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the circumstances under which he had 

 received the wound, and a search was 

 instituted to discover whether the owl 

 was still lurking in the vicinity. No 

 traces of it were, however, to be found, 

 but the young- man will have reason to 

 remember th?* owl's nest in the old oa^ 

 tree, since for the rest of his life ' he 

 will have to make one eye do duty for 

 two. 



— Night Heiwns are evidently going 

 to stay with us all winter. B'ather saw 

 two yesterday, De(^eniber 'iSth. Yellow 

 Rumped Warblers are also common here 

 now, and also stay with us through the 

 winter.— M. B., Shelter Island. N. Y. 



— The House Sparrow^. In the 

 September number of your valuable 

 )iublication (The Oolooist), you 

 charge Passer domestinis with destroying- 

 apple blossoms, i^rom careful observa- 

 tion I am", satisfied that he is not after 

 the blossom, but after a small insect 

 which has hid in the blossom and which 

 would destroy it if the sparrow did not 

 destroy the insect. — Chas. L. Brown, 

 Schenectady. 



— "Professional Oologists." The 

 statement made in Octol)er Oologist 

 with the above heading agrees with my 

 own experience. The Squirrels, Crows, 

 Jays, Crow Blackl)irds, &c., really get 

 the largest share of eggs; the same is 

 true of the Grous, which our laws so 

 carefully ])rotect. It increases the 

 amount of game b\it very little, if an^; 

 what we save in that way the Goss 

 Hawks, Owls, Wild Cats, and Foxes 

 get. "Where the carcass is, there the 

 Eagles, &c." holds good here. Where 

 the Grous are plenty there the destroy- 

 er comes. I know of a place where 

 Grous were unusually plenty, and but 

 two men for the season visited it, two 

 years after the same two men saw but 

 three in six weeks steady travel. If 

 birds of prey &c. cannot get Grous 

 they will eat Rabbits or some other 

 food.— H. M. 



Blue Bird. {Sialin sialis,) — Ai)ril 2d, 

 1 88(1, 1 took a set of five eggs from a cavi- 

 ty in an ajtple tree, and noticing that one 

 was very large I held it up to the , light 

 when two yolks were plainly discernable. 

 The measurements were as follows, 

 .88 X .67— .90 X .66, .87 x .66— .87 x .66, 

 (double yolk) 1.03 x .72. This was the 

 first double yolked Bird s egg I had 

 ever seen. Is it an uncommon occur- 

 rence? — F. L. H. Gaines, N. Y. 



— "That Woodcock." A corres- 

 ])ondent who has had much experi- 

 ence witli Birds and Animals writes us 

 referring to the matter of the wounded 

 Woodcock that he has "seen a great 

 many curious cases of recovery of birds 

 and animals from bad wounds: Deer 

 with broken I'ibs and legs nicely healed. 

 Moose and Bears with hullets carried 

 for years. Ducks wit,h wings and legs 

 broken and fully healed, and in one 

 case the shot healed in the fracture; 

 Harlequin Duck with one bone of wing 

 nicely healed that had been broken. 



The wounded Woodc<)ck will be il- 

 lustrated next month from a drawing 

 made I)y Mr. Meii-ill, the owner. It 

 should have appeared in this number, 

 but did not reach us in time. 



Recent Publications. 



The Ornithologisches Central- 

 BLATT, edited by Drs, C'abanis and 

 Reichenow, and jiublished in Berlin 

 gives us a resume of European ornith- 

 ology and ornithological literature. It 

 is issued on the first and fifteenth of 

 each month. 



The Forest and Stream Publishing 

 Company propose soon to issue, in book 

 form, the bird notes that have appeared 

 from time to time in their journal. 

 These are to be classified and arranged 

 by Mr. 11. B. iiailey, a naturalist of 

 some experience. The book will be 

 a valuable one for both local and gen- 

 eral students of birds. 



