. The oist . first egg as in a setof ten, some will be fresh and othersin all stages of incubation. In oneset of eleven which I took, incubationranged from fresh to nearly fully de-velojied. This also occurs in the setsof Virginia but it is less the dates above, it may be seenthat nidification in some instancesmust start by May 10th, about a weekafter the arrival of the birds. The spe-cies seem to be fairly uniform in theirnesting habits and about May 2S-3()thseems to be the time at which the ma-jority have fresh sets. As with theClapper Rail and Florida Gallinule,there seems t
. The oist . first egg as in a setof ten, some will be fresh and othersin all stages of incubation. In oneset of eleven which I took, incubationranged from fresh to nearly fully de-velojied. This also occurs in the setsof Virginia but it is less the dates above, it may be seenthat nidification in some instancesmust start by May 10th, about a weekafter the arrival of the birds. The spe-cies seem to be fairly uniform in theirnesting habits and about May 2S-3()thseems to be the time at which the ma-jority have fresh sets. As with theClapper Rail and Florida Gallinule,there seems to be a tendency to buildsham nests as a large number arenever finished or laid in. I have foundseveral nests which have been pillag-ed by Crows, Muskrats and SnappingTurtles, but their natural enemiesseem to be few. There are numerous swamps inPennsylvania suited to these birds andI feel sure that rigid search will showthem much more common than we areinclined to believe at the present C. Sora Rails Nest -Photo by J. F. Stierle THE OOLOGIST 311 Sora Rails Nest in Old Mill Pond. Eggs, fifteen. Some were partly in-cubated with large embryos, and somewere fresh; i)roving that the bird sitson nest from the time the first egg islaid. Xest built of Bull Rushes and slight-ly above the water level, in dense BullRushes, and in nine inches of stag-nate water. Xest twelve feet fromshore line. Eggs and nest photograi)hed JuneIf), 11)10. J. F. , Wis. Notes. A. J. Kirn reports the Gambels Part-ridge (Lophortyx gambeli) at He also says the PileatedWoodpecker is still found in that vi-cinity, and refers to the fact of hav-ing once found seven Crows eggs in anest. This by way of reference to thereport of R. L. More of Vernon, Texas,to the same effect. We have a set of seven Crows eggsin our collection, the history of whichis rather interesting. It was taken originally along in the90s at Wady Petra, a small placeeighteen miles Southwest of
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