Vol. XI IT Peabody, Nesting of Krider's Haxvk. 1^ 



On May 2, 1893, the birds were repairing the above nest, 

 three weeks later than the previous year ; but they were driven 

 away or killed. 



Set II. — Nicollet Lake, Nicollet County, Minn., May 11, 1892. Incu- 

 bation, complete. One egg 'pipped,' the other half cast off. Chicks 

 preserved in alcohol. Locality, a heavily wooded island. Nest in a 

 great elm, nearly inaccessible, far out on horizontally spreading 

 branches of a large main bough, at the very top ; an old, broad and flat 

 nest, roughly made of large sticks, with hollow, twelve inches in 

 diameter. Lining, librous bark, twigs, feathers of .small birds. Two 

 eo-gs: No. i, oval, 2.27 x 1.28; marbled, chiefly at smaller end, with dull 

 lilac, over-laid with a few spots of dull cinnamon at point; a blotch and 

 a few small spots of dark, dull cinnamon at larger end. No. 2, oval, 

 2.36x1.78; obscurely spotted, over entire surface, with lilac and dull 

 cinnamon, heaviest at larger end, where, a single large, lunate, semi- 

 encircling blotch. Both eggs very Imeatus like. Female on nest. Both 

 birds fully identified, as they slowly circled, close overhead, with loud 

 and repeated screaming. 



These birds bred, the following year, in the same locality, 

 and the female, I believe, was taken with her eggs. 



Set III.— Owatonna, Rice County, Minn., May 3, 1S93. Incubation, 

 advanced. Locality, the side of a long, deep ravine, one-fourth mile 

 from river, one-half mile from nest I. Nest, in small basswood, midway 

 up, in triple vertical crotch, thirty feet from ground ; a slight, new nest 

 of small sticks, bark-fiber, and a very little grass. One egg (incubated) ; 

 elontrate oval, 2.50x1.84; evei-ywhere obscurely marbled and blotched 

 with exceedingly pale lilac and cinnamon, heavier near and at the larger 

 end. Female on nest. Fortunately secured, winged by a long high shot. 

 Made little resistance when taken alive. Characterized as follows : 

 Length, 21.75 inches; wing, 16; extent, 50. Iris dark hazel; cere 

 plumbeous yellow. Upper parts throughout slightly blanched. Tail 

 very pale red, subterminally and narrowly brown, white-tipped. Upper 

 breast with a patch of chestnut brown on each side at bend of wing 

 (precisely like the markings of a young Black Tern, though of relatively 

 less area). Entire under parts otherwise perfectly white, save for an obso- 

 lescent transverse band of blackish brown (consisting of very narrow 

 shaft-lines) between breast and belly; feathers on sides, under the wings, 

 barred with fulvous. 



At ordinary gun-range, this bird like all others observed, 

 appeared underneath to be perfectly white. 



