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man's broken crab net with a long 

 handle, that I had seen, so I went back 

 after it. Climbed the pine and with 

 a lot of stretching succeeded in get- 

 ting this set which turned out to be 

 a beautiful marked set and which I 

 prize highly. 



Now come the beauty of traveling 

 in a light canoe which draws but a 

 few inches of water; all along the 

 Virginia side of the bay that I went 

 ever are little creeks. They are so 

 small that it is hard to get through 

 even with a canoe but after you get 

 up a little way, they open into wide 

 lakes. It was in one of these that we 

 found a big nest flat on the ground 

 with three Osprey eggs in it. Then 

 in one we saw a Turkey Vulture drop 

 cut of sight in the bushes and when 

 in going over we were delighted to be 

 able to take a nice fresh clutch of 

 eggs out of an old hollow log. 



It surely is a wonderful country 

 to collect in and when we got to Wal- 

 nut Point and on the boat we half felt 

 sorry to leave it. Never felt better in 

 cur lives and eat well. That reminds 

 me of a little incident while collecting 

 at Pt. Lookout the year before. We 

 had been caught in a squall after dark 

 after a good days collecting, had final- 

 ly put in front ©f a farmer's house 

 soaking wet and dead tired. Went up 

 and knocked and after a great deal 

 cf hesitancy when we talked in our 

 most convincing way that we were 

 honest, they finally let us in and 

 promised to get us supper. I think 

 we each ate a dozen eggs a piece and 

 didn't miss the rest of the supper 

 either." What struck me so funny was 

 that one of the men who apparently 

 was asleep, but he was watching us 

 through his fingers as we looked so 

 hard that they probably were afraid 

 themselves. 



That's the way we collect and -some- 

 times it is a bit hard but you forget 



those times and every year wait to 

 go again and you sure feel bad when 

 you can't. 



R. B. Overington. 

 San Francisco, Calif. 



AN APPRECIATION 



There appeared in the May number 

 of The Oologist an article entitled, 

 "From An Old Timer," by Mr. J. War- 

 ren Jacobs, one of the renowned bird 

 men, His mention of my association 

 with him brings glad thoughts of 

 happy days in field, wood, and museum 

 in companionship with* this clever and 

 painstaking ornithologist. 



It was friendship with this man that 

 gave me a delightful eagerness to 

 know the birds better, and it led to 

 further studies in the vast realm of 

 nature in general. Mr. Jacobs is gifted 

 with that artistic temperament that 

 results in utmost skill at preparation 

 of specimens and thorough systematic 

 arrangement of scientific data. 



How much indeed we younger men 

 thank the veteran naturalists who 

 have helped us to aim to develop in 

 ourselves these admirable qualities 

 secured through years of hard work 

 and minute discrimination. 



S. S. Dickey. 

 Washington, Pa. 



SOLILOQUIES OF AN OLD CRANK 



A toast to the May number — rare as 

 old wine; wealthy in memories as the 

 scng "Auld Lang Syne;" review the 

 old names in this Bird-egg chorus, 

 famous cognomens like J. Parker Ncr- 

 ris; of bluff Major Bendire whose 

 fame will ne'er end; of J. Warren 

 Jacobs, the Martin's true friend. 



We see resurrected the name of E. 

 H. Short and recall good exchanges 

 with this manly old sport. We re- 

 member with smiles our inflexible 

 habit of connecting Woodcocks with 

 the name Gerard Abbott. 



