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THE NIDOLOGIST 
News from Near and Far. 
GErorGE F. BRENINGER left Phcenix, A. T., May 15 
for a collecting trip in the Santa Rita and Huachuca 
Mountains. 
Our friend, Crandall, of Woodside, N. Y., 1s fast 
becoming an egg Baron. He has added 24 eggs of the 
Golden Eagle this year to his series. 
FRANK B. SPAULDING of Lancaster, N. H., took a 
set of American Goshawk May 1. On the same day 
he secured a set of Crow containing eight eggs. 
A RECENT fire in Worcester destroyed a large quantity 
of birds and eggs belonging to Charles K. Reed. He 
has moved into a more commodious store and is as active 
as ever. 
Wm. PALMER, Paul Bartsch and John Daniel, Jr., 
have left ona collecting trip into the Dismal Swamp. 
‘When we return” writes Mr, Daniel, “I hope to have 
something for the NID.’’ 
H. W. NAsH of Pueblo, Colorado, writes that he 
expects to spend some weeks with the birds at a high 
altitude early in July. He hopes to take some good 
photographs and promises to remember the NID. 
IT WILL BE interesting news to Oologists that Oliver 
Davie’s fifth edition of ‘‘Nests and Eggs of North 
American Birds’’ is at last in press. He writes us under 
date May 8 that the printers have engaged to deliver 
bound copies by June 20. 
WILLouGHBy P.Lowe writes us from Good Pasture: 
“T secured a rare specimen the other day in the shape 
of a Peacock. It was a splendid bird and in fine 
plumage. I wonder who has been introducing such 
birds into the wilds of Colorado!”’ 
H. KIRKE SWANN, editor of ‘‘The Ornithologist”’ of 
England, has been obliged to discontinue the publica- 
tion of his interesting monthly, and is now editing a 
department in the ‘‘Naturalists’ Chronicle,” which now 
devotes considerable space profitably to Ornithology and 
Oology. 
Mr. P. C. CHADWICK of Loring, Kansas, was mar- 
ried on February 17 to Miss Anna R. Lacy at the home 
of the bride’s parents in Edwardsville. Mr. Chadwick 
is well known as one of the ‘‘firm” of Williamson & 
Chadwick, which can account for as many sets of Great 
Horned Owl annually as any two collectors in the 
country. 
Major BENDIRE'S ‘Life Histories’? records sets 
of four of the Red-tailed Pawk and its subspecies as 
unusual, and makes no mention ot sets of five. William 
Cooper of San Francisco informs us that he took a set 
of five eggs of Western Red-tail a number of years ago 
near Salinas. R.H. Beck secured a set of five; and 
Harold Moses a similar set this year, while sets of four 
each were taken by C. Barlow and H. R Taylor. 
O. W. Howarp, now of Tucson, A. T., writes us: 
“‘T have had the pleasure of meeting Mr. R. A. Camp- 
bell who has just returned from Lochiel, a small town 
near the Mexican border, and he informs me that ‘Fool 
Quail’ or Massena Partridge are quite plentiful in that 
vicinity. He says that he had some for dinner the 
other day. He never imagined what kind of Quail they 
might be when he sat down at the table, but could 
have ‘kicked himself? when he saw the feathers in the 
back yard, and thought of what nice skins he might 
have had.”” 
Californian Notes 
D. A. CoHEN this year secured four sets of four each 
of Duck Hawk’s eggs. 
LEE CHAMBERS of Santa Monica secured a fine set 
this year of Bald Eagle. 
The Golden Gate Park Museum has lately received 
valuable additions to its various collections. 
WE LEARN from ‘‘The Wombat’’ that California 
Quail introduced into New Zealand have multiplied 
remarkably. 
AS FAR AS known no one has this year gone to seek 
the eggs of the Harlequin Duck in Tuolumne county. 
H. B. Kaeding found a nest there last-season with 
young. 
CHARLES NICHOLS of Pescadero took a California 
Pygmy Owlat an old barn which the bird had frequented 
for some years. He says it would be seen -perched on 
the rafters watching for mice. \ 
H. Warp CARRIGER of Sonoma and C. Barlow of 
Santa Clara will leave early in June for a week's col- 
lecting trip in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. They 
are having almost nightly visions of new found series of 
Hermit Warbler and Western Evening Grosbeak. 
R. S. WHEELER received reliable information while 
on a recent trip to Isleton, Cal., of the nesting of a pair 
of Wood Ducks among the hay in a barn by the Sacra- 
mento river. The birds entered through a hole in the 
boards. The farmer who owned the hay guarded the 
nest, allowing the brood to hatch. 
On a TRIP to Sargents, April 3, Band-tailed Pigeons 
were found in large flocks in the hills. They were also 
seen in numbers in the Santa Clara valley while the 
editor was returning by train; one flock, which spread 
out into a half circle, must have contained 2000 birds. 
These ‘‘Wild Pigeons’’ seem to be on the increase in 
California and afford much sport to gunners. 
A LADY on this coast possesses two female Golden 
Eagles which lay sets regularly each year. Last season, 
we are informed, she sold their product to an Oologist 
in Canada for $24. EK. B. Towne of Santa Cruz means 
to try the same plan with two young Duck Hawks he 
has secured. He writes, ‘‘Perhaps you will be inter- 
ested in this fact: .I knew a pair of Duck Hawks to 
lay fourteen (14) eggs last year.”’ 
HAROLD C. WarRD of Alameda, a member of the 
Cooper Ornithologicol Club, who has been heard of in 
this journal, was married in May to Miss Frances 
Herbert of the same city. They departed on a honey- 
moon trip to Monterey, where Mr. Ward intended to 
improve some spare moments visiting a rookery of 
Brandt’s Cormorant. A good one was told on Ward 
at the last meeting of the Cooper Club. He arranged 
with Cohen to accompany him to a Great Blue Heron 
rookery, promising to meet him at the depot in Alameda 
on a certain morning. Subsequently he unfolded the 
same proposalto R.S. Wheeler, who promptly accepted, 
agreeing to tell no one of their plan. Ward failed to 
show up at train time, and Cohen and Wheeler were 
each surprised to meet the other, armed with fish 
baskets and cotton. Mutual explanations followed and 
the two went down together, but their ‘‘take’’ was but 
five eggs, as their reliance had been placed in Ward, to 
whom a lofty sycamore is as a blossoming palm to an 
orang: outang. 
