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THE OOLOGIST. 



Editorial 



Did you notice the number on your 

 wrapper this month? Several hundred 

 subscriptions expire with this issue. 



A prompt renewal will save us the 

 trouble of notifying you later and 

 enable us to give you a still better pub- 

 lication. 



To those on our books who are in 

 arrearages over one year we are making 

 a special offer to each by letter that 

 could not be more liberal. 



We trust that every one will take ad- 

 vantage of that offer as we shall not re- 

 peat it after January 1st, 1905 and we 

 do not like to remove names from our 

 list any better than other publishers do. 



The following is one of several that 

 have helped to offset many of the 

 Editors vexations. 



Mr. ICrnest H. Short: 



Dear Sir.— Received the "Oologist" to date 

 and am greatly pleased to see it in such good 

 shape again. I trust it will receive the sup- 

 port it deserves so well. 



Yours truly, 



T. W. KiCHARDS. M. D. 



U. S. S. Arkansas. 



The following changes and additions 

 are announced by the Am. Ornith' 

 Union. 



Additions: Dendragapus, obscurus, 

 sierroe, Astragalinus psaltria^ hesper- 

 ophilus, Lanius ludooicianus mearnsi, 

 Budytes flavus alascensis, Baeolophus 

 iiioraatus restrictus. Eliminations, 

 SayorniH nigricann semiatra; Pipilo 

 fiiscus carolx; Heleodytes brunneicap- 

 illus anthonyi Passerculus rostratus 

 halophilus. 



Changes: Nyctala becomes Cryp- 

 toglnux; Corvus americamis becomes 

 C. brarhyrhynchos; Scolecophagus be- 

 comes Eaphagus; Helodytes brunnei- 

 capillus becomes H. b. coucsi; Phyllop- 

 suestes becomes Acanthopneuste. 

 Dendroica xstiva brewsteri was rejected. 



The Phainopepla, Thrashers, Nut- 

 hatches and Bush-tits are raised to 

 separate family rank. 



We are glad to announce a hearty 

 response to our ^^ Standard Catalogue" 

 scheme and we can now confidently 

 announce the early issue of acatalngue 

 of N. Am. Eggs that will be as near 

 right as the cooperation of 20 leading 

 Am. Oologists can make it. Of course 

 all can not be entirely satisfied in a 

 matter of this kind. It is a big coun- 

 try and on many things it has been 

 necessary to compromise on the "happy 

 mean" between the views of collectors 

 who saw the matter from different 

 stand points and hence were far apart 

 in their ideas. 



The Catalogue will contain much 

 new matter and be entirely up-to-date 

 but will be issued at the old price, 25 

 cents postpaid, 



Publication Received. 



Am. Ornithology, Vol. IV No. 9. 

 Nature Study, Vol. XIII, No. 9. Birds 

 and Nature, Vol. XVI, No. 2. Condor, 

 Vol. VI, No. 5. Journal of Me. Orni- 

 thology Society, Vol. VI, No. 3. 



Review. 



There has lately fallen into my hands 

 a copy of f Frederick Young" by Chas. 

 L. Philips. 



As a rule efforts to combine Science 

 and Natural History with fiction have 

 been confined to story books for the 

 young or the flights of imagination 

 given us by such writers as Jules Verne 

 and H. G. Wells. 



Mr. Phillips has successfully mad^ 

 the combination for readers of all ages 

 and his science is all solid facts. 



I find the book full of information 

 and yet so adroitly combined witli 

 readable fiction that it is not tiresome 

 and holds the interest of the reader 

 throughout. 



