. The oist . iner, of smaller size and more pro-fuse. Unspotted eggs are very average size is by in-ches. An accompanying picture shows ahard climb to the nest on an elmtree 60 feet up to get the camera inposition to take a picture of the nestcontaining three beautifully coloredeggs. When the females are dis-turbed they fly from the nest andcircle overhead or perch on a highlimb of another tree near at hand andprotest in loud screams against theintrusion, but never have I foundthem to attack the climber. Thesepictures were taken near LeinsCreek, in rear of Chippawa, Canada.
. The oist . iner, of smaller size and more pro-fuse. Unspotted eggs are very average size is by in-ches. An accompanying picture shows ahard climb to the nest on an elmtree 60 feet up to get the camera inposition to take a picture of the nestcontaining three beautifully coloredeggs. When the females are dis-turbed they fly from the nest andcircle overhead or perch on a highlimb of another tree near at hand andprotest in loud screams against theintrusion, but never have I foundthem to attack the climber. Thesepictures were taken near LeinsCreek, in rear of Chippawa, Canada. In May the young birds emergefrom the eggs and look like balls ofyellowish down, but after a weekstime the quills begin to grow, givingthe young a darker appearance. Nowboth of the parents go out on for-aging trips. We have seen them comealmost to a standstill 40 to 50 feetover the nest and drop with unerringaim a mole amidst the hungry, fight-ing young. If the first set of eggs is taken they THE OOLOGIST 218. Home of the Red-shouldered Hawk. 219 THE OOLOGIST invariably lay another, but in numbera smaller set. The time has now approached togo in tlie woods to study the feath-ered tribes. Ottomar Reineclve. We are under obligations to ourfriend Reinecke for the use of thebeautiful plates that illustrate theforegoing article. Editor. Death of Birds by Ants. Death of young birds caused byants. Have any of the THE OOLOG-IST readers noted any such occur-ences? I have found young birdsdead whose death had been causedby ants. I will give one instancefrom my note book. While walkingeast of town on .June 12, 1911, Icame onto a young western meadow-lark which appeared to be dying. Itherefore investigated and I was muchsurprised to find many of the com-mon hill ants on the unfortunatecreature. All over the body weresores at which the ants were feast-ing. The tortures that the bird hadendured must have been great in-deed. 1 picked the young meadow-lark up which was at that time ling-ering
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