THE 00 LOG 1ST. 



HfNGRY 



Young Crows in Nest 



Photo by ^V. J. English 



I have, however, taken two sets of 

 5 eggs each of the Red-shouldered — 

 April 23rd, 1902 and April 15th, 1903. 

 The fact that the set of 5 eggs taken 

 "early in May" is rather late for the 

 Red-tailed Hawk as their young are 

 usually hatched by that time. I am 

 deeply interested in this question and 

 would very much like to know as to 

 the identification of the bird as well 

 as the eggs. 



GEO. L. FORDYCE, 

 Youngstown, O. 



Perkinstown, Wis. 

 MR. E. SHORT, Chili, N. Y. 



Dear Sir: — It gives me pleasure to 

 be of some service to you in the mat- 

 ter of that odd Warbler's nest of which 

 you desire to take a photo, and get a 

 closer description. Only allow me to 

 remark: While in some cases which 

 come to my observation, the double. 



nests of the Yellow Warbler were pos- 

 itively both new, that is, the same sea- 

 son's build, the object seeming to be 

 to dispose of some obstacle, usually 

 to cover a Cowbird's egg, though 

 often I could not find any reason why 

 an almost finished nest was over built; 

 With this Black-throated Blue's nest 

 .it is different, for it is built on a last 

 year's nest. 



I have studied the species care- 

 fully the last two seasons, have found 

 eight nests this last season, all nearly 

 uniform in situation and material, and 

 without exception each one very close 

 to the last year's nest. I have made it 

 a practice to find their nests year 

 after year, by looking about the nest 

 of last season. 



This somewhat accounts for the pe- 

 culiar fact that they, in their ambition 

 to come clcse to their last year's 

 nest buiit not Only in the same clump 



