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THE OOLOGIST ?S C"?) > Nc^NS 



The next nest, a Wood Thrush's 

 was on a long limb high up in a tall 

 beech tree. The Wood Thrush makes 

 its nest mostly of mud and it might 

 easily be mistaken for a Robin's nest. 



The Robin's nests are so common 

 that most everyone knows about what 

 they are like. The one I am going to 

 tell about was in the top of a tall pine 

 tree in our front yard. It was so high 

 up I could not see it very well; there- 

 fore I cannot tell about that particu- 

 lar one. The Robin makes its nest 

 mostly of mud. 



The English Sparrows' nests are so 

 common that I could hardly help find- 

 ing them. I often saw sparrows fly- 

 ing to their nests in the eaves of a. 

 nearby barn with straws and feathers. 

 The sparrows I saw began to build 

 their nests about the fifteenth of 

 March. 



A pair of House Wrens made their 

 home in a bird-house which was plac- 

 ed on a limb of a nearby tree. The 

 nest was made mostly of twigs. 



I have among my collection of a 

 few nests, a Chipping Sparrow's. It 

 is made of fine roots, twigs, threads, 

 bits of straw and is lined with horse 

 hairs. 



One day while walking through the 

 woods, I discovered a great-crested 

 Flycatcher's nest in a hole in the limb 

 of a tree. It was not far from the 

 ground. I have also found many other 

 nests, but I could not find out what 

 kind they were. 



Max Irwin Gar ruth, 

 Tarrytown, N. Y. 



Ottomar Reinecke. 



Our old friend Reinecke still con- 

 tinues his good work. There are few 

 more conscientious students of Amer- 

 ican Ornithology than this man, and 

 there are but very few indeed who 

 make better use of the time that they 

 are able to devote to this study than 

 he. 



We are just in receipt of separates, 

 presumably from the Bulletin of the 

 Academy of Sciences of Buffalo, New 

 York, containing beautifully illustrat- 

 ed articles on the Red-shouldered 

 Hawk, the American Bittern, and the 

 American Woodcock, all from the pen 

 of this well known writer. And what- 

 ever Reinecke writes may be relied 

 upon as scientifically authentic, and 

 is certain to be interestingly delineat- 

 ed. 



Small Sets of Brown Thrasher. 



Mr. G. M. Nuss remarks on the 

 Brown Thrasher in the November 

 OOLOGIST interested me as I have 

 had a similar experience with this 

 bird. 



On May 24, 1909, back of Washing- 

 ton Park, on the Delaware River, at 

 Westville, Gloucester County, New 

 Jersey, I found two Brown Thrashers' 

 nests, each containing two eggs and 

 complete sets, as indicated by the in- 

 cubation. 



Set 3-2 — Nest two feet up in dense 

 greenbrier tangle on low wooded bank 

 of a small lake; eggs two-thirds incu- 

 bated. Incubating female reluctantly 

 flushed; was almost touched. 



Set 4-2 — Nest five feet up in dense 

 greenbriers, not far from last, and on 

 the same bank. Eggs one-third incu- 

 bated. Female flew off as I approach- 

 ed when about three feet away. Both 

 nests were typical — made of sticks and 

 twigs, dried leaves and bark strip- 

 pings, lined with rootlets — ^and well 

 hidden. There were no marks in the 

 briers or bushes to indicate that some- 

 body had found the nests before me 

 and appropriated some of the eggs. 

 Nor could I detect any eggs or parti- 

 cles of egg shells on the briers or on 

 the ground under and about the 

 nests. 



It is my opinion that the eggs in 



