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THE MUSEUM. 



neighboring tree, and went across on the 

 rope [see cut]. The Crows found this nest 

 for me after I had looked for it on half 

 a dozen days previously. It was 'right 

 on edge of^woods as you can see by 

 picture. 



The first set was the most difficult 

 to get. On March 9, 1889, I took 

 two eggs also from the top of a stub 

 52 feet high. This was an immense 

 trunk covered with rotten bark so that 

 climbers were of no use. The stub 

 had a portion of a limb branching 

 about five feet below top, and my 

 plan was to fell a neighboring tree so 

 as^to cross this limb. With the help 

 of friends the fifth tree we cut stand- 

 ing 30 feet away was guided into this 

 arm and I made the ascent on this 

 smaller tree without mishap. The 

 Owl laid again that season, but some- 

 body wanting a piece of nice white ash 

 cut it out of the butt of my (ladder) 

 tree and I could not get up again. 



This pair seems to have a hobby of, 

 choosing stubs as sites for nesting. 

 Most other nests that I have known of, 

 have been in holes or in old hawk 

 nests. 



By the way, there is a most beauti- 

 ful painting in the office of Mr. Horn- 

 aday (the taxidermist) in the Erie Co., 

 Bank Building, which you must see 

 when in Buffalo. It is called "The 

 Ornithologist" and is rich. Mr. Horn- 

 day is pleased to have interested per- 

 sons see it. 



The only migrants I have seen so 

 far are Song Sparrow and Red-tailed 

 Hawk. Sincerely, 



James Sav.-xge, 



An Ancient Lake in Central Ver- 

 mont- 



Bv C. O. Okmsbee. 



In 1609, when Sanniel Chaniplain 

 e.xplorcd the lake which has since borne 

 his name, he discovered a river em- 



