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it, as we should. It is our magazine. 

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 OOLOGIST and watch our paper 

 grow. Theodore R. Greer. 



On December 23, 1919, while going 

 along the road at Cherry Creek, N. Y., 

 I was surprised to see a Killdeer pass 

 over me and go out of sight in the 

 storm. In about five minutes it ap- 

 peared again and settled in a snow 

 bank where it was shot by a gunner. 

 The snow was twelve inches deep and 

 had been for four weeks. I think this 

 is a late date for this bird. My latest 

 previous date was November 1st. 



Sennett's White Tailed Hawk 



About May the 15th is a good time 

 to begin for Long Billed Curlews 

 nests, in the North Plains of Texas. 



In 1916 I wrote an old Cow Puncher 

 friend to look out for them and let me 

 know the very first day they begun to 

 arrive; about May 3 the information 

 come, and if a hurry up call was made 

 he would put me in touch with a Gol- 

 den Eagle nest on a ledge on the 

 Cimmaron River. 



The 9th day of May I was on the 

 ground and rareing to go and as every- 

 thing is done in an automobile on the 

 plains country it was only a matter 

 of a few minutes getting out to the 

 river. The first thing that impressed 

 me was Sennetts White Tailed Hawks, 

 not a few just simply "lots" of them 

 and since this seemed out of their 

 breeding range they became more in- 



teresting than the Golden Eagle or the 

 Curlews, either of which are much 

 harder to get and scarcer in number. 

 Arriving at the brakes of the river, 

 and I might say here that on the 

 plains you are on the river before you 

 know it, no matter what river; you 

 are running along on smooth level 

 ground and before you know it you 

 are on top of the bluff overlooking the 

 sand waste in front of you. We stop- 

 ped short, stepped out of the car not 

 over thirty feet from a point on the 

 ledge directly over the Eagle nest. 

 About two hundred yards out in the 

 river was a large Cottonwood tree and 

 in this a nest large enough for an 

 Eagle, with a bird on it; a shot over 

 the top of the tree brought out a Sen- 

 netts White Tailed Hawk. Investiga- 

 tion of this nest showed four eggs 

 badly incubated. Down the river pos- 

 sibly a mile another cottonwood and 

 another nest and this proved to be a 

 set of three eggs badly incubated. 

 Some two hundred yards further down 

 the river and next to a sandy bluff of 

 the river stood a hackberry tree and 

 a very large nest well up to the top. 

 We climbed the bank and overlook- 

 ing this nest and not over eight feet 

 away could see the two eggs which 

 also proved to be badly incubated. All 

 told we found five nests in the one day 

 and my friend told me that this is the 

 most plentiful of the Hawks. Every 

 authority I have run on to has placed 

 the breeding range of this bird from 

 Central Texas to the South, while the 

 above were found in Cimmaron Coun- 

 ty Oklahoma. Is this extending the 

 breeding range or has the writer over- 

 looked something? R. L. Moore. 

 February 10, 1920. 



Canada Geese. 



Are there any of the readers of THE 

 OOLOGIST who have not heard of the 

 Canadian Goose Tamer? His name is 



