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Series of Nests of Cerulean. Prepared by S. S. Dickey 



wreathed and sprinkled with reddish 

 brown and lavender. The nest meas- 

 ures: 2.60 wide x 1.63 deep, outside; 

 and 1.80 wide x 1. deep, inside. 



May 27, 1914. 4 eggs: .69 x .50, .67 

 X .49, .67 X .50. These eggs are 

 wreathed with spots of light and dark 

 reddish-brown and contain very few 

 dots on the remaining shell surface. 

 The nest measures: 2.75 wide x 1.70 

 deep, outside; and 1.90 wide x 1.10 

 deep, inside. 



May 27. 4 eggs: .64 x .52, .65 x .50, 

 .64 X .52, .65 X .51. These eggs have 

 the lightest ground color of any in the 

 series, having just a mere tinge of 

 greenish on them. They are spotted 

 and wreathed quite heavily with light 

 brown. The nest measures 2.75 wide 

 X 1.90 deep, outside; and 1.80 wide x 

 1.10 deep, inside. 



June 1, 1914. 2 eggs: .70 x .51 and 

 .69 x .50. These eggs have a decided 

 greenish tinge and are lightly 

 wreathed with reddis-brown. The re- 

 mainder of the shell surface contains 

 very few fine dots. The nest meas- 

 ures 2.45 wide x 1.75 deep, outside; 

 and 1.70 wide x 1.25 deep, inside. 



June 2, 1914. 3 eggs: .64 x .52, 

 .60 X .50, .61 x .48. These eggs are 

 very lightly marked and contain small 

 wreaths about their larger ends. 

 Small dots are found all over the re- 

 maining surface. The nest measures: 

 2.65 X 1.65 deep, outside; and 1.70 

 wide X 1.05 deep, inside. 



Cold Weather Birds 



On January 21st, a beautiful bright 

 day, 12 below zero all day and with 

 three feet of snow, mostly in drifts, I 

 saw a flock of about twenty Snow- 

 flakes, the flrst I have seen for a num- 

 ber of years. My nephew said he had 

 seen several flocks. 



G. W. VOS BURGH. 



Nesting of the Goshawk 



Ever since my experience with the 

 nesting of the Goshawk sev.eral years 

 ago I have been on the lookout to 

 again locate them. On several oc- 

 casions in midsummer, I have seen 

 an adult flying across some mountain 

 valley but not until this spring have 

 I been able to again find their nesting 

 haunts. March 28th while looking 

 about the hollow of a nearby -stream 



