December, 1S92.] 



AND OOLOGIST. 



ORNITHOLOGISTrI^^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 

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

 J. PARKER NORRIS, . . . Philadelphia, Pa. 



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MUSEUM AND NATURALISTS' SUPPLY DEPOT 



OF THE 



FRANK BLAKE WEBSTER COMPANY, 



INCORPORATED, 



HYDE PARK, MASS. 



ing Davie's "Nest and Eggs." We find 

 that many of the old standby taxidermists 

 are buying it, and subscribing to Mr. 

 Davie's forthcoming work. 



Louisiana Tanager taken at Ne'w 

 Haven, Conn. 



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

 If you fail to receive it, notify us. 



The compliments of the season to you, 

 one and all. May 1S93 be a year of hap- 

 piness and prosperity. 



A great many subscriptions expire 

 with this issue. The names of those 

 whom we do not hear from before the 

 January's Issue is ready will be dropped 

 from the list. A notice will be sent to all 

 this month, and we hope for a general 

 response. 



It is safe to say that " Hornaday's Tax- 

 idermy" was the event of 1S92, and that 

 Oliver Davie's will be of 1S93. The 

 names of these two authors will never be 

 lost to the American naturalists. 



Since I wrote to you I have made one 

 of the best captures that I ever obtained, — 

 a Louisiana Tanager, Jun $ , on Dec. 15. 

 It was unmistakably a wild bird, unusu- 

 ally active and noisy. It was shot on the 

 outskirts of the city here. It is rather 

 smaller than the Scarlet Tanager, meas- 

 uring as follows : 



Length, 6^ in., extent 9^ In., wing 

 3^ in. tail 2}^ in., tarsas and toe and nail 

 i^ in. 



Bill is orange color below, dark above ; 

 leg bluish. Two well marked bands 

 across wings, upper one pale yellow, 

 lower yellowish white. I exhibited the 

 bird to several friends, while still in the 

 flesh, as positive proof of Its actual occur- 

 ence here. This adds a new bird to this 

 state, and I think the only other New 

 England record is the specimen taken at 

 Lvnn, Mass., January 20, 187S. 



W. H. Flint. 



New Haven, Conn. 



Phoebe Nesting in Bank Swallows' 

 Burrows. 



Can'any of the readers inform me how 

 young alligators are fed when in freedom.^ 

 Last winter I had a pair that were about 

 ten months old, and all the winter and 

 spring I had to feed them by scraping raw 

 beef, and putting the scrapings down their 

 throats myself, which, of course is some- 

 thing the mother cannot do. A. B. 



" Hornaday's Taxidermy," price $2.50. 

 We have sold more copies of this work 

 during 1S92 than any other work except- 



On May 22 of the present year, as my 

 friend Mr. H. Dinsmore and myself were 

 walking along the bank of the PIscstaquog 

 river, we observed a Phoebe fly suddenly 

 from under our feet. We investigated the 

 matter and found an old deserted Bank 

 Swallow colony, which I should judge, by 

 the condition of the tunnels, to have been 

 vacant for several years. In one of these 

 holes about a foot from the entrance was 

 the nest of the Phoebe, containing two 

 young, just hatched, and two eggs. 



Ai'tJnir 31. Farmer. 



Amoskeag, N.H. 



