth.’’ (See Sept. 1895, Oolo-
gist).

The following are from C. 8. Brim-
ley’s datas: ‘‘Raleigh, May 4, 1889.
Nest 8 feet high in the fork of sweet-
gum. 4 fresh eggs. Raleigh, May
24, 1890. Nest 7 feet high in small
pine on horizontallimb. 5 fresh eggs.’’

156

John 8. Cairnes gives the following:
“Weaverville, May 30, 1891. Nest
twenty feet from the ground in small
willow tree. 4 eggs with incubation
begun.’’

The remainder of Mr. Bostain’s art-
icle bears out what I have already
written.

R. PEARCE SMITHWICK.

Nests of American Dipper.

STANLEY G. JEWETT.

While on a fishing trip near Mt.
Adams, Wash., I found five nests of
the American Dipper, cinclus meai-
canus, all of which were placed on the
central stringer under bridges direct-
ly over the water ranging from eight
to fifteen feet high. The bridges were
on well traveled roads, where teams
passed hourly every day. Have any
of the western readers found nests of
this bird in similar places?

““A Fair Exchange is no Robbery.” An
unfair one is. ? ? ?

There are some collectors who think
it is smart to palm off a fictitious set
of eggs to an inexperienced person for
something of unequal value.

There may be some advantage in
these kind of trades at the time but
sooner or later they will be found out.

About five years ago I traded some
old copper pennies for one-three Broad-
winged Hawk. One of my friends
who collected a set of 348 some time
afterwards pronounced my set a fraud.

I could not believe that I was cheat-
ed until I got a genuine set of Broad-
wing myself, then I could see that my
set was not Broad-wing but a nice set
of Red-shouldered Hawk.

The set came from Mr. F. A. Sin-
clair of Skeanettles, N. Y. and when I
was sure it was not Broad-wing I wrote
him to that effect.

He insisted the set was genuine, de-
clared he had handled a great many

- moss and feathers.

THE OOLOGIST.

eggs of all the Hawks andI was mis-
taken,

The set was collected by S. Washing-
ton West, Apr. 19, 1894 in Saratoga
county, N. Y., locality Ballston, eggs
fresh, nest made of sticks, lined with
From the collec-
tion of A. S. Brower.

I have 9 sets of Red-shouldered and
two sets of Broad-wing in my collec-
tion now and certainly know what I
am talking about when I say the set
is not Broad-wing.

It is very easy for a young collector
to be humbugged.

When I was a boy I collected singles
in Chester county, Pennsylvania, and
sent them to Mr. Justice in -Philadel-
phia for exchange. He always sent
me what he choose and at the time I
was pertectly satisfied.

After I commenced to collect in sets
and acquire more knowledge I found
out that Mr. Justice had sent me Cara-
cara for Goshawk, Red-breasted for
Hooded Merganser. Some kind of
spotted egg for Anhinga, and many
more that were fictitious and mislead-
ing to a young collector.

Mr. Justice may have been mistaken
or the eggs may have been marked
wrong by some one else, at any rate he
was willing to part with them and
send them to me.

Experience is the best teacher they
say but sometime it is expensive,

E. J. DARLINGTON,

Publications Received.

Journal of Maine, Orn. Soc., Vol.
VIL, -Notase

Amateur Naturalist, Vol. 2, No. 5.

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American Botanist, Vol. 9, No. 38.

Ameriean Ornithology, Vol. V, No.
10.

Photographic Times, Vol. XX XVII,
Nos. 9-10,

Nature Study, Vol. XIV, No. 10.

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SINGLES FOR SALE.—Nos. 6, 206, 261, 182;
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EXCHANGE.—For A. 1 sets new to_my
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441-3.1-4, 471-3, 511-3, 1211-41-5, 130 Li
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3 A.1, mounted specimens of Great Gray
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SOME HAWKING TRIPS. IV.

My Desert Sparrow Hawks.

By Harry H. DUNN.

One ofthe finest things about Oology
is the memories that go with each and

every set; thoughts of the long tramps
over field and hill, wading rivers and
Swamps, climbing gaunt dead trees or
slippery live ones, but always coming
back, laden or unladen, with a light
heart. There is no game like it in the
world for happiness, none like for the
insight it gives into what goes on day
by day in the wild world round about.

In one drawer of my cabinet there is
a set of five eggs, gray white in ground
color where it shows, but fortne most
part so blotched with rusty red that
they seem one solid color. They are
not well marked, they are not valuable
as exchanges go, but they represent to
me the accomplishment of a purpose,
the fulfilling of a desire, for I was
many years in this Land of the After-
noon ere I took my first set of Desert
Sparrow Hawks, often though I saw
the birds. &

They came to me one afternoon in
May I believe, the first week or there-
abouts. I had started back over the
hills, searching for nothing in partic-
ular, listening to the quail call among
the sage brush, watching towering
redtails, and marking their nests, now
filled with young, for next year’s trips.
And so I came to the house of a friend
who watched over a cattle pasture just
at one corner of the great Chino
Ranch. Below his house in the can-
yon a huge sycamore raised its head
from above a small fissure spring.
The main part of the tree was green
and sound, but one branch, at least a
foot thick and a good twenty feet long,
had died and now nothing remained
of it but the hollow shell. Yearly in
it the Flickers nested as well as a pair
of Parkmann’s Wrens. Above, the

166 THE
Kingbirds and Orioles had their homes
in the leafy top, but on this day they
were all strangely silent. Of course I
went down the hill from the shanty to
the tree, and there, perched on one
branch of the dead limb, sat a Sparrow
hawk, smoothing his feathers as if
this had been his life long home.
About midway out the bare, dead
branch was the hole of a pair of Flick-
ers, which time and the wind had en-
larged to proportions comfortably
adapted to the use of the hawks.
From this to the bottom of the creek
bed was about twenty feet, and the
earth itself was covered with fern
brakes, dead and alive, to a depth of
not less than two feet. From the side-
hill whereon the tree grew to that first
limb was only ten feet or less, but the
hill went down precipitately from this
point and the climb was no easy one.
Up I managed to go, however, and
with my little hatchet I chopped a
hole in the side of the dead limb.
Anyone who has ever tried to chop a
woodpecker out of a dead limb knows
what I was up against, but I went at
it good and strong and soon had a
hole through in which I could easily
put my hand. Down about six inches
was the set. One at a time I lifted
them out until I had counted five.
Then I started to go down, butthought
I might as well take a look at the in-
side of the nest, and there, lying on
the chips as nice as you please was a
sixth egg. Itis the only set of six I
have ever seen or heard of, though I
have been told that they occasionally
lay six eggs further south, in Mexico
and on the Baja California peninsula.
These eggs were perfectly fresh, but
very poorly marked, possibly, be-
cause there was such a big set, the
pigment did not quite go around. My
friend, Mr. Bradford, of Placentia,
Cal., has aset of this bird, taken in
Orange county, which is marked fully
as heavily asa set of red-footed fal-

; OOLOGIST. 22.1)

cons from Russia now in my collec-
tion. They are indeed beautiful eggs,
rivalling the famed osprey in their
markings. As a rule, however, the
eggs of the Desert Sparrow Hawk are
not heavily marked. Full sets are
almost always of five, sets of four
being extremely rare. Since that time
I have taken many sets, from pigeon
boxes, from hay lofts, from outbuild-
ings, from holes in dirt cliffs and even
from abandoned woodpecker holes in
telegraph poles, but never such a set
as this.

