THE YOUNG ORNITHOLOGIST- 



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The Young Ornithologist. 



A Monthly devoted to the promotion of the 

 Sciences of Ornithology and Oology. 



PUBLISHED BY 



ARTHUR A. CHILD, 

 64 Federal Street, - - Boston, Mass. 



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FIELD NOTE-BOOK. 



Eri->esl Ingersoll, in his valuable 

 work, "Bird Nesting," speaking of 

 the importance of keeping a large 

 book in which to record all field notes, 

 says, " When you come to review 

 this record, — for you will do so with 

 fond pleasure on cold November 

 nights as you sit with your slippered 

 feet against the fender, you will recall 

 the balmy spring days when the notes 

 were fresh, will revive a thousand de- 

 lightful experiences, and reproduce 

 to the imagination those scenes and 

 sensations of merry woodland and 

 meadow which the ornithologist loves. 



More practically, you will be surprised 

 and interested to discover how large 

 are the stores of out-door facts you 

 have stored away ; and, by and by, 

 prompted by some companion's en- 

 quiries, discussion with a correspond- 

 ent, or a paragraph in a newspaper, 

 you will bring memoranda of a kind 

 together, and make a little article for 

 publication. Then if you have written 

 what are really facts, got by fresh 

 observation, others will speedily know 

 of it, and you will begin to taste a 

 morsel of that of which you can never 

 become quite satiated — reputation." 



LARGE SETS OF EGGS. 



My first set of American Bittern's con- 

 tained seven eggs, the usual number 

 being four, oftener less than mOre. 



A set of White-rumped Shrikes of 

 seven ; usual number four or five. 1 

 found a nest of this bird, containing nve 

 eggs, which I took with the nest. In a 

 short time, the same birds built another 

 nest within a few feet of where the first 

 had been placed. This I took, together 

 with five eggs. A third time they at- 

 tempted housekeeping; but when four 

 eggs had been laid, some one tore the 

 nest down, and broke the eggs. 



A set of Song Sparrow's which I had 

 in my cabinet consisted of five of the 

 former and two of the Cow Bird's eggs. 



Black-throated Bunting's eggs, which 

 are generally blue, unspotted, I have 

 seen with five black- dots, and have a set 

 which shows faint spots of black. 



D. H. E., 

 Woburn, Mass. 



