THE OOLOGIST. 



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Caroliua aud Virginia Rail, witli good 

 results from May 24th to June 13th aud 

 from Maj' 25th excellent sets of Red- 

 winged Blackbird were taked. 



The restless Spotted Sandpiper have 

 been taken by me in fresh sets from 

 May 23rd to June 30th. 



The Golden-wingetl and Red-headed 

 Woodpecker, aud Grasstinch commence 

 incubation on the 23rd of May. 



Several j'ears ago a friend of mine 

 shot a splendid specimen of King Rail, 

 and made me a present of it. I skinned 

 it to save the skin, and found that it 

 had a fully developed egg within which 

 is now in my possession. This some- 

 what conliruied my idea that this splen- 

 did bird breeds in this locality, a fact 

 unknown by our Ornithologists' and to 

 confirm my idea, I was lucky enough to 

 find in the Pt. Abino swamp, on May 

 30, 1894, a nest containing ten splendid 

 eggs. Proof positive. 



Wood Thrush commence incubation 

 on the 25th of May, and the Long-billed 

 Marsh Wren have their several nests 

 ready for breetling purposes from May 

 27th to June 2d. 



The Belted Kingfisher, Downy Wood- 

 pecker and Maryland Yellow-throat, 

 start breeding in this locality from May 

 30th to June 2d, and fresh eggs have 

 been taken l)y me of the Meadowlark 

 from May 30th to July 10th, which 

 proves in my mind that under favorable 

 circumstances they raise two broods. 



June 1st seems to be a lucky date for 

 me. Have caken Least Bittern from 1st 

 to 19th. One tine set of Chestnut-sided 

 Warbler, a splendid set of Bobolink. 

 From June 1st to 8th, sets of Green 

 Heron, and from 1st to 8th, American 

 Redstart, and in quite abundance, the 

 Purple Martin, in fresh sets from June 

 1st to 23rd. 



I have had the ])leasure to find on the 

 4th, 10th and 19th of June, large and tine 

 sets of the Florida Gallinule. In the 

 same period the Yellow Warbler com- 

 mences to breed in its downy nest. 



Have taken fresh sets of Wilson's 

 Thrush llose-ln'easted Grosbeak and 

 Purple Finch, on June 7th. 



Between June 10th and 14th, 1 have 

 found fresh sets of White-eyed and Red- 

 eyed Vireo, Barn Swallow, and several 

 large and nice sets of Marsh Hawk. 



The best tind was on a bright spring 

 morning, June 15th, where I was suc- 

 cessful enough to locate, sixty feet from 

 the ground, on a small twig of a great 

 elm tree, the nest of a Cerulean Warb- 

 ler. After a hard climb I brought down 

 the nest with four beautifully marked 

 fresh eggs. We occasionly see the 

 Warblei", but to my knowledge no one 

 living in Buifalo ever found the nest. 

 About the same time I found in the 

 centre of a small wood, on the outer 

 branches of a beech, the artistically 

 built nest of our Ruby-throated Hum- 

 ming Bird containing two tiny white 

 fresh eggs. It is quite an ornament in 

 my collection. 



June 16th is the day for Bank Swal- 

 low, and the Kingbirds, aud Chimney 

 Swifts to start breeding. 



Fresh eggs of the Cedar Waxwingwere 

 taken by me on the 18th of June. Only 

 once have I been fortunate enough to 

 take a line set of the Scarlet Tanager, 

 and on the21stof June,in an unoccupied 

 quarry, on the bare rock a line set of 

 two eggs of the Nighthawk greeted 

 my eye, and on the 10th of July, a very 

 hot summer day, in a swampy meadow, 

 with small underbrush, lA feet above 

 the ground, in young maple sapling, I 

 found an aitistically built nest of the 

 Hoodt'il WarljJer, containing two almost 

 full-Hedged young and one egg, which 

 is now in my collection. 



Ki> WARD Rein k< k k . 



ButTalo, N. Y. 



Birds and Storms. 



On June lOtli, last, a companion and 

 myself, were bathing in a small lake a 

 few miles distant from Minneapolis. It 



