THE OOLOGIST. 



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The Oglogist, 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 



OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



F. H. LATTIN, & CO., Publishers. 

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A Narrow Escape. 



One beautiful morning in early April 

 1891, myself and a friend started on an 

 •oological excursion along the pictur- 

 esque banks of the Tennesee river, for 

 the purpose of obtaining specimen eggs 

 of the "Turkey Buzzard," which birds 

 we had been previously informed, nest- 

 ed in the various caves and fissures, 



which abound in the verdure-clad, pre- 

 ciptious bluffs, above London, Tenn. 



We started at 6 A m. on April 13th. 

 Procuring a skiff we quickly cut 

 through the water to the opposite bank 

 of the river, and having tied the boat, 

 proceeded on foot across country about 

 two miles, to the bluffs opposite Car- 

 nuchael's Island, "our Eldorado. 



Arriving we immediately proceeded 

 to business, and were encouraged by 

 seeing several Buzzards majestically 

 sailing up and down in our immediate 

 neighborhood. After half an hour's 

 diligent searching, just as I was swing- 

 ing by a scant cedar round an agle to a 

 projecting rock in front of me, I ' saw a 

 great female come flapping out of a 

 narrow fissure not ten feet away, ana 

 after a little difficult climbing, I reach- 

 ed the site, discovering a fine set of two 

 eggs on the bare ground about 12 feet 

 from the entrance 



In less than an hour we had seccured 

 another set equally fine in a small cave 

 lower down, and had just finished blow- 

 ing them, when a country lad appeared 

 on the scene, telling us he knew of a 

 "bluff" hawk's nest, near his home, 

 half a mile further on; and volunteer- 

 ing to locate it for us. We packed up 

 and proceeded being well satisfied with 

 the Buzzards. On arriving, the nest 

 was pointed out to us in an enormous 

 pine of nearly five fee in diameter, and 

 having no limbs for at least ninety feet, 

 which caused us to set our wits work- 

 ing; but seeing a beautiful female Red- 

 tail leave the nest and join her mate far 

 above, I cried "nil desperandum!" an 

 idea had struck me. I saw that by fall- 

 ing a fine red oak which stood about 20 

 feet away, so that its top branches 

 would catch in the lower ones of the 

 pine, our object might be accomplished 

 and the oracle read. 



Despatching the boy for an ax we 

 promptly set to work and in less than 

 an hour the noble oak was oending to 

 wards the pine. A few more blows with 



