126 THE OOLOGIST Z7((I); \ai 0 
Walter Raine. 
With this issue we present to you 
a likeness of Walter Raine and his 
wife. Mr. Raine needs no introduction 
and no enconium. He is one of the 
best known oologists in all North 
America and has placed in various 
collections, perhaps more eggs than 
any other dealer in North America. 
The years he has been in the busi- 
ness he has established a reputation 
for fairness and integrity that anyone 
may well envy. Specimens from him 
are to be found in almost every lead- 
ing collection in North America. We 
have done business with Mr. Raine for 
practically twenty years and have just 
recently closed up with him the larg- 
est single exchange of specimens we 
have ever made, aggregating on both 
sides about 1000 separate specimens. 
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Elevated Nests of the Indigo Bunting. 
On September 3, 1903, in Juniata 
Park, at Frankford, Philadelphia Coun- 
ty; Pennsylvania, I found an Indigo 
Bunting’s nest in an unusual situation. 
It was fourteen feet up in a big white- 
oak on the edge of the wood, and ten 
feet out from the trunk, “saddled” to 
a small crotch at the end of a slender 
horizontal limb. 
Of course it was empty at this late 
date, but on examination, showed that 
a brood of young had been raised in it. 
At the identical place, on October 
4, 1905, I found another elevated Indi- 
go Bunting’s nest. This one was in a 
young sour gum about twenty feet 
from the oak, and was seventeen feet 
from the ground, placed in the same 
kind of a situ as the other, six feet out 
from the trunk, And like it also, young 
had been reared in it. It resembled 
the first nest, but was looser construct- 
ed. Both were made of the usual com- 
bination of materials and did not differ 
appreciably from normal _ situated 
nests, and there is no doubt as to their 
having been built by the same pair of 
birds, : 
There were plenty of undergrowth 
in the woods in which the birds could 
have nested, and why they should 
have chosen the trees is another one 
of those birds’ mysteries so puzzling 
to us. ; 
Never before or since have I ever 
found an Indigo Bunting’s nest over 
five feet high; the average height of 
their situation in my experience being 
one and one-half feet, and the lowest 
nest I ever saw was within six inches 
of the earth. R. F, MILLER. ~ 
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List of Birds Observed at Petersburg, 
Virginia, by Charles Lungsford, Jr. 
129 American Merganser f 
132 Mallard 
133 Black Duck, 
143 + Pintail 
144 Wood Duck 
147 Canvas-back Duck 
172 Canada Goose, seen flying over. 
191 Least Bittern, a few nests found 
two years ago in the Appomat- 
tox marshes. 
194 Great Blue Heron 
200 Little Blue Heron 
201 Little Green Heron, found nest- 
ing 
208 King Rail 
214 Carolina Raik 
228 American Woodcock 
230 Wilson Snipe 
263 Spotted Sandpiper 
273 Killdeer 
289 Bob-white, found nesting 
310 Wild Turkey; one nest found sey- 
eral. years ago containing one 
addled egg 
316 Mourning Dove; found nesting: . 
325 Turkey Vulture; found nesting 
326. Black Vulture 
364 Osprey 
33 Cooper’s Hawk 
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