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THE OOLOGISt 



Willett. Phoro bv E. P. Willard. Wellington. N. C. 



the birds gone and the flowers dead, 

 what they find to do through the long 

 cold winter. 



Roscoe I. Giles. 

 Marlboro. Mass. 



HORNED OWLS NOT COLLECTED. 

 A big Cottonwood tree stands out in 

 the water near my camps, at Lake 

 Worth. The horned owls are there 

 and I have tried every possible way 

 to collect them. The tree has a few 

 limbs on it but the first one is 50 feet 

 up. The tree is too large to coon up. 

 And the wood is too rotten to spike 

 So the only way to get them is to go 

 * up in a balloon or areoplane. I can 

 climb a small tree about 100 feet from 

 it and see the owl setting on the eggs. 

 Also the other owl is setting in a shal- 

 low hollow near by. He looks at me 

 and shakes his head as if to say, I 



got you bested this year. I will own 

 up to it, he has me this year. But if 

 he and his wife attempts to raise again 

 this year I will get me a gun and stick 

 a rope in it and shoot it over the first 

 limb. Then climb the rope. I have 

 tried to throw a rope over the first 

 limb but have had no success. This 

 set of eggs is like the old saying. 

 "Water, water everywhere but not a 

 drop to drink." But this time it's owl 

 eggs in sight but I can't get one. Come 

 on, brothers, with your hard luck 

 stories. 



Ramon Graham. 

 Ft. Worth. Texas. 



BIRDS SEEN ON A TRAMP FROM 



DEVON TO TURKEY HILL. 



On March 18th, Mr. T. E. Vaughan 



and myself took the train to Devon 



and then a seven mile tramp along the 



