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THE OOLOGIST 



27. Tsuga canadensis, Hemlock, 1 



nest. 



28. Rhus Toxi-radicans, Poison Oak, 



1 nest. 



The Red-eyed Vireo seems to prefer 

 the Beech tree to any other in mis 

 vicinity and the Spicewood and Dog- 

 wood about evenly claim second place; 

 all of these three varieties of trees 

 are uniformly distributed and of rela- 

 tive abundance here, although the 

 Spicewood is by far the commonest 

 species. But one nest was found in a 

 conifer and I have never seen but over 

 four Red-eyed Vireos' nests anywhere 

 in hemlocks and never in any other 

 kind of evergreen trees. 



Let us hear from others regard- 

 ing the varieties of trees preferred by 

 this interesting bird and the number 

 of eggs constituting a set, from other 

 localities and perhaps the writer will 

 then have more to say anon in regard 

 to the nidification of Vireo Olivaceus. 

 Richard F. Miller. 



Nigger Slough. 

 On May 5th, the writer discovered 

 a large flock of twenty Red Phalaropes 

 (Crymophilus fulicarius) at North 

 Nigger Slough in Los Angeles county, 

 Southern California. This is our first 

 record of the species in this area. We 

 also noted many nests and adult birds 

 of the species Tule Wren (Telmatody- 

 tes palustris paludicola). Last year 

 we failed to find the species present 

 in this locality. 



Alfred Cookman. 



Golden Eagle. 

 A large Golden Eagle was killed 

 April 2d by a local sportsman. It 

 seems a shame to kill these beautiful 

 birds. I remember as a boy of four- 

 teen years of age, that I saw a Bald 

 Eagle feeding on a Black Bass on a 

 log in the Maquoketa River here. So 

 busy was he that he did not hear me 



as I crawled up behind a large old 

 stump in easy range. I remember how 

 excited I was and how my hands trem- 

 bled as my old double barrel muzzle 

 loader came to my shoulder, never had 

 I stalked such a prey as this. Shot in 

 the back, not even given a chance, I 

 brought him home in all glory and 

 held him up where all could see, as 

 did the man that brought in the Gol- 

 den Eagle to show his friends his 

 skill(?). 



I still have the claws and a few 

 feathers, all that is left of the first 

 and last Eagle I ever killed. 



The Golden Eagle was sent to Ames, 

 Iowa, to the College. 



O. M. Greenwood. 



To Save Rare Eggs. 



So frequently I read in accounts of 

 the discovery of rare eggs "Incubation 

 was so far advanced that they could 

 not be saved," that I have thought a 

 plan I have used for many years might 

 be of interest, if not already known 

 to your readers. By it eggs at least 

 as small as those of the Oven-bird, 

 even when pipped, may be saved with- 

 out difficulty as excellent scientific 

 specimens. 



If an egg is pipped, or if on probing 

 the interior after making a small drill- 

 hole the chick is found to be well 

 formed, paint the entire shell, if the 

 egg is small, with a thin coating of 

 flexible collodion. Then apply several 

 coats of collidion on the side where it 

 was pipped, drilled, or, in the remain- 

 ing eggs of the set in which one has 

 been drilled, on the least interesting 

 side. When the colliodion is dry — 

 a matter of a few moments — cut with 

 curved scissors on the side which has 

 been thickly painted a large enough 

 circular opening to allow the head of 

 the embryo to pass, and remove the 

 piece of shall. Next move the embryo 

 around in the shell until it is possible 



