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eagle which had been hovering close 

 overhead. 



The cattlemen say they attack 

 young calves and injure them so bad- 

 ly that they die. They cannot carry 

 the calf off and do not seem to feed 

 on it after it dies. I have never seen 

 such an attack made but Mr. William 

 Lutley, an absolutely reliable man and 

 accurate observer saw such an occur- 

 ence and witnessed the death of the 

 calf. What damage it does in this 

 way is very insignificant however. 

 Young fauns suffer severely and 

 many of them go to fill the stom- 

 achs of an eagle family. I saw two 

 does and a faun race into the cover 

 of a thicket of pine saplings and hide 

 while the eagle, a minute late, sailed 

 around overhead, waiting for them to 

 come out. The faun in this case was 

 some months old too. 



Eggs from this region are more 

 sparcely marked than those from Cal- 

 ifornia, I have taken several almost 

 immaculate and one quite so. It is 

 not uncommon to find one of the eggs 

 unfertile. I have never taken or seen 

 more than two in a nest. 



In but one instance have I any 

 record of a nest being built any place 

 except on a cliff. This nest was on 

 the flat west of the Huachuca Moun- 

 tains and was placed about twenty 

 feet up in a large oak (quercus ari- 

 aonica). This was in June and the 

 nest contained two fully fledged young 

 almost able to fly. 



NOTE— Of the foregoing halftones 

 illustrating Mr. Willard's article those 

 of the "Typical Nest and Eggs" and 

 of a "Closer View of Nest and Eggs 

 of Golden Eagle" and "General View 

 of Nesting Site Showing White-washed 

 Rock," all refer to the same nest. — 

 Editor. 



tide illustrating the breeding of the 

 Bald Eagle in Florida by Oscar E. 

 Bayard, which we had hoped to pre- 

 sent with this issue of The Oologist; 

 but owing to the wealth of illustra- 

 tions accompanying the same we have 

 not room for it, and expect now to 

 use it in the February issue which is 

 ihe issue we had hoped to devote to 

 Hawks. — Editor. 



PAUL G. HOWES. 



It is a pleasure to announce that 

 Mr. Paul G. Howes of the Maplewood 

 Biological Laboratory, Stamford, Con- 

 necticut, and one of the stanchest 

 friends the Oologist ever had, has re- 

 cently been appointed Research As- 

 sistant of the New York Zoological 

 Society's new station in British Gui- 

 ana and sails for South America Jan- 

 uary 18th in company with C. William 

 Beebee and G. I. Hartley. This expe- 

 dition is not simply a collecting trip, 

 but will take up every important ques- 

 tion concerning the bird, animal and 

 insect life of the region which will be 

 studied in the minutest detail. 



We long ago predicted that in due 

 time our friend Howes would be found 

 in the head ranks of American Scien- 

 tists and a reference to a flle of the 

 Oologist will bear this out. We con- 

 gratulate him upon his new assign- 

 ment and hazard this further predic- 

 tion with, it is merely one more step 

 in what is destined to be a brilliant 

 scientists career. 



THE BALD EAGLE. 



We have a splendidly illustrated ar- 



JAMES B. PURDY. 



Of Plymouth, Michigan, one of the 

 oldest subscribers to The Oologist, 

 renews for two years, and a sentence 

 in his letter accompanying the sub- 

 scription touches a soft place in the 

 heart of the editor. It is, 



"I am growing old, and may not live 

 to see my subscription expire; but in 

 that event some of my family will 



