The Oologist. 



Vol. XXXI. No. 10. Albion, N. Y. Oct. 15, 1914. Whole No. 330 



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



IN MEMORIAM 



The last of a race of countless millions. A Passenger Pigeon (Ectopises 

 migratorius) died at the Zoological Gardens of the City of Cincinatti, Ohio, 

 September 1, 1914. 



With it a harmless, beautiful and economically valuable bird vanished forever 

 from the face of the earth. Only another added to the large list of sacrifices to 

 the brutal vandalism of man. It joins the Great Auk, the Carolina Paraquette, 

 the Labrador Duck and others similarly banished. Soon to be followed by the 

 splendid California Condor, the stately Trumpeter Swan, the beautiful Ivory- 

 billed Woodpecker and the magnificent Whooping Crow. 



O! Will such scandalous, malicious and uncalled for destruction ever cease? 

 It makes us sick to think of it. Too sick to write of it. The bird net, the shot 

 gun and the cautiousless hunter have done and are doing this work every day. 



Readers of THE OOLOGIST, put your shoulder to the wheel wherever you 

 are and see that it is stopped in your own location at least. — Editor. 



