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verj' hungry mau was almost before he 

 knew it back to "camp"' whiffing the 

 odor of the birch bark that blazed be- 

 neath his morning eggs and coflfee, back 

 with a heart so light that I verily J^e- 

 lieve he would have been to light for 

 the earth to hold, had he known what 

 finer finds awaited him that day! With 

 what condescending complacency did 

 he greet John, John the Fisher's son, 

 Avho drew to shore, a moment later 

 than himself, with the big brass kettle 

 in his boat well filled with lordly bass 

 and pike. 



Set VI. But June fith found me at 

 home; and June Tth found me on the 

 spur of a heavily Avooded and ravine 

 seamed hill, one-fourth of a mile from 

 the river, just north of town. There, 

 from a fairly large, bark lined nest, 

 freshly made, in the very top of a 

 Avhite walnut sapling, 20 feet up, I had 

 taken in the Spring of "92, an incom- 

 plete set of three pale-green eggs of 

 Cooper's Hawk, heavily spotted with 

 bright cinnamon; and near this nest I 

 had seen and heard a Broad-wing, just 

 Ijefore starting on my northern trip. 

 And to-day June Tth she was on that 

 nest; and, while "Mamma" aired her 

 Botany and my small lineel de.scendant. 

 ci'eeping among the dry leaves was 

 cramming his stomach Avith acorns and 

 the corms of adder tongue. I lazily 

 .spurred up the sapling. 



The set of two slightly incubated eggs 

 I found is the only set I have ever 

 handled in which one egg was not per- 

 ceptibly darker than the others (and the 

 only set which I have been foolish 

 enough to part with). Egg 1. oval, Avas 

 blotched Avith lilac, a single cinnamon 

 blotch adorning the small end, size 1.95 

 xl.5. Egg 2, OAal, Avas beautifully 

 marbled Avith lilac at both ends, size 

 1.68x 1.45. 



Set VII. This set brought me by a 

 small boj', was taken in a dense black- 

 oak Avood almost within toAvn limits, 

 from a typical nest in a small black oak 



tree. The two (much incubated) eges 

 of this set are very small, but very 

 strikingly, otherwise, like certain eggs 

 of the Kittiwake Gull. All other eggs 

 were of a white or grej'-white ground 

 color, while these were of a greyish- 

 drab. Egg 1, oval. Avas covered, all 

 over, Avith large spots of dull cinnamon 

 brown, size 1.83x1.43. Egg 2, rounded 

 ovate, Avas blotched and spotted ob- 

 scurely with vinaceous cinnamon, heav- 

 iest at large end Avhere also a few spots 

 of bright cinnamon, size 1.75x1.42. 



Set VIII. This set and sets IX and X 

 were taken by my friend Kinney, a 

 farmer, and an enthusiastic "all-round" 

 naturalist, near Avooded lakes, about 

 fifteen miles Avest of Owatonna. Set 

 VIII, one egg. May 29. '92, Goose Lake, 

 Waseca countj', size 2x1.44, long oval, 

 clouded with whorl disposed streaks 

 and blotches of bright vinaceous cin- 

 namon, the blotching being heaviest 

 and the color brightest at the small end. 



Set IX. One egg. incubation slight. 

 Woodville, Minn., May 14, "93. pointed 

 subspherical, Avhite with a feAv spots and 

 clouds of exceedingly faint vinaceous, 

 chiefly at small end where, also, a feAA- 

 scattei'ed spots of pale cinnamon, size 

 1.72x1.43. 



Set X. Two eggs, fresh. Goose Lake, 

 May 22, "93. Egg 1, nearly equal ended, 

 heavilj' clouded at one end Avith dull 

 lilac, size 1.75x1 43. Egg two, pointed 

 oA'al, scattered specks of cinnamon and 

 a few lilac spots, at the small end a few 

 large spots of cinnamon and small 

 scratchy spots of lilac, size 1.75x1.14. 



In closing, a synopsis may not give 

 offense. 



Of the above listeil sets, two Avere of 

 three eggs, six of two and tAA'o of one, 

 (both perhaps incomplete). There are 

 three color-types: cinnamon- spotted: 

 lilac- blotched: Avhite— Avith obscure 

 speck or cloud markings. Of the twen- 

 ty eggs, five are of the cinnamon type: 

 eight of the lilac: five of the Avhite. and 

 two neutral (abnormal). Where heavy 



