The Oologist. 



Vol, XXVI. No. 1. Albion, N. Y. January, 1909, 



Whole No. 258 



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ECHOS FROM FLORIDA. 



Nov. 26 — Found set of Ground Dove 

 to-day which makes a record of nest- 

 ing for every month in year here in 

 Florida. Heretofore November has 

 been only month that I did not find 

 birds nesting. Last year, Oct. 28, 

 was last date I noted eggs in nest of 

 Ground Dove, and February 5th was 

 first date for this species. To-day I 



noted Fla. White-breasted Nuttratch 

 making a hole in old pine stump. 

 Watched her for 1-4 hour and she 

 would come to opening and drop out 

 a piece of wood every minute. Am go- 

 ing to watch this and see when she 

 will lay. 



The following are some notes copi- 

 ed from my field book for 1908 and 

 might prove of interest to Ornitholo- 

 gists in general. 



March 1st visited a colony of Ward 

 Heron, to-day, and found every nest 

 with young in. This is two weeks 

 earlier than I ever found them hatch- 

 ed. Found several Black Vulture just 

 starting to set, a little early for them 

 also. I have noted that Bla'ck Vul- 

 tures that nest in the pine woods 

 raise two broods. (They are partial 

 to a nesting place, using the same 

 place of repeatedly disturbed. I know 

 of one nest from which two sets were 

 taken exactly 30 days apart and in 5 

 weeks to the day found the old one 

 setting on two mere eggs. This last 

 set was allowed to hatch but was the 

 handsomest set of the three. I am 

 positive all are from same bird as 

 they showed the same type of mark- 

 ings and were all of same size.) 



April 6, up before day and after a 

 long ride with my companion arrived 

 at edge of swamp. After struggling 

 along through mire and dense under- 

 brush, some places where the sun 

 never shone through the gloomy mass 

 crawling over partly su'bmerged cy- 

 press logs that were as slimy and 

 slipeiy as an eel, slipping off these 

 into the mire below into places that 

 had no bottom for 10-foot pole. We 

 alterrately pulled each other out of 

 these bogs and a man by him:ielf 

 would surely have perished. My 

 cracker companion remarked that this 

 place would Bo2,- ? Buzzard's shadow. 

 Not far wrong 1 thought. All of this 

 trouble because I saw a pair of Ivory 

 Billed Woodpeckers fly to this swamp 

 a couple of months before and I want- 

 ed to find their home. We passed 

 through a small colony of American 



