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the nest consisted of tlie hind ]>arts of an adult cotton-tail, an entire striped .roi)!!^' 
and a headless Ifob-white. Ahirions feathers of a Flicker also indicated a ca]iture 
of this species. I was- again without an assistant. On April 28, with the help of 
Mr. George H. Burge, I was able to rej^eat Mr. White’s iierfonnance of three 
weeks before and get a successful negative of the nest and contents. The young 
were now two weeks old, still (piite drows\- and inert, and entirely disinclined to 
open their eyes toward the light. The only food in the nest was the hind (piarter 
of an adult cotton-tail. 
Thus, for 1906, weather conditions thought to he insuperable and frequent inabil- 
ity to get a helper when one was needed had permitted a net return of only three 
I'ig. 7. M.\RCH p), l')07: WIIERK THE nE.\]) ,\RE M(^RE; IN' ewidence; th.\n the 
i.ivixg; owlets four to eight n.ws old 
good negatives. P'urther tri])s were made alone to the owls' home and a few further 
observations recorded. By May 9 the young seemed to have doubled in size and 
were wide-awake and combative. In size the\' were even then, at three and a half 
weeks, as large in apiiearance as a two-thirds grown Ply mouth Rock hen. In the 
nest lay the hind ipiarters of an adult rabbit, a headless \'oung rabbit about one- 
third grown, and a large headless brown rat. Being away from town nn self, on 
May 16 Mr. White, with a student assistant, went to the timber iiasture intending 
to .secure a fourth ihcture. The nest was found enpity, the owlets having occnjiied 
it this season only about four weeks. Soon after that, as I learned from one of the 
neighbors, two little girls gathering flowers in the timber tract came across both 
