The Oologist. 



Vol. XXXI. No. 12. 



Albion, N. Y. Dec. 15, 1914. 



Whole No. 329 



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



Vol. XXXI. 



With this isstie we close Volume 

 Thirty-one of THE OLOGIST. We 

 have published therein forty illustra- 

 tions and pages. While it has not been 

 up to our anticipations and hopes, we 

 surely have served our readers with 

 more and better of its kind than they 

 could have gotten any other place on 

 earth for Fifty Cents. 



The articles on the North American 

 Swan w^hlch we proposed publishing, 

 has not been completed. The list of 

 the Birds of the Isle of Pines was post- 

 poned at the request of one of the 

 greatest of our Scientific Institutions, 

 and the Bibliography of Amateur Bird 

 Oological and Natural History publi- 

 cations is still in the making. The 

 third and final proof now being in pro- 

 cess. 



All these articles will appear later 

 in THE OOLOGIST. We regret the 

 confusion of numbers appearing in 

 this Volume. 



1915 



The coming year is a promising one 

 for bird students. We can look for- 

 ward with much pleasure to what is 

 coming. The Federal Migratory Bird 

 Law will do much for the birds, and 

 every reader of THE OOLOGIST 

 should assist in its enforcement. 



Legitimate scientific collecting for 

 both public and private collections 

 will not suffer. The camera man, — 

 that best of all bird students, will be 

 increasingly active, and the thousands 

 of loyal friends of THE OOLOGIST 

 will do what they can to make it bet- 

 ter than ever. No magazine ever had 

 a more loyal clientele; — there is a 

 sentiment in it that we truly appreci- 

 ate. R. M. BARNES. 



