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the sticks are IX 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 atpestris) '■■■■■' > 



While I was out walking on Fridaj', 

 March 28, 1902. I saw a nest with 

 8 eggs in. I did not recognize the 

 eggs but I put them in my handker- 

 chied, as I did not have my collecting 

 box with me, and carried theiii horiie. 



I found out froni an oologist that 

 they were the eggs of the Nprtl^ern 

 "l-torned Lark, so called because.) tl^ey 

 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 p^le 

 brownish-gray spots, which form a 

 ring around the thick end. They are 

 al)out the size of an F^nglish Sparrow 

 egg averaging .!)0x.64. 



The nest was c())nposed of grass lined 

 with feathers and set in the ground. 

 It was not hidden at all as you could 

 see both nest and eggs very plainly 

 quite a way off as there was no grass 

 or Aveeds 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 

 n )t come up yet and the Northerns 

 had gone up a few weeks in advance 

 of the finding of this nest. 



H. (i. ArsTEX. 

 Toronto, Ont. 



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 

 Qiompany with a young, collector, I 

 flushed several adult Cooper's Hawks 

 from percales among the brainclies, 

 and was not a little surprised, A^lVen 

 he, on climbing to an old nest, held 

 up a single, small, pale blue ' egg. 

 He returned , to the nest ten da-ys later 

 and took a typical set of fiou^ fresh 

 eggs. He is SO miles away and I d'o 

 not r^men;iber t,he exact date, but be- 

 lieve them to be, the flrst ever talceti in 



this countv. 



H. H. Dt^W.' 



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