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ORNITHOLOGIST 



[Vol. iS-No. 2 



a soft maple tree, in a small lagoon sur- 

 roundetl by plowed fields, about two hundred 

 yards from river bottom proper. The other 

 in a tall white pine tree in an old nursery. 



One was only about 500 feet of a farm- 

 house. Height from ground, 45 to 55 feet. 



Found on May 7. 



Sets 5-5-5 ; not measured. 



R. M. J^risbcv. No. 25. 



Resident, tolerably common. 



Nests in suitable localities. 



Nests found in a dense pine gro\e, near 

 a farmhouse. 



Old nests of Cooper's Hawk are used in 

 this grove. 



Average height from ground, 15 feet. 



Nests found : March 9, 1-5, fresh to badly 

 incubated. 



March 20 ( ?), 1-7; incubation far ad- 

 \anced. 



March 22, 1-5, far adxanced. 



March 24 ( ?), 1-4, far advanced. 



Virg'inins Chase. No. 26. 



Has not found it. 



Dr. W. S. Strode. No. },i. 



Resident, tolerably common. 



Nests, commonly in thick, low timber, as 

 ]iine, oak, saplings near a marsh or pond. 



Uses a deserted Crow's nest. 



Nests from last of March to middle of 

 April. 



Sets 1-5, 1-5, and 6 young, one egg, 

 five young. 



Measurements not given. 



Has e.xamined over 20 nests ; thinks none 

 were made by owls. 



W. S. Cohleigii. No. t,-^. 



Summer resident, not common. 



Nests in Peoria and Fulton Counties. 



Prefers a low, damp woods and dense for- 

 est. 



Usually nests in an old Crow's nest, one 

 near the trunk of the tree and not very high. 



Nest the first of May or occasionally the 

 last of April. 



Relines an old Crow's nest and lays 4 or 

 5 eggs: average, 1.50x1.30. 



B. F. Bolt. No. ;,4. 



Rare resident. 



One nest founil. 



W. E. Loiick.'i. No. 34. 



Rare resident. 



Has record of 5 nests found by a friend. 



D. S. Mcixse/t. No. 36. 



Resident, tolerably common. 



Nests in hollow trees ; old Crow's and 

 Hawk's nests. 



F'.ggs found April 3. \'oung birds found 

 on June 21:4 and 5. 



L. E. Baird. No. 95. 



Resident, tolerably common. 



One nest, in trunk of a decayed cotton- 

 wood tree, in dense forest, near creek : 2 

 young. 



Says it is a bold robber of hen roosts. 

 (From this I think it ma}- be the Great 

 Horned Owl. — A. C. M.) 



Charles Wells. No. 45. 



Finds it only in summer, common. 



Nests sparingly. 



F^ggs taken from a roughlv constructed 

 nest, 3 feet from ground. 



Measurements, 1.62 x 1.28. 



C. B. Wiiidercock. No. 77. 



Rare migratory species. 



Five seen on January 22, 1890, in a dense 

 thicket of scrub oak near a creek. 



Has known of it in two other instances. 



Rev. J. C. Elliott. No. 88. 



Resident. 



Found along creeks where the timber is 

 heaviest. 



Nesting habits not known. 



G. W. Rear den. No. 92. 



Finds it inhabiting creek bottoms. 



Nesting habits unknown. 



O. Widmann. Old Orchard, Mo. 



Has met with it from November to April. 



Has not found it in summer, but does 

 not collect eggs. 



Philo Smith, St. l^ouis. Mo. 



Observations in No. 74. 



Resident, fairly common. 



P'ound in plum thickets or crab-apple trees. 



