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THE OOLOGIST. 



THEOOLOG1ST 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 

 ORNITHOLOGY and OOLOGY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, ALBION, N. Y. 



EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. 



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On May 24th, while walking through 

 a bushy pasture, about two miles 

 south-west of Albion, K. B. Mathes 

 found a set of three eggs of the Che- 

 wink, (Pipilio erythrophthalmus) incuba- 

 tion commenced. This species is very 

 rare with us, and this set, the first 

 recorded one found in Orleans county. 



A. G. — Lawrence, Kans. As the young 

 Gt. Horned Owls remain in the nest 

 nearly 1 , if not quite three months, we 

 doubt if more than a single brood is 

 ever reared in a season. When the first 

 set is taken, another is usually laid in 

 the same nest. We have our doubts as 

 to whether pounding on the trunk of 

 the tree is an infallible rule for raising 

 the old bird from the nest. 



'We cannot say as to whether the 

 Turkey Vulture occupies a nest more 

 than one season or not. Who can? 



Fred S. Wilder, Worcester, Mass., 

 sends us the following extracts from his 

 '90 notes: 



May 18th, I collected a set of seven 

 fresh eggs of Bluebird. 



May 21st, found a nest of seven fresh 

 eggs of White-bellied Swallow in a bird- 

 box. 



July 11th, I collected a set of five 

 eggs of the European Goldfinch. The 

 nest was in an apple-tree about five 

 feet from the ground, very neatly made 

 of hay and cotton and thread and hair. 

 The eggs are of a dirty-white, tinged 

 with green and streaked around the 

 large end with dark-brown and spots of 

 black, and vary from .62 x .48 to .72 x 

 .42. I have the female in my collection. 



W. W. Searles, Lime Springs, Ta., 

 writes : 



"While collecting in a heavy growth 

 of timber on April 8, 1889, I found my 

 first nest of the Am. Crow, which to my 

 surprise contained ten eggs. Taking 

 six I found them all fresh. Returning 

 to the nest in a few weeks I found the 

 other four eggs hatched. Do two crows 

 ever lay in the same nest or is this a 

 large set? Since then 1 have found 

 them breeding very abundant, and 

 never found more than five in a set. 

 The nests are always placed in black 

 oak, and made of sticks, moss, binding 

 twine, hair, etc." 



G. L. A., would like to know the 

 name of Gulls quite common on Puget 

 Sound during the winter and early 

 spring months. Who can write us an 

 article on "The Gulls of Puget Sound?" 



Our old friend H. W. Davis, now in 

 Bolivar Co., Miss., must think he has 

 struck the sportsman's paradise. Un- 

 der date of March 9th, he writes of 

 shooting ducks from the back door of 

 the house. 



We take the following extracts from 

 '90 notes kindly furnished us by B. H. 

 Swales, of Detroit, Mich.: 



'April 13th, saw a flock of about 150 

 Evening Grosbeaks, tame and easily 

 aporoached. 



April 20th, saw a Large-billed Water 

 Thrush." 



Mr. S. would like to obtain a list or 

 book of Michigan birds. Who can help 

 him out? 



A. Dockery, Jr., of Hernando, Miss., 

 reports an Albino Bronzed Grakle. 



