176 



ORXITHOLOGI8T 



[Vol. U-Xo. 11 



assurance that it was, and unfortunately we had no 

 witness. 



S has been offered the Auk with an A. O. U. associate 

 membership thrown in at subscription price, wants to 

 know wliat inducement we can offer and he will con- 

 sider which to accept. 



T wislies us to denounce the writer of an article as a 

 fraud. We meet the writer daily. He stands six feet 

 in his stockings and carries a fist like John L. Sullivan. 

 We hesitate. 



U thinks that we should increase the price of the 

 magazine. [He subscribes to it through a cut rate 

 agency.] 



V is the victim of sending his subscription to an ir- 

 responsible party and blames us for the loss. 



\y used to be an ardent subscriber. He wrote an 

 article and someone criti(!ised it. His nose was broken, 

 liut he has the kindest feeling for the present publisher. 



X does not think it pays him to devote any time to 

 it. When recently elected to a i)osition it was quite 

 amusing to see how ipiickly he sent clii)i)ings magnify- 

 ing his inauguration for us to publisli. We did not 

 think it would pay I 



Y would subscribe if he felt sure the O. & O. would 

 not stop publication but he is very distrustful, and 

 thinks that he will take no risks. 



Z knows it all, so reijuires no information. 



Meantime, one of the editors would like the entire 

 space devoted to oology, another would like to see bugs 

 crawling over all its pages, whde the third sits on the 

 fence and don't know wli:it he wants. 



We assure our readers that the (). vV (». will continue 

 to run in harmony and good will in l,s)(). and we will 

 meet the views of all satisfactorily. 



C F. Emery of Rockville. Conn., recently shot a half 

 Albino AVood(^oek which he is having stuffed. .1. M. 

 Wade. 



Wm. (i. Smith killed a fine iilumaged ^ Sabine's 

 (iull on the 12th of October at Loveland, Col. 



A Canada .lay was taken at Arlington Heights, Mass. 

 October Kith, by E. H. Winship. .\dult J. Stomach 

 filled with bees and wasjjs. .T. R. Mann. 



>tockingbird .seen by E. .1. Smith at Sherborn, Mass., 

 October L'3d. 1889. Showed no signs of confinement, 

 though quite tame, allowing approach within a short 

 distance. 



A peculiar case of sickness is reported at 41 Walnut 

 street. Little .^Hss Katie Cowen his been sick for 

 some time, and the doctors were at a loss to ascribe 

 the cause, though she kept wasting away from day to 

 day. A lady friend of the family gave her a medicine 

 that acted as an emetic, aiul the girl threw up a little 

 black water snake about three inches long. Since then 

 she has felt relieved, but is very weak. Where the 

 child swallowed the snake is a niy.stery.— [Hyde Park 

 (^lass.) Times. 



We do not think a copy of our September issue had 

 any bearing on it, and Honda lives in an entirely dif- 

 ferent jiart of the tf>« n. 



We tender our thanks to Henry J. Thayer, Esq., of 

 Boston, for a fine specimen of the common black snake. 

 It measures four feet, is in good condition and makes 

 itself perfectly at home in our office. 



W. P. Coues while collecting at Sydney, C. B., Aug. 

 2, saw a crow with large white spots on each wing, 

 covering most of the i)rimerels. 



A Pomarine .Taeger. p , was taken on the Merrimac 

 Kiver July Tiih. and a Uichardsou .Iiieger. p . in Ply- 



mouth Harl>or, Aug. '23d, both were sent to a A. M. 

 Tufts, taxidermist, Lynn, Mass. 



A specimen of the Snowy Owl was taken at Olouces- 

 ter. Mass., Nov. 10th, during a nortli-east rain storm. 

 This is, I believe, the earliest date of the capture of one 

 of these birds in Massachusetts. Hnrry (iorilon White. 

 U. S. Fish Com., (Jloucester. 



We rceived a specimen from Plymouth, .Mass.. >hi>t 

 about the same time. 



Rumor .says that at a meeting held in Boston some 

 of the members of the fish and game association wasted 

 a good deal of time and rerv(nis energy in discussing 

 the dreadful manner in which Cahoon was killing Tern 

 at Chatham. If such was the case we advise the little 

 ones to rest easy. Mr. Cahoon left early in si)ring for 

 Halifax and Newfoundland, to collect scientific sjieci- 

 mens for .Mr. Batchclder, a i)rominent scientific orni- 

 thologist and member of the .V. O. I'., and has not yet 

 returned. 



Publications Received. 



" Bulletin of the American Mu.seuin of \at- 

 ural Ili.story'" (New York), Vol. II, \o. 1, 1S,S7. 

 '•The West Indian .Seal. Monacliiis troi)icalis 

 (Gray),"' '».V •!• A. .\llen. ,Six full i)a.<ieil illns- 

 tration.s. 



Vol. II, No. 2, 1889, "Lake Chaini/jain Fo.s- 

 .sils'with ob.servations by H. 1>. Wliitriehl. 

 7 full ])aoe illustrations. 'List of Birds 

 taken in Bolivia "" by Dr. H. II. Husby. with 

 field notes by the collector. By ,). A. Allen. 



'•Transactions of the New York Academy 

 of .Sciences." Vol. VIII, 5, (5. ". 8. ]8.S8-lt, ed- 

 ited by Daniel Strobel Martin, Bejiinnintf with 

 observations on the Termites, or white ants, of 

 the Isthmus of Panama and endinfj w ith lecent 

 archajological excavations at Athens. They 

 present many exceedingly interesting subjects. 



■'Transaction, Kansas Academy of .Science, 

 Topeka, Kan.."" Vol. X, ]SS5-(;.. containing 

 "Additions to- the Ciitalogae of Kansas 

 Birds." "Discovery of a Fossil Bird Track in 

 Dakota Sandstone,'" and other articles of 

 interest. 



'■The AVolverine Naturalist," Kalamazoo, 

 Mich. A monthly magazine of 16 i)ages, de- 

 voted to Natural History. This magazine, 

 which will begin this month, is to be under 

 the management of Morris (iibbs, M.D. Dr. 

 Gibbs is a well-known ornithological writer, 

 his articles appearing from time to time in the 

 O. & O. The style of "Scolpax"" has a charm 

 that cannot fail to be of great value in this 

 new venture. We wish the Wolverine success. 



"Now Doctor Gibbs, shoot out your squibs. 



And sprinkle them well withfiction ; 

 Stick in some 'fibs,' it will tickle the kids 



And the old chaps — can't obtain a conviction." 



Send him .jO cents and see if he takes our 

 advice. 



