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I lie weather on heliruary 17 was fairly moderate, with the snow melting' 
slightly, though the preceding da.ws from h'ehruarx' d had been stormy enough, 
with tem]ieratures as severe as ten below zero. But the sitting bird was wonder- 
tully protected from the storm winds of the north and west and flushed from three 
large jierfect eggs that lay in the slight hollow of the deca\'ed wood on the north 
side of the ca\’it\’. It seemed to me out of the ciuestion, with such tem]ierature as 
hehruary and IMarch were sure to bring, to obtain any ]iictures without Inu'ing 
the owds ])ut their date a little later in the season; so, after a little cjuick thought, 
I ]K)cketed these eggs and went home. M\- conviction that the owls would not 
abandon so ideal a site after a probable occupancy of \-ears was fully confirmed 
when, on March 23, three more eggs were found, just like the first aud l> ing in 
exactly the same little hollow. 
Saturday, April 7, was the first warm da\- of spring. On this day Mr. \\’. W. 
W bite, a student in Cornell College, and I made the first attenptts to secure i;)ictures 
of the owls’ home and surroundings. Mr. White’s ingenuity proved greater than 
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m\- own and to him are to he credited the scheme for getting a camera within range 
of the nest and the successful jiicture of the eggs i)i situ. He also took the front 
\'iew of the nest tree, looking northwest and showing the general situation and the 
interesting structure of the big elm itself. I merely hel]Kxl him with the necessar\- 
ladders and ropes. Cfur two twenty-foot ladders, lashed together and drawn uj) 
with a guy rope so as to rest on the aforesaid strategic branch, made an\-thing but 
a solid foundation from which to work. Nevertheless all the near views of the 
nest were taken from this unstead\' perch, the camera being tied with strings to the 
sides and rungs of the tojmiost ladder. 
( )n April 14 two x'oung were found in the nest and the remaining egg was 
much iniiiied. Both \-oung were entirely blind and oidy one gave much sign of 
life. This was done 1)_\- uttering a (pierulous little note somewhat like that of a 
very \ oung chicken when excited hut not sufficientlx' frightened to peep. The 
older one was able to hold its head U]> slightlx- while the smaller was entirel_\- help- 
