. The oist . -tailed Hawk, and put-ting my climbers on, slowly ascendedthe tree. As I neared the nest boththe male and female Hawks sailedabove me and soon settled on the high-er branches of an oak situated at theupper edge of the woods. Here theyscreamed in a peculiar way, and Iwondered at such cries from a Red-tailed Hawk. Hurriedly I climbed to-ward the nest, and with much excite-ment, looked over the rim upon threebluish white eggs which were some-what spotted with dark brown. Theselay upon a lining consisting of bitsof corn stalk, strips of grape-vine bark,The nest, upon measurement, wasf
. The oist . -tailed Hawk, and put-ting my climbers on, slowly ascendedthe tree. As I neared the nest boththe male and female Hawks sailedabove me and soon settled on the high-er branches of an oak situated at theupper edge of the woods. Here theyscreamed in a peculiar way, and Iwondered at such cries from a Red-tailed Hawk. Hurriedly I climbed to-ward the nest, and with much excite-ment, looked over the rim upon threebluish white eggs which were some-what spotted with dark brown. Theselay upon a lining consisting of bitsof corn stalk, strips of grape-vine bark,The nest, upon measurement, wasfound to be 60 feet above the ground. The eggs, I thought, were rathersmall for Red-tails so I compared themwith .)0 eggs of the latter species inmy collection and found them muchsmaller. Not being satisfied withthis proof, I sent them to several ofour foremost Oologists, among themMr. Barnes, editor of THE OOLOGIST,and each pronounced them eggs ofButeo 1. lineatus. S. S. , Pa, 24 THE OOLOQIST. Nest and Eggs of Pacific Horned Owl —Photo by J. B, Dixon THE OOLOGIST m
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