Fob. 1889.] 



AXD OOLOGTST. 



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weeds. Four eggs, fresh, greenish-white, 

 spotted with lavender-gray, ecru drab, and 

 fawn color : 1 . 00 x . 78 ; 1 . 08 x . 78 : . i)8 x . 75 ; 1 . 04 

 X.76. 



Set XXIV. May 12, 1888. Tucson, Arizona. 

 Collected by Herbert Brown. Xest in Tasaca, 

 made of dead twigs, and lined with shredded 

 baling rope. Outside, top six and a half in- 

 t;hes, depth four inches. Inside, top three and 

 a half inches; bottom rounded, depth two and 

 a quarter inches. Three eggs, greeni.sh- white, 

 spotted with lavender-gray, and russet. The 

 markings are small longitudinal spots, but 

 very sharply defined: l.llx.7ii; l.(>r)x.78; 

 1.0()x.77. 



Set XXY. March IHth. 1880. Pima Indian 

 Agency, Pinal County, Arizona. Collected by 

 Kosswell S. Wheeler. Nest of twigs and grasses, 

 lined with hair, situated in a cholla cactus. 

 Two eggs, greenish-wliite, but the ground 

 color is almost wholly obscured with the mark- 

 ings, which are of lavender-gray and fawn 

 «'olor: 1. 1 1 X .75; 1.00 x .75. 



Set XXVI. Miy 12th, 1888. Tucson, Ari- 

 zona. Collected by IIeil)ert Hrown. Xest 

 fragile in construction. Made of weeds and 

 lined with fibrous bark. Four eggs, incubation 

 light. (Treenish-white, very heavily marked 

 with longitudinal spots of lavender-gray and 

 fawn color. On some of the eggs the markings 

 are very peculiar, the lines almost appearing as 

 if they were drawn with a pen: .U7 x .74; .99 

 X.74; .!)<)x.71: 1.0!x.72. 



Set XXVII. Marcli Otb. 18cS0. Sacaton, 

 Pinal County, Arizona. Collected for li. S. 

 Wheeler. Xest in a p \lo verde tree about six 

 feet from the ground. Composed of twigs, 

 lined witli grass and hair. Three eggs, fresh, 

 greenish-white, spotted (so heavily as to ob- 

 scure the ground color) with fawn color: 1.10 

 X.75; 1.08 X. 71; 1.07 x. 7:1 



Set XXVIII. xMay 15th, 1887. Tucson, 

 Arizona. Collected by Herbert Hrown. Nest 

 in cbolli, three feet from the ground. Made 

 of coarse twigs and lined with drietl grass. 

 Three eggs, incubation slight, rireenish-white, 

 heavily spotted, principally at the larger ends, 

 with lavender-gray, and fawn color: .98 x.75; 

 l.o:)x.77; .97x.78. 



Set XXIX. April 10th, 1887. Tucson, Ari- 

 zona. Collected by Herbert Brown. Nest in 

 cholla, two feet from the ground. Made of 

 •lediondia twigs, and lined with fibrous bark 

 of dead cholla. Three eggs, fresh, greenish- 

 white, heavily spotted with lavender-gray and 

 russet: l.OOx.78: 1.04x78: 1.0:', x. 78. 



,/. P. N. 



English Sparrow. 



That little enemy of eastern bird life, the 

 English sparrow, has made its appearance in 

 the Zenith City, a single pair surviving an 

 j unusually low temperature, even for Duluth, 

 last winter, and this winter finds a small colony 

 contentedly domiciled in the cornices of a 

 business block, attesting to the hardiness of 

 the little adventurers, who must have passed 

 through nearly 100 miles of uninhabited wil- 

 derness before reaching here, although the trip 

 was doubtless made via rail in grain cars where 

 they do considerable foraging after seeds, etc. , 

 and are often accidentally entrapped and 

 transported. 



It will be interesting to note from year to 

 year what effect this vigorous climate has 

 upon the little colony. 



Frank S. Dn{/;)ptt. 



Diiliitli, Minn. 



Golden Eagle in Montana. 



A (xolden Eagle {Aqulla rlirysnetoH [Linn.]) 

 ,was shot here on Dec. 8th by one of our own 

 Indian scouts. This bird had raptured and 

 killed a good sized Black- tail Deer, and was 

 shot while sitting upon its body, although un- 

 able to "^2/ to its eyrie ! " with its heavy prey. 

 I think this case comes as near the wonder- 

 ful stories of this bird's powers as lies within 

 the bounds of truth. The skin was ruined 

 in skinning, the scout laying it upon its back 

 and slashing the skin off in much the way he 

 would that of the deer. The entii-e skin was 

 thickly lined with fat, showing that it had not 

 wanted for food this winter. Considerable dis- 

 cussion took place in the post trader's store as 

 to the "kind of eagle," but as it was feathered 

 to the toes there was no doubt in the mind of 

 an ornithologist. C. F. MorriKcm. 



Addition to the Bristol County List. 



A gentleman residing at Taunton, Mass., shot 

 in the outskirts of the city an Owl, which 

 from his description conforms exactly to that 

 of the Great Cray Owl {Ulxda cinerea) in 

 size, shape and coloration. It is impossible to 

 mistake the (ireat Gray for the Barred or Great 

 Horned Owl, as this gentleman has shot a num- 

 ber of each of the last two. Unfortunately 

 the owl was not considered rare and he did 

 not have it preserved. John C. Cahoon. 



