THE OOLOGIST. 



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THE OOLOGIST 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 

 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. 



FBANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 



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30 ISOd 3H1 i« OSU^lMt 



Black and White Creepers. 

 (Mniotilld carid.) 



This i.s one of the little biid.s which 

 ought to be respected by farmers and 

 husbandmen generally, on account of 

 his extreme usefulness. 



He clears tlieir fruit and forest trees 

 of myriads of destructive insects, par- 

 ticularly ants, although he d(jes not ser- 

 enade them with his songs. 



He seldom perciies on the small twigs 

 but circnmaniljulates the trunk and lar- 

 ger branches, in quest of ants and other 

 insects with admirable de.xtcMity. He 

 is evidently nearer related to the Creep 

 ers than to the Warbler, for his hind 

 claw is the large.st, and his manner as 

 well as liis tongue, which is long and 

 five pointeil and homey at the extrem- 



ity characterize him stronglv as a true 

 Creeper. 



He arrives here toward tiie latter 

 l)art of April and begins soon after ta 

 build his nest. 



One which I liad good luck to discov- 

 er was lixed in the crack of the trunk 

 of a large tree, and was composed of 

 some fibers and dry leaves, lined with 

 hair and soft cotton like down. 



It contained five young ones recently 

 hatched. This was on the 28th of Ap- 

 ril. 



At about the l)eginning of Oct. the 

 whole tril)e leaves again for the warmer 

 climate, probably the West Indies, 

 tht)ugh I have bean informed that at 

 least several of them have been per-, 

 ceived in the Gulf States during the 

 whole winter. 



The male and female are nearly alike 

 in plumage. 



E. E. Hammett, Jr., 

 Cleveland, O. 



Nesting of the Sharp-shinned Hawk. 



In my collecting this year I have 

 come across two nests of the Sharp- 

 shinned Hawk, {Accipiler fuscus) built, 

 no doubt, by the same pair of birds. 



On May Kith, while starting out on a 

 collecting ex])edition with acomjjanion, 

 I observed a Hawk Hying oxer a large 

 wt)od with something in its claws. I 

 watcJied it and saw it go down in a 

 l)atch of pines about a quarter of a mile 

 distant. The pines, to which we im- 

 mediately went, covered perhaps five 

 acres, and were spar.se and tall at one 

 end and low and thick at the other, 

 Wliile searching for the Hawk's nest, 

 wiiich we l)elit'ved to exist in the pines, 

 a male Shari)-siiinned came around us 

 several times uttering liis peculiar cry. 

 At last we found the nest in the thin 

 pines, about thirty feet from the ground. 

 It was built uniformly 'of dead pine 

 twigs, was about seven inches acro.ss in- 

 siile and one incli in depth, and contain- 



