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THE OOLOGIST 



success. What a difference in the 

 fall of the year, when the sportsman 

 is after them. 



Now that the sale of the birds is 

 prohibited, the shooting season re- 

 stricted to October and November, and 

 a bag limit fixed at six birds per gun 

 each day, conditions hereabouts are 

 likely to im])rove somewhat. Some- 

 thing ought to be done to afford pro- 

 tection to the birds when wintering in 

 the Southern States, and it is to be 

 hoped that success will soon crown 

 the efforts now being made to secure 

 better protection and some uniform- 

 ity in the provisions of the game laws 

 of the several states. 



Ottomar Reinecke. 



A Few Isle of Pines Nesting Records 

 For 1309. 



Jan. 20. Nest of West Indian Ground 



Dove, two eggs. 

 Jan. 22. Nest of W. I. Ground Dove, 



2 eggs. 

 Jan. 25. Nest of W. I. Ground Dove, 



2 eggs. 

 Feb. 3. Nest of W. I. Ground Dove, 



2 eggs. 

 Mar. 28. Nest of Red-legged Thrush 



(Cuban Robin) begun. 

 Mar. 29. Nest of Gray Kingbird be- 

 gun. 

 Apr. 17. Nest of Red-legged Thrush. 

 Apr. 22. Nest of'W. I. Ground Dove; 



2 young. 

 Apr. 24. Nest of Black-whiskered 



Vireo. 

 Apr. 27. Nest of Gray Kingbird. 

 May 6. Nest of Cuban Grackle. 

 May 28. Nest of Cuban Meadowlark; 



2 eggs. 

 May no. Nest of Red-legged Thrush. 

 Aug. 30. Nest of Ground Dove, 2 



eggs. 

 The records are very incomplete 

 because no time was taken to make 

 records, and these were purely acci- 

 dentally stumbled upon. 



A. C. REED. 



Ancient Oology. 



There has lately come to our hand 

 the correspondence counected with 

 the transaction relating to birds eggs 

 that occurred in 1868, involving the 

 IJiirchase by one person of the eggs 

 named in the following list at the 

 prices therein named. We 'have deem- 

 ed this of sufficient general interest 

 as showing the wide variation exist- 

 ing between the prifcesthen prevailing 

 and those now asked , for/ similar speci- 

 mens to justify our, | .ij)pblishing this 

 list in full. Forty-two years ago is a 

 long time, and we doubt' 'if there are 

 many more authentic lists of similar 

 transactions to be foundj 



How would you like to add a series 

 of the eggs of the Hooded Mergan- 

 ser and of the Wood duck to your col- 

 lection on the basis of i20 and 10 cents 

 apiece respectively? Here, follows 

 the list exactly as set forth in the 

 correspondence? 



Aug. 19th, 1868. 

 LIST OF PECK'S EGGS WITH PRICES. 



$96.96 



