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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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patch and a Bells Vireo hadfour well incubated eggs in anotherplum thicket, June 18th another pairwas in the Cottonwood grove. A pairof Red-eye Vireos had one young ina Box alder near the house and an-other pair in a cottonwood near thebarn yard. A pair of Red-headedWoodpeckers had eggs in the samehole in which they, or some other pairhad nested last year. I cut into thenest hole the year before from theupper side of limb and saw the eggsand tied the bark with some twine, theyoung came out in due time. A pair of Kingbirds nested in thetop of an apple tree; a pair ofGrackles farther down and below it aMourning Dove; all held eggs at thesame time. A yellow-billed Cuckoohad two young in a peach tree andtwo other pair were in the hedge row.A Mocking birds nest held three eggsin a peach tree in the back part ofthe orchard. A pair each of Downeyand Hairy Woodpeckers were in theCottonwood grove, also a pair ofChickadees and Great Crested Fly-catchers. Quite a number of Grass- THE OOLOGIST 73
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False Nest of Northern Pileated Woodpecker, 22 miles southwest ofWaynesburg, Pa. Hole made about May 8, 1914. —Photo by S. S. Dickey. 74 THE OOLOGIST liopper Sparrows were seen about thefarm, also some Dickcissels. I found the neighboring farm yardsto have a like number of birds. Onefarm, however, having usual trees butno buildings had but one BrownThrashers nest and one Dickcissels. This country, Saline County, was at one time a great prairie, except along rivers and water courses, the birds coming as the country was settled up. Albert J. Kirn. The American Vulture. Have you not noticed a marked de-crease in the number of Black andTurkey Vultures in the last year orso. Not only have I noticed the de-crease of one of our most commonbirds but also have had it brought tomy attention by other naturalists ofthis section of the state as well as thesouthern portions. This does notmean that they are almost all gonebut that they have begun to diminishin number greatly. I first noticedthis a

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