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Title: The oist
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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o thisgreat work, excubitorfdes is not foundEast of the Great Plains while therange of migrans is given as the great-er part of United States East of theGreat Plains; breeding North to NewBrunswick, Maine, New Hampshire,Vermont, Northern New York, Quebec,Ontario, Michigan, Wisconsin andMinnesota and Southward to midlandVirginia and western Carolina, Ken-tucky and eastern Kasas; in winter,southward to Mississippi, Louisanaand Texas. The range of true ludov-icianus is given as Coast district ofSouth Carolina and Georgia to south-ern Florida, and westward over thecoastal plain of the Gulf States toLouisiana. Excepting borealis, all the shrikesI have collected here are typical mi-grans. My first were taken August10, 1890, and last April, 25, 1909. Ihave found them in every month ofthe year except January. SUBSCRIBERS! READ NOTICE ON PAGE 11 •Notice No. 259. The OoLOGisT. Vol. XXVII. No. 2. Albion, N. Y. February 15, 1910. Whole No. 271Published Monthly, by R. M. Barnes, Laron, Illinois.
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Plate 3. Female Woodcock brooding egg^^N^Jft^ok County, Illinois. Photo bj- George A. Abbott. 10 THE OOLOGIST Where the Woodcock Lurks. Meet me at six to-morrow morningnear Crow Creek. When you reach aclump of Sumach follow up the ridgeto some heavy undergrowth, known asHazel Top. This drizzle has practi-cally taken the frcst out of the ground,and the Woodcoclv will be probing themellow soil along the brook- bottom.Last year while scouting among thisundergrowth, I chanced up on an oldhen with four little Bog-suckers. They■were the prettiest creatures 1 eversaw; probably out of the shell aboutthree days, and covered with markings of hazel brown and chestnut.Many of our birds emerge from theshell naked and blind. Often they areawkward and ungainly after leavingthe nest. I held these chicks in my handand studied them carefully for halfan hour, much to the discomfortureof the parent. She circled about drop-ping into the leaves, strutting lil<^e aTurkey Cock, wings drooped and billsli

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