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THE OOLOGIST. 



THEOOLOGIST 



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Florida Field Notes. 



Mr Willaixl Eliot, Tlionotosa-ssa, 1 

 Fla., sends u.s hi.s Field Note.s for 18S0, I 

 from which we take tlie following: — 



March Lst. Wood Duck; found a ne.st 

 in a natural cavity in a live pine tree j 

 50 feet up, as I had uo (•linil)ers I could | 

 not got to the hole. 



March 22. Loggerhead Shrike; took 

 a set of live fresh eggs, the nest was in 

 an orange tree 8 feet up, made of crab 

 grass and sticks lined with green maid- 

 en hair moss gathered from the dead 

 pines near by. 



March 29. Went to an old field full 

 of dead pines clim))ed to a Flicker's hole 

 40 feet up and found a Fla. Screech 

 Owl sitting on one fresh egg. Also 

 found a Brown-headed Nuthatch nest 

 in a pine snag containing two eggs and 



three young and on my wa}' home took 

 a tine set of thi'ee eggs of Fla. Screech 

 Owl from an old Flicker's hole 8 feet 

 u]), the eggs were laid on rotten chips 

 and a few dead oak leaves. 



April .oth. Am. Sparrow Hawk; four 

 fresh eggs, nest was in an old Flicker's 

 hole 10 feet up, eggs were laid on rotten 

 chips at bottom of cavity. 



April Ifith. Ground Dave; took set 

 of two fresh eggs, the nest was a shallow 

 platform composed of grass and weeds 

 and was situated on the tip end of an 

 orange liml) 10 feet up. It was an old 

 nest repaii'ed. 



April 18th. Kildeer; took a set of 

 three fresh eggs, nest was a slight de- 

 pression in the ground lined with bits 

 of grass and was on the lake shore. 



April 20th. Cardinal Grosbeak; three 

 eggs, the nest was small and deeply 

 cupped, composed of Spanish moss lined 

 Avith tine grass, and placed in a small 

 pine 8 feet up. I notice one thing 

 about the nest of this bird in this locali- 

 ty; the nest always contains pieces of 

 dead palmetto leaf, no matter how hit 

 it may be to a palmetto patch. 



April 22. Fla. Screech Owl; three 

 eggs, incul):itiou ailvance<l. The nest 

 was in an old woodpecker's hole 10 feet 

 up, the hole was lined with a few dead 

 oak leaves, r Found a Ground Dove's 

 nest buihling, also several Jays nests 

 nearly tinished in evei-.y instance; Isaw 

 the bird building. 



April 24th. Took a set of four fresh 

 eggs of tilt! Mocking Bird, nest was in 

 an orange tree 6 feet up. Carolina 

 Chickadee, five young, nest was a nat- 

 ural cavity in a pine stub 6 feet from 

 the gi-ouud. Climbed 15 feet to a Flick- 

 er's hole expecting to find owl eggs and 

 found a nest of young squirrels instead. 

 April 2r)th. Blue Jay; four fresh 

 eggs, nest was in an orange tree 15 feet 

 up, made of twigs and grass lined with 

 black oak rootlets; In many nests 

 which 1 have found, I never knew the 

 materi;ils of which it was composed to 



