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The Oologist, 



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Rare Nesting- 



March 6, 1890 while in the woods 

 looking for Barred Owls eggs, I had 

 -climbed several trees when on descend- 

 ing one large Post Oak tree I caught 

 sight of something in a knot hole in a 

 tree close by. At first I was at a loss 

 to know what it was so I started up to 

 investigate. In ascending I kept a 



watch on the hole to make sure the ob- 

 ject of my search did not get away. 

 On arriving at the hole which was some 

 twenty feet up the Owl for such it 

 proved to be slipped back in the main 

 cavity. As I could not see the bottom 

 I took my hand ax (which I always 

 carry with me on such occasions) and 

 enlarged the hole so I could insert my 

 arm when to my surprise I brought 

 forth a little Owl which proved beyond 

 doubt to be one of the Saw whet or 

 Acadian Owls. As her hind parts were 

 unusually plump I thought she would 

 lay before long, so I brought her home 

 and placed her in a large cage. I kept 

 her four days. She would consume five 

 and six large short tailed meadow mice 

 in a night, she would not eat in the day 

 time. The fourth day she laid an egg 

 and smashed it. I concluded that 

 would not do so I took her back to the 

 tree climbed up and put her in the cavi- 

 ty. I petted her and she appeared to be 

 very tame. I left but returned eveuy 

 few days and on the 13th I found she 

 had laid one egg. She continued until 

 the 17th when she laid the last egg but 

 as no one knew of the nest and as it 

 was in very heavy and seldom traversed 

 timber T left the set of five eggs until 

 the 20th of March which date I took a 

 friend collector along and we both ful- 

 ly identified her as a Saw-whet Owl. 

 Nest was in a cavity 20 feet up 10 in. in 

 diameter 22 inches deep, entrance 3 in. 

 Leaves and rotten wood was the ma- 

 terial used. One odd feature in the 

 eggs is all five are exactly one inch 

 broad while in length they vary as much 

 as from 1.16 to 1.20. Size of 

 bird, length 7.50, Tail .3.00 Tarsus 1.25, 

 tapin 1 75, wing from body 5.75,expanse 

 of wing 19.00, bill .50., bill black, eyes 

 yellow or straw, claws blue black. Col- 

 oration was as given in detail in Coues' 

 Key to North American Birds. Hope 

 to hear if others have been taken this 

 far south 38£ degrees north latitude. 

 C. Byron Vandercook, 

 Odin, Ills. 



