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THE OOLOGIST. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



A GOOD TESTIMONIAL, 



:Nrr.W. C. Brownellof Plymouth, Mich., 

 whom we sold that $2,500.00 worth of 

 eggs, in acknowledgiug the receipt of the 

 lot on June 25th, writes as follows : 



" I will here say that I am very much 

 pleased with both your way of transport- 

 ing eggs and with the eggs themselves, and 

 that there was not one single ec/g broken. 



WHITE BROWN THRASHER EGGS. 



Dear Mr. Lattin : 



Did you ever see, or hear of anybody 

 who did, white eggs of the Brown Thrash- 

 er ? I never dreamt of such a thing, and 

 yet I am forced to the conclusion that it is 

 possible and that I have two of them in 

 my cabinet. A boy got them for me. The 

 nest was built in a small tree and contained 

 four eggs. He left two of them for the 

 bird to go on uninterruptedlj^ and the re- 

 maining two he took and gave them to me. 

 The bird that laid them, and true to bird- 

 instiuct would have hatched them all four, 

 is none other than the Brown Thrasher. 

 If you have white Bluebird eggs, why not 

 of the Brown Thrasher ? You^an use this 

 for your journal if vou see lit. 



Rev. S. C. Tobias, 



Lititz, Pa. 



OUR XEW CIIECKrNG LISTS. 



Use them, they will save any collector or 

 dealer a big printer's bill. We claim them 

 to be the neatest and handiest Checking 

 List of N. A. Birds ever used. They are 

 printed on extra heavy paper, eight pages, 

 three foldings, and will go nicely into a 

 ISTo. 6 envelope. This list contains both 

 Ridgeway's and the new A. O. U. C. lists. 

 Sample, 2c. ; 12 for 20c. ; 100 for $1.50. 



We add the following kind words from 

 leading Oologists : 



■' I would do myself and the Lists injus- 

 tice did I not say that for convenience of 

 size, clearness and beauty of typography, I 

 have never seen anything of the kind that 

 approaches them.'" 



Harry G. Parker. 



" You will no doubt receive congratula- 

 tory letters hy the ton now, for the " lists" 

 are by far the best we have ever seen and 

 the typographical and presswork as well 

 as the paper is first-class. In fact, a boon 

 to the collector and a credit to the com- 

 piler. Saml B. Ladd. 



" 1 am well pleased with them.' 

 J. Parker Norris, 

 (Oological editor of the O. and O. 



d.wie's new key. 

 " Davie's book received in good order. 

 I am greatl}' pleased with it. The de- 

 scriptions are full and clear, and are often 

 expanded into picturesque reading, so that 

 I have read it with interest aside from its 

 mere technical merits." 



(Rev.) W. M. Beauchamp, 

 Baldwinsville, N. Y. 



THE YOUNG ORNITHOLOGISTS. 



Dear Sir : 



Some time ago I wrote an article in The 

 Young Ornithologist, published by A. A. 

 Child of Boston, Mass., to the effect that 

 the subscribers to that magazine should 

 start a corresponding club, and have their 

 notes and observations published in the 

 paper. Quite a number agreed to join it, 

 but before we could tix up a constitution 

 or organize the publisher stopped the mag- 

 azine. I then wrote to Mr. J. B. Richards 

 of Fall River, Mass., and we agreed to 

 make your paper the official organ if you 

 would give us the requisite space. We 

 also drew up the following constitution : 



Article I. The name of this society 

 shall be The Young Ornithologists' Asso- 

 ciation. 



Article II. It shall be the object of 

 this Association to collect, study and pre- 

 serve birds, their nests and eggs and to note 

 facts relating to them. 



Article III. The officers of this Asso- 

 ciation shall be a president and a secretary , 

 who shall perform the customary duties of 

 such offices These officers are to be ap- 

 pointed by the publisher of The Oologist. 



Article IV. » New Legions may be 

 added with the consent of the president, 

 provided that no legion shall consist of 

 less than tliree members. (Individual 

 members will be admitted free of charge 

 and will enjoy the same privileges as mem- 

 bers of Legions.) Legions .shall be named 

 from the towns in which they exist, and 

 if there be more than one Legion in a town 

 they shall be further distinguished by the 

 letters of the alphabet. 



Article V^. Each Legion may choose 

 its own officers and make its own by-laws. 



Article VI. This constitution may be 

 amended by a three-fourths vote of the 

 Association or its representatives. 



Article VII. The Oologist shall be 

 the official organ of communication be- 

 tween members and Legions of this Asso- 

 ciation. 



Drawn up by L. 0. Pindar. Approved 

 bv J. B. Richards. 



