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No. 97 C. F. Stone climbing for Redtail's eggs 



— Photo by Verdi Biirtcli 



quarter of a mile below. It was in an 

 elm, about sixteen feet up; also with 

 but one egg. It too, was left. But on 

 returni.ig the 26th, the nests eontaineu 

 a single egg. On the 27th another set 

 of one was taken from a large cotton 

 wood twenty-five feet up. 



All the nests were built in the forks 

 of a branch, of coarse twigs or small 

 sticks, and lined with green cotton- 



wood and China-berry leaves, the bot- 

 tom layers being quite dry, while the 

 top layers next to the eggs were 

 fresh; part of them not even wilted. 



All the sets were badly incubated, 

 having large tough embryoes, which 

 took lots of time and patience to re- 

 move, but I started home on the 28th, 

 feeling well repaid for time and trou- 

 ble. Guy Love. 



