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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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k. While motoring over Lake Worthnear the Spillway, I observed manyducks of different kinds. They weretame, as no shooting has gone onsince Mr. Maxon has kept a sharplookout for anyone breaking the ducklaw. I ran the motor boat up closeand took some pictures, then makingthem fly, I got some photos whilethey were in flight. Not many wereidentified, as there were so many dif-ferent kinds, but I recognized RedHeads, Spoonbills, Pintails, Mallard,Am. Scaup, and Teal. I guess on account of not a verysevere winter is the cause of the scar-city of Cedar Waxwings. I have onlyobserved a few, and other censustakers have only reported a smallflight. Robins were not as plentiful asusual, but several good flights wereobserved. A few scattered Gulls are on thelake at present. Crows have been seen in largeflights. Feb. 15th, half grown Horned Owlsobserved. Feb. 20, fresh Hawks nest complet-ed. Not but mighty few summer breed-ers have arrived here yet. Ramon Graham, Texas Notes, 1920, THE OOLOGIST 35
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36 THE OOLOGIST TWO SPECIES OF BIRDS USE ONE NEST. OTHER EMERGENCY CASES OR DOUBLE SETS. The Western Red-tailed Hawk Ac-commodates a Pacific Horned OwlIn Assisting In Supplying aComplement of Eggs. I have, in my collection seven setsof eggs, or rather double sets of eggs,which seem of sufficient interest topublish in The Oologist. 1. Pacific Horned Owl and WesternRed-tailed Hawk. Collected by J. S.Appleton, March 20, 1900, at Simi,Calif, One egg of the Owl and twoof the Hawk, in a nest on a cliff wherethe Owls had nested for twelve years.The old Owl was on the nest whenfound. All three eggs fresh. 2. April 5, sixteen days later, theOwl was again sitting upon the nestwhich now contained one of the Hawkand two of her own eggs; incubationbegun. 3. Western Grebe and American-eared Grebe. Four of the former andone of the latter in a nest constructedby the latter species. Collected byGerard A. Abbott, at Devils Lake, N.D., May 28, 1900. The American-eared Grebe occupying the nest attime of

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