. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . from the nestof old birds on the same day and inthe same territory. A few more years and I will haveto pass up these big trees and stopexchanging Bald Eagle eggs, unlessone of my boys should care to followin his fathers foot steps. Harold H. Bailey,Newport News, Va. Feb. 10, 1918. BACHELOR BIRDS During the last half of May and allof June 1915, there was a bird thatflew from one part of the village toanother all the time uttering a loudcry of Here, Hree; until even thosewho do not ordinarily noice the birdshad to take notice, and b
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . from the nestof old birds on the same day and inthe same territory. A few more years and I will haveto pass up these big trees and stopexchanging Bald Eagle eggs, unlessone of my boys should care to followin his fathers foot steps. Harold H. Bailey,Newport News, Va. Feb. 10, 1918. BACHELOR BIRDS During the last half of May and allof June 1915, there was a bird thatflew from one part of the village toanother all the time uttering a loudcry of Here, Hree; until even thosewho do not ordinarily noice the birdshad to take notice, and began to makeinquiries as to what the bird was. Itwas so shy that it was difficult to geta good view of it as it would give itscall of Here, Here and go to anothertree. I finally made out that it wasa male Baltimore Oriole, Icterus Gal-bula, and without a mate. DuringJuly he began to acquire the plumageof the adult male and either becamesilent or more probably learned theusual oriole song. This was in NorthLoop, Nebraska. This year during the THE OOLOGIST 113. Bald Eagles Nest in live pine tree, 90 ft. up. —Photo by H. H. Bailey. 114 THE OOLOGIST same months I made a similar obser-vation of another bachelor Oriolehere in Milton Junction, song was more nearly normal yetwas peculiar enough to enable one tofollow the wanderings of the birdabout the village. I suspect therewould be chance for similar observa-tions if there were some peculiarityto enable one to identify individualbirds. In June 1898, I took a set of three ofthe Orchard Oriole, Icturls Spurius insouthern Dane County, Wis., wherethe male parent was in the immatureplumage. I have the male and the setof eggs in my collection at G. M. Burdick,Milton Jet., Wis. American Dipper On Vancouver Isle. Goldstream, situated a few milesfrom Victoria, is one of the beautyspots of Vancouver Isle. A mountainstream flows through the forest, andwinds its way through miniatureCanons, with many water-falls, th
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