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THE OOLOGIST 



I know of. They were taken by my- 

 self from a soft maple tree and I have 

 no doubt but that the bird would have 

 laid more eggs if she had not been 

 disturbed as the eggs were perfectly 

 fresh, cold and the mother bird was 

 not seen near the nest on the day I 

 took her treasures. 



339 1-5, Red Shouldered Hawk. A 

 most beautiful set of five heavily 

 marked eggs taken by myself in the 

 river bottoms here. 



333 1-6, Cooper's Hawk. I never 

 found as many as six eggs in a 

 Cooper Hawk's nest but this once. 



311 1-4, Chachalaca. A friend of 

 mine, Prof A. B. Burrows, who has 

 lived where these birds were exceed- 

 ingly plentiful tells me that he never 

 saw over three eggs in a nest, but as 

 this set was received from Mr. Thos. 

 H. Jackson I thoroughly believe in its 

 genuineness. 



289 1-18, Quail. The largest set I 

 have ever taken. 



219 1-11, Florida Gallinule. 



211 1-11, American Coot. I presume 

 I have taken a thousand eggs of each 

 the Coot and Gallinule and these two 

 sets are the largest that ever came 

 under my notice. 



RUNT EGGS. 



637 1-7, Prothonotory. This set is 

 composed of five eggs one of which is 

 a runt sure enough, being less than 

 1-3 as long and less than 1-3 as wide 

 as either of the others, yet it is as 

 perfectly a marked specimanaj one 

 ever sees of the beautiful prothono- 

 torys eggs. 



393, Hairy Woodpecker. A runt of 

 considerably less than 1-2 the size of 

 any other egg in the set, collected by 

 myself. 



387, Yellow-billed Cuckoo. I have 

 taken one egg of this species that is 

 not as large as the smallest field spar- 

 row's egg in my collection. Put the 



two together and see how they corres- 

 pond in size. 



666, American Herring Gull.. Those 

 who visited Lattin's & Co's. exhibit at 

 the world's fair at Chicago in 1893 

 will remember the beautiful series of 

 American Herring Gulls' eggs exhibit- 

 ed in that exhibit, all taken by Mr. 

 Van Winkle, who has taken so very 

 many of these eggs. In one of these 

 sets is a runt egg just about 2-3 the 

 size of an ordinary Ruffed Grouse's 

 egg, perfectly formed and colored, and 

 by the way, this set is the darkest set 

 of the series with one exception, and 

 this runt egg is the darkest one of the 

 set. I now own this entire series. 



ODD COLORATIONS. 

 A. O. U. No. 



725 1-4. Pure white. 

 705 1-5. One pure white egg in the 

 set. 



687 1-4. Two wholly unmarked 

 eggs in the set. 



637 1-5. Pure white. 

 637 1-6. Two very dark, two nor- 

 mal and two unmarked. 



637 1-6. Three very dark, and three 

 very light covered with lavender mark- 

 ings. 



637 1-7. One almost entirely un- 

 marked. 



637 1-7. One almost pure reddish 

 rusty color. 



593 1-3. One unmarked, one very 

 slightly spotted and one normal. 



417 1-2. One unmarked and one 

 with only three large blotches on. 



337 1-2.' One entirely unmarked 

 egg. 



51a 1-3. One entirely unmarked 

 egg and one very slightly marked and 

 one wholly unmarked with the excep- 

 tion of one large blotch. This is also 

 one of the sets exhibited at the world's 

 fair and is known as an "Albino" set. 

 74 1-3. Two unmarked eggs and 

 one very slightly marked. 



74 1-3. Darker than the average 

 set of Black Tern's eggs, 



