THE OOLOGIST 



Oijlogical Notes for July. 



Blue-winged Teal 



Coot, 



Meadow Lark, 



June 8 

 19 

 28 

 29 



o eggs. 

 9 

 6 

 4 



Allan Herbert, East Saginmv, Mich. 



Your note in Vol. IV. No. 11 — on 

 Kingfisher and Bank Swallow nesting to- 

 gether reminds me that I saw a Kingfisher 

 making a nest, and returning I got a full 

 set of" Bank Swallow's egtrs from the hole, 

 but I supposed the Kingfishers had aban- 

 doned the nest because some men went to 

 making brick on top of the bank. 



G. H. Ragsdale, Gainesville^ Tex. 



I FOUND a nest of the Yellow-shafted 

 Flicker with 8 eggs. I brought them home, 

 returning to the nest twice a week and bring- 

 ing away one egg for each day that I was 

 away until I collected 25 eggs. I left a 

 little corn each time in the nest, and never 

 saw but one Flicker. 



A. F. Wooster, Norfolk, Conn. 



The following is a partial list of the sets 

 seen and taken in central New York. The 

 season has been a very good one. 

 Robin, 

 Crow, 

 Crow Blackbird, 



* Broad-winged Hawk, 

 fSong Sparrow, 

 Belted Kingfisher, 

 Red-winged Blackbird, 

 Common Rail, 

 Bank Swallow, 

 Spotted Sandpiper, 

 Least Fycatcher, 



* Maryland Yellow-th. 

 Golden-crown'd Th'sh, 

 Indigo Bird, 

 t Red-eyed Vireo, 

 Traill's Flycatcher, 



* Black-billed Cuckoo, 



* Chimney Swallow, 



* A few days sat upon, 

 t And one Cow Bird's. 



On two occasions this season we have 

 found Cow Birds' eggs in nests which had 

 contained the young of the owners. This 

 shows that for some reason even Cow Birds' 

 eggs do not always hatch when sat upon by 

 the foster parent. 



Not knowing whether it is common for 

 the Wood Thrush to take possession of the 

 nests of other birds or not, I send you a 

 little item that came to my notice during 

 the month of May. In passing through the 

 timber with a friend, Geo. De Wolf, our 

 attention was attracted to a dense growth 

 of bushes by the peculiar actions of a pair 

 of Red Birds {Gardinalis virginianus) . 

 Upon going to the place we discovered a 

 newly built nest placed about four or five 

 feet from the ground, which we readily iden- 

 tified as the nest of the Red Bird. On a 

 second visit, several days afterward, we 

 were surprised to find the nest occupied by 

 a Wood Thrush ( T'urdus mustelinus) and 

 containing four eggs of that species. We 

 removed the eggs and left the nest unharm- 

 ed. Happening to pass the same way a 

 few days after we concluded to stop and 

 take a better description of the nest, and 

 found that it was again occupied, this time 

 by the Red Bird, which had deposited 

 three eggs. 



John Holzapfel, Colony, Kas. 



Loon Shooting. — Those who have had 

 j experience in hunting Divers of any species 

 know that the reports of their almost incred- 

 ible feats of dodging gun-shots are mainly 

 true, though some exaggeration is often in- 

 dulged in by fishermen and guides. The 

 best shots are sometimes foiled, but practice 

 in this particular science soon enables one to 

 handle a Loon almost as well as a Duck. 

 We have several times hunted Loons in 

 boats, and on one occasion worked the bet- 

 ter part of an afternoon without obtaining 

 our game. There were two boats, eacli 

 containing three persons, while three guns 

 were brought to bear in the affray, but af- 

 ter nearly "drowning" the poor Diver it 

 commenced to rain, and the chase was re- 

 linquished. 



