. The Oist . ceedings. I have seen the FishHawk repairing .his nest in the fall, but noother species has passed under my the above observations I draw thefollowing conclusions : 1st, that they doexcavate for their own nest ; 2d, that theymake provision one year for the next, evenif only in exceptional cases. Oblogical Notes for September. Last year a number of CoUurio horealisnested here. This year I did not see a sin-gle specimen. June 21 shot two youngbirds of C. ludovicianus and one adultmale, besides taking another female withnest and four eggs, which were fresh andof second se
. The Oist . ceedings. I have seen the FishHawk repairing .his nest in the fall, but noother species has passed under my the above observations I draw thefollowing conclusions : 1st, that they doexcavate for their own nest ; 2d, that theymake provision one year for the next, evenif only in exceptional cases. Oblogical Notes for September. Last year a number of CoUurio horealisnested here. This year I did not see a sin-gle specimen. June 21 shot two youngbirds of C. ludovicianus and one adultmale, besides taking another female withnest and four eggs, which were fresh andof second set. At this place, the season has been the poorest for collecting eggs thatI have met in six or seven years. D. D. Stone, Osweyo, N. Y. I DISCOVERED a Towhee nesting off theground this last spring. 1 have the nestand eggs in my collection. Did anythingsimilar of tliis species ever come under yournotice? B. J. Peckham, Westerly, B. I. [Not an imcommon occurrence. Videpp. 27, 43, Vol. IV. of this journal.—Ed.]. 2-1 C-l tf^ > P ^ IS S£ ^ CD ^ ■i; 1— bO 1— 1— 1— 1— h-i to JMi to t— Ml NS to h- H-* t-* «C Oi CO o o o o rf^ 4^ M^ U- tCi IM NS 00 00 00 Cn OS iNt 03 a, cc *i- OS >-r> rf^ 4^ t^TIQ ^ -^aq oq ^ ^ «a? 1^ Or h l-H r» 1-1 < ■^ c - ^ - n:^i_ i I O - - 05_ D. D. Stone, Oswego, N. Y. A gentleman who has had leisure toobserve the every-day life of the HouseSparrow has noticed that they make provis-ion for a future nest by storing materials intrees. The bulky masses of sticks, strawsand twine which look so much like greatnests, he says they put together for a sortof store-house, to which they go when inwant of building materials. He came tothis conclusion, because, on several occa-sions the Sparrows who had placed twigsin a certain tree carried them away to abox for their nest. TEE OOLOGIST 19 An egg shell with two or more shades ofcolor upon it will be found quite a curiosityupon close examination. A good micro-
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