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THE OOLOGIST. 



THE OOLOGIST. 



EBITED AND PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY 



FRANK H. LATTIN, - ALBION, N. Y. 



Correspondemce and items of interest to the student 

 of Birds, their Nests and F.ggs, solicited from all. 



Terms of Subscrip:ion. 



Single Subscription, - - 50c per Annum. 



Sample Copies, - - - - 8c each. 



The above rates include postage and premium. 



Terms of Advertising, 



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 accepted for sums under one dollar. Make money 

 orders and drafts payable and address all subscrip- 

 tions and communications to, 



FRANK H. LATTIN. 



Albion, Orleans Co., N. V. 



JOTTINGS. 



All subscriptions to the Oologist must 

 in with the January and February 

 number. 



The July and August Ooi.ogist will be 

 issued July 1st. All copy must be in by 

 June 20lh. 



Our new Checking Lists have been un- 

 avoidably delayed. Will have them by 

 June 15th, sure. 



We thank our friends for the liberal 

 manner in which they have sent in their 

 articles and items of interest for the Oolo- 

 gist. We have been obliged to hold over 

 some of the best for next issue. 



Davie's "Key to the Nests and Eggs of 

 North American Birds" is now out. We 

 can fill all orders by return mail. If it 

 does not more than give you satisfaction 

 we will refund your money and give you 

 10 cents extra for your trouble. 



During July and August we open a 

 branch office, or rather bazaar, at Chautau" 

 qua, N. Y. Should you happen in that 

 vicinity do not fail to give us a call. You 

 will find us in the Oriental Building, with 

 a big display of specimens and curiosities. 



For 50 cents we will send you the Oolo- 

 gist for 1886, the Oologist Hand-book, 

 one-half dozen Checking Lists, and will 

 insert you a free notice in our exchange 

 column. All for only 50 cents. We must 

 have 3,000 subscribers, and thereby be en- 

 abled to issue the Oologist monthly. 



Too sad to be true — but, if we are not 

 mistaken, the Oologist is the only publi- 

 cation ill the United States devoted exclus- 

 ively to birds, their nests and eggs, that is 

 issued as often as once in two months. 

 Send in at least one subscription and help 

 make the Oologist monthly. 



A Review of the Check Lists of North 

 American Birds, With Special Ref- 

 erence to the New A. O. U. 

 List. 



The forming of a Nomenclature which 

 would be the standard for reference in the 

 United States, has long exercised the inge- 

 nuity and judgment of ornithologists. In 

 1858 Baird gave to the world his " List of 

 Species," in which the nomenclature was 

 remodeled from that of the immediately 

 preceeding Audubonian period ; it was as 

 complete and satisfactory as the knowl- 

 edge of North American birds at that time 

 would permit of, and was a masterpiece of 

 classification, the result of years of careful 

 stud^^ and scientific research, and was 

 adopted by the Smithsonian Institution, 

 and the thousands of students and collec. 

 tors of the land. The names came at once 

 into universal employ, and so continued 

 with scarcely diminished force fourteen 

 years. But as our knowledge of bird life 

 increased and the hitherto unknown por- 

 tions of the country were developed, re- 

 sulting in very material additions to our 

 fauna, the growing need of a new nomen- 



