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Title: The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lattin, Frank H
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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e had robbed me, (and thebird) of the eggs because there was aneat hollow at the base of a little pop-lar. Three little fluffy brown featherswere there. A birds body had certain-ly caused the depression. I never hadknown of a woodcock who made muchattempt at nest building, especiallywhen no eggs were in evidence, so Iconcluded to wait two weeks and pos-sibly find the the second clutch. Therewas no doubt but that a second clutchwould be laid if the first had beentaken, but possibly someone elsewould beat me to it. Returning April 24th I naturallywent direct to the spot which I imagin-ed contained the four handsome eggsearly in the spring, and believe me,.the female was squatting over thatvery cavity and as I lifted one wingI could see the large ends of four fineeggs. A Killdeer followed me over agravel slope from which the sod hadall been . removed. Watching herthrough my field glasses I noticedshe returned to a little knoll and theresquatted. I approached. She depart- THE OOLOGIST 215
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,0 o 916 THE OOLOGIST ed from another direction and I sawone egg in a little hollow. Repeatedly I visited the same coverand watched her withdraw from iden-tically the same area, yet the numberof eggs had not increased. Could itbe that she was incubating only one?On the thirteenth day subsequent tothe finding of the first egg I againwatched the fleet footed creature tripover the uneven sod and as I approach-ed the nesting site I was surprised tosee that the full compliment of foureggs had finally been deposited. I was in northwestern Minnesotaduring June, 1913. With my Indianguide, Joe, we were beating the grassyknolls and a Prairie Chicken arosetwenty feet ahead. She left a nest often eggs. One hundred yards furtherand I came upon another Chicken sit-ting in regular woodcock fashion ex-cept she moved her eyelids periodical-ly and nervously. I have never seena sitting woodcock move a muscle un-til actually disturbed. It was remark-able how this Prairie Hen allowed usto stand within thr

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