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Spotted Bank Swallow’s Eggs.

On Septemqer 3, 1903 I sent to Mr. J.
Warren Jacobs, of Waynesburg, Pa.,
with several other abnormal sets, a set
of four spotted Bank Swallow’s (Clivi-
cola riparia) eggs, and received from
him on the 12th inst. a postal acknow-
ledging the receipt of the eggs. He
said *‘that the spots may prove to be
dirt from small insects,’’ and in a post-
script added ‘‘that he expected six sets
from E. H. Short, who thought the
marks was insects but could not judge.’’

Upon rhe receipt of this meagre in-
formation I determined to investigate
next year (1904) and learn if possible,
whether the marks on ‘‘spotted’’ Bank
Swallow’s eggs are made by insects and
not colored with pigment like the eggs
of the Cliff and Barn Swallows.

In Philadelphia County the Bank
Swallow is a rare summer resident,
seldom nesting, on account of the
scarcity of suitable banks, consequent-
ly my investigations had to be conduct-
ed far from home.

In New Jersey, along the Pensauken
Creek, Pensauken Township, Camden
County, there are several large sand
banks where the Bank Swallow breeds
annually by the hundreds, with few
Rough-winged Swallows and an
occasional Kingfisher for companions.
It was at one of these colonies that my

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_nvestigations was conducted on Me-
morial Day, May 30, 1904. Results of
investigations briefly stated are as fol-
lows:

Several ‘‘spotted’’ sets, consisting of
four and five eggs, with incubation
fresh to advanced, had been collected,
and in each nest—all feather lined—
were noticed ants and small worms
(larvae), some nests having only the
larvae and others ants, but in several
ants and larvae were mixed,

The larvae is athin, slender ‘‘worm,’’
averaging three-eights of an inch in
length, and in color a pale brown to
almost white. The ants were small
and of a reddish color. They were
found also in nests containing unspott-
ed eggs and in grassy-lined nests. The
larvae were found only in feathery-lined
nests, being more numerous in those
lined with duck and geese feathers,
and presumely feed on the matter in
the shafts of the feathers. The marks
on the eggs are made by these ‘‘wig-
glers’, as following results will show.

The egg when first laid is damp and
would easily absorb marks of dirt be-
ing porous, when any dirty ‘‘worms”’
crawled over them. An experiment to
ascertain whether the marks were made
by these larvae proved satisfactory. <A
nest containing 5immaculate eggs, in-
cubating advanced, was placed in a
nestful of wriggling ‘‘worms”’ but after
5 minutes of expectant watching we
failed to discern any marks on the eggs
although many of the wrigglers had
crawled over them. They were removed
and placed in an ant-infected nest with
the same results. My experiment I
thought was a failure and I began to
fee] disappointed whena happy thought
struck me. It was to wet or dampen
the eggs, which I did, and replacing
them iu the larvae-infected nest I soon
had the satisfaction of proving that the
_marks were made by the larvae, for
every one that crawled over the eggs
left dirtmarks upon them. Removing

the eggs and wiping off the marks, I
rewetted them and placed them in an
ant infected nest, but though left in it
for about ten minutes, during which
time they were fairly over run with
ants, no traces of dirt marks were dis-
cernible upon them. These experi-
ments demonstrate that the dirt marks
on ‘‘spotted’’? Bank Swallow’s eggs are
made by the larvae of a species of in-
sect.

Being a poor entomologist I can not
name the ant nor the larvae, and not
having no small vials, which I general-
ly carry with me, I could not bring any
home for identification. The larvae is
presumely that of a dipterous insect,
probably that of a small horsefly which
infest Bank Swallow’s nests. These
small flies fairly over run some nests
when they contain young and make
life miserable for the helpless birds,
and often compel tbe birds to abandon
their young, leaving them to die a
horrible death, being literally eaten
alive. There are other kinds of vermin
that infect the burrows and nests, as
well as the birds also rendering their
lives miserable. The results of my in-
vestigation proves only that the marks
on the eggs I collected were made by
larvae of a species of insect. They are
probably caused by other kinds of ver-
min which I did not find in the nests
that have come under my observations.

My observations are far from being
complete on account of the distance I
live from the colonies and lack of
opportunity for investigations. This
year I investigated no further in the
matter, in fact, did not do any collect-
ing whatever in New Jersey.

Next year shall positively investigate
the cause of the vermin infected nests
and the spotted eggs.

RICHARD F. MILLER,
Philadelphia, Pa.

This is quite in line with my
suspicions on this subject.—Editor.

168

Western Red-tails.

According to Mr. Dunn’s excellent
article in April Oologist two is an un-
finished set of the Western Red-tail.
Although not far apart this locality
seems somewhat different. I have in
my collection five sets of two of this
Hawk. All were well along in incu-
bation when taken.

April the 9th of this season (’05) I
and a young friend started for a nest
of a Red-tail, which I had observed
some months before while out hunting
about five miles back into the mount-
ains. It was rather late for Hawks
but had been unable to go before on
account of heavy rains. The day was
cloudy and misty, a good sign of more
rain, but asI had been delayed so long,
was determined to risk it any way.
After climbing hills until it began to
get old came at last in sight of the
cliff. On getting closer discovered the
nest was the same as when first found,
and as no Hawk was in sight conclud-
ed she was on the nest. A shot from
my revolver and sure enough off came
Mrs. Red-tail with a loud scream that
brought the old male off from a neigh-
boring peak. The nest looked easy at
first, but our minds were soon changed
about that. About 80 feet up a ledge
projected out and upon this the nest
was built. As we only had 50 feet of
rope the cliff was too high to reach the
nest from above. So all there was left
to do was to go up from below.

Cutting footholds on a sandstone
cliff is no cinch with only a small
pocket knife and a drizzling rain com-
ing down on a fellow. But after about
an hours work, I was able to help my
friend over onto the ledge with the
assistance of some solid rocks sticking
along the side. ‘‘Two beauties,’’ were
his first words as he crawled over into
the nest. The collectiug box was next
pulled up on a string andthe set safely
lowered.

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This nest was a large bulky affair
evidently used for a number of years.
The two eggs were advanced in incu-
bation. One was unmarked while the
other was faintly spotted over the en-
tire surface with reddish brown.

Cliffs are the favorite nesting places
for the Western Red-tail here and the
same nest is used year after year if

unmolested.
HoMER C. Burt,

Santa Paula, Cal.

Co-operative Nest Building.

After taking dinner with a friend in
town and while sitting on the porch
my attention was called to the actions
of four or five Sparrows, who were all
very busy and noisy in reconstructing
a nest that had been torn down in the
morning to allow the painters to finish
painting over a window.

