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Upper left: Gibralta[r] Rock from the south, Columbia County, Wisconsin, Upper right: Young Duck Hawks (Peregrine Falcon), removed from nest, Lower left: Nesting ledge of Duck Hawk in Sauk County, Wisconsin, Lower right: Gibralta Rock... where Duck Hawk invariably alighted

Identifier: wilsonbulletin33agas (find matches)
Title: The Wilson bulletin
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Agassiz Association. Wilson Ornithological Chapter Wilson Ornithological Society Wilson Ornithological Club Nebraska Ornithologists' Union
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio : Wilson Ornithological Society

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take an authors statement, regarding an unusual species, that it is still to be found, without giving supporting data. The wa-ter birds have been most partially noted, as might be expected, andthe author has shown particular interest in the nidification of thesummer residents. Professor Barton Warren Everman is the au-thor of this section of the work. Other chapters deal more or less exhaustively with the mam-mals, reptiles, amphibians, fish, mollusks. crustaceans, insects, etc.,etc., and serve well to call our attention to the fact that there ismuch of interest in nature aside from ornithology. The IndianaDepartment of Conservation under the interested direction of Mr.Richard Lieber is to be commended for its part in getting thiswork through the mill and before the public. A. F. G. *Lake Maxinkuckee. a physical and biological survey. ByBarton Warren Everman and Howard Walton Clark. Pub. byThe Dept. of Conservation, State of Indiana, 1920. Vols. I and II,660+512 pp., 91 illustrations.
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KEY TO PLATP:. Fig. 1 — Gibralta Rock from the south, ColumbiaCounty, Wis. Fig 2 — Young Duck Hawks, removed from nest. Fig. 3 — Nesting ledge of Duck Hawk in SaukCounty, Wis. Fig. 4 — Gibralta Rock, showing commanding pointin center of picture, where Duck Hawk invariably alightedon thir trips to and from the nest. 162 THE WILSON BULLETIN—December, 1921 (Birds of Wisconsin, p. 66) give the following- informa-tion : • Formerly bred at Racine, and has been known toremain at Lake Koshkonong throngh the snmmer. . . . Wehave seen it in summer along the south shore of LakeSuperior, where it appeared to be nesting on the rockyledges. My OAvn field work has fortunateh^ included some in-teresting experiences with the Duck Hawk in Wisconsinand the following notes are offered: On May 20, 1911, an adult female, one addled egg andone doTNTiy young, were collected about eight miles belowPrairie du Sac, on the Sauk county side of the WisconsinKiver, by Mr, Bert Laws and the writer (see A

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