The Ornithologist and Oölogist Volume 14

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889-01-01 Excerpt: ...for the eggs is from May 25th to June 10th. The four sets of eggs may be thus described: June 6, 1889, Chester County, Penn. Five eggs, fresh; light, creamy white, heavily spotted with hazel and lilac-gray. On three of the eggs the markings are principally confined to the larger ends, where they form indistinct wreaths, but the other two eggs are wreathed around the smaller ends:.75x.59;.71x.60;.71x.58;.71x.60;.71x.60. June 7, 1889. Chester County, Penn. Five eggs, incubation slight; white, speckled and spotted with vinaceous, and a few spots of lilac-gray. The markings are principally confined to the larger ends, where they form indistinct wreaths:.79x.60;.80x01;.77x.0O;.79x.OO;.81x00. June 9, 1889. Chester County, Penn. Four eggs, fresh; white, speckled and spotted with vinaceous-rufous and a few markings of lilacgray. The markings are much heavier near the larger ends, where they form indistinct wreaths:.76x.59;.71x52;.72x.59;.07x.56. June 29,1889. Chester County, Penn. Three eggs, incubation begun, (contained also one egg of the Cowbird); light creamy white, speckled and spotted, chiefly at the larger ends, with cinnamon-rufous:.87x.58;.84x.58;.82x.57. J. P. Norris, Jr. Christmas came on Sunday, in 1887, and Monday being a holiday almost every ornithologist was in the field. Daylight found me seated on a pine, on the borders of one of the large salt meadows near Brooklyn, waiting for the sun to rise, and also for my friend Ted, who was going to try his luck along with me. As the sun rose the mist which hung over the meadows was dispersed, and I had a good view of the ground we were to travel over that day. About a mile away a Marsh Hawk was hunting for its breakfast, stopping now and then as it saw its prey in the grass, and I wondered if I would ...