We watched them for a couple of
hours and they seemed to be as much
pleased and noisy over it as people
over a house raising. Wishing to see
the outcome the next day I examined
and found one eggin the nest, need-
less to say, and was not again disturb-
ed. I think this must have been a
case of hurry up, or necessity and
neighbours called in to assist. Have
you ever heard or know of a similar
case of co-operation. I never have
noticed the habits of Birds much be-
fore, but this set me thinking. ;

J. B. LEWIS,
Petaluma, Cal.

Another large set of Hawks.

In corroboration of Mr. W. K. Hat-
ler’s statement that he was fortunate
in taking a set of 5 Red-tailed Hawks
eggs, will say that in the early part of
May 1897, while trying to locate a
much needed nest of the Broad-winged,
I ran across a nest of the Red-shoul-
dered Hawk that had somehow escap-
ed my earlier visits, and which con-

THE OOLOGIST.

tained three newly hatched young, and
two eggs on the point of hatching.

I have never found another set of
more than four eggs in my sixteen
years of experience, during which
time I have collected hundreds of sets
of this bird.

WILLIAM I. COMSTOCK,
Norwalk, Conn.

THE CALIFORNIA CUCKOO.

By HARRY H. DUNN.

One of the most interesting birds
of the Southwest and one concerning
which there seems to be little known
by writers of Oological books is the
California Cuckoo. Here it is a habit-
ually silent bird, seldom if ever ut-
tering the Kuk-kuk-kuk, which it is
supposed to give as a Signal for ap-
proaching rain among the Hastern
hills.

In the east I am told that the two
species of cuckoos inhabit both hilly
country and the lowlands, high forest
and thick underbrush. In this end of
California, however, they are almost
exclusively confined to the willow
groves of the lowlands along the coast.
They do not seem to seek exactly
swampy ground, around the muskegs
and small pools, but rather the thick
undergrowth of water-mootics and
short willows, where blackberry and
other vines have formed entangle-
ments, keeping out even stray cattle,
let alone weak-kneed oologists like
the writer of this sketch.

The first acquaintance I made with
the eggs of this bird was by the way
of a small, dirty-faced, bare-footed lad,
who, wandering through the swamp’s
edge, came upon a flat nest containing
two large blue-green eggs which he
did not recognize. These he brought
to me, together with the bird, and I
was so placed in possession of a
species I had been seeking for years

169

and had not been able to see, let alone
its nest. The eggs are noticeably lar-
ger than those of either of the east-
ern varieties, but have the same wave-
like markings, common especially to
the eggs laid by the Black-billed
Cuckoo. As best I could learn from
the boy, the nest was placed about
fifteen feet from the ground in a dense
tangle of vines, growing around a dead
willow stump. The bird sat very
closely, and at first he thought her to
be a Pasadena Thrasher, or, as he
called it, “a sickle-billed thrush,’ the
common local name for harporhyn-
chus. When he climbed to the nest,
however, he noticed the strange eggs
and shot the female with a .22 rifle
from her perch in a neighboring wil-
low.

All this information was of course,
interesting to me and a week later—
the first week in May—found me in
the neighborhood wherein he had
made his ‘find,’ and the net results
of six days collecting was three sets
of the cuckoo and a set of six eggs of
some small rail. which I am practi-
eally sure is the Sora. Unfortunately
these eggs were badly incubated and
could only be saved wih very large
holes, yet, in spite of all this they are
undoubted rarities in this state.

Two of my sets of the cuckoo were
of three eggs and one of four; the
eges of the set of four are scarcely
larger than those of the Black-billed
Cuckoo, smaller even than those of
the Yellow-billed. The other two sets
are larger than any eggs of the east-
ern birds of either species that I have
ever seen. All the eggs were practi-
cally fresh, thus showing that the set
was laid in regular sequence (evident-
ly an egg a day), and not at intervals
of several days, as are those of the
near relatives of this bird, the Road-
runners. Possibly some of the sets of
three would have become four had
I left them, but my newspaper work

170

in town drew me from the country-
side and I had to take what I could
get.

The nests were very poorly made
smere platforms of twigs, scarcely bet-
ter than those of Mourning Doves, and
I could not see anything to prevent
the eggs from rolling out in high
wind or rain storms. I Suppose, how-
ever, that the willow trees, growing
very close together, as they do here,
do not move much with the wind but
turn a sort of impenetrable wall to
its force. There was no noticeable lin-
ing in any of the nests, the eggs rest-
ing on the large sticks of the outer
nest, through which their pale blue
colors could occasionally be seen.

THE QUAIL TRAP.

The Quail Trap, June 1, 1905.—Bob
White has bobbed up serenely at last
in Hast Woodstock, and in Village
Corners. When I was watering my
horse below the village on April 24
a female flew across the road. She
had six or eight broodmates nearby
who have been calling for two weeks.
These are not the small
species from the south and west, but
lusty Connecticut-bred birds, two of
which would make a meal for an epi-
cure. This strong covey has been
brought safely through two winters by
the intelligent care of Mr. Bradshaw,
the village gardener. May 28th I saw
another by the roadside near Dudley,
Mass., and the same evening for the
first time this season, heard a cock
whistle cn our home farm. I shall in-
quire of our trout fishermen here how
many they have heard. And this week
on our long drive from town straight
to the Massachusetts line, inquiry will
be made of all the intelligent farmers,
so that with my own observations I
can record data on Bob White’s stand-
ing in lEHastrn Connecticut today.
June is the quail’s noisy breeding

introduced

THE OOLOGIST.

month, and now the ice is broken we
shall expect to hear more whistling
from survivors of the fittest.

To see a woodcock simulating death
at their feet in the woods on the 12th
of May, was the experience of Mr.
Justin Holden and his son. In stoop-
ing to secure her the flattened snipe
limped a few feet away with broken
leg and drooping wing. Not led away
by these feints, the Holdens picked up
for a few minutes the four exquisite
bits of down—the cause of the dis-
play of maternal solicitude. While
they were admiring and fondling the
young, the old mother came directly
overhead and hovered like a humming-
bird before the honey cells of flowers.
All novelties in the home bird world
have a charm for Mr. Holden and his
son. Last Season they found a wood-
duck’s nest in the suburbs of Norwich,
and this week they will look after the
herons of Hell-gate.

The ruffed grouse is the wildest of
cur game birds. Quail will breed in
confienement and are even raised on
demand in the west and south. Two
or three kinds of its cogeners on the
Pacific coast are also domesticated.
I have seen large coveys of showy
mountain partridge in coops at Yuma,
Arizona, and near Mt. Hamilton. But
all efforts in pheasantries and aviaries
to domesticate the grouse have been
emphatic failures. Many of us can
recall instances of farmer’s boys plac-
ing sets of “partridge eggs under
the old Dominicker,’ and how we
frowned on these ill-advised and fruit-
less attempts. But the time has come
in this quest when we can no longer
say: “I told you so.” By modern ap-
pliances, by ascertaining the proper
chickfood and exercising the greatest
possible care, gentleness and patience,
the untamable grouse has now been
raised in confinement.

