THE OOLOGIST. 



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The Oologist. 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 

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FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Publisher, 



ALBION, N. Y. 



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Nesting of the Belted Kingfisher, 



Ceryle alction. 



Until last spring I thought I was 

 never going to have the good fortune to 

 find a Kingfisher's nest. But at last the 

 good fortune came to me, and then of 

 course I could find as many as I wish- 

 ed. 



Many have spoken of this queer way 

 of finding nests after the first one has 

 been discovered, but 1 think it is easily 

 explained. Whether or not I can give 



expression to my idea I do not know 

 but will try. It is this way: 



We have thoroughly studied the 

 nesting habits of the bird whose nest 

 we wish to find, from reading. But al- 

 though we know perfectly where to 

 look, from the knowledge obtained by 

 reading, yet strange to say when we 

 look in suc'i a place there is no nest. 

 What is the matter? This question is 

 answered and explained later. 



We accidentaly find what we have 

 been searching for. The place coin- 

 cides in description with the book de- 

 scription, but it does not look as we 

 thought it would. After the first dis- 

 covery we somehow instinctively asso- 

 ciate what we have learned by reading, 

 with that learned in the more valuable 

 way — viz: by experience. The thing is 

 now easy and we find the nests quite 

 often. 



My first Kingfisher find was made 

 May 4, 1895, in company with Fritz 

 Raymond. We found several nests in 

 the banks of a small stream in Kenton 

 Co., Ky. These nests, or rather holes, 

 were near each other and in a bank 

 which arose eight feet from the water, 

 which was one foot deep. As there 

 seemed to be no indications of a nest in 

 the holes we pushed on down the creek 

 and near its moutli found a hole, which 

 appeared to be newly made. We cut a 

 large reed and thrusting it in, thought 

 we could feel something shaking it. 

 On withdrawing it we were surprised 

 to see a Kingfisher hanging onto the 

 end with desperate fury. On seeing us 

 she immediately retreated, and al- 

 though she still resented the intrusion 

 of the reed could not be induced to 

 again come to the mouth of the tunnel. 



With a mirror we cotild plainly see 

 the bird by throwing in a ray of light. 

 However we could not tell whether the 

 nest contained anything or not, as the 

 end of the cavity was scooped out be- 

 low the level'jof the rest of the tunnel. 

 W^e left the nest resolved to visit it 

 later. 



