THE OOLOGIST. 



A Cunning Hawk. 



A very interesting spectacle occurred 

 here this winter. A farmer going out to 

 his barn one morning saw a hawk flying 

 high above him ; he graduallj' came down 

 nearer to the ground. The farmer went to 

 the house to get his gun, but when he came 

 out again the hawk was nowhere to be 

 seen. He waited for a little while and 

 soon saw him cooly walking out of one 

 of the pigeon holes in the barn with a 

 pigeon in his claws. The farmer shot and 

 killed him. He turned out to be a very 

 fine .specimen of the Pigeon-hawk, Aesalon 

 Columhanvs, and was as fat as he could be 

 which proved that he had made previous 

 visits to the barn. Frank L. Farley, 

 St. Thomas, Ont. 



Second Edition Davie's. 



Dr. Theodore Jasper, the eminent bird 

 and animal artist is engaged in making 

 drawings for the second edition of Oliver 

 Davie's work on the Nests and Eggs of the 

 Birds of North America. Some of the 

 plates already made exhibit the touch of 

 his master hand for which he has so long 

 been noted throughout the length and 

 breadth of this country, and all over the 

 world. The most interesting of the plates 

 now finished are the nests of the American 

 Flamingo, Wood Duck, Blue-gray Gnat- 

 catcher, Baltimore Oriole, Burrowing Owl, 

 Least Titmouse, and Traill's Flycatcher. 

 The delineations of these beautiful nests 

 with the birds and the simple scenery sur- 

 rounding them will call forth universal ad- 

 miration. 



The first edition of Mr. Davie's work 

 had been sold in February last, and he is 

 hard at work on the second. This will 

 contain four special plates of eggs exhibit- 

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 orders of birds. The plates will be en- 

 graved by the Crosscup and West Engrav- 

 ing Co., of Philadelphia. — From a Colum- 

 bus, 0., paper. 



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