. The oist . hich I left. OneOwl was sitting and I saw the otherclose by. On April 30th, I returnedand took a set of three eggs. Thenest was about forty feet up in thecrotch of a Balsam Poplar and un-like the other nests had been newlybuilt up with twigs, by the Owls. It was lined with back strips anda few feathers and well cupped. Thebird remained in the vicinity and itsmate could be heard at a distance inthe timber. A rather musical whistlewas uttered frequently like oo-ih,sometimes very softly, and at othersquite loudly. They also hooted sev-eral times, a deep booming Who-oo- 00-00. In Fish
. The oist . hich I left. OneOwl was sitting and I saw the otherclose by. On April 30th, I returnedand took a set of three eggs. Thenest was about forty feet up in thecrotch of a Balsam Poplar and un-like the other nests had been newlybuilt up with twigs, by the Owls. It was lined with back strips anda few feathers and well cupped. Thebird remained in the vicinity and itsmate could be heard at a distance inthe timber. A rather musical whistlewas uttered frequently like oo-ih,sometimes very softly, and at othersquite loudly. They also hooted sev-eral times, a deep booming Who-oo- 00-00. In Fishers Hawks and Owls ofthe United States, it is stated Thenote of the owl is said to be a tre-mulous vibrating sound somewhat re-sem^bling that of the Screech must plead ignorance to the noteof the Screech Owl, but I have ob-served many Great Gray,, Owls bothin the breeding season and out of itand have never heard this tremulousvibrating whistle. A. D. Henderson,Belvedere, Alberta, Canada 128 THE dOL06lSt. Richard C. Harlow (left) and A. D. Henderson (right)as they appeared at Belvidere, Canada, in the spring of 1923 THE OOLOGIST V2i) MY FIRST EGG COLLECTING I have been a subscriber to THEOOLOGIST for several years andhave enjoyed reading the storie--, bythe various Ornithologists and Oolo-gi£ts over the Country, about theirexperience collecting eggs and speci-mens. I have never caught the egg col-lecting craze, bi:t have amassed anice collection of mounted is now in the State Museum atCharleston, West Virginia. Most of my collecting was doneseveral years ago, as I have changedmy occupation and my present onedoes not permit me to spend as muchtime as I would like to at my hobby. As I have stated a^bove I havenever had the Egg Craze, but willtell of a couple of experiences I havehad collecting Hav/k eggs, soon afterI first began collecting. One day in May 1913, my brotherand I thought that we would go tothe creek, about a mile away fromhome, to snare White Sucke
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