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Identifier: ologistforstud311914latt (find matches)
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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5 >, Q-2 134 THE OOLOGIST was about knee deep at the shortestand up to ones waist in some placesand tangled up so that one had to lifteach foot high up to get over it andcould not see where he put it down,three ocacsions I was near enough toa rattle snake to have been struck be-fore he gave his warning and afterone of them rattles within three feetof a fellow in such a place it takes thekeen edge of nest hunting off for awhile. Moccasins, while as deadly asthe Rattler, are more sluggish and un-less one actually steps on him he isnot likely to bite, however huntingunder such circumstances keeps onesnerves wrought up to the highest pitchall the time. The Sparrows were in full song,such as it was, not being familiarwith the song of the Seaside Spar-row I am unable to say if it is anythinglike the Dusky or not. This sor g wassimilar in many ways to the song ofthe Grasshopper Sparrow and the in-sect like part of the song is more pro-longed and somewhat louder than inthe Grasshopper Spar

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