Identifier: wilsonbulletin271915wils (find matches)
Title: The Wilson bulletin
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Wilson Ornithological Society Wilson Ornithological Club Nebraska Ornithologists' Union
Subjects: Ornithology Birds
Publisher: Columbus, OH : Wilson Ornithological Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ly. They were in a hay-field a half mile from his barn, and aquarter mile apart. One bird fiushed readily, while the other couldalmost be touched before leaving. The nest with 12 eggs was de-stroyed, but the other hatched safely. 2. 13. Mourning Dove (Zenaidura macroura carolinensis), May22nd, 1915. A nest composed of a few sticks and containing twoeggs was found on an island in the middle of Cedar Lake. 4. 14. Marsh Hawk (Circus liudsonius), May 18th, 1914. A set offive eggs found in a patch of weeds on dry ground in Skokie Marsh.Nest composed wholly of weed stems to form a pad about fiveinches thick. The same pair, supposedly, nested here this year,but the nest was flooded by a three days raise of water. 15. Coopers Hawk (Accipiter coojieri). May 9th, 1915. A nestwas found on this date with one egg. On the seventeenth of Mayit held four eggs, and on the next visit on June 17th, two of theeggs were just hatching. The nest was about 45 feet up in a red 440 The Wilson Bulletin—No. 93
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King Rail nest. Lake Co., 111. W. A. Goelitz. A Two-Year Nesting Record 441 oak, and was built of sticks on top of an old crows nest, and waslined with a few pieces of bark. 5. 16. Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo I. lineatus). This is our mostcommon hawk. We found eleven nests with eggs in two years.Earliest date for eggs is April 6th, and latest is May 21st. Inclimbing to these nests we were attacked only once. 17. Sparrow Hawk (Falco s. sparverius). May 8th, 1914, a nestcontaining five eggs was found about 20 feet up in a dead stubalong the edge of a field. On May 19th, 1915, four eggs were takenfrom this same stub. There was a bluebirds nest above the cav-ity occupied by the hawks. On the 29th of June the cavity wasoccupied by a set of Flicker eggs. 4. 18. Screech Owl (Ottis a. asio). May 20th, 1914, a nest contain-ing two bad eggs and one young bird was found in a natural cav-ity in a red oak. The tree was in the front yard of a home in thecenter of Highland Park. 1. 19. Yellow-billed

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