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THE OOLOGIST 



hatched at his home for the first time, 

 January 5th, leaving Dan Arlington 

 Abbott, weight eight and one half 

 pounds. 



Oscar E. Baynard, the leading oolo- 

 gist in Florida, is likewise celebrating 

 a visit from the same wise bird. 



Our brothers are to be congratu- 

 lated. 



Hawk Nests. 



April 7, 1915, Red-Shouldered Hawk. 

 This nest was about 35 feet up on a 

 Black Oak. The two eggs it contained 

 were white with brown and purplish 

 washes and streaks on them. Four 

 days later when this set was coUectei 

 there were four eggs; one of which 

 was blotched with brown and one 

 which was pure white. 



April 8, 1915. Red-Shouldered Hawk. 

 Nest about 40 feet up in White Oak 

 in woods along Des Plaines River and 

 at this time was only half built. On 

 the 16th it held one egg and on the 

 22d two eggs which were all they laid 

 and so were left. The next visit to the 

 nest was made on June 5th, when 1 

 took some friends over to photograph 

 the young which were now about three 

 weeks old. Some of the fresh green 

 leaves in the nest were blood stained 

 and a farmer nearby told us the hawk^ 

 had been getting his baby chickens. 



April 18, 1915. Red-Shouldered 

 Hawk. This was an old nest from 

 which I took a set of three eggs last 

 year, and on this date had a few feath- 

 ers in it. On the 29th it held one egg 

 and on May 15th two. I waited until 

 June 5th before I visited it again and 

 then I found only some broken egg 

 shells in the nest. 



April 29, 1915. Cooper's Hawk. 

 When this nest was found it had just 

 been finished. It was about 45 feet up 

 in a Black Oak and was build on top 

 of an old crow nest. On May 9th it 

 held one egg and on the 16th three 



eggs which I supposed were all they 

 lay but when I visited the nest on 

 June 5th there were four eggs. The 

 next and last visit was on June 16th 

 when two of the eggs were just hatch- 

 ing. 



May 9, 1915. Sparrow Hawk. A nice 

 set of five fresh eggs was taken from 

 a hole about 20 feet up in a telephone 

 pole. A set of Flicker eggs was taken 

 from this same hole about three years 

 ago. 



May 10, 1915. Sparrow Hawk. The 

 birds were found today around a dead 

 stub where they nest last year. On 

 the 17th four eggs were found in the 

 stub and on the 19th they were collect- 

 ed. At the same time a pair of Blue- 

 birds were nesting in the stub and on 

 June 29th a set of Flicker eggs was 

 found in the old Sparrow Hawk nest. 



May 19, 1915. Marsh Hawk. While 

 tramping around in a weedy patch on 

 the edge of the Skopie Slough where 

 a pair of Hawks nested last year, I 

 flushed a female from a nest and five 

 eggs. On May 25th after a heavy three 

 day rain the nest was found in a foot 

 and a half of water with eggs broken. 

 About 25 feet from here an American 

 Bittern's nest was found with three 

 eggs which had also been flooded out. 



Out of the nine Red-shouldered 

 Hawk nests found this year by a 

 friend and I, we were only attacked 

 once while climbing to them. All the 

 nests were found near Highland Park, 

 Lake County, Illinois. 



Colin Campbell Sanborn. 

 Evanston, 111. 



A Wisconsin Herony. 

 Some twenty-five years ago I discov- 

 ered a fair sized herony of the Black 

 Crowned Night, and the green. It had 

 just been shot up by some boys and 

 the nest robbed; dead birds lay all 

 about. I later obtained a few nice 

 sets from here of each species. There 



