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Notes from Lake County, Ohio. 



I notice in Chapman's Handbook, 

 about the nesting of the Wood Pewee. 

 The material used is similar to that used 

 here, but he says they nest from twenty 

 to forty feet from the ground. 



Now here they generally nest from 

 five to nine feet from the ground and 

 rarely as high as twenty, the only place 

 I have ever found them is in an old ap- 

 ple orchard. 



May 5, 1896, I took a set of four fresh 

 eggs of the Cardinal from some black- 

 berry bushes three feet from the ground. 

 Nest was composed of leaves, strips of 

 grape vice bark and lined with fine 

 grass. As has been recorded, a set of 

 four is rare, I consider it a very lucky 

 find, for Cardinals are not very plenti- 

 ful here. 



April 30, 1897, I took a set of five 

 fresh eggs of an American Robin from a 

 crotch in a cherry tree, fifteen feet from 

 the ground. Nest composed of usual 

 combination of material. 



April 24, 1898, I took a set of seven 

 eggs of the Bluebird from a hickory 

 stub in center of large field. Incuba- 

 tion advanced. Nest composed entire- 

 ly of fioe grass. Chapman^ records 

 Bluebirds laying from four to six eggs. 



Aprils, 1898. while searching for Red- 

 tail Hawk's eggs up the Grand river, I 

 found a nest about half way up the 

 bank in a dead pine tree. As the tree 

 looked rather shakey I tried a scheme 

 that had worked successfully before. 

 That is, take a tin can about the size of 

 a one pound baking powder can, punch 

 a hole through the can on both sides, 

 so that when a stick run through will 

 be in center of the can. But a pole 

 long enough to reach to the nest from 

 the tree that you are to climb, punch one 

 end of the pole through the holes cut in 

 the can, (hole must be cut very close to 

 the bottom of can) fix the can in some 

 way. so it can hot turn on the pole. 

 Then till the can one-third full of cot- 

 ton, hollow the cotton out in the mid- 

 dle so the egg will not roll in the can. 

 Now will steady nerves dip an egg up, 

 with a tight grip on the pole, work it in 

 slowly and carefully. There was a 

 hemlock growing beside of this pine. I 

 climbed the hemlock almost to the very 

 tip and was with the level of the nest, 

 but could not see into it. After poking 

 around with my apparatus I succeeded 

 in getting one fgg, similar in color to 

 that of Cooper's Hawk, with three or 



