Three nests of Skhy, various force for upon cutting open the hole we found the eggs (three) all whole. I shot both birds and found the 8 & 1/2 called on zuchalis. The ovaries of the one contained four more eggs of various sizes. This hole was bored in very hard "dry rotten" wood. It was 30 ft up, the orifice 1 1/4 in diam, the nest cavity 12 1/2 in deep, with a diameter of about 8 inches. The birds made a good deal of noise & were very tame, Continuing down the Cole we found another nest of the same bird in an oak at Ellinwood's land. This hole was lower than any that I have seen not over 15 ft above the earth & my man succeeded in climbing to it and bringing down the lot of five fresh eggs in safety. This hole I could not measure but it was about 12 in deep. About a mile below this we found a third nest in a very tall Hush at least 50 feet up and after twenty minutes skillful work with the axe the tree came thundering down. In the nest we found two broken eggs the height of the fall having proved too much for them. This hole was 1 3/4 in diameter at mouth with a perpendicular depth of 16 inches but the wood was somewhat softer than in either of the other trees. The shot at Ellinwood's was the only one that I can say that did not contain a number of holes. In both of them that we cut down there were at least five or six finished nesting holes