May 29th we visited the only suc-
cessful Grouserie in the United States.

THE OOLOGIST. 171

It is conducted on natural lines by the

president of a university in a sister

city. The first sets of eggs were hatch-
ed in an incubator one year ago. A
cold wet June in the woods will kill
two-thirds of the wild broods, but the
mortality from this cause was not
as great with the protected chicks By
turning over logs and stumps in the
woods, the proper larvae were pro-
eured to nourish the game infants.
Later in the feeding process, meal-
worms were used to advantage, and
when maturing the required amount of
grain given. Good covered runs and
shady bowers were furnished the
growing covies, with sanding and bud-
ding places. In short, by constant at-
tention to their necessities and wants,
as if in a state of nature, the birds
throve exceptionally well, gradually
losing the inbred fear of man by his
familiarizing care After a year’s de-
votion, the gamekeeper is being re-
warded by having the birds come at
his call and by some especial pets
perching on his hands and flying upon
his shoulders.

The breeding season was eagerly
awaited, so it was no surprise when
two of the young hens mated and very
soon began to lay. Drumming was so
long delayed it was looked for with
feverish impatience. But early last
week, to the delight of all looking for
the wonderful performance, one of the
cocks began to drum. For nuptial rea-
sons, this year-old cock is kept part of
the time in a _ separate enclosure,
where he is often heard drumming for
his wives. But when returned to the
harem histympani were silent till again
separated from them. On the 28th of
May, this year, a hen came off with
nine young grouse; on the 29th, when
I saw the chicks, they were strong and
lively, acting much like the tiniest tots
in the poultry yard. In another se-
cluded corner I saw a hen grouse close
covering her clutch of ten eggs. In

fifty sets of grouse eggs found in New
London county, I never saw one over
fourteen. But Mr. Brand found one in
Rockwell’s woods of sixteen, and L. E.
Rawson of North Woodstock found
one in his own woods of sixteen.

Success in this trial will determine
many things. It will show that the
hens and cocks are not monagamous,
tell the exact time of incubation, and
will forever settle the much argued
question about the way the so-called
drumming is produced For other rea-
sons every detail of this new feat of
domestication will be watched and
chronicled with interest. The present
season’s game chicks are the second
generation in confinement. With add-
ed knowledge of their requirements,
the birds should prove better than the
first year’s output. By the fourth
generation of home-bred grouse the
wild taint should be eliminated and
the reclaimed ruffed grouse prove a
toothsome addition to our pheasant-
ries. Then for your after-play bite
your waiter can more easily and
with a more modest bill fill your or-
der for “a broiled chicken pat.”

C. L. RAWSON.
Norwich, Conn.

The Ooltogy of a Farm.

Two miles west of Statesville, in
Iredel county, Western North Carolina,
is a farm of about 250 acres. It is
bordered on one side by Third creek,
a quiet, shallow stream, flowing lazily
on between miles and mile of bottom
land on either bank. From the bot-
tom the ground rises abruptly , form-
ing mumerous hills and knolls, seared
and broken by woodland, brooks and
washes.

For fifteen years this has been the
chief scene of my cares as an egg-
crank; and for fifteen years I have
found many birds breeding abundantly
there. Marsh birds are not numerous.
Of these the Green Heron is most com-
mon, finding in the wet meadows an
abundant pasturage and an_ ideal
breeding place among the neighboring
pine-clad hills. The Snowy Heron

172

sometimes occurs in late summer, but
never breeds.

Several years ago I found two nests
of the Woodcock—called here “Mud
Snipe’—but in both instances’ the
young had left the nest. I have search-
ed diligently since, but have been un-
rewarded. Bob-white is abundant dur-
ing the winter, but not so common in
summer, and nests are hard to find.
The Mourning Dove is plentiful at all
seasons, and nests may be found from
March to June. I have not found any
later than June, though some author-
ities say nests can be found as late
as September. In winter they congre-
gate in small flocks, commonly feed-
ing in deserted stubble fields.

Owing to the absence of any large
tracts cf woods, Raptores are not
abundant. I have in my collection a
set of Turkey Vulture’s eggs taken
in 91, but know of no nests being
found at a later date, though young
have been frequently observed prior
to that time. Red-shouldered and
Cooper’s Hawks are the only breeders
of that family that I know of, the
former being more common. I took
a set cf three slightly incubated eggs
Sth of last May (’05), which I consider
unusually late, since the nesting sea-
son usually ends in April. The Am.
Sparrow Hawk possibly breeds, but
I have no authentic record; likewise,
several species of owl.

The Red-headed Woodpecker, Yel-
low billed Cuckoo and Whippoorwill
all breed sparingly, the latter the most
common. Chimney Swift and Ruby-
coated Humming Bird are common. I
have found but one nest of the King
Bird on the farm, but its nests are fre-
quently founn in the adjacent country.
Of the Fly-catchers, the Green-crest-

is an abundant breeder, but the
Crested is not common. Phoebe was
formerly plentiful, but rarer of late
years; and the same may be said of
the Wood Pewee and Blue Jay. The
American Crow is omni-present, al-
ways in fair numbers. The Bobolink,
Meadow Lark and Baltimore Oriole
are seen in early spring, but I have
found no nests, though an Oriole’s
nest was found on a neighboring farm.
Gold Finches are common during the
winter months, but few remain to
breed.

Chipping and Field Sparrow are
abundant, the latter breeding from
April to September. Grasshopper is
not so common. Bachman’s has been

ed

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THE OOLOGIST. 4

found breeding on the next farm, but
I have failed to locate any here. As
to Cardinals, their nests can be found
in every thicket in company with the
Yellow-breasted Chat, which is almost
as plentiful.

Blue Grosbeak breeds sparingly, In-
digo Bunting commonly. Summer
Tanagers can be found any time. Pur-
ple Martins formerly bred but not of
late years. Rough-winged Swallow
rare.

Red-eyed, Yellow-throated, Mountain
Solitary, and White-eyel Vireos all
bred, the first and last commonly, the
others rarer.

Of the Warbler family, the Yellow-
breasted Chat and Maryland Yellow-
throat are most common. In my esti-
mation there are no handsomer eggs
of the smaller birds than those of
the Yellow-throat. On the 14th of
June (05), I took an exceptionally
fine set of four fresh eggs of this
species—without doubt the finest I
have seen. One nest each of the
Black-and-white, Yellow-throated, Pa-
rula and Worm-eating Warblers, and
occasionally Yellow Warbler, tozether
with a single Oven bird’s nest com-
plete the Warblers. La. Water
Thrush and Am. Red-start have been
found breeding just outside the limits.

Cat-birds and Brown Thrushes are
abundant; House and Carolina Wrens
fairly common. Brown-headed and
White-breasted Nuthatches are rare;
and the Tufted Titmouse is hardly com-
mon. Carolina Chickadees are found
in large numbers all the year round,
Wood Thrush in summer only.

Phoebes and Blue-birds have alike
disappeared and cnly a few nests
are found now; of these the Blue-
birds more frequently oceur.

