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THE OOLOGIST 



around they sailed, always going high- 

 er and higher every move, graceful- 

 ness itself, higher and higher, until 

 they were mere specks, and still high- 

 er and higher till lost to sight com- 

 pletely. I stood a long time and look- 

 ed where I had last seen them even 

 after they had disappeared from my 

 sight, and then I wished I could see 

 them longer though my neck ached 

 like the toothache. 



Geo. W. H. vos Burgh. 



A Golden Eagle's Nest in Decator 

 County, Kansas. 



The following notes will show how 

 very near I came to taking a much 

 desired set of Golden Eagle. The 

 nest was seventy feet up in a very 

 large Cottonwood at the head of a 

 rather remote draw. Mr. N. S. Goss 

 sites the nesting of the pair of Golden 

 Eagles in Comanche County in his, 

 "Birds of Kansas," pp. 273. 



May 10, 1906, climbed to a Golden 

 Eagle's nest in a high cottonwood 

 tree; nest built in forks of large hori- 

 zontal limb, a very large structure, 

 strong enough to hold me as I lay 

 across it and showed signs of recent 

 occupation. 



March 2nd, 1907, visited my Eagle's 

 nest today. It has been rebuilt, one 

 of the parent birds near the nest, but 

 no eggs. 



March 15th, 1907, returned to the 

 Eagle's nest; no eggs. A fellow killed 

 one of the Eagles; am much disap- 

 pointed, would surely have taken 

 a set if the birds had been let alone. 



March 10th, 1908, viisted the Eagle's 

 nest today; no eggs. No Eagles were 

 in sight and the nest has not been 

 rebuilt. 



March 8th, 1909, visited Eagle's 

 nest; no eggs. Nest looks as if it had 

 been rebuilt but no birds in sight. 



March 30th, 1910, visited Eagle's 

 nest; no eggs. Nest in poor condition 



owing to hard wind storms during the 

 past winter. 



February 28th, 1911, visited Eagle's 

 nest; no eggs; no birds; nest in same 

 condition as last year. 



March 4th, 1912, visited Eagle's 

 nest; no eggs; nest almost in same 

 condition as last year. 



April 13th, 1913, again visited the 

 Eagle's nest; no eggs; no birds. A 

 Swainson's Hawk has taken up her 

 abode in the tree. Her nest is in the 

 very top of the tree above the Eagle's 

 nest. 



March 14th, 1914. The Eagle's nest 

 is still a large nest but shows a neg- 

 glect. Swainson's Hawk still at home. 



April 8th, 1915. Visited the Eagle's 

 nest; had blown out during the win- 

 ter, hopes of a set of Golden Eagle's 

 eggs from this nest have now van- 

 ished. Guy Love. 



EUROPEAN WIDGEON. 



(Mareca penelope) 



H. H. Bailey of Newport News, Vir- 

 ginia, furnishes us the following un- 

 published records relating to the Eu- 

 ropean Widgeon in Virginia. 



December 4, 1911, Mrs. William Dex- 

 ter and her son Phillip, shooting from 

 the same blind on the property of the 

 False Cape Club, Princess Anne Coun- 

 ty, Virginia, killed two European Wid- 

 geons (Mareca penelope). Mrs. Dex- 

 ter states this record from the club 

 score book and has not been hereto- 

 fore published. They were both be- 

 lieved to be male birds and neither 

 were preserved. 



On December 28, 1915, Mr. L. D. 

 Grinsted killed in the contributary of 

 Bach Bay, Virginia, a male European 

 Widgeon (Mareca penelope). It was 

 the only duck killed that day and 

 was sold to a store keeper where I 

 happened to see it and purchased it. 

 New Year's day was a fitting day to 



