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THE OOLOGIST 



GLEANINGS FROM OUR CORRES- 

 PONDENTS. 



Not">t and Ttfim of -fntcnxt, Qvrri'K a ltd 

 AiLsinvH. 



L. E. C, York, Nebr., wt)uUl like to 

 kuow what part of the U. S. furnishes the 

 best field for coUectiu},' au<i stuilyiug the 

 uesting habits of aquatic birds. 



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W. TI. L.,Jr., would like lo know the 



correct name of the hawk kuowu as the 



Blue-darter Ilawk, iu this locality (Covinj^- 



tou, Ga. ). We think it is the I\Lush Uawk. 



Fred Alliu, Iowa City, la., wants to know 

 the correct name for the Wild Canary, and 

 Ground Chippie of his locality. 



J. A B , Morgantm. N. C. Says: ' I would 

 like to rcconinicnd to the realers of the 

 OoLOtiisT the instruuifnt case, de.scribed by 

 J. II. F., Jr., Baltimore. Md., in the Au'j., 

 Sept.. 1888 OoLOuiST. I recently made 

 one according to directions and it is a beau- 

 ty. Instead of covering the outside with 

 Alligator skin, I stniui^d it black and var- 

 nished it. 



II. E Fisher, Prairie du Sac, Wis., writes. 

 "To-day, Fob. 18th, I found a nest of the 

 Great Horned Owl, Rubo Virgiidam. The 

 nest was made in a hollow tree, of.sticks so that 

 it would not go to the bottom of the tree and 

 then some leaves, and then lined wi h feath- 

 ers. It contninod one egg which measured 

 2{x2 inches, which seems to uic t j be rather 

 t,niall. 



Sam. E. Bacon, Erie, Pa., writes: April 

 7th, '88. Found the hrst uust, Kildeer's, one 

 egg. May 2(ith. Found a liobin's nest in 

 a large cavity tu an api)le tree. May oUth. 

 Found three nests of the Chipping Spnrrow 

 on the ground. They were all in orchards, 

 in long grass. 



I have a white egg of Blue bird, luispot- 

 t?d, and ii sp.itted egg of Purple Martin; 

 also a Spotted Sandjiiper's, measuring 94x75, 

 and a Bee bird's, measuring 76x68." 



From C. J. Schafer, Eddyville, Iowa, wc 

 receive the following: Not having seen 

 much news from Iowa, I thought I would 

 send you a few '88 notes from my Field 

 Book. 



The tirst Bobin appeared Feb. 21, be- 

 gan nesting April 8th. 



First Blue bird appeared Feb. I8th. The 

 first nest was in an old tree April od. 



First Red-and-bufif sir uldered Black bird 

 was seen March 13th, found a nest May 

 27(h, in a large hazel bush at the edge of a 

 pond, containing four egg. 



First Shrike was seen March Uth, (I saw 

 one this year iu Jan.); began nesting Ajnil 

 2Uth, and o\\ the 2'Jth found a nest with hve 

 eggs. 



First Purjjle Martin appeared on JIarch 

 18, began nesting April 2yth. 



A. W. Nolte, of Los. Angelei, Cala. , 

 took a set of the Costa's Hummingbird on 

 Fcjb. :!r 1, aud one of th'- Blai-k-chinucd, 

 Feb. fith. 



A. S., Anaheim, Cala. The Mourning 

 Dove is to common to require a descrijition. 

 The Ground Dove is a very small species 

 no larger than a good sized sparrow and 

 could not possibly be mistaken for the 

 former. In some localities the Mourning 

 Dove nests on the ground. 



At a recent sale, iu Lon don, Audubon's 

 Birds of Amjrica" brought flSG"). 00. 



We think that the "nearly full-grown, 

 young Grass Fiiiches", found by G. S. J., 

 Jeff. Co., N. Y., ou April 1'.) were Shore 

 Larks. 



P. C. W. Walden, Mass. writes of an 

 English Sparrow building its nest over the 

 globe of an electric street light. 



I do not agree with the iirticle written by 

 I). B. Pi., in the Feb. Oi»LoarsT. He 

 states that Blue-birds either lay entirely 

 white or entirely blue sets. Last summer 1 

 found a set of six eggs of the Blue- bird. 

 Two were pure blue and the rest wei-e 

 snowy white. W. E. L., Peoria, 111. 



