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Canary's nest with seven eggs in, built directly 

 in and on and covering three eggs in the nest of 

 another strange bird. I have not looked up the 

 eggs yet but they are the same shape and size 

 of the Canary's but are vphite, sparingly 

 spotted with exceedingly pale purple spots. 

 Nest is built of different material. 



Hampden liuel. 

 Keokuk, Iowa. 



Editor of O. ifc O.: 



It may, perhaps, be of interest to you to 

 hear that I obtained a very fine specimen of a 

 Golden Eagle, about half grown, I should 

 think; and, singular to state, it was last 

 January, when the ground was covered with 

 four feet of snow and the cold was very 

 intense. I have hunted in these valleys and 

 over the mountains for many years and have 

 never seen anything of the kind at any time of 

 the year. My impression is that it escaped 

 from some private colle<ition or was driven 

 here in a storm. It was nearly starved. We 

 first observed it hovering over the railroad 

 track, then it swooped down under the coal 

 pockets and caught a large rat, then rose with 

 it in his talons and flew over onto an island. 

 Tlie next day it was repeated and was 

 certainly twenty-five rods high when he made 

 the swoop and caught the rat and had to rush 

 under the cars with it. One of the men threw 

 and disabled it. I have him mounted in my 

 parlor where it is much admired. 



In making my body I made it larger tlian 

 the frame, a great deal, a.s I thought it looked 

 small for the skin, and when I commenced to 

 fill in with cotton 1 found it took nearly all I 

 had in the house. The poor thing was nearly 

 starved to death, which seems singular when 

 so many chickens might have been had on the 

 farms. 



I also secured a Pigmy Owl the same month, 



which is a rare treat in this section of country. 



O. //. Simiiiona. 

 Susquehanna. I'a. 



New Publications. 



The Lahvddor Duck, a revised list of the 

 extant specimens in Xorth xVmerica, with his- 

 torical notes by William Dutcher, from The 

 Auk, Vol. VIII, No 2, April, 1891. An inter- 

 esting and carefully prepared contribution, 

 characteristic of the autlior. 



The Journal of the Cincinnati Society of 

 Natural Ilixtori/. Vol. XIV, No. 2, July, 18'.)1, 



among other articles containing a list of the 

 birds of Warren County, Ohio, by liaymond 

 W. Smith. 



The Birds of Indiiina. prepared for the 

 Indiana Ilorticultural .Society, by Amos W. 

 Butler, published originally in the transac- 

 tions of the society. A limited number have 

 been issued for the convenience of the author 

 and others. It is well illustrated. It can be 

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 Ragan, secretary, Greencastle, Indiana. Mr. 

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 O. & O. for years, is a eailiiig ornithologist 

 in his section. 



The Spy Glass, published by Greene and 

 Balliet, Arkansas City, Kansas, .'50 cents per 

 annum, is a new magazine in which the sub- 

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The Jerseyman, H.E. Deats, Klemington, N.J., 

 Vol. 1, No. 2, September, 1891, now ready, 

 " an amateur journal devoted to airing the pet 

 opinions of the editor." It shows careful 

 editorship, and is of jdiilatelic tendency. 



Article XXI, on the color pattern of the 

 upper tail coverts in Colaptes atiratus. 



Article XXII, on the birds observed near 

 Corpus Christi, Texas, during parts of March 

 and April, 1891, by Frank M. Chapman. 



Extracts from the Bulletin of the American 

 Museum of Natural History, Vol. Ill, No. 2. 

 ,Vuthor's edition issued August 27, 1891. The 

 first article, which is illustrated, is worthy of 

 careful attention and shows tlie importance of 

 having a large series, in order to follow study 

 that is presented in the development of plum- 

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Testimonial of Hornaday's Taxi- 

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II. H. and ('. .S. Brimley say: " .\nd iieie 

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 zoology. It is just the book that we have 

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