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THE OOLOQIST 



PINK CROWS' EGG 



In the issue of Dec. 1, 1919 of The 

 Oologist, I noticed an article on Pink 

 Crows' eggs, by my old friends, J. R. 

 Mann, of Arlington Heights, Massa- 

 chusetts. Back in the 90's there was 

 a set of these eggs taken each year for 

 three successive years, in the same lo- 

 cality, and same grove, the first two 

 sets were taken by L. Halliday and 

 Fay Kenrick, of Bedford, Massachu- 

 setts, the two referred to by Mr. Mann, 

 the third set, was taken by Kenrick 

 and my self and is now in my collec- 

 tion, though the first two sets had five 

 eggs each and mine has but four, I 

 consider it the best set of the lot on ac- 

 count of the markings. The ground 

 color of all is white the entire surface 

 covered with very minute dots of light 

 brown giving them the pink appear- 

 ance in addition to this the second 

 egg has a few spots of darker brown, 

 the third many more spots, and the 

 fourth with still more spots had also 

 a few blotches of dark brown and light 

 lavender. I have taken more than a 

 hundred crows' nests in my time, but 

 the only other rarity I ever found was 

 one set of five, four of which was of 

 the ordinary greenish color the fifth 

 white with about a dozen small brown 

 spots and three black ones on the 

 larger end. 



W. B. Holbrook, 

 40 Mystic St., Arlington, Mass. 



We have two pink colored Crows' 

 eggs in our series. — Editor. 



DO RED SHOULDERED HAWKS 

 MIGRATE? 

 This week I witnessed about 200 Red 

 Shouldered Hawks, in one bunch, fly- 

 ing over my house or rather they were 

 sailing round and round. They were 

 quite low; when first they passed, 

 they came over, going northwest and 

 in about an hour they came back over 

 quite high, going faster, about an 



hour before sundown. This time go- 

 ing straight. They roosted close here 

 as the next day they came back, as 

 my wife saw them. Some of them lit 

 in trees, in the lot the chickens were 

 all cackling. My daughter tried to 

 scare them out but they were not 

 very easily scared. 



This bunch of Hawks came through 

 Sept. 26 and 27, 1921. Once before this, 

 in the year 1919, in January, I saw 

 some three or four hundred very high, . 

 come over town. Everybody was talk- 

 ing Hawks. This bunch roosted five 

 miles from Dardanelle, in pine timber. 

 A man saw them when lighting, got 

 his gun, slipped up near enough to 

 shoot and killed six at one shot. Now, 

 do they bunch up and migrate? I saw 

 some here all winter. They are quite 

 plentiful here, as I took eight sets of 

 eggs here this season. 



They always build near the same 

 place each season if not killed and 

 you can get a second set in a month of 

 the same kind. 



G. E. Pilquist, 

 Sept. 29, 1921 Dardanelle, Ark. 



The Red-shouldered Hawk is a regu- 

 lar migrant. — Editor. 



THE RUBY-THROAT'S SONG 



The peculiar "swinging song" of the 

 Ruby-throated Humming Bird, des- 

 cribed in the September issue of The 

 Oologist, by Lyle De Vern Miller. I 

 have also noticed for the first time 

 this past summer. I noted same upon 

 two different occasions at the same 

 spot, and at about a week's interval. 

 The flight I observed, was precisely as 

 described, only instead of the inces- 

 sant twitter, there was an occasional 

 shrill squeak uttered during tlie per- 

 formance. 



I likewise wondered at not having 

 seen mention made of this peculiar 

 performance of the Hummer, but con- 

 cluded it must be a" freakish trick of 

 this midget, performed for its own 



