. Ornithologist and oölogist . nd some with a fewfine plant fibres besides cotton. The eggs,four to five in number, have a white cream-color ground and covered sparingly withthick blotches of dark brown. Some sets,however, are more densely spotted andblotched with a lighter shade of birds are in this locality very unsus-picious, breeding sometimes in close prox-imity to a dwelling and only a few feetfrom a very frequented road. In such in-stances the nest is built almost always in amulberry tree. In the eastern part of Tex-as, in the coast region near Houston, itwas very difficult
. Ornithologist and oölogist . nd some with a fewfine plant fibres besides cotton. The eggs,four to five in number, have a white cream-color ground and covered sparingly withthick blotches of dark brown. Some sets,however, are more densely spotted andblotched with a lighter shade of birds are in this locality very unsus-picious, breeding sometimes in close prox-imity to a dwelling and only a few feetfrom a very frequented road. In such in-stances the nest is built almost always in amulberry tree. In the eastern part of Tex-as, in the coast region near Houston, itwas very difficult to discover a nest of thismagnificent bird. There they breed al-ways in trees densely covered with thelong gray Spanish moss {Tillandsia urneoi-des), where it is almost impossible to finda nest. They arrive from their winterquarters late in March or in the first daysof April. In the early part of September,these birds gather sometimes in large flocks,and by the last of that month all have de-parted for the south.—H. Fork-tailed Flycatcher. 84 ORNITHOLOGIST [Vol. 6-No. 11. ORNITHOLOGIST —AKD— OOLOGIST A MONTHLY MAGAZINE DEVOTEDTO THE STUDY OF BIRDS, THEIR NESTS AND EGGS. J^OS. m. WAltE, Editor, S. L. WILLARD, Assistant, With the CO operation of able OrnithologicalWriters and Collectors. Subscription—$ per annum. Foreign stib-scription $—including postage. Speci-men Copies Ten Cents. J08, M. WADE, Nornricb, Conn. Entered at Norwich P. 0. as Second Class matter. :ErHTORIJLL. Bird Surgery. During the present fall Mr. BenjaminEarle, of Providence, shot two birds, withbroken legs, and both wounds carefully andthoroughly dressed with feathers. Thefirst one taken, a Green-headed Plover,had its leg broken, which it had carefullybandaged with feathers, as we are assuredby Mr. Earle, the feathers being wrappedaround the leg carefully. The second birdshot was a Woodcock, which was saved forthe writer, the leg of which has been pre-served. It was broken below th
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