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THE OOLOGIST 



large, new nest of dead sticks is made 

 with a lining composed of a few small 

 bits of bark. 



When a bird is broken up then a 

 nest of another bird is patched up and 

 used. To illustrate this, on the 29th 

 day of April, one year, I took a set 

 of five eggs from the usual brand new 

 nest; May 16th took four eggs, which 

 I believe to be the same birds that 

 patched up an old Crow's nest two 

 hundred yards from first nest anu 

 June 18th took three eggs from a 

 made over Crow's nest one hundred 

 yards from the second nest. 



For a number of years I believed (as 

 many books state) that the eggs of 

 this Hawk were bluish white with 

 faint markings of red or brown on 

 some and had passed up Cooper's, as 

 they are a drug on the market, until 

 one day having found nothing up to 

 nearly noon decided to start my luck 

 with a set, as I saw a bird fly from 

 a pine that to climb was a regular 

 ladder. On looking at the set in the 

 nest I saw that all were quite heavily 

 spotted and wondered if I had found 

 a new Hawk. They proved to be, of 

 course, Cooper's. Since then 1 have 

 found sets even better marked and a 

 number with one to three marked 

 nicely. 



In three out of five nests, five eggs 

 is a set in my experience and nest in 

 photos had five eggs, one being in- 

 fertile. 



Roscoe I. Giles. 



Hawks of N. E. Ohio. 



Including the Osprey as a visitor 

 here, we have ten species of Hawks 

 to be found in this part of Ohio some- 

 times during the year. They are — Os- 

 prey, Goshawk, Red-tailed, Red-should- 

 ered, Cooper, Sharp-shinned, Broad- 

 winged, Marsh, Sparrow and Pigeon 

 Hawk, which 1 conisder the most rare 

 of the list as I have found but a few 



specimens of this bird here. The Gos- 

 hawk is only a winter visitor, while 

 the Broad-winged and Sharp-shinned 

 are to be found here I have not found 

 them nesting. The Cooper and Red- 

 shoulder are our most plentiful hawks. 

 While the Marsh, Harrier is next. The 

 Red-tailed is becoming more scarce 

 each year. 1 have a very few nesting 

 sites left occupied, one in the top of 

 a large beech tree eighty-five feet up. 

 This hawk if undisturbed, will occupy 

 the same nesting site for several years 

 and the old nests when left are often 

 used by the Red-shouldered as are al- 

 so those of the Cooper. 



I have one site built four years ago 

 by a pair of Cooper's and every season 

 since it has been occupied by a pair 

 of Red-shouldered. I have not known 

 of the Marsh Hawk using the same 

 nest a second time, but will nest for 

 several years in the same swamp. 

 Last year the State of Ohio saw fit to 

 place a bounty of one dollar on the 

 head of each Goshawk, Blue Hen, 

 Cooper and Duck Hawk killed in the 

 state, providing the trustees of a town- 

 ship appropriated a fund for that pur- 

 pose, which in many cases they failed 

 to do. I have never seen a duck hawk 

 in Ohio and would be glad to hear 

 from anyone that has. 



S. V. Wharram. 



After Cooper Hawk Eggs. 



During the winter of 1914 and 1915 

 1 read every available bit of material 

 about the nesting of this chicken thief 

 and fully determined that I would hunt 

 for nests in the spring. When spring 

 did come 1 scoured every strip of 

 woods that was accessible but it was 

 not until May 2d, 1915, that I found 

 my first nest. 



Early that morning I entered a ten 

 acre strip of woods and saw several 

 squirrel nests. While examining these 

 I saw a Hawk's tail sticking over the 



