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THE OOLOGIST 



and will remain for years a standard 

 work of reference relating to the orni- 

 thology of the Dominion. The me- 

 chanical make up of the work is a 

 credit to the public printing of Can- 

 ada. 



The Warbler, Vol. V., 1909. Bulle- 

 tin of the Childs Museum of North 

 American Ornithology. 



This number of the Warbler consist- 

 ing of thirty-one pages and three half 

 tones, is at hand, containing the fol- 

 lowing entitled articles. 



Breeding of the Sharp-shinned Hawk 

 on Long Island. 



Last record of the Breeding of the 

 Bartramian Sandpiper in Maine. 



The Bleating and Breeding of the 

 Snipe. 

 ; Long Island Bird Notes. 



The Chat. 



Authentic eggs of Corey's Least Bit- 

 tern. 



Brewer's Blackbird. 



The Starling. 



Collecting in Northeastern Siberia. 



And a Supplementary catalogue of 

 the Natural History Books of Childs 

 Museum and Library. 



It is well gotten up and full of inter- 

 esting bird matter. 



Would that Brother Childs would 

 again resume the publication of the 

 Warbler as of yore. We have always 

 regretted its discontinuance as a bi- 

 monthly magazines. 



The Passenger Pigeon. 



A final effort is now being made to 

 definitely determine whether the Pass- 

 enger Pigeon is extinct. The following 

 rewards will be paid in connection 

 with the plan: 



$300.00 for the first next or nesting 

 colony on the North American conti- 

 nent; $100.00 for the first nest in Mass- 

 achusetts; $100.00 for the first nest in 



Connecticut; $100.00 for the first in 

 Illinois. 



The nests must be undisturbed and 

 reported in confidence to C. F. Hodge, 

 at Clark University, Worcester, Mass- 

 achusetts, and they will be by him 

 confirmed at the expense of the donors 

 of the fund and not at the expense of 

 the discoverers; which will leave the 

 reward complete for the person or per- 

 sons making these finds. 



All previous rewards for freshly 

 killed specimens of this bird are can- 

 celled and all persons killing or des- 

 troying the bird or its nest will be 

 prosecuted. 



It is hoped that bird lovers through- 

 out the land will give special atten- 

 tion to this matter this season, and 

 they need have no fear of the final dis- 

 position of such nest or nests as may 

 be discovered. They will not be dis- 

 turbed, collected nor injured in any 

 way, even if to prevent which, it 

 should be necessary to place an arm- 

 ed guard over the nest or nests until 

 the young leave. 



We trust some of the readers of 

 THE OOLOGIST will be successful in 

 securing some of these large rewards. 



FRAUD. 



One of our subscribers Writes us as 

 follows: 



"There are a lot of bogus eggs float- 

 ing around and the only way they can 

 be discovered is by comparing the sus- 

 pected eggs with a series of genuine 

 ones. In making my collection I have 

 thrown out as bogus, probably a dozen 

 sets, and I have refused to accept 

 many that I believed were frauds. A 

 common case of subtitution is to palm 

 off fifteen cent English Sparrow Hawk 

 eggs for those of our Sharp Shinned 

 Hawks, worth a dollar each. Some 

 time ago there were a lot of fraud 

 Goshawk eggs floating around, of 

 which I have a set or two. I was also 



