THE OOLOGIST. 



The Oologist. 



A Moiiilily Magiv/.lno Devoted to 

 05LOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor nnd Publisher, 

 ALBION, N. Y. 



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Great Blue Herons. 



For throo weeks hiul w»i boon iimkin^ 

 calculations to visit a lioroiiiy, wiiioli 

 wo wore told was in a blaok ash swamp 

 8OIU0 ton inilos from hero. We had 

 lived here for upwanls of forty years 

 and had not learned of its oxistenco un- 

 til last year. 



As wo could only go on Saturday 

 when the boys wore out of school, and 

 it had rained for two or three succeed- 

 ing Saluriiays, wo began to think that 



we should be disappointed until May 

 I'Jth, which bidding fair for a pleasant 

 day, wo hitched up and taking an oiilo- 

 gist's paraphern;ila and our dinners we 

 started oir. 



A very pleasant ride, but longer than 

 nocossary, as we got beyond the object 

 of our search before enquiring and 

 wore then told that it was half a mile 

 back and some twenty or thirty rods 

 otT tho road. 



They said wo would lind lots of 

 Cranes as they were there tho other 

 day and shot lifteen of thorn, but we 

 must look out and take a stick along 

 for they would light if wo disturbed 

 their nests. 



We wont as ilirected and sure enough 

 there they were and as wo api)roachod 

 their <iuiot retreat they left their nests 

 in great numbers and Hew round and 

 round uttering their coarse gutteral 

 notes of alarm. 



A hundreil or hundred and fifty such 

 large birds winging their w:iy sU)wly 

 around in circles ovorheatl seemed to 

 till tho air and was a sight that will not 

 soon bo forgotten. 



Occasionally would thoy light on a 

 nest and then olT again, or would settle 

 down on some of the topmost branches 

 of tho tall trees on limbs that hardly 

 seemed cai)abl(i of holding up a Robin, 

 with wings half spread and in constant 

 nu>tion to help balam-e themselves on 

 their tall stilt-liko legs on tho swaying 

 limb, they seoniod much better adapted 

 for a habitation on terra tirma than in 

 mid air. 



Their nests too wore a sight to behold. 

 l?tiilt away in the tops of tho trees on 

 liml>s that did not seem capable of 

 holiling them up, as big as a two bushel 

 Icisket, and from one to eight in a tree 

 wo thought wo had got paid for our 

 drive if we got no eggs. 



Our next object was to sco what was 

 iu them. Tho empty, broken shells 

 underneath told us that many had 

 hatched and we might be too late. 



