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THE OOLOGIST. 



The Oologist. 



A Montmy Publication Devoted to 



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Raptores in Elgin Co., Ontario. 



In dealing with this subject I shall 

 endeavor to give a few interesting notes 

 on these birds, especially on their 

 breeding habits in this locality as far as 

 my observations have extended. 



Along the northern shore of Lake 

 Erie, the Bald Eagle is perhaps one of 

 the best known "Birds of Prey," both 

 on account of his great size, and the 

 liking he has for fish, which he obtains 



either direct from tne pocd nets or 

 picks up along the shore where they 

 have drifted. Between the Eagle and 

 the Great Blue Heron, the fishermen 

 lose quite a number of fish. 



It was my good fortune to hear of a 

 nest of this bird, early in March. Ac- 

 cordingly on Good Friday we started 

 out. for the situation— Port Stanley — 

 about twenty miles away. Arriving 

 there we found that there was a climt> 

 before us. The nest was situate<i in a 

 large red oak iu the corner of afield, 

 ■vyith woods on both sides of it. About 

 a mile west you could see the docks 

 putting out into the Lake, at the Port, 

 while half that distance to the south of 

 us the water was breaking on the clifEs. 



The tree itself was six feet in diam- 

 eter at the base, and tapered down to 

 three and a half at the first limb which 

 was seventy feet from the ground. 

 The nest was situated 35 feet above 

 that, on an upright branch out to one 

 side of the tree. The bark was fast to 

 the tree although it was partly dead, 

 and as I afterward found out so hard 

 that it was only with the greatest difii- 

 culty that I could drive the spurs of the 

 climbers into it. After a laborious 

 climb I succeeded in reaching the nest 

 — but then! there lay two beautiful 

 fresh eggs — my reward. The nest was 

 three feet deep by three and a half wide 

 on top and tapering to where it was 

 placed in a crotch, built of large sticks 

 and quite hollow in the centre, where 

 a neat nest of straw had been built on 

 which the eggs rested. Having care- 

 fully lowered these to the ground, I 

 commenced the descent, feeling well 

 repaid for the climb. The eggs were 

 almost white with slight bluish tinge 

 and measure 2.04x3.70 and 3.06x2.74 re- 

 spectively. 



We learned from Mr. Himdley, on 

 whose farm the nest was, that «, pair of 

 Eagles had nested on his place, every 

 year for upwards of 50 years, during 

 which time the nest had been bio vn 



