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The following epit.'rpli is of interest: "'Old Bnbo,' the college pet. 

 Canght in a steel trap in September, 1885, and kept in the baseniLMit 

 of Owen Hall until January, 1886, when he died." 



71. [376] Ni/ctea nyrti'a (Liiuu.). Snowy Owl. 



Rare winter visitor (C. H. B. '86.). Last date, January -25, 1903 

 (P. J. H.). 



72. [387] Corcijzus nnurirnnun ('Linn.). Yellow-billed Cuckoo. ••' 

 Common summer resident. April 13 to Sept. 24. Breeds. A nest 



of the Yellow-billed Cuckoo w\as found May 30, 1901. It contained one 

 egg on that day and two on the next. It was in a spice-bush three 

 feet above the gTouud and was built, of sticks and partly lined Avith 

 leaA^es (W. L. H.). Maj' 25, 1903, a nest and two eggs were found 

 about seven feet up in a grapevine (C. G. L.). In 1885 a nest with 

 fresh eggs vras found as late as June 30, by B. W. Evermann (Butler). 

 "The usual nest is a mere pretense, a flimsy structure of a few sticks, 

 with a few blossoms, generally of the oak, upon which to lay the eggs. 

 Occasionally a very substantial nest is built— one such was found at 

 Bloomington, Ind., by my friend, Mr. O. M. Meyucke" (Butler). 



MIGRATION RECORD. 



