The Oologist. 



Vol. XXII. No. 7. 



Albion, N. Y., July, 1905. 



Whole No. 219 



The Oologist. 



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 FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, 

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G. B. Heron Collecting in Salem Co. N. J. 



In the first week of this month (Ap- 

 ril) I went to the Heron rookery which 

 was about one half mile from where I 

 was visiting. Putting on a pair of gum 

 boots, my assistant and I proceeded, as 



we entered the wood all around us loom- 

 ed up trees of the virgin forest 90 to 115 

 feet high consisting of pin oak, white 

 and black oak. The pin oak being about 

 15 feet taller, and range from 2 to 5 feet 

 in diameter. (One tree here produced 

 30 two horse wagon loads of wood.) As 

 we penetrated we came to water about 

 one foot deep, here was placed the col- 

 ony in three of the largest remaining 

 pin oaks. The giant of these I pro- 

 ceed to ascend by way of a tall gum 

 80 feet high where I throw a rope over 

 to a limb of the large tree bringing the 

 limbs close together, I cross over, being 

 over I descended down 40 feet to main 

 crotch which is 50 sheer feet from the 

 ground with not a twig to intervene. 

 From here which is central you go up 

 50 and back 50 feet until you visit 15 

 nests, which are placed on the utmost 

 ends of the limbs 90 to 110 feet from 

 the ground, made entirely of sticks and 

 about the size of a bushel basket. Out 

 of these nests in two climbs within six 

 days I collected over 50 eggs in sets. I 

 think this is a record for one tree. 



On the first climb I only expected one 

 nest to contain eggs. Going up without 

 any bag or pencil I had to take my in- 

 ner shirt and tie the sets separate which 

 amounted to 37 eggs and put it around 

 my neck, of course about seven eggs 

 were broken. This tree I should men- 

 tion is 12 foot in circumference. I did 

 not use any climbing irons, and can say 

 collecting G. B. Herons in this vicinity 

 is harder and more perilous than the 

 majority of Bald Eagles I have visited. 

 The other two trees contained 12 nests 

 between them. I should mention two 

 sets contained 6 eggs each. 



WM. B. CRISPIN. 



