^isher. The Heiieite Hesh color v,m- 

 i>i'ed on b: owing the eg,:^?, Tiie uests 

 meatioQed were not over fortv rods from 

 tie large stoue school building with 

 one huadred aad fifty pupils in atten- 

 dance Rithsi* tinus:ia] e--peci..l y 

 for the O'vl, alrhougli 1 did ti ol ivi;iar/l- 

 It at the timo. 



Faribault Co. Minn. 



ITosting of Cooper's Haw^:. 



B j C O. Troirhridge^ 

 Concluded. 



My t'l'rdiil exrliest nest was found 

 on April 26th. 1889 with twoeir^s. 

 As I now had several sets somcboiifrht) 

 and as I had heard tha' this bird v,oidd 

 continue to lay if tiie eggs were tfiken 

 away, only leaving a nest egsr. I deter- 

 mined to try the experiment, aau wit'a 

 the followinir result. 



* ouiid being eignty ^eet from the ground- 

 another nest found by my friend on 

 May 3rd had two eggs and another on 

 the 7th. with three eggs while anothe ' 

 taken on t!ie 12th. contained four eggs. 

 A summary of the above bets and a few 

 otners that I know of positively, is as 

 f 1 ows, 



May 9th. 1SS9 s-t of! fresh 



17th. ^SS.^' 4 incuhafi'^n begun 

 " 18tli. " " " -> embrysfDund. 

 " 21st. / " '. o incb't began. 

 Apr. 21Hli. 1889 " ' 3 In-o^.TpR'te 



Thf Kr:?y Eall 



Tliis species \< >io;r v'la!: common i'» 

 this locality, but Ik' ail the Rails it 

 keeps so well hidd -n liuit it is hard t > 

 i^et a fair iilea of its inimhers 



Jt will not fly unless Inird pressed. 



1 took one eg^r on the 29th. I found | ^jv.nys preferring tu use its legs when 



one more had been layed and I t<^ok i\](;y will serve tlit-ii* purpose. Its flesh 



that, on May 7th. the nest egg I'.ad is very fine, equaling that of the 



disappeared. j Hrairie Hen in my estimntion Coni- 



Two eggs ofthis set were well marked paratively fijvv are killed and still less 



with brown either the iirs: or second 

 layed Q^-g was without markings of any 

 kind. 



The third e.^^ layed being the best 

 marked q';^'^ ot the three. ^ly fourth 

 set Avas found on May liith. in the same 

 piece of woods as my first set, this n.^st 

 was in a moredilicult tree to climb than 

 that a. id as there was nothing special to 



.ire eaten here, as the ^ bird is so 

 little known. AVhen this bird is forced 

 to fly it will rise a few fe;it i" the air 

 and after flyirjg a :?hort distance wdth 

 dai.gliug leg::, will drop into the grass 

 and •'■taking to its lifels' v. ill soon be 

 concealed eo \veli Jrcme where that ten 

 chances to one you have seen the last of 

 it. I remember one dav I was hunting 



be gained by climbing it myself. I had I jm-j^s when one of these birds jumped 



one of my friends, an expert climl er try | ^p i^i fj-ont. of me and started to fly off. 



it Vvith the result of a clutch of four egg.>! I Ji el and it dropped, 1 hunidly went 



ThisDfe.st was placed the higest up of Uo pick it .ipbut fmnl t!i tt it still hud 



any kind of hawks that I hdve ever the use of its indestructible U-gs an'l 



