492 THE OOLOGIST 
success. What a difference in the 
fall of the year, when the sportsman 
is after them, 
Now that the sale of the birds is 
prohibited, the shooting season re- 
stricted to October and November, and 
a bag limit fixed at six birds per gun 
each day, conditions hereabouts are 
likely to improve somewhat. Some- 
thing ought to be done to afford pro- 
tection to the birds when wintering in 
the Southern States, and it is to be 
hoped that success will soon crown 
the efforts now being made to secure 
better protection and some wuniform- 
ity in the provisions of the game laws 
of the several states. 
Ottomar Reinecke, 
= a one 
A Few Isle of Pines Nesting Records 
For 1909. 
Jan. 20. Nest of West Indian Ground 
Dove, two eggs. 
Jan. 22. Nest of W. I. Ground Dove, 
2 eggs. 
Jan. 25. Nest of W. I. Ground Dove, 
2 eggs. 
Feb. 3. Nest of W. I. Ground Dove, 
2 eggs. 
Mar. 28. Nest of Red-legged Thrush 
(Cuban Robin) begun. 
‘Mar. 29. Nest of Gray Kingbird be- 
gun. 
Apr. 17. Nest of Red-legged Thrush. 
Apr. 22. Nest of W. I. Ground Dove; 
: 2 young. 
Apr. 24. Nest of Black-whiskered 
Vireo. 
Apr. 27. Nest of Gray Kingbird. 
May 6. Nest of Cuban Grackle. 
May 28. Nest of Cuban Meadowlark: 
2 eges. 
May 30. Nest of Red-legged Thrush. 
Aug. 30. Nest of Ground Dove, 2 
eggs. 
The records are very incomplete 
because no time was taken to make 
records, and these were purely acci- 
dentally stumbled upon. 
A. C. REED. 
Ancient Oology. 
There has lately come to our hand 
the correspondence connected with 
the transaction relating to birds eggs 
that occurred in 1868, involving the 
purchase by one person of the eggs 
named in the following list at the 
prices therein named. We have deem- 
ed this of sufficient general interest 
as showing the wide variation exist- 
ing between the prices then prevailing 
and those now asked for similar speci- 
mens to justify our publishing this 
list in full. Forty-two years ago is a 
long time, and we doubt if there are 
many more authentic lists of similar 
transactions to be found. 
How would you like to add a series 
of the eggs of the Hooded Mergan- 
ser and of the Wood duck to your col- 
lection on the basis of 20 and 10- cents 
apiece respectively? Here follows 
the list exactly as set forth in the 
correspondence? 
Aug. 19th, 1868. 
LIST OF PECK’S EGGS WITH PRICES. 
Turkey Buzzard 4 Eggs at $ .50 $ 
Red Tailed Hawk 50 
Swallow Tailed Hawk 5 ie 1.00 
Marsh Hawk 4 ia 25 
Cooper’s “* 26 * o 20 
Gob CIP pope 
.00 
.00 
.00 
.00 
50 
SEP EON = 20 st 20 00 
Duck a 1 et 50 -50 
Gt. Horned Owl 4 ‘ -50 00 
Barred Owl - 16 = 50 00 
Virginia Rail 9 re 10 -90 
Prairie Hen 16 * .03 50 
Kill Deer 4 i 05 20 
Am. Woodcock i : .20 .20 
Green Heron 30 ad 08 2.40 
Least Bittern 4 ¥ 15 60. 
Biack- billed Cuckoo 24 ee 05 1,20 
ellow 18 ce GOB 90 
Gt. Northern Shrike 10 “ 10 1.00 
Red-br’sted Grosebeak 12 iS 10 ~=-1.20 
Sky Lark a ae 10 70 
Lark Finch 23 oi .05 1.15 
Scarlet Tanager 6 % .08 48 
Red-headed W. pecker 7 wy 03 21 
Yellow-bellied *‘ 12 “* 05 .60 
Gardners a 14 07 .98 
Downy os 13 $ 05 65 
Red- bellied cn 1 be 10 10 
Oriole 37 th 06 2.22 
Gt. Creasted Tuscauces 6 ats 10 60 
Red- paed Flycatcher 9 54 07 27 
Trail’ 8 = 08 64 
WHiteibel) erellony 6 BS se MOS: cclaats 
Blk. Throated Bunting 21 se .08 1.68 
Red Start 21 ef 05 1.05: 
Yellow-breasted Chat 18 a 05 90 
Yellow Warbler 27 RS .05 1,35 
Yellow W. Sparrow Hy oe 05 25 
Maryland Yel.throat 4 ee 05 .20 
White bel. Nuthatch 8 te 10 4 
Black Cap. Titmouse 21 5 10 2.10 
Wrens 11 a 05 55 
Humming bird 4 r .20 80 
Hooded Merganser 44 3 20 ~=—- 8.80 
Summer Duck 336 10 33.60 
