The Oologist. 



Vol. XXIX. No. 2. Albion, N. Y. Feb. 15, 1912. Whole No. 295 



Published Monthly, by R. M. Barnes, Albion, N. Y., and Lawn, Illinois. 



February. 



The month of storms and rough weather. The month the almanacs picture 

 with the boy skating over ice bulletined with a danger signal, though the ice 

 in the Illinois river here at Lacon is now two feet thick. 



This month as the rigors of this unusually severe winter draws to a close 

 we devote most of the space of THE OOLOGIST to the Raptores. Now is the 

 time the Eagle looks up a new nesting cite or repairs the last year's home. 

 The woods resound with the "Wboo hoo hoo hoo-o" of Bubo virginianus. Owl's 

 eggs are ripe! 



By the time this, the best issue of THE OOLOGIST we think, ever mailed 

 reaches you, Ye Editor hopes to be on the way to southern California for a 

 Month's rest and recreation. Ingersoll wrote us last year if we would come he 

 would show us one of "his" Golden Eagle nests, and permit us to gather the 

 fruit. Maybe he will be as good this year, and if so we will tell you all about 

 the, to us, new experience of collecting a set of these prizes. 



