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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
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h such a specimen. Strangely, the time of my findingthis bird coincides to some extend withthat of Mr. Kohlers. It was in thefall of 1913. The bird had been foundcrippled and was brought to me in adangerously bruised state. Becauseits lower mandible was hanging limpit could not eat, so it eventually died. The bird was surely an oddity, andwas in every respect, some differentfrom an ordinary meadowlark. Itwas fully an inch shorter than an or-dinary specimen. Its bill and feetwere startlingly white and morepeculiar than chis was the fact thatwherever brown occurs in the ordin-ary specimen, brilliant reddish tan ororange, paler of course in manyplaces occurred in this specimen. Theentire plumage seemed to have beentinged in some degree with thisstrange color. A tinge of sulphur yel-low showed in the breast and the wellknown cravat was much bedraggledinstead of clear black. Though I am not sure, I believe Isaw this bird some days before incompany with others of its kind. George M. Sutton.
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160 THE OOLOGIST The Rocky Mountain Jay. I would like to know through the.readers of the Oologist if there is anyone who has ever found a nest or eggsof the Rocky Mountain Jay. I haveseen many of the birds in differentparts of this state but always at anelevation of from 10 to 12 thousandfeet, and they seem most common attimber line which ranges about 11,000feet altitude, but I have never heardof anyone finding either nest or eggs.They are supposed to nest very earlyin the season, that is in February orMarch while the snow is still deep inthe mountains and I noticed last Janu-ary an article in the Denver RockyMountain News about the RockyMountain Jay. It seems the StateMuseum at Denver wanted a nest andeggs of this common bird very badlyand offered a reward for the same,and also had instructed about 200lumber jacks and forest rangers tobe on the lookout for nest and eggsbut I think they are still looking forI have never heard of the discoveryof one. I have often wondered if theeggs of

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