THE OOLOGIST. 



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The Screech Owl. 



A Strange Bird. 



As I came home Ihrougli tlif woods 

 about seven o'clock one evening I came 

 upon three Screech Owls sitting on a fallen 

 limb of a tree. When I approached they 

 flew, but one flew towards me and I caught 

 it, held it by the tips of the wings and 

 brought him home. I tied him to a plum 

 tree, but he got himself so twisted in the 

 branches that I untied him and fastened 

 him to the fence where I left him for the 

 night. In the morning after breakfast I 

 made a perch for him, fastened a soft 

 leather strap to his leg and tied one end of 

 an old heavy steel watch chain to that and 

 the other end to the perch. His food con- 

 sisted of fresh raw beefsteak. I would 

 give him a piece and he would swallow it 

 at a gulp. He steadily refused insects of 

 all kinds, bread, cake, etc. I kept him 

 till June 7th, when, on going to look at 

 him, I found the chain broken and his owl- 

 ship gone. He was a source of amusement 

 to the small boys of the neighborhood 

 (limited because I would not let them see 

 him often), who persisted in calling him a 

 "scrinch owl." He did not get at all 

 tame, snapping his bill (which was all the 

 noise, except a low hiss, he ever made) 

 whenever approached. He was in the red 

 plumage. \V'hether the owls with him 

 were in the same plumage or not I cannot 

 say. L. O. Pindar, 



Hickman, Kv, 



Pigeon Guillemot: 



I send by to-day's mail the skin and one 

 egg of a bird known here as a " Sea Pig- 

 eon." I can find no such bird in Davies' 

 Check List. Its nest is a hole in a sand 

 bank, about a foot in depth, and the eggs 

 are laid on the sand. I have dug out sev- 

 eral Kingfishers' nests, and in about a week 

 the Sea Pigeon had taken po.ssession. They 

 lay one or two eggs. I have found four 

 sets oi two and two of one eggs each. The 

 egg which I .send to-day is of unusual 

 markings. They generally are of a pale 

 bluish. green, with small blotches di.s- 

 tributed all over the egg, instead of the 

 yellowish-green with blotches at the larger 

 end, as has the egg 1 send. 



W. R.^M., Seabeck, Wash. Ter. 



This morning, as I was riding out in the 

 w^oods, I saw a bird sitting on a limb of a 

 tree. It had a yellow crest, black throat 

 and breast, was snow-white. Ir was about 

 the size of a Great-crested Flycatcher and 

 had spurs about a quarter of an inch long. 

 Will you please tell me the name of the 

 bird in the next Oologist '! 



E. K. G., 

 Austin, Tex. 



Exchanges and Wants. 



Brief special announcements, " Want^," " Ex- 

 changes," inserted in this department for 2- cents per 

 25 words. Notices over 2^ words charged at the nite 

 of one-half cent per word. No notice inserted for less 

 than 25 cents. Notices which are merely indirect 

 methods of soliciting cash purchasers cannot be ad-' 

 mitted to these columns under any circumstances. 

 Terms, cash with order. 



Will exchange for eggs in sets a mounted male of 

 No. 426 Swallow-tailed Kile, Also skin of Long- 

 billed Curlew. SAML. 15. LADD, West Chester, 

 Pa. 



To ExcH.^NGE. — Fine showy fossils, (Devonian^, 

 for other fossils or minerals. Those wishing to 

 exchange, addr ss LEWIS M. ROBINSON, Coral- 

 ville, Iowa. 



Notice of Exchange. — First-class sets of 17, 56, 

 286, 140, i4ga, 43'ib, 483, to exchange. I want Nos. 

 4, 47, 68, QQ, 115, 161, 206, 248, 280, 320, 341, 47s. _43o, 

 436. 439, 473, 477, 480, 571, 687, 088, 690, 721. (Ridg 

 way's Nos.) Corrfspondents solicited. FRED M. 

 DILLK, Greeley, Colo. 



Will exchange one set of Baird, Brewer and Ridg- 

 way's Land Birds (New) for sets of Warblers or 

 Hawks. Would prefer nests with fo.mer. SAML. 



B. LADD. West Chester, Pa. 



Wanted. — To exchange first-class Bird Skins for 

 the same or for first-cla.ss eggs in sets, with data, 



C. W. HARRISON, West McHenry, 111. 



Wanted. — To exchange Birds eggs or skins with 

 collectors throughout the United States and Canada. 

 L, W. NICHOLS, Jr., West McHenry, III. 



I wish to exchange Texas Bird's eggs with all col- 

 lectors. I have only sets, nnd want sets in return. 

 Sea Bird's Eggs preferred. KDWIN C. DAVIS. 

 P. O. Box, 405, Gainesville, Texas, 



I will exchange a live "Bald Eagle" for North 

 American eggs in sets, nicely prepared with full data. 

 SAML. B. L^DD, West Chester, Pa. 



Notice. — Pair of extension half-club roller skates, 

 (bronzedj ii.sed very little. Will exchange for Indian 

 relics, minerals, or fossils. GUY STAYMAN, Dela- 

 ware, o. 



Three V. nickels without the word cents for a set 

 of Passenger Pigeon Eggs, with full data. Address, 

 L. O. FINDER. Hickman, Ky. 



