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half a mile, each of which contain one nest. The nests I have observed it 

 this locality contained sets of four and six respectively. 



Dr. P. E. Moody found a nest on May 23rd, 1903, in a small boat house 

 situated on the edge of a lake in Oakland County. 



Detroit, Mich. Frederick C. Hubel. 



LARGE SETS OF RED-SHOULDERED HAWK. 



One season, back in the eighties, I took two sets of six eggs of the Red- 

 shoulder (Buteo lineatas) and nearly three years expired before I learned 

 that the boys "loaded" the nests and then steered me to them. However, 

 1 have since succeeded in securing, in Wayne County, four genuine sets of 

 five as follows : 



April 13, 1892 — Greenfield Township. Nest 40 feet above ground in 

 swamp oak. Female shot and proved to be a young bird of the third year. 



April 19, 1901. — Greenfield Township. Nest in main fork of black oak 

 thirty feet above ground. Female seen at close range and was a bird of 

 the third year. 



April 19, 1903. — Van Buren Township. Nest twenty-five feet above 

 ground in black oak sapling. 



April 19, 1903. — Van Buren Township. Nest fifty-five feet above ground 

 in beech. 



The latter two were old birds that had each deposited four eggs eveiy 

 year since 1896, when I first located them. 



Detroit, Mich. J. Claire Wood. 



THE STORY OF A HUMMER AND ITS SEQUEL 

 On May 27, 1903, our hustling editor, Mr. Bert Stowell, and myself 

 were returning from a fifty mile hike after nests of the Loon. We were still 

 about ten miles from home and had had the proverbial fisherman's luck, it 

 rained every day and Bert ate all the grub while we were not looking. But 

 just at this stage of the game a Ruby-throat {Trochilus. colubns) 

 dashed across the road and spun into a small piece of woods to our left. I 

 observed him and suggested to our editor that that piece of woods 

 looked like a likely place for the Cooper's Hawk. He agreed and followed 

 me over the fence into the woods. Bert held the horse and scraped off the 

 ragged edges of a piece of gunny sack to smoke a cigarette. We started 

 into the woods and in about two minutes located the Hummer's nest. 



It was situated in a small hickory and was saddled on a branch thirty 

 feet from the ground and about five feet out on the limb. Upon examination 

 it proved to be only partially built and contained no eggs. We grunted our 

 disapproval and left after having obtained our bearings and a good look 

 at the Hummer as it buzzed over our heads. I figured that it would take 

 about a week to complete the nest and lay the two eggs. I made a pretty 

 good guess, for June the third I drove those ten miles again and found the 

 nest completed and one egg in it. The bird seemed to be not over joyed at 

 my visit but settled back on the nest just before I left. Now comes the part- 

 ing shot. Two days later 1 drove the ten miles again and found the 

 bird gone, eggs or egg gone, and the nest partially destroyed. I drove home 

 again over the ten miles and figured that I had driven fifty miles after 

 that nest. 



A few days later, June 9th, I made up my mind I would get a set of 

 Hummer's eggs if I had to make them myself, so I started out in a drizzling 



