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very hungry man was almost before lie 

 knew it' back to "camp" whiffing the 

 odor of the birch bark that blazed, be- 

 neath his morning eggs and coffee, back 

 with a heart so light that I verily be- 

 lieve he would have been to light for 

 the earth to hold, had he known what 

 finer finds awaited him that day ! With 

 what condescending complacency did 

 he greet John, John the Fisher's son, 

 who drew to shore, a moment later 

 than himself, with the big brass kettle 

 in his boat well filled with lordly bass 

 and pike. 



Set VI. But Jiine 5th found me at 

 home; and June 7th found me on the 

 spur of a heavily wooded and ravine 

 seamed hill, one-fourth of a mile from 

 the river, just north of town. There, 

 from a fairly large, bark lined nest, 

 freshly made, in the very top of a 

 white walnut sapling, 20 feet up, I had 

 taken in the Spring of '92, an incom- 

 plete set of three pale-green eggs of 

 Cooper's Hawk, heavily spotted with 

 bright cinnamon; and near this nest I 

 had seen and heard a Broad-wing, just 

 before starting on my northern trip. 

 And to-clay June 7th she was on that 

 nest; and, while "Mamma" aired her 

 Botany and my small lineel descendant, 

 creeping among the dry leaves was 

 cramming his stomach with acorns and 

 the corms of adder tongue, I lazily 

 spurred up the sapling. 



The set of two slightly incubated eggs 

 I found is the only set I have ever 

 handled in which one egg was not per- 

 ceptibly darker than the others (and the 

 only set which I have been foolish 

 enough to part with). Egg 1, oval, was 

 blotched with lilac, a single cinnamon 

 blotch adorning the small end, size 1.95 

 xl.5. Egg 2, oval, was beautifully 

 marbled with lilac at both ends, size 

 1.88x1.45. 



Set VII. . This set brought me by a 

 small boy, was taken in a dense black- 

 oak wood almost within town limits, 

 from a typical nest in a small black oak 



tree. The two (much incubated) eggs 

 of this set are very small, but very 

 strikingly, otherwise, like certain eggs 

 of the Kittiwake Gull. All other eggs 

 were of a white or grey-white ground 

 color, while these were of a greyish- 

 drab. Egg 1, oval, was covered, all 

 over, with large spots of dull cinnamon 

 brown, size 1.83x1.43. Egg 2, rounded 

 ovate, was blotched and spotted ob- 

 scurely with vinaceous cinnamon, heav- 

 iest at large end where also a few spots 

 of bright cinnamon, size 1.75x1.42. 



Set VIII. This set and sets IX and X 

 were taken by my friend Kinney, a 

 farmer, and an enthusiastic "all-round" 

 naturalist, near wooded lakes, about 

 fifteen miles west of Owatonna. Set 

 VIII, one egg, May 29. '92, Goose Lake, 

 Waseca couuty, size 2x1.44, long oval, 

 clouded with whorl disposed streaks 

 and blotches of bright vinaceous cin- 

 namon, the blotching being heaviest 

 and the color brightest at the small end. 



Set IX. One egg, incubation slight, 

 Wooclville, Minn., May 14, '93, pointed 

 subspherical, white With a few spots and 

 clouds of exceedingly faint vinaceous, 

 chiefly at small end where, also, a few 

 scattered spots of pale cinnamon, size 

 1.72x1.43. 



SetX. Two eggs, fresh, Goose Lake, 

 May 22, '93. Egg 1, nearly equal ended, 

 heavily clouded at one end with dull 

 lilac, size 1.75x1.43. Egg two, pointed 

 oval, scattered specks of cinnamon and 

 a few lilac spots, at the small end a few 

 large spots of cinnamon and small 

 scratchy spots of lilac, size 1.75x1.14. 



In closing, a synopsis may not give 

 offense. 



Of the above listed sets, two were of 

 three eggs, six of two and two of one, 

 (both perhaps incomplete). There are 

 three color- types: cinnamon- spotted: 

 lilac- blotched; white — with obscure 

 speck or cloud markings. Of the twen- 

 ty eggs, five are of the cinnamon type; 

 eight of the lilac: five of the white, and 

 two neutral (abnormal). Where heavy 



