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water, and though it was sprinkling, 

 Ray wanted that Ouzlel's nest and off 

 came his clothes and in he went. The 

 nest was on a beam of the bridge and 



1 had to find a tree that would permit 

 him to reach it. In the meantime he 

 was in the water. Well, the nest had 

 small young, and after Ray got on 

 his clothes I had to almost run for 

 the next few miles trying to keep up 

 with him as he tried to thaw out. 



June 15th — As the boat that was to 

 take me back home did not arrive till 



2 p. m. we decided to put in the morn- 

 ing trying to get a set of Killdeers and 

 I was fortunate enough to find four 

 sets before noon. A nest with badly 

 incubated eggs of the Parkmans Wren 

 was located and a deserted nest and 

 four eggs of the Wilsons Phalarope 

 was found ; this nest was under water 

 and the eggs were soft to the touch. 

 Some Terns were noted and a number 

 of Blackbirds. Nests with drowned 

 young were seen. Near the camp we 

 found a nest and three young of the 

 Cassins Purple Finch and by this time 

 we had to get back to camp. Night 

 Hawks were flying about commonly 

 now but they do not nest till much 

 later, early July. Well, all trips must 

 end and the steamer was on time and 

 I was on my way back to San Fran- 

 cisco. 



Bird Notes From Lewiston, III. 



As a taxidermist, my interest has 

 centered of late years more along the 

 lines of ornithology than of oology. 

 There has been an unusual flight of 

 hawks and owls down the Illinois riv- 

 er valley this fall of 1912, and especial- 

 ly have they been in evidence in the 

 vicinity of Thompson Lake, Fulton 

 County. Probably the discarded fish 

 from the seines and nets being the at- 

 traction. 



Mr. Charles Dickson, owner of a 

 large bottom farm near this lake, has 

 been a great loser of poultry on this 

 account. A dozen or more English 

 Call Ducks were destroyed, mainly by 

 the Great-horned Owls. Also many of 

 his fine chickens were taken by the 

 Hawks and Owls. 



Becoming tired of his losses he set 

 to trapping for them and up to a few 

 days ago had caught about two dozen 

 of them, and the good with the bad; 

 Screech owls. Sparrow hawks, Marsh 

 Hawks along with the rest. A good 

 many of these have fallen to me, and 

 skins have been made of them. 



By reference to my record book I 

 find November 10th a male Great-horn- 

 ed; November 11th, female Red-tailed 

 Hawk; November 18th, one Screech 

 Owl and one Sparrow Hawk; Novem- 

 ber 22d, Cooper's Hawk and Sparrow 

 Hawk; November 24th, a fine male 

 Red-shouldered Hawk; November 

 28th, male Great Horned and Novem- 

 ber 30th, female Great Horned Owl; 

 December 1st, a female Arctic Owl, 

 one of the most beautiful specimens 

 that I have ever seen, and same date 

 one Barred Owl. 



At this date the Brown Creepers are 

 unusually plentiful in the big maple 

 trees about this city. A few days ago 

 I skinned a fine male and female Red- 

 head Duck. Bob-whites are numerous 

 and I have half a dozen good skins as 

 the result of one hunt. 



Dr. W. S. Strode. 

 Lewiston, 111. 



Note. 



A short note from our old friend 

 Verdi Burtch of Branchport, N. Y., in 

 renewing his subscription says: "I 

 was one of the original paid-in-advance 

 subscribers to No. 1, Volume 1 of The 

 Oologist, and it would not do to let it 

 lapse now." 



