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THE OOLOGIST. 



Plwjebe's. Tlie Plifebe was setting but 

 I left tlieiu three diiys and then took 

 tlieni. Two were slifjlitly and tliree 

 quite IkkII^^ inenl>ated, and were all of 

 the same size and eolor, evidently all 

 Ix'ing laid by the same bird." 



June 12th, I found a Searlet Tana- 

 ger's nest contaiuing three fresh eggs 

 of tiiat l)ird, and another whieli I am 

 unable to name. It is inuiiaeulate 

 wliite and the shell is very rongli, and 

 eovered with Inimps and ridges; and, 

 altogether it is a very odd shaped egg, 

 being v<M-y broad at the large end. It 

 is about tile si/.e of tlie average Cow- 

 liird's. Is it'a ("owbird's eg;^':' 



C. E. I'ieas. Clinton, Ark., writes 

 tiiat the ("iiuek-Wiirs Widow is abun- 

 dant in the valleys there, and tliat he is 

 learning many interesting things eon- 

 cei'ning its iiabits. We expect to hear 

 from him further eoneerninti' that bird. 



J. C. (Talloway, Montgomery', ()., re- 

 cords a ser of ti\'e eggs of the S[)arro\v 

 Hawk, a nest of the Crested Flyeateiier 

 (rare there) and a nest with three eggs 

 of the (ireen-erested FIj'eatche'r as 

 among his best linds for this season. 



Among many set.s nf eggs taken by 

 (J. J. Kem))en, Austjn, Texas, are 

 several sets of Hell's Vireo. comprising 

 eggs of the Dwarf C"owl)ird. In this 

 locality, the Red-eyed Vireo and the 

 Cowbird form a never-failing combina- 

 tion, while tliei'e, the Bell's Vireo and 

 Dwarf C'owl)ii(l ss'ein to form a similar 

 svndicate. 



My first Nest of the Long Tailed Chickadee. 



A fi'iend and I W(^nt o\er into Fre- 

 mont Counl}', I(jwa, on the 2<:it h of 

 Ai)ril and a day or so afterward started 

 up the ri\('i- and pitclu'd our tent (?) in 

 a strip of timlier. We stayed tlu're (jnc 

 night and the next morning, after 

 eating our breakfast we strut-k out. I 

 had iieen walking about for nearly an 

 hour, pounding on every stump ami 

 examining every bush and tree, when I 

 saw a bird lly from a stump, and a 

 charge of No. Vi sliot stop|)etl it. Look- 

 ing arouiid, I found the hole al)Out ten 

 incites from the ground. Opening it, I 



found six beautiful pink eggs, laid 

 upon a nest of hair nntss an<l a few veg- 

 I'table tiljers. I took the eggs of course 

 but they met with an untimelj' end, for 

 ui)on reaching home I put them in 

 some cotton, preparatory to blowing 

 them, when my partm-r jucked the cot- 

 ton [{]) .lud di-opi)ed all the eggs. 



NoKius H. Reki), 

 Otoe Co., Neb. 



Nesting of the Rough-winged Swallow 



( Slr/(/i(/<JJlli/\lJ SI /■ri/iiiti/is) 

 IN KI.GIN CorNTV, ONT.MUo. 



Of the several species of Swallows 

 peculiar t(^ Ontario, the Kougli-wingcd 

 is proljably the least known, not so 

 much on account of its rarity, as its re- 

 tiring habits, and association with its 

 near relative the Bank Swallow ( r.,///* 

 rij}((ri'(),:inn[\\i'y bird of reserved hal)its. 

 neither or them seeking the society of 

 man to any extent. 



As lU'ar as I can ascertain, they ar- 

 rive here from the South about the "^rith 

 of April, Ijeing ol)-^er\('d about the 

 same time, and in the same localities as 

 the Bank species. Operations in nest 

 building are begun aliout the Sflth of 

 May, usinilly in sand banks along 

 streams, one or two jiaiis mingling in 

 with a lloi-k of the others. 



As their moilcs of nesting <liifcr some- 

 what in many localities, my experience 

 with them in that line might be of lien- 

 elit and interest to some readers of 

 The OohocisT. The excavation is al- 

 ways largiq-, and extends inward a 

 greater (list;ince than those of the Bank 

 Swallow. The nest situated at the end 

 of tlu' lim^row is composed of t'oarse 

 straw, and lined with line grass, no 

 feathers being used in its enusli-uclion, 

 which is such a common uiaterial in 

 the nests of all t he ot her memliers of 



this family. 



Tlie eggs, which are from five to 

 seven in a set, are ])ure white, and con- 

 siderably lai'ger than those of the P>ank 

 Swallow. 



F. L. F.\i{LKY. Elgin Co., Ontario. 