Thus far, these are all the birds
that I have found breeding within
these confines, though I am sure it is
far from complete, for each season I
am adding new species to my list.

Statesville, N. C.

JACOB BOSTIAN.

Publications Received.

American Botanist, V IX, No. 9.
Am. Orinthology, Vol. 5, No. 11.
Photographic Times, XXXVIII, No.
ial.
The Warbler, New Series, Vol. I,
No. 4.
Nature Study, XIV, No. 11.

THE QOOLOGIST. 173

EDITORIAL.

Owing to business complications,
the result of toomany “irons inthe fire,”
have been unable to give the Oologist
or my mail business the prompt at-
tention they deserved during the past
seven months. Thanking my friends
and patrons for their patience and
charity, I will now try to make up
for it as fast as possible.

We notice the color plate in the
last issue of ‘““‘Warbler”’ of three eggs
of Carolina Paroquet laid by pair of
birds kept in captivity by Robt. Ridge-
way.

The plate is fine and the eggs agree
with the conception of these rare

Mr. Dunn’s article on the Calif.
Cuckoo suggests some comparisons.
The nesting habit like the eggs is
evidently more like the Yellow-billed
than the Black-billed until you get
to the interval between the eggs
where the California bird seems to in-
cline to the Black-billed style.

I have generally found the sets of
Black-bill small in the West. New York
usually 2 eggs and incubation I find by
eareful observation is generally de-
layed until the 2 or 3 eggs, rarely 4,
are laid.

The Yellow-bill begins incubation at
once and sometimes lays aS many as
6 ezegs at long intervals.

I have found a young bird and a
perfectly fresh ege in the same nest.
eges formed by most oologists from
descriptions, though we may seldom
look at the real article.

Pure glossy white, size varying be-
tween 1.30x1.17, a broad egg to 1.42x
1.06 for an elongate specimen.

Mr. Childs believes there was a
decrease in English Sparrows around
Floral Park this past summer. He
asks for information on this point
from other localities.

Certainly they show no material de-
crease around Rochester, N. Y. I
think the contrary.

The ege fraud is still in the land.
Look out for him. A whole collection
examined lately contained nothing
rarer than Cowbird, Cardinal and
Mocking-bird.

While no copy of Friend Reed’s
new “Bird Guide” has yet reached our
table, we can safely presume that it
is convenient, tasty and big value
at the price quoted.

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WANTED.— Fresh skins of the Great
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Hooded Merganser, Wood Duck, and other
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_ PEACOCK.—A magnificent male specimen
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$5. FRANK H. LATTIN, Albion, N. Y.

FOR EXCHANGE.—A fine lot of —
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FOR SALE.—<A.1. scientific skins of Ari-
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ERNEST H. SHORT, Rochester,

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DEER HEADS unmounted and mounted
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first
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Natural. History, New York City, with
the exception of the final session,
which was at the Brooklyn Institute
of Arts and Sciences. Meetings open
to the public were held forenoon and
afternoon, Nov. 14, 15, and 16, the pro-
grams being made up of the reading,
illustration and discussion of papers
by members. Luncheon was served
at noon on each day of the three days,
by the Linnaen Society of New York,
and on the evening of the 18th, the
members met at the Hotel Endicott,
at an informal dinner.

Four pages were on the program
for the opening session, commencing
at 10:00 a. m., Nov. 14th. ‘Some Un-
published Letters of Wilson and Some
Unstudied Works of Audubon,” by Wit-
mer Stone of Philadelphia, Pa., was
the first paper. It was received with
the interest always shown by birda-
students for the works of these pio-
neer American - Ornithologists. The
second paper was “The Evolution of
Species Through Climatic Conditions,”
by Dr. J. A. Allen, New York City. The
paper spoke of the manner in which
our present geographic races _ illus-
trate the differentiation of species
wh-<se distribution covered a wide area
inclucing very diverse climatic con-
ditions, which in time affected the
plumage and appearance of the birds.
The third paper was “Summer Birds
of the Mt. Marcy Region in the Adi-
rondacks,” by Elon H. Eaton, Canan-
daigua, N. Y. Mr. Eaton enumerated
many birds, and recounted interesting
facts regarding them in their north-
ern forest home. The final paper of
the morning was “Pelican Island Re-
visited,” by Frank M. Chapman, New

182 THE OOLOGIST.

NEST AND EGGS OF OVEN-BIRD IN SITU.

From photo by L. S. Horton.

York City. Mr. Chapman illustrated
his paper by a beautiful series of
views of the home life of these inter-
esting birds on their own exclusive
island in the Indian River region of
Florida. This island is now a govern-
ment reservation, set apart especially
for these birds, and is the only place
on our coasts where they breed. The
slides showed old birds and young, of
varying sizes, nests, eggs, and method
of feeding, in which the young bird
puts its head well into the throat of
the parent.

The first paper on the afternoon pro-
gram was “Some Breeding Warblers
of Demarest, N. J.,” by B. S. Bowdish,
Demarest, N. J., illustrated by lantern

slides. Ten species were enumerated
as known to breed, as follows: Black
and White, Blue-winged, Yellow, Chest-
nut-sided, Black-throated Green, Oven-
bird, Northern Yellow-throat, Yellow-
breasted Chat, Hooded, Redstart, and
the Louisiana Water Thrush, and sev-
eral others were spoken of as proba-
bly breeding, though the nests had not
been found by the author. Thirty
slides of the birds, nests, eggs, young,
and nesting sites illustrated the paper.
The second paper was “Notes on Wing
Movements in Bird Flight,” illustrated
by lantern slides, by William L. Fin-
lay, Portland, Oregon. Mr. Finlay has
accomplished the most wonderful re-
sults in certain branches of bird pho-

THE OOLOGIST. 183

tography, notably birds on the wing,
probably, of any living photographer
and nature student, and the series of
slides shown on this occasion were a
wonderful revelation of his success
along this line. Tne possibilities of
bringing out the principles: of wing
movement in flight were strongly indi-
eated, though Mr. Finlay regards his
work as only a step in this direction.
The third paper of this session was
“The Status of Certain Species and
Subspecies of North American Birds,”
by J. Dwight, Jr., of New York City.
In this paper, Dr. Dwight, following a
line of reasoning which he adopted
several years ago, regarding the pro-
cedure of the American Ornithologists’
Union in the matter of nomeclature,
argued against the hair-splitting meth-
ods of differentiation that has led to
such confusion in the case of certain
geograrhical forms.

The case was discussed from the op-
posite side by Mr. Oberholser, impar-
tially by Dr. Allen, and very strongly
in favor of a more simple and less
complicated method, by Mr. D. G. EI-
liott. The last paper of this session
was ‘“Wild-fowl Nurseries of North-
west Canada,’ by Herbert K. Job,
Kent, Conn. Mr. Job is one of the pio-
neer bird photographers, and his
work is among the best. His slides
illustrated the home life of the water-
fowl, which are still to be found in
great colonies in this wild northern
eountry.

