The Oologist. 



VOL. XVIII. NO. 



ALBION, N. Y., JUNE, 1901. 



Whole No. 177 



The Oologist. 



A Montmy Publication Devoted to 



OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND 

 TAXIDERMY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Editor and Publisher, 

 ALBION, N. Y. 



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"A Handsome Little Owl." 



Along the city street I wended my 

 way to the high school building, having 

 my eye open as usual for things orni- 

 thological and oological. I was passing 



the quarter-block occupied, from time 

 immemorial by Martin Tighe's truck 

 patch, an infallible guide to the pre- 

 cocity or tardiness of the egging sea- 

 son, for when I saw Martin lining off 

 the patch for his rows of early potatoes, 

 I knew certainly that two handsome 

 eggs were waiting my gathering in the 

 nest in the big cottonwood overhang- 

 ing the creek. On this particular 

 morning a most unexpected event oc- 

 curred. 'Now I pride myself on my 

 acquaintance with every spot in my 

 parish that is likely to yield any oolog- 

 ical products; but theie right before my 

 eyes, in one of the ancient fanceposts, 

 not more than three feet from the 

 ground, was a small opening suggestive 

 of a nest cczliy ensconced in the bot- 

 tom of a cavty. Strange that I had 

 never seen that hole before. Wonder- 

 ing how that promising cavity had thus 

 eluded my gaze while passing the spot 

 four times a day for several years, I 

 rapped smartly below the opening, 

 while all sorts os oological anticipa- 

 tions fluttered through my mind. 



Wonder of wonders! Out popped a 

 tiny specimen of the Owl kind, a hand- 

 some little owl, which flattered aimless- 

 ly for a moment about my head, and. 

 then perched upon the fence, scarcely 

 beyond the length of my arm. My heart 

 almost stopped beating in my excited 

 bosom, for I could readily see that it 

 was one of those little Elf Owls, or a 

 Pygmy Owl, — ah yes, it was indeed a 

 Pygmy Spotted Owl, no larger than a 

 Passer domesticus, with beaut ful white 

 plumage mixed with longitudinal spots 

 of grayish white. I give all these de- 

 tails because some collectors are so 

 critically anxious about accurate identi- 

 ncation. 



