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THE OOLOGIST. 



•of the Love-trees into a wire basket sus- 

 pended by a wire from above in which 

 grew a species of fern. This basket 

 hangs midway between thetwo columns 

 and directly over the rear bank of the 

 pool and forms the safest kind of a re- 

 itreat. It is a matter of conjecture 

 whether or not this entered into the 

 -thoughts of the Rail. 



The birds are caught while they are 

 stopping for the day during migration. 

 They are easil y caught when discovered. 

 A man told me that he caught one in 

 his back yard; it simply ran into a cor- 

 ner and hid. Thus they "are not cage 

 bred; you may have a set for which one 

 of these birds is partly responsible. 

 John Larsen. 



Harry R. Taylor! 



Golden Eagle eggs! The two terms 

 -are synonymous! No doubt more than 

 one collector has asked himself "Where 

 ■do all the sets of Golden Eagle come 

 from?" He might go the x'ounds of a 

 majority of collectors who sorrowfully 

 would plead "not guilty." And it is 

 "with a sense of pleasure that we are en- 



Fublished wilhcut pe rrissicn. 



allied to present the readersof the OoLO- 

 GiST a half-tone of Harry R. Taylor, one 

 of the few "guilty" ones in this connec- 

 tion. To a large majority of North Amer- 

 ican collectors Mr. Taylor needs little 

 introduction. He is a son of the illus- 

 trious missionary of Africa, Bishop Wil- 

 liam Taylor, and it wa=? beneath Africa's 

 tropical sun that he first saw the light. 



