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THE OOLOGIST. 



The Oologist. 



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A Day With the Raptores. 



An early hour on the morning of May 

 11, 1895 found my friend Mr. M. B. 

 ■Grifflng and myself ready to start for a 

 day's collecting after the Raptores. 



The day was perfect. Not a cloud in 

 the sky and it promised to be pretty 

 warm before sunset. 



We started for Sachem's Neck and ar- 

 rived there about 8:00 a. m. My first 

 nest was one of the American Osprey 

 {Pandion halmlus carolinensis), situated 

 in a pine tree and about thirty-five feet 



up. It was composed of sticks, pieces 

 of sod, corn-stalks and sea-weed, in fact 

 almost any kind of rubbish. 



The climb was easy and I was soon 

 looking on the two large eggs which 

 the nest contained. They were a deep 

 cream color, spotted and splashed with 

 several shades of brown; the larger end 

 being entirely obscured by the mark- 

 ings. Packing these I descended the 

 tree and was soon joined by Mr. Griff- 

 iug who had secured a line set of three 

 Osprey's from a large cherry tree whir'h 

 stood near a deserted barn. 



Traveling east from here we reached 

 a strip of woods and a few minutes later 

 my friend called out that he had found 

 a nest of Cooper's Hawk (Acaijnter 

 cooperi). Going over to him I climbed 

 the tree and saw four white eggs in the 

 nest. These we left for a while to 

 make certain of the identity and hid in 

 some thick undergrowth. The old 

 bird came back presently and we were 

 then sure of our find. The nest was 

 composed entirely of small twigs and 

 was sittiated in a beech tree about 

 thirty-hve feet tip. The eggs are white 

 slightly marked with faint spots of 

 light brown and lavender. Packing 

 up we started on our course which now 

 lay along Gardiner's Bay. 



After proceeding a short way we 

 came to our next nest which was oce 

 of the Osprey. It was situated in a 

 black gum tree forty-live feet from the 

 ground and on the end of a limb ten 

 feet from the trunk of the tree. Ad- 

 justing my climbers I was soon stand- 

 ing in the nest which was an immense 

 affair probably the accumulation of 

 years of nest building. It contained a 

 set of four eggs, ground color, a pecul- 

 iar shade of brown spotted with choc- 

 olate-brown. In 1894 1 took a set of 

 two eggs from this same nest which 

 were similar in color and markings. 

 After carefully measuring the nest I 

 climbed down and we continued on our 

 way. 



