inhabited, hoping to find eggs. | Upon dis- 
secting the females I found the ova unde- 
veloped. My excavating was labor wasted, 
for they would not have had eggs fora long 
while. 
I notice in the May Nrporocist that 
Dr. Gibbs reports the Turkey Vulture as 
gradually working north in Michigan. 
About ten years ago I saw one fly over here. 
I was almost directly under the critter, 
which was about 200 feet up. I could 
readily distinguish the red beak and fore- 
head, and the characteristic flight rendered 
a wrong identification impossible. Allow 
me to adda little to Mr. J. H. Bowles’ 
article in the May number. A number of 
years ago a boy who climbs for me found a 
nest of Red-shouldered Hawk with one egg. 
in the top ofa tall hemlock. He waited 
seven days and then shot the female, when 
she flew off the nest. On climbing up he 
found the same egg that was there a week 
before, which he brought to me with the 
female. From the female I took a perfect 
egg. 
The people in Southern Florida have a 
good many local names for the common 
birds, the following being samples: Chuck- 
wills Widow—Chip Parlow; any of the 
Woodpeckers—Woodchuck; Florida Jay— 
Swamp Jay; Green Heron—Indian Pullet; 
Snowy Heron—Crimp; Great Blue, or 
Ward's Heron—Silver-back; American 
Egret—Long-white; Wood Ibis—Gannet— 
Iron-head-—Flint-head; White Ibis—W hite 
Curlew; Roseate Spoon-bill—Pink Curlew; 
young of Little Blue Heron—Greenleg; 
Gallinule—Blue Peat; Barn Owl—Pearl 
Owl; Man-o’-War Bird — Man-o’-War 
Hawk; Everglade Kite—Snail Hawk; Fish 
Crow—Jackdaw. 
D. D. STONE. 
Lansing, N. Y. 
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A HAwk As A CHICKEN INCUBATOR. 
Some time in May, Gilman Winthrop, a 
friend of mine, found a Cooper’s Hawk’s 
nest (presumably). It contained but one 
egg. He left it and returned four days 
after. There was but the oneegg. He 
took it and substituted a hen’s egg, about 
twice the size of the Hawk’s. A few days 
ago I went to the nest with him to take, as 
we expected, some more eggs. 
He climbed to the nest and the Hawk 
flew off. When he looked within, there lay 
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the hen’s egg—no others. The egg was 
fairly incubated, and the two Hawks were 
very noisy while he was up there. If it 
were not for the chick's walking out of the 
nest, I would expect to see a chicken with 
power of flight, soaring far above. ‘The 
question is, what became of the other egg? 
R. W. WILLIAMS, JR. 
Tallahassee, Fla. 
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ON THE DEPOSITION OF EGGs. 
In last month’s Nripo1octs’ is an inter- 
eesting article on ‘‘Periods of Deposition of 
Eggs.’’ In collecting this spring I had an 
instance showing the irregularity of Rap- 
tores in this respect. Ou May 1I took a 
set of five fresh eggs of the Sparrow Hawk 
which had been deposited within a week. 
On June 13 I again visited the nest and 
took five more eggs, but when I went to 
blow them I found that four of the five con- 
tained young birds just ready to hatch, 
while the fifth egg was perfectly fresh. It 
was not so heavily marked as the rest and 
not so large, the measurements being: 
MeAG) Fe TATA, AERIS 5-< 7 Tipteew aggekey ae eK), 
L.35 psa 2ran dh. 30) x1 OG. 
CLARENCE C. BASSETT. 
Green Castle, Ind. 
ep eee 
IN THE FOREST 
(WRITTEN FOR THE NIDOLOGIST) 
EEP in the forests tangle 
Away from the haunts of man, 
Where gently the waving branches 
The fragrant perfumes fan, 
The shyest birds are singing, 
Their songs so low and sweet— 
All are happy and are making 
Nature’s solitude complete. 
What a treat to listen 
To this carnival of song 
As perchance you may be walking 
Some quiet stream along. 
It makes one’s heart feel lighter, 
Makes a darkened life look fair, 
When the bird songs of gladness 
Soft float upon the air. 
Life is worth the living, 
When Nature’s treasures rare 
Make time a fleeting vision, 
And drive away dull care; 
Sweeter our thoughts go flowing 
Down life’s rivulet divine, 
More sweet our deeds—and round us 
Purer thoughts entwine.—J. R. BONWELL 
Nebraska City, Nebraska. 
