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Some Cardinal and Owl Notes. 



BY DR. R. W. SHUFKLDT, WASl 1 1 NCTON, 1). C. 

 (I'hotographs by the Author.) 



During the early Go's, most of my bird 

 and egg collecting was done in the coun- 

 try about Stamtord, Connecticut, and 

 when I was about thirteen years of age, 

 I had made a collection of the birds of 

 Fairfield County numbering nearly three 

 liundred all told. My boy cabinet also 

 contained a very fair representative series 

 of the eggs of the birds of the same 

 region. Stamford, in those days, was a 

 charming country town of but a few 

 thousand inhalDitants ; and, although the 

 Great Auk had been extinct then for sev- 

 eral years, the extermination of birds 

 of any kind never entered any one's 

 head. During the migrations, thousands 

 of shore birds swarmed on Shippan Point 

 and Greenwich Beach, while in the win- 

 ter ducks, of half a dozen or more species, 

 could be reckoned on the Sound by the 

 acre. 



]\Iv collection contained many birds of 

 briglit plumage ; but even so, I w'ell re- 

 member how I vearned to see a cardinal 



Fig. 1. 



Nest of Cardinal Grosbeck 

 nalis) photographed ni 



(.Cardiiialis 

 situ. 



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FIG. 2. SAME NEST .\S SHOWN IN FIG. 1, \IEWED FROM ABOVE. 



