THE IOWA ORNITHOLOGIST. 



93 



My Life History. 



The 12 th. of July, 1895, being- 

 rather stormy and I had just had 

 a nice young- 'chicken for lunch, 

 after eating- a g-ood breakfast of 

 rabbit and g-round squirrel; thus 

 having- satisfied my appetite, I 

 thoug-ht I would try my literary 

 talent and write an article for this 

 mag-azine on Accipiter cooper i^ (as 

 the scientific men have termed 

 it ) of which I am one of the num- 

 ber. My birth-place was in a 

 white oak tree, 25 ft. above terra 

 firma, the nest of sticks and twig-s 

 was not any to larg-e to hold the 

 four young- inmates. This home 

 was in southern Iowa, in the 

 County of Henry, I think. Time 

 rolled on; I became a full fledged 

 bird, and had successfully 'raised 



two broods, however just as my 

 mate and I had built our third nest 

 and it contained four blue eg-gfs, 

 a young- fellow came along-; he 

 had with him what he called a 

 collecting- can, he saw the nest 

 and at once beg-an climbing- the 

 tree (making- one almost believe 

 in Darwin's theory, "That men 

 are monkeys with their tails rub- 

 bed off," ) soon, he was up to the 

 nest and packing- our pretty egg-s 

 in his collecting can. This oc- 

 curred the 13th. of May, 1893. 



After inquiring who the Egg- 

 hog (as we called him) was, we 

 found that he went by the name 

 of Savage. 



Little did I (leaving off wc^ as 

 I have not consulted my wife's 

 opinion) think that he would ever 

 be an Editor of a bird magazine. 

 The last two seasons he did not 



