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Identifier: bulletinofmichig61905mich (find matches)
Title: Bulletin of the Michigan Ornithological Club
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Michigan Ornithological Club
Subjects: Michigan Ornithological Club Birds
Publisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : The Club
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
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dcock, until at twilight May 1st, I turnedhomeward feeling that I had enough for the season. Ten nests in allwere found between April 10th and Alay 1st. besides several broods ofyoung, with an average tramp of twenty-five miles for every nest. There 14 BuivLETiN OF THE were six sets of four, two of three, another on the verge of hatching, andone destroyed by a forest fire. I visited pair number two on the 18th, and found her sitting on onlythree eggs. The nest was two inches above the ground and rested onseveral willow limbs that grew almost parallel with the earth. She stuckcloser than a wood-tick, and had to be lifted off her eggs, which shesucceeded in covering again before I had time to say boo. April 21, between tree trunks, amidst a cluster of sumach, a Wood-cocks bill projected beyond a little limb just enough to betray her presence.She was a nervous sitter and flushed before I could reach her. The last egghad just been laid, and what a set! One would have thought they had been
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WoodcocK Philophela minor^ on Nest FROM PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBERT HECNER exposed to the weather for a year, and the shells turned a chocolate brownby the decayed leaves, after which the sumach berries had stained the largerhalves of the eggs with crimson. The latter color mingled with a shade ofviolet that seemed to come from the blue dowers growing about the place.Like all other eggs of this species I have colleted, these turned palerafter blowing, but are still orrespondingly darker than any other set I have.May 1 was a delightful day, and migration had reached its /.enith, yetthe passing of the Woodcock season meant tlie termination of a fascinatingepoch ; all subsequent finds arc tame. Such were my thoughts as T wan-dered reluctantly among some brier patches, when a diminutive cotton-tailattracted my attention. lie was a mascot, and his presence foretold the Michigan Ornithological Club 15 acquisition of another trophy. The period of anticipation was brief. I stoodgazing intently at th

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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Birds
  • bookpublisher:Grand_Rapids__Mich____The_Club
  • bookcontributor:Harvard_University__Museum_of_Comparative_Zoology__Ernst_Mayr_Library
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