Another gloats over the number of
Connecticut warblers--a rare bird--he killed in one season in
Massachusetts. Another tells how a mocking-bird appeared in southern
New England and was hunted down by himself and friend, its eggs
"clutched," and the bird killed. Who knows how much the bird lovers of
New England lost by that foul deed? The progeny of the birds would
probably have returned to Connecticut to breed, and their progeny,
or a part of them, the same, till in time the famous songster would
have become a regular visitant to New England. In the same journal
still another collector describes minutely how he outwitted three
humming birds and captured their nests and eggs,--a clutch he was very
proud of. A Massachusetts bird harrier boasts of his clutch of the
egg's of that dainty little warbler, the blue yellow-back. One season
he took two sets, the next five sets, the next four sets, besides some
single eggs, and the next season four sets, and says he might have
found more had he had more time. One season he took, in about twenty
days, three from one tree.
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