The Oologist. 



Vol. XXII. No. 4. 



Albion, N. Y., April, 1905. 



Whole No. 213 



The Oologist. 



A Monthly Publication Devoted to 

 OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND TAXI- 

 DERMY. 

 FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, 

 ALBION, N. Y. 

 ERNEST H. SHORT, Editor and Manager. 



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SOME HAWKING TRIPS. 



By HARRY H. DUNN. 

 After Western Red Tails. 



I have been feeling it coming for 

 some time, this longing to get once 

 more into print through the columns 



of the Oologist and today I am going 

 to try to tell you just a little of the fun 

 I have had afield in the warm days of 

 many a new year in southern Cali- 

 fornia. 



How it is with the rest of you fellows 

 who read the Oologist and contribute 

 good stuff to its pages, I don't know, 

 but as for me, I like to take down a 

 file of the "old reliable," draw my 

 chair up to the fire and spend one of 

 these long evenings reading about the 

 things some other fellow has done in 

 an oological way in some other state. 

 Best of all I like to read about their 

 "takes" of hawks and owls and eagles, 

 sets that are precious because it takes 

 dear effort to get them. 



There are always such sets in every 

 collection, and as I turn ' my hawk's 

 eggs over, one by one, noting each 

 flash of purple, each grotesque daub of 

 brown, I come upon two 'huge speci- 

 mens, unmistakably Red tails, yet of 

 size lmre ample than most Western 

 Red Tails, large enough indeed to have 

 come from some of the famous hawk- 

 ers of Iowa and Kansas and Minnesota, 

 where the genuine old down east Red 

 tail holds forth. What a day this set 

 recalls to mind ! Morning in the hills, 

 me astir at five of a cool March day, 

 the 31st, I believe, the chores done, a 

 lunch box, heavy with mother's good 

 cookery on my arm, my little lathers' 

 hatchet at my belt, my pockets full of 

 cotton, and, last but by no means least, 

 two dogs atrail. One of these, a bob 

 tailed, human hearted old fox hound, 

 answered the death song of a rattle 

 snake almost four years ago. The 

 other, little, and nothing, but common 

 "dawg", but a fit companion for the 

 brave old hound, still lives and is the 



