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THE OOLOGIST. 



War'Wing Vireo, 4 eggs, June 10, 

 1902. 



Am. Redstart, 4 eggs, ;May 24, 190:3. 



Blue Jay, 5 eggs, May 25, 1"90'3. 

 House Wren, 6 eggs. May 30, 1904. 



Amc. Goldfinch, 5 eggs, July 27, 

 1904. 



White-breasted Nuthatch, 6 eggs, 

 May 2, 1905. 



Purple Finch, 4 eggs, May 30, 190"). 



Cedar Waxwing, 4 eggs, June 19, 

 1905. 



Downy Woodpecker, 5 young, June 

 20. 1905. 



Rough-winged Swallow, 5 young. 

 June 28, 190o. 



Purple Martins, 5 or 6 small colon- 

 ies. 



Chimney Swifts, 4 and 5 eggs, June 

 29, 1905. 



CLIFFORD M. CASE. 



Mr. Case's list is remarkably com- 

 plete to ibe found within the limits 

 of one of our eastern cities breeding. 



There must be some almost de- 

 serted, overgrown waste ground with- 

 in Hartford's limits or he would hard- 

 ly have found Chestnut-sided War- 

 bler.— ED. 



"A Day's Collecting." 



The day was the 27th of April, 1902. 

 It was a model day of spring, every- 

 thing was awake and doing some- 

 thing. The bees were buzzing about, 

 the butterflies flying from flower to 

 flower, and the hirds all singing. It 

 all combined together to make one's 

 heart leap with ecstacy. 



We finally started, about 9 a. m. 

 The first part of our trip took us up 

 a steep grade, and then through a 

 small grove, then it drops into a val- 

 ley (site of the Escondido Irrigation 

 District's Reservoir), which is quite 

 a lake, being over a mile long when 

 filled with water. In the upper part 

 of this reservoir, where it is shallow, 

 willows and weeds grow up, and af- 



ford fine nesting places for Black- 

 birds and San Diego Song Sparrows. 



Here, we made our first stop, and 

 collected a few sets of Bi-colored 

 Black-ibird; the nests were usually in 

 willows or weeds, and composed of 

 weeds and sedges woven together and 

 lined with fine weed stems. The sets 

 as a rule consisted of three eggs, tho' 

 sets of four were not uncommon and 

 one set of five was secured. 



After leaving this place behind 

 about a mile, we arrived in sight fo 

 our first Hawk nest. This was a 

 nest of the Western Red-tail Hawk 

 (Bueto Borealis Calurus) and was sit- 

 uaterl in the top of a Red Oak. near- 

 ly 50 feet from the ground. It con- 

 tained tvv'o eggs, laying on a soft lin- 

 ing of dead oak bark and feathers. 

 They were slightly marked with gold 

 and tinged toward lavender. Incu- 

 bation, I should judge was about one- 

 half advanced. The nest was an old 

 one built some years before. 



When returning to our rig, I saw 

 a nest of the California Bushtit 

 (psaltryip arus minimum Californicus) 

 swing from the end of an oak limb 

 and looked like a great swarm of hees, 

 (we having 'been surprised once pre- 

 vious in the day, mistaking a swarm 

 of bees for a nest), but this was the 

 real article and contained six fresh, 

 white eggs, in proof thereof. The 

 nest was ten feet up and made of 

 oak blossoms and inner fibre of 

 weeds, and lined abundantly with 

 feathers. 



Driving on a mile and a half, we 

 came to a canyon that contained the 

 next pair of Red-Tails. We hitched 

 our horse to a fence post, and pro- 

 ceeded on down the canyon afoot. A 

 little distance we observed a Desert 

 Sparrow Hawk (Falco Sparverius 

 Deserti colos) flying around in the" 

 air, screaming as if he might have a 

 nest nearby, but we were unable to 

 locate it. 



