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several years and was never troubled 

 as you state. Do not know where 3'ou 

 ean get the material 3-ou mention. 

 Eggs in eolleetions slu)uUl not be ex- 

 p()se(l to the light then, too, pink cotton 

 would not fade. 



Cliristie, of K3e Pateli, Nev., we learn 

 something of wliat collectors in that 

 "far west" country* have to contend 

 with. 



Mr. Christie inserted an advertise- 

 ment in the county paper — soliciting 

 bird's eggs of certain species and stat- 



. I ing that he woukl pay cash for the 



Herbert W. McBride. Waterloo, Ind., | ^-i'"^'- -^ii the most i)romiuent column 

 writes of a set of two eggs of the Red- "^ the next issue appeared an articl. 



Scraps from Many Note-Books. 



tailed Hawk taken by him March 29, 

 wliicli were unusually large. Tliey 

 measured respectively 2.50 x 1.98 and 

 2.49 X 1.99 in. The nest was in a black- 

 ash tree. 65 feet from the grountl. 



F. C. Browne, of Framingham, Mass., 

 writes us that a correspondent of his in 

 Western Michigan informs him of 

 having taken on March 6th, a set of 

 three eggs of the Great Horned Owl, 

 the thermometer being 30^ below zero 

 that morning and had been below 

 nearly' everj' morning for two weeks. 



entitled "Bird's Eggs — A Fenaltj' for 

 Taking them From their Nest," which 

 article, after calling attention to Mr. 

 Christie's advertisement, quoted the 

 Kiw on the subject and stated the 

 penalty for taking the eggs of birds, 

 and then closed with a warning iujunc 

 tion that trouble and "jails" awaited 

 those Avho disturbed such nests. Sure- 

 \j the collectors of the Silver State are 

 not to be env'ied. It seems at least, 

 that the State Legislature ought to 

 make some distinction between scien- 

 titic collecting and "robbing bird's 

 nests." 



ler, of Sandy Spring, Md. He reports 

 a nest Ijegun on February 4th. 



H. A. Hess, of Edinburg, Ind., relates 

 the taking of a Trumpeter Swan liy Mr. An ' exceedingly early nest of tht 

 George Dudley on the Clifty Creek, j Cardinal is reported by Harohl S. Stab- 

 being the third bird of that species 

 taken in that vicinit.y in a ])eriod of live 

 3'ears. Althougli a not unconunon 

 migrant tluM'f, he says it rarely stops Among the many records of early 

 on their waters. arrivals wliich have been sent us, are 



Robins the last week in Januarj", Blue- 

 birds, Feljruary 23rd, and Red-winged 

 Blackbirds March 2nd, by W. E. Aik- 

 en, Rutland Co., Vt. Also by F. Leon 

 Englebert, Des Moines, la.. Chipping 

 Sparrows and Phrebes, February IStii; 

 and Bluebirds, Feljruary 21. 



Under date of April 12, A. E. Kibbe, 

 of Maj-ville, N. Y., writes: "I have 

 just mounted two nice Trumpeter 

 Swans sent from Indiana. One meas- 

 lU'ett 7 feet 2 inches from tip to tip, 4 

 feet li inclics in length and weighed 

 101 pounds." 



M. & C. Quechee, Vt., sends us an 

 interesting account of a trip after eggs. 

 Among other things, thej' mention 

 taking 8 eggs of the Ruffed Grouse 

 which were as dark as Prairie Hen's 

 and spotted- 



Through a letter from Mr. N. R. 



L. E., Fairview, Mo., asks a rather 

 hectic (?) question. He says: "Do 

 Birds die with consumption V Last 

 year one of my pet birds, a parrot, died 

 xevy suddenly and, not knowing the 

 cause, I took him to one of my friends 

 to be examined and preserved. He 

 examined him and wlien he told nu' 

 the bird died of consumption, I laughed 



