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THE OOLOGIST. 



u, bird rouUl niiikc ;i noise like that, but 

 rather some strange kind of tree frog. 

 It was years before I eould believe a 

 bird could utter tliis strange cry, that 

 I had been in the habit of hearing from 

 four 3'ears of age. And its nest! Unlike 

 niost Flyeateliers it nests in Iioles in 

 trees, and stranger still often lines 

 them with east-otf snake skins, and to 

 keep up the harmony this strange bird 

 places in this odd nest some very 

 qiieerly marked eggs. Where can you 

 lind its equal for grotesqueness among 

 our American birds? 



VVlI.FKED A. Bl{(JTHEKTON. 



Oakland Co., Mich. 



More Albinos. 



Song SrAKKow. 



On the sixteenth of March my uncle 

 told me of a ^vhite Song Sparrow that 

 he had seen in his orchard. I became 

 interested and went out immediately 

 and vainly searched the orchard and 

 truck-path for it. But on March 24th, 

 as I was going by his place on my way 

 t^) school, I saw it feeding, in company 

 with Snowbirds, in front of his barn. 



The next evening I found it in a little 

 marsh on the place and was so success- 

 ful as to kill it. I gave it to Professor 

 Langille and he pronounced it a Song 

 Sparrow. 



Its head, breast and wings had the 

 ordinary markings of a Song Sparrow, 

 but its back was white. Its tail was 

 very light, but some of the feathers 

 were light brown. 



Harold B. Stabler. 

 Montgomery Co., Md. 



JuNCo; Field Sparrow. 



The Junco is quite common in this 

 locality and a shcnt time ago I saw an 

 albino. 



A friend of mine and myself were 

 hunting in the country a few miles from 

 this place (Augusta, Ga.) and while 

 walkin jr acro.ss a grass field, flushed a 



flock of Snowbirds, among Avhich was 

 this albino. My friend fired and 

 brought him down and presented liim 

 to me. 



It measured 6.18 x i).4o; wing, 8; tail, 

 3.75. 



The bill and feet were pure white and 

 the eyes red. It was pure white with 

 the exception of a few of the secondary 

 quills, three feathers of the tail and a 

 few ashy blotches on the Ijack and 

 breast. 



Mr. Geo. Butler, of this place, has a 

 partial albino Field Sparrow. 



E. E. N. MURPHEY. 



Augusta, (xa. 



Blackbird. 



I have an albino Blackbird in my col- 

 lection which was shot in March last. 

 It was rather badly torn by shot, being 

 minus a few feathers on one side of the 

 neck, and his tail, but what the shot 

 spared is preserved. 



Eugene Evans, 

 Larimer Co.. Colo. 



A Day after Hawk's Eggs. 



We started April 22, 1889, well 

 equipped with two breech-loading shot- 

 guns and a pair of climbers. 



When about two miles on our way 

 we spied a nest; going up and striking 

 the tree, we were surprised to see a 

 female Broad-winged Hawk start off. 

 We secured her and two eggs which 

 were a dirty white, blotched and spot- 

 ted with purplish brown. 



We next took a set of five Crows. 

 Then we found a nest of the Red-tailed 

 Hawk with two eggs; next, in a large 

 maple 40 feet high, eggs about 2.25 l)y 

 1.75 spotted line with reddish brown 

 and lilac. 



We next took a set of four eggs of the 

 Cooper's Hawk from a beech 80 feet 

 high. The nest was composed of sticks 

 being rather flat. We secured the 

 female. The eggs were white, tinged 



