22 THE NIDOLOGIST 
ON LARGE RAILS’ SETS. 
I NoTicEepD Mr. B. H. Swales’ description 
of a Rail’s nest coztaining 9 eggs of King, 
7 of Virginia and one of Sora. I have some- 
times thought that Soras may economise 
labor by more than one pair laying in the 
nest, for these two reasons: first, as you 
remember, my brother mentioned finding 
one of their nests with two eggs, which 
contained four eggs the next day. ‘Two 
eggs in one day is rather quick work for 
one little Sora, considering the comparitive 
size of the bird and egg. 
Again, last May my brother found a 
Sora’s nest with seven eggs ready to hatch, 
and the dog found three small Rails (newly 
hatched) within a few feet, and then flushed 
four adult Soras one after the other, that 
had been making a fuss all the time near 
by. ‘They seemed to be in pairs, as two 
birds flew one way, and the other two went 
in another direction. No other nest could 
be found,—the dog was with him and hunt- 
ed well,—so it occurred to him that both 
might belong to the same nest. 
Other birds that lay large eggs, suc has 
Woodcocks and Sandpipers, have small 
sets; and birds like Grouse that lay small 
eggs have large sets; but Quail and Part- 
ridge lay enough for both, so I suppose 
nothing can be inferred from this. 
CHARLES W. BowLeEs. 
Tacoma, Washington. 
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“ORNIS OF A CITY YARD.”’ 
SINCE THE publication of my list in THE 
Nipo.ocist of March, 1896, I ha,e made 
the following additions to it: 
Redstart: May 13, 1896.—Spent most of 
the day feeding in the large locust tree, at 
times making short trips to some of the 
adjacent maples. 
Great Blue Heron: August 2, 1896—My 
eldest boy came running into the house, and 
told me there was ‘‘a great big bird with a 
long bill’’ in the next yard. Going in to 
see what it was, I found a Great Blue 
Heron on the ground, caught in a dense 
tangle of wisteria vines. I thought it 
must be hurt, so grabbing it by the wings 
and neck I carried it into my yard, and set 
it down on the ground. It immediately 
straightened up, then flew to the top of the 
fence, and from there it flopped off and out 
of sight. 
As there are a number of large trees in 
the yard, I think the bird must have 
stopped there the night before, and whiie 
hunting for food on the ground became 
entangled in the vines. ‘These bring the 
list up to twenty-five species, not including 
several Warblers which I could not properly 
identify. Wm. H. FISHER. 
Baltimore, Md. 
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AN ACCIDENT. 
On July 1, 1896, at 12:30 Pp. M., a gentle- 
man came to the store door, and pointing 
across the street, called my attention to an 
accident which he had been an eye-witness 
of. A Chimney Swift, in its swift, down- 
ward flight to enter the chimney, had struck 
the lightning-rod, and was impaled thereon. 
I hurried acrross, procured a ladder, and 
throwing off my shoes, ran up the steep 
roof, climbed to the top of the steep chim- 
ney, from which I was able to reach the 
unfortunate bird and carefully remove him. 
The lance-like point had entered the left 
breast fully one and a quarter inches. The 
wound bled profusely, and the poor little 
fellow seemed very faint; the sharp eyes 
lost their brightness, and he lay very still 
in my hand on the way to the store. His 
struggles when I attempted to examine the 
wound seemed to cause him pain and make 
him much weaker, so I did not examine 
it as carefully as I very much wished to. 
I placed him on a shelf in a dim corner of 
the store, where he remained perfectly quiet, 
allowing me to gently stroke his head dur- 
ing my frequent visits. At four o’clock 
he seemed to have partially regained his 
strength, and began to fly about the store, 
and was soon dashing against the windows, 
so I carried him out and allowed him to 
fly away. BENJAMIN Hoac. 
Stephentown, New York. 
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HIGH NESTING OF TURKEY VULTURES. 
As THE Turkey Vulture nests ordinarily 
near or on the ground, the following notes 
concerning a nest placed some seventy feet 
high may be of interest. 
The two fresh eggs now in'my collection, 
which came from this nest, were taken May 
6, 1891, by Mr. J. P. Feagler, of Waterloo, 
Dekalb Co., Indiana. They are in every 
way typical of the species and measure 2.82 
by 1.95 and 2,90 by 1.86inches. Mr. Feag- 
ler has very kindly sent me a complete 