After the dinner of that evening,
the members returned to the Museum
for an informal reception, at which
there was a demonstration of a new
projection apparatus. This apparatus,
not only projects slides, but a magni-
fied and beautifully clear colored re-
fiection of any small object, introduced
into the objective is shown in color
on the screen. ;

The first paper of the morning ses-

sion of the second day was ‘“Andrae

Hesselius, Pioneer Delaware Ornithol-
ogist,’ by C. J. Pennock, Kennett
Square, Pa. This paper dwelt prin-
cipally with extracts from the
books of this Swedish missionary,
whose observations were made some
two hundred years ago. At that time
ornithological observations were few,
and those included in these notes were
extremely interesting, and couched as
they were, in the quaint style of the
time, often very amusing. Following
this paper came one by Witmer Stone,

note-

-of Philadelphia, Pa., on “The Proba-

bility of Error in Bird Migration Rec-
ords.” Mr. Stone spoke of the con-
ditions that tend to admit error in the
records as gathered by single isolated
observers, and recorded the methods
he has adopted, of grouping observers
in parties of three or four, who prac-
tically cover the same ground, thus
affording the opportunity cf checking
and averaging the observations of oth-
ers. Mr. Stone followed this paper by
one on “Some Observations on the Ap-
plicability of the Mutation Theory to
Birds.” The discussion of this paper
which followed, by Dr. Allen and oth-
ers showed a disinclination to admit
the applicability of this theory, to
birds. Henry Oldys, of Washington,
D. C., followed with a discussion of
“The Song of the Hermit Thrush.” Mr.
Oldys has for some time devoted him-
self to the study of bird song, and gave
an interesting account of his exper-
ience in securing an opportunity to
study the Hermit’s song, of his im-
pressions regarding it, and its compar-
ison to th song of the Wood Thrush.
Mr. Oldys gave some pleasing imita-
tiors of a variety of songs of each of
these two species, and concluded by
rendering a little song, the words of
which he had composed, to the air he
had recorded from the most accom-
plished of the Hermit songsters to
whom he had listened.

Mr. Chapman concluded the fore-

184 THE

OO1.0GIST.

NEST AND EGGS OF WILSON’S PLOVER IN SITU. :
From Photo by M. T. Cleckley.

After careful examination you will note the three eggs in depression just be-

low the large valve of Fan Shell.
to protective coloratiou.

They are even harder to see in reality owing

noon session by “Impressions of Eng-
lish Bird-Life,” illustrated by lantern
slides Besides giving a number of
views of English birds, the author
gave views of the home and town sur-
roundings of Gilbert White, as well
as other characteristic English coun-
try scenes, and contrasted the condi-
tions of bird life in England and this
country, England being described as
possessed of fewer species, but many
more individuals.

The afternoon meeting opened with
Woods, and the Pocono Mountains of
Pennsylvania, by Wm. lL. Bailey, Ard-
more, Pa.

The Pocono Mountain region has
been but little worked as ornitholo-
gical territory, and the author enum-
rated many species included as nor-
mally more northern breeding birds,
some of them not having been pre-
viously recorded as breeding in Penn-
sylvanita.

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The paper on “A Lapland —

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THE OOLOGIST. 185

Longspur Tragedy,” by Thomas _ 5S.
an “Exhibition of Lantern Slides,” and
“Similarity of the Birds of the Maine
Roberts, was postponed until the fol-
lowing day. Prof. Wells C. Cook, of
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture, Washington, D. C., followed
with a paper on “Discontinuous Breed-
ing Ranges.” The author cited in-
stances of birds found breeding in
the southern extremity of the south-
ern hemisphere while between the two
extended a vast area over which they
were not found during the breeding
season. He also mentioned other in-
stances of species having restricted
breeding ranges, separated by exten-
sive logitudinal gaps. The final speak-
er of the session was Abbott H. Thay-
er, Dublin, N.H.,who demonstrated his
claims regarding protective coloration
in animals, which, as he explained
and abundantly convinced his au-
dince, are not theories, but facts.
First regarding the views hitherto held
of the efficacy of coloration harmoniz-
ing with surroundings. Mr. Thayer
explained that theis was dependent on
the nature and effect of the light that
the creature was seen in.

His contention was that the prevail-
ing light conditions have the tendency
to bring the upper parts into strongest
relief, blending into least conspicuous-
ness on the under parts. To counter-
act this tendency, Nature has colored
her creatures darkest above, shading
to lightest beneath. The speaker gave
a demonstration of his contention by
exhibiting an imitation of a leopard,
ground color shaded as in nature, from
darkest above, to lightest beneath, also
with spots shown, and with a back-
ground painted in the same color as
the animal. By alternately lighting
from above and below, the creature
was made to disappear, when seen in
the normal, top light, and to stand out
sharply, despite the exact similarity of
color to background, when seen in a

bottom light. Secondly the speaker
contended that the white upper mark-
ings on many creatures, can not be
guiding signals for others of the same
species, because from the pursuing
creature’s range of vision, these mark-
ings would usually come against the
sky-line, and therefore disappear
against the sky. They are, therefore,
of importance in reducing the crea-
tures’ silhouette against the sky, by
subtracting the area of the part that
thus blends into the sky. Mr. Thayer
also gave a number of other demon-
strations. The title of his paper was
“The Principles of the Disguising Col-
oration of Animals.”

The opening paper of the forenoon
session of the final day was “The Col-
lection of Birds in the New York Zoo-
logical Park,” by C. W. Beebe, New
York City. Mr. Beebe gave many in-
teresting experiences in connection
with the various experiments that he
has such an excellent opportunity of
conducting at the Zoological Park,
among others mentioning an experi-
ment with two young White-throated
Sparrows hatched in the park. These
birds were fed in the same manner
on the same kind of food, but one was
kept in a cage out in the light and
air, under fairly normal conditions,
while the other was kept indoors, in
a rather dark place, and subjected to
a moisture-laden atmosphere.

At the first molt the two birds
showed no perceptible change, but
soon after the second molt, Mr. Beebe
found that the bird kept indoors had
become an almost uniform dusky col-
or, and with no trace to indicate the
identity of the specimen. The skins
of the two birds were exhibited. The
second paper was “A Contribution to
the Natural History of the English
Cuckoo, with a Review of the Liter-
ature on the Subject,” by Dr. Monta-
gue R. Leverson, New York City. Dr.
Leverson corrected the erroneous

