. The oist . ., and Lacon, Illinois. February. The month of storms and rough weather. The month the almanacs picturewith the boy skating over ice bulletined with a danger signal, though the icein the Illinois river here at Lacon is now two teet thick. This month as the rigors of this unusually severe winter draws to a closewe devote most of the space of THE OOLOGIST to the Raptores. Now is thetime the Eagle looks up a new nesting cite or repairs the last years woods resound with the Whoo hoo hoo hoo-o of Bubo virginianus. Owlseggs are rii)e! By the time this, the best issue of THE OOL
. The oist . ., and Lacon, Illinois. February. The month of storms and rough weather. The month the almanacs picturewith the boy skating over ice bulletined with a danger signal, though the icein the Illinois river here at Lacon is now two teet thick. This month as the rigors of this unusually severe winter draws to a closewe devote most of the space of THE OOLOGIST to the Raptores. Now is thetime the Eagle looks up a new nesting cite or repairs the last years woods resound with the Whoo hoo hoo hoo-o of Bubo virginianus. Owlseggs are rii)e! By the time this, the best issue of THE OOLOGIST we think, ever mailedreaches you, Ye Editor hopes to be on the way to southern California for aMonths rest and recreation. Ingersoll wrote us last year if we would come hewould show us one of ■his GoldenEagle nests, and permit us to gather thefruit. Maybe he will be as good this year, and if so we will tell you all aboutthe, to us, new exiierience of collecting a set of these i)rizes. THE OOLOGIST 216. Red-shouldered drawing by Audubon. 217 TH8 OOLOvHST The Red-shouldered Hawk. In this neighborhood the red-should-ered hawk (Buteo lineatus) is verycommon. It is the second largesthawk and prefers lowland in the vicin-ity of creeks and swamps rather thanthe highland, which is more frequent-ed by the red-tailed hawk. The picture is taken from Audu-bons great work in possession of theBuffalo Society of Natural original was painted in London,Eng., in 1837, 74 years ago. It has inthis long time not lost any of its orig-inality. The breeding ra^iige of the red-shouldered hawk extends throughEastern North America from Maineto Florida, and westward to the bord-ers of the great plains. The hawk ar-rives here from the southern partsof the United States in the middle ofMarch and, if possible, occupies itsnesting place of former years. Theselected trees are birch, ash mapleand beech, and quite often elms. Thenests generally measure from 18 to24 inches in diame
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