AND OOLOGIST. 
wcic bcc-ii in iviaicn, lhj 
flocks mainly disappeared in Februar) 
fering in this respect from the Evening 
beak, which I have known to remain ti 
month of May. Scolp, 
Kalamazoo, Mich. 
Notes from Cobb’s Island ar 
Vicinity. 
70. 
74 - 
The following comprises a list of 
seen at Cobb’s Island, Va., and vicinity, 
ing a brief sojourn there from May \ 
22, 1891 : — 
58. Laughing Gull. — Some seen al 
island and others on the mai 
but very few at any time. 
Common Tern. — A few seen 01 
beach and in the marsh. 
Least Tern. — Only a single bird 
There seemed to be a great set 
of Gulls and Terns the whole ti 
was at the island. 
80. Black Skimmer. — Four seen one < 
i n g> just about dusk, flying uj 
beach over the line of the surf. 
120. Double-Cr. Cormorant. — About a' 
en or twenty seen as we saile 
the “Broadwater” (between 
main and the island) . A few were 
flying, but most of them in the vs 
163. American Scoter. — A flock of a 
six seen in the ocean, riding 
waves just beyond the surf, nea 
upper end of the island. 
March, 1893.] 
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show fight when I was at their nest ; they 
were very aggressive, swooping down 
through the tree, rather too close for com- 
fort, while the eggs were being secured. 
I made no special effort to locate their 
second nest. In fact, I seldom take second 
dutches of any species. I am afraid, though, 
the temptation would have been too great 
had I found a second set of this pair, es- 
pecially if they had been of the same rare 
tint. 
April, 1892, found me making fre- 
quent visits to Sheldon Hill, with the deter- 
mination of again finding the nests of my 
Buteos, as I almost daily saw one or both 
soaring high above the hill. I had looked 
long in vain, and Wednesday morning, April 
27, found me standing in the edges of the 
woods on the east side of the hill, after a 
last thorough search, with no nest located 
yet. Looking far across the pasture fields 
to a timbered side hill bordering the Le- 
banon Springs Railroad, I suddenly uttered 
an exclamation of delight. Perched high 
on one of the trees, in the margin of the 
timber, was a big Hawk, and another was 
sailing around over the woods. Bringing 
my field-glass to bear upon them, I saw they 
were Red-tails. I didn’t have time to go 
over and investigate then, but I went home 
confident that in that particular tract of 
timber was the coveted prize. Nor was I 
disappointed^ for on April 29 I visited the 
locality and had been in the woods but a 
few minutes before I found the nest, forty 
feet up, in the first big crotch of a mam- 
moth maple. At my approach the female 
left the nest with a scream of mingled anger 
and despair. A couple of saplings were 
felled against the tree ; it’s easier to go up 
in this manner where the trees are as large 
as this one was, even if you have got 
climbers. Both male and female again 
came back and showed fight, swooping down 
through the tree while the eggs were being 
packed preparatory to lowering them with 
the line. I was delighted to again find 
them of the same emerald hue as the set 
taken last season. They are of a deeper 
shade of green than that set. There is no 
particular difference in the markings of the 
two eggs ; both are specked, spotted, and 
splashed over the entire surface with bright 
reddish brown. Large, handsome eggs. 
Sizes, 2.37x1.88, 2.42x1.84. They con- 
tained large embryos. 
In addition to the above two sets I have 
still another green egg of the Red-tailed 
Hawk. A boy living at Hancock, Mass., 
just across the line from their town, early in 
April, 1891, set several steel traps for foxes 
around the carcass of a horse, but caught a 
pair of big Red-tails. He took them home 
and put them into a box, where the female 
soon deposited a single egg. This I pur- 
chased soon after it was laid. Comparing it 
with a series of Heron’s eggs, I find the 
shade of green as deep as the average eggs 
of Ardea virescens. Size, 2.32 x 1.79. 
Benjamin Hoag. 
Stephentown, Mar. 1893 p.42-43 
