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hair stand up for it naturally is that 

 way. I sat down on a log and began 

 to whistle, with my weather eye wan- 

 dering in search of a gopher hole, 

 while I waited for him to come up; 

 for, thinks I, if he wants me he will 

 have to come after me. He is a man 

 who tips the beam at 290 pounds, 

 could hold a 200 pound coil of wire 

 out in front of him with his teeth, or 

 a man in a chair; could hold a man 

 out in either hand that weighed 250 

 or thereabout. Now I knew tV.e record 

 of that dog, too; a dog smart almost 

 to human. I could easily have run 

 away from the marshall, but the dog — 

 I felt a few doubts. When he came 

 up to me he began to laugh and said, 

 "Some crazy fools came up and told 

 me there was a crazy man down here 

 and wanted me to come and get him." 

 He then took his dog and left. 



It seems a neighbor woman had 

 been watching me and had told some 

 people going to town that "a crazy 

 man was down there wading in the 

 water with pants rolled up, and bare- 

 headed; he stayed in the 'Ox Bow' 

 nights." 



I had on light colored canvas leg- 

 gins and light colored cap. 



This same city marshal, one of the 

 best in the country, afterwards be- 

 came Stockyards Detective, Chicago, 

 where while on a still hunt for two of 

 the worst thugs Chicago ever knew, a 

 part of a gang he had helped to break 

 up, and who had sworn vegeance on 

 him, was slugged and killed. Lewis 

 Lieth was his name, and a braver and 

 more conscientious officer never lived. 

 His dog was poisoned through hatred, 

 by a fellow townsman. 



George W. H. vos Burgh, 



Janesville, Wis. 



ADDITIONAL INDEX 



Through some unexplainable over- 

 sight, the following was omitted from 

 the 1922 index, as contributions by 

 Emerson A. Stoner, of Benicia, Cali- 

 fornia. 



Sparrow Hawk vs. Western Red- 

 tail p. 22 



Bhds o: a California Snow Storm.. 



p. 56, 57 

 Ground Nesting of the Brown 



Thrasher p. 96, 97 



Sparrow Hawk Banding p. 152 



R. M. Barnes. 



SCREECH OWL'S EGGS 



In the May issue of Tho Oologist, I 

 note Mr. Graham's article on "Timing 

 a Screech Owl." In this case it was 

 the Rocky Mountain Screech Owl. O.i 

 May Sth I found the nest with one egg. 

 Returned May 12 and found two eggs. 

 Again I returned May 17 and knowing 

 this to be my last possible chance to 

 be in that dirtrlct for weeks to come, 

 collected the set. There were only 

 three eggs which showed on blowing, 

 one with very slight incubation, an- 

 other with a marked increase, and the 

 third, indicating about ten days' in- 

 cubation. 



James A. Neilson, 

 Wheatland, Wyoming. 



