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THE OOLOGIST. 
2 Red-tailed Hawks. Hub. North Amer. \ 
1 Reed 15ird. E. do. | 
1 Martiuique AV'aterhen.'' Soiitli America. | 
2 Suowy Owls*. North do. [ 
1 Great Horned Owl. " do. do. | 
JAKUAHY, 1876. , 
' j 
2 Screech Owls. Hab. Nortli America, j 
1 Cardinal Grosbeak. do. | 
1 Golden Eajrle. " do. j 
2 Snowv Owls. do. \ 
1 Pair Peafowls. India. 
2 Hybrid Goldfinches, (between Goldlincli ' 
and Canary.) i 
The Yellow-throated Vireo. 
( Vireo jlavijronsn — VleHlot.) 
Tjiis is a comparatively rare species of 
llie vireo liimily ; of a ricli olive jrri'eii. with 
a yellow throat, from which it derives its 
name. It arrives here the first week in 
May, and departs the first week iti vSeptem- 
ber. It is said to breed frojn Maryland and 
Virginia nortbward, and to winter in Flor- 
ida. 
About the latter part of June, 1874. I 
was fortunate in findinn: and securing" the 
nest and e<>»j3 of this bird. The nest was 
built on a walnut tree elost; to oiu' house ; 
sitnated about thirty feet f rom tlie ground, 
between the forks of a twii^, and eoiitjiiiR-d 
four eggs, pure white, spotted with reddish 
Vown, thickest at the larger end. 
The nest is very beautiful ; composed of 
dry ^rass, tlircads, feathers, a little eutt(m, 
and little pieces of paper ; inside liiiud with 
fine grass and horse-liairs ; on the oul^^ifle 
are l>loss()ms from the vvuluul ti-ee. Of 
tws eggs remaining in my eolleelion, one 
measures .77 by .54, the other .7() by .54. 
Gennantown, Fa. Wm. H. Asiimkad. 
A Novel Turkey-trap. 
A PEOUi-iAii, and yet very eflPective mode 
of capttiriug Wild Turkeys in Virginia, is 
delineated thus by an anther in the Fon'st. 
and Stream : One (jf the favorilt' haunts 
of the Turkeys having been (lisco^■ered, the 
s|(ortsman makes a trt^nch about eiuditern 
inches in depth and width, an<l fonr or tivc 
feet ill length, with a gradual slojie from the 
outer cud, deepening to the middh^ An 
indosure of fence-rails is then built, the 
first rail being placed across the unddle of 
the trench ; this is the width of the indos- 
ure ; its length is about that of two mils. 
It is about t_'iglit or nine rails high, and Is 
covered over with llie same. A sum! I quan- 
tity of grain is now scattered over (lie gi oujid 
in the vicinity of the trap and in the iretu-h. 
Once on the t rain of the grain, the Turkeys 
unsuspiciously enter tlie trench, and so enter 
the in<-losure in further quest of food. Half 
a dozen or so will probably enter in thus, 
and then they find themsiOves imprisoned. 
They go round and round to find an cNit, 
Ijut never tliink of looking downward, and 
so never find the passage throujih which 
they entered. 
A Curiosity, 
We have received from Kansas City, 
Missouri, a curiosity in the forn» of a rliick- 
en's egg, which, as we understand it. was 
found inside another egg, between the albu- 
men and yolk. It is a perfect egg, with a 
rough and somewhat *''forIorn" lookin.jc 
shell, and contains tiie albumen a!one, of 
a perfect egg. The shell is very unequal 
in thickness, being nearly a sixtt_'enth of an 
inch at oiu; end, and scarcely as Itcavy as 
n warbler's egg at the sides. It is s(pui re- 
ly and eliiptically oval, and measures .7i'> 
by .G*i of an iucli. 
Wk sho'utd like very much to have our 
1 northern correspondents send us a data o; 
: the yi/'-s/ lilrd of the firsf. Jive arrivals they 
I observe or know of being seiui. We ask 
I this that wo may make a eomparison of 
! notes to publish. 
Don't fail to got tlie March ()oi.o<;tsr( 
its contents will positivt-ly be A- 1. 
