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several years and was never troubled 

 as you state. Do not know where you 

 can get the material you mention. 

 Eggs in eollections should not be ex- 

 posed to tlie light then, too, pink cotton 

 would not fade. 



Scraps from Many Note-Books. 



Herbert W. McBride, Waterloo, Ind., 

 writes of a set of two eggs of the Red- 

 tailed Hawk taken by liinl March 29, 

 which were unusually large. Tliey 

 measured respectively 2.50 x 1.98 and 

 2.49 X 1.99 in. The nest was in a black- 

 ash tree, 65 feet from the sround. 



F. C. Browne, of Framingham, Mass., 

 writes us that a correspondent of his in 

 Western Michigan informs him of 

 having taken on March 6th, a set of 

 three eggs of the Great Horned Owl, 

 the thermometer being 30 ^ beloAv zero 

 that morning and had been belo.w 

 nearly' every morning for two weeks. 



Cliristie, of Rye Patch, Nev., we learn 

 something of what collectors in that 

 "far west" country have to contend 

 Avith. 



Mr. Christie inserted an advertise- 

 ment in the county paper — soliciting 

 bird's eggs of certain species and stat- 

 ing that he would pay cash for the 

 same. In the most prominent column 

 of the next issue appeared an article 

 entitled "Bird's lEggs — A Penalty for 

 Taking them From their Nest," which 

 article, after calling attention to Mr. 

 Christie's advertisement, quoted the 

 Kiw on the subject and stated the 

 penalty for taking the eggs of birds, 

 and then closed with a warning injunc- 

 tion that trouble and "jails" awaited 

 those who disturbed such nests. Sure- 

 ly the collectors of the Silver State are 

 not to be envied. It seems at least, 

 that the State Legislature ought to 

 make some distinction between scien- 

 tific collecting and "robbing bird's 

 nests." 



H. A. Hess, of Edinburg, Ind., relates 

 the taking of a Trumpeter Swan by Mr. 

 George Dudley on the Clifty Creek, 

 being the third bird of that species 

 taken in that vicinity in a period of five 

 years. Although a not uncommon 

 migrant therii, he says it rarely stops 

 on their waters. 



Under date of April 12, A. E. Kibbe, 

 of Mayville, N. Y., writes: "I have 

 just mounted two nice Trumpeter 

 Swans sent from Indiana. One meas- 

 ured 7 feet 2 inches from tip to tip, 4 

 feet 7i inches in length and weighed 

 16i pounds." 



An exceedingly earl_y nest of the 

 Cardinal is reported by Harold S. Stab- 

 ler, of Sandy Spring, Md. He reports 

 a nest begun on February 4th. 



M. & C. Quechee, Vt., sends us an 

 interesting account of a trip after eggs. 

 Among other things, they mention 

 of the Ruffed Grouse 

 dark as Prairie Hen's 



taking 

 M'hich 

 and spotted- 



were as 



Among the many records of early 

 arrivals which have been sent us, are 

 Robins the last week in January, Blutj- 

 birds, February 23rd, and Red-winged 

 Blackbirds March 2nd, by W. E. Aik- 

 en, Rutland Co., Vt. Also by-F. Leon 

 Englebert, Des Moines, la.. Chipping 

 Sparrows and Phoebes, February 18tli; 

 and Bluebirds, February 21. 



Through a letter from Mr. N. R. 



L. E., Fairview, Mo., asks a rather 

 hectic (?) question. He says: "Do 

 Birds die with consumption? Last 

 year one of my pet birds, a parrot, died 

 very suddenly and, not knowing the 

 cause, I took him to one of my friends 

 to be examined and preserved. Hv 

 examined him and when he told nw 

 the bird died of consumption, I laughed 



