Identifier: ologistfors1214189597latt (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 Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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have found Sandpipers eggs withina yard of the edge of a lake, on a smallgravelly island not over six inchesabove the water in its highest part.Another queer situation was on a pileof drift wood and debris, while anothernest was on a log and quite a foot fromthe ground. A great many nests of this specieshave come to my notice, but the mostpeculiar instance was the finding oftwo equally incubated sets in nests notover four feet apart. ■ Eleven nests ofthis species were found in one field nextto a mill pond by two boys during MayJune and July. Peet weet feeds on worms, aquaticinsects and small moUusks, and is un-doubtedly beneficial. It is too small belooked upon as game. But though be-neath the notice of upright gunners itstill oflers attractions to observers whoare interested in a study of our birds,and I know of very few of our feather-ed associates who offer a better oppor-tunity for investigation than our littleacquaintance. Tip-up. MOKRIS GiBBS, Kalamazoo, Mich. 84 THE OOLOGIST.
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~C^^(^€^r e^/ . C^^^^^^^^^^-^^^^-^^^- THE OOLOGIST. 85 George N. Lawrence. .Mr. George N. Lawrence, one ofthe Founders and an Honorary Meinberof the American Ornithologists Union,and for some years a member of itsCouncil, died Jan, 17, 1895, at his resi-dence in New York City, in the eighty-ninth year of his age. Mr. Lawrencewas especially known as an authorityon the birds of tropical America, towhich his attention was chiefly givenduring the long period of his scientificactivity. As a writer on North Amer-ican birds he will be mainly remember-ed for his association with Baird andCassin in the authorship of the famousIX Volume of the Reports of Explor-ations and Surveys for a Railroad Routefrom the Mississippi River to the PacificOcean, published in 1858, to which Mr.Lawrence contributed the parts relatingto several orders of the Water Birds;andfor his well known Catalogue of Birdsobserved on New York, Long and Stat-en Islands, and the adjacent parts ofNew Jersey, published in 18G6.

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