. The oist . exchange purposes except those that are rare; for if you do. you will findyou have a lot of useless material and have causelessly sacrificed many of thecommon birds. The Editor. THE OOLOGIST Notes on the American Minor. My recollections of the Woodcock,the pride of every true sportsman dateway back. In the 50s and 60s ourlaws allowed the shooting of the Wood-cock from the 4th of July, and many agood bag was brought to town. Itis really a wonder that this game birdhas not been entirely first find of those beautiful eggswas accidental. Being out on
. The oist . exchange purposes except those that are rare; for if you do. you will findyou have a lot of useless material and have causelessly sacrificed many of thecommon birds. The Editor. THE OOLOGIST Notes on the American Minor. My recollections of the Woodcock,the pride of every true sportsman dateway back. In the 50s and 60s ourlaws allowed the shooting of the Wood-cock from the 4th of July, and many agood bag was brought to town. Itis really a wonder that this game birdhas not been entirely first find of those beautiful eggswas accidental. Being out on a tramp having been subjected to the rays ofthe sun, look as bright as if they hadbeen taken last year. The Woodcock is a fairly commonsummer resident near Buffalo, arrivesfrom the south the third or fourthweek of March, and is next to theHorned Lark, Great Horned Owl andMigrant Shrike, one of the earlybreeders. The nesting site is frequent-ly chosen among bushes and secondgrowth in pastures or along the edge. Woodcock on Nest for beetles, I stumbled, I might say,on a deserted nest of Woodcock withthree eggs on the edge of a snowbankin the present Forest Lawn feathers of the Woodcock werestrewn along the ground near the nest,suggesting the idea that the paientbird had been the victim of an was the 16th of April 1864. Iharbor this end blown set in my col-lection as a treasure. The eggs not of the woods. It is often placed atthe root of a bush or beside a log andis a mere depression in the ground,lined with a few dry leaves andgrasses. The compliment of eggs isfour. I have in my collection a setof five, found the second week inApril. The eggs vary greatly in sizeand coloring. I have them from to X The color abrownish clay to buff, or more gray- THE OOLOGIST 39 ish, with numberless chocolate brownsurface markings and stone-gray shellspots. (Coues). During the breeding season, thesoaring flight of the male bird is aninteresting sight and
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