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THE OOLOGIST. 



THEOOLOGIST 



EDITED AND PUBLISHED MONTHLY 



FRANK H. LATTIN. 



ALBION, N. Y. 



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 stiuient of Birds, Ibelr Nc-sts and Eggs, solicited 

 frota all. 



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 to, FRANK II. LATTIN. 



ALnioN. Orleans Co., N. Y. 



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 second-class mail matter. 



Pigmy Owl. 



Ill reply to the. qiuny of A. ( 'a'.iU'f- 

 WDod Jr., ill Jn!U'()OLO(Sl.sT, coiU'cfiiiiig 

 tiic iimiilicr of cgjrs laid I)y the Pigmy 

 Owl, 1 otlcf the following: 



]Mi-.('h,ii-lcs F. Morrison, ill tin- "(Jfiii- 

 Ihologist and Oologist" for May, lyst), 

 niciitioiis iiiidiiig a iicsl of this species 

 containing foiir young. 



C.ipt. ClKirlcs E. Bcndifc, in his 

 excrllcnl ;irticli' on tJic "ir:i'iits of the 

 (Icin/.'i (Ihoifliliinii," in the ".■Vtik" lot- 

 0;-to!)t'r, IMHS, sp-ak^ of the di-^rovcry 

 of two nests; o!i(' wilii t lu-ee e ggs, tlie 

 othiT witli fo;ii- young. H' fiirlhcr 

 s:i,ys, the nuni'iei' of egg-; to a set is 

 probiibly ne\'ei- more tlnin four. 



The above infonu:itioii is all th;it is 

 at mv eoniui;ind. 'J'hese eggs are with- 



out douhl, exceedingly rare, and Mr. 

 (';\ldei\vood is to he congratulated oil 

 such a desir;il)le liiid. 



Hahi;v ('. Obkkiioi.skk, 



Red liank, N.J. 



Nesting of Traill's Flycatcher. 



.\11 of the nests of this bird that I have 

 found ;iiid examined, \\ ere jjlaeed in 

 willow iiushes situate(| in low sw;impy 

 land, and the nests were iismilly placed 

 about (> feet from the ground. Jii some 

 instances the nests are r;ither slovenly 

 built on the outside l)Ut much neater 

 inside. But this is not always the case, 

 for tills year, 'S'.l, I found one that I 

 would c;tll a beautiful structure. It 

 was situ;ited in the u))right forks of a 

 willou bush ')}. feet from the ground. 

 It w;ts composed of librou.s .stri])s of 

 wi'cds, tine grass and bits of soft downy 

 material from different plants, and lined 

 with tine grass. The dimensions of llie 

 nest are as follows: Diameter, outside 

 24 in., inside, IJ in. Depth, outside 3 

 in. inside If in. This nest containeil 

 four eggs of a light buff or creamy 

 color, s])otted very sjiaringly with red- 

 dish-])rown, and average about t)S\.")0. 

 W.C. IM. 

 Colunilnis, Ohio. 



My long looked for Davie's P^gg 

 ('heck List h;is arrived. It is a \aliialjle 

 work. C E. ('., Davenjxjit, la. 



Cooper's Hawk. 



Ar.rijuUr Cuojirri (Boxap.) 

 Tyrant of the barnyard fowls and 

 terror of all the smaller feathered tribes, 

 this l)ird bears an un<'ini:ible r<'puta- 

 tion. He makes himself cs])eei,ally ob- 

 noxious to the fanner and j)ou!tiy fan- 

 cier, and liy his increasing attentions to 

 the ni'csl, f;itt<st young ducks and 

 chii'kens, lie has gi\-en a "b;Hl name" 

 to the whole Falronuldc f;imily, vviiich 

 c;in ne\cr be erased from the minds of 

 a certain class of people, to whose pre- 



