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THE OOLOGIST. 



ii l)inl I'oiiUl make a noise like that, l)Ut 

 rather some strange kind of tree frog. 

 It w :is years before I i-oukl believe ;i 

 l)ir(l eonid utter tiiis strange cry, that 

 I hail been in tlie habit of hearing from 

 1 )nr years of age. And its nest! Unlike 

 most Flyeatehers it nests in lioh-s in 

 trees, and stranger still often lines 

 them with cast-ott' snake skins, and to 

 keep up the harmony this strange bird 

 plaees in this odd nest .some very 

 qneerly marked eggs. Where can yon 

 find its eqnal for grotcsqneness among 

 our American birds? 



WiLKREU A. BliOTllEKTON. 



Oakland Co., Mich. 



More Albinos. 



Song Si'AKHow. 



On tlu' sixteenth of March my nncle 

 1(dd me of a Avhite Song Sparrow that 

 he had seen in his orchard. I became 

 interested and went out immediately 

 and vainl}' searched the orchard and 

 truck-patli f()r it. But on March 24th, 

 a.s I was going l)y his place on my way 

 U) school, I saw it feeding, in company 

 wirh Suowbi^'ds, in front of his barn. 



The next evening I found it in a little 

 marsh on tlie place and was so success- 

 ful as to kill it. I gave it to Pi'ofessor 

 Langille and he pronounced it a Song 

 Sparrow. 



Its head, breast and wings had the 

 ordinary markings of a Song Sparrow, 

 but its back was wliite. Its tail Avas 

 very ligiil, but some of the feathers 

 were liglit brown. 



H.\UOLP B. SlABLEK. 

 M )ntgom;'ry (' >., M 1, 



Ji N<'(j; Field Si'.vhuow. 



The Junco is quite common in this 

 locality and a short time ago I saw an 

 albino. 



A friend of mine and myself were 

 hunting in the country a few miles from 

 this place (Augusta, Ga.) and wliile 

 walking across a grass Held, tlnshed a 



flock of Snowbirds, among which wa.s. 

 this albino. My friend tii'ed and 

 brought him down and jjresented him 

 to me. 



It measured iLl'S x 11.4"); wing, 'd\ tail, 

 2.7-). 



'I'lie Ijill and feet weic pure white and 

 the eyes re«l. It was pure white with 

 the exception of a few of the secondary 

 quills, three feathers (jf the tail and a 

 few ashy blotches on the lj;ick and 

 breast. 



Mr. Geo. Buth.M-, of t!)is place, has a 

 partial all)ino Field Sparrow. 



E. E. N. MiiUMiEV. 



Augusta, (ia. 



Blackbird. 

 I have an albino Blackbird in my col- 

 lection which was shot in March last. 

 It was rather badly torn by shot, being 

 minus a few feathers on one side of the 

 neck, and his tail, but what the shot 

 spared is preserved. 



Eugene Evans, 

 Larimer Co., Colo. 



A Day after Hawk's Eggs. 



We started April 22, issy, well 

 equipped with two breei-h-loading sliol- 

 guns and a pair of rliuibers. 



When ai)ont two miles on our way 

 we spied a nest; going up and striking 

 the tree, we were surj)rised to see a 

 female Broad-winged Hawk start off. 

 We secured her and two eggs which 

 were a dirty white, blotched and spot- 

 ted with purplish lu'own. 



We next took a set of five Crows. 

 Then we fcnmd a nest of the Ked-tailed 

 Hawk with two eggs; next, in a large 

 maple 40 feet high, eggs aljout 2.2.") l)y 

 1.75 spotted line with reddish In'own 

 and lilac. 



We next took a set of four eggs of tlu' 

 Cooper's Hawk from a beech 80 feet 

 liigii. The nest was I'omposed of sticks 

 being rather flat. We secured the 

 female. The eggs were white, tinged 



