The OoLOGiST, 



Vol. XXII. No. 11. 



Alb[ox, N. Y., November, 1905. Whole No. 220 



The Oologist. 



A Monthly Publication Devoted to 



OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXI- 



DEEMY. 



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ERNEST H. SHORT, Editor and Manager. 



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SOME HAWKING TRIPS. IV. 



My Desert Sparrow Hawks. 



By Harry H. Dunn. 

 One of the finest things about Oology 

 is the memories that go with each and 



every set; thoughts of the long tramps 

 over field and hill, wading rivers and 

 swamps, climbing gaunt dead trees or 

 slippery live ones, but always coming 

 back, laden or unladen, with a light 

 heart. There is no game like it in the 

 world for happiness, none like for the 

 insight it gives into what goes on day 

 by day in the wild world round about. 



In one drawer of my cabinet there is 

 a set of five eggs, gray white in ground 

 color where it shows, but for the most 

 part so blotched with rusty red that 

 they seem one solid color. They are 

 not well marked, they are not valuable 

 as exchanges go, but they represent to 

 me the accomplishment of a purpose, 

 the fulfilling of a desire, for I was 

 many years in this Land of the After- 

 noon ere I took my first set of Desert 

 Sparrow Hawks, often though I saw 

 the birds. 



They came to me one afternoon in 

 May I believe, the first week or there- 

 abouts. I had started back over the 

 hills, searching for nothing in partic- 

 ular, listening to the quail call among 

 the sage brush, watching towering 

 redtails, and marking their nests, now 

 filled with young, for next year's trips. 

 And so I came to the house of a friend 

 who watched over a cattle pasture just 

 at one corner of the great Chino 

 Ranch. Below his house in the can- 

 yon a huge sycamore raised its head 

 from above a small fissure spring. 

 The main part of the tree was green 

 and sound, but one branch, at least a 

 foot thick and a good twenty feet long, 

 had died and now nothing remained 

 of it but the hollow shell. Yearly in 

 it the Flickers nested as well as a pair 

 of P.irkmann's Wrens. Above, the 



