ESTABLISHED 1875. 



ORNITHOLOGIST 



— AND — 



OdLOGIST. 



VOL. XVII 



JANUARY, 



CONTENTS. 



'I'lie First Spring Outing ...... John X. Clark 



-V List of tile Bird.s of Randolpli Conntv, Ind.. with 

 some notes on tlie Mammals of the sanie county 

 Domestication of the Canada Gooae 

 Nesting of tlie Cerulean Warbler .... 



.\ Few Days Among the Bine-winged Warhlers 

 .\ Comparison of the Nesting Habits of the Long- 

 billed and Short-billed >Iarsh Wren . 

 Winter Notes from Stephentown. New ^'urk 

 Karly Nesting of the California Thrasher 

 Distribution of Illinois Birds ..... 



Abnormal Coloring of a Song Sparrow's Kggs 

 Brief Notes, Correspondence and Clijiping^ 

 Nesting of the Carolina Wren ..... 



fJNsses O. Cox 

 James B. Purdv 

 ■philo W. Smith. Jr. 

 Lsaac S. Reiff . " . 



C. W. Bowles . 

 Benjamin Hoay 

 IL >L H. 



Dr. A. C. Murchison 

 G. L. IL . 



M. L. C. Wilde. 



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