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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
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ee nest in a smallcedar tree in a gully, about four feetup and containing three eggs. Bothof these nests were in the growthalong a small branch and were only afew hundred feet apart. May 31, 1913. Towhee nest in acedar tree in a patch of woods abovea railroad cut. This nest was easil>six feet up and the tree had to beclimbed to secure the set of three eggswhich are now in my collection. • June 6, 1913. Towhee nest in asmall redhaw bush in a large plumthicket. Nest was about two feet upand contained two eggs. June 16, 1914. Towhee nest contain-ing three eggs, in a small bush in thewoods. This nest was only a foot anda half from the ground. June 21, 1914. Towhee nest withthree eggs in a small cedar in openwoods. Nest was three feet up. June 28, 1914. Towhee nest in asmall cedar in a patch of open wood-land. This nest was two feet up andcontained one egg. A few days laterthe female was flushed from the nestwhich then held three eggs. Many other nests have been found 198 THE OOLOGIST
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Double Red-winged Blackbirds Nest -Photo by J. B. Lackey THE OOLOGIST 199 which were certainly Towhee nestsand all of them were elevated. Pos-sibly one reason for this is because wehave very little ground growth heresuited to Towhee nests. J. B. Lackey.Clinton, Mississippi. Double Blackbird Nest. On June 17, a friend and I were ex-amining a colony of Redwing nestswhich were in a thicket of young wil-lows growing in a dry pond near town.There was a large colony of nests, de-serted for the most part, as this is latefor Redwings here, but one discoverywe made was rare at least for us. Inone small willow a Redwing nest hadbeen built a month or so earlier andthen another had been built immedi-ately above this one, so close that thebottom of the top nest touched therim of the lower nest. Both were wellpreserved and both were empty. Ithink, however, that both at one timeheld eggs. I would like to know thehistory of these nests. We have noCowbirds here so the lower nest wasnot deserted becaus

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