The Oologist. 



Vol. XXXI. No. 2. Albion, N. Y. Feb. 15, 1914. Whole No. 319 



Owned and Published Monthly, by R. M. Barnes, Albion, N.Y., and Lacon, III. 



FEBRUARY 



February is the month the Great Horned Owl begins to "Hoo hoo hoo-ooo" 

 as he hunts an abandoned hawk's nest, or a great hollow in some hugh 

 forest monarch, in which his mate may lay two, three and rarely four great 

 white spherical eggs. Likewise the Eagle looks up his last year's erie, and 

 settles to home building or rebuilding. The Hawks careen through the sky 

 looking for likely places in which to hide their coming treasures. The oologist 

 hunts up his climbers and wanders over hill and dale looking for these same 

 treasurers. But let us all remember that the Sparrow Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, 

 Red-shouldered Hawk, and all the Owls except Bubo Virginianus, are beneficial 

 birds, and their eggs already a drug with collectors. So, fellow oologists, take 

 no more of these than you want for your own collections. They are no good 

 tor exchange purposes. — Editor. 



A LETTER 



"I have been getting THE OOLOGIST for thirty years. It is better now 

 than it has been in all those years. — George Miller, York, Pa." 



AN APOLOGY. 



In the last number of THE OOLOGIST we announced that hereafter this 

 magazine would be mailed flat. We at that time thought that we had all 

 arrangements for so doing comi)leted. The envelope company had our money 

 and we had their acceptance of the order. Since that time we have heard 

 nothing from them. Unless we receive these envelopes in time for the March 

 mailing we will arrange with some other concern than the Samuel Cupples 

 Envelope Co., for our supplies of this kind in the future. — Editor. 



