. The oist . ed was the work of the bird of theprevious year, on visiting it later Ifound a nest and five eggs inserted inthe black hole, or so called, the cellarof her home. The next fall I tore the nest out andthe following spring, which was lastyear, I discovered on Lexington Day,the 19th of April, a nest and four eggs,which did not resemble the nest oreggs of the previous year as they weremore like the Swamp Sparrows. On constilting Mr. Webster, theNaturalist, he pronounced them theSong Sparrow. I shall watch the samecavity this year with much S. Coombs,Maiden, Mass. From O
. The oist . ed was the work of the bird of theprevious year, on visiting it later Ifound a nest and five eggs inserted inthe black hole, or so called, the cellarof her home. The next fall I tore the nest out andthe following spring, which was lastyear, I discovered on Lexington Day,the 19th of April, a nest and four eggs,which did not resemble the nest oreggs of the previous year as they weremore like the Swamp Sparrows. On constilting Mr. Webster, theNaturalist, he pronounced them theSong Sparrow. I shall watch the samecavity this year with much S. Coombs,Maiden, Mass. From Ohio. Owing to the stirring up our GameWardens gave the milliners last year,I am thankful to say, I have seen moreflowers and less of birds used on ladieshats this winter. If the Wardens in other states wouldfollow the example of the Ohio GanaeCommission in such work as they didlast year it would mean the stoppageof the slaughter of our birds to deco-rate? hats with. O. Davie, Jr,Columbus, O. 134 THE Whoo! Whoo! Whoo! and Who? THE OOLOGIST. 135 Woodcock in Hard Luck. In our locality April 13th is usually the time to look for full sets of Woodcockeggs. This year as in others was no exception, although if you remember onthat date and the next day we were visited by a tremendous snowfall to theextent of about 8 inches, which was partially melted by the sun and froze hardagain during the night, and two days later another snow-fall occured. Saturdaymorning found me on the Cattaraugus Reservation, which is an ideal localityfor the nesting of this bird. The ground was completely covered with aboutD inches of crust covered snow. In company with a couple of Indian boys, weimmediately began our search for the Woodcock or their traces. We soon foundthe tracks of a pair where they had been feeding or trying to, around partlyfrozen water holes. We flushed the birds and began looking the ground or rathersnow over carefully for the nests, but found none in that vicinity, but onfollo
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