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those residing in the orchards and 

 towns. My pair here gives me a nice 

 set each spring then promptly depos- 

 its another set in the same place. The 

 second set is just 30 days later and 

 family number two is just as happy as 

 if born a month earlier. As only one 

 family is reared each season, I figure 

 that my annual set does not reduce 

 the number of Screech Owls. 



Have just received word from Guy 

 W. Day of Sidney, Champaign county, 

 who recorded the first authentic set 

 of Barn Owls taken in Illinois, that 

 he had a pair located already for 1913 

 and when ripe, he would give me the 

 honor of taking the second set for Illi- 

 nois. I'll be there. 



Isaac E. Hess. 

 Philo, 111. 



Series of Eggs of the Cedar Waxwing. 



Five eggs, incubation slight, ground 

 color a light slate or bluish gray, 

 sparcely marked with dark almost 

 black brown spots and specks, scat- 

 tered over the whole egg; with similar 

 undermarkings of pale lilac and pur- 

 ple; form long oval; measure .89 x 

 .61, .89 X .59, .89 x 61, .87 x .62, .88 x 

 .61 inches; nest compactly built of 

 small twigs, fine rootlets, weeds and 

 leaf stems, mosslike and seedy fibres, 

 dried stem, with stone of wild cherry 

 attached, grass, wool, etc., lined with 

 fine weed stems, and horsetail hair. 

 The moss and wool are around the 

 rim; nest on limb in White Oak; local- 

 ity, Dodge county, lYz miles southeast 

 of Columbus, Wis.; date, July 6, 1892. 



Four eggs, fresh, light bluish drab 

 ground, not very heavily marked with 

 seal brown and vandike brown in 

 coarse bold dots and spots, and a few 

 scrawls, finer and fainter undermark- 

 ings of lilac with a faint cloudiness of 

 a pale pinkish or reddish brown, prin- 

 cipally in the larger end; form oval; 

 measure, .77 x .63, .75 x .63, .80 x 66, 



.79 X 62 inches. Nest in leaning clus- 

 ter of swamp willow, composed of 

 small twigs and reed stems, stripping 

 from weeds, lined with this stripping 

 and a little dry grass; quite bulky. 

 Locality, Columbus County, Colum- 

 bus, Wis.; date, August 8, 1895. 



Three eggs, slightly incubated, 

 ground slate gray, with a greenish 

 metallic tint, quite thickly marked 

 with blackish brown, and undermark- 

 ings of lilac, in specks, spots and 

 dots; some of the spots the two col- 

 ors seem to be mixed; two of the eggs 

 show several scrawls of a dark metal- 

 lic green; the darker markings are 

 principally on the larger end of the 

 egg; shape, oval; measure, .85 x .63, 

 .83 x .62 inches. Nest was in swamp 

 willow, of dead grass and weed stems, 

 and hemplike strippings from weeds, 

 and lined with the same. Locality, 

 Columbia County, Columbus, Wis.; 

 date, August 20, 1895. 



Four eggs, slightly incubated, dark 

 ashy ground color, thinly and uneven- 

 ly specked and spotted, over the whole 

 egg with dark lilac and purple black, 

 one being nearly destitute of the lat- 

 ter markings; form oval; measure, 

 .83 X .62, .81 X .65, .83 x .62 inches; 

 nest of woodstems and small twigs, 

 grass willow leaves and cotton, lined 

 with a heavy lining of dead grass, 

 vegetable down, wool in small quanti- 

 ties, and a considerable quantity of a 

 kind of moss stuff, placed in a willow; 

 locality, Columbia County, Columbus, 

 Wis.; date, August 18, 1898. 



These eggs are very difficult to save 

 if advanced in incubation and for this 

 reason I lost a large number of sets. 



George W. H. vos Burgh. 

 Zion City, 111. 



More Bjg Eagle Eggs. 

 J. B. Dixon, of Escondido, Califor- 

 nia, this spring secured another set 

 of three eggs from the same nest from 



