THE OOLOGIST. 



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The Oologist. 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 



OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN. ALBION. N. Y. 

 Editor and Publisher. 



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■nreRES at TMF post 0*Firc at ALPiON, N, y,, AS SeCOND-ClAS*- MATTFft. 



A. M. Farmer say.s he fouud the King 

 Kail quite common iu Boone Co., Liwa. 



The new edition of Langille'.s, "Our 

 Birds in Their Haunts" i.s now Ijeing 

 deliver.sil to abvance .sub,scriljer.s. 



Friend Jlviljbe, of MayviUe. N. Y., 

 >ays: — "I took sets of Red-taih^d Hawk- 

 eggs, 18!)0, 1891 and \H\)2 out of the 

 same nest." 



Ekkata — On page 44 of this OiiLOGiST 

 somebody made a bad mess of the word 

 "amateur," we think that both Mr. 

 Mathes and the Editor can spell the 

 word . 



E. L. Haley, of Phillips, Me., writes: 

 "June 6, in coming from Redington to 

 Saunders, down the railroad track, a 

 distance of six miles, I fouud twenty- 

 seven nests of the Black Snowbird, (t/e<?z- 

 co hyemalis) with oLie exception con- 

 taining yoting. 1 also found the com- 

 mencement of two more nests of the 

 same specie. s" 



In glancing over the pages of this 

 mouths Oologist, it is self evident that 

 "the boys" are with its Publisher and 

 that if the "tin wedding" volume of 

 this popular publication is not a "howl- 

 ing success," its not their fault. 



H. Mathes, of Denver, Colo., writes 

 that last season he founed three nests 

 of the American Dipper, none of which 

 were ot green or living moss and the 

 average size of each was about 5x0 in. 



C. C. Renshaw, of Boyce, Va., writes 

 of ta/king two sets (lU eggs) of Bank 

 Swallow from one hole, on May 23d. 

 He says that the second nest was about 

 4 in. back of the first one, and seemed 

 al)out one inch higiier. 



E. A. Fero, of Colioes, N. Y.. writes 

 that last October he was presented 

 witli a fine Sand Hill Crane in meat by 

 a friend who shot it near that place. 



H. C. H., of Cortland Co., N. Y., 

 writes: "My wife says if tiir liouse 

 shouhl catch lire, I wouM probal)ly 

 save my OoLogi.sts first and iht-n come 

 back after the childreo." 



H. D. Watts, of Comptou, California, 

 writes of seeing a "pure white" Black- 

 bird—and Chas. Bowers, of Columbia, 

 Pa., a White Crow. G, M. A., of New- 



