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THE OOLOGIST. 



The Oologist. 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 



OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



FRANK H.LATTIN. ALBION, N. Y. 

 Editor and Publisher. 



Correspondence and Items of interest to the 

 student of Birds, tbelr Nests and Eggs, solicited 

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Tribulations of the Oologist- 



You've been a collector— a student of Nature, 



A nuraber.of years I will venture to say, 

 You've had a good share of this world's joys and 

 sorrows. 

 For the poet has told us: "Each dog has his 

 day." 



1 take It for granted you've thought o'er the 

 matter. 

 And concluded Oology sliould be your choice: 



This effusion may bring back some fond recol- 

 lections, 

 So you, with the writer.can mourn and rejoice. 



How well 1 remember my flrst egg collection. 

 The gems it contained made me thrill with 

 delight, 

 it embraced twenty singles of all shapes and 

 colors. 

 End- blown, with holes that were not "out of 

 sight." 



I called them by names that were not sclentlflc, 

 They were Big Chippy, Linnet, Little Chippy 

 and Jay , 

 And a good many others,— but I'll spare the in- 

 fliction . 

 For this rare collection has vanished to stay. 

 We all can remember the trips we have taken, 

 The trees we have climbed; and the falls tve 

 have met, 

 And oft in our minds sadly lingers the mem'ry, 

 of the nests we couldn't reach and the eggs we 

 didn't get. 



There are many collectors who're after rare 

 species, 



That nest in the ocean far off from the land, 

 'Tls they who And out what is true tribulation. 



When they start to go on a trip that Is grand. 



I can stand disappointments and falls, and go 

 hungry, 

 I can wade through the mud and stay out in 

 tiio rain, 

 But when seasickness comes and claims me his 

 victim, 

 I'm free to confess It gives me great pain. 



And alter it's over, you should be very thankful. 

 That your chances were greater than those of 

 of this verse. 

 For this missed the basket by so .short a dis- 

 tance, 

 I've concluded it could be bur little bit worse, 

 c. Baklow, Santa Clara, Cal. 



PERTINACIOUS, PERNICIOUS 

 (S)PARROW, Passer Preposterous.— 

 Puglistic, pusillaDimous, prosaic, pleb- 

 eian. Plutonic, pai'simonioiis, plunder- 

 ing, phlegmatic pagan. Positively per- 

 tinacious; preternaturally pvurient;fpre- 

 eminently pugnacious; profoundly pir- 

 atical. Prefers protection; presents 

 plentiful petulence; particularly preda- 

 cious. Possesses parental propensili- 

 ties; procreates preposterously; proving 

 peculiarly pernicious. Paradoxical, 

 pillaging passer. PETER PETTGREW, 

 Podunk, Pa. 



