THE OOLOGIST. 



The Youi Oolofist i The Oolofist 



Comprising together the most popular magazine, devoted to Birds, their 



Nests and Eggs, ever published. 



Appreciating their valne, the published has vesovved a limited quantity of each 



issue to supply future vlemunds. He has now, all told, 



LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED COPIES OF EACH ISSUE. 



Collectors will readily see the advisability of Completing their Files or obtaining a 



Co7n2)lete Set at Once ! 

 Back numbers 'vrlll soon be exceedingly rare and valuable and possibly not obtainable at rmy price 



CONTENTS. 



The following table of contents enumerates some of the principal articles in each issue. The 

 "short articles" mentioned are one column or less in length and are all of greuc value to the 

 student. 



Not mentioned In the list of contents, each issue contains one or two pages of "items" or 

 'brief notes", one column to two pages of exchange notices, and from throe to eight pages of 

 advertisements, besides a "query column" which occurs in many, although not all issues. 



THE YOUNG OOLOGIST. 



VOLUME I. Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 12 each con- 

 tain 16 pages. Nos. 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 each coutain- 



20 pages. No. 11 contains 3(5 .pages. 



No. 1.— Instructions for Collecting Birds' Eggs, 

 (3 pages^ : Coues' Key; Twenty-four short ar- 

 ticles. May, 1884. 



No. 2.— Instructions for Collecting Birds' Eggs, 

 concluded, (2 pages) ; Painted Buntings ; Cala. 

 Mottled Owl; List of Birds Found at Mon- 

 treal; 24 short articles. June, '84. 



No. 3. — Maine Items; Yellow-headed Blackbird; 

 Orchard Oriole ; The Slip System; Wilson's 

 Thrush ; Hand-book of Agassiz Association; 

 23 short articles. July, '84. 



No. 4.— Screech Owl ; Importance of Identifica- 

 tion; A La. Heronry; Cardinal Crosbeak; 

 Eagle's Nest; How to Make and Use Bird 

 Lime; 14 short articles. Aug., '84. 



No. 5.— Bird-nesting— To Collect Scientifically, 

 (3 pages) ; Cala. Birds ; From Wyoming ; 22 

 short articles. Sept., '84. 



No. 6.— Bobolink, (2'/2 pages) ; Sea Birds of 

 Maine ; Egging in Cala. Swamp; Old "Put" 

 and the Bird's Nest; List of Wisconsin Birds; 

 12 short articles. Oct., '84. 



No. 7.— Bronzed Grakle; Singular Duel; Fish 

 Hawk ; Spurred Towhee and Least Tit; Old 

 "Put" and the Bii-d's Nest; Bird Island; 14 

 short articles. Nov., '84. 



No. 8.— The Alligator; Collecting In Marshes; 

 Woodcock; "Our Birds in Their Haunts;" 

 Iowa Notes; Redstart; Summer Redbird: 18 

 short articles. Dec, '84. 



No. 9.— Baltimore Oriole; Texas Jottings; Sap- 

 suckers; Barn Owl; American Ornithologists' 

 Union, (3 pages); How to Handle a Guu; 

 Black-capped Titmouse ; Egg of the Moa. Jan. 



No. 10.— Winter Wreu; Cala. Duck Hunting; 

 Screech Owl \Dazie' a Egg Check List; Pea- 



'xockwith Queer Tastes; White-bellied Nut- 

 Ihatch; Blue Jays; Spotted Robin Eggs; 8 

 short articles. Feb., '85. 



llo. 11.— Bank Swallow; English Sparrows; 

 Study of Birds; Gt. Horned Owl; Yellow- 

 billed Cuckoo; Gambel's Quail; Conn. Notes; 

 Intelligence of the Oriole; Yellow-breast 

 Chat; Maryland Yellow-throat; Whlte- 

 Rumped Shrike ; List of Pacific Coast Birds; 

 Knights of Audubon ; Sample Data Blanks, 

 (4 pages) ; 33 short articles. March, '85. 



Ko. Vi— Completes Vol. I. Title pages for 

 binding, with complete and exhaustive index, 

 <8 pages.) April, '85. 



VOLUME II. consists of but two numbers. 

 Each contains 32 pages. 



No. 13.— Bartram's Gardens; Soiith Carolina 

 Observations, (6 pages): Scientific Names; 

 Gt. Horned Owl;'IJank Swallows; Kniglits of 

 Audubon ; Hummingbird ; R. I. Notes ; Texas 

 Jottings; ;W short articles. May, '8,=>. 



No. 14.— American Crossbill; Audubon's Birds 

 of America; Illinois Notes; Destruction of 

 Birds ; Cuckoos ; Cala. notes ; Wrens on the 

 Warpath; Golden-winged Warbler; Fox 

 Sparrow; Our Winter Birds; Snipe Creek; 

 Red-head; Wisconsin Jottings; Burrowing 

 Owl, etc.; A Florida Trip; Horned Lark; 

 Queer Homes and Nestine sites ; Brave Bird ; 

 Ferruginous Rough Leg ; Sparrows ; Pigmy 

 Nuthatch ; 26 short articles. June, '85. 



THE OOLOGIST. 



Volumes III. and IV. arc Bi-Monthly. The 



remaining volumes are Monthly. 

 VOLUME III. each issue averages 12 pages. 



No. 15.— Full page Frontispiece.— .A/««rJ(?a/i Wa- 

 ter Ouzels and Nest; Chester Lsland and the 

 Marsh Wrens; Birds of Cortland Co., N. Y., 

 (4V4 pages); A Cheap Cabinet; Nest of the 

 Black-and-white Creeper; Sunnner Birds 

 about Washington, D. C ; Davie's Nests and 

 Eggs of N. A. Birds; Water Blowpipe; 6 

 Short Articles. Jan. & Feb., '86. 



No. 16.— Vagary of a Collector (Great Homed 

 Owl, Climbing Strap) ; A Hunt for Tern Eggs; 

 Birds of Cortland Co.. N. Y. ; Notes from 

 North Carolina; Whip-Poor-Wlll; Nest of the 

 Brown Creeper; Hlack-billed Cuckoo Deposit- 

 ing Eggs in a Vcllow-liilU^d Cuckoo's Nest; 

 (;annit)alism of the KtHl-lieadcd Woodpecker; 

 23 short articles. March & April. 'Wi. 



No. 17.— History of a Bird-Box; Tre«' Sparrow; 

 N?fits of the Green Heron; Bird Nolcs from 

 loVa; A DinUult Cll:nb after a Keil-talled 

 Hawk's Nest; Review of the Check-Lists of 

 N. A. Birds, with special Reference to the 

 new A. O. U. List (3 pages); The State of 

 Maine as a Field for the Ornlth(*>j0glst; 10 

 short articles. May & June, '86. 



No. IH.— Mv first White Cnuie's Nest; Spring 

 Notes; Notes from Chester County, Pa.; 

 Turkey Buzzards; How to Make a Cabinet; 

 Chewlnk Ne.sts in a Tree; A- Cabinet for* 

 large Collection: 13 short articles. J.v.(tA>ig.,'a(» 



No. 10.— Collecting on Long Island ; Chimney. 

 Swift; A Day with the Loons; Illinois Bird- 

 Notes; Marsh' Wreus ; A Plucky Wood Pewe«« 



