in which a bird was “hooting” it was next to impossible to discern the author of the sound : The grouse always chose the tallest trees in which to perch while calling, and when haling close to its trunk in the topmost branches at a far 25 or 30 feet high were effect- ually protected from enemies on the ground. The female nests an its con- trary were always to be found above the ground and would please from sheltered under ones feet. I found one nest of this grouse containing four eggs, well along in incubation, and knew of two or three other nests in neighboring localities. I shot one Osprey (Pandion haliaetus carolinensis) and found the nest which was built on the top of a red stump at some forty feet high. The male bird was very wild and it was useless to get near enough for a shot, alter he flew about my head constantly. I did not climb up to its nest as it would have been practically impossible, but since I found several eggs in the vicinity of its hole I shot, I judge the nest had only been built a short time.