The OoLOGiST. 



Vol. XXV. No. 6. 



Albion, N. Y. June, 1908. 



Whole No. 251 



THE OOLOGIST, 



A Monthly Publication DeTOted to 

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 FRANK H. LATTIN, PubUslier. 

 ALBION, N. Y. 

 XRNEBT H. SHOKT, Editor and XuikC«r. 

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An Arizona Hunt. 



Our party consisted of three, we de- 

 cided to go for a little outing and as 

 Oology was our hobby thought it best 

 to hunt over a strip of desert land, 

 about twenty-five miles west of Phoe- 



nix, between the irrigated lands and 

 the Aqua Fria (water cold) river. 

 This part of the desert is covered 

 with a growth of small cacti, sage 

 brush, mesquite and paloverde trees. 



We took a light camping wagon and 

 left Phoenix about three p. m., April 

 20th, 1907. Two miles had hardly 

 gone by when we came to a row of 

 large Cottonwood trees dividing a pas- 

 ture. They had been cut off about 

 eight or ten feet from the ground and 

 were sprouting up again from the old 

 stumps, leaving a lot of dead limbs 

 and knot holes. In one of these holes 

 we found a set of four Screech Owls, 

 bird on. Not knowing what bird of 

 this family it was we had to kill it, 

 and afterwards identified it as the 

 "Mexican Screech Owl," (Megascops 

 asio aikeni). It was getting late in 

 the season for the Screech Owls as 

 this set was unblowable on account 

 of incubation, two other badly incu- 

 bated sets were found in addition ta 

 the nest containing young birds. 



Several trees down the row we 

 found a set of five Desert Sparrow 

 Hawks, (Falco peninsulae sparverius). 

 slightly incubated, two of the eggs 

 were almost round. 



Farther up the road we saw a hole 

 in a dead limb about oO feet above 

 the ground. One of my companions 

 proceeded to climl) the tree while 

 within a few feet of the hole a 

 Screech Owl of the same variety as 

 above mentioned flew off disclosing a 

 hole lull of young birds almost ready 

 to leave the nest. 



Presenitly we saw a Sparrow H.;n'> 

 ciiclc around over head and li^lr »'e 