186 THR OOLOGIST.

statements that the young of the En-
glish Cuckoo ejected the eggs and
young of the bird in whose nest they
were hatched, before the young cuckoo
was twenty-four hours old, and that
they had, at this period, a depression
in the anterior portion of the back to
enable them the more easily to effect
this ejection. He illustrated his pa-
per by drawings and photos, and ap-
parently abundantly proved his con-
tention. Dr. Dwight gave a paper on
“Plumages and Status of the White-
winged Gulls of the Genus Larus,”
illustrating his remarks with a con-
siderable series of skins. He con-
tended for the elimination of one
recognized form, and for the recogni-
tion of another new form. A paper by
Arthur T. Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S.
C., on “A Contribution to the Orni-
thology of South Carolina, pertaining
chiefly to the Coast Region,’ in the
absence of the author, was read. by
Mr. Brewster. The list of - species
covered was quite a lengthy one, and
was fully annotated. Mr. T. S. Palmer,
in the absence of the author, read
a paper by O. Widman, St. Louis,
Mo., on “Should Bird Protection Laws
be in the Hands of the National Gov-
ernment?” The author contended
that inasmuch as the birds were the
guests of the nation, rather than of
any one state, the National Govern-
ment should have the supervision of
their protection, thereby securing a
uniform law, which otherwise could
not be secured. Mr. Thomas S. Rob-
erts, of Minneapolis, Minn., then read
the paper postponed from the day be-
fore, “A Lapland Longspur Tragedy,”
illustrated by lantern slides. On the
night of March 13th, 1904, during a
heavy migration flight of these birds
in southern Minnesota and northern
Idaho, a severe snow storm occurred
in this region, during which thousands
of these birds struck the buildings,
telegraph poles, wires, and the ice

on lakes, many being instantly killed,
and others injured, some of the latter
being revived in houses, and afterward
liberated Mr. Thomas stated that a
conservative computation of the num-
ber which was killed was 750,000, but
that he fully believed that 1,000,000
would be more nearly a correct es-
timate.

The afternoon session was held at
the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and
Sciences. Mr. F. A. Lucas in behalf
of the Institute welcomed the Union
to the Institute. Mr. Lucas was elect-
ed chairman of the meeting. Mr. Geo.
K. Cherrie, New York City, spoke on
“The Hoatzin and other South Amer-
ican Birds.” The exhibition of speci-
mens to illustrate this paper were
viewed later. Cherrie spoke of the
habits of this interesting bird, which,
while young, has claws on the wings,
used like the hooks on the wings of
bats, to assist in climbing. They are
lost before the bird reaches maturity.
The species nests where the structure
will be over the water when the eggs
are laid, and the eggs are not laid
until the river rises sufficiently to
inundate the lower part of the tree in
which the nest is built. The last paper
of the congress was ““Among the Wa-
ter Birds of Southern Oregon,’ by
William L. Finley, of Portland, Ore-
gon. This paper was illustrated by a
very large series of beautiful slides,
showing the bird life in the great rook-
eries of this still wild region. The
congress was then adjourned.

The members were served with re-
freshments by Mr. and Mrs. Lucas,
and the exhibitions of specimens in
the museum, were afterward viewed.

On the morning of the 17th, the
members visited the New York Aquar-
ium, and then went to the New York
Zoological Park, where they were en-
tertained by Mr. Beebe, who served re-
freshments. 5

B. S. BOWDISH._

THE OOLOGIST. 187

The First American Martyr to Bird
Protection.

The demand for aigrette tips by sup-
posedly thoughtful and cultured
women has resulted not only in the
extermination of nearly all individuals
of a certain species of one’ of our most
beautiful and harmless birds, and the
starvation of their young in the nests,
but it has now culminated in the as-
sassination of one of the faithful war-
dens of the National Association of
Audobon Sacieties, who was shot to
death while in the performance of his
duties protecting the birds he loved.
Concerning this deplorable occurrence
Dr. William Dutcher, the president of
the National Association of Audobon
Societies has made the following state-
ment:

“The startling announcement was
sent to the National Association on
July 14, that Guy M. Bradley was shot
and instantly killed while making an
arrest at a rookery on Oyster Key,
Flordia, on July 8. Kull particulars
of this unfortunate affair have not
been received, although it is known
that his murderer has been captured
and is now confined in the county
jail at Key West. L. A. Harris has
been retained to represent the Nation-
al Association at the _ preliminary
hearing of the case. The deceased
acted as warden in Monroe county,
a wild and thinly settled district, for
over three years, having commenced
his duties in May, 1902. During all
this time he faithfully guarded his
wards, the plume birds, traveling thou-
sands of miles in the launch Audubon,
in order to watch over them. He
was originally recommended to the
Association by Mr. Kirk Monroe, one
of the Vice-Presidents of the Florida
Audubon Society, who said that he
was fearless and brave and had an
extensive knowledge of the country
and the birds that lived there. A num-
ber of well-known ornithologists and
members of the Association visited
Bradley at different times, and always
found him on the alert and faithful
in the performance of his duty, and
willing to undergo any hardship to
protect the birds. He took a personal
interest in his work and was gen-
uinely proud when he could report an
increase in numbers. He told the
writer in February last that he felt
while he was away from his home,

cruising among the Keys, or patroll-
ing the swamp, that his life was in
his hands, for the plume hunters,
whose nefarious traffic he so serious-
ly interfered with, had sworn to take
his life. Even this knowledge did
not deter him, and he proved faith-

ful unto death. Personally he was
gentle and somewhat retiring, was

pure in thought and deed, deeply in-
terested in and a supporter of the
small Union church near his home. A
young wife is left to mourn his sud-
den and terrible death, and his two
children, too young to realize their
loss, will never know a father’s care.

“A home broken up, children left
fatherless, a woman widowed and sor-
rowing, a faithful and devoted warden,
who was a young and sturdy man,
cut off in a moment, for what? That
a few more plume birds might be
secured to adorn heartless women’s
bonnets. Heretofore the price has
been the life of the birds, now is add-
ed human blood. Every great move-
ment must have its martyrs, and Guy
M. Bradley is the first martyr in the
eause of bird protection.”

Warden Bradley was as much of a
martyr to a good cause and a laborer
in the interests of his fellowmen and
showed as much bravery as has been
shown by those who have met death
at the mouth of the cannon. However,
there is no means of obtaining a na-
tional pension for the bereaved widow
and little orphans. These should re-
ceive the support of all persons inter-
ested in the preservation of bird life,
and it is only by the voluntary actions
of such persons that it will be possi-
ble to obtain financial means to rear
and educate these children. Therefore,
a movement is on foot to establish a
pension for Mrs. Bradley by inviting
voluntary contributions from all per-
sons who are willing to express their
sympathy in a material manner. Large
amounts are not asked, and if each
interested person would contribute
only a dollar, it would amount to
enough to insure the proper care of
the family and the education of the
children. Contributions can be sent
to Dr. William Dutcher, 525 Manhat-
tan Ave., New York City, or to the
office of the Economie Zoologist, Har-
risburg, when it will be forwarded to
him.

During the past years the sight of
an aigrette tip has called to our minds

188 THE OOLOGIST. 22(12-)

the picture of old birds bleeding and
dying with the feathers stripped from
their backs during the breeding sea-
son and young birds left starving in
their nests. This has told a story
so plainly that the wearer has invar-
iably ben considered, either ignorant,
thoughtless or cruel. In the future
the aigrette tip on a hat will stand
not only for the death of beautiful
and innocent birds and the starvation
of their young, but will also speak of
the assassination of a human being
at his post of duty trying to suppress
the illegal traffic through which the
supposed adornment has been made
possible. In regard to imitation tips,
it would seem that thoughtful persons
would not be willing to imitate any
custom or article that tells a story
so cruel.

