THE OOLOGIST 



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having a very decided greenish ground 

 color. The sets I examined were all 

 well marked. 



I have always considered the two 

 sets of 5 about the two best sets of eggs 

 I ever found. The male must roam 

 about a great and at some distance 

 from the nest, for at the different 

 nests I have examined he failed to pui 

 in an appearance. 



In each case the female has been a 

 very close sitter almost having to be 

 driven off the nest and they always 

 stay very close. I have had one stay 

 within 5 or 6 feet of me for a minute 

 at a time while I was up the tree at 

 the nest. They stick the closest of any 

 Warbler that I have any experience 

 with. 



R. B. Simpson, 

 Warren, Pa. 



THE PASSENGER PIGEON 



I believe it has been partially, if not 

 wholly, accepted by ornithologists that 

 the Passenger Pigeon has become ex- 

 tinct. Last May 5th I saw seven birds 

 about one hundred yards ahead of me 

 (where an old building had recently 

 been torn down that was used for a 

 sort of freight station and grain 

 house) that looked very much like 

 Passenger Pigeons. Just about the 

 time I espied them an auto came 

 around a turn in the road within a few 

 yards of where they were and they 

 flew away, so I did not get a good look 

 at them I went there several times 

 after tliat but saw them no more al- 

 though it was reported to me by two 

 other parties that had seen these birds 

 there, but they could not identify the 

 species. 



On May 1st of this year I saw a 

 flock of twenty-four at a distance of 

 about sixty or seventy yards and not 

 more than forty feet high flying in a 

 northeasterly direction. They looked 



much too large for Mourning Doves, 

 also the breasts had to much of a 

 reddish color. I could not positively 

 identify them, but they certainly 

 looked like Passenger Pigeons and I 

 really believe they were. (What else 

 could they have been)? I may be 

 much mistaken but I surely hope not. 

 I used to see quite a number of these 

 birds in the early eighties around 

 buck-wheat fields. 



A. J. Potter, 

 East Killingly, Conn. 



We truly hope they were, but doubt 

 it.— Editor. 



THE HORNED OWL AND RED 

 TAILED HAWK 



Nothing is more enjoyable to me 

 than when a chance is had to make a 

 trip to the woods to see what the birds 

 are doing. On morning of March 15th, 

 I and my son tarted to where I had 

 been told wa's a strip of large timber, 

 five miles northwest of town (Ottawa, 

 Kansas), and knowing it was nesting 

 time for Hawks and Owls we began 

 watching for nests of that kind. 

 We hadn't walked more than a qutti'tei 

 of a mile along a small creek until 

 right before our eyes was a large nest 

 with three half grown Horned Owls 

 sitting on edge of nest and staring 

 straight at us with very large eyes in- 

 deed. I climbed the tree, an elm, not 

 over twenty-five feet from the ground 

 and brought them down. I decided 

 they were not suitable for mounting 

 at that age so would bring them home 

 and keep them until they were 

 feathered out full. Still have them 

 and are doing fine, are quite a curi- 

 osity for the children, as they pass 

 along the street. I intend to mount 

 them when full grown. 



Just a week later I went five miles 

 northwest again on Appenmoose Creek 



