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again in 332 time. On the morning of 

 May 2oth started out and locality was 

 one that plain hiking was the order. 

 The weather here is variable, hot and 

 cold in May, and this day decided 

 early to be hot. Also about this time 

 all the mosquitoes, brown tails, etc., 

 have hatched so had everything fixed 

 for me by nature. The group of 

 pines was located in a fairly large 

 chestnut woods. I gave all the pines 

 a good looking over for nests with a 

 bird's tail sticking over the edge, but 

 no luck that way so started the right 

 way. First tree with a nest in, rapped 

 it and then climbed it, an old one, 35 

 feet up and just as far down. Climb- 

 ere were no good as limbs are num- 

 erous, small and dead. Number two 

 tne same, add seventy feet more. Num- 

 ber three the same. Beginning to get 

 nervous so rapped the next until I had 

 most of the lower bark off, then went 

 up and when my hand could touch 

 the nest, off went Mrs. 332 with a 

 noisy sort of cac, cac, cac. 



The diameter of the nest was greater 

 than the length of the hawk and from 

 tne ground neither head nor tail could 

 be seen. You can't see thirty feet up 

 into a pine from as many positions as 

 in a chestnut or similar tree, and when 

 the set is full 332 is a close sitter. 

 One can easily lose if he doesn't go 

 up to every nest, for while rapping 

 a tree will sometime make her leave, 

 the surest thing is to go up. 



This nest was thirty feet up, placed 

 close to the trunk made of small 

 sticks, with bits of pine bark for a lin- 

 ing and was quite shallow. It con- 

 tained five eggs, slightly incubated. 

 When sets are fresh when found a sec- 

 ond set of about four can usually be 

 taken from same nest ten days later. 

 Eggs were wreathed nearer the middle 

 than end of egg with a varying amount 

 of blotches and spots over rest of egg. 

 Real lightly marked sets are rare. 



With five nicely marked eggs packed 

 away and face and hands washed at 

 a nearby brook, pipe refilled and light- 

 ed, I could even laugh at the mosqui- 

 toes that had made life miserable for 

 me the last two hours and beat a 

 happy retreat. 



Roscoe I. Giles. 

 Marlboro, Mass. 



Law Married. 



J. Eugene Law, one of the most 

 prominent of the Coopers' Club mem- 

 bers, one of its business managers 

 and a well known Oalifornia banker, 

 has gone and got married as evidenced 

 by the following from a California 

 paper: 



BANKERS CONSOLIDATE. 



Miss Laura M. Beatty, who until a 

 week ago was the assistant cashier of 

 the First National Bank of Hollywood, 

 and believed to be the only woman in 

 California holding such a position, was 

 married yesterday morning, to John 

 Eugene Law, former president of the 

 same bank. The ceremony was per- 

 formed in the Euclid Heights Presby- 

 terian church, following which the 

 couple left in an automobile for San 

 Diego, planning to return soon to oc- 

 cupy a home at No. 1834 El Cerito ave- 

 nue, Hollywood. 



To California. 



With the closing of the forms for 

 this issue of THE OOLOGIST, Febru- 

 ary 2d, the editor leaves for Califor- 

 nia to go to the bedside of the very 

 best mother in all this wide, wide 

 world. Eighty-one years of age, M'hite- 

 haired and bent, but with a heart as 

 warm and a mind as bright as ever. 

 In her sickness she awaits our com- 

 ing, and we count the hours until we 

 can press her dear shrunken hand in 

 our own. 



We may be gone a month; maybe 

 three of them. In the meantime we 