We take this from the Bull. Div.
of Zool.—Penn. Dept. of Agri., Vol.
3, No. 5: We attempted to secure
further information but nothing is yet
at hand. .

Whatever may be the difference of
Opinion in regard to some of the Bird
Protection Laws, there can be no ques-
tion in this case.—Ed.

EDITORIAL.

- A Spotted Egg of Miss. Kite, Set 329
K-5-05, collected by Geo. W. Stevens,
June 10, 1905, near Alva, Okla., is
unique.

As often happens with this species,
one egg is much larger’ than the
other. Measurements give 1.62 x 1.34
and 1.48 x 1.26 inches.

The larger egg in this set exhibits
a seattered wreath of light brown
specks and short scrawls about one-
third down from large end of egg.
I have tested these spots carefully
and they are unquestionably natural
spots deposited by the bird. They
show plainly but would have escaped
my notice but for their being in a
well defined wide wreath entirely
around the egg, as these eggs are al-
most always stained by the green nest
lining.

This is the first spotted egg of this
Kite I have seen or heard of in nearly
twenty years experience.

Has anyone else a record?

About That Skunk Editorial.

It excited considerable comment,
both favorable and otherwise. The

most pronounced unfavorable com-
ment we print herewith.

Carthage, Missouri,
Sept. 30, 1905.
Mr. E. H. Short,
Chili, New York,

My Dear Sir:—I note with inter-
est and regret your editorial in the
September “Oologist,’ in regard to
skunks. There is only one way to
determine the economical value of
any animal, and that is by careful
examination of stomachs of the ani-
mal in question. Further, it will not
suffice to examine animals from a Ssin-
gle locality; we must consider them
throughout their entire geographical
range.

That the skunk occasionally is guil-
ty of misdemeanors I could not dis-
pute, but that his benefiicial habits
far out-balance his detrimental ones
must be conceded. If the editor has
ever examined skunks from the plains,
or from the southern states, he would
readily admit the value of the animal
as an insect destroyer. It is the
skunk’s chief delight to hunt grass-
hoppers and locusts. Not only does
he hunt them for food, but seemingly
for the sole delight of killing them.
Searcely a skunk can be found dur-
ing the months from May till Novem-
ber which has not feasted on locusts.
It is their natural food at this time
of the year.

Then, again in the spring, just af-
ter the snow has left, the skunk gets
in his work on the Microti, or meadow
mice; they form his principle food af-
ter he awakens from his winter’s nap.
Skunks are responsible for the destruc-
tion of thousands of these animals,
whose detrimental habits are well
known. Every Microtus he kills fully
balances the destruction of a toad, and
stomach examination has proven that
where Mephitis eats one toad, he eats
eight field mice.

I believe in “giving honor to whom
honor is due.’’ Because I observe in
a certain locality the Orchard Oriole
to be feeding upon cherries, should I
say, “I can’t find where the Oriole
earns enough credits to balance his
debit account and I advise everyone
to compass their destruction where
possible, ete.”

cused. It is an injustice to accuse
through the witness of only one per-
son. ,

We all believe in giv- —
ing the benefit of the doubt to the ac-.

THE OOLOGIST. 189

It is extremely doubtful if we can
advise the destruction of any native
animal. All animals in the state of
nature are sustained by a natural
equilibrium; destroy that equilibrium
by artificial causes and turmoil is
created. There are in existence at any
one time just so many foxes, skunks,
or weasels; just so many rabbits,
grasshoppers, or mice; destroy the
enemy and the host increases; de-
stroy the host and the enemy mi-
grates, or, more generally, takes new
habits of living and remains in the
original locality. Whereever man has
tampered with nature he has caused
confusion.

The skunk is an animal which
would be easily exterminated. True,
it has large families, but it is a stupid
animal, with many enemies, and easily
destroyed. It is one of the easiest ani-
mals to trap. Would it not be well to
remember that law of evolution,
“once a type becomes extinct, it never
reappears again?”

Very respectfully,
HARTLEY H. T. JACKSON.

Now, the Editor never stated, or in-
tended to give the impression that
there was only one side to this ques-
tion and if in some localities the differ-
ent natural conditions alter’ the
skunk’s habits to such an extent that
the balance of account is in his fa-
vor, well and good—then leave them
alone.

But here in the East I am sure of
my ground.

They do destroy young mice, very
young mice, before they can leave
the nests, at all times of the year by
digging up the nests and devouring
them, but the y are most actively en-
gaged in this pastime in this locality
during the late winter and_ early
svring, when there are few young in
the nests. I have noted 30 nests up-
rooted in one night in March by one
lone skunk, (snow on the ground made
absolute verification of this fact possi-
ble), but in no case did he make any
attempt to follow up the runway and
secure the old mice. The fact that
he traveled a mile and went back to
the same burrow shows what luck
he had in getting young.

In the Hast we have few locusts
before late July. August is the grass-
hopper month, while in September the
skunk unquestionably destroys a host
of crickets, though I have failed to

note that crickets are very harmful.

I found remains (fragments of legs,
ete.) of seven toads devoured in one
night in October, 1904.

In August, this year, a skunk rified
3 nests of Vesper Sparrows in a potato
field. The birds had been repeatedly
disturbed by the tilling of the field,
and after the crop was finally hilled
up and left, they had succeeded in
laying sets and began incubation. As
far as I could judge, this was their
last effort of the year.

I noted where skunks had torn out
several nests of Oven-bird, a few years
since and a Connecticut party was
complaining of their persecuting the
common Towhee in the same way.

Dr. Fisher of the Department of
Agriculture, wrote me in regard to
the matter and I tried to secure one
of a family of skunks that I knew to
be feeding on toads, that he might
have stomach analysis made for direct
evidence. Severe freezing weather
drove all toads into permanent winter
quarters unusually early this year,
before I could get time to catch any
skunks.

I append herewith the report of the
Department on one I did secure:,

Name, Mephitis putida; locality,
Chili, N. Y.; date, Nov. 25, 1905; col-
lector, E. H. Short; condition of stom-
ach, full; percentage of animal mat-
ter, 100 per cent contents, remains of
a well-grown domestic fowl, 100 per
cent. Examination made by W. L.
McAtee; date, Dec. 2, 1905.

If some doubt his agricultural value
they are excusable.

Now, I do not think there are at any
one time just so many of any insect or
animal. Nor do IJ think this was ever
the case.

Natural causes, some of them hard
to specify, vary the increase of ani-
mal forms. Undoubtedly nature at-
tempts an equilibrium, but often too
slowly to avoid undesirable disturb-
ances of the balance.

Man, in his advance, has changed
the natural condition of our land to
such an extent that animal and insect
life is unavoidably affected and it
seems to me this may alone necessi-
tate and excuse man’s interfering in
many cases.

I must plead ignorance as to what
the many enemies of. Skunk are ex-
eept man.

The Gt. Horned Owl has almost a

190

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monopoly of that here in the East

and for other reasons, man finds it

advisable to place Bubo under a ban.
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