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ORNITHOLOGIST 



[Vol. iS-No. 8 



THE 



ORNITHOLOGISV^OOLOGIST 



A MONTHLY MAGAZINE OF 



NATURAL HISTORY, 



ESPECIALLY DEVOTED TO THE STUDY OF 



BIRDS, 



THEIR NESTS AND EGGS, 



AND TO THE 



INTERESTS OF NATURALISTS. 



Under the Editorial Management of 

 FR-^NK. B. WEBSTER, . . . Hyde Park, Mass.. 

 J. P.ARKER NORRIS, . . . Philadelphia, Pa. 



PUBLISHED AT THE 



MUSEUM AND NATURALISTS' SUPPLY DEPOT 



OF THE 



FR.\NK BL.^KE WEBSTER COMP.\NY, 



INCORPORATED, 



HYDE PARK, MASS. 



The O. & O. IS mailed each issue to every paid subscriber. 

 If you fall to receive it, notify us. 



We hope that our readers will bear with 

 patience the delay in our publication. 



We publish with this issue August, Sep- 

 tember and October numbers, which will be 

 followed by November and December com- 

 bined. The general depression in business 

 strikes hard, especially that which may be 

 considered a luxury. When the wolf is at the 

 door, the demand for land and marine cu- 

 rios and bird notes goes down — or up per- 

 haps better expresses it. A great number 

 of our subscribers have been unable to pay 

 for 1893. When the tide turns we hope to 

 hear from you. 



Under the McKinley tariff the duty on 

 glass eyes was advanced from 45 to 60 per 

 cent, and now if the proposed bill is passed 

 it will be 35 per cent. This proposed rate 

 is certainly enough. We were told a few days 

 since that a small maker of glass eyes in this 

 country remarked that there would be no 

 change in the duty on eyes, as he had good 

 friends in A\'ashington who would look out for 

 it. Ve gods, think of hearing such a speech in 

 broken English. Perhaps all the Ameri- 

 can taxidermists are ready to pay extra for 

 anyone's good friends in Washington? We 



do not believe in free trade, but in common 

 sense — justice to all. 



Harry R. Taylor at one time a favorite 

 writer for the "O. >S: O.," has began a new 

 enterprise in the publication of The Nidi- 

 ologist, a monthly illustrated magazine de- 

 voted to ornithology and oology. While 

 published on the Pacific coast, it will con- 

 tain notes of interest to the collectors from 

 Maine to Florida. The first two numbers 

 are clean and brieht. We wish Mr. Tavlor 



One of our exchanges refers to a dishonest 

 Eastern dealer. We do not question but that 

 some one had been " working " the West, but 

 it is just a little harsh on all Eastern dealers 

 to cast suspicion this way. Name the party. 



" Your publication is not fit for a boy to 

 read " was the reply we got from the party 

 when we sent a bill for the past year's sub- 

 scription. 



In looking over our correspondence we 

 found where he had written three times for his 

 copy. He was so anxious to get it that he 

 could not wait for us to get it out. 



During the past month, a number have 

 sent in their subscriptions for 1894, and in 

 two cases for 1895, notwithstanding they had 

 not received the " O. & O." for 3 months. 

 They will receive it for the full time that they 

 subscribed for. 



We distinctly announce that no persons in 

 our employ, while in Boston, are with us now, 

 or are in any way authorized to represent us. 

 "We have no office in Boston, and do all our 

 business from Hyde Park. 



The eastern papers contain many refer- 

 ences to an unusual amount of large game 

 being taken in Maine this season. We pre- 

 sume "Jock" Darling has had his share, for 

 there are reports in circulation that he started 

 in early. 



