Dec. 15, 1882.] 



AND OOLOGIST. 



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coast, like certain other species of its local- 

 ity, finds its way around the Alleghany 

 Mountains for a short distance, and is very 

 common throughout the Summer in west- 



lor that species to be breeding, the 24th 

 \july. Mentioning this circumstanfce to 

 J. Stannis, he remarked that Jle was 

 glad found it, for he once farand one 

 similarlV situated but had neve/ been able 

 to conviiW anybody of the Met. It was 

 not in suck situations as l/have usually 

 found the "SeUow-bUls, bwt the bird was 

 very tame atod demonstrative and I 

 could not be milstaken ifi the species. 



Great White\ Egbet {Ilerodias alba 

 egretta. — One of rWv neighbors "procured 

 specimen August/lMi, nearly two mUes 

 from the seashoBfe. was following up a 

 mill stream attd he shW it from his door 

 as it flew pafet. It wasv pure white, in 

 young plwmage, a longUegged, long- 

 necked, s;filty looking birdi The same 

 person swiot one of these biMs in 1878, 

 the of Axigust. These aA the only 

 birds' of the species that I ever\saw. — J. 

 N. piark, Old Saybrook, Ct. 



Red-shouldebed Hawk. — I captV-ed 

 beautiful specimen of a Eed-shoiiMered 



vine, thus giving the inside a rich brown 

 appearance in contrast with the gray exte- 

 rior. 



The eggs, 4 or 5, some .60x47, are 

 grayish or greenish white, pretty well spot- 

 ted, or specked, or even blotched, espe- 

 cially about the large end, with brown and 

 deep lilac. They do not possess that deh- 

 cate appearance common to the oological 

 gems of most of the Warblers. — J. H. 

 Langille, Buffalo^ 



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nest, and has the sharp chipping alarm 

 note common to the family. The nest is 

 saddled on a horizontal limb of considera- 

 ble size, some distance from the tree, and 

 some forty or fifty feet from the ground. 

 Small, and very neatly and compactly biiilt, 

 somewhat after the style of the Eedstart, 

 it consists outwardly of fine dried grasses, 

 bits of wasp's nests and gray lichen, and 

 more especially of old and weathered 

 woody fibres, making it look quite gray 

 and waspy ; while the lining is fine dried 

 grasses, or shreds of the wild grape- 



