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THE OOLOGIST 



Walter Raine. 



With this issue we present to you 

 a likeness of Walter Raine and his 

 wife. Mr. Raine needs no introduction 

 and no enconium. He is one of the 

 best known oologists in all North 

 America and has placed in various 

 collections, perhaps more eggs than 

 any other dealer in North America. 



The years he has been in the busi- 

 ness he has established a reputation 

 for fairness and integrity that anyone 

 may well envy. Specimens from him 

 are to be found in almost every lead- 

 ing collection in North America. We 

 have done business with Mr. Raine for 

 practically twenty years and have just 

 recently closed up with him the larg- 

 est single exchange of specimens we 

 have ever made, aggregating on both 

 sides about 1000 separate specimens. 



Elevated Nests of the Indigo Bunting. 



On September 3, 1903, in Juniata 

 Park, at Frankford, Philadelphia Coun- 

 ty, Pennsylvania, I found an Indigo 

 Bunting's nest in an unusual situation. 

 It was fourteen feet up in a big white- 

 oak on the edge of the wood, and ten 

 feet out from the trunk, "saddled" to 

 a small crotch at the end of a slender 

 horizontal limb. 



Of course it was empty at this late 

 date, but on examination, showed that 

 a brood of young had been raised in it. 



At the identical place, on October 

 4, 1905, I found another elevated Indi- 

 go Bunting's nest. This one was in a 

 young sour gum about twenty feet 

 from the oak, and was seventeen feet 

 from the ground, placed in the same 

 kind of a situ as the other, six feet out 

 from the trunk. And like it also, young 

 had been reared in it. It resembled 

 the first nest, but was looser construct- 

 ed. Both were made of the usual com- 

 bination of materials and did not differ 

 appreciably from normal situated 



nests, and there is no doubt as to their 

 having been built by the same pair of 

 birds. 



There were plenty of undergrowth 

 in the woods in which the birds could 

 have nested, and why they should 

 have chosen the trees is another one 

 of those birds' mysteries so puzzling 

 to us. 



Never before or since have I ever 

 found an Indigo Bunting's nest over 

 five feet high; the average height of 

 their situation in my experience being 

 one and one-half feet, and the lowest 

 nest I ever saw was within six inches 

 of the earth. R. F. MILLER. 



List 

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 273 

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316 

 325 

 326 

 364 



of Birds Observed at Petersburg, 

 rginia, by Charles Lungsford, Jr. 



American Merganser 



Mallard 



Black Duck. 



Pintail 



Wood Duck 



Canvas-back Duck 



Canada Goose, seen flying over. 



Least Bittern, a few nests found 

 two years ago in the Appomat- 

 tox marshes. 



Great Blue Heron 



Little Blue Heron 



Little Green Heron, found nest- 

 ing 



King Rail 



Carolina Rail 



American Woodcock 



Wilson Snipe 



Spotted Sandpiper 



Killdeer 



Bob-white, found nesting ■ 



Wild Turkey; one nest found sev- 

 eral years ago containing one 

 addled egg 



Mourning Dove; found nesting 



Turkey Vulture; found nesting 



Black Vulture 



Osprey 



Cooper's Hawk 



