THE OOLOGIST. 



Nearly all of the Bargain Lots m?utioned 

 in Jan. Ooixjgist remain uusolil. At the { 

 prices named they are true barf/oinx; if you , 

 want any speak quick. 



Delays: — A few premiums we have been j 

 oblij^ed to delay a few days before forward- j 

 ing to our i)atrons, but the only delays of j 

 importance are to those desiring Preminm i 

 "JCo 20, Foreign Eggs. We have been ex- j 

 peeting an importation since Jjin. 1st. but 

 as yet it s not here; we can promise them 

 by Feb. 15th, without fail. A few delays | 

 have occun-ed on prems. \?>2 and 133, but 

 if our friends in ordering from this list will j 

 name substitutts, no delays will occur. 



The "Critic" Criticised. 



To THE EdITOK of THE OoLOG I ST : 



While looking over the January is-suc of 

 your magazine, my attentic-n was drawn to 

 an article by Scolojjax, criticising the state- 

 ment made by me in the May OoLorasT, of 

 last year, to the effect that the eggs of the 

 Bald Eagle Avere about equal to those of 

 a goose in size. 



I thiuk that I am only doing myself 

 justice in replying and giving my authority 

 for that " emanation of an untruthful col- 

 lector's brain " (as he calls it). 



AVhen I wrote the article in question I 

 had never seen an eagle's egg, although I 

 had frequently seen and attempted to shoot 

 the birds; so, when I came to that part of 

 my description, I was obliged to refer to 

 some work on Ornithology, and as 1 had the 

 good fortune to possess a copy of "The 

 Birds of North America,'' by Theodore 

 Jasper, A. M., M. D. , which contains a 

 desciptiou and colored engraving of over 

 seven hundred species of our birds. I natur- 

 ally supposed that I had good authority to 

 back me up, and as Mr. Jasper stated in 

 his description of this eagle, page one, 

 second cohimn, that the eggs were two in 

 number, and about the size of those of a 

 goose, I took it for a fact and unhesitatingly 

 subscribed to it; but I must say that the 

 geese in Michigan are either very large or 

 possess ofifiacities for laving extraordinarily 



large eggs, if one of their productions is 

 foxir times as lurgo in cubic contents as tlie 

 Bald Eagle's egg now in my collection, 

 although it is only an .average specimen. 



As to the other statements made in my 

 article, I will refer Scolopax to at least foi;r 

 reliable persons in this town, if he desires, 

 to prove them true. 



Although I nm inni h younger at the bi'.s- 

 iness than Scolopax, yet I think that I have 

 as much true love for the Science as he oan 

 possibly have and that I have just as deep 

 an ambition to l)e truthful and reliable. 



I would suggest to Scolopax that he tale 

 his own advice and be sure that he knows 

 a collector is, untrutlful 1 efoie t.e attempts 

 to assert it. 



n. C. Cook, Totbdrm, N. Y. 



To Mk. S. 



In reply to your article in the Januaiy 

 niimV;er of this paper. I would request yt u 

 to refer to X'avie's Key 2nd edition, ali-o to 

 Histories of Tage and Lucas Counties and 

 Geology of Iowa. Each of the above 

 named gives a Ii?t of birds including the 

 Carolina Parakeet. In saying this I do not 

 deviate from the truth; I dislike to use hard 

 words, but 1 rm a little inclined to think 

 that Mr. S. of Kalnmazoo, Mich., is "off of 

 his base." In saying that the Parakeet 

 does not breed in Io-tq, he contradicts some 

 of the best authorities in the United States. 

 Mr. Davie, in giving the habitat, thus says: 

 Hab. Southern States, up the Mississippi 

 Valley to the Missourri region, west to Ar- 

 kansas and Indi:m Territory. Piecently 

 Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa etc.; formeily 

 strayed to Ohio, Pennsylvania and .'-'fv 

 York; but of late has receded from '.' ■ 

 Carolinas; still abundant in JJ^jrida. 2.. 

 S. should kiiow that the real truth cannot 

 be contradicted by mere negative. 



I Yours truly 



i T. S., Corning, Iowa. 



I Ed. Oologist: 



; Dear Sir: In regard to article in la-st No. 

 [^f The OuLOGiST in regard to the Carolina 

 T^PaTakeet, v\r ttcn I'y the gentleman of 

 Kalamazoo. Mich. 



