Anyone desiring questions answered relating to Birds, their Nests and Eggs, will favor us by sending them in, and we will answer them through this column to the best of our ability.

On the 28th of March, 1885, I found a nest of the Red-shouldered Hawk, containing two eggs, which I took. Returning seven days later, and seeing the bird fly from the nest, I concluded to take another look at it, and was very much surprised to find two more eggs, although the shells were much lighter marked than those taken previously, which went to prove they were deposited by the same bird.

J. H. B.,

Oswego, Kansas.

Last summer, while out collecting, I found a three-storied nest of the Summer Yellow bird. Each story contained one egg of the Cow bird, and two of the Warblers. I also found a double nest of the Bronzed Grackle containing nine eggs; four in the lower part, and five in the upper. The total number of eggs from both nests were eighteen. Don’t you think this a pretty good haul from two nests?

W. A. W.

Quincy, Ill’s.

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D. H. Eaton

Woburn, Mass.

It is said that alligators’ eggs are esteemed by the natives of the regions where those reptiles abound. Mr. Joseph, in his “History of Trinidad,” says that he found the eggs of the cayman very good. The female alligator lays from 120 to 160 eggs. They are about as large as the eggs of a turkey, and have a rough shell filled with a thick albumen.

There is an eagles nest on the stump of an old tree in the middle of Caddo lake, near Jefferson, Texas, and a pair of eagles have occupied this as their home for more than twenty years.