THE ORNITHOLOGISTS’ AND OOLOGISTS’ SEMI-ANNUAL. 15 
MY SET OF HALIZETUS LEUCOCEPHALUS. 
BY LE GRAND THEODORE MEYER. 
While comfortably seated in my home-like boarding place, with a 
good cheery coal fire, reading a southern paper, my eye chanced to 
light upon the following item: . 
“For a number of years, a pair of Bald 
Eagles have nested within five miles of 
this city, near a negro settlement.” 
Being somewhat of a traveler, my mind 
was instantly made up; for I had long 
wanted to pass the winter in the south ; and 
in looking over my fair collection of eggs, 
there always seemed to be an indescriba- 
ble longing when I thought of how a set of 
Bald Eagle’s eggs would improve it, and 
how a rival collector asserted his claim to 
a set of two, obtained at a momentary risk 
of his life. 
To go to Southern Georgia was my sudden resolve ; so accordingly, 
I packed my valise, including a set of overalls (necessary Oological 
instruments) and a .38 calibre magazine rifle, going more for sport 
than collecting. 
A ride of three days brought me, figuratively speaking, from winter 
to summer, for although they call it winter here, it little resembles ours, 
being more like a balmy spring instead. 
Arriving at the little town of Hillsborough, I “put up” at their apol- 
ogy of a hotel, and commenced to ascertain the whereabouts of the 
noted tree. The people were just over their Christmas jubilee or 
festival, and were about to commence the country routine work. 
I “tipped” my purse liberally to a number, but was unable to gain 
the desired information. The amazing lack of Ornithological love 
among the “masses” is certainly deplorable. I remember a Natural 
history dealer who was worried to death by inquiries about a window 
he had fixed with mammals and birds ; the principal one being, “where 
did them Ostrich eggs come from?” ‘They being eggs of the Com. 
Guillemot. 
BALD EAGLE. 
