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ORNITHOLOGIST 



[Vol. 18-N0. 9 



THE 



ORNITHOLOGIST^^^OOLOGIST 



A MdNTHI.V MAGAZINE OF 



NATURAL HISTORY, 



ESPECIALLY DEVOTED TO THE STUDY OF 



BIRDS, 



THEIR NESTS AND EGGS, 



AMI Ti> "1 Hi- 



INTERESTS OF NATURALISTS. 



Under the Editorial JSLiiiagement of 

 FRANK. B. WEBSTER, . . . Hyde Park, Mass. 



J. PARKER NORRIS, . . . Pliiladelpliia, Pa. 



I'L'BLISltED AT THE 



MUSEUM AND NATURALISTS' SUPPLY DEPOT 



OF THE 



FRANK BLAKE WEBSTER COMPANY, 



lNCORPOR.\TED, 



HYDE PARK, MASS. 



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

 If you fail to receive it, notify us. 



W'lW the correspondent who sent us some 

 time since notes, five pages, headed Lams 

 Praiiklinii, please communicate. A\'e acci- 

 dentally separated it from his letter, and 

 wish signature for publication. 



INTERESTING TO NATURAL HISTORY COL- 

 LECTORS. 



Postmaster Dayton has been informed 

 that a proposition submitted by the Post- 

 master General to the International Postal 

 Bureau to admit specimens of natural history 

 to the international mails at the postage rate 

 and conditions applying to " samples of 

 merchandise " has been rejected by a vote 

 of the countries composing the Universal 

 Postal Union, and consequently all such 

 specimens (except those addressed to Can- 

 ada or Mexico) must be fully prepaid at 

 letter rates ; and dried animals and insects 

 cannot be sent under any conditions, being 

 absolutely excluded by the provisions of the 

 Universal Postal Union Convention, regard- 

 less of the amount of postage prepaid there- 

 on. 'Phis will prevent the exchange of such 

 specimens between collectors, natural history 

 museums, etc., by international mails, and 

 no package known to contain them can be 



accepted at a post-ofifice for mailing to for- 

 eign countries. 



Natural history specimens (other than 

 dried animals and insects) may be sent to 

 Canada as " merchandise " at one cent an 

 ounce. They may also be sent by parcels 

 post to Mexico and to all other countries 

 with which the United States has parcels 

 post conventions. 



Brief Notes, Correspondence and 

 Clippings. 



And now they are having a Gay old time 

 of it in Maine over the question of stocking 

 up of the state with fowls of the air and 

 beasts of the fields. 



" Hornaday's Taxidermy" is sold all over 

 the world. A letter just received from India 

 mentions it as being " the book." It is a 

 work that should be in the hands of all 

 sportsmen, — as the time would certainly 

 come when a reference to its pages would 

 be worth several times the cost. There has 

 been no book published on the subject that 

 begins to compare with it. Sent jiost paid 

 from this office for S2.50. 



Is it Mount Tacoma or Ramier? is the 

 question that seems to be agitating people 

 in Tacoma. The Tacoma Academy of Sci- 

 ences says it is Tacoma, and that settles it. 



The "Cyclone " mouse trap for the tak- 

 ing of small mammals, is the best one in the 

 market. Every naturalist should have them 

 on hand, as for the common mouse they are 

 the trap of the day. 'Pwo by mail post 

 paid for 25 cents. 



During the heavy storms this fall two 

 records were made of Man-o'-War birds on 

 the New Kngland coast. 



Editor "O. & O." : The "O. & O." came 

 the other day and now lies on my desk com- 

 pletely reail through. Where have all ihe 

 old writers gone? I still see Widmann is in 



