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Any one wishing to hire a first-class tax- 

 idermist will do well to communicate with us. 



You can help us very much by renewing 

 your subscriptions for 1894. 



The " Nidiologist," in its last issue, pub- 

 lishes a Connecticut dealer as attempting to 

 palm off hand colored eggs on the unsus- 

 pecting. If such is the fact it is well '« have 

 it ventilated. 



We have received a number of interesting 

 articles from our readers since our July issue. 

 Continue to send them in ; the more we 

 have on hand the better \ariety we are able 

 to give in each issue. 



The article " Notes from Greenland " by 

 Mr. A. T. Hagerup is of unusual interest. 

 We know that our readers will unite with us 

 in extending an invitation to send us other 

 communications. 



Harry R. \\'ilder, of Riverside, Cal., called 

 on us recently. He is one of our eastern 

 collectors who has gone west to locate. He 

 is interested in the honey business, but keeps 

 his eve on the birds at the same time- 



A CORRECIIOX. 



In \'ol. 14, page 57, i88g, of this Maga- 

 zine I reported the capture of a Little Horned 

 Owl from Yellow Medicine County, this 

 State, which was really only Asio accipi- 

 trinus. I the same report I mentioned a 

 Great Gray Owl, which is only a ? Nyctea 

 nyctea. Albert Lano. 



NOTES FROM BOONE, IOWA. 



August 27 I collected a set of fourteen 

 Quail eggs, bird on nest. One week later 

 a boy found a nest with thirteen eggs. These 

 are the latest records of the nesting of the 

 Bob White that I have for Boone County. 



September 17 a fine Albino Red-winged 

 Blackbird was brought to me by Frank 

 Brown, who shot it that day at Clear Lake, 



north of the city. It is a perfect Albino, 



pure white with the exception of the lesser 

 wing coverts, which are a delicate pink ; eyes 

 pink. This handsome fellow was with a 

 flock of about two hundred lilackbirds, all 

 of normal color. It measured : Length, 

 8.10; extent, 12.00 : wing 4.00 ; tail, 3.01 ; 

 bill, 0.60. 



The Smithsonian display at Chicago was 

 alone worth the expense of the trijj. 



Carl Frit-- Uciiiiiiii<-. 



A OLTCK FLIGHT. 



The Pigeon flying season of 1892 in Phil- 

 adelphia, Pa., was opened with the journey of 

 three birds — Forty Minutes, Mctor and 

 Bowdoin, belonging to Daniel Connelly, Bos- 

 ton, from New York city, and the lead for the 

 Columbian prises has been taken by the best 

 speed as yet to the credit of the Boston birds, 

 and by a greater distance than has been made 

 at so early a date since 1884. 



The start was from the tower of Madison 

 Square Garden by Mr. J- V. Gottschalk at 

 9.15 o'clock. The report rendered by wire 

 gave the cipher of the countermark placed 

 on the bird in New York before the start and 

 12.15 P-^'- ^s the time of arrival. 



The air line distance covered is about 

 174.6 miles. This, at the figures reported, 

 would give an average speed of 1707 yards 

 per minute, and the mile in 61.8 seconds. 



The countermark having been reported the 

 day of the start gives the jiroof of the dis- 

 tance being covered in the daj-, and the bird 

 therefore has the lead for both the Colum- 

 bian prize and for the Clipper trophy for the 

 best form over 1000 miles ; the Outing prize, 

 for the greatest number of miles as yet cov- 

 ered ; the George W. Childs and the S. M. 

 P. A. trophies, for the greatest distance in 

 the day, and with the possibility of making 

 a claim for the special prize offered for the 

 best break in the record for speed from the 

 metropolis to New England. 



Editor " O & O " : I will open the year of 



