. The oist . ss and weedsthat bordered on an oak wood, whenhe caught sight of a strange nest rest-ing in a grass clump. Upon close ex-amination he found that the nest wasan arched affair of grassblades andstems, and that it held a single white,glossy, unmarked egg. Careful watch-ing nearby failed to reveal the ownerof the nest. At the end of a few daysMr. Carter returned to the field andfound that the nest had been desert-ed as only the single damp egg restedwithin. It has been my great pleasureto examine carefully this single spe-cimen (measuring .74 x .53 inches). Itwill be seen that the mea
. The oist . ss and weedsthat bordered on an oak wood, whenhe caught sight of a strange nest rest-ing in a grass clump. Upon close ex-amination he found that the nest wasan arched affair of grassblades andstems, and that it held a single white,glossy, unmarked egg. Careful watch-ing nearby failed to reveal the ownerof the nest. At the end of a few daysMr. Carter returned to the field andfound that the nest had been desert-ed as only the single damp egg restedwithin. It has been my great pleasureto examine carefully this single spe-cimen (measuring .74 x .53 inches). Itwill be seen that the measurementsclosely resemble those commonly re-corded for eggs of this sparrow. Tomy knowledge this species has neverbeen recorded as a summer residentof Pennsylvania, with the single ex-ception of my record of the past sum-mer. At that time I found severalpairs of the birds inhabiting the wild-er country some ten miles south ofWaynesburg and but a few miles fromthe West Virginia border line. THE OOLOQIST 43 m i. 44 THE OOLOGIST With Will Crispin. For several years I had known andadmired Will Crispin as a fearless andindomitable climber, but during thelast year of his life I not only admiredhim because of his prowess but lov-ed and respected him as a man whowas clean and straight as an might have made better men thanWill Crispin but I never met had been corresponding for abouttwo years and through Will I came toknow more of Jackson, Sharpless andDarlington, men whom I admired forwhat they had accomplished and ofwhom the student of oology can bejust as proud as was Crispin to callthem his friends. About two years ago he wrote meand proposed a scheme to help eachother. Crispin was very anxious topersonally take sets of the PileatedWoodpecker, Northern Raven andDuck Hawk, while my ambition tendedtoward Great Blue Herons and BaldEagles. The result was that we plan-ned to work together during the sea-son of 1913. During late February Iwent all the way to Wilmington to
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