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THE OOLOGIST 



of egg when a new female bird has 

 taken the nest for her home. This is 

 shown by the distinct difference in 

 shape or color of the new eggs. 



Seventy-five feet is the greatest 

 lieight I have ever found a nest above 

 the ground and twenty-feet is the 

 least. The average height for sixty- 

 nine nests is forty-one and one half 

 feet. 



The nest of this Hawk is composed 

 of sticks of all sizes and barks. Some 

 nests that are repaired from year to 

 year get to be very large, and conse- 

 quently the bottom of some nests art 

 a mass of decaying wood. 



The most common lining used is 

 hemlock and grapevine, although 

 feathers, corn husks, moss, cow and 

 pig's hair, leaves, fine twigs, and dried 

 ferns are commonly used. I have 

 found nests lined with paper, milk- 

 weed, fine vines, an old Oriole's nest 

 and a piece of a grain sack, but the 

 latter are exceptional cases. 



I am in such a position this year 

 that it eliminates me from visiting 

 the haunts of my old friends but the 

 fever is upon me just the same, so I 

 thought 1 would do the next best thing 

 and write a few notes on the Red 

 Shouldered Hawk. 



Carl F. Wright. 



An Albino Turkey Vulture. 



J. -B. Ellis of Florida, writes under 

 date of December 12th, "I have just 

 killed and prepared skin for mounting 

 of an Albino Turkey Vulture. A few 

 feathers are black, some oi' the wmg 

 and tail feathers are white on one side 

 of the quill and black on the other 

 side, but nearly all the feathers are 

 chalk white. I would like to know 

 if any others are in existence, and if 

 so, how many." 



We are sure that this is indeed a 

 rare find and have never heard of an- 

 other Albino of this species. — Ed. 



An Old One. 



Recently in the purchase of a collec- 

 tion of eggs of the late Henry W. 

 Beers, we received a set of eggs ac- 

 companied by data on the blank of the 

 late J. B. Canfield, filled out in Mr. 

 Canfield's handwriting, for a set of 

 two eggs of the Great Horned Owl, 

 taken by Dr. W. S. Strode in Fulton 

 County, Illinois, February 8, 1888. 



Not having the original data for this 

 set, we wrote the Doctor regarding it, 

 and he kindly forwarded us an orig- 

 inal data for this set of eggs in his 

 own handwriting, and has the follow- 

 ing to say, which we publish without 

 his knowledge or consent. It reads: 



"It has been a long while since I 

 collected that set of eggs, but I recall 

 the occurrence very well, as it was 

 one of the hardest climbs I ever made. 

 And when I got safely down with the 

 eggs, I lay on the ground and panted 

 for breath for quite a long while. I 

 was all alone, and the tree stood in 

 the bottom of a deep hollow about a 

 mile from anywhere." 



Odd Finds. 



1. Common Tern. 



One runt egg (96x83) found June 

 16, 1912, Georgian Bay, Ontario. The 

 egg was deposited in a slight hollow 

 of the ground, which formed the nest. 

 It is of grayish color and marked 

 only at the smaller end. 



2. Bluebird. 



A nest of this species was found in 

 a cavity of a dead birch a few feet 

 from the ground. It contained three 

 young a few days old and two fresh 

 fertile eggs; one of which was an al- 

 bino. 



P. Harrington. 

 Toronto, June 2, 1912. 



The Stork. 

 The well-known oologist, Gerald A. 

 Abbott announces that a stork's egg 



