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woods. The tree was three feet in 

 diameter at the base and fully two 

 feet at the top where the cavity was 

 so shallow that the sitting bird could 

 plainly be seen from the west side of 

 the tree. A rap with the irons was 

 sufficient to send Mrs. Owl away to 

 be further persecuted by Crows. The 

 diameter of the tree and the smooth- 

 ness of the bark gave me quite a 

 problem to figure out. I first decided 

 to fell a tall sapling nearby in such a 

 way that it would lodge in the top oi 

 the sycamore and so give me easy 

 access to the cavity. A gust of wind 

 at the wrong moment spoiled this plan 

 and so with the help of two boys who 

 lived a short distance away, we car- 

 ried a heavy painter's extension ladder 

 from a barn nearly half a mile away. 

 This proved to be too short, and so 

 as the tree had no branches except a 

 few up around the cavity I tied a rope 

 belt around my waist and then tied 

 the end of another long rope to the 

 belt at my left side, passed the other 

 end around the tree and tightened it 

 up with my right arm and wrist, wrap- 

 ping it about my wrist as I climbed 

 higher and the tree became smaller in 

 d^'ameter. I climbed in spiral fashion, 

 as it was necessary to loosen the rope 

 occasionally from the small protruding 

 knots or knobs. The cavity was 

 reached in due time and there lay two 

 tiny downy Great Horned Owls, about 

 the size of day old chicks, and nearly 

 as innocent looking. In fact as 1 

 peered down at these little pitiful 

 figures it scarcely seemed possible 

 that within three more months they 

 would develop into "tiger" birds. 



I descended as quickly as possible 

 lest the nestlings might chill. The 

 boys promised they would not kill 

 either the young or parent birds, and 

 I was both pleased and surprised when 

 I returned two weeks later to hunt 

 for a Red-shouldered Hawk's nest to 



see the sitting bird uj in the cavity. 

 Homer F. Price, 

 Payne, Ohio. 



INDEXING THE OOLOGIST. 



A correction because of an unfortu- 

 nate oversight on the part of our 

 printer, the January issue of The 

 Oologist is paged from 185 to 204. In 

 preparing the copy for this issue it 

 was not thus paged — it was paged 

 from 1 to 20. This issue we began 

 paging where the January issue should 

 have left off and in making next j'ear's 

 index the reference to the January 

 issue will be made from 1 to 20, in- 

 stead of from 185 to 204; you should 

 immediately upon receipt of this issue 

 of The Oologist, repage your January 

 issue so that it v/ill comply with the 

 paging which will be used in making 

 this year's index, and that will be as 

 follows: 



January Issue, 1923. 

 Actual Corrected 

 Paging Paging 

 Title Page 1 



186 2 



187 8 



188 4 



189 5 



190 6 



191 7 



192 . 8 



193 9 



194 10 



195 ... 11 



196 12: 



197 13 



198 14 



199 15 



200 16 



201 17 



202 18 



203 19 



204 20 



R. M. Barnes. 



