Identifier: ologistforstud281911latt ( find matches)
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
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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most valued assistants of man found among the feathered tribe. Yetagainst them has been waged for years a ceaseless, senseless warfare whichsince the appearance of that well-known governmental publication, FishersHawks & Owls of the United States has been somewhat lessened. Yet it ishard indeed to convince the agriculturalist that the Hawk and Owl that liveupon the rodent that is so fearfully injurious to his crops should not be mur-dered on sight because perhaps a half dozen of this large family of birds occa-sionally take a chicken; and because of the diurnal members of the tribe withbut few exceptions are by the uninitiated called Chicken Hawks. The Hawks and Owls of Central United States have decreased at leastfifty per cent, in the last twenty-five years, and the ground squirrels, gophersand similar pests upon which these birds live, have increased in the same, andin some places a much greater, proportion. Will the farmer ever see the handwriting on the wall? 46 THE OOLOGIST
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Pennsylvania Goshawks THE OOLOGIST 47 Young Goshawk The Goshawk occurs in SouthernPennsylvania only during the winterseason, and then not at all abundantlyexcepting during an occasional winterwhen some unusual conditions drivethem southward. Such an occurrence was noted afew years since, and many were re-ported from Southeastern Pennsyl-vania and adjacent localities. In Warren and Sullivan Counties,Pennsylvania, they are regular, thoughrare breeders. They seem to requirelarge tracts of virgin forest. Wherethe Pine and Hemlock make a denseand secure shelter for them, as wellas the animals, they require for food.The pair of young birds here shownwere taken from the nest by Mr. R.B. Simpson near Warren, Pennsyl-vania. The first clutch of three eggs hetook for his collection about April 1st,a second was again layed, but in someway was destroyed, and a third lay-ing all in the same vicinity was allow-ed to hatch. Mr. Simpson kindly presented mewith these birds and they came tohand July 4th

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