THE OOLOGIST. 



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The diameter of the inside of tlie nest 

 was about eight inehes and the (h'])th 

 about one and a half inches. 



J. Wakhen Jacobs. 

 Pittsburo-h, Pa. 



Some Unusual Happenings. 



On the hist day of April, several 

 years ago, as I was passing a small 

 piece of white oak timber, I saw in a 

 fork of one of tlie trees about thirty 

 feet up, a Crow sitting on her nest. I 

 concluded to see what the nest con- 

 tained. On reaching it I found live 

 eggs vfhich proved to be fresli. After 

 I had taken them out I noticed quite a 

 bunch in the bottom of the nest. ■ I re- 

 moved the lining and there found an- 

 other CroAv's egg. The single egg was 

 in a well lined nest, another lining was 

 l^laced over it and the five eggs laid. 



May 16, 1884, I found five eggs of the 

 Bluebird in an old Golden-winged 

 Woodpecker's nest in the trunk of an 

 apple tree about two inches ii\ diameter 

 and only five feet from the ground. 

 The nest Avas lined in the usual man- 

 ner Avith soft grasses and some feathers 

 and also contained one egg of the 

 Golden-Avinged Woodpecker. I took 

 the Bluebirds' eggs and left the Wood- 

 peckers', but did not disturb the nest. 

 On visiting the nest again, the 18th, the 

 female fllcAV from the nest. On looking 

 into it I saw there Avere tAvo eggs. On 

 the 20th, I again Avent to the nest, but 

 some boy had torn aAvay one side of the 

 tree and taken the eggs. 



May 16, 1885, I shot a pair of Golden- 

 Avinged Woodpeckers, for mounting, 

 from a decayed maple in our groA'c, 

 Avhere a brood was raised the year 

 befoi-e. Another pair Avere at Avork on 

 an oak a feAV rods aAvay. Evidently 

 they had a hard task for they had been 

 Avoi'king a long time, but had not com- 

 pleted their nest. 



On the 18th, I noticed this second 

 pair on the tree on Avhich the old birds 

 ■were shot. While Avatchiug them one 



of the pair Avent into tho^ old bird's nest 

 and soon came out Avith an egg on its 

 i)ill and flew away. 



May 28th, these birds had laid six- 

 eggs and on the 2nd of June there AA'ere 

 eight eggs in tlie nest. 



Last year I found some HaAvks' nests 

 with incomplete sets. I left them for a 

 fcAv days. On going to them Avith the 

 expectation of finding full sets, I found 

 they Avere empty. 



This year I concluded to try an ex- 

 periment if a chance offered. 



April 14th, found a Red-shouldered 

 HaAvk's nest in the fork of a Avhite 

 maple about thirty feet from the 

 ground, Avith two eggs in it. The next 

 day v^"ent to it again and found there 

 were three eggs. 



I took two hens' eggs Avith me about 

 the size of Hawks' eggs and spotted in 

 a careless Avay, Avith reddish brawn. 

 There Avas not much resmblance to the 

 original eggs. I put the tAvo into the 

 nest and took out the HaAvks' eggs. 



A week later visited the nest again 

 and found the old bird on. On climb- 

 ing to the nest found the tAvo hens' 

 eggs still tliere and that she had laid 

 another. 



April 17th, found a Broad-Avinged 

 HaAvk's nest Avith one egg. SAvapped a 

 hen's egg Avith her tAvo days later, put 

 in another hen's egg and took another 

 Hawk's egg. A fcAv days later Avent 

 again to the nest, but someone had rob- 

 bed it. HoAveA-er, by the exchange bus- 

 iness I secured a nice set of tAvo. 



E. G. Elliot, 

 Bradford, Mass. 



A Collecting Trip at PeAvaukee, Wisconsin. 



A feAV days since, I went over to 

 PeAvaukee in this county, and in com- 

 pany Avith a friend took an afternoon 

 trip across the big marsh at that place. 



While on the way to the marsh, Ave 

 found a Flicker's nest containing a set 

 of six fresh eggs. The nest was in a 

 living oak tree and instead of haAing 



