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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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Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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main Tuxedo drive. It was made onoblique or bending stems, about threefeet from the ground. When first ex-amined it contained young birds, andlater I collected the nest after it had.served its purpose in harboring thebrood. The side was in a black-berry shrub, and the nest was reallysaddled on drooping stems. It was abulky structure, made of coarse ma-terial, such as soft dead leaves, weed-stems and grasses, woven into thickcompact walls, with a lining of softdried grasses of brownish hue. 25. Maryland Yellow - throat. — OnJune 24 a nest of Maryland Yellow-throat was examined in a small birch-fern swamp near the Guest House.The site was in a clump of mixedsprouts of fern, dead birch, etc., abouttwo feet from the ground. The nestwas made of long dried grass-stems,large dead grass blades and fragmentsof dead leaves, with thick walls, deepcavity, and lined with fine driedgrasses. One fresh egg was in thenest, and the female was sitting whendisturbed. (To be continued.) THE OOLOGIST 215
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116 THB OOLOOI8T The 2% of Failures. As I read the various articles thatcame out in THE OOLOGIST, ninety-eight per cent of which are stories ofsuccess, I often think of the fine setsI didnt get. Many an hour of closehard searching of the groundbordering meadows and boggypastures, have I put in search-ing for a Jack Snipe, nest andeggs. But after more than thirty-five years in the field all I have toshow is a part of one egg shell, whilea playmate and a boyhood friend ofmine has found several nests and eggsof the Whip-poor-will and showed meexactly where and how they nested,I have never been able to find a set.A brother of mine has often found theeggs of the Night Hawk, but I havenever been able to find a set. Then again I have found five or sixsets of Killdeer and four of AmericanWoodcock, while I know of personswho have never found of either forthemselves. I have found severalnests of the Prairie Hen but nevercould find one of the Ruffed Grouse orBob-white. Yet many a farmer hastold

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