THE OOLOGIS'J' 



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The Oologist, 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 



OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



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Rare NesUog. 



March 6, 1890 while iu the woods 

 looking for Barred Owls eggs, I had 

 climbed several trees when on descend- 

 ing one large Post Oak tree I caught 

 sight of something in a knot hole in a 

 tree close by. At lii'st I was at a lo.ss 

 to know what it was .so I stalled up to 

 investigate. Iu asceudiug I kept a 



watch on the hole to make suic the ob- 

 .ii'ct of iny search diil not gi-t away. 

 On arriving at the hole which was some 

 twenty feet up the Owl for such it 

 pioyedto be slipped back in the main 

 cavity. As I could not see the bottom 

 I took my hand ax (which I always 

 carry with me ou such occasions) and 

 enlarged the hole so I could insert my 

 arm when to my surprise I brought 

 forth a little Owl which proved beyond 

 doubt to be one of the Saw whet cr 

 Acadian Owls. As her hind parts were 

 unusually plump T thought she would 

 lay before long, so I brought her lionie 

 aud placed her in a lai-ge cage. I kept 

 her four days. She would consume tive 

 and six large short tailed meadow mice 

 iu a night, she would not eat in the day 

 time. The fourth day she laid an egg 

 and smashed it. I concluded thi^t 

 would not do so I took her back to the 

 ti-ee climbed up aud put her in the cavi- 

 ty. 1 pettef! her and she appeai-ed to be 

 very tame. I left but returned every 

 few days and on the 13lh I found she 

 had laid one egg. She continued until 

 the 17th when she laid the last egg but 

 as no one knew of the nest and as it 

 was iu very heavy and seldom traversed 

 timber I left the set of live eggs until 

 the 20th of March which date I took ft 

 friend collector along aud we both ful- 

 ly identilied her as a Saw-whet Owl. 

 Nest was in a cavity 20 feet up 10 in. iu 

 diameter 22 inches deep, entrance 3 in. 

 Leaves and rotten wood was the ma- 

 terial used. One odd feature in the 

 eggs is all five are exactly one inch 

 broad while in length they vary as much 

 as from 1.16 to 1.20. Size of 

 bird, length 7.50, Tail .3.00 Tarsus 1.25, 

 tapin 1 75, wing from liody 5.75,expanse 

 of wing 10.00, bill .50.. bill black, eyes 

 yellow or straw, claws blue black. Col- 

 oration w^s as given in detail in Coues' 

 Key to North American Birds. Hope 

 to hear if others have been taken this 

 far south 38i degrees north latitude. 

 C. HvK«tN Vandekcook, 

 Odin. Ills. 



